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• Changes in Baby: bass guitarist Chris Hudson has left and is replaced by drummer Danny Bennett’s twin brother, Tony.
• Max Merritt and the Meteors and Deep Purple in Japan feature on “Grunt Machine" (TVI) tommorrow night.
• Robin Trower was bom in Gisborne and went to England (presumably with his parents) as a baby.
• The very good film of Bowie singing “Golden Years” will be repeated on “Ready to Roll” (TVI) tomorrow. in case yon missed the earlier run.
• New Bav City Roller lan Mitchell (18) has a 27 inch waist and size 7 j shoes. His favorite colour is blue and he likes steak and chips and
apple juice. You wish to know his parents’ names or collar size? Just call me, I know everything about him.
• Janis lan, the singer who won so much praise in the 1976 Grammy Awards (shown on TVI this week) wrote “Society’s Child”. • Sheb “Purple People Eater” Wooley appears on "A Touch of Country” from TV2 this Saturday. • Stevie Wonder is 26 today. • The Brotherhood of Man’s “Save all your kisses for me” (ultimate in sickly pop) brings out violence in me I didn’t know I had. • Frank Sinatra is suing his biographer, Earl Wilson, for depicting his life as boring and him as devoid of any depth as a human.
• Bill and Boyd have been asked to sing with Glen Campbell on a TV special he is making in Australia for world-wide distribution. They are to sing their hit “Put Another Log on the Fire”, plus Campbell’s "Rhinestone Cowboy” and “Country Boy”. The special is being called" Down Home, Down Under”, and also features Olivia NewtonJohn. Bill Cate of the New Zealand duo commented that this was “the biggest thing that has ever happened to us.” • Bob Calvert of Hawkwind has written a play, based on the life of Hendrix, called “The Stars that Played with Laughing Sam’s Dice”. It begins showing in London at the end of the month.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34152, 13 May 1976, Page 12
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