In 1965 in Great Bookham, near Leatherhead, England, drummer Chris Townson and singer Andy Ellison formed a band called the Clockwork Onions, which later became The Few, and then The Silence [REF].
Napier-Bell signed John's Children to The Yardbirds's record label, Columbia Records, an EMI subsidiary,[REF] and they released their first single, "Smashed Blocked/Strange Affair" (released as "The Love I Thought I'd Found/Strange Affair" in the UK) in late 1966.