These photos were sent to us by Les Astrella the photographer in 2011 and were taken at Brett Marvin & the Thunderbolts' Sunday afternoon club at Studio 51 in Leicester Square in 1970 with Dave obviously straight off the banana boat.

This was probably one of the very first times Dave played in London and apart from the hairy hippy image looks dressed for Sunday school!

This is not too far from the truth. It took another few months for him to discover jeans which he's been wearing ever since.

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(All pics: copyright Les Astrella)

Here's an incredibly bad quality recording of an old In Concert program from that era recorded directly from the radio by the sound of it. Click here to listen.
Stick with it... the quality comes and goes.