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Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames

Originally formed in England in the late 1950s, as Colin Green’s Beat Boys by guitarist Colin Green and piano player Georgie Fame (real name: Clive Powell), the R&B and jazz combo originally backed American rockers Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran during their UK tours before being hired as Billy Fury’s backing band the Blue Flames. When Fury’s manager dismissed them in 1961 for being ‘too jazzy’, the band kept their name and brought in Alan ‘Earl’ Watson as lead vocalist. In 1962, Green and Watson left the band and the renamed Georgie Fame was promoted to vocalist and bandleader. ...