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The Georgians'second line-up

Geoff left to join a newly formed band, The Clayton Squares, and we then recruited Lewis Collins. Lew had recently returned from Hamburg having played with The Eyes [Gibson Kemp, Paddy Chambers, etc] and was looking for local Merseyside work.

Mike Sloan also left and we found that an old mate of ours from Quarry Bank, Roger Bioletti, was now a drummer - Nuff said. 'Bio' was in, his claim to fame being that his grandfather's barber shop, 'Biolettis', was the one featured in Penny Lane by The Beatles [re-created extremely well in the late 1990s Beatles video]

The line-up was completed by a tenor and alto sax, the alto sax not lasting long, but the tenor sax, Roger Lewis, staying with us until The Georgians finished.

We hit the road again and, whilst still playing the odd Cavern and Hope Hall gig, tended to go for the better paying University and larger gigs. Lewis Collins and Roger Bioletti were, as one might say, handsome bastards, which it made it more difficult for the rest of us in the groupie recruitment, but we managed.

At this time we were still very much an R & B band but, because we all had such disparate taste in music, the repertoire became quite varied.