HOW many?!

Yes, it was a whole 25 years since The Deserters came into being following a showing on BBC of The Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" that inspired four young and impressionable Scottish lads, with barely a modicum of musical experience between them, to form a rock band capable of performing music with as much fun and enthusiasm as those boys in Sgt. Pepper's band.

The band may not have played together for several years now, but we never actually split up, and the spirit lives on. Who knows what the future may hold.

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Tags: Yellow Submarine, Beatles, The Deserters, anniversary, silver

It Was 60 Years Ago Today

Forty whole years have passed since the world first heard "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". A pretty good innings for a piece of pop music, ephemeral as the genre usually is. It's not an album I even own (The White Album is the only beatles album I have on CD), but it does play a big part in Deserters' history.

Several songs from the album appear in the animated film "The Yellow Submarine", which was the inspiration to start the Deserters. Looking for a name, we started off with various derivatives of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" until it finally changed into "The Deserters". The Beatles were a fairly strong influence on us back in those days - probably more due to the eclectic range of styles shown on their later albums than anything else.