John Gieves-Watson
(active 1950s-1960s), Musician, member of 'The Temperance Seven'Sitter in 2 portraits
by (Dezider) Dezo Hoffmann
modern bromide print, 1961
NPG x135733
published by Chappell & Co, after (Dezider) Dezo Hoffmann
halftone reproduction, published 1961
NPG D48576
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Rick
29 July 2017, 10:52
Check out Musical Talk. Podcast 444 and 445.
For more info on this gentleman.
Julian Cox
01 May 2020, 19:57
John is my Father-in-law.
He only recently became musically inactive, playing with 'Bob Kerrs Whoopee Band' and 'Bill Posters will be Band' since the Temperance Seven.
In your 2009 show, "Beatles to Bowie: the 60s exposed" you exhibited a portrait of John, holding his banjo, flanked by a female model photographed by David Bailey; one of several pictures from that session with the Temperance Seven that I believe included Jean Shrimpton and may have been for Vogue, a copy of which I recall you had in a cabinet. It may be that picture was loaned to you for the show.