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Happy 74th birthday, Trevor Burton, founding member of The Move.
I like The Move. Give "Shazam" a listen some time.
Trevor Burton
Trevor Burton (born Trevor Ireson; 9 March 1944 in Aston, Birmingham, England) is an English guitarist and is a founding member of The Move.
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The Move
The original line-up of The Move contained singer Carl Wayne, lead guitarist/multi-instrumentalist/songwriter/singer Roy Wood, drummer Bev Bevan, bassist Ace Kefford and Burton on rhythm guitar. Wayne was the usual lead singer, but Wood (who wrote the majority of the original material at this stage), Kefford and Burton were also lead singers to some capacity. Despite a following in their native Birmingham, the fledgling band were in dire need of management and exposure to the music scene in London, so Moody Blues manager Tony Secunda, whose methods were ahead of their time, became their manager. Secunda brought the band to London and secured them a weekly residency at the famous Marquee Club, recently vacated by The Who. He dressed them up as American gangsters, staged a contract signing on topless model Liz Wilson, steered them away from their early Motown-style sound and towards a more psychedelic West Coast-influenced live sound and encouraged Wood to write more original material.
Night of Fear was the debut single by The Move, released on Deram Records and hitting No. 2 in the UK singles chart. Hit singles during Burton's tenure in the group called I Can Hear the Grass Grow, Flowers in the Rain, Fire Brigade, Wild Tiger Woman and Blackberry Way. The group's eponymous debut album was released in 1968 and it was to be the only full-length LP release by the original line-up, before Kefford quit the band after having an LSD-induced breakdown and the group carried on as a quartet, with Burton shifting to bass. According to Wayne, Kefford's departure was the beginning of the end of the band and believed that the band could've survived had Kefford been replaced by a keyboardist, but even though Blackberry Way (with Wood and Bevan's future Electric Light Orchestra bandmate Richard Tandy playing harpsichord) hit No. 1 in the UK after the relative commercial failure of Wild Tiger Woman, Burton was growing unhappy with Wood's domination and the shift into commercial pop. Although The Move initially intended to add Tandy to their line-up as a keyboardist, when Burton fractured his shoulder, Tandy switched to bass for a few gigs and TV shows, but left to join The Uglys upon Burton's recovery. However, after a fight onstage with Bevan at a show in Sweden, Burton quit the band for good to pursue a blues career. During this line-up change, Wood asked his friend Jeff Lynne, then the frontman of fellow Birmingham band The Idle Race, to join, but Lynne turned it down because he was still working towards success for The Idle Race, and so Burton was replaced on bass by Rick Price.
Trevor Burton (born Trevor Ireson; 9 March 1944 in Aston, Birmingham, England) is an English guitarist and is a founding member of The Move.
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The Move
The original line-up of The Move contained singer Carl Wayne, lead guitarist/multi-instrumentalist/songwriter/singer Roy Wood, drummer Bev Bevan, bassist Ace Kefford and Burton on rhythm guitar. Wayne was the usual lead singer, but Wood (who wrote the majority of the original material at this stage), Kefford and Burton were also lead singers to some capacity. Despite a following in their native Birmingham, the fledgling band were in dire need of management and exposure to the music scene in London, so Moody Blues manager Tony Secunda, whose methods were ahead of their time, became their manager. Secunda brought the band to London and secured them a weekly residency at the famous Marquee Club, recently vacated by The Who. He dressed them up as American gangsters, staged a contract signing on topless model Liz Wilson, steered them away from their early Motown-style sound and towards a more psychedelic West Coast-influenced live sound and encouraged Wood to write more original material.
Night of Fear was the debut single by The Move, released on Deram Records and hitting No. 2 in the UK singles chart. Hit singles during Burton's tenure in the group called I Can Hear the Grass Grow, Flowers in the Rain, Fire Brigade, Wild Tiger Woman and Blackberry Way. The group's eponymous debut album was released in 1968 and it was to be the only full-length LP release by the original line-up, before Kefford quit the band after having an LSD-induced breakdown and the group carried on as a quartet, with Burton shifting to bass. According to Wayne, Kefford's departure was the beginning of the end of the band and believed that the band could've survived had Kefford been replaced by a keyboardist, but even though Blackberry Way (with Wood and Bevan's future Electric Light Orchestra bandmate Richard Tandy playing harpsichord) hit No. 1 in the UK after the relative commercial failure of Wild Tiger Woman, Burton was growing unhappy with Wood's domination and the shift into commercial pop. Although The Move initially intended to add Tandy to their line-up as a keyboardist, when Burton fractured his shoulder, Tandy switched to bass for a few gigs and TV shows, but left to join The Uglys upon Burton's recovery. However, after a fight onstage with Bevan at a show in Sweden, Burton quit the band for good to pursue a blues career. During this line-up change, Wood asked his friend Jeff Lynne, then the frontman of fellow Birmingham band The Idle Race, to join, but Lynne turned it down because he was still working towards success for The Idle Race, and so Burton was replaced on bass by Rick Price.
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