Low Rider

From 60s pop idol to soul survivor, Andy Fairweather Low looks back on 45 years of music. Interview by Martin Celmins

After more than 40 years in the music business, Andy Fairweather Low, (born 2 August 1948 in south Wales) has many stories to tell. He still has a Welsh lilt and recalls events from the distant past in such impressive detail that he makes things sound as though they happened yesterday.

“This whole thing about being a pop idol, as it was then, was that first of all you had to believe in it. I didn’t, and it actually soon became a burden. When you start in the business, the one thing you want is to be really successful; and then suddenly you can’t go anywhere because… You’ve become really successful.

“Then, not only do people have good opinions of you, people have bad opinions of you – and those people want to tell you as well! It came to the real height of it in 1969, living in Harrow. I had to have all the curtains drawn in the house because there were girls in my garden who would stay out there for what seemed like forever. So at no time could you go out in the garden and relax or something.

“And worst of all, the management side of it was absolutely horrendous and financially a total disaster. Those people I could have done without meeting completely – they were not nice people. But the other edge of that sword was that it …

by Martin Celmins
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