Donna_Plasky wrote:Just found this video from 1969. Hank Marvin is playing the piano! You can see him best at the 0:37 marker.
Hank was fairly well-known for playing piano in the early days.
Stand Up And Say That on the first LP features Hank's pianistic skills, as did
Kinda Cool on "Out Of The Shadows". The first time I ever saw the group live (April 1962, in Liverpool), they (probably) played
Stand Up And Say That, with Hank on a white grand piano. For some reason, it has gone down in the unofficial history that they featured
Kinda Cool that week, but given the way in which the tune developed (not least the description in the album's sleeve notes) and bearing in mind that Licorice had joined only a few days earlier, I find that unlikely. And I can't remember which it was, even though I was there.
After the single of
The Next Time /
Bachelor Boy was released in late 1962, Hank played piano on several live TV performances, including "Sunday Night At The London Palladium", to promote
Bachelor Boy.
I can't really remember when the piano dropped out of the (original, four-man) act, but I'm sure there were no piano numbers on the 1964 or 1965 tours and the next time I saw them (1969), they had Alan Hawkshaw on keyboards anyway...
JN