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The song “The Knight in Rusty Armour,” written by Charles J Mills and Mike Leander, was released in 1966 as a single and on Peter and Gordon’s 1966 album titled Knight in Rusty Armour. The album rose to #15 on the U.S. charts. It was their retro slightly risqué follow-up to the retro and slightly risqué song “Lady Godiva.”
Peter and Gordon were Peter Asher and Gordon Waller , who formed as a duo in the early 1960s. They were school friends at Westminster, one of the top private schools in Britain. Peter and his sister Jane Asher were child actors in the 1950s, notably for appearing as siblings in an episode of the TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood. Jane dated Paul McCartney, and that liaison turned out to be good fortune for Peter and Gordon. Paul gave them the song “World Without Love,” which sky-rocketed to #1 in the U.K. and U.S. in 1964. They had other big hits with “Nobody I Know,” I Don’t Want to See You Again,” “I Go to Pieces,” “True Love Way,” and “To Know You is to Love You,” among others. They broke up in 1968. Gordon went solo, and Peter became head of A&R for Apple Records.
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[…] For other songs by Peter and Gordon: “Lady Godiva” and “Knight in Rusty Armour.” […]