![]() ![]() That was November 1965 and in 1966 the band started to fall apart basically. ![]() We knew them anyway because we always played the same bars and things in Wolverhampton and they were going to Frankfurt for a month and we went to Dortmund. During the same month Noddy Holder with his band, they were called "The Rockin' Phantoms" then, they got to Germany also. But that was fine, because we lived on chicken and chips anyway that we could buy from the caravan near the station. Our wages for that…we used to get 140 kroner a week each. Because the band I was in with Dave Hill, we'd been together since 1963, and we played the local pubs and clubs and things like that around Wolverhampton, and then we were going to Germany for a month to play one club. My parents used to come to watch and they were waving to me and I was trying to keep a straight face!. Oh, dear! It was always SO embarrassing, because we had the parades around my hometown, the Sunday morning parades. ![]() I also played the drums in the girl scouts! I'd just stand at the back doing, and they found me out and said, okay, you can play the drums. That was when I was 13, I think, but in those days in the boy scouts I was with, you had to play bugle first, and I couldn't do that. So my first question is, when did you originally get interested in playing the drums? ![]() I would like to start with the beginning and I would like to start with you. The interview itself took place in my living room and ran for a little less than 2 hours. We then chatted some more, and Don left me 2 pairs of drumsticks, one used, one new, and I gave him and Hanne some of my books 1 in Danish, 2 in English, before they were off again. We sat down and had a few sandwiches and chatted a bit, before the interview started synchronously with the thunder and rain! After the interview I took another 40 photos of Don in my house, and Hanne kindly acted the photographer on some photos of Don and me outside, when the rain had stopped. Outside I took about 15 photos of Don after which he politely volunteered to carry my tripod with the camera upstairs to my living room. Don and his Danish girlfriend Hanne came to my house around noon and we went on to do some photos outside straight away, as we were supposed to get thunder and rain during the afternoon. The interview was conducted at my home here in Odense, Denmark, on Friday the 15th of July 2005. First of all: thank you everybody for the extensive interest in the interview that I did with Don Powell last month. ![]()
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