Let It Be

Famous Groupies is delighted to announce the release date for our final album, the mysteriously entitled "Black Apple". This double album features 36 songs, all written by our late-great Grandfather, Mr. Patrick McKenzie.

Mark your calendars for June 1st, for on that day we shall release the album in digital format. And, on July 1st we shall release Black Apple in physical format (CD). Eventually, we will have vinyl pressed, but for now we offer these two formats.

Most of these songs were in fact written in the very early 1970s. And while there are a few that we could not identify writing dates for, we found that they fit perfectly for this record and we feel that they too were more than likely written at least between 1969 and 1977.

Patrick has written far more songs than the 94 songs that will have been released in all since we started this journey, and we wish we could release more as this band, but sadly it is not meant to be. For you see, this has been a family affair, my brothers and sister in law have all worked very hard recording these songs in their spare time -since early 2019. But, life moves forward as some of us get married, have kids, get new jobs and such. So we must soon say farewell; but not before we release and celebrate the new album.  We do indeed thank you for all of your support.

And most of all, we thank you for listening to Patrick's work. He would have loved that. And as we can see in the cover art above, a young Patrick McKenzie sits upon a thrown of flowers watching and waiting as the quiet King that he is.

This album will feature some very fine guest artists who truly gave us some great performances, which elevated this project all the more. And so with great sincerity, we would like to thank the following talented and kind people for their generous contributions. (In alphabetical order)

Lavinia Blackwall (with Marco Rea)
Dana Countryman
Nick Frater
Jamie Grant
Dave Gregory
Probyn Gregory
Anthony Saddic
Jamie Whelligan

*Hand claps by Nick Frater, Luke Smith, Joe Kane and Joe Montague

More discussion on the new album to follow in future posts. And be on the look out for our next single, featuring the great Dave Gregory of XTC.