CHRIS FARLOWE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS FAMILY TREE

This family tree is the work of Bruno Ceriotti. Help in putting this together has been provided by John Wise, John H Warburg, Spike Cooke, and Nick Warburton, to whom I'm most grateful.


CHRIS FARLOWE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS #1 (OCT 1959 - 1960 or 1961)
1) John Henry Deighton (aka Chris Farlowe) vocals
2) Robert 'Bob' 'Bobby' Taylor guitar
3) Richard 'Ritchie' Gerraghty bass
4) John 'Johnny' Wise drums


CHRIS FARLOWE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS #2 (1960 or 1961 - 1962)
1) Chris Farlowe
2) Bobby Taylor
3) Johnny Wise
4) Richard Cavello (aka Ricky 'Mousey' Charman) bass


CHRIS FARLOWE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS #3 (1962 - MAR 1963)
1) Chris Farlowe
2) Bobby Taylor
3) Ricky Charman
4) ? Hines drums


CHRIS FARLOWE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS #4 (MAR 1963 - MAY 1963)
1) Chris Farlowe
2) Bobby Taylor
3) Ricky Charman
4) ? Hines
5) Victor 'Vic' Cooper piano, sax, organ


CHRIS FARLOWE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS #5 (MAY 1963 - FALL 1963)
1) Chris Farlowe
2) Bobby Taylor
3) Ricky Charman
4) Vic Cooper
5) James 'Jimmy' Campbell drums


CHRIS FARLOWE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS #6 (FALL 1963 - MAR 1964)

1) Chris Farlowe
2) Bobby Taylor
3) Ricky Charman
4) Vic Cooper
5) Johnny Wise


CHRIS FARLOWE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS #7 (MAR 1964 - JUN ?, 1964)

1) Chris Farlowe

2) Bobby Taylor

3) Ricky Charman

4) Johnny Wise

CHRIS FARLOWE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS #8 (JUN ?, 1964 - JUN ??, 1964)

1) Chris Farlowe

2) Bobby Taylor

3) Ricky Charman

4) Johnny Wise

5) David 'Dave' Greenslade Bird Duplex organ (a year later he switched to the superior L 100 Hammond Organ)

6) Albert William Lee guitar

CHRIS FARLOWE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS #9 (JUN ??, 1964 - ca. FEB 1965)

1) Chris Farlowe

2) Ricky Charman

3) Johnny Wise

4) Dave Greenslade

5) Albert Lee

CHRIS FARLOWE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS #10 (ca. FEB 1965 - ca. APR 1965)

1) Chris Farlowe

2) Ricky Charman

3) Dave Greenslade

4) Albert Lee

5) Ian Hague drums

CHRIS FARLOWE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS #11 (ca. APR 1965 - AUG 1965)

1) Chris Farlowe

2) Ricky Charman

3) Dave Greenslade

4) Albert Lee

5) Ian Hague

6) Bernard Paul 'Bernie' 'Tunes' Greenwood tenor sax, soprano sax

7) Gerry Temple vocals, conga drums

CHRIS FARLOWE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS #12 (AUG 1965 - JAN 1966)

1) Chris Farlowe

2) Ricky Charman

3) Dave Greenslade

4) Albert Lee

5) Ian Hague

6) Gerry Temple

7) David Quickendon (aka Dave Quincy) alto sax, tenor sax

CHRIS FARLOWE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS #13 (JAN 1966 - 1966)

1) Chris Farlowe

2) Dave Greenslade

3) Albert Lee

4) Ian Hague

5) Dave Quincy

6) Gerry Temple

7) Bruce 'Bugs' Waddell bass


CHRIS FARLOWE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS #14 (1966 - FEB 1967)
1) Chris Farlowe
2) Dave Greenslade
3) Albert Lee
4) Ian Hague
5) Bugs Waddell


CHRIS FARLOWE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS #15 (FEB 1967 - APRIL 1967)

1) Chris Farlowe

2) Dave Greenslade

3) Albert Lee

4) Bugs Waddell

5) Carl Frederick Kendall Palmer drums

CHRIS FARLOWE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS #16 (APR 1967 - DEC 1967)
1) Chris Farlowe
2) Albert Lee
3) Bugs Waddell
4) Carl Palmer

CHRIS FARLOWE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS #17 (DEC 1967 - MAY 1968)

1) Chris Farlowe

2) Albert Lee

3) Carl Palmer

4) Peter 'Pete' Solley keyboards