A ROCK ‘n’ roll musician says he has a new lease of life after signing his first ever record deal, aged 70.

Harry Lang has still got a whole lot of shakin’ going on with his Sussex band The Catfish Kings.

The group has been performing together around the country for the past nine years, and Harry, of Stirling Place, Hove, has used his many years of experience as a touring musician to wow the crowds.

“I’ve always had a hankering to play rock ‘n’ roll music from the 50s and 60s, and it turns out there is quite a market for it,” he said.

His group has recorded a debut album called The Fish Are Jumpin’, which contains a mix of covers and their own songs.

Harry said: “It’s like being a teenager again, people love it, they go to the dances and people come from all over.

“They meet their friends there, and it is really uplifting music. People can’t help but leap up and start jiving. To get that reaction to what you are doing is incredible.”

Among those he covers are Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

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He said he has been playing since his mid 20s after growing up in Birmingham, and would help put together backing groups for blues bands in America.

In the past Harry had hoped for success with a group in the late 70s.

He recorded a song about a Page Three girl from The Sun newspaper which led to an injunction, and media attention from the Daily Mirror and music magazine the NME.

But despite the media attention, he confessed: “It was not a very good record.”

So he is delighted to now be enjoying success later in life and said: “When someone asked if we’d like to make an album, we said ‘Why not?’”

He will perform at The Brunswick, Holland Road, Hove, on September 27 at 8pm.Tickets cost £7. Call 01273 733984 or visit thebrunswick.net.