The Flower Pot Men were a British pop group created in 1967 as a result of the single "Let's Go to San Francisco", recorded by session musicians, becoming a major UK Top 20 and Continental Europe hit) in the autumn of 1967. The group's sound was characterised by rich, three-part vocal harmonies. Led by vocalist
Tony Burrows (who had been in
the Ivy League), for a while (though not for recordings) the band also included later
Deep Purple members
Jon Lord on keyboards and
Nick Simper on bass. Lord and Simper left in summer 1968, and
Neil Landon left in 1969 to bec…
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