Roger Dene

Blessed in Wallingford close to Oxford in 1943, pianist Roger Dene grew up in London’s East End. As an adolescent, regardless of the explosion of rock and roll & roll taking place around him, Dene was interested in the favorite music of a youthful era. He had taken in the entertainment and musical preferences, in particular, from the viewers in the East End’s pubs. He inserted present business as an associate from the Francis Langford Performing Scholars and used various dance rings before arranging his very own group, which he held heading until he was provided the opportunity to sign up for the orchestra on the Petrovschka cafe in London, among that city’s most esteemed night areas. He been performing on the night time in 1967 when manufacturer John Heyman acquired reserved the cafe for the reception celebrating the starting from the film Privilege, starring ex-Manfred Mann vocalist Paul Jones. One particular in attendance was EMI manufacturer Norman Newell, who was simply therefore impressed with Dene’s playing that he provided him an audition for the label. Dene slice an recording in 1967 comprising “Who’s Sorry Right now,” “Glow on Harvest Moon,” and ten additional singalong favorites for EMI’s Music for Pleasure label.