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[…]c. He’d make collection of musicians, ring them all up, in the early days, then the Phylamonia formed and he used to have them on block, and also the Royal Philharmonic and the London Philharmonic, we had all the big onesSC: And you had some marvellous players, I remember meeting Dennis Brain, he wa[…]

[…]ht for it. I think he gained a lot of respect, I think he had a lot of hard times. I mean I remember being turned away from – it wasn’t the Café Royal, it was one of those round Piccadilly, you know. I’m talking about pre-war of course, but...Turned away?Sara Erulkar Page 14Yes, because th[…]

[…]know the name, hmm.Fred Tomlin: Well Pip Pearson. And we carried on there for a while and then eventually they er - oh things happened. Talkies - the television, ITV was coming into it, so Southall Studio was taken over by Pearl and Dean, the - you know you used to see the adverts on. And they wante[…]

[…]wn. And the soundman, C. C. Stevens, said he was in America and the Morecambe and Wise things were being shown, sketches were being shown on American television, and he was killing himself laughing, but the Americans with whom he was sitting, were just looking at it absolutely stony-faced. So one si[…]

[…]r BEF HQ at Arras, that's when I changed over to the army. And Paris oh yes Paris. January 24th patrol demonstration; 28th presentation of colours to Royal Ulster Rifles, and so on, and so forth; 30th First militia fighting unit in France, I don't know what that was actually; contacted Indian unit -[…]