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Jimmy Powell & the 5 Dimensions - All-nighter

T - Bones,
 

Gary Farr and the T-Bones came from Brighton UK, An R&B group doing songs originally from the USA. Not to be confused with the USA group of the same name who copied to some extent the Booker T version of  their Instrumental "No Matter What Shape (You're Stomach's In)" which was a soundtrack to a USA TV commercial for Alka Seltzer! 
  Give Him One More Change.

The Habit

Hipster Image

Larry Williams - All-nighter

Known as rock and roll and recoded in the late fifties in New Orleans with Specialty Records: "Bony Moronie", "Short Fat Fannie", "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" these were R&B and greatly appreciated by the Wheel crowd.

Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson - All-nighter

They did a single – ‘Too Late’ which has become a huge ‘Northern Soul hit.

  Space Guitar

~: Easter Monday :~

Blues Set

‘Roachie & Dave (pillion) outside the Wheel in 1965 on the Chento; a tiny Lambretta.
 In London the Mods seemed to have more Vespa’s but in Manchester it was all about Lambretta’s.
 
On many occasions Brazennose Street was filled with hordes of Scooters parked outside the club and gangs of Parka clad Mod’s hanging about – others flying past up and down the street with long aerials bending backwards as they revved up often doing a stand up acrobatic show!
Manchester Mod’s loved blues, but by now they were becoming Mod Soul brothers, becoming dedicated to original Soul artists and getting disenchanted with UK imitators. The Wheel DJ Roger Eagle was very conscious of this and produced more and more original Stateside Soul 45’s. In fact it was the records that people came to the club to hear and the playlist was a far bigger attraction than most of the live acts… with obvious popular and originals as the exceptions.
 

Rod Stewart - All-nighter

Did a version of the Beatles ‘ Girl’

St Louis Union

The Soul Sisters,
 

We probably heard ‘I Can’t Stand It’ first from the Spencer Davis group, and indeed Stevie Windwood did a great version. However in the atmosphere of Manchester Soul Mod’s demanding originals, it was the Soul Sisters and all things from the Sue label that began to dominate.
 Wheel DJ’s Roger Eagle and Roger Fairhurst were Pals with Guy Stevens the London manager of Sue and DJ at London’s premier Mod Soul club – The Scene. That’s were they got free 45’s to promote in Manchester, but its worth saying that right at the beginning of the Wheel the first DJ’s were playing Sue – Inez & Charlie’s Mockingbird. The first Sue LP was essential to own if you were a Manchester Soul mod!
  

On the night they did wear matching leopard skin outfits. and boy did she look sexy!
  La De Da I Love You
  Jaybirds (Not the Mockingbirds)
  Tightrope

THIS WAS THE LAST SESSION AT THE BRAZENNOSE WHEEL.

The Wheel was closing down a rumour had started a few weeks previously. And it was true!
It was like the death of your best friend. It was announced in the Manchester Evening News…
Hardly anyone believed that the new premises for the wheel could ever be the same, some stopped and never went again others said we would all have to go to the Jungfrau club from now on! But most gave it a try….we didn’t know it at that time: It was to be better than ever!

CLOSED: Goodby Brazennose St.

 
WHITWORTH STREET OPENED

The New Twisted Wheel at 6 Whitworth Street - Telephone Central 1179
Opened and was directly opposite the Fire Brigade Headquarters and the Police Station!  A slightly worrying consideration as most of the Wheels clientele for the All-nighters were taking large amounts of Amphetamines.
 

John Mayall Blues Breakers - All-nighter

Lou Johnson - All-nighter

What a smooth guy with a smooth stylish voice he must have had a ‘Magic Potion’ but perhaps not the same one that a lot of the crowd that night had taken!
“A TIME TO LOVE A TIME TO CRY” a version of the instrumental ‘Petite Fleur’ by Sidney Bechet who was a Creole American and a jazz saxophonist and clarinetist: an instrument featured heavily in Lou Johnson’s song – a tribute to Bechet.
 
The ‘B’ side was UNSATISFIED which was the dance track most featured at the Wheel and a song that also became a strong favourite years later on the evolving ‘Northern Soul’ scene.

’Message To Martha’ ‘Always Something There To remind Me’, ‘Reach Out For Me’ and ‘Magic Potion’ where all written for Mr Johnson by Bert Bacharach and Hal David
Lou had been on Ready Steady Go were he sand both ‘Unsatisfied’ and ‘A Time To Love A Time to Cry’. At the Wheel he also did – ‘If I Never Get To love You’ and of course his fantastic: ‘Don’t Stop The Wedding’. He had a very strong stage personality.
A rather sadder and somewhat depleted Lou Johnson can be seen on the DVD set The Strange World Of Northern Soul – that was ‘heroically’ put together by Ian Levine.
 
I think I prefer to remember him as he was at the Wheel. When he was touring the UK and had recently appeared on Ready Steady Go.
  Kentucky Bluebird

The Who

The Mighty WHO the MODS favourite UK Group. 

‘I Can’t Explain’

Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere’

‘My Generation’

‘Mods liked Soul, and of course all the UK Mod bands. The crowned kings of Mod bands were of course the mighty Who. A pal of mine called Adge was crazy about the Who. He had the RAF red, white and blue round target on the back of his white jacket. We met up and went around the corner from the Twisted Wheel one Saturday night to see the Who playing at the Oasis Club.
At the Wheel All-nighters when the DJ put on ‘My Generation’ everyone stuttered with Roger Daltry and sang ‘Fuck Off’ instead of ‘Ffff…fade away’. It would be fantastic to see them do it live, so I risked it to go to a non-genuine Mod club.
 
The club was ‘heaving’, filled to over capacity but the Who made up for the crush that we were in. Keith Moon at one point threw his drumsticks into the crowd and used two Coke bottles to drum with instead. About a year after that memorable night the Who came to Manchester again, playing at the Co-Op New Century House, where there was a ground floor dance hall. I was there, again with Adge. It was even better than the first time at the Oasis, and Townsend wrecked yet another guitar. Apparently The Who were on at the Wheel on a Sunday but somehow we missed them and only heard about it later’. 
                                  From the Novel: THE MANCHESTER WHEELERS

  The Kids Are Alright

Had a hit with ‘Tell Me When’
 
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  Like Dreamers Do (Originally by the Beatles

T - Bone Walker - All-nighter

The WHEELERS got to see this great ‘electric’ guitar man in October 1965 at the first Twisted Wheel. The DJ’s Roger Eagle and Roger Fairhurst and another pal of theirs were in the ‘Favourite Snack Bar’ a - greasy Spoon- egg and chips café; with the great man in Albert Square, helping T Bone sample good English grub!

Unit 4+2

These guys were from Hereford and had a Top Ten hit with ‘Concrete and Clay’

The Action - All-nighter

Mod band

At RSG

The Marauders   

  At the Jiggy – Wilson Pickett

Spencer Davis Group - All-nighter

[Major Lance at the Jiggy Allnighter!]

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