Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Spinoff band from.....Freddie and the Dreamers?

Legacy
In the 1980 Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll, writer Lester Bangs paid tribute (of a kind) to the group:

Freddie and the Dreamers [had] no masterpiece but a plentitude [sic] of talentless idiocy and enough persistence to get four albums and one film soundtrack released ... the Dreamers looked as thuggish as Freddie looked dippy ... Freddie and the Dreamers represented a triumph of rock as cretinous swill, and as such should be not only respected, but given their place in history.[5]


Soooo, NOT in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

In an interview, Paul McCartney said that the Freddie and the Dreamers version of "If You Gotta Make A Fool of Somebody" was copied from an arrangement performed by the Beatles at a show in the Cavern. The Dreamers released their copied version of the song as a single, leaving the Beatles uncredited. Because of this incident, the Beatles decided to concentrate on their own compositions, rather than cover versions.

The Beatles later forgave the Dreamers, and invited them to do a guest appearance in their 1964 Christmas Special.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_and_the_Dreamers