Beano

[rhino]

Re: Beano

hey mate,cant thank you enough for the pleasure you gave us up here in the northeast club-land .....wish i could turn the clock back,pity it was just too early to video. Great memories of The Bucking Bronco Joke ,Quick impressisions........ and ofcourse Billy Porter ..TERRIFIC !!!!

[johno3776]

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Re Beano, Fred does indeed live in Tenerife, John lives in mold, ken & myself Ray live in Birkenhead, I still play the drums in a club and still playing the same Slingerland kit I bought from The Newcastle Drum Shop in 1973 at a cost of £300. What a great time we all had in the 70s. Regards to everyone who remembers the Band.

[EchoMike]

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Yeah I remember Beano, I used to watch them in the Northern clubs, the band consisted of Freddy of course, Ken Smith, John Birch and Ray Johnson, great fun they were. When they were doing the rounds of the clubs they released a vynil LP in 1979 which I have just been listening to tonight, they still sound good. During the mid eighties I found a cassette for sale called "Candy Baby" in of all places Germanywhich I still listen to. Does anybody know what happend to Freddy and the other lads. If you put Freddy Philips in Google it talks about a musician that used to write soundtracks for TV shows such as Trumpton etc and that he passed away in 2003, is it the same Freddy ? Any other knowledge or info would be interesting to read about

[rhino]

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yep,i remember them well. They were very big as a comedy showgroup thru out the 70s in northern working mens clubs.Lead singer/comedian Fredddie Phillips was just terrific,i can only describe him as being like Ken Dodd on acid,great one line jokes and daft impressions . When the band broke up in 1980 ish,Fred went on to front his own band called Freddies Beano,my guess is because of financial reasons,and later was part of a comedy threesome named gagattack,altho i never saw that particular act.. When the band split with Freddie,they became The Beano Band,altho not to any success. Word is that Freddie may have moved abroad but they were definately the best comedy showgroup i ever saw.

[kevpk]

Can anybody remember the 70's bubblegum pop group Beano? they had a minor hit " candy baby ". I have that single, but have had no luck finding out anymore about the band. Put Beano into any search engine and.... well you can guess what comes up