By Nick Warburton
Tainted as one-hit wonders after the UK top-5 smash hit single, the tongue-in-cheek protest song ‘It’s Good News Week’, Hedgehoppers Anonymous never achieved such dizzy heights again despite the stewardship of producer/songwriter Jonathan King. When follow-up single releases on Decca Records failed to chart, the British music press announced the band’s demise in early 1967. At least, that’s what record buyers were led to believe.
The most famous Hedgehoppers Anonymous line up, summer 1965, left to right: Tinsley, Laud, Stewart, Honeyball and Dash
In a two-part series covering this criminally overlooked band, The Strange Brew discovers how ground crew in the Royal Air Force came to record a hit single and the struggles they endured to maintain a profile in the fickle world of pop music.
