Grand Drive's brothers Danny Wilson (lead vocals/guitar) and Julian Wilson (keyboards) were originally from Australia, but grew up in the stony southwest London suburb of Sutton in the '70s. In school, they met bassist Ed Balch and formed their first group, Soul Green, with several temporary drummers. It wasn't until 1992 that they found a more permanent stickman in Paul Wigens and changed their name to Grand Drive, taking their name from a long, meandering road in South London that connected Raynes Park (where one of the Wilsons lived) with Sutton. Grand Drive's first release was "Tell It Like It Is" (it had originally been recorded in October 1995, but wasn't released until November 1997 as 7" on the Vinyl Junkie label and later reissued on an EP by the Vaclav imprint).
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