In May 1965 Bilsbury left Leigh, Lancashire based group The Beat Boys and joined up with new local band The Sabres, who changed their name to The Hammers. Allan John Wilson, 1945, St Helens, Lancashire, UK).īilsbury who grew up at 267 Warrington Road in Culcheth, Lancashire, was first in The Ray Johnson Skiffle Group and then The Nightboppers. Ian James Moncur, 1945, 72 Stone Cross Lane, Lowton, near Leigh, Lancashire, UK) and Allan Wilson on drums (b. Burnley, Lancashire, UK), Ian Moncur on bass (b. Monday, Maat home in Bonn, Germany), Peter 'Coco' Shoesmith on lead guitar (b. James Robert Bilsbury, Monday, November 2, 1942, Liverpool, Lancashire, UK d. The Magic Lanterns formed in Summer 1965 in Warrington, Lancashire out of The Hammers with Jimmy Bilsbury on guitar, vocals (b. After having done a tour in Sweden, month long gigs at the Top Ten Club in Hamburg and K22 in Frankfurt, the group broke up." Alistair Beveridge We then had a further change in personel and Mike Osborne was replace by George Lynam. Sales were moderate and we followed up with a single called "Melt All Your Troubles Away". We then recorded and album for Atlantic which was only released in the States. This was quite an achievement for a local UK band. I still have cuttings from the Record Mirror showing the progress up the Cashbox Charts from bubbling under the top 50 to reaching a high of number 17 (I believe that it went to no 1 in Canada). Peter Shoesmith was replaced by Pete Garner, Ian Moncur was replaced by Mike Osborne and Allan Wilson was replaced by Harry Ward. Unfortunately it didn't do enough to chart and just prior to TOTP we had member changes in the group. On its release it was heavily promoted by Radio 1 and in fact we appeared on TOTPops in I think Oct 1968. Our first recording for Double R was "Shame Shame" (which was arranged by John Paul Jones of Led Zep fame). We then recorded "We'll Meet Again" which was not the best of sellers but was extensively played on Radio1 and appeared to be popular with the pirate radio stations.Īfter this our management was transferred to Double R Productions (Double R used to do the recordings for Dave Dee, Dozy.etc and P.J.Proby). It was at this point that I joined the band as Rhythm Guitar/Vocalist, which would have been around 1966/67. Reasonable success was had with "Excuse me Baby", "Rumplestiltskin", "Knight in Rusty Armour" and then "Auntie Grizelda". "The band was managed by a guy called Mike Collier who worked for Campbell Connelly music publishers and who secured a recording contract with CBS records.
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