Return of the legendary Swinging Blue Jean
buxtonadvertiser.co.uk | Mar 10th 2015
NOW in it’s 26th year, the Solid Silver Sixties Show has proved itself to be
the best Sixties package revue ever, and this year will be one of the biggest
ever with 68 performances in 57 dates.
And Buxton fans can thrill to the music of that decade when it arrives at the
Opera House on May 10. So enjoyable are the tours that some of the stars keep
coming back to appear, and this year is no exception with Dave Berry (The
Crying Game, Little Things), Chris Farlowe (Out Of Time), Wayne Fontana (Pamela
Pamela, Game Of Love) and Vanity Fare (Early In The Morning, I Live For The
Sun) all reappearing.
Special guests this year are The Merseybeats (Don’t Turn Around, Wishin’ and
Hopin’).
This year though, promises to be extra special because, touring the UK for the
first time in 30 years is Terry Sylvester – the man who replaced Graham Nash in
The Hollies in 1968.
Speaking from his Florida home, Terry is wildly enthusiastic about taking part
in the tour, despite the weather. With his still-apparent Scouse accent (he
hails from Liverpool and was a member of The Swinging Blue Jeans before joining
The Hollies), he tells me: “It’s chucking it down with rain at the moment, it
makes me feel like I’m at home in England. After leaving The Hollies in 1981 I
used to mainly tour the continent in the 80s and 90s, and even though I come
back to Britain quite often, I haven’t toured my homeland since the early 80s.”
So, how did the idea of joining the Solid Silver Sixties Show come about?
“It really came out of the blue and the negotiations started about six months
ago,” he said. “I do quite a lot of shows in America with the likes of Peter
Noone (Hermans Hermits), and on one of these I was sharing a dressing room,
with John Walker of The Walker Brothers.
“He’d just done one of the tours and asked me if I’d ever done one and he said
he thought I’d be perfect, and in the end he set it all up.”
Terry, whose first recording session with The Hollies was to record the number
three hit Sorry Suzanne, is looking forward to the tour for a number of
reasons. “It’s gonna be fantastic,” he says. “I’m really looking forward to
seeing the fans and some family, it’ll be fun and I’ve already had some e-mails
to my website.”
As to favourite venues, Terry can’t single out anywhere in particular. “It’s
quite strange looking at the venues for the tour,” he says. “It’s a tour of the
UK’s best venues and cities, and we played some of them back in the 60s. I hope
they’ve been refurbished by now!”
Martin Hutchinson
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