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Newton was a singer / songwriter who was born in Malaya and educated in England, whose full name was Roger Hartly Newton Mayson. He visited New Zealand for a few years and was Wellington based, becoming one of the early signings to Tree Records. With them he released one single in 1971 called “A Moving Silence”/”Don’t Wake Me Up In The Morning”.

His only other single, also released in 1971 on the Strange label, was called “Steel Sparrow”/”Gypsy Girl”. It is reported that he did a second single for Strange, but I have no record of this.

He vanished as quickly as he appeared.

Grateful acknowledgement is made to Bruce Sergent for letting us use this material from his great discographical site New Zealand Music of the 60’s, 70’s and a bit of 80’s.


One Reply to “Newton”

  1. Hubbard Leslie

    Roger Mayson “Newton” surfaced in London in the mid 1970s where I met him in my local pub in Chelsea. We became good friends. He recorded a number of sessions which were played frequently on the BBC World Service radio. He married in 1983 but it was a short relationship.
    He moved to his Mother’s home for a short while and then lived in
    Ivy Cottage on the Brinsop Court Manor house estate in Herefordshire. From here he ran a catering company called As You Like It. I last saw him in London in early 1993. Attempts to trace him in recent years have been fruitless.

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