{"id":159,"date":"2024-01-25T17:35:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T17:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshstoryes.lol\/?p=159"},"modified":"2024-01-25T17:35:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T17:35:23","slug":"peter-noone-was-hooking-up-with-groupies-partying-with-the-rolling-stones-and-in-aa-by-the-age-of-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshstoryes.lol\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Peter Noone was hooking up with groupies, partying with the Rolling Stones, and in AA by the age of 19"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Noone was one member of the popular 60\u2019s band, Herman\u2019s Hermits.<\/strong>However, there is one distinct difference between this former teen heartthrob and those of today\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Singer Peter Noone of English beat rock band Herman\u2019s Hermits, November 1964. (Photo by Keystone Features\/Hulton Archive\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>With his adorable face and equally adorable voice, Peter Noone skyrocketed to stardom in his teens as the frontman of Herman\u2019s Hermits. The band toured both in America and Britain\u00a0and became iconic.<\/p>\n
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The band nabbed their first number 1 hit in England in 1964 with \u201cI\u2019m Into Something Good.\u201dHerman\u2019s Hermits sold millions of records before anyone even saw us, which just doesn\u2019t happen now,\u201d Noone said<\/a>.\u201cI didn\u2019t know what I was doing: my stage persona was a shy little boy, which is basically what I was.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
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<\/figcaption>Noone and the rest of his band released more than 20 hit records and even outsold the Beatles in 1965. Some of their biggest hits included I\u2019m Into Something Good, No Milk Today and There\u2019s A Kind of Hush (All Over the World).The band received a million-dollar record deal by the time they were 17, and one of the highlights of Noone\u2019s career was when Elvis Presley performed one of their hits\u2013\u201dI\u2019m Henry the Eighth, I Am\u201d\u2013in 1965 on stage.\u201cHe was making fun of me, but who cares?\u201d\u00a0says<\/a>\u00a0Noone. \u201cIt was Elvis!\u201dEven at this young age, Noone was living the quintessential rocker lifestyle.\u201cAlthough without the drugs bit,\u201d he insists. \u201cThat was never my thing.\u201dBut when asked about all of the other typical rock \u2018n\u2019 rollhabits?\"\"<\/figure>\n

\u201cSure. We were 16, 17, and we could easily stay up all night, go on the rampage then be up the next morning to do interviews and go to gigs. It was a brilliant time.\u201dAt 64, Noone is on the road again as part of Britain\u2019s Solid Silver 60s Show. His fellow Hermits veterans will not be joining him, but other musical star of the era will\u2013Brian Poole of The Tremeloes (\u201cDo You Love Me\u201d and \u201cTwist And Shout\u201d) and Brian Hyland (\u201cItsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini\u201d).\u201cYou never get tired of the buzz of touring,\u2019 says Noone, \u2018and it\u2019s good to know we can still pull an audience. People come up to me and sing all the old songs to my face, although I\u2019m never really sure how to respond to that.\u201dNoone has lived in California since the 70\u2019s and grew quickly to the healthy living style that characterizes the state.\u201cNot many people survived the debauchery of the sixties,\u201d he says, \u201cso I feel very lucky and try to look after myself. When I went to Mickie Most\u2019s funeral nine years ago [Most was the band\u2019s producer and a panelist on TV talent show New Faces], there weren\u2019t many people left. It does make you stop and think.\u201d<\/p>\n

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<\/figcaption>\u201cI remember going to the house of one of the Moody Blues and it was considered this real den of iniquity,\u201d he says. \u201cNone of the girls smoked dope, so I used to hang out with them. I was a fly on the wall.\u201cI did like to drink \u2014 I used to go out with Richard Harris and try to drink more than him,\u201d Noone laughed.\u201cI used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I\u2019d always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.\u201cWe\u2019d go to the Ad Lib club in London, and John Lennon would buy my drinks because he knew I was only 16 and I wouldn\u2019t get drunk and try to beat someone up.\u201dNoone, who grew up in Manchester, has admitted that one of his major motivations for drinking was to fit in with the others, as he didn\u2019t feel that \u201cinteresting.\u201d<\/figure>\n
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