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Peter Green is looked upon by some supporters as the best light blues guitarist ever, Eric Clapton notwithstanding. Blessed Peter Greenbaum but contacting himself Peter Green by age group 15, he was raised in London’s working-class East End. Green’s early musical affects had been Hank Marvin from the Shadows, Muddy …

Helen Shapiro is remembered today by young pop tradition buffs because the slightly uncomfortable celebrity/singer in Richard Lester’s 1962 debut feature film, It’s Trad, Father. From 1961 until 1963, nevertheless, Shapiro was England’s teenage pop music queen, at 1 point offering 40,000 copies daily of her biggest solitary, “Walking Back …