Blues Apex [1966-1973]

Cadillac traces its roots back to Blues Apex, founded in 1966 by jazzman and Emmy award-winning composer John Altman in support of a CND fund-raising gig at the legendary Roundhouse in Chalk Farm.

Charged by the experience, bassist Ian Charles and Coll Michaels enlisted school friends Kimberley Rew and drummer Ian Worsfold, carrying the band on to North-West London's lively club circuit. "Discovery" led to a demo of Kim's classic "So Hard to Find" b/w "Summer Song" in London's Tin-Pan Alley' at Central Sound studios. Mickey Most's subsequent proposal for the band to record and release "Jet Set", an orphaned Herman's Hermits bubble-gum song caused horror and revulsion.

The Who-Was-That of Blues Apex

:: John Altman

:: Ian Charles

:: Laurence Goldman

:: Dave Young

:: Ian Worsfold

:: Stevie Rowe

:: Phil Swan

:: Kimberley Rew

:: Coll Michaels

:: Max Burwood

:: Ivor Rosenthal

:: David Margolis

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:: Blues Apex's purist and unworldly response was duly noted by the star maker, who subsequently refused to take telephone
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