... professional careers began in outfits that imitated The Shadows and conjured up a back-of-beyond youth club with orange squash, ping-pong and a with -it vicar yet unaware of Merseybeat’s distant ... ZEPPELINWith that Page boy’s magic fingers caressing the fret-board, Neil Christian and the Crusaders became a reliable at- traction on the ballroom circuit, and you couldn’t argue with a wage that ... from The Outlaws; Mick Burt, who was to join Hodges in ‘Chas and Dave’ a generation later, and Frank Allen, later a mainstay of The Searchers.Among few constants was guitarist Dave Wendells,...