But waiting for a few years already, still they are not growing at the rate I wanted them too.
And I felt envious of others who have them. So thus, I cannot relate to the Gillette adverts on the tele and the problem those who have to shave every morning.
I remember a time when I was back in school, my friends and I were each showing how long our beards, or goatee at least.
Some of you might be thinking, what's the big deal? Well, to us boys back then, it showed a sign of maturity - you know how it was back then. We wanted to be seen as adults. Not the children that we were. We wanted to be taken seriously.
Anyway, that's old in the past now. Now, it doesn't seem important anymore. If it's there, it's there. At least, economically speaking, I don't have to spend much on Gillette.
This is the story of a band from the 1960s called THE TORNADO'S The band was the invention of the Legendary Joe Meek who wrote TELSTAR the no 1 record all around the globe !
Joe Meek's Band The Tornado's
Also known as
The Tornadoes (in America) Original Tornados (1975 reunion) Tornados 65, The New Tornados
From January 1962 to August 1963, The Tornados were the backing band of Billy Fury; they toured and recorded with him as The Tornados.[1] Their recordings were produced by Mike Smith and Ivor Raymonde.
The Tornados made a scopitonefilm (an early form of music video) for "Telstar" and another for their chart hit "Robot" featuring members of the group walking around woodland dressed in appropriate headgear with their guitars, flirting with various young women and being finally arrested by policemen after lighting a campfire.
For a time the Tornados were considered serious rivals to The Shadows. The Tornados single "Globetrotter" made it to number 5 in the UK Singles Chart but Meek induced bassistHeinz Burt to leave for a solo career and in 1963 the group began to fall apart. By 1965 none of the original lineup remained. On some promotional items, later lineups were therefore credited as Tornados '65 and The New Tornados, but these names were never used on the Tornados releases. Later in the mid sixties The Tornados backed Billy Fury again, with Dave Watts on keyboards, Robby Gale on guitar and John Davies on drums. In 1968, in Israel to perform in Mandy Rice-Davies' night club "Mandys", they stayed for a ten week tour after which they disbanded, leaving Watts in Israel playing with The Lions of Judea.In later years,
Rhythm guitarist George Bellamy is the father of Matthew Bellamy, the front man of British Alternative Rock band Muse.
In 1975 Clem Cattini, Roger LaVern, Heinz Burt and George Bellamy reunited and released a version of "Telstar" as the Original Tornados. In the 1970s Billy Fury formed a new backing band called Fury's Tornados with a completely unrelated line-up. They also recorded and released a version of "Telstar" in the mid 1970s.
In 1996 Ray Randall wrote and recorded a 3-track CD with Bryan Irwin and Stuart Taylor, using the band name Ray Randall's Tornados, as a tribute to the late Joe Meek, 30 years after Meek's death. Randall has since recorded a solo album entitled "Polly Swallow" (1997).
The B-side of the final single that the group released, in 1966, "Do You Come Here Often?", was the first openly "gay" pop record release by a UK major label.[2] It started off as a standard organ-inspired instrumental, but Joe Meek decided that the organ playing was a little too jazzy for the style of the group. So, about two-thirds in, a casual conversation between what appears to be two gay men (Dave Watts playing keyboards and Rob Gale playing guitar) was overdubbed.[3] The song was featured, along with other gay-flavoured releases, on a 2006 compilation CD, Queer Noises.Members
Ray Randall[4]: Bass guitar (born 7 November 1944, Bushey in Hertfordshire) Played bass with The Tornados (after Heinz left) from 1963-1966.
Stuart Taylor: Lead guitar (born 23 October 1944, in London — died 18 April 2005).
Tab Martin: Bass - (born Alan Raymond Brearley, 24 December 1944, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumbria). Tab took over from Heinz for a few months before Brian Gregg took over.
Brian Gregg: Bass - (born 31 January 1939, London).Brian took over from Tab Martin.
Phil Webb: Guitar
Jimmy O'Brien: Keyboards
Norman Hale: Keyboards on "Love and Fury" (first single line-up)
Dave Watts; Keyboards on "Early Bird", "Stingray", "Is that a ship I hear", "Popart goes mozart", "Aqua Marina", "Lawrence of Arabia", "Do you come here often".
Tornados 65 (on "Early Bird" and "Stingray" singles, credited as The Tornados)
Bryan Irwin (rhythm guitar), Dave Cameron (lead guitar), Peter Adams (drums), Dave Watts (keyboards), Ray Randall (bass guitar), Roger Warwick (tenor saxophone)
The New Tornados (1966-1967 singles, credited as The Tornados, plus (Dave Watts (keyboards) Retained from previous line up) with
John Davies, Robb Huxley, Pete Holder, Roger Holder.
"Indian Brave" / "Flycatcher" / "Lullaby For Guilla" / "Dreams Do Come True" / "Costa Monger" / "Lonely Paradise" / "Chattanooga Choo Choo" / "Rip It Up" (Vocal) / "Cootenanny" / "Night Rider" / "Hymn For Teenagers".
Foreign releases
The Original Telstar: The Sounds of the Tornadoes (U.S. 1962)
Side 1: "Telstar" / "Red Roses and a Sky of Blue" / "Chasing Moonbeams" / "Earthy" / "Swinging Beefeater" / "Theme from a Summer Place" Side 2: "Love and Fury" / "Dreamin' on a Cloud" / "Ridin' the Wind" / "The Breeze and I" / "Jungle Fever" / "Popeye Twist"
Billy Fury
At the present time, members of Fury's Tornados act in The Billy Fury Story starring Colin Gold as Fury. These are Charlie Elston, Chris Raynor, Graham Wyvill and John Raynor.
Discography
Billy Fury and The Tornados (Decca DFE 8525, EP, recorded 8 and 11 January, and released 30 March 1963)
"Nobody's Child"; "What Did I Do"; "I Can't Help Loving You"; "Keep Away"
Billy Fury and The Tornados: We Want Billy! (live, recorded 30 April 1963) (Decca (S)LK4548, released October 1963
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