An early photo of Tommy Adderley in New Zealand (Don & Beatrice Peat).
Recently, when I looked on Amazon re the Tommy Adderley book I wrote some years ago, I was touched to read a review by a man who had actually been on the Dominion Monarch with Tommy back in 1958. Paul Bowyer noted that Tommy, despite a spot of revisionism when he told (Roger Watkins) of his early days playing music with the Hound Dogs, didn’t in fact play the tea chest in the skiffle band. It was Paul who did this. He also noted that the band played in clubs in NZ in February & May 1958.
NB: the Roger Watkins interview (1992) is the one held by the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington as part of their oral history series.
And in case you were wondering, Tommy did spend small amounts of time working in Australia in the years covered (1959 – 1976). As he jumped ship in Sydney in 1959, he was never comfortable in Australia. He was known to think that he might get arrested for this offence while he was in Australia.
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