Ducks Deluxe

He arrived down in London in the late 1960s and got his first professional gig touring with Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band.

In the '70s, he became one of the founding members of pub rock pioneers Ducks Deluxe, and went on to launch Tyler Gang in 1975.

[laughs] They released a typically unhinged so-called double B-side single on Stiff Records, Styrofoam and Texas Chainsaw Massacre Boogie, and a rather good album, Moon Proof, before breaking up in 1979.

Uh, shortly afterwards, uh, Tyler was halfway through a gig at Dingwalls in Camden when he developed sudden and overpowering stage fright.