Originally formed in England in the late 1950s, as Colin Green’s Beat Boys by
guitarist Colin Green and piano player Georgie Fame (real name: Clive Powell),
the R&B and jazz combo originally backed American rockers Gene Vincent and Eddie
Cochran during their UK tours before being hired as Billy Fury’s backing band
the Blue Flames. When Fury’s manager dismissed them in 1961 for being ‘too
jazzy’, the band kept their name and brought in Alan ‘Earl’ Watson as lead
vocalist. In 1962, Green and Watson left the band and the renamed Georgie Fame
was promoted to vocalist and bandleader. ...