CHELMSFORD: Black Frog Presents at Chelmsford Social Club

Friday 27th October, 2023

7:00pm

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Terry Reid, ‘Superlungs’ as he’s affectionately known, is, without doubt, one of the greatest rock/soul voices this country has ever produced or is indeed likely to. A Terry Reid concert should be a cherished memory for any self-respecting fan of the greats of British music.

Terry turned down the front man’s job with Led Zeppelin, recommending his mate Robert Plant instead, a similar offer and rebuff to Deep Purple. Aretha Franklin’s stated that The Beatles, Rolling Stones and Terry Reid were the best England had to offer in 1968. He underwent two World Tours with The Rolling Stones, US tours with Cream, UK tours with Jethro Tull and Fleetwood Mac, The Isle of White Festival in 1969 and Glastonbury in 1970, played at Mick Jagger’s wedding before soured record deals resulted in Terry leaving Britain for America nearly 40 years ago.

All true, but the full story includes numerous collaborations with Graham Nash, covers of Reid songs by Marianne Faithfull, The Hollies, The Raconteurs (the hugely popular ‘Rich Kid Blues’), film soundtracks, including a song in George Clooney’s recent film ‘Up In The Air’, and a catalogue of 6 studio albums, including the seminal album ‘The River’, re-released to critical acclaim in 2002 and the 1976 Nash produced ‘Seed of Memory’. A Reid song ‘Horses Through a Rainstorm’ also features on CSN’s box set.

Terry has recently been recording with Joe Perry (Aerosmith) at Jonny Depp's studio. Take a look here https://youtu.be/pYEk5JoA880.

‘A triumph…Terry Reid’s voice has the power to provoke an intense reaction…’ – The Times

‘…Astonishing by any standards: spine tingles, hair prickles on the back of the neck…’ – The Independent.

Del Bromham says, right from as far as he can remember has always had music in his life. He was just 11 years old when his brother gave him his first guitar which someone had dumped in his dustbin. By the time he was 12 he was forming his first band at school in Shepherds Bush West London and by the time he was 14 years old he was playing in his brothers group ‘The Traders,’ playing the pubs and working men’s clubs. At 15 years of age he wanted to form his own group called ‘The Stray’. By 1970 at 18 years of age he had signed his first record deal with Transatlantic Records and released the first self-titled album ‘STRAY’. Stray went on to record around 14 studio and live albums and has toured constantly over the years. There have been other artistes who have covered songs by Del Bromham and STRAY, notably Iron Maiden who recorded and released STRAY’s, arguably best known song, ‘All in your Mind’ as the flip side to the 1970 no.1 single ‘Holy Smoke’. Although with varying line ups over the years, Del still tours as STRAY as well as having his own solo career. He has recorded 4 solo albums. The last critically acclaimed ‘White Feather’ achieved the best reviews of his career to date. Del’s autobiography titled ‘Rock and Roll Survivor’ and the new STRAY album titled ‘ABOUT TIME’ will both be released worldwide in September 2022.

Venue information

CHELMSFORD: Black Frog Presents at Chelmsford Social Club

0	Chelmsford Social Club 55 Springfield Road Chelmsford CM2 6JG
>	www.linktr.ee/BlackFrogPresents
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`	The venue has good free parking & disabled access. You must enter your registration details on arrival at the venue in tablet in the entrance hall for free parking or you will be fined sadly. We have seating for up to 150 people as our maximum. The postcode does not take you to our car park, but What3Words does https://what3words.com/chart.usage.mats