He also composed the novelty hit Grandad (1970) for Clive Dunn, set John Betjeman’s poetry to music with the drummer Peter Boita for the album Poetry in Motion, and performed the famous four-string ...
Born in 1938 in Middlesex, Flowers became a musician after he was conscripted into the Royal Air Force, first playing tuba before moving on to the double bass and electric bass. In the 1960s ...