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The Koobas were an English beat group from Liverpool. Their music, and their early history, is similar in some ways to that of fellow Liverpudlians The Beatles , though they never achieved widespread popularity.
- 1962–1968
- Liverpool, England
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- Background
- 1965–68: Singles
- Koobas
- After The Koobas
They formed in April 1962 as The Kubas from a merger of two Liverpool bands: The Thunderbeats and Roy Montrose and the Midnighters. The former contained singer and rhythm guitarist Stuart Leathwood (1942–2004), a blooming songwriter. After a late-1963 residency at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany, they issued the 1964 Columbia single “I Love Her,”...
Music manager Tony Stratton-Smith secured The Koobas a deal with Pye, which spawned the December 1965 single “Take Me for a Little While” (b/w “Somewhere In the Night”), followed in April 1966 with “You’d Better Make Up Your Mind” (b/w “A Place I Know”). Both b-sides are Leathwood–Ellis originals. On May 30, 1966, The Koobas played the Whit Monday ...
The Koobas recorded a full album with Paramor but disbanded in September 1968, months before its planned release. The album appeared in January 1969 on EMI Columbia (UK only). Ellis contributed “Gold Leaf Tree” and did co-writes with Leathwood (“Where Are the Friends?,” “Circus”) and Morris (“Royston Rose”). Two three-way compositions, “Constantly ...
Before disbanding, The Koobas played alongside Deep Purple, The Flirtations, and Swiss beatsters Les Sauterelles at the Blick Beat Konzert, a September 21, 1968, event at the Festhalle in Bern, Switzerland. O’Reilly joined a formative Yes for a two-month period (Sept–Nov. 1968) when Bill Bruford attended university. He also did a brief stint in Bak...
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