Run Shaker Life / Freedom City / Paul Nicholas / Polydor / Very Rare
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Description
Artist: Paul Nicholas
Title: Freedom City / Run Shaker Life
Label: Polydor 56374 (UK)
Matrix: 56374 B 1 420
Release: 1970
Disc Condition: VG+ ,
Very sought after Mod/Psychedelia release rarely up for auction/sale
Nicholas began his pop career as early as 1960. Adopting the stage name Paul Dean, he formed Paul Dean & The Dreamers[3] who were booked to support The Savages, the backing band for the British rocker Screaming Lord Sutch.
It was here that Sutch first noticed the young Nicholas, who was soon to become vocalist and pianist with The Savages. Still using the name Paul Dean, he released two solo singles in 1965–66. After taking a new stage name, Oscar, he began a long association with the Australian-born entrepreneur, Robert Stigwood. In 1966, Nicholas signed with Stigwood's Reaction Records label and his first single under his new name, "Club of Lights",[4] scraped into the lower reaches of the Radio London Fab Forty chart.
The second Oscar single was a version of a Pete Townshend song "Join My Gang", which The Who never recorded. His third single, a novelty song called "Over the Wall We Go" (1967) is notable for being written and produced by a young David Bowie
His forth single, a novelty song called "Holiday" (1967) is notable for being written by a young Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees before they had their breakthrough success.
