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Terry Nolder - vocals

Chris Lovegrove - lead guitar

Phil Heatley - guitar

Barry Allchin - bass guitar

Brian Cocoran - drums

 

The band was formed in Ealing, London as an instrumental group called The Renegades. With the addition of Nolder they changed their name, first to Gerry Hart & The Hartbeats and in 1964, to The Eyes.

One of the "Mod" groups who emerged in the wake of The Who and The Small Faces, they would appear on stage using sound-effect tapes (crashes, bells etc.), large amounts of feedback and wearing custom-tailored Pop Art T-shirts portraying their faces printed within a huge eye.

Their records received a fair amount of airplay but never sold in sufficient numbers to make the charts. They split-up in 1967 after recording an album of Rolling Stones covers as "The Pupils".

 

Singles

1965

When The Night Falls/I'm Rowed Out

Mercury MF 881

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1966

The Immediate Pleasure/My Degeneration

Mercury MF 897

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1966

Man With Money/You're Too Much

Mercury MF 910

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1966

Good Day Sunshine/Please Don't Cry

Mercury MF 934

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E.P.

1966

The Arrival Of The Eyes - When The Night Falls/I'm Rowed Out/The Immediate Pleasure/My Degeneration

Mercury 10035 MCE