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Pat Burke had been in groups since arriving in the UK at age 15, and had studied music at the London Music Conservatorium.

He was also a member of Romeo Z who recorded the title song for the 1966 film, Kaleidoscope, and an Irving Martin produced single, single 'Come Back, Baby Come Back', released on CBS in 1967. He also played with Edmundo Ros and was a former member of the Terry Lightfoot and Alex Welsh bands.

Eric Allandale had led his own band The New Orleans Knights in the early 1960s, releasing two singles, including ' Enjoy Yourself (It's Later than You Think)'.

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They were all highly experienced musicians who came from professional jazz and rock-and-roll backgrounds. The West Indian horn section consisted of Jamaican-born Mike Elliott and Pat Burke, both saxophonists and Dominican-born Eric Allandale on trombone.

The youngest was Tim Harris, who, at 18, was barely out of school. The oldest member of the group, Mike Elliott, was 38 years old. Not only was there a diverse ethnic mix in the group, but there was also diversity in ages and musical backgrounds. The Foundations attracted much interest and intrigue due to the size and structure of the group. The Foundations signed to Pye, at the time one of only four big UK record companies (the others being EMI, which included the HMV, Columbia and Parlophone labels, Decca, and Philips, which also owned Fontana). The Foundations were one of the few British acts to successfully imitate what became known as the Motown Sound. The group was the first multi-racial group to have a number one hit in the UK in the 1960s. Their 1967 debut single ' Baby Now That I've Found You' reached number one in the UK and Canada, and number eleven in the US, while their 1968 single ' Build Me Up Buttercup' reached number two in the UK and number three on the US Billboard Hot 100. The group's background was: West Indian, White British and Sri Lankan. I think that the Grateful Dead were f***ing horrible and most people, except for a bunch of snooty hippies, would agree with me that the Grateful Dead's music was just watered down f***ing country music and f***ing Black Flag were a much more credible band'.The Foundations were a British soul band who were primarily active between 19. 'There's our good friend Bill Stevenson who played drums in Black Flag and also the Descendants and All and I think that changing the name from the Deadhead sticker on the Cadillac to the Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac was a great honour to take the f***ing Grateful Dead name out of that song. 'We actually did about ten different versions with different band names' Kris says. Don's line 'I saw a DEADHEAD sticker on a Cadillac' has become 'I saw a BLACK FLAG sticker on a Cadillac'. The Ataris made one small change to the lyrics. It was kind of like a nostalgic tint for me and it's just a great Americana rock song'. That song reminds me of my grandmother and it also reminds me of travelling the world for the first time. 'I heard it on the radio and my grandmother, who recently passed away, I made her take me out and buy that record. 'That song represented a part of my childhood where I remember travelling down to Florida for the first time to visit my grandparents in the summer and that song was huge' he says. '.Kris says he has a personal attachment to the song. I do like the reasoning behind why they did the cover. Not a bad version but doesn't add much more to the original which is still an all time classic. Past editor: JuniorĬover songs beginning with: A lot ofĮarly rock songs were covers of old R&B tunes. The Beatles albums and they were the original cover group. All groups in modern history start out this way, I own a lot of As a matter of fact, cover bands can be great fun to

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