1966-68. The pirate radio stations on ships in the North Sea are pumping out the music the BBC refuse to play. My favourite bands along side the Who are The Kinks and the Small Faces.
Steve Marriott's peerless vocals will be a perennial favourite as his career takes off later with Humble Pie, and then crashes back down to the pub circuit and his untimely death in the mid-1980's. Here in Tin Soldier his voice shows a soulful maturity beyond his years and is perfectly combined with guest vocalist P.P. Arnold
What were the other popular genres? I wasn't so influenced then by American music (but that would soon change). The Beach Boys were OK; soul bored me; and I didn't really get the blues, or Jimi Hendrix. And somehow I didn't appreciate Cream until they had already broken up.
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