Gonks Go Beat
One of the drummers listed in the drum sequence is Andy White. He was the session drummer hired by George Martin for the first Beatles recording session as he had not heard Ringo Starr drum so wanted a good drummer for that session. He is featured on the Beatles first single Love Me Do. Andy White died in 2015.,Partway through the Graham Bond Organisation's performance of "Harmonica", a pretty brunette in a blue top suddenly shows up sitting next to Ginger Baker and his drum kit.,Featured in Beware of Mr. Baker (2012),Choc Ice
By Mike Leander,You have to be a real killjoy not to love this splendidly silly film, a kind of bubblegum version of Romeo and Juliet. However, the film is of some historical interest, featuring footage of the Graham Bond Organisation (urged on by a cane-wielding, mortar-board-donning Reginald Beckwith!). Musical numbers of widely varying merit are interspersed among the unfolding of a mind-bogglingly lightweight romance between a Beatland boy (sometime Joe Meek protege Ian Gregory) and a Balladisle girl, as seen from the viewpoint of a visiting alien (Kenneth Connor). Perhaps this studio-bound cheapathon was UK cinema's last unabashed quota-quickie. What a contrast with John Boorman's wintry, wistful "Catch Us If You Can" (made in the same year), and yet 60s-phobes (of whom there are regrettably many) are likely to bracket the films together as throwaway musicals!,