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Okay, with a name like that, you'd be forgiven for thinking this band is a product of my imagination. But no ... there was a band called the Blossom Toes.

I was introduced to them by Pete Swales, son of a Haverfordwest music shop owner who had headed for the glamour of the Big City (he soon became the Stones' personal assistant.) He invited me to their Holmead Road, Chelsea, house to write about the band. They were under the tutilage of and signed to the label owned by Giorgio Gomelsky, who signed Julie Driscoll and the Brian Augur Trinity at the same time.

It was the strangest of weekends, with people like Alan Price showing up out of the blue for a smoke and a chat; plus my first encounter with a real Lambourgini. I think this was the moment I discovered how unimpressed I was by halucinogenic substances (or perhaps how I maybe missed the point of them.)

Julie Driscoll made it with "Wheels On Fire." The Blossom Toes didn't quite hack it. However, Kevin and Jim from the Toes went on to join Rod Stewart's band - check his album notes for Westlake and Ceegan. And Googling for Peter J. Swales produces a result that just goes to show how people's lives can change dramatically.

Just a couple of years later, another band emerged with a very similar style to the Blossom Toes and the rest is legend.

They have been found again ... check here:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj_sYxk-Bks

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