John Killigrew | en

John Killigrew was born in birmingham in 1940, Lived in Cato Street then moved to shady Lane great barr the last i heard, John, auditioned for the Moody Blues in the 60's but Mike Pinder eventually got the job, john a very talented singer, songwriter and performer, was disapointed, but kept plugging away, until he was playing regular saturday afternoon football in " The Fortunes " pop group football team, and it was during this time that he was dicovered as a singer/songwriter by them, and it was not long before he made the album, "Killigrew" with the fortunes playing on some tracks, and it was released on the Penny Farthing Record label in October 1971, the album was reviewed on Radio One by Annie Nightingale, she played several tracks but particularly liked, " You Don't Know What You Got " and thought that should of been the single, however the record company went for, "Just A Line " with "Nothings Impossible" as the B side, did'nt show in the charts but i kinda think he might of, if they released Annies favorite track instead, These songs on this page are only listed in text form and it appears you can't buy them anywhere in the world, however, you can hear basic versions of these songs recovered from cassette tape, on youtube, "catostreetnorth's site ", however, if someone knows where you can buy this album, i would be very interested to know , with a view to purchase. .