When I was at art college in 1963, I was asked to play on ‘Your Momma’s Out Of Town’ and ‘Somebody Told My Girl’ by Carter-Lewis and The Southerners and today sees the release of the single.

I had a free reign on the b-side of this and there had been a lot of interest in who the guitarist had been on this track, this was to open a tightly-closed door to the world of studio session musicians. The photograph is from the promo shoot, outside the British Museum. On the left is drummer Viv Prince, who played with the Pretty Things on their early recordings.

Also on this day in 1979, all nine of Led Zeppelin’s albums appeared in the Billboard album chart, with the new ‘In Through the Out Door’ at No. 1.

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