TAKE NOTE !! ------ I / WE FEEL VERY SORRY FOR THOSE TWO PEOPLE IN THE THUMBS DOWN. ---- THEY TRULY DON 'T KNOW WHAT REAL MUSIC IS & THE TALENT THAT THIS MAN HAS & OF COURSE THEY HAVEN'T ATTENDED ONE OF HIS MANY SHOWS. HOWEVER , THEY CAN WATCH HIM ON YOU TUBE & SEE ASTO WHAT THEY HAD MISSED , A WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN ' GOIN ' ON !! ------- JOHN UK. ------
This was from 'Ready Steady Go', a programme featuring a live 'mod' audience tuned in to the latest soul records from America and from the British cover artists. Yet here was an unreconstructed veteran of the original American rock'n'roll movement. Did the audience, in that tribal time, understand that or did they just appreciate a tremendous artist for his own sake?
They knew of his skill and greatness at the piano. Only time he didn't do well over there was the scandal in 58'. But from 64 and up he ruled over there