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The James Last Orchestra was a German cum-multi National big-band orchestra. The orchestra was established in 1964 as a studio orchestra, led by jazz musician Hans Last. The orchestra started touring in 1968, and has been very popular worldwide. From 1967, Polydor Records named him 'James Last', as they thought the name 'James' would be more suitable for the international market.
Around 1970 the rhythm section was reorganized as a rock group (lead guitar: Helmuth Franke, rhythm guitar: Peter Hesslein, drums: Barry Roy Reeves, bass: Benny Bendorff, percussion: Christian Lembrecht and later Herbert Bornholdt). Bornholdt and Hesslein were members of the German progressive rock band Lucifer's Friend (another member, Peter Hecht, played with Last for a few years in the late 1970s), and Franke was a member of the pop-rock band Wonderland, whose recordings were produced b
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The Pop Music Library
James Last by Bob Willox
Everest Books, 207pp, 1976
For this, the opening post in The Pop Music Library, it seems only fitting that Last should be first.
I bought Bob Willox’s 1976 biography of James Last at the secondhand bookshop in Blickling Hall, a National Trust property in Norfolk. It cost £1.80. I may be one of the few people who has not just read the book recently, but actually re-read it. And even though I wanted to feature it on the blog, it’s a book I could easily have read for a second time simply for the pleasure of it. Rather unexpectedly – given the subject of the work is the German crown prince of easy listening, and therefore rather a conservative proposition – the book is a heady delight of booze, birds and backing musicians, rich with period detail about life on the road and the pains and pleasures of being a session musician.
50p funk: James Last’s Hair.
The name James Last is a less evocative one than it used to be
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François Guiter
French advertising executive (1928–2014)
François Émile jean Guiter (7 May 1928 — 9 November 2014)[1] was a French businessman who served as Elf's head of marketing from 1967 to 1989. Through his control over the French state-owned oil company's marketing ekonomisk plan, he became one of Formula One's most important power brokers. Along with Bernie Ecclestone and John Hogan, he is remembered as one of "the primary forces in creating modern Formula One."
Guiter facilitated Formula One's path to broadcast television, winning a struggle with the BBC to permit large-scale advertising in the idrott. He was the ledare financial backer of Matra, Tyrrell, and Renault, the first two of which won titles with Elf. He championed Renault's introduction of turbocharged engines to Formula One in 1977, ushering in a new era of racing dominated by wealthy multinational automakers.
Through Elf, Guiter pursued Charles dem Gaulle and Georges Pompidou's goal to restore the reput