I am lucky to have seen two concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall
The imposing Albert Memorial, in front of the Hall (both named after Queen Victoria's late and beloved husband)
the first in June 1972 was notable since the orchestra at that time was also 5 strong due to Red Shea still being on Lead Guitar and a "newcomer" a young whippersnapper by name of Clements on"second lead guitar"
Then in May 1981 the five included Pee Wee Charles on "steel" and newcomer Mike Heffernan on"keyboards". in fact at that time I had never heard of Heff and Gord's introductions being customarily not too distinct I recorded him on my playlist notes as Michael O'Martian,whose name I recalled fom one of my vinyl album listings. a few years ago after a Red Bank (New Jersey) concert I brought this up with Mike and he immediately said "Royal Albert Hall" so I suspect that that was in fact one of his first gigs with the Lightfoot band.
As regards Pee Wee (real name Ed Ringwald) at one time he had his own web site at the defunct Canadian homes.com at:-
http://www.members.home.net/music12/index.html this was eventually replaced by:-
http://members.rogers.com/music12/
which gives an undecipherable message from rogers-Yahoo
and probably again by yet another replacement at:-
http://ca.geocities.com/music12@rogers.com/
which allegedly is still undergoing (lengthy) "construction"
and so far features just this solitary picture
but I found that I had saved a another picture from his original site:-
picture of Pee Wee with Gord at Olympics "1967" surely not since 1967 was Expo year as I well remember having felt that I was living at the centre of the world in Montreal that year
But all is not lost as a very few sets of his old homes.com site are still archived by the Wayback Machine.The most recent being from september 2001 see:-
http://web.archive.org/web/200112200...c12/index.html
there has been a previous corfid topic on Pee Wee that I started on the old forum
"Ed Ringwald a.k.a.Pee Wee Charles" it was at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001974.html
somewhere along the line I made this charming screenshot showing various band members with rather more hair than nowadays!!
my original caption in the old topic made whilst I still had access to the original was
"plus this interesting old pic showing Pee Wee a much younger Mike Heffernan Dean Parks and Terry Clements when he still sported appreciable hair!!"
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"Sir" John Fowles Bt