Episode #76: Sunshine Goes to London/Billy Nicholls Interview
Host Andrew Sandoval returns from London with an all new episode of “Come To The Sunshine” to thrill and delight your ears. Hour one features a sixty-minute trip through “The Smoke” with odes to olde London town by Peter & Gordon, Tremeloes, Spectrum, Marquis Of Kensington, Tapestry, Majority, Ellie Janov, Tom Northcott, Herman’s Hermits, Donovan, Dead Sea Fruit, Young Idea, The Purple Gang, Kinks, New Vaudeville Band, Troggs, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, Nirvana and the Bee Gees.
In hour two, we take the tube to Richmond, where Andrew speaks with Billy Nicholls about his start in songwriting via George Harrison, the artists who recorded his songs (like Del Shannon and Dana Gillespie), creating his masterful and originally unissued LP, “Would You Believe,” working at Immediate with Andrew Loog Oldham, Vashti, the Small Faces & Jeremy Paul, as well as fellow travellers Ronnie Lane and Pete Townshend. Billy Nicholls music is available at http://www.billynicholls.com/.