{"id":476643,"date":"2026-03-15T08:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/476643\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T08:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:46:08","slug":"were-a-60s-covers-band-in-our-60s-70s-and-80s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/476643\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We&#8217;re a 60s covers band in our 60s, 70s and 80s&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Founding members are viola player Bev Ross and her husband, singer Rodd Peters, a former musical duo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bev grew up listening only to classical music until Rod introduced her to 1960s classics. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There was no pop music allowed in our house when I was young. My parents were very strict, it had to be classical only,&#8221; Bev said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I only started playing sixties music when I met my husband, &#8216;Rocking Rod&#8217;, 20 years ago, and he introduced me to all of this wonderful Beatles and 60s music which I had missed out on as a teenager.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bev and Rod set up the band with long-time friends Carol Jason and Angela. Carol Beardmore, Johanne Levy, Bronwen Bevan and Michelle Shaffer later joined. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Founding members are viola player Bev Ross and her husband, singer Rodd Peters, a former musical duo. Bev&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-476643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}