Thursday, February 3, 2011

The Stilettos (This Is The Way Single)

Just wanted to thank the reader Bassman UK, for this updated information. The Stilettos were a four piece from the Cleveland area, UK. They were around from, 1978 to 1980, and this was their only single.






Line Up:

John D Hastings - Lead Vocals, Guitar
Tom Atkinson - Lead Guitar
Alan Massey - Bass
Cliff Massey - Drums

Ariola Records 1979
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1. This Is The Way
2. Who Can It Be

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11 comments:

bristolboy said...

Hi Frank the band were indeed from Kilbride & this was their only release.
John D Hastings (voc guitar)
Fanny Farman (guitar voc)
Campbell Owens (bass) - later in Aztec Camera

anyone know who the drummer was?

Frank Miller said...

Hi Bruce, thanks for the comment. I couldn't find any info on a drummer either.Pretty strange.

Coop said...

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Frank Miller said...

No problem, thanks for the comment.

BassmanUK said...

Dunno where bristolboy got his info but the only accurate thing is John D Hastings being the singer the line up was

Lead Vocals/Guitar:- John D Hastings
Lead Guitar:- Tom Atkinson
Bass Guitar:- Alan Massey
Drums:-Cliff Massey

John is from Redcar, Tom is from Middlesborough and Alan and Cliff are cousins from Stockton On Tees
I have known Tom , Alan and Cliff for many years Alan in particular as I was at school with him and started a couple of bands with him.
So they are from the Cleveland area not Kilbride.
A great band saw them live many,many times just a shame they never got the recognition they deserved.

Frank Miller said...

Thank You for the info, and the comment, I'll update the post.

bristolboy said...

Info came from 2 places

Mario's "45 Revolutions" - I'm sure he's unhappy to find there may be a mistake.

Mod Pop Punk

http://punkmodpop.free.fr/discoS.htm

Frank Miller said...

It Happens, I have a volumes book that I find mistakes in all the time, and that was released in 1980. It's tough to find acurate info on these bands sometimes.

bristolboy said...

True - & that's why 1st hand comments like BassmanUK's are so usefull to us poor bloggers

audio engineer said...

As an update, John is now living in South London, still writing new material.

Frank Miller said...

Thanks for the update!