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Does anyone remember Lionel Morton from Blacburn, and his band, who later changed their name to The Four Pennies, playing in the Derby Hotel in St James St on a Friday night around the 1960's They then went on to make a number one hit on the charts "Juliet"

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They still get plenty of mentions on Radio Lancashire - come over and listen.

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Yep seen em a few times up Con on Monday night, Most people around here of certain ages remember em pretty well,:) was a guy called fritz in the four pennies as well i recall. They were a Blackburn based group.:) Recall Lionel married the blonde lass "Actress" Julia Foster.

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Lionel was a choirboy at Blackburn Cathedral I think

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Fritz Fryer was from Great Harwood, on a few occasions when they played the Con on Mondays they billed as The Lionel Morton 4 + 1 can remember the guys name but he was a lad who lived up Willows Lane and was a pianist, anybody else remember him, or what his name was?

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Nah mate Fritz was from Oldham, may have lived oer harrod i have no idea. He died about 6/7 yrs ago in Lisbon.

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They changed their name to Four Pennys as Reidys music shop who helped them was on Penny St. Lionel Morton was married to Julia Foster( like Jaysay says) and she is the mother of Ben Fogle from her second marriage.

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Yeh been drinking greeny? I said it not jaysay.:D

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Try this

Juliet - The Four Pennies - YouTube

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Was certainly living in Harwood while with the Pennies or should I say prior to the Pennies, ya I can remember reading about him dying in the LT

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Yes i seem to remember that. I may be wrong but i think Lionel Morton was married, maybe to a Blackburn girl, and that her name was used for the number one hit song. they were later divorced.

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Juliet was named after is Niece if I remember rightly

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Thank You JAYSAY that could be so.

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Your quite right Cashy, I used to knock about with Franny Franks about 63 and we used to spend some monday afternoons in the bar and playing snooker up the Con. Lionel used to come in with the band ( The Lionel Morton Four ) to get set up for the evening. He was always taking some kind of pills. Nervous as hell. Jon Anderson once said, "I turned down the song Juliet" dont know how true his quote was, but I have it on video somewhere.