Vintage ,Great name for a band,You should post pictures and outline where you have played etc in the group section.Looking at the picture are you sure you’ve not played at the Whitehouse.

City Reporter, January 1978
Norman has something to sing about.
'One fine day', has been released.
Written and composed by Norman, on the ‘Pennine’ label.


Manchester Evenings News, December 1994.
Diary by Andy Spinoza & Carl Palmer.
A Dream Comes True.
It was sheer bliss for Norman Jay singing along with his evergreen
hero in an empty Chinese restaurant, to an appreciative gang of kitchen
staff at The Pekinese Restaurant in Wembley, empty before they started to sing, I hasten to add.
Norman Major, Tim Rice, and Michael Barrymore having left a while
earlier, it was now 3.00am. We sang the Everly Brothers hit, 'Dream'.

I have a secret that only now I can reveal. I am not the person you think I am. No longer the pale, often bullied under-performer I used to be. I changed my name and developed into a more confident individual. Both people still exist however, and sometimes I forget who the real Norman is.
One has masses of determination, drive and ambition; the other with a short attention span, who just wants an easy life. One seeks recognition, the other a warm friendly bosom. Torn between a life of music, or a loving companion; can they possibly  co-exist? Ever-changing like the weather, one can be winter, while the other is always summer.
Confused? We haven’t even started.
I have often been asked over the years, "What is your favourite song?" My reply has always been "I don't have one."
How could I single out one song? It’s impossible. Ask me to make a list of my top ten and it would probably be different every time.
Maybe this is a good time then, to analyse my musical taste and create a catalogue of artists and songs that have influenced and touched me over the last half century.
Everybody is different when it comes to musical taste. That's what makes music magical; a song can take you to a place of fantasy or return you to your distant past. Or, you could be the kind of person who buys or downloads an album religiously each month  and  plays it over and over again, until you know every note, every word.
Once done, you move on to the next purchase.  This person is usually building up a library of a particular genre of music. Or it could be that at some stage during his teenage years a social event or a music era influenced him. Or maybe it was his social background that was the catalyst for his musical taste. It's fascinating isn't it?
Looking back, I suppose my musical education started in the fifties, listening to the radio playing music as far back as the thirties. Now  2016,  that's a period of around eighty years that I have been subjected to a plethora of music.
I have a passion for music, so let’s define this particular passion. Do I simply love music per se, or does it merely indicate that I enjoy songs about love?
A songwriter often becomes a songwriter because of a personal experience; that moment when either anguish or that swelling of the brain, due to love or lust, fuels the creative cells and other parts of the body. This results in a song that touches your feminine side or reminds you of a special relationship.
Okay, so not in every case, but I do believe the majority of individual popular music composers start off that way. However, suppose  you were a Beatle? You would of course develop a style influenced by your fellow musicians and the music trend at the time, but your finest songs would always be about a personal experience.
I found I had a voice when I was still in nappies I guess. This  influenced my taste, just like a guitarist or a violin player would be influenced. Exposure and familiarity may also be a key factor in what makes a person like a particular song or performer.


from my autobiography My Life My Music..  singer songwrititer lead vocal in Vintage