Showaddywaddy

Showaddywaddy are a rock and roll group from Leicester, formed in 1973 when two bands who played the Fosse Way pub — Choise and the Golden Hammers — joined into an eight-piece with two vocalists, two drummers, two guitarists and two bassists. They won an edition of ATV's New Faces in November 1973, and their first single, "Hey Rock and Roll", reached number two in 1974. The band specialise in revivals of hits from the 1950s and early 1960s alongside original material, and had ten top-ten singles and 209 weeks on the UK Singles Chart, with a number one in 1976, "Under the Moon of Love". Romeo Challenger is the one remaining original member, and the band still plays around 100 dates a year in the UK and Europe.