Hermans Hermits consists of Barry "the (drums), Eddy Carter (guitar), Geoff Foot (bass), Robert Birrell (keyboards).
Herman's Hermits was a British rock band in the 1960s, formed in Manchester, England in 1963. Part of the British Invasion, their trademark simple and non-threatening and clean-cut "boys next door" image made them easier to listen to and more accessible than other British Invasion bands.
Original members were Keith Hopwood (guitar, vocals), Karl Green (bass, vocals), Derek "Lek" Leckenby (guitar, vocals), and Jan Barry Whitwam (drums), and they were soon joined by Peter Noone (lead vocals). Although the youngest of a remarkably young band, sixteen year old Noone was already a veteran actor with experience on the British soap opera, Coronation Street.
After playing live for a time, they met future producer Mickie Most and released " I'm Into Something Good". The band played on the singles "I'm Into Something Good", "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter" and " I'm Henry the Eighth, I Am". Many of their subsequent recordings employed session musicians, including Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, with varying contributions from the band. Leckenby in particular was an accomplished musician.
Born in Manchester, England, Noone was a child TV star playing Stanley Fairclough in Coronation Street. He was also featured in Knight Errant, Family Solicitor and Monro's Ski Stories. Noone was only 15 when he achieved international fame as teenage heart-throb, Herman. On stage, Noone initially used his existing stage name Peter Novak. The change to Herman came after the band remarked on his resemblance to the character Sherman in Peabody's Improbable History, a supporting cartoon in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, and Karl Green misheard the name as Herman. The group, who by now were a popular dance hall and youth club attraction, and managed by Harvey Lisberg and Charlie Silverman, changed their name to Herman and The Hermits, and it soon became abbreviated to Herman's Hermits.
