POP SINGER ON WAY TO LONDON

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31614, 27 February 1968, Page 18

POP SINGER ON WAY TO LONDON

Mr Lee Grant, winner of :: the 1967 Gold Disc Award, il will give a farewell concert li in Christchurch this even- >' Ing. i 1 He is making a three-week i tour of New Zealand before 1 going to London. Tonight’s j concert is the only one he i will give in the South Island, j “I am going to Britain with i very little. I have been guaranteed one television show i but, although it’s a peak show i in London on Saturday night, it’s just a foothold,” he said. . Mr Lee Grant said there : was no point in changing his;; style of singing. “I may adapt , but I won’t change as they’re looking for originality. I don’tl: think I will be using any of ■ my present songs there. “Tom Springfield, who-i wrote some of the Seekers’ li songs, will be writing for me.jl 1 haven’t any home-grown songs for them. "No New Zealand pop!)

isinger has ever made it ini ithe States or in Britain,” he! isaid. “Britain is the Mecca of the pop world so I might j go there first,” he said. Mr Lee Grant said he did not intend to desert New Zealand. He would be in Britain for six weeks and for a maximum of three months before returning to New Zealand to do a tour in late June. A two-week season in Sydney has given him some idea of what to expect in Britain. “Generally, the public in Australia had never heard of me although all New Zealand artists there are extremely popular,” he said. “Some people had seen ’C'mon’ im ■New Zealand and knew who I l was. “Luckily." said Mr Lee (Grant. “I have a promotion company of three New Zealanders working for me in ‘Britain. They have promoted many people and are anxious Ito promote a New Zealander.”