Mickey Jupp

Michael Graham "Mickey" Jupp (born 6 March 1944, in Worthing, Sussex, England) is an English musician and songwriter, mainly associated with the Southend music scene.
Jupp played in several Southend bands after leaving art college in 1962 and was in the R&B group the Orioles (1963 to late 1965), which included Mo Witham (guitar, vocals) and Bob Clouter (drums), but the band were never recorded.
After a break from music, Jupp formed Legend in 1968, who were signed to Bell Records. They released an eponymous album Legend, playing a mix of pop, rockabilly and blues rock styles using no electric instruments. The original band: Nigel Dunbar (drums), Chris East (guitar, vocals and harmonica) and Steve Geere (string bass and vocals), who recorded this album with Jupp (guitar, piano and vocals), split soon afterwards, so Jupp assembled a new line-up, with Mo Witham on guitar, John Bobin on bass and Bill Fifield on drums. A recording deal with Vertigo produced a second album, in 1970, using the same line-up. Confusingly, this album was also called Legend, but is usually referred to as the "Red Boot" album, after the cover picture. Fifield left to join T.Rex (where he was renamed Bill Legend, after the band he had left, by Marc Bolan), and was replaced on drums by Bob Clouter who had played with Jupp in the Orioles. This line-up recorded the second Vertigo album Moonshine issued in 1972 (and re-released on CD in 2007), after which the band broke up.
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==Links to Peel==
Championed by Peel in the 70's, the musician did two sessions for his programmes between 1971 and 1978. After the 70's, Mickey Jupp's music was largely forgotten by Peel until 1999, when he revisited his track, 'Another Guy' on his Radio Eins show.
==Sessions==
1. Recorded: 1971-03-02. First Broadcast: 13 March 1971. Repeated: 05 June 1971
*I Can't Lose / Further Up On The Road / Don't You Never / It Hurts Me To (& Lorraine Pt 1, 5/6/71)
2. Recorded: 1978-06-19. First Broadcast: 28 June 1978. Repeated: 13 July 1978
*Cheque Book / Switchboard Susie / Anything You Do / Daisy Mayes
==Other Shows Played==
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*17 October 1979: You Made A Fool Out Of Me (7") Chrysalis
;1999
*03 June 1999 (Radio Eins): Another Guy (album -Mickey Jupp's Legend) Stiff
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
*Unofficial Website
Category:Artists