This is an excerpt from the print edition of Dirty Linen #141 (May/June 2009).
The full article is in the magazine, available on newsstands, by subscription, and at the Dirty Linen webstore.
by Craig Harris
| It's all about the timing. So said Chad Stuart, who, as half of folk-pop duo Chad and
Jeremy, rode the mid-1960s British Invasion to the Top Ten with such hits as "A Summer
Song," "Willow Weep for Me," and "Yesterday's Gone." The Jeremy half of the duo was
Jeremy Clyde. Reunions have been short-lived in the four decades since going their
separate ways in 1969, other than a year and a half in a West End run of "Pump Boys and
Dinettes" in the early 1980s and participation in a "British Invasion" package tour in
1986. However, in the five years since they teamed up for a PBS TV special, the two
compatriots have shown that this time, they're together to stay.
Other decades-old acts may cover their mistakes with large orchestration, but Stuart and Clyde focus the spotlight where it belongs. "It's just the two of us," said Stuart from his adopted home in Idaho, "with a grand piano and a couple of acoustic guitars. We walk out [onstage], sing songs, tell stories, try to make people laugh and cry and all points in between." Timing has been a consistent factor throughout the duo's career. Having met at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, Stuart and Clyde were performing in folk coffeehouses in 1963, when their lives took on the dimension of dream. Both were 22 at the time. |
This is an excerpt from the print edition of Dirty Linen #141 (May/June 2009).
The full article is in the magazine, available on newsstands, by subscription, and at the Dirty Linen webstore.
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