Sunday 29 January 2012



Well, my visitor is still here and we've had some extended and confused conversations as we attempt to flex our memories. Mine is less corrupted with some files perfectly intact. Benyon's flat was discussed at length. People came and went and Terry Poole from Bakerloo Blues Line stayed for a while and joined a newly formed pop combo called May Blitz with Tony Newman on Drums and Jimmy Black on guitar. Tony had started playing with Sounds Incorporated when he was 15 and had just been playing with Jeff Beck. Jimmy was a Canadian who later returned to his homeland....I think.
Benyon claimed that Newman had suggested he design the band's album cover because he'd seen him draw a perfect circle. He invented an obese female cartoon character who could appear as a single cartoon style advert in the music papers. In other words the ads were small and cheap but it also got him a gig doing the Patto album sleeve and he did some other work for bands like White Mule, from memory.

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