(c’63-65) Pat Martin (guitar / vocals), Ken Baker (guitar / keyboards/ vocals), Pete Perryer (vocals / drums), and Richard ‘Richy’ Colbourne ( bass/ vocals).

The Senders (c’64) first line up (LtoR: Richard Colbourn, Ken Baker, Pat Martin, and at back Pete Perryer).

Formed by Martin, who was at West Byfleet CSS and Baker who went to St. Bedes school, (the same school as Eric Clapton) in Send, and after recruiting Perryer and Colbourne (both also St. Bedes boys).

After much rehearsal of covers these 13 year olds; Colbourn on a Strubleminster, Baker playing a Rosetti Lucky 7, Martin his Vox Stroller, and Perryer keeping the pulse, started playing the local youth clubs as The Senders, and then The Pink Bears. Their first ever gig was actually at the Butaca Club, Old Woking.

We know The Pink Bears played at Lancaster Hall, Send in ’65 and that Colbourne left that same year to be replaced by Woking based Dave McGreggor on bass. It was McGreggor who suggested renaming the band The Late Edition…

Gallery:

David Rose looks back at Woking’s Pink Bears and their development, via The Late, into Unicorn in this Woking News & Mail article from 2 November 2017. Picture courtesy of Ben’s Collectors Records
The Pink Bears playing in Send’s Lancaster Hall, ’65