The Babys crafted some of the finest and most sophisticated melodic music of the 1970s and early 80s, but behind the scenes things were not always quite so cherubic. Every band experiences animosity, frustration and jealousy – such things are par for the course. But even a group as well-mannered as The Babys could find itself sucked into a web of ugliness, complete with threats of physical violence.
Lady Luck played her part in the birth of The Babys, firstly by throwing together guitarist/keyboard player Michael Corby and Adrian Millar, the now-deceased manager who took charge of the fledgling group’s affairs after a chance meeting in a Fulham Road café in 1974. A year later, John Waite would become the second, crucial, piece of the jigsaw, after being tipped off about the group’s frontman vacancy from a friend working in a central London guitar shop.
