
Although many music fans might remember it from a performance at Woodstock in 1969 by the British group The Who, the addictive rock song "Shakin' All Over" was actually a bigger hit a few years earlier for the Canadian band known as The Guess Who (originally Chad Allan & the Reflections). But both groups owed a debt to the guy who originated the song, the legendary British rocker Johnny Kidd. Born in North London as Frederick Albert Heath, he first began to attract attention in the mid-1950s leading a skiffle* group carrying the intriguing name of the Nutters. It [...]