Farons Flamingos                                                    1

A very young Faron with Paul McCartney.  Picture taken at New Brighton Tower Ballroom, early 1960's. "Do you     think the Beatles could  be this big?"   Faron was once voted more popular than the Beatles in a Merseybeat poll. His biggest hit, "Do You Love Me", reached  number one locally, but Brian Poole reached the top spot with it nationally. Faron recalls a gig in St Helens where Brian Poole got him to write out the words to the song in exchange for a large whiskey. Recently, the Contours (the original recorders of the song), compared the two versions and agreed that Faron had done the better version.Picture - N. Williams

 Left to right :- Arthur Rigby (bass gtr/vocals), Faron ( vocals), Chris Evans (lead gtr/vocals), Max Peckham (drums)  Although I knew Faron, this was the first time I was to be in his group. Most of the original Flamingos had given up performing and Arthur and myself had just resigned from Karl Terry's group. Within a week we were playing our first booking with Faron. We built up our bookings, and, pretty soon we were doing 8 gigs a week. These were mostly residencies and included playing Sunday afternoon and Sunday night. The gigs were typically, Monday- The Mayflower, city centre, Tuesday, Corkscrew wine bar, city centre, Wednesday, Farmers Arms, Clubmoor, Thursday, Whispers wine bar, Bold St., Friday, Metro Club, off Dale St., Saturday reserved for higher paying club gig, Sunday afternoon the Masonic, Berry St., Sunday night, the Shipperies, Durning Rd. This particular picture is taken at the Corkscrew Wine Bar in Liverpool city centre. Our usual set was 3 spots, the middle spot being reserved for other musicians to get up and jam.Picture - Sass

Letter from Bob Wooler confirming booking for the Wispa club, Litherland (5th May 1978)  Allisons night club was one of the top cabaret clubs in Liverpool. We played it many times but this time we were booked to appear in the basement section of the club, the Wispa. This place was usually a disco, but since 1977 disco was going through a bad time (god bless the punks). We were booked in the hope that we could fill what had become a dead Wednesday night. The place was a third full when we began playing, but halfway through the set a well dressed man interrupted us. Tom O Connor was performing upstairs and the show was being recorded. He asked us to turn down the volume as we could be heard upstairs. Faron argued we needed a certain volume but finally agreed to turn down a bit. True to form, as soon as the suit left, Faron winked at us and said, "Turn it back up, boys. We can get on Tom O Connors new L.P."