Beano

Beano were a big comedy show group through out the 70s in northern working mens clubs.The band consisted of Freddy Phillips, Ken Smith, John Birch and Ray Johnson. As well as doing the rounds of the club circuit, Beano also released 5 singles and a 1975 album, Candy Baby. The band also entered "A Song For Europe" twice in an attempt to represent the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest. The first attempt ,in 1977, the band entered a song called "Everybody Knows" which despite not being chosen for Eurovision was put out as a single. In the 1980 "A Song For Europe" contest only 3 out of 4 members of Beano entered the contest. So along with a new drummer Richard Tallent the band entered their song, "Don't Throw Your Love Away," under the new name Scramble (4). When the band broke up in the early 80's, Freddie went on to front his own band called Freddie's Beano,and later was part of a comedy threesome named Gag Attack. The rest of the band went on to become The Beano Band, although not to any great success.