Starting August 30, 2023, these Pete Ham albums will be made available for the first time since they went out of print on CD!
7 Park Avenue, Golders Green and Keyhole Street are being released as digital downloads for the first time and also made available to all streaming services for the first time. Keyhole Street hasn't been available for over 10 years and 7 Park Avenue & Golders Green haven't been available for over 20 years.
Keyhole Street will be available as two separate volumes due to the large number of tracks (one volume for each CD).
Pete Ham / Keyhole Street: Demos 1966-67 Volume 1 (33 songs)
Pete Ham / Keyhole Street: Demos 1966-67 Volume 2 (23 songs)
★ Pete Ham / 7 Park Avenue, Pete Ham / Golders Green
He (John Weathers) was close friends with another Liverpool group with Swansea roots: Badfinger (known originally as the Iveys). He reveals that “they beat me up once!”
“Yes,” he continues, “their guitar player [Dai] had a brother [Alwyne Jenkins] who was a roadie, and he was bad-mouthing me. We got to a gig one afternoon to set up, and he was there. So I started giving him a hard time about bad-mouthing me, because there was no substance behind it. There was a little bit of pushing and shoving, and all of a sudden the whole of Badfinger jumped on me and gave me a good kicking. Luckily one of the doormen happened to come in and put a stop to it.” Weathers goes on to say that was quickly “water under the bridge. Two weeks later we got back together again, and they were all apologizing for being so silly; they had thought I was going to beat up on their roadie! They were great guys, absolutely splendid guys.”