The Nightriders Your Friend (1966) Feat Jeff Lynne

While Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders failed to crack the charts, the band s lineup during this period included a young lead guitarist and composer named Roy Wood, whose first commercial song Make Them Understand, appeared on one of the band s Bsides in 1965. Wood jumped ship to join the then Brum supergroup The Move in December 1965. Sheridan left shortly thereafter. The Nightriders soldiered on with a new lead guitarist, Johnny Mann, for a few months. When they placed an advert in May 1966 for a younger replacement, the winning applicant was Lynne, then a relatively unknown guitar prodigy from the Birmingham district of Shard End. The Nightriders recorded one single for Polydor, It s Only The Dog, Your Friend, released in November 1966 with Lynne on lead guitar. Spencer sang lead on the former; the latter was written and sung by Pritchard. Mike Sheridan The Nightriders la banda original estaba, compuesta por el vocalista Mike Sheridan, el