The Ivan Brothers

Ivan Dooley - guitar

W.Hickory Smith - guitar

Sandy Byers - drums

Our first Business card (on the left) and my old address and Manager "Ken Worrall" A local man, always in the Local. He was a great laugh while it lasted. Unfortunately we rapidly out grew him, show business tends to work like that.

Memories

I left the Dellstars finally, after a few minor splits, around 1964, we all had girlfriends and unknown to me at the time I was about to get married.

What a surprise! Everybody said (or words to that effect) it was near enough a registry office back door job, if there was any such thing, they would have paid for it.

It made an arranged marriage look like a blessing. I was stripped of my stage suite and bundled into something resembling a demob suite driven to the registrar asked to sign in and eat ham butties and get pissed again throwing up every time I looked in the mirror and spotted the suit I was dressed in, I mean Christ! I was nineteen years old.

Later that year I had to quit my apprenticeship as an engineer, to get more money. As I now had a wife and baby to keep. So I signed on as a bus conductor.

After six weeks I was on the road, Its then I met Ivan, he was a bus conductor come driver. Within four months of our meeting we quit our jobs and became professional.