| Alan Apperley writes:
I'm an ex-Prefect. I put the group together with my
brother Paul in 1976. Robert answered an advertisement that we put in the
Birmingham Evening Mail. Previously, we'd had a response from a greasy rocker
who wanted to be Iggy Pop and from a bloke called Chris Collins, who really
wanted to be in the Kursaal Flyers. Chris is now the comedian and football
dilettante Frank Skinner and boasts about being in the Prefects in the early
days, but this can't be so because the name came from Robert. Even then he was a
better comedian than a singer.
The original line-up from 1976 was Robert Lloyd
(voice), Graham Blunt (a mate of Robert's on Bass), Paul Apperley (drums, later
drummer for the Nightingales) and me on guitar. Graham and Robert came from
Cannock in Staffs and had previously had a band called the Church of England, or
so they used to claim. I don't think they played any gigs.
|
