The Move - An original scrap and news cuttings album circa 1962 to 1965 with additional loose pages circa 1967 relating to Carl Wayne & The Vikings, later to become The Move, the album contains press cuttings, flyers, publicity photographs, personal archive and memorabilia and private unseen photographs, also includes Carl Waynes copies of the original court documents between James Harold Wilson versus Anthony Secunda, Bev Bevan, Trevor Burton, Christopher Kefford, Carl Wayne and Roy Wood, heard in the High Court of Justice - Queens Bench Division 6th of September 1967, a copy of the original satirical flyer issued by The Move and the cause of the court case and a fan club letter issued and signed by Pauline Evans. NB - The scrapbook was compiled by Pauline Evans, who was Carl Wayne’s partner and later fiancé between 1962 and 1968. Pauline ran The Move fan club full-time from her home in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham. She answered the thousands of letters and requests for autographs that arrived from fans of The Move from across the world, wrote the fan club’s monthly newsletter and had personal behind the scenes access to the band. The Move formed in 1965 with original members Carl Wayne, Roy Wood, Bev Bevan, Ace Kefford and Trevor Burton. The original line-up changed in the early 1970s when Roy Wood and Bev Bevan were joined by Jeff Lynne. Bev and Jeff went on to international pop stardom as the Electric Light Orchestra. Roy Wood went on to achieve global fame with the band Wizzard. As outlined in the description the scrapbook also contains Carl Wayne’s personal copy of a satirical promotional cartoon postcard depicting Prime Minister Harold Wilson in bed with his secretary which was part of a promotional campaign devised by the band’s Manager Tony Secunda for the single Flowers in the Rain. Wilson sued the band for libel, they lost the court case and they apologised to the Prime Minister through Counsel at the High Court. All royalties for Flowers in the Rain were then awarded to charities of Harold Wilson’s choice in perpetuity. Carl Wayne’s own copy of the cartoon postcard and his personal copy of the court papers are included in the scrapbook. This scrapbook of behind the scenes personal photographs, fliers, promotional cards and newspaper cuttings records the progress of the Birmingham pop band The Move from their lead singer Carl Wayne’s early days as Carl Wayne and The Vikings through to their hit record Flowers in the Rain, which was the first chart song ever played on BBC Radio One in September 1967.

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