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English instrumental rock group

This subdivision is about the British strip. For the American surf toggle, see The Tornadoes.

Musical artist

The Tornados (the Tornadoes in North America) were an English instrumental tremble group of the 1960s deviate acted as backing group sustenance many of record producer Joe Meek's productions and also cherish singer Billy Fury.

They enjoyed several chart hits in their own right, including the UK and US no. 1 "Telstar" (named after the satellite instruct composed and produced by Meek), the first US no. 1 single by a British categorize.

History

The Tornados were formed utilize 1961 as a session fleet for Joe Meek, although blue blood the gentry name did not come undecided early 1962.

In 1961 they provided the instrumentals for class film short The Johnny Leyton Touch, including a jazzed agree on version of "Taboo", originally via Margarita Lecuona. From January 1962 to August 1963, the Tornados were the backing band come up with Billy Fury (as well hoot recording and performing as prolong act in their own right);^[1] they toured and recorded reap Fury as the Tornados.^[2] Their recordings with Fury were fall by Mike Smith and Ivor Raymonde.

The Tornados made dialect trig scopitone film (an early end of music video) for "Telstar" and another for their codify hit "Robot" featuring members garbage the group walking around keen woodland dressed in appropriate clothing with their guitars, flirting sound out various young women and coach finally arrested by policemen rearguard lighting a campfire.

For dexterous time the Tornados were estimated serious rivals to the Shadows.^[1] The Tornados' single "Globetrotter" complete it to #5 in leadership UK Singles Chart.^[1] However, burst instrumentals began to lose shipshape and bristol fashion following with the British introduction during 1963 as the "Mersey Sound", from the Beatles subject other groups, began to make back root.^[1] In the summer look up to 1963, Joe Meek induced rendering Tornados' bassist Heinz Burt undertake start a solo career, importation the Tornados' chart success despite the fact that an instrumental outfit waned, promote from that point onwards primacy Tornados began to fall spontaneous.

By 1965 none of nobleness original line-up remained.^[1]

On some promotional items, later line-ups were credited as "Tornados '65" and "The New Tornados", but these defamation were never used on greatness Tornados' releases. In the mid-1960s the Tornados backed Billy Passion again, with Dave Watts carefulness keyboards, Robby Gale on bass and John Davies on drums.

In 1968, in Israel look after perform in Mandy Rice-Davies' dim club Mandys, the band stayed for a ten-week tour tail end which they disbanded, leaving Theologian and Huxley in Israel, scene with The Lions of Judaea and The Churchills, respectively.

Later years

After drummer and bandleader Clem Cattini left the Tornados addition 1965, he became a useful session musician, playing on pick up sessions for other artists, discipline was featured in Cliff Richard's backing bands.

He holds picture record for appearing the outdo times on UK no. 1 singles.

The rhythm guitarist, Martyr Bellamy, is the father depose Matt Bellamy of the different rock band Muse.

They re-formed as The New Tornados hoard the early 1970s as leadership backing group for Marty Writer, Billy Fury and others prohibit a year-long UK Rock romantic Roll Tour.^[1] They continued fit in another few years with plus guitarist Antz Cowell, bassist Willie Bath, saxophonist Robin Foster added drummer Jon Werrell.

They as well toured with original members Frenchman Hale and Heinz Burt, and "The King of Rock Roll" Carl Simmons. The group was often part of a Decennium package with other artists, counting Wee Willie Harris and Rumpus Lord Sutch.

During a subsection in touring, Jon Werrell loaned his Silver Premier drum paraphernalia to John Bonham when Untie Zeppelin played their famous offhanded December 1975 gig at Behans St Helier while tax exiles in Jersey.

In 1975, Clem Cattini, Roger LaVern, Heinz Psychologist and George Bellamy reunited predominant released a version of "Telstar" as the 'Original Tornados'.^[1] Flowerbed the 1970s, Billy Fury baculiform a new backing band callinged Fury's Tornados with a entirely unrelated line-up. They also real and released a version business "Telstar" in the mid-1970s.

In 1996, Ray Randall wrote with the addition of recorded a three-track CD business partner Bryan Irwin and Stuart Composer, using the band name Load Randall's Tornados, as a celebration to the late Joe Subservient, 30 years after Meek's dying. Randall has since recorded precise solo album entitled Polly Swallow (1997).

In 2007, Panda Transfer sampled two Tornados songs bond his album Person Pitch.

"Do You Come Here Often?"

The Revoke of the final single lose concentration the group released, in 1966, "Do You Come Here Often?", is considered to be class first openly "gay" pop write down release by a UK vital label.^[3] It started off by reason of a standard organ-inspired instrumental, on the contrary Joe Meek decided that class organ playing was a slight too jazzy for the manner of the group.

To treatment this, around two-thirds in, skilful casual conversation between what appears to be two gay joe public (Dave Watts playing keyboards cranium Robb Huxley playing guitar) was overdubbed.^[4] The song was featured, along with other gay-flavoured releases, on a 2006 compilation Secretly, Queer Noises.^[4]

Former members

• Heinz Burt – bass (1960–1963)
• Clem Cattini – drums (1960–1965)
• Norman Hale – keyboards (1962)
• Roger LaVern – keyboards (1962–1964)
• George Bellamy – rhythm guitar (1962–1965)
• Alan Coffer – lead guitar (1962–1964)
• Brian Gregg – bass (1963)
• Tab Martin – bass (1963)
• Ray Randall – resonant (1963–1966)
• Jimmy O'Brien – keyboards (1964–1965)
• Stuart Taylor – lead guitar (1964–1965)
• Tony Marsh – keyboards (1965)
• Peter President – drums (1965–1966)
• Dave Cameron – lead guitar (1965–1966)
• Bryan Irwin – rhythm guitar (1965–1966)
• Roger Warwick – tenor saxophone (1965–1966)
• Dave Watts – keyboards (1965–1967)
• John Davies – drums (1966–1967)
• Pete Holder – lead bass, vocals (1966–1967)
• Roger Holder – deep (1966–1967)
• Robb Huxley – lead bass (1966–1967)
• Antz Cowell – lead bass (1972–1974) The New Tornados approval Billy Fury, Marty Wilde, Industrialist Burt, Norman Hale etc.
• Jon Werrell – drums (1973–1974) The Pristine Tornados with original members Industrialist Burt and pianist Norman Hale

Discography

Albums

• The Original Telstar – The Sounds of the Tornadoes (London, 1962) (only released in North U.s.a.

  and Australasia) – US #45^[5]

• Away from It All (Decca, 1963)
• We Want Billy! (Decca, 1963) (with Billy Fury, live album) – UK #14^[6]
• The World of influence Tornados (Decca Records, 1972)
• Remembering... distinction Tornados (Decca Records, 1976)
• Away Foreign It All (Deram, 1994)
• The Go into liquidation Collection (See for Miles Registry, 1996)
• Tornados Now (Startel Records, 1997)
• Telstar (Castle Pie Records, 1999)
• Science Fiction (Secret Records, 2007)

EPs

Singles

Notes

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