Rare Brit Pop, Discog...s of Lost Artists Pt. 196: Lee Curtis & The All Stars

 

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Lee Curtis & The All-Stars. A beat group from Liverpool. They were contemporaries and briefly local rivals of the Beatles in the early 1960s.

Lee Curtis was born as Peter Flannery. His band was joined in September 1962 by ex-Beatles drummer Pete Best. With Frank Bowen (lead guitar), Tony Waddington (rhythm guitar) and Wayne Bickerton (bass) they became the second most popular band in the 1963 Mersey Beat readers poll. Lee Curtis and the All-Stars were signed by Decca Records, and released two singles in early 1963, "Little Girl" and "Let's Stomp". However, neither made the charts, and in mid 1963 the rest of the band decided to split from Curtis to form The Original All-Stars. That group later became the Pete Best Four (see BL140) , and several years later Bickerton and Waddington moved on to become the writers and producers behind The Rubettes.

 Curtis formed a new version of the All-Stars in 1963, with Paul Pilnick (lead guitar), George "Porky" Peckham (rhythm guitar), Dave "Mushy" Cooper (bass), and Don Alcyd (drums). The new line-up recorded a single "I've Got My Eyes On You", contributed two tracks to the Decca album, ‘Live at the Cavern’, and played in clubs in Hamburg, but split up soon afterwards However, Curtis continued to build up his popularity on the club circuit in Germany, and had a year-long residency at the Star-Club. He also recorded regularly in Germany, although the line-up of his backing group, the All-Stars, changed repeatedly. (wiki)