The Beat Chics
| The Beat Chics | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Rock and roll , beat music |
| founding | 1963 |
| resolution | 1967 |
| Founding members | |
| Maire "Moy" Page | |
Guitar , vocals |
Lesley Arden |
guitar |
Anne Bridgeman |
| Mary Cullen | |
| Una Mellor | |
| Christine Lee | |
The Beat Chics was a female-only British pop band that played between 1963 and 1967.
history
In 1963 six musicians from the Ivy Benson orchestra formed the band. In contrast to many other bands of the time, they were all trained musicians who could read and play from sight. The band played in German clubs as well as in Great Britain. The Beat Chics accompanied the singers Lulu or Eartha Kitt ; she appeared as the opening act for The Beatles on their first tour of Spain and recorded the bullfighting arenas.
With the cover version of the Bill Haley title Skinny Minie recorded for Decca Records in 1964 , the band reached the Billboard Top 100 in the USA and had hit successes in Italy, Brazil and Spain. The band continued to exist as a quintet. Another tour followed in Great Britain with the singer Cilla Black ; then the band toured mainland Europe. In 1965 she presented an EP for the Spanish market with Columbia Records , which was successful in the Spanish and Latin American charts.
Web links
- Band portrait
- The Beat Chics at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horst D. Mannel, Rainer Obeling Beat Geschichte (n) in Revier Journal-Verlag, 1993, p. 42
- ↑ When the job with the Beatles came along I almost passed out - 70-year-old drummer on gigs and rumored engagement to Paul McCartney
- ↑ Angela Smith Women Drummers: A History from Rock and Jazz to Blues and Country Rowman & Littlefield 2014, pp. 76f.
- ↑ Angela Smith Women Drummers , p. 77
- ↑ Christine Lee y sus Beat-Chics: El juego del amor / Que poco sabe / Sé de un lugar / No es nada extraño