POP pioneer Denny Laine will be playing a gig in his adopted East Lancashire this week.

Denny, former frontman with the Moody Blues and one-time mainstay of Paul McCartney's Wings, calls in at the Civic Theatre, Oswaldtwistle, on Friday.

The former tax exile, who played on McCartney's record-breaking hit Mull Of Kintyre, has now set up home in Whalley and is currently putting the finishing touches to a top-secret recording studio in the area.

Close friend Peter Barton, a member of Lieutenant Pigeon, said: "The studio is very hush-hush and will be called Ribble Records."

Watch this space for details.

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