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There are at least 5 bands called The Poets:

1) Band was discovered in it’s native Scotland by Andrew Loog Oldham in 1964, signed to Decca that same year and to his Immediate Records label in 1966.
Members: George Gallacher (vocals) Hume Paton (lead guitar), Tony Myles (rhythm guitar), John Dawson (bass guitar), Alan Weir (drums), Hughie Nicholson (later Blue and Marmalade).

They had a minor hit in late 1964, but failed to have a major impact beyond Scotland. After numerous line-up changes they broke up in 1971. Most well-known track That’s the Way It’s Got to Be is on Nuggets II.
At that time, songs were released as EPs: I Am So Blue, I Love Her Still (I Am So Blue); i’ll cry with the moon (B-side of That’s The Way It’s Got To Be); Wooden Spoon, In Your Tower (Wooden Spoon).

2) Danish band formed as Poets Of The Signature in Nyborg by Troels Bech and Lars K. Andersen. They played sophisticated - if sometimes slightly silly! - indie or artpop and released 3 albums as “The Poets” in the late Eighties and early Nineties. Following UK performances they got favorable reviews in NME, Sounds and Melody Maker, and all in all receiving a fair amount of critical acclaim in the Danish press as well. Despite being a good live band, they never had a breakthrough and thus Bech and Andersen pursued other careers. The former ice skating champion and fashion model Sanne Gottlieb was a member on the last two albums, as was the guitarist and keyboard player Frithjof Toksvig alias Ekko and Aud Wilken.

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  • Roncsipar

    RIP :(

    10 Sep 2012 Reply
  • CFCantLee

    RIP George. Funeral today =(

    1 Sep 2012 Reply
  • RussellChap

    Wonderful psych pop from Scotland's finest :-)

    19 Jan 2012 Reply
  • eugene92

    She Blew A Good Thing is The Poets 5, can't you separate groups out?

    29 Jun 2011 Reply
  • guessvicky

    nice sound

    25 May 2011 Reply
  • secret_nick

    How I hate it when people without talent rips off a bandname. Gtfo, Jimmy Jansson and his contemporary crappy Swedish band. Scottish The Poets were amazing, wish there was more material.

    6 Sep 2010 Reply
  • mvldk666

    Danish the Poets : they made a second album just called the Poets ... they have made 3 albums - vinyl (longplay 33 1/3)

    13 Jul 2010 Reply
  • mvldk666

    De var så fede så dem engang på Rytmeposten, som opvarmning for the Boo Radleys ... much overseen band

    13 Jul 2010 Reply
  • sweetdy

    get with the poets and live-shit's good

    2 Mar 2009 Reply
  • schattenfreqenz

    wow nice sound

    24 Feb 2009 Reply
  • Fresh_Garbage

    I had no idea they existed on youtube! It never crossed my mind to check.

    14 Feb 2008 Reply