It's Rory's birthday
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Today Rory Storm would have turned 77.
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Jane Asher named one of her sons Rory. (and of course Pete Best has a brother Rory) Of course Rory Storm's real name was Alan Caldwell.
Sad ending. RIP -
Until recently, I only knew the basics about Rory Storm...then, I read Mark Lewisohn's "Tune In". I learned a lot about him - he was a very interesting guy with a lot of layers to his personality.
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Storm is the original "mach schau" guy from Liverpool, and head of Ringo's first band The Hurricanes.
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Not to be a Debbie Downer, but didn't Rory Storm and his mother commit suicide together in a suicide pact involving drug overdoses? Why did they?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Storm My memory always told me it was pretty much the same reason Pete Best tried to kill himself by putting his head by a gas oven - couldn't cope with what life had when Rory was pretty much the only merseybeat star to not get any record deal at all, despite being the "biggest" locally for a long time. (And in Pete's case missing out, trying to carry on, but getting depressed..) But having checked up online just now my memory was totally wrong! Still totally tragic though
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I'm sure John, George and Stu are celebrating with Rory at Stormville in the sky.
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SusyLuvsPaul:
Not to be a Debbie Downer, but didn't Rory Storm and his mother commit suicide together in a suicide pact involving drug overdoses? Why did they?
Rory took sleeping pills and I believe accidently died in his sleep and then his Mom killed herself after discovering him dead (his dad had died previously to all this) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Storm
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Good article on Rory. Its a shame as he couldn't be around to speak about that time period. More importantly that he isn't here to enjoy life.
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He should have been a big star, it appears
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Happy Birthday to Rory! I also read just now about his later life and it is very sad he died so young. His Mom must have loved him very, very much! Rip Rory
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I have a copy of the Tom Egbers book on Rory Storm. What an amazing and quite moving story. From reading the book I feel it was either an accident or natural causes with his chest infection being woefully overlooked by the authorities at the time. The Beatles come over well. Still gaps on the likes of Ty Brien who remains an enigma within the legend of the band. Rory (Alan) comes over as such a lovely bloke. Sportsman, son, brother, friend, frontman and pivotal figure in those monumental early years. Lovely vignettes on how his parents met, how close George got to being in RSATH and life in Amsterdam after the end of the band.
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The septics have NFI
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moptops:
The septics have NFI
*confused* What does that mean?
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Anybody heard the live CD that came out a few years back? Must admit I did not enjoy it,listening to that I can see why they were passed over to be honest, yet the single 'I can tell' they recorded is pretty good and of the times.
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I heard the cd you mentioned. I enjoyed it more than you did. Remember that was recorded with one microphone by kids who were just recording the show for fun. I can Tell an Dr Feelgood a wonderful tracks but for me Milk Cow Blues with Ty playing slightly off as he had just joined and was learning their music and the Budgie called Beauty tweeting in the background gives you a feel for how low fi the Liverpool scene was in those early days. RSATH for me made mistakes but also were of an era when bands had to be live TV and radio friendly as well. But also they had management issues, never felt the need to relocate to London, were never interested in song writing, recorded a single in 1964 that could have changed things but sadly didn't and all this with a lead singer who had stammering issues. RSATH were and important band with stage craft and Johnny Guitar and Rory if you read the book are the lost boys of that era of UK music. If you can ever find a copy of Tom Egbers book you really get a feel for Stormville and that humble semi detached home becoming the Hub for artists that would go global.
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No doubting it is fantastic insight to the scene at this time and realise that it was a low key recording, but in my humble opinion Rory's vocal lets the recording down. it is not on par with the single which I love by the way. They should have at least had an LP released, but what makes for interesting reading the old Mersey Beat poll's in which they were challenging the Beatles for the top spot intially and by late '62 (I may be wrong here) they were barely scrapping into the top 20? Seems according to books I have read Rory's set did not alter much and maybe his show was a tired one and like you say they didn't write any songs themselves. I will keep an eye for the book, looks like it may be hard to track down, I love reading about that period though.
