{"id":13343,"date":"2022-04-18T14:49:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T14:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/?p=13343"},"modified":"2022-04-19T20:16:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T20:16:31","slug":"pagan-chorus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/?p=13343","title":{"rendered":"Pagan Chorus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-blue-color\">Pagan Chorus (72 &#8211; 73)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The turning point in Paul&#8217;s life came in his early 20s, when he started earning good money gigging on weekends as a member of covers band Pagan Chorus, playing rock and \u201ccabaret-style\u201d pop. Eventually he quit his day job to become a professional musician.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brian Heywood (then later David Watson, later still Pete Brook): vocals<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kevin Kitchen on keyboards<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stuart O&#8217;Connor (then David Cowley): drums<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert Barraclough: bass<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert Ward: Saxophone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carl Fuelop (then Glynn Thompson): Trombone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul Quinn: Guitar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/afbeelding-46.png\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-green-color\">Source picture: Paul Quinn with kind permission (year 1972)<\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"603\" height=\"613\" src=\"https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image-3.png 603w, https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image-3-295x300.png 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"has-inline-color has-green-color\">Quinn, Thompson, Watson, Ward, Barraclough, O\u2019Connor, Kitchen.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-blue-color\">Known concerts<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-orange-color\">Pagan Chorus 1973, Feb 23: Aquarius Club, Hastings, England UK<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"529\" height=\"38\" src=\"https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/afbeelding-20.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/afbeelding-20.png 529w, https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/afbeelding-20-300x22.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"262\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/afbeelding-21.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/afbeelding-21.png 262w, https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/afbeelding-21-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-orange-color\">Pagan Chorus 1973, December 14: Club Ba-Ba, Barnsley, England UK<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-orange-color\">Pagan Chorus 1973, December 21: Club Ba-Ba, Barnsley, England UK<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: Broadcast Barnsley<\/strong>: Biff spotted playing Pagan Chorus on the bill at Barnsley\u2019s <em>Club Baba<\/em>\u2013 possibly&nbsp; in December 1973 when they appeared twice at the venue. Baba was the prime venue in the town- and very stylish too: it allowed girls in for free, advertising then for men who \u201cwanted to look at the biggest and best choice of birds in Barnsley.&nbsp; Every week we have approximately 200 by 9pm.\u201d&nbsp; The right choice for the local lads was clear- arrive early to avoid the risk of picking up a \u201cblurred bird\u201d probably inebriated by one of their many spirits promotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-blue-color\">Venue<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/afbeelding-126.png\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is afbeelding-126.png\" width=\"261\" height=\"674\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pagan Chorus (72 &#8211; 73) The turning point in Paul&#8217;s life came in his early 20s, when he started earning good money gigging on weekends&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13343"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13367,"href":"https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343\/revisions\/13367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saxonforeverdiscography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}