Andy Fairweather Low’s teenage psychedelic stardom

Another great hero on the podcast! We first heard Andy Fairweather Low with Amen Corner on jukeboxes in the late ‘60s and he’s touring the UK from February. Ten albums and countless collaborations later, he looks back here at teenage life on the psychedelic circuit and the first shows he saw and played, stopping off at … … the Stones in Cardiff in ’64 - “they opened with Talkin’ ‘Bout You and it hit me like a virus.” … Amen Corner – “you gauged how good a gig was by how many people fainted.” … being The Face of ’69 when Peter Frampton was the Face of ‘68. … getting Otis Redding’s autograph. … the package tour with Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, The Move, Eire Apparent and the Nice “all in one charabanc together”. … his first band the Firebrands playing to “literally no audience”. … buying magical soul singles at Spillers in Cardiff. … the days when you had a 26-inch waist and played Knock On Wood eight times a night. … what people loved about Wide-Eyed And Legless. … recording 50 Words For Snow with Kate Bush. … the songs that “make the phones come out”. … the rigours of getting old: “halfway through the set she asked, when’s Andy Fairweather Low coming on?” ... and Don Arden, Andrew Loog Oldham, disappearing cash and the significance of the Spider Jiving sleeve. Andy Fairweather Low tour dates:https://andyfairweatherlow.com/about-us/ Order Andy’s The Invisible Bluesman album here:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Invisible-Bluesman-Andy-Fairweather-Low/dp/B0DKSN2CDZFind out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Mark Ellen and David Hepworth have been talking about and writing about music together and individually for a collective eighty years in magazines like Smash Hits, Mojo and The Word and on radio and TV programmes like "Rock On", "Whistle Test" and VH-1.Over thirteen years ago, when working on the late magazine The Word, they began producing podcasts. Some listeners have been kind enough to say these have been very special to them. When the magazine folded in 2012 they kept the spirit of those podcasts alive in regular Word In Your Ear evenings in which they spoke to musicians and authors in front of an audience. Over these years they've produced hundreds of hours of material. As of the Current Unpleasantness of 2020, they've produced yet hundreds of hours more with a little help from guests kind enough to digitally show them around their attics such as Danny Baker, Andy Partridge, Sir Tim Rice and Mark Lewisohn. For the full span of the Word In Your Ear world, visit wiyelondon.com. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.