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Chris Curtis (born Christopher Crummey; 26 August 1941 – 28 February 2005) was an English musician. He was best known for being with the 1960s
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. He originated the concept behind
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and formed the band in its original incarnation of 'Roundabout'.


Early years

Born in
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, Lancashire on 26 August 1942, Curtis came to
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when he was four and went to primary school where he met Mike Prendergast. He taught himself how to play the piano on the family instrument at 30 Florida Street in
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. He passed the 11-plus and went to
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, where he was taught violin although he wanted to play the
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. His father bought him a
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during his late teens when he left school and he learned these in his spare time, when he was not selling prams at Swift's Furniture store at Stanley Road,
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. He developed a fascination for American music and particularly liked
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. He also grew the unusually long hair that would be his trademark in the early years.


The Searchers

In 1960 he met Mike Prendergast soon after Norman McGarry, the Searchers' second drummer, had left the band. He accepted an invitation to join the band for a gig at Wilson Hall, Garston and became the seventh member of The Searchers, replacing McGarry to join John McNally, Prendergast and Tony Jackson. He adopted the name Chris Curtis after Jackson described him thus in a press interview, choosing the name from a Lee Curtis poster to avoid saying 'crummey'. For the next six years Curtis was an essential part of the Searchers' sound and contributed to the band's characteristic vocal
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with his distinctive voice, blending particularly well with the high-pitched voice of early band-mate Tony Jackson. Perhaps the finest example of this can be found in their rendition of "Ain't That Just Like Me", where Curtis sings the lead vocal, and Jackson chimes in with the recurring chorus. As well as playing drums he introduced all manner of percussion including:
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s,
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,
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s, bongos and Spanish bells. The band's members took turns singing lead vocals, which allowed them to give longer and more frequent sets than most of their competitors. This would later be one of the triggers for Curtis' habit of
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: taking
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s to stay awake and then to induce
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. The Searchers briefly rivaled
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for popularity, having international hits with " Needles and Pins", " Sugar and Spice" and "
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". Curtis wrote most of the band's original songs and was constantly seeking obscure songs by other artists for them to record. Many of his finds were
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s discovered in
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's ''NEMS'' record shop and upstairs in another record shop, near the furniture store where he worked. It seems probable that the band's lack of continuing success may be a consequence of their dependency upon material associated with other performers. He was a manic individual given to great enthusiasm but prone to voicing trenchant views without considering the effect upon others. He antagonised Ray McFall, the owner of the
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, by saying that it was "a dreadful place", "stinky and sweaty". Curtis rarely mixed socially with his fellow band members, preferring his own company.
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referred to him as 'Mad Henry' but
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indulged him. A devout
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throughout his life, Curtis would repair to a
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church in the early hours of Sunday morning after finishing the Saturday night set at the Star Club, St. Pauli, near
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. At that time Curtis still had long hair, which was unusual for the time. He cut his hair when the band became popular, deciding that it would put off some potential record buyers. Curtis met his girlfriend, Annette Kuntze in
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and she returned to live with him in
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, London. She took photographs for some of the Pye record sleeves and was responsible for the sullen look affected by the band. Another visitor to the flat was
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who co-wrote several Searchers songs with
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, whom she introduced to Curtis. The Searchers returned to the Star Club to fulfil a prior booking after they had become successful in England. "I found " Love Potion Number 9" in a back-street, second-hand shop in Hamburg." Curtis later said. "I saw this 45 with a triangle in the middle and I thought: I've got to have it, it’s such a weird looking record. I took my little portable electric record-player to Germany and I played "Love Potion Number 9" and I thought: This is excellent." Curtis left The Searchers in mid 1966, after an extensive tour of the
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, Hong Kong and Australia, with
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. Accounts of the break-up differ but there were some significant incidents during the tour and Curtis had become unreliable. Curtis hated Australia and he was abusing a variety of substances to the point where he fell off the stage at one venue. The other members of the band emptied his stash of drugs down the lavatory.


After the Searchers

When he left the Searchers, Curtis rang his friend, Klas Burling, who was in charge of the Swedish radio station for whom the band had recorded sessions in 1964. Burling told him to come to Sweden to get himself straight. Upon his return to London from
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, Curtis recorded his only solo single, "Aggravation" (backed with "Have I Done Something Wrong?"). "Aggravation" was a
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song. The other musicians included
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,
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,
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and Vic Flick & Bobby Graham on that record. "I did my Tom Jones hard rock voice and I was really loud," Curtis would say later. Though "Aggravation" failed to chart in the UK, it reached number 9 on ''Tio i Topp'' in Sweden. Although he recorded a cover version of the Walker Brothers's (Baby) You Don't Have to Tell Me, he never released another single. In 1965 Curtis had written and produced "Snakes and Snails" for
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with all the musicians who had played on "Aggravation". Now,
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, the editor and producer of
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asked Curtis to produce the sound for the ''
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Special'', which aired on 16 September 1966. She also introduced him to Tony Edwards, a clothier working London's West End, who aspired to be part of the music business and was managing the singer and model, Ayshea. At the same time Curtis produced recordings of
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and Barry Ryan for their stepfather, Harold Davidson.
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had given him the song "Have You Ever Loved Somebody?" and he got them to sing it backed by Ten Feet, a Welsh group whom he was also producing.
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asked Curtis to delay the release of the Ryans' version so that the Searchers could release it. Curtis did not want to help his old band, however, and with the help of Harold Davidson the Ryans released the single in the week of 12 September 1966 and played it on 'Ready, Steady, Go' on 7 October. Curtis also wrote "Night Time" for the Ryans with his friend
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, former girlfriend of
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, and they collaborated on several other songs.


Roundabout

In 1967, a year after their first meeting, Curtis contacted Edwards. "From out of the blue, Chris rang me from Liverpool. He said, 'I'd like you to be my manager. I'll teach you everything. Brian Epstein's dead; you can be the next Brian Epstein'. That hooked me," recalled Edwards. Curtis came back to London at the beginning of 1968 and moved into a low-rent flat rented by
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, whom he had recently met at one of
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's parties. Curtis was planning his return to performing but he had yet to assemble his new band. In that first conversation with Lord he said, "I've got this concept." Lord was eager to listen; his previous band had changed their name from
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to St Valentine's Day Massacre in a desperate effort to cash in on the
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s craze that followed the
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''
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''. Their cover of
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's " Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", released at the end of 1967, had been a failure and he had agreed to make a one-month tour with
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, a band promoting the hit "
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". Curtis's concept was a band with a core of three members: Curtis, Lord and Robbie Hewlett. The other musicians would be engaged whenever the core felt like it. "They would jump on and off the roundabout. But I left that party in a new band, Roundabout." said Lord. Curtis would arrange for Daimler limousines to taxi him about and was charging the cost to Tony Edwards. Edwards realised that he had made a mistake agreeing to manage Curtis but he liked what he saw of Jon Lord. And Lord was also having problems with Curtis, who had started to use
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. Lord returned from a few days away with The Flower Pot Men to find the entire flat covered in aluminium foil. Everything; even the furniture and the light bulbs. Curtis moved out soon after this but he did tell Lord that he had a guitarist in mind for Roundabout. Curtis arranged for Ritchie Blackmore and his girlfriend to fly over from Hamburg, Germany and meet Tony Edwards. The meeting was a success for Blackmore, Edwards and Lord but they had no room for the erratic Curtis. They changed their name to
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and their first single was Joe South's "
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", which Curtis had been playing in Lord's flat for months.


After music

Curtis left the music industry and joined the
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in 1969. He found the change difficult but he liked his new colleagues and he stayed there for nineteen years. He took early retirement in 1988 suffering a systemic illness that he ascribed to
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. In the mid 1970s he made some demos with Bernard Whitty, a Liverpool producer, to whom he had been introduced by one of his colleagues at the Inland Revenue. Alan Willey was an accountant who played guitar semi professionally. He asked Curtis to join his band, Western Union, but Curtis started drinking heavily and was asked to leave. Ultimately, however, nothing came of the demos. In retirement he was active in his parish church of Holy Rosary in Sefton, Liverpool, where he sang
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and
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to attract younger worshippers. He also sang frequently with a karaoke machine at Cooper's Emporium and the Old Roan pub near the home he shared with his mother when the Searchers first started. Many of his audience had no idea who he was, but he had kept his skill and delighted to tell of someone stopping him in the supermarket to say how much they had liked his singing at the Old Roan. In 1998 he gave his first interview in thirty years; to Spencer Leigh for
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. Some years later he started appearing weekly with live musicians for the Merseycats charity at the Marconi club in
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. His driver for these evenings was
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's cousin, Michael Prendergast but he never revisited the old Searchers' songs. On 13 April 2003 he gave another interview to Spencer Leigh for BBC Radio Merseyside to discuss the 'new' Searchers' albums, ''The Searchers at the Iron Door'', ''The Searchers at the Star-Club'' and the ''Swedish Radio Sessions''. He died at home on 28 February 2005 at the age of 63.


Discography


With

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Studio Albums


Singles


EPs


Songwriting

*"No One Else Could Love Me" *"Another Heart Is Broken (in the Game of Life)" *"He's Got No Love" *"I'm Your Lovin' Man" *"Snakes and Snails" *"Night-time" (with Sharon Sheeley) *Travelers (Theme of Discovery Travelers)


Further reading

*Spencer Leigh, 'Drumming for the Searchers', ''
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'', March 1998


References


External links


Spencer Leigh BBC interview 1998
Retrieved 2 March 2005

Retrieved 2 March 2005 *
The Searchers Records
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