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Lyttle People

From: Belfast

Active: January 1972 - November 1973

Style: Pop

Lineup I:
Lineup 1973:  


Lyttle People Galway dates in January, May and October 1973
L-to-R: Ricky Bleakly, Mike Brown, Linda Martin, Paul Lyttle, Gerry Neill (seated), and Willie


Bio:

Paul Lyttle and Linda Martin left Chips in 1972 to form Lyttle People. They were managed by Ted O'Neill. There appears to have been a high turnover during the band's short two years. The original lineup included Billy McCoy (ex Just Five, Soul Foundation, Axe), Mike Brown (ex Alleykatz) and Gerry Neill (ex Gentry). Later lineups included Liam Taggart (ex Sweet Neglect) , Barry Woods (later in Clubsound), Alan Holland (of Friends) and drummer Joe Hanratty, later replaced by Jimmy Compton (ex Sweet Neglect).

Their first and probably only release was a cover of "Let's Dance", originally done by the long-lived dutch soft rock act The Cats. The b-side was another cover, Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face". The single was released on Play Records in November 1972.

Lyttle People appeared on the front cover of Spotlight in 1972. If anyone has a scan, I'd love to see it.

Lyttle People split in November 1973 with most of the band (Taggart, Woods, Holland & Compton) joining Mick O'Brien in the reformed Real McCoy. Paul Lyttle and Linda Martin rejoined Chips sometime in 1974.



Discography:

Paul Lyttle, Linda Martin & The Lyttle People - Let's Dance / The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
7" - Play Records - PLAY 50 - IRL - December 1972 - PS





See also: Chips


Help!: We need your help to complete this entry. If you can tell us more about this band then please do! We welcome any corrections, missing details, connections to other bands, where are they now, etc. We also need photos, scans, copies of releases or live or demo recordings, and any other memorabilia gathering dust in the attic. If you can help, then please get in touch.


Thanks to TP McLaughlin for the scans


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