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Julius Pam Beyond Reason - Softcover

Andrew Ridgeon

 
9781739814502: Julius Pam Beyond Reason

Synopsis

From the Back Cover.

In September 1970, four teenage musicians, by calamity and chance, come together to form an insolvent pop group. It seems that fortune is on their side. In just a short space of time they go from complete unknowns to their region’s headlining act and an introduction as “the next Beatles”. Julius Pam, billed as “East Anglia’s Number One Pop Group”, are booked back again and again by many venues on the eastern circuit, never short of work… and very popular with the girls.

Four ordinary lads let loose on a rollercoaster ride through the changing face of early seventies pop music and a brief encounter with the embryonic beginnings of Glam Rock. They survive hostile audiences, the disdain of more established acts, chemical mishaps, a court case and thousands of bone-rattling miles in their two ailing vans, never convinced stardom could be just around the corner.

Forty-five years later, Andy, Pam’s vocalist and lead guitarist, looks back with love and astonishment on an era rich in electric performances and infinite possibility as well as some of the best live music ever. He was fortunate enough to be a part of it; he was there. This is what he remembers…

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