Pinkertons assorted colours biography of martin luther

Issue 5: Updated : 15th August Reg more or less ran the groups everyday lives who lived in with him at Clifton Hall, Rugby finding jobs for them. In many of the early pictures of the Fortunes, Danny Storm etc, they are pictured cutting the grass at Clifton Hall. I always knew that this wasn't just posed for the camera, they did it all the chores.

Reg Talked 'Pinks' into things, he talked everyone into things, we took the donkeys to the gigs for him, but he paid us extra to do it.

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He paid for us to pick up a transmitter. But we had a fairly easy ride with him, we had our own rehearsal rooms, though we did rehearse at Clifton Hall. We were quite organised as a self contained unit, had our own gear, van, stage wear etc so he didn't get involved in our day to day business. Reg just had take care of the publicity and media contracts.

Even on the odd occasions when we refused to do a publicity stunt for him, which we disagreed with. The one thing which stood out in my mind was the time he wanted us to dye the fountains in Trafalgar square and appear for publicity photos. We were horrified at the thought of leaving a lot of messy dye that was difficult to clean off the stonework and the real chance of poisoning the pigeons.

We most emphatically said no. In the event he went ahead in pretended faked up pictures.

British pop group Pinkerton's Assorted Colours, (from left) Dave Holland, Barrie Bernard, Tom Long, Tony Newman and Samuel 'Pinkerton' Kemp.

We often pushed the boundaries for him but he knew we had limits. If it sounded good to us, we'd do it without a murmur, we served our own apprenticeship. Formed in their home town of Rugby the 'Pinks' were brainchild of Reg Calvert, probably the closest of his bands so were very much helping hands behind the scenes of Radio City.