A flamboyant front man who was one of the pioneers of the British R&B and rock &
roll scene in the 1960s, Zoot Money helped pave the way for the likes of The
Rolling Stones and The Yardbirds but only had one major hit with the swaggering,
wailing, soul stomp 'Big Time Operator'.
Born into a family of Italian immigrants in Bournemouth, England, George Bruno
Money grew up playing the French horn but was transfixed by the birth of rock &
roll and the skiffle movement in the 1950s and renamed himself after seeing jazz
saxophonist Zoot Sims. Becoming a regular at Soho's basement ba...