Sad to report that ALan Holmes has died/ He played sax and flute with Sounds Incorporated, who backed Little Richard, Gene Vincent, Brenda Lee, Sam Cook, Mary Wells, Ben E. KINg, Eddie Floyd and Gene Pitney when they toured the UK in the early 1960s. Sounds were on the Beatles USA tours (they played the Shea Stadiium). Alan Holmes and the other Sounds sax players can be heard on Good Morning, Good Morning on the Sergeant Pepper album. In the 1970s, ALan played for The Kinks and for Duane Eddy's tour. That tour produced Duane's '20 Twangy Hits' album for Ronco records.
Alan HOlmes also guested with The Secrets for a rock'n'roll revival show (on Tequila) and played on two of our album tracks, Theme From CAllan and Badlands. The former features a solo that is rendolent of a smoky nightclub at two in the morning. He produced that solo for my recording machine in his sitting room in Sidcup at 11 on a Sunday morning! A superb sax player.
I have details of his funeral and wake on January 14th. Please pm me and I will pass on the details.