Was he really just 18 yo here, he looked a lot older? Three girls force their way into his van, how many of these groupies as well as all the others got pregnant?
I don't have the patience to watch the whole thing, but did they really not bother to find out the name of the front man? That he was Derek, not "Simon"?
Simon Dupree was his name as far as his fame took him, just as Ringo Starr was Richard Starkey & John Paul George called him Rich privately, but in public band mode they said Ringo.
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Interesting and entertaining, Man Alive , fantastic programme 👏
Hail to power and to the Raver's ways!
They might not have been very big back then, but they became giant.
I see what you did there.
Then they became the Prog band Gentle Giant and had an audience almost entirely composed of nerdy males. LOL!
❤wow!
Operation yew tree....
My band played at the same place in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, although it was a few years later and we didn't have quite as big an audience! 🙂
I bet most of those girls now would be in their 70s 😂
Was he really just 18 yo here, he looked a lot older?
Three girls force their way into his van, how many of these groupies as well as all the others
got pregnant?
@ 23-35.....as I thought! 🤣🤣🤣
Sara Pascoe said her mom was a groupie.
I'm 71, why don't you just Google it? I do & up comes the answer. Simples.
I don't have the patience to watch the whole thing, but did they really not bother to find out the name of the front man? That he was Derek, not "Simon"?
Still around I believe and went on to become record industry executive,
Simon Dupree was his name as far as his fame took him, just as Ringo Starr was Richard Starkey & John Paul George called him Rich privately, but in public band mode they said Ringo.