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German magazine
Bravo were big fans of Christie and featured them regularly.
This is a profile on the band members from 1971.
 Jeff
Christie
Jeff often dreams of marriage,
rest and country air.
Jeff
is the boss and has played guitar for 11 years. He also
plays piano, organ and bass.
He
had his first success at the youth clubs in his hometown
Leeds.
After
school he sold wallpaper for one year. But at 17, the
only thing he wanted to do was music. Today Jeff is
a rich man because of his compositions, Yellow
River and San Bernadino.
But
he isn't a spendthrift, because he values money.
He lives with Vic and Paul in a five-room flat at the
prestigious suburb of Kensington in London.
Jeff
was born July 12, 1946, is 1.82 metres tall, has brown
eyes and dark brown, restive hair. He is intelligent,
gentle and very peaceful.
Jeff
also like books, pretty girls, spaghetti, raspberry
pudding and coffee.
He
dislikes drunks and gambling machines.
Later
he wants to get married, a house in the country and
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Vic Elmes
Vic was born in May 10, 1947
in Dagenham/Essex. He has hazel eyes and two younger
siblings, Stephen and Jocelyne.
Vic
wanted to become a painter, but his father said "no"
to palette and paint-brush and fixed him up to become
an electrician apprentice.
However,
after his third short circuit, his employer had enough
of him. Vic quit his job and begun to play guitar
in third-class bands, until he finally joined Christie.
In
contrast to Jeff, Vic is often aggressive and snappish.
In his younger days, he was often ridiculed because
he was small (1.67 metre) and for that reason he is
very sensitive and irritable.
But
Vic is always honest and fair. He organises the household
in the band's common dwelling.
He
goes shopping, while the others are sleeping, pays
the bills, and waters the flowers, which he loves.
He
also likes Chinese food, modern art and old- fashioned
manners (for example: kissing on the hand).
Vic's
motto: Never look after foreign matters.
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Paul Fenton
Paul Fenton had worked as
ice cream- seller, keeper of a shooting gallery/rifle
range and bath attendant, before he moved to London
to become a drummer.
The
beginning was very hard - most of the artist agencies
didn't take this 1.81 metre tall farm worker son
from Dewsburry seriously because of his accent.
Paul
got his first job as a drummer at the Salvation
Army. When
original Christie drummer Michael Blakely left the
group, Paul got his chance.
Bandleader Jeff
Christie hired him for his group.
When
Paul was celebrating his 24th birthday last year
on June 4, Christie was charting with Yellow
River on the Bravo Musicbox.
Paul
is tardy, courteous and very shy. He can't still
believe he is famous.
When
he isn't drumming, he has only one passion: cooking.
Paul's speciality for a cosy day with Christie is
Mexican roast pork with orange juice!
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