Mickey Jupp is a musician and songwriter, mainly associated with the Southend music scene. Mickey Jupp played in several Southend bands after leaving art college in 1962. In 1968 that, signed to Bell Records, Jupp released 'Legend' playing a mix of pop, rockabilly and blues rock styles using no electric instruments. The original band that recorded this album split soon afterwards but Jupp subsequently put together a new line-up which included Mo Whitham on guitar, John Bobin on bass and Bill Fifield on drums (later with T. Rex where he was re-christened Bill Legend by Marc Bolan). This was the line-up that recorded the first Vertigo album. When Bill joined T. Rex he was replaced on drums by Bob Clouter who had played with Mickey in his original band The Orioles. It was this line-up which recorded the second Vertigo album "Moonshine" which has been re-released on CD in 2007. A recording deal with Vertigo produced a second album (also ca

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