Maurice died in 1975 and was buried in HampsteadCemetery. There’s a short film of the band on British Pathe, In the 1920s and 1930s he regularly appeared with the Savoy Orpheans, the hotel’s big band led by the American Carroll Gibbons. He began in his native Glasgow singing ballads, moving on to popular songs and composing. Astonishingly, he was awarded a 50 year contract with EMI and he played several times for the King and Queen at Buckingham Palace.īorn Norman McPhail Blair, Elwin’s obit in the local paper described him as, ‘one of the most recorded artists in the world.’ He made hundreds of 78rpm recordings under no less than 30 pseudonyms. His record of ‘Begin the Beguine’ sold over a million records in 1939. The famous bandleader moved here in the late 1930s. Joe Loss – 16 Kendall Court, Shootup Hill His ‘Palm Court’ style was very popular and in 1960 he did a summer season at Scarborough which he repeated for the next 27 years. Max Jaffa got his big break in 1929 with weekly BBC radio broadcasts. At the time his neighbours in Hillcrest Court were Joe and Elsa, the parents of Joan and Jackie Collins. Max lived in this block of flats for about two years in the 1930s. Max Jaffa – 5 Hillcrest Court, Shootup Hill You can find lots of examples of the musicians work by searching on YouTube. This is the most comprehensive list of people ever produced and we hope you find some surprises here. We have not covered classical musicians who lived here. The following list of musicians is roughly in chronological order and as it has grown considerably, we will publish it in two blog stories. In addition to Ade Wyatt, thanks are due to Dean Austin, Wally Smith, Pat Wilkinson, Adam Sieff, Phil Shaw, Steve York, Val Simmonds, Brian Wilcock, James Moyes, Dave Kemp and Peter Murray for their help in identifying some of the musicians. She also lived locally in Dennington Park Road. He is currently in the band ‘Dakota Red’ with singer-songwriter Sara Eker. As a session guitarist he played with Joe Egan, B.A Robertson, Maggie Bell, and Oleta Adams. In the early eighties Ade joined The Vibrators (Mark IV) and he has played and toured with many bands. Here he heard early gigs by everyone from Pigbag to Tenpole Tudor, Birthday Party to Joy Division, Altered Images to The Pretenders, Flock of Seagulls to U2, Depeche Mode, Squeeze, and ABC. These included, Wilko Johnson, Jean-Jacques Burnel, Lemmy and ‘Philthy’ Phil Taylor, Billy Idol and Steve Strange.įrom July 1980 to June 1981 Ade operated the sound system at The Moonlight Club at The Railway Hotel. In 1978 Ade went to Australia for six months with a rock concept band called World, and when he returned he found his flat was playing host to a whole swathe of new rock and roll neighbours. The punk movement was blossoming, so one minute he was serving Mickie Most, the next, Mick Jones and Glen Matlock. In 1975 he moved into Tower Mansions in West End Lane, and for two and a half years worked in Macari’s Music Shop in the Charing Cross Road, selling guitars, keyboards, and amps. Ade has been involved in music for many years. Come along to hear the true story about the Beatles failed audition at Decca, the evening that Jimi Hendrix played at Klooks, as well as the other great people who played at the club which was run in the Railway Hotel for nine years.Ī little while ago I met guitarist Adrian Wyatt and we began talking about the surprising number of musicians who had lived in the area. To coincide with this we will be doing an illustrated talk at West End Lane Books on Monday 18 November at 7.30. Our new book – available from West End Lane Books
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