Here’s Yvonne with her friends from “The Grope”, a pop group that first got going in Inverness. Noddy, sitting beside her, is lead guitar. On the right is Size, bass guitar. And Charlie, with the Micky Mouse shirt, used to be their manager. “The Grope” (only Viv is missing) write most of their own songs, and the one they like best is “Miss Samantha”.

Yvonne has lots of friends in the pop world and she now works at a Discotheque herself, serving drinks and food. She loves that job, though it’s not exactly what her mother had dreamed of: she wanted Yvonne to become a ballerina, like herself.

As it turned out, Yvonne started as a temp. shtd. typ. She didn’t stick it long, because she kept landing up with impossible bosses. “Old women, who wouldn’t let me talk”, she explains. So off she went to the Chelsea Drugstore and got a job assembling Knickerbocker Glories and suchlike at the Soda Fountain.

Yvonne, where are you now? And who on earth were ‘The Grope’? And where can I get that ‘Flower Power’ mug?

Scanned from Honey, May 1970.