Leg breaker

The Move had released five singles but by 1969 their career was flat lining. The age-old remedy, change of management, was the considered option and they signed to Don after leaving Tony Secunda (Don refers to Secunda as “another schmuck who won the lottery”), and the trouble was to start immediately. The band came across at the time of Goodbye Blackberry Way. When Don got the band to sign on the dotted line and with a hit in the offing, Secunda who had an ongoing drug problem saw red. Arden alleges that Secunda was even trying to get him killed. “So I had him warned off,” he says. Once it became clear that if anything happened to me he would be dead himself within the hour, he decided to see sense and never bothered us again.” Elephant’s memory Don was never in the forgiving business though and added, “I never stopped hating him though. I still hate him now even though he’s dead… He committed suicide in the end and I like to think he did it because he finally realised what a bastard he was.`’