Barclay James Harvest Members - Woolly Wolstenholme, John Lees, Les Holroyd, Mel Pritchard (Paperback)

Chapters: Woolly Wolstenholme, John Lees, Les Holroyd, Mel Pritchard. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Woolly Wolstenholme was vocalist and keyboard player with the British progressive rock band Barclay James Harvest. Stuart John Wolstenholme was born in Chadderton, Lancashire on 15 April 1947, and went to school at North Chadderton Secondary Modern. His first instrument was a tenor banjo, which he took up at the age of twelve, and he also played tenor horn for the Delph band. He met John Lees at Oldham School of Art and Woolly played tambourine and sang with John in The Sorcerers, then The Keepers, where Woolly played whatever instrument was required, such as harmonica and twelve-string guitar. The pair then founded Barclay James Harvest, together with Les Holroyd and Mel Pritchard, in 1967. Woolly taught himself keyboards, first the Mellotron and then adapting to organ, piano and synthesisers. His musical influences range from Love and Vanilla Fudge through Mahler to UK and Radiohead. Woolly remained with Barclay James Harvest until 1979, when he became frustrated and unhappy at the direction their music was taking. He recorded a solo album, Maestoso, in 1980, and toured as support to Judie Tzuke and Saga, as well as writing film and TV music. A projected second album, Black Box, was shelved and Woolly lost interest in the music business, preferring instead to farm, initially in Lancashire and later in west Wales. Tapes from the sessions for his second album were finally issued in 1994, along with the complete Maestoso album, as Songs From The Black Box. Woolly returned to the music business in 1998 after meeting John Lees again, and this resulted in the Eagle Records album Nexus credited to Barclay James Harvest Through The Eyes Of John Lees. ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=3982