Long John Baldry
Drawn to the coffee bars of central London, Long John Baldry was still a teenager when he began playing a 12-string guitar and singing the songs of his idol, Big Bill Broonzy. His father, a policeman, visited the Gyre & Gimble, to see where his errant son was spending his evenings, and was not amused by his throng of bohemian friends.
Read all about him in ‘The Restless Generation’ by Pete Frame.
(Photograph taken by and copyright Terry Cryer; used here with his express permission)
