Scaffold

The Scaffold were a comedy, poetry and music trio from Liverpool, England, consisting of Mike McGear (real name Peter Michael McCartney, the brother of Paul McCartney), Roger McGough and John Gorman. The Scaffold performed a mixture of comic songs, comedy sketches and the poetry of McGough, as evidenced on their 1968 live album, and released a number of singles and albums on Parlophone and EMI between 1966 and 1971, with several more on Island, Warner Bros. and Bronze thereafter. The group also wrote and sang the theme tune to the BBC comedy 'The Liver Birds' which aired from 1969–1978.

[...]After the 1974 success of "Liverpool Lou," recorded with Paul McCartney and Wings, The Scaffold reunited for their final album, Sold Out, on Warner Bros. Records.....The Scaffold moved to the Bronze Records label in 1976, and continued touring through 1977. After that the group disbanded, although there have been occasional reunion performances. (Read more at Wikipedia)

Links to Peel
John Peel would have taken an interest in the Scaffold because of their Liverpool background, but they were already an established act by the time he arrived back in Britain, having released two unsuccessful singles in 1966, and they soon began to appear on a variety of TV programmes, from light entertainment shows to late-night satirical programmes like At The Eleventh Hour. After their hit singles, "Thank U Very Much" and "Lily The Pink" they became TV regulars, having their own series in 1970-71 and doing numerous guest spots on other shows.

They did a Peel session in April 1968, but the part of their repertoire which attracted him most was the poetry of Roger McGough, which he had already featured on the Perfumed Garden, on tracks from the Incredible New Liverpool Scene LP, which McGough had recorded together with fellow poet Adrian Henri and guitarist Andy Roberts. In his International Times column in late 1967, he mentioned being moved by McGough performing his poem "Summer With Monica" with Roberts' accompaniment when he visited the Liverpool Scene's "home" at 64 Canning Street in the city. In the following year, McGough appeared as a guest poet on Night Ride (ref.}. But because Scaffold geared much of their material to the demands of TV light entertainment, Peel paid less attention to them than to the Liverpool Scene, the band which included Henri and Roberts and whose blend of poetry and music was more to his taste.

In the 1970s, former members of the Liverpool Scene and Scaffold were among the members of Grimms, another band which combined poetry, comedy and music. During this period, Peel struck up a friendship with former Scaffold member John Gorman.

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