The All Night Workers/The All-Nite Workers was a name used by around 30 musicians from West London for a series of interrelated bands that spanned the years 1965-1972.

Hamilton & The Hamilton Movement, November 1966. Clockwise from front: Ron Thomas, Mick Fletcher, Gary Hamilton, Tony Sinclair, Mel Wayne, Dave Mahoney and (sitting down) Phil Wainman. (Photo from Fabulous 208 magazine)
Hamilton & The Hamilton Movement, November 1966. Clockwise from front: Ron Thomas, Mick Fletcher, Gary Hamilton, Tony Sinclair, Mel Wayne, Dave Mahoney and (sitting down) Phil Wainman. (Photo from Fabulous 208 magazine)

In the second part of an exhaustive history, Nick Warburton looks at how Mike Dee & The Prophets became singer Simon Scott’s new backing band, The All-Nite Workers, before later working as Jimmy Cliff’s New Generation and then Gary Hamilton’s second version of The Hamilton Movement:

http://thestrangebrew.co.uk/articles/the-all-night-workers-part-2

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