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Bo Street Runners
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The Bo Street Runners were an English R&B band formed in Harrow, United Kingdom, in 1964. The band released four singles and an EP. They gained prominence in the United Kingdom after winning the Ready Steady Win! band contest and included future Fleetwood Mac drummer, Mick Fleetwood, and vocalist Mike Patto. The band was formed in 1963 as The Roadrunners, but changed their name to Bo Street Runners when it was discovered that another British group was already recording with the name. The group's original line-up included Gary Thomas on lead guitar, Bob O' Brien on keyboards, Nigel Hutchinson on drums, Dave Cameron on bass guitar and John Dominic as vocalist. They were heavily influenced by Bo Diddley in both musical style and playing technique, his name also being the inspiration for their name. They built a fanbase by playing on Sundays at the Railway Hotel, Harrow, Middlesex. In the spring of 1964, the band entered the Ready Steady Win! competition, a contest designed to find "the next Beatles", with a grand prize of £1,000 and a recording contract with Decca Records. The band fit the criteria to enter, which was having no recording history and at least one original composition. On 8 September 1964 the band won the contest with their performance of '(I'm a) Bo Street Runner'. With this success, the band signed to the Decca label for their only single with the company. The single, 'I'm a Bo Street Runner' b/w 'Tell Me', sold over 20,000 copies in the United Kingdom, but
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