MEETING A HEROINE

It was super to read about Jo Ann Kelly (left) in the March issue (RC360). I was a teenager in a rural Canadian backwater when the British invasion struck in the 60s. As with punk, unless you were there – and even if you were – it is almost impossible to describe how wonderful it was.

This lit the British blues fuse and I started purchasing compilations. It would have been one of these LPs where I first heard Ms Kelly, probably singing Black Rat. On the rare occasion that I could get to Toronto I would go to Sam The Record Man and it was here I picked up the Blue Goose album. When I moved to England in 1975, seeing Jo Ann perform was number one on my wish list, but sadly the name of the London venue where I saw her has been lost in a real ale mist. I’m bashful enough at the best of times, let alone when trying to accost a heroine, so she wouldn’t have been too impressed when talking to me. But meeting her was a magic moment for me.

by Moseley, Birmingham
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