Liz Mitchell started her singing career in Germany in the musical “Hair”, where Liz replaced Donna Gaines (who later beame the world famous Donna Summer). There she met Malcolm Magaron, who became her boyfriend.
In 1972 Liz and Malcolm left the Les Humphries Singers. Malcolm wanted to start his own project together with Liz.
First they released a single as a duo, Malcolm & Liz, called “We All Are One” in 1972.
Later they formed a band called Malcolm’s Locks. In 1975 they released their album “Carribean Rock” and the singles “Get Up Stand Up” and “Carribean Rock”. The album also featured 2 songs that later would become famous Boney M. classics; “Motherless Child” and “Brown Girl” (which Boney M. released as “Brown Girl In The Ring”). Still today Frank Farian has a court battle going on with Malcolm’s Locks arranger Peter Herbolzheimer, who claims that Frank Farian stole the arrangement of “Brown Girl In The Ring” from Peter Herbolzheimer. This is probably the longest musical court case in German history ever…
Liz Mitchell also recorded some solo material with Malcolm, which never was released. Only one song has been released years later as the B-side of the Liz Mitchell solo single “Got A Man On My Mind” in 1977, entitled “PERFECT”. Allthough the label states that Frank Farian produced this single, Farian hasn’t got anything to do with this song. Liz Mitchell told the fanclub about this song: “PERFECT is a song that wasn’t meant to be released. It was just a demo I recorded with Malcolm around 1974. Frank Farian later heard the song and liked the recording, so he put it on the B-side of my single. However the label says “Produced by Frank Farian”, Frank had nothing to do with this recording and did NOT produce this track, but Malcolm wrote and produced it together with Anthony Flavery.”
Here the Malcolm’s Locks biography as written on the album sleeve of “Carribean Rock”;
MALCOLM MAGARON is the name of the founder of this group MALCOLM’S LOCKS. His career guide him from the west-Indian island St. Lucia to London and from there to Munich and Berlin. - In the West he acted a part in the musical “Hair”, in the east he was engaged for the “Friedrichstadt-Palst” as a solo entertainer.
With his group MALCOLM’S LCKS the ex-theology student first established in Hamburg, so to speak as a “brown Bacardi” in the beer-satured pub-scene of the German dixieland-metropolis.
It was in the beginning of the fifties, when MALCOLM came from St. Lucia to London. And there he changed very quickly from studying to music. He played - semiproffesional - in the beatclubs like “Speak Easy” and “Bag Of Nails”, which had in that time their come-back as meeting place of the “heavy musicians” like john Lennon and Jimi Hendrix.
At a test singing - MALCOLM chose Gershwin’s “Summertim”- he captured an angagement for the German version of the rock musical “Hair”. In this time he founded his own group, “Aquarius”. And then in 1971 Les Humphries saw him on stage at the “Operettenhaus” of Hamburg and engaged him straight away to sing in his choir.
MALCOLM made together with Les Humphries the clapping-song “Soo Laimoon” and titles like “Rock My Soul” and “Little Brown Man”. But then, 1½ years later, he finally made the music he likes.
Now MALCOLM and his co-composer Anthony Flavery from Trinidad concentrate on the “Carribean Rock”, that kind of electrifying sound which is based on the music of the Carribean islander, Calypso and Reggae.
MALCOLM’S LOCKS:
Malcolm Magaron (vocal)
Liz Mitchell, Stuart S. Fahey, Lee Gates (vocal group)
Livingstone Wright (electric guitar)
Micho Plaza (acoustic guitar)
Curvin Merchant (drums)
Antonio Augusto (percussion)
