THE MARMALADE (ARTIEST BIOGRAPHY)

A successful Scottish pop/rock group, originally called Dean Ford & the Gaylords, they released several unsuccessful singles between 1964 and 1966 before changing their name. They enjoyed their greatest success up to this point with The Beatles’, “Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da” which topped the UK singles chart in January 1969. Unusually they had two bass players, and were the first Scottish group to top the UK charts. Original band members: Dean Ford (Thomas McAleese), Junior Campbell, Graham Knight, Pat Fairley and Alan Whitehead.

After a change of record label to Decca Records, under a deal allowing them to write and produce their own songs, they recorded what would become their biggest worldwide hit, (a Top 10 in United States, and No. 1 in most of South America, the melancholy “Reflections of My Life”, written by Junior Campbell and Dean Ford, with its distinctive backwards guitar break by Campbell.