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Peter Evans was a restaurateur who died in Frinton-on-Sea on 19 July 2014.〔Certified Copy of an Entry Death certificate BAG 356458〕 He was described by journalist Linda Blandford, writing in The Observer, 9 March 1975〔The Observer 9 March 1975,〕 as a "harbinger who heralded the youth culture with one of Soho's first coffee bars, The Cat's Whisker, where Tommy Steele strummed... Evans also foresaw the coming of increasing spending on dining out with his chain of Aberdeen Angus Steak Houses.〔http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/4th-november-1960/41/consuming-interest〕〔''Mood and Atmosphere in Restaurants'' Malcolm Newell pub Barrie and Rockliff 1965, pages, 18–20, 31, 42, 100〕 and the David Nightingale Hicks - decorated Peter Evans Eating Houses.〔Hicks, David ''David Hicks on Decoration'' pub Leslie Frewin 1966 ISBN 978-0-690-00339-0〕" In short, he tapped in early to the "post-war creative renaissance." Evans started the Cat's Whisker coffee bar with Spanish dancing but this soon gave way to skiffle and rock 'n roll; because of lack of dancing space, the bar invented hand-jiving (). Later, Evans teamed up with two other young creatives: David Hicks〔pages 7, 18–19〕 and architect Patrick Garnett () of Garnett, Cloughley and Blakemore. According to Malcolm Newell in his book ''Mood and Atmosphere in Restaurants'' they set the decorative style that epitomised London in the Swinging Sixties, giving the affluent vibrant places to dine and dance. The times saw an explosion in fashions – male and female: Twiggy, Biba, Mary Quant, Teddy Boys, Cecil Gee, John Stephen, Carnaby Street.〔http://www.sixtiescity.com/Fashion?Fashion.shtm〕 Evans was voted 'Beau Brummell' Best Dressed Man in 1965 by the Clothing Manufacturers' Federation; Hicks even designed red-heeled evening slippers for men! In 1967 Evans started the exclusive, members-only, Raffles night-club in the King's Road, Chelsea. Hicks's stylish and durable design lasted through to 2007 when new owners gave it a 'complete makeover' (). The club was a favourite throughout the Sixties with the royals of the day. Princess Margaret,() Princess Anne and Prince Charles were all visitors. The younger royals have followed: Prince William when romancing Kate Middleton〔() 〕 and Prince Harry when pursuing Chelsea Davy.() Inter alia, Hicks designed sets for Richard Lester's 1968 movie ''Petulia'', starring Julie Christie. Garnett's Chelsea Drugstore was immortalised in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film ''A Clockwork Orange''. Evans and his second wife, Gail, now write e-books showing how to ''cure without pills'' a number of pesky maladies that doctors find difficult, e.g. insomnia; this cure won an award〔''Sleeplessness Cured: The Drug-free, Quick and Proven Way'' pub Saturday Richmond Publishers ISBN 978-1-872804-04-0 Introduction〕 as did their book on breaking cigarette addiction; other books supply remedies for obesity, depression, hay fever and snoring. Their most ambitious book addresses adding a significant number of extra years to life, and how to save more valuable years by sleeping less but more effectively and efficiently by 'power sleeping'. "An internet book written for the two extremes in today's cut-throat economic conditions: Those desperately seeking work and those heavily pressured souls who actually run growing companies." Other interests include astrology, politics, and new ways of selling things: "Today's advertising is stuck in the past, repetitive and boring. We have to sell but there's an urgent need to interest consumers, not hack them off so they chew up the sofa," he told Wikipedia. ==Early on== Born in Highgate, London, his father, Lionel Oliver Evans, was an inventor and builder. Educated briefly at Belmont, Mill Hill, Evans then worked with his father until one row too far drove him to Ghana, West Africa. There, to spice up a boring life selling insurance, he wrote for the Daily Mirror's West African subsidiary, the Accra Daily Graphic, becoming their African and Wimbledon tennis correspondent.〔Daily Graphic, 2 July 1954〕 Eventually his insurance employers realised he was spending more time on tennis than selling their product and he was fired. Returning to London, Evans and a self-confessed Casablancan cigarette smuggler, Roy Wallace-Dunlop〔Companies House, Glasgow〕 partnered to open one of the first coffee bars, The Cat's Whisker, with Spanish dancing and expressos as the drawcards. That partnership failing, Evans took on a young live-wire, Robin Eldridge (pictured); Eldridge suggested dropping the Spanish dancing for something 'fresher'. A juke box appeared, soon to be followed by live music. This attracted a flood of youngsters into Soho to listen to Lonnie Donegan and his skiffle and Tommy Steele's jumpin' rock 'n roll. With no space for dancing, The Cat's Whisker gave birth to the hand-jive which took off, enthusiastically supported, among many others, by film-maker Ken Russell, who was a Cat's Whisker customer making a name for himself as a freelance photographer at the time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Evans (restaurateur)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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