Jeff Christie

Leeds-born Jeff Christie entered music by using a skiffle music group that ultimately moved into rock & roll, emulating the Beatles’ sound (following a fashion) beneath the guise from the External Limits. They ultimately trim a set of singles, one (“JUST ONE SINGLE More Possibility”) released on Deram and another (“Great Teach Robbery”) released on a little self-employed label. After their separation, Christie made a decision to try his fortune like a songwriter and slice a demonstration tape that approved through the hands of Tremeloes guitarist Alan Blakely and into those of his sibling, drummer Mike Blakely, previously from the Epics as well as the Acidity Gallery. Mike Blakely was impressed plenty of with Christie’s tunes to set up a documenting program in London where in fact the Tremeloes participated as Christie’s support band — non-e of the edges from that program noticed the light of day time, but influenced by Blakely’s trust in his tunes, Jeff Christie made a decision to put together several his personal. This finished up like a trio of Christie on bass and business lead vocals, Blakely on drums, and his ex-Acid Gallery bandmate Vic Elmes on acoustic guitar and vocals. The group made a decision to make use of Jeff Christie’s family members name — specified Christie; these were authorized by English CBS. Their debut solitary, “Yellowish River,” presented Christie and Elmes’ voices dubbed on the Tremeloes’ support track slice at Christie’s 1st program. Whatever its roots, it did the work, using the U.K. pop graphs for 22 weeks and achieving the number one graph spot in a number of countries. Even in america, where it confronted the stiffest competition, the Epic Records-released solitary reached quantity 23, an extremely respectable displaying for an take action which was nowhere near prepared to tour the U.S. Their follow-up, an organization documenting this time known as “San Bernadino,” reached number 1 in Germany and quantity seven in Britain, though it by no means climbed beyond the cheapest reaches of the very best 100 in the us. The group continued for just two years, going right through many lineup adjustments leading into 1971, like the departure of Mike Blakely, who was simply changed by Paul Fenton. Their second LP, FOR EVERYONE Mankind, discontinued the industrial, pop-oriented audio of its forerunner and only a harder, higher-wattage, even more blues-oriented sound, as well as the band’s fortunes quickly dropped. They regrouped, with previous Device 4+2 guitarist/vocalist Howard “Lem” Lubin growing Christie to some quartet. The professional clashes between Elmes and Christie signaled a finish towards the group’s documenting background in 1972. Jeff Christie trim music for Mercury Information within the mid-’70s and held utilizing the group name as an alias on materials documented for the Epic and Wizard brands, and took back again his name for information in the RK label within the 1980s. There have been disputes on the usage of the group name within the 1980s, though Jeff Christie were using it lately, while Vic Elmes provides occasionally fronted a music group called “Christie Once again” in European countries.