Alan Caddy

Born: 2nd February 1940, Chelsea, London, UK.
Died: 16th August 2000.

Caddy was a UK guitarist, session artist and prolific arranger/producer of covers of popular hit songs and melodies, primarily with Avenue Recordings.

He began his career as a founder member of the "Tornados", serious challengers to the Shadows as most popular British instrumentalists of the 1960s and best remembered for the million-selling "Telstar" single of 1962. The band scored three more instrumental entries with "Globetrotter", "Robot" and "Ice Cream Man" in 1963's domestic Top 10, before the advent of Merseybeat and its emphasis on vocals rendered their style passé.

Unlike the other band members Caddy was classically trained, serving as head chorister and leader of the school orchestra at Emanuel School, Battersea, a treble in Westminster Abbey choir and studying violin the Royal Academy of Music. His break came when he joined the "Five Nutters" skiffle group, who were omnipresent at their own KKK Club in Willesden. After a transitional period as "Bats Heath and the Vampires", they went professional as "Johnny Kidd And The Pirates" in 1958. One of the few UK 'homegrown rock 'n' rollers' regar …

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