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Pete Bardens - keyboards, Mick Fleetwood - drums, Dave Ambrose - bass, Peter Green - guitar, Rod Stewart - vocals, Beryl Marsden - vocals

The group emerged from Peter B's Looners with the addition of vocalists Rod Stewart and Beryl Marsden. They played mostly soul covers on the London club circuit. Peter Green left to join John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, replacing Eric Clapton, before joining Mick Fleetwood in Fleetwood Mac. He was replaced by John Mooreshead and then Phil Sawyer. Sawyer had previously been in the Fleurs de Lys.

The group lasted less than a year with Green joining John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, replacing Eric Clapton, Ambrose joined Brian Auger's Trinity. Mick Fleetwood joined the Bluesbreakers before joining Green to found Fleetwood Mac, for whom Ambrose had been initially considered as the bass player. Pete Bardens joined Them before making his name as the keyboards player in Camel. Rod Stewart joined the Jeff Beck Group. Phil Sawyer joined the Spencer Davis Group.

• John Mayall's Bluesbreakers
• Peter B's Looners
• The Fleurs de Lys
• Them
• Jeff Beck Group
• Fleetwood Mac
• The Cheynes