PETER SCOTT -SINGER GUITARIST 27th june 1956 PETER JAMES SCOTT was born in poole Dorset.He was one of six children and lived in Studland village near the town of Swanage Dorset. Mum Iris and Dad Stan both worked in the village,it had one big hotel,one post office,one policeman,one garage,one shop,one church,And one pub, also one very big beach.All the children went to school in Swanage and pete did as well (sometimes). He left at the age of 15 and after working for a year on the council as an apprentice painter(claim to fame, painted the first ever zig zag lines in the uk), he joined the Royal navy and lasted 14 months, later he came back to work in the hotel ,(Knoll House)working in the kitchens,while deciding what to do next,At that time also working in the hotel was Olaf,a man with a guitar.Pete was very keen to learn how to play at least one song on it,upside down as pete is a lefty,That was it ´´he had decided to be a singer /guitarist, and travel the world.Most people laughed at the idea, He was already trained in singing having been in the choir of the studland church years before.He practiced every spare minute and at the end of that summer got his first gig´´ in the studland pub the Bankes Arms.(1974) New Years Eve, along with Derek Loveless ,so with the songs they knew between them, they got though the night´ also a lot of beer´´.The landlord Peter Salisbury never having had live music before,saw how well it went down,and agreed that if they could learn more songs,they could do one night a week in the horseshoe bar. So it had started,friday nights in the Bankes arms became the place to be.Pete soon started getting more gigs around swanage and into the Bournemouth area.He went for an audition with the vic allen agency and got his first contract to sing abroad. 3 months at the Hotel International Malta (1977),After that he would spend summers in swanage playing 7 nights a week (fridays at the Bankes arms of course) and in the wintertime move up country to sing in the pubs and clubs of London,Sheffield,,Swindon,Litchfield etc etc,also over to Germany,Holland and around, then back to swanage.Then in 1987 moved to Antigua in the west indies.where he sang around the hotels and resorts,he also worked on one or two cruise ships, and three years later moved to America.He bought a cheap Caddilac and did route 66,singing along the way for three months in new mexico, three months in Atlanta,and finishing in miami for four months, then felt it was time for a while back in swanage. These last 17 years pete has been living on the Spanish island of Lanzarote singing 6 nights a week,and popping over to do the odd week in the uk, Greece, Holland and Germany.With a collection of over 1000 songs from memory pete can sing all types of stuff BUT YOU CAN´T BEAT A BIT OF FLOYD, DYLAN OR COHEN So thats the story so far´´ more to come hopefully
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