![]() ![]() The group had a policy of using vintage equipment and instruments, so Maile’s all-valve desk was perfectly suited to their sound. ![]() With drummer Mark Robertson subsequently installed, “On Tar Beach” was recorded at Jackson’s, producer Vic Maile’s studio, and issued on French independent label New Rose. One thing led to another and the Deadbeats were born. A meeting was arranged and the three found they shared a love for Gene Vincent, Phil Spector’s Wall Of Sound, the Beatles and Brill Building pop. ![]() The following year, guitarist Tony Berrington and bass player Kevin Green, ex-punk rockers from Nottingham, saw Suzy’s ad in Melody Maker seeking “musicians with quiffs and snarls to form a band”. She arrived in London in 1979 and began her search for the right musicians. ![]() Suzy grew up in Florida, dreaming of the day she could move to England and form a band. "By the end of side one, you’re convinced singer Suzy May is a Shangri La, a Ronette or a Twinkle who has had her heart broken by a Bobby, a Johnny or a Joe,” wrote Andy Hurt in his 5-star review of the Deadbeats’ “On Tar Beach” album in Sounds magazine. ![]()
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