By that time, their lineup included Rod Stone on lead guitar and Brian Peacock on bass, and they soon lost Blackmore, who quit the tour owing to homesickness, and was replaced by Trevor Griffin, a keyboard-player whose earlier group affiliations included a stint with the John Bull Breed. Soon after this, Rod Stone decided to return to Australia, and was succeeded by guitarist/singer Mick Rogers. It was this version of the Playboys that attracted the attention of Andrew Loog Oldham, who signed them to his newly spawned Immediate Records label, where they cut an appropriately psychedelic-tinged single of Black Sheep R.I.P., an eerie little pop-psych adaptation of the nursery rhyme Baa Baa Black Sheep in early 1967. The latter release was credited to the "Australian Playboys" (to prevent confusion with Gary Lewis' outfit). The record never charted but the group continued to get lots of gigs and good notices in England and points beyond, including a Canadian tour. The group broke up late in 1967, and Rogers eventually landed with Manfred Mann's Earth Band, whilst the others formed the psychedelic pop-rock group Procession, who recorded an album that has found a cult audience around the world, and lasted into the start of the 1970s. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
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