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at a glance...
Hometown: London, England
First Recordings: 1966
Personnel:
Kenny Pickett -vocals
Eddie Phillips, Ron Wood, Tony Ollard -guitar
Jack Jones -drums
Bob Garner -bass and vocals
Kim Gardner -bass
Nicky Hopkins -keyboards
Related Artists :
The Mark Four, The Small Faces, The Rolling Stones,
The Jeff Beck Group, Ashton, Gardner And Dyke.
Notes:
Shel Talmy, the man who produced both the Kinks' and the Who's
early hits, reckoned that his biggest professional disappointment was the
Creation's failure to hit the big time. They were legendarily flamboyant
live, their best songs were certainly on a par with the best of Talmy's
more famous clients, and he gave the band's records a similarly vivid
sound. But the band's brief history was riddled with hatred and betrayal; by
the time they broke up in 1968 both Pickett and Jones had been in and out
of the group twice each, and founding guitarist Phillips (whose trademark
of playing his guitar with a bow was subsequently stolen by Jimmy Page) was
long gone. Their complete 1960s recordings (the band reunited in 1995 for
one album) have been collected onto two CDs.
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