When I was listening to City Boy in the mid to late seventies, there was of course no Internet and very little transfer of information. That can easily be rectified now. The picture below shows drummer Roy Ward (first on left), who joined after original drummer Roger Kent (first two albums) left (fired?) the group.
l-r: Roy Ward (drums, lead vocals), Mike Slater (lead guitar), Chris Dunn (bass), Max Thomas (keyboards), Steve Broughton (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Lol Mason (lead vocals).
A little bit of work today revealed three sites worthy of attention:
- An interview with Steve Lunt, aka Steve Broughton, joint lead singer with City Boy. It's not mentioned in the interview why he changed his name; I believe that Lunt was his original name which he changed to Broughton during the CB days. This is most confusing as during the early to mid seventies, there was a group called the Edgar Broughton Band from the Birmingham area (Warwick), whose bassist was also named Steve Broughton, Edgar's brother. Just to add to the confusion, the City Boy 'where are they now' page says that his name was Steve Blunt.
- A message board, containing plenty of information about City Boy (as well as much extraneous information; one has to sift).
- A concert recorded at the BBC prior to the release of their first album! This shows how capable they were of reproducing their recorded sound live - in fact, so close that I'm not too sure how valuable it is listening to the concert. I normally find live or rehearsal recordings illuminating as regards the released versions, but here there's very little difference (obviously no double tracked guitars, and the keyboards are barely audible).
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