George Mitchell

When the history of the U.K. album charts is written, there will not be many artists who managed to top the charts with their first three album releases. Although a more common occurrence recently, in the first 50 years there were just nine acts who achieved this feat: the Beatles (of course), Oasis, Coldplay, George Michael, Robbie Williams, the boy bands Boyzone and Blue, Avril Lavigne, and the George Mitchell Minstrels. One might be forgiven for not remembering the latter massively popular group from the 1950s and 1960s, because time has not been kind to their type of then-...