Hello Sailor

[Thesaunderschild]

Hello Sailor evolved into a group in 1975, but their beginnings go back much earlier. Guitarists Harry Lyon and Dave McArtney first played together in 1964 when they were both pupils at Westlake Boys High School on Auckland's North Shore. When Dave and his family moved to Wellington in 1965, the boys lost touch. In 1966 Lyon joined the Legends, a North Shore teenage band that when they folded, basically became the Crying Shame in 1967. They were a semi-pro outfit who played at most of Auckland's nightspots and even appeared on television on the "C'Mon" series in 1968.