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It's a minor problem when exactly the Paramounts were named. The Coasters (as they were called at the time) played their last gig 17 September 1960 at Garon's in Southend. The first gig The Paramounts did under the new name was at The Palace Dance Studio in Southend on 5 November 1960. On the famous Paramounts EP it says in the liner notes 'formed in September 1960' (Frans Steensma)
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May 2003: new collectable Paramounts CD here
NME and the Paramounts: copious journalistic archæology by Yan Friis: part one, part two
Fantastic Paramounts Scrapbook belonging to BJ Wilson's sister Pam
The Paramounts at Abbey Road: 1998's comprehensive and great-sounding compilation
From Record Collector No 39, November 1982: a good history
Liquorice John Death, a band consisting entirely of Paramounts!
From the Liner Notes to Whiter Shades of R & B (illustrated)
Track listing for Whiter Shades of R & B
FabGear's Paramounts page
A Paramounts roadie remembers; promo and performance pictures
Whatever happened to Diz Derrick?
Useful notes can be found in Delerium's Psychedelic Archive
A letter to Record Collector, May 1998, about 'lost' Paramounts tracks
John Bobin: eyewitness and earwitness account of the Paramounts at The Shades
Paramounts records listed in Ronald L Smith's comprehensive Procol Harum discography
Parallels between the antecedent groups of
Procol Harum and Abba
Contemporary reflections on the Southend scene ... and another set of local, contemporary insights
An early picture of the Paramounts at work ... and the Shades Café (exterior)
The Paramounts play a Cambridge May Ball
Paramounts on stage in Southend, December 2005
John Bobin's book about the Southend music scene, Bark Staving Ronkers
Southend's Coffee-Bar Culture in the early Rock'n'Roll years
Letter to Southend press about the
Shades Club, and a response by Len Trower ;
letter identifying some of the Shades clientele, as
shewn in this picture ; letter about
Paramounts winning Beat Contest; letter
foreseeing the Shades Reunion (Autumn 2005); letter about
DJing at the Shades; Robin
Trower on the early days, origins of the name Shades, etc; letter about
the various clubs of the day;
another letter from Len and Shirley Trower;
Gary Brooker and several others weigh
in; further historical
clarifications, mostly about scooters;
I wish I
could be at the reunion;
Rumour that Copping will play Paramounts reunion;
Rumour that Trower will play Paramounts reunion;
The first Shades reunion
(BtP report), The first Shades reunion
(newspaper report), more coffee-bar culture;
more more coffee-bar culture,
The second Shades reunion
(BtP report) | Paramounts reunion article