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At Leigh Boys’ Grammar School, a play for fifth- and lower-sixth-form pupils features a rock band as part of the storyline. This brings together various schoolfriends, all with an interest in music – Mick Reay, Keith Wilde and Tony Wall. Various drummers join and leave the band, disgruntled with the set list, which includes covers of Free, Deep Purple and Jimi Hendrix. For the duration of the play they rehearse in the school hall.

On the last day of the play another guitarist, Peter McNeish, joins the band. With the school hall no longer available, their lack of rehearsal space is solved by a friend in the year above, who likes the band and offers them space on his father’s farm. During the summer, they rehearse in a cowshed at Naylor’s Farm in Astley, near Leigh.

Despite the play being over, they are determined to stay together. They call themselves Kogg and play several gigs, including an NSPCC benefit in a garden in Risley, an open-air concert in Bolton and a gig at the village hall in Culcheth, before breaking up.