Junior Wood

JUNIOR WOOD

Twink is also renowned as a founding member of the hard psych band the Pink Fairies, along with the Deviants' Mick Farren and Steve Peregrin Took, who was Marc Bolan's partner in the original Tyrannosaurus Rex band.

Besides Twink, the other bandmembers in Tomorrow – originally called the Four Plus One – included guitarist Steve Howe, which was later in Yes; Junior Wood; and Keith West, who was evidently the best known member of the band when their album came out. Of note is the fact that Tomorrow was featured on the very first of the Peel Sessions by DJ John Peel on BBC Radio 1, on September 21, 1967.

(July 2013)

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Also present at the Think Pink sessions was John (Junior) Wood on bass; Wood had been a member of one of the earliest British psychedelic bands, Tomorrow, along with Twink, future Yes guitarist Steve Howe, and Keith West, who appeared in the early rock opera masterminded by Mark Wirtz called A Teenage Opera. West's single "Excerpt from A Teenage Opera (Grocer Jack)" was an instant hit when it was released in July 1967 and became part of the soundtrack of the Summer of Love.

(March 2014/1)