Alvin Lee, 2005
"It was the time of the blues. John Mayall was beginning to get noticed as a blues player and brought the music to a lot of people's attention.
So many bands were into blues, but there were not that many blues venues around. And John Mayall kind of started that off. I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.
We did an audition for the Marquee, and we happened to know that the manager, John Gee, was a bit of a jazz fan. So we performed an old Woodie Herman number called Woodchopper's Ball, which had him come dashing out the office and got us a residency."
bbc.co.uk, 2005
Interview by Rahul Shrivastava