Pete,
Look in some old record stores and you might find the Animals album with the
picture of the Tigers on one of the covers. I have one somewhere.
Gary Cooper
> A couple of nights ago, during a bout of insomnia, I was channel surfing
> and stumbled upon something called "The History of Rock-n-Roll". The
> particular episode was covering the post-Beatles "British Invasion", and
> how a record company could best publisize the "Animals" upcoming visit
> to New York.
>
> I was just about to change channels, when some elderly ex-PR person was
> interviewed and said that she had the idea that the band should ride
> from the airport to their hotel via british sports cars.
>
> The camera cut to an old B&W film showing each of the 5 members of the
> band, stepping right from the airliner into 5 brand new, top down Mk 1
> Tigers! There was a couple of minutes of footage showing the caravan
> crossing the Brooklyn bridge, going down a NY street, and finally
> pulling up to the hotel.
>
> The film was grainy, but it was cool period footage.
>
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