890 The Spencer Davis Group “Gimme Some Loving” 1966

Steve Winwood, keyboard player: “I came from a musical family. My father, who worked at my great-uncle’s foundry, played the saxophone, clarinet, bass and drums, and he had four brothers who all played music. I started picking out tunes on the piano when I was five or six; when I was nine I got a guitar. I was in the church choir and when my voice broke I began trying to emulate these blues singers that I’d heard, Ray Charles, Bo Diddley. I suppose I missed out on the usual teenage growing up, but I gained so much. I'm eternally grateful for the freedom that my parents gave me. I think my father felt that if the music didn't work out he could always get me a job in the foundry” (Naomi West, The Daily Telegraph, London, 12 June 2010). 

The Spencer Davis Group “Gimme Some Loving”