Keep on grooving By 1968, Noel Harrison - son of Rex - had done it all: landed the glitzy film roles, lived in Hollywood pads and cut `Windmills Of Your Mind'. And then he lost it all. Max Bell discovers how one guy's Sixties dream became a Seventies nightmare

The Independent on Sunday | February 20, 2005| | Copyright

It's a hot summer's day in '65 and a young Englishman is driving down Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles; the radio is tuned to pop station KSWB when the DJ announces the results of a phone-in poll - a three way scrap between "Help!", "Barbara Ann" and the young man's own hit "Young Girl". And who wins? Not the Beatles and not the Beach Boys...

"I thought I'd died and gone to heaven," says Noel Harrison. "I'd snuck into America just after Bob Dylan went electric at Newport. It was such a magical time.

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