They were a rough-edged R&B outfit, with brass section, but were much more popular on the continent than in Britain. The band soon changed their name to Mogul Thrash, and John made his first album with them. He stayed a short while in a band named Splinter, and then quit to join James Litherland's Brotherhood, by September 1969. His next band was Tetrad, another group local to Bournemouth, but he soon decided to leave them and move to London. After college, John toured Rumania backing Helen Shapiro! This earned him enough money to buy a decent Fender Precision Bass for 35 pounds. It was about this time that he met with Robert Fripp, who would play such a vital role in his career later. During his school years, he played in several Shadows and Beatles-style groups, eventually getting onto the local R&B circuit with the Palmer-James Group. When John was 12, the family moved to Bournemouth. He is the youngest of two boys, both of whom have persued their own very different musical careers - John in rock and his brother in the world of classical church music. John Wetton, a man who has been in more bands than most of us have had hot dinners, was born in Derby, England on 12th June 1949. John Kenneth Wetton - 12 June 1949 (Willington, Derbyshire, UK) - 31 January 2017
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