<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n BAND INDEX<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Also see <\/a><\/b><\/span>http:\/\/www.brumbeat.net\/chads.htm<\/a> <\/b>as the Chads were a Birmingham band but with strong Coventry connections.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n circa 1965 <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>Mick Adkins<\/b> Joe Parsons<\/b> John Pauline Jeff Lynne<\/b> Margaret <\/span><\/p>\n Margaret <\/b><\/span>Reiss<\/b> left <\/span>Jeff Lynne<\/b> <\/span>From Pete ” The Formed in <\/span>After After six <\/span>They took a <\/span>On their <\/span>“Jeff <\/span>The Chads <\/span>More than <\/span>As this was <\/span>” The \n <\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The CHADS BAND INDEX Also see http:\/\/www.brumbeat.net\/chads.htm as the Chads were a Birmingham band but with strong Coventry connections. circa 1965 Beat group Mick Adkins lead guitar, vocal (left in 1965) Keith Harrison drums Joe Parsons bass guitar, vocal Keith Warrender guitar, harmonica … Continue reading
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\nBeat group<\/span><\/p>\n
\nlead guitar, vocal (left in 1965) <\/span>Keith
\nHarrison<\/b> drums<\/span><\/p>\n
\nbass guitar, vocal <\/span>Keith
\nWarrender<\/b> guitar, harmonica (left in 1965)<\/span><\/p>\n
\nWilliams<\/b> lead vocal, harmonica \/ sax<\/span><\/p>\n
\nShepherd<\/b> lead vocal (joined & left in 1964)<\/span><\/p>\n
\nlead guitar (joined in 1965)<\/span><\/p>\n
\nReiss<\/b> keyboards (joined in 1965)<\/span><\/p>\n
\nApril 1965 and was replaced by Gordon Hughes, they eventually broke up in July
\n1965.<\/span> <\/span>The bassist joined Coventry band The
\nEstablishment.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nalso played in the band from early 1965 until the split when he and Williams
\njoined Coventry band The Mad Classix.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nChambers – Backbeat – Coventry Telegraph<\/b><\/p>\n
\nChads were actually a Birmingham band, but they were to spend so much time
\nplaying in Coventry that the locals took them\u2019 as a Coventry band.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nthe late 1950s as the Sundowners they were one of the first bands in
\nBirmingham, beginning a fine tradition that would later include Brummie
\ntrailblazers like Mike Sheridan and the Nightriders, The Fortunes, Carl Wayne
\nand The Vikings and The Moody Blues.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nnumerous personnel changes the boys hooked up with an artist managed by Reg
\nCalvert going under <\/span>the name of
\nRobby Hood. They became his merry men and were forced to dress the part
\nincluding green tights!<\/span><\/p>\n
\nmonths, and one disastrous gig, they parted company with Robby Hood and
\nreinvented themselves as the Chads. Coventry agent Vince Martin (Holliday)
\nbegan work on their behalf and secured them a tour of American Air Force bases
\nin France<\/span><\/p>\n
\nfemale singer with them who couldn\u2019t actually sing (in the hope she would get
\nbetter. She didn’t) and to make matters worse they ended up making their
\ntemporary home in a sleazy hotel full of prostitutes and drunken GIs. Despite
\nthe conditions they lasted six weeks and eventually came back to the UK in
\n1964.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nreturn a certain Jeff Lynne joined the band, this was early 65, and he stayed
\nfor a while until he joined The Nightriders that became Idle Race, before going
\non to The Move, ELO and the mega-stardom Of The Travelling Wilbury\u2019s.”<\/span><\/p>\n
\nLynne was also a member of Coventry band The Mad Classix in a stint that lasted
\njust three weeks. It ended when the Mad Classix had their van stolen and all
\ntheir gear was inside it!<\/span><\/p>\n
\nagent Vince Martin (Holliday) was himself a member of one of Coventry\u2019s first
\nrock n roll bands, The Vampires.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n30 years later, the Chads are still mates and get together occasionally to
\nrecord some old blues numbers.”<\/span><\/p>\n
\na Birmingham band with strong Coventry connections the reader is referred to
\nBrum Beat site for fuller information.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nChads had an agent named Vince Martin from Coventry who found some supposedly
\nlucrative bookings for the group in France at U.S. Army and Air Force bases.
\nThere was a catch though. The group would have to hire a female lead singer as
\nwas a condition for the gigs so after a number of auditions, Pauline Shepherd
\nwas selected for the role. Thus in September of 1964, The Chads departed on the
\nferry to France for their “big adventure” on the Continent. After
\narriving in Dunkirk, the band spent the night in less than desirable
\naccommodations before setting off the next day in their van for Toul army base
\nnear Verdun.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n
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