70's Supremes and Talk of the Town

[blueskies]

Does anyone know if the Jean lead Supremes ever performed at London's Talk of the Town? I know Cindy performed there in the 80's, but, it was called something else by then.

[marv2]

You raise a good question. I never really knew what venues in the U.K. that Jean, Mary and Cindy played. Anyone out there able to fill in the blanks?

[theboyfromxtown]

No

It was called the Hippodrome when Cindy performed there

[tamla617]

marv
here is the link for supremes/mary wilson's farewell tour at london's dury lane in 77.including songs perfomed etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sup...rewell_concert

[ivyfield]

Does anyone know if the Jean lead Supremes ever performed at London's Talk of the Town? I know Cindy performed there in the 80's, but, it was called something else by then.

No. They just played theaters here in the UK [[and the Albert Hall of course which Jean then did again in the 80's with Scherrie & Lynda). The 70's Supremes didn't play the Talk of the Town - it was already on it's way out by then - the big names didn't perform there so much and eventually Peter Stringfellow picked it up and turned it into the Hippodrome.

[tamla617]

more uk dates history supremes

5th dec/71 manchester odeon

1st sept/75 hammersmith odeon,london

[theboyfromxtown]

I have a programme for the Hammersmith date. That might be the date with Billy Ocean.

[marv2]

marv
here is the link for supremes/mary wilson's farewell tour at london's dury lane in 77.including songs perfomed etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sup...rewell_concert

Thank you very much Tamla617 for that link.

[ivyfield]

I have a programme for the Hammersmith date. That might be the date with Billy Ocean.

No - Billy Ocean opened for them at the 'Sunday's at the Lane' farewell concert at Drury Lane. He hadn't worked with them before or after in any group reincarnations.