John (left, who became Jona) is with his best mate Rowland (right) - Sept 1964. They met at school and stayed friends right up to Rowland's untimely death in 1976 from a drug overdose.

 

  

 

Day visit to Brighton 1968

 

 
Jona payed £10 for this accordian in a junk shop in Kingston, England and wrote on it a zydeco type tune which became a No. 2 UK Chart hit called "Seaside Shuffle". Here he is on the Top Of The Pops singing it (1972) in a band known as Terry Dactyl. The lyric was:
"It's a warm day
The sun is shining.
Someone says
'lets go to Brighton'
So we all get up on our friend's car.
Hold on tight cos wer'e doing 90 m.p.h."
  
 

 

 

 

 

 


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