Vic Elmes
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Vic Elmes (born 10 May 1947, in Dagenham, Essex, England), played with several groups such as Acid Gallery and The Tremeloes, before helping to form the band Christie in 1970. Christie had several hits: "Yellow River" and "San Bernadino" in 1970, "Man of Many Faces" in 1971, and "Iron Horse" in 1972.
1972 was also the year of Elmes' own creation "Jo Jo's band", the first of the tracks that proved to be South American hit records. In 1973 Elmes left Christie and followed a solo carrier that brought him other success.
Elmes provided the lead theme for the pilot episode of the tv series "Space 1999" (along with bass player John McCoy and Liam Genocky from the rock band ZZebra) produced and directed by Gerry Anderson, that became soundtrack of all the episodes. He also played guitar and made music for most of the first 24 episodes. More recently, Elmes continues touring and plays music with his own band, Christie Again. His last album, Christie Again All The Hits and More (Generate Records/MCP) under the management of Garrelt Danker, has sold a lot of copies in Europe and features old hits (such as the previously unreleased in Europe "Jo Jo's band") plus newer tracks.
This latter album, also featured a new 'Christie' member, Lorenzo Gabanizza, who is the author of two of the songs from the album.
