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Friday on my Mind 135: Excerpt From “A Teenage Opera”

I mentioned this song once before. Its singer Keith West also had an incarnation with the band Tomorrow.

The Teenage Opera from which this was an excerpt did not make its full appearance until thirty years or so later.

As you can imagine being named Jack and at school at a time when a song with the refrain “Grocer Jack” became a hit wasn’t an unalloyed joy.

Keith West: Excerpt From “A Teenage Opera”

Friday On My Mind 35: My White Bicycle

More psychedelia. Why not?

Tomorrow‘s singer was Keith West, perhaps better known for the hit Excerpt From A Teenage Opera in turn better known as Grocer Jack as those two words repeated formed the beginning of the chorus. Guitarist Steve Howe later achieved greater fame with Yes.

Dunfermline band Nazareth – one of whose members lived round the corner from Son Of The Rock Towers for a while – had a hit with a rocked up version of My White Bicycle in 1975.

Tomorrow: My White Bicycle

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