A story from yesterday

In the sixties groups were too willing to conform to the present day pop standards and providing the overall sound was nice then most groups were quite happy. Only the more progressive groups were abandoning these set forms.

The three musicians from Liverpool who formed Zelda Plum Rob Luke Lead Guitar/Vocals Les Thompson Bass Guitar/Vocals and John Kenyon on Drums were striving to get away from the standards set by most pop groups.

From the beginning they were creating a new type of music which was directed towards the very soul of their audiences. Heavy Metal Rock.

As with every new art form people tended to be hostile. However so convinced in the rightness of what they were doing they had little regard to what people thought of them as individuals provided that their music was kept sacred.

This distinctive sound that was Zelda Plum was not made by three musicians but rather by three experimenters in sound. The harshness and destructiveness of their music was born from their energy originality and hatred of the banal flavoring of pop music. They soon created a large following on Merseyside especially at the Cavern Club.

They were riding a crest of a wave, which surely they themselves created. Nonconformists. An image to be copied later by many local bands.

ZELDA PLUM…not just a group but a happening.