For sale!!
- stephroach8
- Jun 27, 2022
- 1 min read
The Spinners are in town (Liverpool) - fully signed 1970 Fontana Lp
The Spinners were a folk group from Liverpool, England, that formed in September 1958. They variously had four albums in the UK Albums Chart between September 1970 and April 1972. One of them, Spinners Live Performance, spent three months in the listing and peaked at No. 14.
Hughie Jones, Mick Groves, Cliff Hall and Tony Davis - enjoyed a 30 year career that saw them release over 40 albums, star in their own BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2 shows, and play to packed venues up and down the country.
The group grew in popularity with their mixture of traditional and contemporary folk songs from around the world and around the corner, such as ‘Maggie May’, ‘Woman Sweeter Than Man’, ‘The Family of Man’, ‘Black and White’, and ‘The Leaving of Liverpool’.
The Spinners enjoyed nationwide success but were never more at home than when performing in front of their home crowd, often at Liverpool Philharmonic. The group went their separate ways in 1988 with Cliff retiring to Australia (where he died in 2008), and Tony (who we lost in 2017) returning to his first musical love with his own jazz band. Hughie and Mick continued as successful solo folk performers.
After two sold out shows in both 2018 and 2019, Hughie and Mick are reunited once again as The Spinners Legends for two more shows in the Music Room, in their Liverpool home.
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