One night in 1966, at the Regal Ballroom, Ammanford 04:47-07:57 字幕02
[Narrator] One night in 1966, at the Regal Ballroom, Ammanford, they met the man who would set them on the road to stardom.
[Ron] We noticed an elderly gentleman with a moustache and a black corduroy jacket stopped in his tracks, turned round and stared at us.
[Dai] Then he came to the dressing room and said, "I like what you do, lads." "I really think you are a good band, you could go far."
[Narrator] Bill Collins became the band manager and took them to London to live with him in his house in Golders Green.
[Dai] Before we moved away, he had a meeting with all the parents and said that he can't promise anything but hard work and blood, sweat and tears, I think he called it. Churchill's...
[Ron] It was everything it was purported to be in London, at that time. I am so glad I was part of it. It was a struggle to start with in the house because there were two bands living there, he had the Mojos, which occupied part of it, and we were crammed into the loft. We used to sleep on camp beds the first nine or 12 months we were there!
[Narrator] For two years, the band travelled the country gigging solidly. Whenever they were more at home at Golders Green, Pete spent every minute in a makeshift studio Bill had put in the house.
[Ron] It was a sweatbox in there, it was 10x10, a soundproof cube. Pete used to spend most of the night... He did most of his songwriting overnight.
[Dai] It is incredible what he used to put down, and he used to speed up the guitar solo and slow it down and play it back and it would sound like Pinky and Perky. Always experimenting and looking for something new.
#down down down
[Dan Matovina] Literally at the age of 19 and 20, for a year and a half, he created all kinds of mini masterpieces with tonnes of background vocals and it is astounding stuff. No-one at that time of that ilk was doing anything like what Pete Ham was, but he was doing it alone in this room.
[Beverley Tucker] Pete was very shy when I first met him. It was only after I had known him for a couple of weeks that his sense of humour really came out, which... ..was what drew me to him, really. Pete always found it easier to express his emotions through his music, so if there was a particular situation, maybe we'd had an argument or something, his way of apologising to me or stating his side of the case would be through songs.
#sille veb
[Narrator] The hard work was starting to pay off, but there were changes in the air. Dai Jenkins was replaced by Tommy Evans from Liverpool who became Peter's main songwriting partner.
#sille veb
★★
[Narrator] One night in 1966, at the Regal Ballroom, Ammanford, they met the man who would set them on the road to stardom.
[Ron] We noticed an elderly gentleman with a moustache and a black corduroy jacket stopped in his tracks, turned round and stared at us.
[Dai] Then he came to the dressing room and said, "I like what you do, lads." "I really think you are a good band, you could go far."
[Narrator] Bill Collins became the band manager and took them to London to live with him in his house in Golders Green.
[Dai] Before we moved away, he had a meeting with all the parents and said that he can't promise anything but hard work and blood, sweat and tears, I think he called it. Churchill's...
[Ron] It was everything it was purported to be in London, at that time. I am so glad I was part of it. It was a struggle to start with in the house because there were two bands living there, he had the Mojos, which occupied part of it, and we were crammed into the loft. We used to sleep on camp beds the first nine or 12 months we were there!
[Narrator] For two years, the band travelled the country gigging solidly. Whenever they were more at home at Golders Green, Pete spent every minute in a makeshift studio Bill had put in the house.
[Ron] It was a sweatbox in there, it was 10x10, a soundproof cube. Pete used to spend most of the night... He did most of his songwriting overnight.
[Dai] It is incredible what he used to put down, and he used to speed up the guitar solo and slow it down and play it back and it would sound like Pinky and Perky. Always experimenting and looking for something new.
#down down down
[Dan Matovina] Literally at the age of 19 and 20, for a year and a half, he created all kinds of mini masterpieces with tonnes of background vocals and it is astounding stuff. No-one at that time of that ilk was doing anything like what Pete Ham was, but he was doing it alone in this room.
[Beverley Tucker] Pete was very shy when I first met him. It was only after I had known him for a couple of weeks that his sense of humour really came out, which... ..was what drew me to him, really. Pete always found it easier to express his emotions through his music, so if there was a particular situation, maybe we'd had an argument or something, his way of apologising to me or stating his side of the case would be through songs.
#sille veb
[Narrator] The hard work was starting to pay off, but there were changes in the air. Dai Jenkins was replaced by Tommy Evans from Liverpool who became Peter's main songwriting partner.
#sille veb
★★
