Billy Jenkins with a 1997 press cutting about his celebration of Barry Mitchell and Wing Music on the CD Still... Sounds Like Bromley. Photographed by Beowulf Mayfield.
Teenage Bill Cleans Up
As a teenager in Bromley Billy Jenkins made himself useful first as a part-time cleaner and later a part-time guitar teacher at Wing Music, a music equipment and instrument shop run by the late Barry Mitchell. In this episode we hear teenage Bill perched on the speaker stacks telling an even younger Beowulf Mayfield about those times and listen to what might have happened if keyboard giants James Taylor and Django Bates had wandered into the shop with bass king Mike Mondesir and drum legend Martin France...
Series Three, Episode Four: Barry Mitchell/Wing Music
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