Peter Skellern

Composer, singer, and musician Peter Skellern played trombone in a school band and served as organist and choirmaster in a local church before attending the Guildhall School of Music.

After graduating, he joined the vocal harmony band Harlan County, who recorded a country-pop album before disbanding in 1971.

He then worked as a hotel porter before striking lucky in late 1972 with a self-composed U.K.