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Daddy Lindberg was a pseudonym for The Fingers who hailed from Southend-on-Sea. They worked extensively all over the UK in the sixties, supporting a huge variety of famous names such as The Zombies, The Move, The Kinks, David Essex, Simon Dupree, Manfred Mann, The Tremeloes, The Equals and many more. Their sixties output (mostly recorded at Abbey Road) was produced by Peter Eden, famous for his associations with Donovan and Bill Fay amongst others. The Fingers were (allegedly) the first group to wear hillbilly hats, braces and vests and styled themselves as a psychedelic band. There was also a tale in the press that they had a pet monkey called “Freak Out” which produced psychotic smells. They turned down an offer to work with David Essex, another to be produced by Jonathan King and declined to be “made into stars” by Mickey Most. It seems they found it difficult to grab good opportunities with both hands! Members of The Fingers have also worked with famous names such as Mickey Jupp, Billy Fury, Suzi Quatro, Chris Farlowe, Frankie Ford, Flaco Jiminez, John Kongos, Robin Trower, Rhet Stoller, and Cliff Richard. Henry Scott-Irvine (the well known author, broadcast media consultant and radio presenter) was present at a reunion gig when The Fingers played together for the first time since 1967. The songs represented here were all recorded live at at the gig described by Henry below: “The Fingers emerged in 1966 and recorded their best songs in the summer of 1967. With for
