Started at the age of 14, found a guitar that his father had won in a raffle 6 years previously and joined in the Skiffle thing ( heroes, Lonnie Donegan (Rock Island Line, Wreck of the Old 97, Nobody's Child, and Chas McDevitt, with Nancy Whisky singing Freight Train). Formed an 'Ad Hoc' group called the Cosmopolitans with Pierre playing guitar and singing, Peter Bloecker (nephew of George Sanders and Zza Gabor), Tony Schulte (known as Dutch) playing bongos and percussion (washboard) and some unknown person paying tea chest bass. Played the coffee bars with a chap called Marshall ( La Macabre, The 2 I's) and with the Cosmopolitans local parties in the stockbroker belt of Surrey. The Cosmopolitans became the Cosmos and got electricity and a proper vocalist called Flonges McGonagee ( earlier called Crastin Negergoplast but was found to be too long for posters ) his real name Ian McLoughlin, a proper drummer Tim Egan, a hairdresser and pianist Johnny Stiles, bass players were Mike Savage and strangely enough a former minister of education John Patten. Peter Bloeker still played guitar but Tony Schulte dropped out. They played about twice a week (all had a day job ) and earned quite a lot of money. Pierre experienced " un crise de coeur " due to a certain nut salesman's daughter called Gill Mercer and wrote a pathetic song called "I've been crying", never the less he got a band from Croydon called "Denny Mitchell and the Soundsations" to include it in their act along with all the covers they were doing, they were "discovered" by Decca and failing to have any of their own original material recorded "I've been Crying" which crept into the top 40 and renamed "Pas de Larmes" was a big hit in France by Gerard Brent.

Having had a hit due to an unresolvable love affair, Pierre started another band called "The Chances" which we know had Barry Husband and his sister Lynn, Flonges, maybe Malcolm Booth or Tim Egan on drums, a 60 year old pianist called we believe Philip Heppenstall on piano. They recorded a song called "Everybody's Laughing" which was also accepted by Decca, it got nowhere and no one was laughing. The band however was brought to the attention of legendary producer Kim Fowley, who produced "Nut Rocker" by B Bumble & the Stingers and later "The Runaways". The Chances recorded a cover called "Charlena" which involved unconventional production techniques. Nothing happened to this either. Pierre then formed, as one did, yet another band which we believe was called "The Jeeps" (perhaps this was due to Pierre purchasing a world war two Willys Jeep ). The Jeeps were: Pierre, vocals and guitar, Bob Moore, vocals, Julian Ferrari, drums & vocals, Paul Bedwell, bass and vocals. Pierre spent a months salary ( working at that time in thermo plastics ) at Tony Pikes studio in Putney making a demo of two songs and sent them to all the major record companies, ( this involved 4 stamps as there was only EMI, Decca, Pye & Phillips ) only one replied, a Mr Jack Heath who had we believe just left Pye Records to set up, with Lionel Segal and Adrian Jacobs, Great Britains first Indie label, Strike Records, situated in a flat ( which monthly we had to put beds and cookers in) in Upper Berekerly Street off Edgware Road. Pierre was employed as a "dogsbody" and as such drove Neil Christian to gigs, entertained the Dixie Cups, handled artists with a bottle problem, wrote a song( If Trees could Talk ) for Mickie Dolenz's girlfriend Samantha Juste, another couple with a large black man JJ Jackson, one "But Its Allright" went to number one USA for JJ and the other "Come See Me" was a hit for The Pretty Things. Another song "Here's a Heart" was a big hit for Dave Dee, Dozy etc. Also wrote For Eddie Floyd, Jimmy Powell, Jacki Bond and wrote with lots of people including Mark Barkan who wrote "Pretty Flamingo"

Whilst at Strike records, a friend of Pierre's, Martin Collins introduced him to Roy Harper with whom he made Roy's first album "Sophisticated Beggar" in Pierre's infamous double garage. Also discovered and signed, and wrote with Carl Douglas, made nice records but it was many years later that "Kung Foo Fighting" came along for Carl. Pierre and his group also got signed to Red bird Records in the States with a song "Hey You Lolita", the name of the band on this occasion was "The Silence", another band "Johns Children, or The Silence" were meant to record it but they couldn't do it. Strike Records unfortunately ended in a flurry of writs, bounced cheques (Pierre still has them) and ultimately at The Old Bailey, Pierre managed to escape with his copyrights and Roy Harpers intact.