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Terry and Gerry are a British pop band, originally formed in the early 1980s by Terry Lilley and Gerry Colvin in Birmingham, England. Unusually for the time the band was based on a skiffle sound, making use of a washboard for percussion instead of a drum kit. Terry Lilley plays double bass, and Gerry Colvin sings lead vocals and plays acoustic guitar. ==History== Gerry Colvin had studied American Studies at university and worked for an American bank before turning to music. Americana and comment on American politics and culture were to feature strongly in some of the band’s songs ("Kennedy Says", "Reservation", "A Thousand Towns", "Pizza Pie and Junk"). Terry Lilley had previously been a member of punk band Dennis & the Din Makers and later of Vision Collision. Terry and Gerry took their style from nineteen fifties pop artists – they wore black evening suits and ribbon ties in the style of the Everly Brothers while sounding more akin to Britain’s Lonnie Donegan. The songs written by Colvin/Lilley were remarkable for their brevity with the three songs on the first side of their debut EP ''Butter’s On the Bread'' totalling just four minutes and five seconds. ''Butter’s on the Bread'' referred to the miners’ strike of 1984. ''Butter’s On the Bread'' appeared on Robert Lloyd’s Vindaloo records but subsequent records were released on the In Tape record label run by Marc Riley (ex The Fall). BBC disc jockey and Donegan fan John Peel promoted the band when apparently by chance he picked out their demonstration tape because his wife’s best friends were also known as Terry and Gerry. He thought the coincidence was too great to ignore.〔John Peel, ''Margrave of the Marshes'', Corgi Books, ISBN 978-0552551199〕 The band recorded three sessions for the John Peel programme. Their second and most successful release "Clothes Shop" was reviewed by Morrissey on BBC Radio who declared “I like it – don’t know why”. It reached number 5 in the UK Indie Chart. The band’s third release "Banking on Simon" was used in abridged form as the theme to the ITV children's television music-themed quiz game ''Poparound'', which was produced by Central Independent Television and ran for two series between 1985-6. Terry and Gerry appeared on one edition of the programme to perform the song (with "Doreen" playing washboard). Despite the use of the A-side as a children’s TV theme the B-side featured a song about a young man named Joey tragically addicted to illegal drugs. At the time the name Joey had a particular stigma attached to it after children cruelly used it to abuse others in reference to Joey Deacon a man with cerebral palsy who had appeared on BBC children’s TV show ''Blue Peter''. Another theme was recorded for the ''Newshound'' show but not released on record. Terry and Gerry’s only LP record ''From Lubbock to Clintwood East'' is a reference to Buddy Holly’s hometown Lubbock, Texas and a fictitious suburb that is a play on the name of the actor Clint Eastwood. "Reservation", a comment on European treatment of indigenous Americans also serves as a comment on UK housing policy. It was backed by "Pizza Pie and Junk" a tale from the point of view of a British person saving up to fly to America on Freddie Laker’s or Richard Branson’s cut-price airlines and what they might find. "Last Bullet in the Gun" is an uncharacteristically slow-paced song that offered no hope or joy and which describes a suicide. It was to be the band’s last single and it reached #1 in the indie charts. 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「Terry and Gerry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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