THE MOONTREKKERS " NIGHT OF THE VAMPIRE / MELODIE D`AMORE " ( RGM Joe Meek ) EX
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THE MOONTREKKERS
A) NIGHT OF THE VAMPIRE
B) MELODIE D`AMORE
( RGM Joe Meek )
PARLOPHONE
45-R 4814
1961
VINYL = EX
The origins of the group lay in The Raiders, formed around 1960 in Hornsey, north London, by teenage school friends Gary Leport (b. 1945, guitar), Jimmy Raither (guitar), Peter Johnson (bass), Tony White (drums), and Robert Farrant (vocals). After Farrant left - later going on to record under the name Bobby Shafto - the group auditioned new singers, and replaced him with the 16-year old Rod Stewart. They then won an audition with record producer Joe Meek, who liked the group but not their singer. Stewart left, and Meek persuaded the group to add keyboard player Pete Knight, and to change their name to The Moontrekkers. They recorded Leport's instrumental tune, "Night of the Vampire", at Meek's home studio in Islington, with Leport on lead guitar, Knight on clavioline, and Meek himself providing the eerie screams at the end of the record.The record was banned by the BBC as being "unsuitable for people of a nervous disposition" when released on the Parlophone label in 1961.
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