The Paramounts

The Paramounts are practically the embodiment of the up-and-down nature of the music business. Once hailed by the Rolling Stones as "the best R&B group in England," they toiled for years with only the most modest chart success, and that on their first single. They then disbanded, presumably to be forgotten; they would have been, had it not been for the subsequent success of band members in the psychedelic-cum-progressive rock band Procol Harum. The origins of the Paramounts go back to a band contest at the Palace Hotel Dancehall in Southend. The organizer thought to get the ...