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The Georgians' third line-up

Lewis Collins received an offer to join The Mojos, a move promoted by his Dad, Bill Collins, his biggest fan and manager. This was of course, an offer he could not refuse, The Mojos already being a big name with a recording contract. [Lew was not all that long with The Mojos, joined RADA, eventually becoming Bodie in 'The Professionals', appeared in films such as 'Who Dares Wins' etc. and now lives in California - He was touring the UK in a play last year and we met up for a few nights - In great shape and, whilst the guy has probably had whole sections about him in magazines, was over the moon because he got a mention in Pete Frame's Rock Family Trees!]

Instead of recruiting another bass player, we moved that Ash change from lead to bass [partly because he was blind as bat and kept hitting wrong notes, and partly because I fancied myself, erroneously, as lead guitarist]. We also recruited a snotty nosed kid, Brian [Fagsy] Farrell, who had plagued us as unpaid road manager since the start, anything to keep him quiet !

Brian actually had, and still has, a fantastic gravelly 'soul' voice, was later well known in Colonel Bagshots Incredible Bucket Band and Bunny, and is still active around Merseyside. His sister, Bernadette, was a long time girlfriend of George Harrison, and I remember George being at Brian's house in the early days when we were there once, I think when we were practising. [George's views of our talents remain unrecorded]. Brian was not in our band at that time, an indication of his ambition to join us, oblivious to the ears of his long-suffering parents.

Through the influence of Brian Farrell, our music moved very much towards Soul and, whilst again we continued odd gigs at The Cavern and Hope Hall, played much more at The Mardi Gras, which tended to be very much 'in' to soul music. We also played University gigs, which were always better 'earners'.