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Juicy Lucy

May 18, 2018 @ 9:00 pm - 11:40 pm

An absolute privilege to have this band back at the Duke !!

In the beginning there was a band called The Misunderstood. Hailed in the late sixties as pioneers of the psychedelic movement by the likes of Pink Floyd, their cause had been championed by John Peel who discovered them whilst he was working as a DJ in the US. He was so impressed by them that he produced their first recordings in 1966 and invited them to come to the UK, an offer they later took up. However, having made it to the UK the Vietnam draft in the US and problems with UK immigration services caused personnel problems and associated line up changes. Juicy Lucy was born out of their final line up in July 1969.

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Taking their name from a character in Leslie Thomas’ “Virgin Soldiers”, Juicy Lucy were aiming to move away from the psychedelic sound of The Misunderstood to something more contemporary and commercial. Well, they certainly got that right with the first single from the self titled debut album. “Who Do You Love?”, a cover of a Bo Diddley song, stamped its way up the singles charts in the UK and several European countries in the spring of 1970, finally reaching number 14 in the UK and staying on the chart for three months.

And they’re still here !!!

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Date:
May 18, 2018
Time:
9:00 pm - 11:40 pm