Charlie & the Wideboys

Barely remembered today except by the most attentive of pub rock scholars, Charlie & the Wide Boys were a good-time rock & roll band cut firmly in the mold of the Faces and the Rolling Stones who arrived in London during summer 1973. Formed in the English southwest by vocalist Charlie Ainley and former Van Der Graaf Generator saxophonist Guy Evans, the sextet deserves some recognition for pioneering what has since become the archetypal power pop image of skinny ties and tight trousers. Their two-man vocal team, Ainley and Greg Phillips, also drew attention, while the band's re...