Biography
A lively East London combo, the Equals balanced optimum R&B with a lot of pop, and also a few nods to vocalist Eddy Grant’s Western Indian background. Offer, born in United kingdom Guyana, transferred to England along with his family members at age 12, and resolved within a council property called Hornsey Rise in northeast London. Four years afterwards, he produced the Equals with schoolmates Lincoln Gordon (electric guitar), his twin sibling Dervin Gordon (originally the vocalist), Pat Lloyd (electric guitar, after that bass), and drummer John Hall. The music group started gigging around London, amazing viewers with their evidently endless energy and a definite design fusing pop, blues, and R&B plus components of ska and bluebeat. By 1965, the Equals started doing schedules in Europe aswell, and released their initial single on Leader Information. Though “Keep Me Nearer” didn’t perform in the graphs, DJs started playing the turn part and by 1967 “Baby, KEEP COMING BACK” had strike the top from the graphs in Germany and holland. One year later on, the single strike number 1 in Britain aswell, and brushed the graphs in America. Following singles lacked the instant punch of “Baby, KEEP COMING BACK,” however, as well as the Equals got only two even more Top Ten strikes: “Viva Bobby Joe” and “Dark Pores and skin Blue Eyed Kids,” the second option an apt message monitor from one from the few racially combined bands from the period. Grant remaining the Equals for any solo profession in 1971, and even though the band by no means charted once again, they remained a favorite live act, specifically within the continent. Drummer Ronald Telemacque and guitarists Dave Martin and Frankie Hepburn had been later put into the lineup.
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Soundtrack
Soundtrack
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Dave Made a Maze | 2017 | performer: "Diversion" | |
Top of the Pops | 1996 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
Ulrike Marie Meinhof | 1994 | Documentary performer: "Baby come back" | |
Takin' Over the Asylum | 1994 | TV Mini-Series performer - 1 episode |
Self
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Les années bonheur | 2007 | TV Series | Themselves |
Lift Off | 1970 | TV Series | |
Top of the Pops | 1969 | TV Series | Guest |
Crackerjack! | 1969 | TV Series | Themselves - Guests |
Colour Me Pop | 1969 | TV Series | Themselves |
Beat-Club | 1968 | TV Series | Themselves |
Archive Footage
Archive Footage
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Top of the Pops | 1996 | TV Series | Themselves |
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