Freddie Fingers Lee - I am a nut!

Freddie 'Fingers' Lee - I am a nut! RKCD9118Fredde Fingers Lee - the British piano wildman.
 
1.One-eyed boogie boy 2.I'm down 3.Come back baby 4.It's hard to lie to you 5.I'm gonna move 6.Dib dab boogie 7.I don't want your rockin' love 8.I'm rollin' home 9.I'll come back 10.You paid to ride 11.Trying to get to Memphis 12.Rock all night 13.Pondering and wandering 14.Rockin' at my house 15.I'm a nut 16.Two boiled eggs 17.Boogie woogie Fred 18.Break up 19.So long 20.Red hot and blue 21.Rocket 88 22.Howay the lads 23.Roller coaster 24.I'll be waiting 25.We're rockin' 26.Run down feelin' blue

Freddie Fingers Lee

Freddie Fingers Lee (real name Freddie Cheesman) started out as a guitar player in the 50's with different skiffle bands, often playing in cinemas between films. After hearing Jerry Lee Lewis on the radio, he resolved to make the piano his instrument. Freddie said, "All I had heard as a kid was Winifred Atwell and I just didn't believe that a human being could play piano like that." He began by playing with 'Screamin' Lord Sutch' and later joined Eden Kane's band performing with such greats as Cliff Richard and Marty Wilde. He also played with Cliff Bennett and The Rebel Rousers, and can be heard playing the wildest piano in British rock'n''roll on some classsic 'late' rock'n'roll records made in the Sixties. Eventually he moved to Hamburg with his band. At that time Hamburg was the place to be - just remember The Beatles and all the big names of these days were passing through Hamburg. "I played with Jerry Lee Lewis for a week, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino, The Crickets and Gene Vincent, I also met Sam Cooke there, who was a real gentleman."
     In the early 70's in the UK a sort of a R'n'R revival came about and Freddie moved back to England. He was a sort of an English answer to Jerry Lee Lewis. All promoters wanted him to put him on the bill. Over the years, Freddie built up an own stage act. He toured all over Europe. Freddie Fingers Lee has made many Radio and TV show like Jack Good's 'Oh Boy'. When Bill Haley came to the UK, Freddie was the first to meet him personally. In 1995, Freddie Fingers Lee went on tour with Bill Haley's band, The Comets, throughout Europe, including Belgium (which he visited a couple of times).
     Freddie Fingers Lee is raw, flamboyant, exciting, colourful, brash and humorous. He writes his own songs with own humour and style. On his live gigs, he wears a cowboy hat and a eyepatch (he has only one eye). That's why they call him 'The one-eyed boogie boy'. Attacking the piano with his feet and other parts of the body, using a paintroller, standing on his head while playing the 88's, Freddie Fingers Lee is a stage act 'no-one could follow'.
     "In my mind and in my music, I stayed in the fifties; I love country music though and do a few country numbers in the set, there are so many facets to it, from Cash to Lewis. Rock'n'roll is pure excitement, there is nothing else that can make an entire audience, of all ages and descriptions, start stamping their feet. It's that incessant drive in the beat. Fads come and go but rock'n'roll has stayed. I have been playing it since day one and I'm still playing it now."

Freddie Fingers Lee