Paul Jones’ Sixties Retrouvé
The blues band sings the whites.
October 1, 1980
“When the band started we used to get the oldies out of the woodwork, what Dave Kelly referred to as the baby-sitter set. But when I look down nowadays I can hardly see anybody who was old enough to have bought ‘Diddy Wah Diddy,’ er, ‘Doo Wah Diddy’—oh, whatever the damn thing was called!”
Singer Paul Jones’ confusion is understandable. It’s been a long time since he threw himself wholeheartedly into the lifeblood of a band, almost 15 years in fact, and lately he’s as dedicated to the hard-core I> revivalism of the Blues Band as he was in
