| 1963 [SD age 20-21; SW age 14-15] |
| August. Spencer Davis
(a lecturer in German at the University of Birmingham) was an aficionado
of acoustic blues who had a growing reputation in the city as a performer.
The brothers Winwood played together in a trad band, the Muff Woody Jazz
Band. In the year of the beat boom, sharing a bill one night this month
at the Golden Eagle (Hill Street), they hit upon the idea of forming an
rhythm and blues quartet (called "The Rhythm and Blues Quartet") with
drummer, Peter York. (See Frame 1993: 37). |
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| 1964 [SD age 21-22; SW age 15-16] |
| Chris Blackwell signs The
Spencer Davis Group to his Island Records and leases the recordings
to Fontana in the UK and United Artists in the US. |
| May. "Dimples" / "Sittin'
and Thinkin'" [Fontana TF 471] |
| 5 November. "I
Can’t Stand It" [UK #47] / "Midnight Train" [Fontana TF 499] |
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| 1965 [SD age 22-23; SW age 16-17] |
| January. "Every Little
Bit Hurts" [UK #41] / "It Hurts Me So" [Fontana TF 530] |
| May. "Strong Love"
[UK #44] / "This Hammer" [Fontana TF 571] |
| May. Their First
Album [UK Fontana TL 5242 LP; #6 January 1966] |
| 2 December. "Keep
On Running" [UK #1] / "High Time Baby" [Fontana TF 632] |
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| 1966 [SD age 23-24; SW age 17-18] |
