THE popular US trio, The Three Degrees - once described by Prince Charles as his favourite group - drop into Glasgow and receive a police escort for their pains.
Long-serving group members Valerie Holiday and Helen Scott had just been joined by Rhea Wilson (left) by the time they arrived for a concert at the Pavilion in October 1987. During their stay they performed the honours at the opening of the Focus TV and Video Centre within the Goldbergs’ store in the city’s Candleriggs. WPC Karen Webb, reported the Evening Times, asked them to accompany her “for their own safety in case fans of the chart-topping female group got a little too enthusiastic.”
The Three Degrees, whose best-known song, When Will I See You Again, was a major hit in north America, the UK,.Japan and many European countries in the seventies, were first put together in 1963, in Philadelphia. Helen Scott, who was still in her teens when she joined that year, once recalled: “I remember taking the bus to rehearsals every day. We’d rehearse until 8 or 9 o’clock every night and on weekends. And we’d play local record hops whenever we could. Gradually, we started to make noise outside of Philadelphia and we went to Pittsburgh, into Ohio and Rhode Island. Always on weekends, though, because we were all still at school.”
Numerous line-up changes, and many hit albums and singles, later, The Thee Degrees - Valerie Holiday, Helen Scott and Freddie Pool - are still touring today.
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