Giants History Frame 4

The Giants continued playing to full houses at The Starlight Rooms, The Mexican Hat, The Top Hat, The Catacomb and their own Federal Blues Club in Shoreham.

Despite the success and popularity of the band, Alan Kingsbury and Bill Smith, finally having had enough of the unpredictable rock band lifestyle, left the band that year.

Once again the band had new management and a change of name. Mike Clayton Penny had stepped in to take control of the management and promotion of the band. On his suggestion the band became "The Tony Grant Group".

With new members Eddy Sergeant and Duncan Pratt settled in, the new management re-branded the band with the T2G logo and began to promote it heavily. The Grant Group went into the studios, this time recording at Southern Music, Denmark Street, London. "I Can’t Stop Myself", a song originally written for Dusty Springfield, was recorded over a two-day period. Stuart Parkes of The T-Bones, who stepped in at short notice when Duncan didn’t make the session, laid down the bass track. The recording was not released for eighteen months, by which time The Grant Group was no longer playing.