The 1967 tour featuring Gene Pitney and The Troggs was well received by fans of both - with the American drawing prolonged applause for his efforts while Reg Presley and his mates were getting the screams. Gene and Reg are both interviewed in Legends - and both talk fondly of the crazy schedules they faced. Sadly, the interviews that Gene gave to me for Legends were among his last. The photograph that appears on this page is of Gene relaxing in his dressing room at the ABC cinema in Aldershot during the tour with The Troggs. Also on the bill were Sounds Incoporated, who toured with The Beatles and appeared at their famous Shea Stadium concert, plus David Garrick, Australian hopeful Normie Rowe and Andover band The Loot. It was Gene's hit Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa that made him famous in England and was responsible for his unlikely collaboration with the Rolling Stones. He met them during an appearance on Thank Your Lucky Stars. He admired their freshness and gutsy attitude and they admired his polish and professionalism and, best of all, his recording technique. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards penned his next hit That Girl Belongs To Yesterday and he returned the compliment by playing piano on Little By Little, the flip side of Not Fade Away, and on the album track Now I’ve Got A Witness. In a newspaper interview Gene gave me shortly before his death, he had this to say. “I made lots of friends in the 1960s because when you toured you lived with these guys. I love The Beatles – their whole body of work – and they changed the face of the music business, but for me you’ve got to hand it to the Stones, they’re still going strong. They reckon Mick travels 12 miles on stage and he still has a 28-inch waist – mine’s 32 and I’m pretty proud of that!” As for Reg, at 66 years young he's still fronting The Troggs, and they are still attracting the cheers all these years on. You can follow their progress, courtesy of a delightful lady called Jacqueline Ryan, in the Trogg Times fanzine. Thanks, too, to Dave McGrath, who was Gene's business partner in Gene Pitney Music & Merchandising, for his generous support and good wishes.