The Apostolic Intervention may have been the best band ever signed to Immediate Records that didn't find recognition -- forget success -- and considering that label's enviable (some might even say awe-inspiring) roster, that is extraordinary praise. The quartet, formed in Hertfordshire in late 1965 as the Little People, consisted of Angus Shirley on guitar, Peter "Dino" Dines on keyboards and vocals, Bob Argent on bass, and Angus' younger brother Jerry Shirley on drums. They'd started out, like a lot of beat bands of the era, playing a mix of American-style R&B, and idolized the Small Faces, who were regularly charting with precisely that kind of repertory and lineup.
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