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Abrahams, Mick
Allisons, The
Amen Corner
Andrews, Chris
Animals, The
Applejacks
Avons, The

Bennett, Cliff
Berry, Dave

Clem Curtis & The Foundations

Dave Clark Five

Easybeats

Fortunes, The
Fourmost

Herman's Hermits

Kinks, The

Marmalade
Merseybeats
Mike Berry And The Outlaws
Mike Pender's Searchers

Nashville Teens

Poole, Brian

Tremeloes, The

Vanity Fare

Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders
Wilde, Marty

Zombies, The

John Alford, born December 1939 in London and Bob Day, born February 1942, Trowbridge, Wiltshire. The pop duo played the rounds of coffee bars and youth clubs before being spotted by impresario Tito Bums, who became their manager. He saw their immediate potential as Everly Brothers lookalikes.

Under the guise of brothers John and Bob Allison, they became overnight British sensations when their self-composed "Are You Sure" became Britain's entry in the 1961 Eurovision Song Contest. They received a big wave of publicity when their song became runner-up in the competition. The record, produced by Jack Baverstock and arranged by Harry Robinson on Fontana, went to number 1 in Britain, sold over a million copies in Europe and narrowly missed the US chart.

The duo, who were backed on stage by the Hunters, and who toured with Larry Parnes' stable of acts never returned to the Top 20. Their only other chart entries being their follow-up "Words" and "Lessons In Love" (a song from the film "The Young Ones" starring Cliff Richard.

They have branched out over the years to be writers and producers but have had no further chart success.

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