In January 1977 Guys n' Dolls appeared with Norman Wisdom for two weeks at The Winter Gardens in Bournemouth. In March we released "You're My World", (a hit for Cilla Black in the sixties), but this failed to have any impact at all on the British charts. In April we went to Holland for a promotional tour for "You're My World" which resulted in the record going to number one in the Dutch charts and staying there for seven weeks and becoming the biggest selling single of 1977. As a result of the success of the single our first two albums began selling in large quantaties and both achieved Gold record status. This was the start of a successful run of Dutch hits that would eventually give us a second career.

In may we appeared for a week at the prestigous "Talk of the Town" nightclub in the West End and on the last day 7th may my future wife Lynne and I were engaged. Lynne and I had met at a club called "NEROS" in Camden Town when Guys n' Dolls appeared there in 1976.Before we performed our last show at "Talk of the Town" I romantically took Lynne to Queens Park Rangers to see them play Liverpool. Liverpool needed to win to clinch the league title, instead they drew, but still won the league the following match.

It was during this period when problems started arising with David and Thereze. There was a definate split in the group with David and Thereze on one side, and the rest of us on the other. When you are together as a group tensions and differences can arise, and by now David and Thereze were an item and tended to cause a lot of problems. They were vocally, the two weakest members of the group and this was becoming difficult for the rest of us. I can remember they were always having heated discussions with our manager Brian Longley and questioning everything he did. In April 1977 there was a meeting between Brian, Dominic and myself when it was discussed that the group would function much better, both on and off stage, if David and Thereze were not a part of it. Nothing actually happened at that point and the group continued as six for a few months more.

In July Guys n' Dolls appeared in a TV programme for the BBC that was their entry for the KNOCKKE TELEVISION FESTIVAL in Belgium. It was a half hour special with us, Rolf Harris, Bonnie Tyler and the Nigel (Nasty Nigel) Lythgoe Dancers. Rolf Harris was D'Artagnane and the boys were dressed as the three musketeers. It was a good show and it won the Gold Prize. The following morning Dominic and I were walking along the beach in Knockke when we bumped into his holiness Cliff Richard and Tony Rivers (again). I hadn't seen Tony for several years and by now he was one of Cliff's backing vocalists. (Tony has a record credit for arranging the voices on Cliff's "Miss You Nights"). The same day 6th July we flew from Belgium to Holland where their was a reception in our honour and we picked up three gold records, two albums and one single "You're My World".

Four days later on Sunday 10th July 1977 Guys n' Dolls appeared at The Princess Theatre in Torquay which was to be our last appearance as a six piece. After the show Dominic and Martine had a huge row and Martine walked out saying that she was leaving. The following day Brian Longley called the group, minus David and Thereze, to his office for a showdown meeting. We had a long discussion and at the end decided that in the best interests of the group, David and Thereze should be sacked. The following day Brian called them to his office and told them that they were out of the group. At the time of this meeting the rest of us were having a meeting with Ben Findon and Mike Myers two producers who were going to produce our next album. There was an added complication in the fact that at the time Julie was sharing a flat with David and Thereze so Brian sent his assistant round to the flat to remove all of Julie things as her staying there would have been impossible. When he got round there he found that all of Julie's possesions had been thrown out onto the street. That same night we performed as a four piece for the first time at a private party in Wembley Conference Centre for the agent Michael Black who was understandably worried that there were only four of us. The show was fine and Michael came back beaming saying he hadn't noticed any difference.

The following day it was in the papers that David and Thereze had quit the group which is what Brian Longley had agreed they would say, and all in all it was the best thing for everybody. We carried on as a group for another seven years and David and Thereze were to have chart success as "DOLLAR".

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1977. And Then There were Four.