In 1961 he toured South Africa. Later, he performed in Liverpool with the Beatles as an opening  act. The next four years were spent in England performing when asked and making records that didn't sell. His Capitol Records contract expired in 1963.

In 1966 he signed with Challenge records. In 1969 he played  the Toronto Peace festival but, was lost among John Lennon, Doors, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis. He returned to England until  returning to America in failing health in 1971. An attempt to land a new recording deal failed.  After  a string of  unsuccessful appearances at the San Francisco Park Festival he returned to his home to Los Angeles. . Soon there after, he was  admitted to the Inter-Valley Hospital in New Hall, California with a bleeding stomach ulcer. On October 12, 1971 he died at the age of thirty six.

gene has a spotty history and they document it like mess,i copied this the way it is printedwhat happened later???lol....

interesting to not that alice cooper and his band were genes band at the one on one concert....

damn it should've of been gene...http://www.thedonotpress.com/extracts/geneex.html

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damn it should've of been gene...http://www.thedonotpress.com/extracts/geneex.html

this discusses slightly how gene got passed over to sing blue suede shoes on ed sullivan...

i think gene deserves a lot of credit for igniting rock and roll among the brits in the late fifties...i think he and eddie were better than elvis...do you think that elvis was more of an influence than gene????
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look at slim even loves gene-o...

classic gene and the blue caps...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDU9FP5_B2M

damn it all al....you gotta teach me to post this you tube crap...

Just click the YouTube icon when you're writing your post, and insert the last bit of code from the url, after =. In this case:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDU9FP5_B2M

This is the code you enter: vDU9FP5_B2M

I see what you're doing wrong now Marshall. Don't copy the code from the address bar of your browser. To the right of the video you'll see that it says 'About This Video'. Click on that and you'll see a line of code that looks like the the url in the address bar. But it's different. Just copy all the code that appears after the = sign, and it should work.

i had a few sucsessful ones but then a few not so...thanks for taking time to help...i mean that to paul..thanks

great gene tune done by the blue cats...