{"id":487,"date":"2018-08-14T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2018\/08\/14\/zips\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T11:17:00","slug":"zips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2018\/08\/14\/zips\/","title":{"rendered":"Zips"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nZips<\/span><\/b> c 1973 – 76 Rock band<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\nLine up<\/b>: Featuring Rog and Pip ex Sorrows members.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nPip Whitcher<\/b> (vocals, guitar), <\/span><\/div>\n
\nRoger Lomas<\/b> (guitar, bass, vocals). <\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/a>Both ex- The Sorrows<\/b>. <\/span><\/div>\n
Paul Hooper<\/b> – Drums (Ex Indian Summer)<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nSingle: A<\/b>: Bye Bye Love B<\/b>: Evil Hearted Woman ( RAK ) 1975<\/span><\/div>\n
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Label: RAK<\/a> \u200e\u2013 1 C 006-97 198
Released: 1975
Genre: Rock, Pop
Style: Hard Rock, Prog <\/span>Rock Garage Rock, Glam, Psychedelic Rock<\/span><\/p>\n

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Memories from Tim James<\/b><\/p>\n

“I must say that I remember Zips <\/b>as being after The Dodgers<\/b>, but who am I to argue. Zips was specifically formed to record the Everly Bros<\/b> song “Bye Bye Love<\/i>” and promised the payola to guarantee “hyping<\/i>” as needed. I believe that they got everything they were promised, but the record sunk without trace. A shame, because I remember it as being a good single, but that’s the pop charts for you.”<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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Paul Hooper<\/b> “<\/span><\/span>A band I was part of with Roger Lomas and Pip Whitcher of Sorrows fame.. Recorded in mid 70s produced by Mickey Most using his ‘let’s cover a pop classic but beef it up<\/i>‘ template which he employed to good effect with bands like Mud etc. It was released as you’d expect on his RAK label.. It was all geared up to be a hit..he told us to get toggled up for Top Of The Pops.. But then it turned out it wasn’t.. Roger And Pip wrote the B side… We did another one covering a Beach Boys classic.. But that came to nowt as well.. Rog and I moved onto The Dodgers before Rog became a Producer for Two Tone acts and more, and I ended up in The Fortunes for several decades… Funny old business.”<\/span><\/div>\n

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Roger Lomas<\/b>
“When we had a pre-release meeting with Mickie Most (owner of RAK Records) he asked me what did I hope to achieve in the music industry? My answer…. I want your job. Fast forward 5 years, I was No.3 in the top 10 Record Producers charts & Mickie was No.7…. job done!!”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bye Bye Love – The Zips 1975<\/span><\/div>\n

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Evil Hearted Woman The Zips<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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Zips Zips c 1973 – 76 Rock band  Line up: Featuring Rog and Pip ex Sorrows members. Pip Whitcher (vocals, guitar),  Roger Lomas (guitar, bass, vocals).  Both ex- The Sorrows.  Paul Hooper – Drums (Ex Indian Summer) Single: A: Bye Bye Love … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}