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Peter Noone was hooking up with groupies, partying with the Rolling Stones, and in AA by the age of 19
Peter Noone was one member of the popular 60âs band, Hermanâs Hermits.
With his thick head of hair and boyish charm, it would be easy to compare him to a Justin Beiber or Harry Styles of today.
However, there is one distinct difference between this former teen heartthrob and those of todayâŚ

With his adorable face and equally adorable voice, Peter Noone skyrocketed to stardom in his teens as the frontman of Hermanâs Hermits. The band toured both in America and Britain and became iconic.
The band nabbed their first number 1 hit in England in 1964 with âIâm Into Something Good.â
âHermanâs Hermits sold millions of records before anyone even saw us, which just doesnât happen now,â Noone said.
âI didnât know what I was doing: my stage persona was a shy little boy, which is basically what I was.â

Noone and the rest of his band released more than 20 hit records and even outsold the Beatles in 1965. Some of their biggest hits included Iâm Into Something Good, No Milk Today and Thereâs A Kind of Hush (All Over the World).
The band received a million-dollar record deal by the time they were 17, and one of the highlights of Nooneâs career was when Elvis Presley performed one of their hitsââIâm Henry the Eighth, I Amââin 1965 on stage.
âHe was making fun of me, but who cares?â says Noone. âIt was Elvis!â
Even at this young age, Noone was living the quintessential rocker lifestyle.
âAlthough without the drugs bit,â he insists. âThat was never my thing.â
But when asked about all of the other typical rock ânâ roll habits?

âSure. We were 16, 17, and we could easily stay up all night, go on the rampage then be up the next morning to do interviews and go to gigs. It was a brilliant time.â
At 64, Noone is on the road again as part of Britainâs Solid Silver 60s Show. His fellow Hermits veterans will not be joining him, but other musical star of the era willâBrian Poole of The Tremeloes (âDo You Love Meâ and âTwist And Shoutâ) and Brian Hyland (âItsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikiniâ).
âYou never get tired of the buzz of touring,â says Noone, âand itâs good to know we can still pull an audience. People come up to me and sing all the old songs to my face, although Iâm never really sure how to respond to that.â
Noone has lived in California since the 70âs and grew quickly to the healthy living style that characterizes the state.
âNot many people survived the debauchery of the sixties,â he says, âso I feel very lucky and try to look after myself. When I went to Mickie Mostâs funeral nine years ago [Most was the bandâs producer and a panelist on TV talent show New Faces], there werenât many people left. It does make you stop and think.â

âI remember going to the house of one of the Moody Blues and it was considered this real den of iniquity,â he says. âNone of the girls smoked dope, so I used to hang out with them. I was a fly on the wall.
âI did like to drink â I used to go out with Richard Harris and try to drink more than him,â Noone laughed.
âI used to love the Beatles and the Stones and Iâd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.
âWeâd go to the Ad Lib club in London, and John Lennon would buy my drinks because he knew I was only 16 and I wouldnât get drunk and try to beat someone up.â
Noone, who grew up in Manchester, has admitted that one of his major motivations for drinking was to fit in with the others, as he didnât feel that âinteresting.â
It was at the age of 19 that the musician decided to attend his first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting with his father, also an avid drinker.Â
âI wouldnât have classed myself as an alcoholic, but you have to be sensitive to peopleâs feelings and be able to do the job on stage, so after that I decided to cut down. I needed to do it for my own sake and havenât touched a drop for about 16 years.
âI insist that my wife still drinks if she wants to â I wouldnât stop other people around me doing it.â
The multi-talented entertainer has been married to his wife, Mirielle, for 43 years. They met when Noone was 20, while he was still spending time with various women.
âI think it was probably lust at first sight with Mireille,â he admits. âThen I found out how nice she was and it turned to love.
âShe kept turning me down, but she was holidaying on Ibiza with her mum, so I rented the apartment next to them. Her mother liked me because I was respectful. I wore Mireille down.â
The couple married in 1968, had one daughter (Nicole), and Noone quit the band in 1971 at the age of 24.
âEven though all of us in the band were close in the beginning, by the end, weâd been together so long and wanted to do different things.â

His attempted solo career plateaued, and it was in the 80s that he took to a new stage, appearing in a Broadway production on âPirates of Penzanceâ and as a host on the U.S. television music show âMy Generationâ.
Just a few years ago, he appeared as a mentor and voice coach on American Idol.
Speaking on the show, he said, âIf the Beatles had entered a TV competition, theyâd probably have lost. Simon Cowell seems like a very nice guy, but I think heâs a secondhand Mickie Most to be honest.â
Speaking on the current tour again, Noone explained, ââI was probably going to be a clerk at the local NatWest. How lucky am I to still be doing this at 64? I know what Iâm doing now, too. Iâm not that shy little kid any more.â
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