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Before scaling the hard rock heights with
Rainbow and
Alcatrazz,
Graham Bonnet belted out contemporary covers with his cousin, Trevor Gordon, in
the Marbles. Born in Lincolnshire, England,
Bonnet performed with a blues band and a jazz trio before hooking up with Gordon, who played with
the Bee Gees, and
the Marbles caught the interest of media mogul
Robert Stigwood at RSO Records. The first
Marbles single, "Only One Woman," a
Gibb brothers composition, did well in the U.K. and Australia. Another
Gibb tune, "The Walls Fell Down," also received airplay, but
the Marbles abruptly broke up. Transitory behavior would become typical of
Bonnet's career. Though the band split, the eponymous
Marbles debut dropped in 1970. ~ Whitney Z. Gomes