![]() Our contract stipulated that we play on stage in the Star Palast clubs each evening from 9pm until 3am along with Tommy Bishop's Riccochets, playing one hour on and one hour off. See photo of Davy with The Silver Beatles. I later found out that he was a big name around Germany in the early 60's and all the wee new bands - even The Beatles - were obliged to back him when they were in town. ![]() ![]() Suddenly a singer named Davy Jones began singing the song over the house P.A. This was a slow bluesy number on the ‘B’ side of You Send Me by Sam Cooke c/w with dreamy Hammond organ. One special musical memory I have of a night in the company of those guys was when we were playing our smoky instrumental version of Summertime with I would take the solo. I mean, what else was there for them to do? However, usually the night went well. During off duty time, these guys certainly loved to drink, party and fight in equal measure and did just that. There were two bands trading alternate hours, ourselves and the English group Tommy Bishop & The Riccochets. We were contracted to work daily from 8pm till 4am. Many big names - and small names which would later turn out to be big names - played the club at around the same time as we were there or shortly after, such as Bill Haley & His Comets who took to the stage just weeks after we moved on to the Luneburg Star Palast gig, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lord Sutch, The ‘N Betweens, Paul Raven, the Boston Showband, Jimi Hendrix etc. Called the Kiel Star Palast, the club was owned by a guy called Manfred Woittalla who promoted his own dancing girls called the Amstel Dancers. We were allocated some cold damp rooms under the club which was actually an old converted Cinema. Travelling via France and Belgium, through Aachen and north-east to Schleswig-Holstein we opened our tour in the city of Kiel just north of Hamburg which at that time was still very much a US naval base.
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