The Scimitars

Photo: Phil Hearn

Mike Inkster (guitar/vocals) 

Phil Hearn (bass/vocals) 

Derek Taylor (guitar/vocals)

Del Coverley (drums)

Hailing from the Bexleyheath area in southeast London, Phil Hearn and Del Coverley had started out in 1963 with school band, The Millionaires alongside guitarists Ron Cochrane and Stuart Robinson.

One of Hearn’s friends, Mike Inkster was looking for a bass player and drummer to replace outgoing members and invited Hearn and Coverley to join.

According to Hearn, the group mainly played youth clubs and social gatherings in Bexleyheath and the surrounding areas. However, they did play the famous 2 I’s coffee bar in Compton Street, Soho before they split up in late 1965.

Coverley joined The Big Wheel and subsequently played with Carl Douglas & The Big Stampede, Kindness (the final incarnation of The Fenmen) and later Clark-Hutchinson.

Hearn meanwhile joined The James Set.  Both Coverley and Hearn played with Fat Daughter (albeit at different times) in 1969.

Thanks to Phil Hearn for photo and information

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