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 The Paramounts

The Paramounts at the Shades so many years ago....

       A little bit of rock’n’roll history will be made in Southend Dec 17/ 2005.
The Reunion
  More than 40 years after they split, Southend band The Paramounts are reuniting for
a one-off gig in the town.  The original line-up, Robin Trower, Chris Copping, Mick Brownlee
and Gary Brooker will perform for one night. The show, scheduled for Club Riga, on the
Saturday before Christmas, is sold out already.
   The reunion is a direct result of the flood of nostalgic letters and photos sent to the Echo’s sister paper, the Standard, by readers with fond memories of Southend’s coffee-bar scene and the Sixties’ bands it spawned.
   Many letters focused on the Shades coffee bar, on the seafront, owned by Paramount guitarist Robin Trower’s dad and a regular haunt of the band in the early Sixties.


Robin and Len Trower
(picture taken two days after celebrating Len's 88th Birthday)

The  backdrop that was on stage at the Shades.
Shades was a coffee bar with a cellar and that is where the  band performed.
It was Robin's father that had the idea to give a place for teenagers to hang out healthily.


The cartoon of the band was painted by a Paramounts follower.
 
 

 THE NIGHT OF THE SHOW


A presentation to Len and Shirley Trower at the show.
 
 
 

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                             Robin                                                   Mick Brownlee and Chris Copping


With Gary Brooker
 



 

For more pictures please visit the Riga site  HERE

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