Well I first met, well Shakin' Stevens to you, but we always called him Shaky, in 1968, of course those were the days of psychedelic music and I had been singing (Rock 'n Roll) for quite a few years but I didn't have my own band. A friend of mine, Brian Williams, who was a drummer, lived in Canton and we were trying to form a band where I was the main singer, so all we needed was a lead guitarist and a bass. I think it was Brian's Father that said the local pub, that was the Victoria, we called it the Vic pub, on Cowbridge Road Canton, his father said there were two guys there that were playing and looking to form a band. He said they were practising upstairs about once a week.....
So walked up the stairs and that is where we first met Shakey. When we walked in he was playing guitar, he played rhythm guitar then, he had a friend of his who had emigrated here from Australia, that was Alan Langford, So Alan was on the lead guitar, Shakey was on rhythm guitar and also the lead vocalist. We decided that Shakey would sing vocals and I would come on about half way through a set and sing a couple of Little Richard and Jean Vincent Songs.