Early Career
Clarke originally learned to play as a teenager with Eric Delaney (born 2 May 1924, in Acton, London, a jazz artist who was popular in England in the 1950s. By 1958 he shifted to the flourishing rhythm and blues, and rock scene, joining Vince Eager's Beat Boys, composed of Tony Belcher (guitar), Alan Le Claire (born Alan Cocks, 26 August 1938, Dulwich) (piano), and Tex Makins (born Anthony Paul Makins, 3 July 1940, Wembley, Middlesex) (bass), who performed at a London coffee bar. Vince Eager was born as Roy Taylor (4 June 1940, Lincoln, Lincolnshire), and was a former member of The Harmonica Vagabonds, The Vagabonds Skiffle Group, Vince Eager and the Quiet Three. With guitarist Big Jim Sullivan (born James George Tomkins, 14 February 1941, Uxbridge Hospital, Middlesex), The Beat Boys for a time became Marty Wilde's Wildcats, recording three tunes “High School Confidential”, “Too Much” and “Mean Woman Blues”. Subsequently, the same band again became The Beat Boys, backing up Billy Fury.
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