From Lancashire as I!
No Elvis [Costello] without you, may you live one more 100 years or you decide, as a hero it's up to you! I am the word of him (Costello) in saying "In 1966 I was 12 and already a big Georgie Fame fan. I'd got "Yeh Yeh" and "Getaway" and "In The Meantime" and I loved the Fame At Last EP. I saved up for a few weeks to buy Sound Venture. I went to this store in Richmond to buy it — the same place I bought my first guitar. It was such a hip record. Apart from anything else it had such a great title! And Georgie plays killer organ. I'd been used to the sound of the big band but this was different. There was no strict dance tempo and it wasn't smooth like Joe Loss — this was a swinging band and the line-up was a who's who of the jazz scene. (...)"
