He later ran two burger bars at Wembley stadium where he might have played had

He later ran two burger bars at Wembley stadium, where he might have played had he stayed with the Stones. A former drummer with the Royal Fusiliers, Little was renowned for his powerful sound But he never joined a band that really made the big time. The Savages narrowly missed fame with the 1961 single “Till the Following Night”. After splitting with the All Stars following a row with Davies, Little went on to play as a session musician with a string of bands, including the Hoochie Coochie Men, Buddy Britain and the Regents, Neil Christian and the Crusaders, the Echoes and the Flowerpot Men.When he met his wife, Iris, Little renounced the musician’s life in favour of a steady wage, becoming a greengrocer and driving a Mother’s Pride delivery van.

Despite being described by Keith Richards as “the best rock and roll drummer in the world”, Little remained one of rock’s “nearly men”.The musician, who died from lung cancer at home in South Shields at the weekend, opted for a life of suburban contentment. CARLO LITTLE (THE ROLLING STONES)

When Brian Jones asked Carlo Little to join his fledgling band the Rolling Stones, the drummer refused, later saying: “I was a professional musician and it didn’t seem worthwhile.”
Already a successful drummer, who had instructed the Who’s Keith Moon in the art and played with Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages, Little opted to stay with Cyril Davies and the All Stars, recommending his friend Charlie Watts to Jones. It raised enough money to enable War Child to carry out aid projects in Bosnia Herzegovina.War Child had been established two years earlier specifically in response to the conflict in the Balkans.. Paul McCartney recorded a version of “Come Together” with Paul Weller and Noel Gallagher of Oasis.The finished product was released less than a week later and went straight into the charts at number one after selling more than 71,000 copies on its first day – just six days after recording began.

That’s why we have set ourselves the challenge of remaking history and releasing the fastest album ever, again. It’s a tall order but we feel with the support of amazing artists such as Radiohead and Hard-Fi, we can make it happen.”The original Help was the brainchild of four music industry publicists, Terri Hall, Tony Crean, Rob Partridge and Anton Brookes who had been shocked by the massacre at Srebrenica and the sieges of Sarajevo and Mostar.It was recorded in studios across Europe on 4 September 1995, by artists including Orbital, Stone Roses, Suede, Massive Attack, P J Harvey and Sinead O’Connor with Brian Eno as its executive producer. About 20 acts will each record a new song in a single day on the 10th anniversary of the first War Child album, Help, which raised nearly £2m for children in Bosnia.
The new album, Help: A Day in the Life, (and individual tracks) will be available for downloading on the War Child website and elsewhere online on the day of recording on 9 September, making it the fastest album ever made. Similarly cunning is Philips’s Miravision, a television that becomes reflective when it is switched off. Sony, meanwhile, has become something of leader in the field of meshing television and computing, with media systems that function as PCs, televisions and recording systems – an approach that is particularly attractive to the home-office user or the space-poor gadget-rich single man. Radiohead, Razorlight and The Coral are among the bands planning to record the fastest album ever made in an attempt to raise funds for children affected by wars. And for those who wanted to watch TV alfresco, Sharp have created a wireless TV.