Street Preachers of Brixton: the REPENT man with a horn – Brixton Buzz on The Brixton Evangelist, Brixton tube, 2000 The cover is strongly reminiscent of Pink Floyd's ' The Piper at the Gates of Dawn' album from three years earlier.

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It's Party Time! (reissue). Also released in Scotland, with album art showing Mrs Mills with various cute puppies. Eddie Vedder's 2022 album, Earthling, contains a song called "Mrs. Mills" about the piano, featuring Ringo Starr on drums. [13] Mrs Mills enjoying a tea party with two chimpanzees! We've no idea either, but she seems to be enjoying herself. The album was released in 1973.

Despite the band serving something very different to what the dubstep-loving crowd normally listen to, the show went down a storm, as he club loved the show as DJ Disastronaut [Dogstar promoter] commented: While working as the superintendent of a typing pool in the office of the Paymaster General in London, Mills performed as a honky-tonk pianist in the evenings and weekends. [1] She was spotted by a talent scout while playing piano with a semi-professional band called The Astorians, at a dance at the Woodford Golf Club in Essex. [1] There's a curiously similar photo for the cover of 'My Mother The Ragtime Piano Player,' a US release of 'Mrs Mills Plays the Roaring Twenties'. Mrs Mills Plays The Roaring Twenties", also released in 1962 by The World Record Club in Great Britain, on their label, number ST994, showing a portrait cover art

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Finally, Mrs Mills on ‘This Is Your Life,’ screened on 24/12/1974, less than four years before her death: My Mother the Ragtime Piano Player – 33 rpm 12-inch album, US release of Mrs Mills Plays the Roaring 20s We'll be posting up more album and single covers shortly. If you've any you'd like to contribute, please drop us a line. The October 1972 release of 'Another Flippin' Party' saw Gladys standing around with a bunch of penguins. Mrs Mills didn’t take herself too seriously, a fact evidenced by some of the bonkers album sleeves, which showed her in all sorts of strange outfits and locations,My late mother, God bless her, was an avid fan of Mrs Mills, hence I grew up listening to Gladys ‘tinkling the ivories’– and all these years later, I still enjoy listening! That Week On TV: Let’s Have a Party! The Piano Genius of Mrs Mills, BBC4; Nigellissima, BBC2, Radio Times, 29 September 2012 She was signed to a management contract by Eric Easton, who later went on to manage The Dave Clark Five and The Rolling Stones, and then signed a recording contract with Parlophone.

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After signing a management contract to Eric Easton (who later managed The Dave Clark Five and The Rolling Stones), Mrs Mills was snapped up by the Beatles’ record label Parlophone.Mills appeared on two episodes of The Morecambe and Wise Show in 1971 and 1974, where she performed a medley of favourites with the studio orchestra. [5] In 1973, she appeared in an episode of The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club. She toured the UK, making many appearances on TV and radio throughout the 1960s. Mills was also a successful recording artist overseas in territories where there were large numbers of economic migrants from the UK, including Australia, Canada and Hong Kong. Her career as an entertainer was to last well into the 1970s. A particularly fine set of photos of Mrs Mills graces the cover of 'Anytime Is Party Time' from July 1972.

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In December 1974, she appeared as the subject of This Is Your Life, hosted by Eamonn Andrews, when it was revealed that the first record she had recorded was " A Gal in Calico", cut in a make-your-own-record booth on Southend Pier for a half-crown, with her girlhood pal Lily Dormer. Mrs Mills – Am Schräger Klavier ("At the Diagonal Piano") – (German release of Mrs Mills Plays the Roaring 20s) EMI/Parlophone Records — singles (all mono) with the Geoff Love Orchestra [ edit ] Catalogue Number In April 2013, we supported the music hall legends Chas and Dave in Brighton, with headline dates following at the London Nocturne and Camberwell Arts festival in June 2013.

Mrs Mills Jubilee Party Vol 2, also released in 1977 has quite the worst Mrs Mills sleeve I've ever seen. What has the artist done to poor old Gladys?! At the age of 43, in December 1961, she made her first television appearance on The Billy Cotton Show. By the end of January 1962, she would be a household name, rising to fame during the same period as her stable-mates The Beatles, with whom she had shared space at Abbey Road Studios (as mentioned in the Beatles Anthology DVD bonus materials). The song reached number 18 in the charts and was the first piano medley to bother the Top 20 since Russ Conway’s Christmas ivory-tinkler in 1959.