Grapefruit (band)

Grapefruit
Also known as	The Grapefruit
Origin	London, England
Genres	Psychedelic rock, psychedelic pop, baroque pop
Years active	1967–1969; 1971
Labels	Apple, Decca, Dunhill
Associated acts	Tony Rivers and the Castaways, AC/DC, The Beatles, The Easybeats

Grapefruit were a London-based British band of the late 1960s, brought together by Terry Doran of Apple Publishing. Their brand of music was a typical late 1960s blend of rock, which they often fused with psychedelic effects such as phasers and vocoders, or classical arrangements.

In summer 1967, Terry Doran, a longtime friend of Brian Epstein's and the new managing director of Apple Publishing, signed Scottish-born singer and bass guitarist George Alexander, born Alexander Young, the older brother of The Easybeats' guitarist/songwriter George Young (and also of Malcolm and Angus Young, both founding members of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC), to a publishing contract. Alexander Young had chosen to remain in Britain when the rest of the Youngs emigrated to Australia, and had previously played with The Bobby Patrick Six, with whom he toured Germany in the mid-1960s. In November 1967, John Perry, a former member of Tony Rivers and the Castaways, pitched some of his songs to Doran at Apple Publishing. Doran rejected the songs but proposed combining Perry and his bandmates Geoff Swettenham and Pete Swettenham with Alexander to form a new group. The band was named Grapefruit by John Lennon after a book written by his future wife, Yoko Ono that was also entitled Grapefruit. Doran became their manager, seeing some commercial potential in them.

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