The Rocking Vicars

The Rocking Vicars , known also under the name of Reverend Black and the Rocking Vicars or The Rockin' Vickers is a formed British group with Blackpool in 1963.

History

The group left only four 45 turns at Decca and CBS, all compounds of recoveries. (They recorded other titles like Say Mama and Shake Rattle and Roll which went well into live, like Little Rosy , I Just Stand Young stag and What' S The Matter Jane which left only in 2000). Rocking Vicars presented a show of most enigmatic for the Sixties. The press described the group like blasphemer, shocking and insipid. The television on its side refused to program them. Their singer, Harry Feeney, tried to cure it while protesting which wanted to hear it that, perhaps, the young people would want to go to the church Sunday if they had seen and liked a group named The Rocking Vicars Saturday evening! They were the first to use a battery with double gross case, they had funny look with their folk behaviors made up of boots in skin of reindeer tied very high on the front, their shirts come straight of Lapland to which the collar of priest was added. The concerts of the groups did not last more than forty minutes, but full tubes. They created an environment and left the scene. Their repertory was the same one as that of the majority of the other British groups of the time like the Merseybeat for example. Their first 45 turns left in 1964 at Decca included/understood a resumption of the I Go Hape of Neil Sedaka opposite has and Someone Like You opposite B. the disc was not well sold in the United Kingdom in spite of the success of the group on scene. Disappointed, Ian Holdbrook left the group and was replaced by Ian Willis, more known under the name of Lemmy Kilmister and future founder of the group Motörhead. Rocking Vicars were enormous in the North of England, but nobody knew them in the south of Birmingham. They played in Finland, where their first individual arrived in first place of the charts. They gave a memorable concert to Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in front of 10000 people is delirious about it. It was also the first group to be played on other side of the Iron curtain. They passed in Yugoslavia in 1965, in Slovenia, with the Montenegro and in Bosnia-Herzégovine. In 1967, frustration was too strong and the group beat wing. Morris with left the music business and became taxi driver, Cyril Shaw joined the backing band of the crooner Solomon King before withdrawing business in his turn. Harry Feeney is today owner of its own automobile concession with Blackpool. But in fact, if the group forever more found its state of grace of the middle of the Sixties, a version of Rocking Vicars continued to exist. The group still made spectacles of cabaret, as at side, until 1994. Cyril and Morris maintained the flame.

Line Up

1963-1965

1965-1967

Nickname

  • Harry Feeney : ---
  • Ian Holdbrook: ---
  • Steven Morris: Mogsy
  • Cyril Shaw : Ciggy
  • Ian Willis : Lemmy

Discography

Individual

Album

  • 2000 : The Complete: It' S Alright! (Compilation of all the titles recorded by the group left in 2000 at Purple Pyramid, division of Cleopatra Records, PLC 0870-2.)

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