In the sixties the record business was for the select few, you either had a record contract or you didn't make records - simple really. Many bands had very little time to make a record. The Beatles recorded Please Please Me which was thier first album or long player (LP) as they were then known in nine hours 45 mins according to Mark Lewisohn

The Beatles were a major influence on me. They saw me through my teens. There were a clutch of bands on the sixties but the Beatles outgrew them all. The Beatles developed at such an astonishing rate that they left bands like Dave Clark Five, The Searchers, Gerry and the Pacemakers (long before the device that kept you alive was invented!)

I began lead guitar playing in a Folk/Blues band where our main gig was at the local folk club supporting a singer/songwriter called Dave Boots who released an album through Solent Records call 'Green Satin and Gold'. Dave was the first person I knew who had made a record. That may have been the seed for Yew Tree Music.