Tremeloes: Even the Bad Times are Good
Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, May 1976
THE TREMELOES have a problem they've been too successful. 15 years together (the first five, backing Brian Poole) and upwards of a dozen pop hit singles on their own have apparently killed their chances of being accepted in England as anything but a teen-oriented pop band.
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