Jonathon Miller was born to make music. At the age of just fourteen he knocked on the doors of Dave Morris's Workshop Studio and asked for a job. Within weeks he'd gone from tea boy to session musician. Dave knew that he'd stumbled on to something very precious and very rare. Back in 1995, Lloyd & Anderson had booked into Workshop to record the album The Acoustic Collection. One track was proving to be a problem. "It needs some tasty piano playing" suggested Pete. Dave motioned over to the spotty teenager in the kitchen making the tea. "Don't waste our time mate. Your studio is too expensive" came the reply. "Humour me" the engineer said confidently. Jon sat down at the piano and began to play along with the track. Words were superfluous. Pete and I had just learned what Dave already knew. This kid was special, very special. When the original Talon line up was first being discussed, the name of Jonny Miller was put forward, but it was decided that he was just too young. Now the time was right, but replacing the popular welshman was not going to be easy. Jon made his debut performance on the10th of January 2000 at the Oakley House, Brewood, Staffordshire. Needless to say. He was an instant hit.

The five head shot taken in December 1999.

There was also another big reason to be excited. We had just taken on personal management to look after all of our business affairs, and it brought instant results. Our new found management had just secured a deal with one of the UK's leading theatre promoters."All we need now is Sheen to come along and give the show some real polish" said Si one day. Sheen Doran had been there and back and got the tee-shirt. As an artiste she'd done it all, including the London Palladium and Top Of The Pops and later as a choreographer she had collaborated with just about every one in the business worth mentioning. Back in 1988 whilst at home watching television in her Chelsea apartment she happened across a programme called New Faces, and two fresh faced young men by the name of Lloyd & Anderson. She immediately saw great potential and called the producer. From that day on Sheen became our great friend and mentor but somehow over the years we had managed to lose touch. In the summer of 2000, Talon were appearing at the Bournemouth International Centre. Also in town that year was Lloyd & Anderson's old mate Joe Pasquale. One afternoon the three of us sat down over a cup of coffee to talk about the old days and catch up on all the latest gossip. "Have you heard from Sheen at all recently"? asked Pete. "I saw her the other day" replied the comedian, whilst wrapping elastic bands across his face as to contort it into hideous shapes, "she's living right here in Bournemouth, I assumed you knew". We called her the same day and within weeks she had managed to get us into the rehearsal studio. Sheen was back, and polishing up our act. The summer also saw the arrival of Jerry Probert. He was handed the unenviable task and massive responsibility of taking care of our livelihood, namely our gear. Together with Jonny Mack, the surviving crew member from the previous tour, he would allow us for the first time since day one, the freedom to concentrate on what was important...... The show.

The autumn tour was upon us and we were all ready to go. Unfortunately, there were fewer venues than we'd hoped for and we weren't happy with the artwork on our new publicity. On top of all that, business for the following spring, our management informed us, was slow. The cracks were beginning to show between band and management and we knew that something had to be done.

On an artistic level we were definitely moving forward. Not only had Sheen made our image more Rock n' Roll, we were also working twenty-four hours a day, planning to produce a feature length video. It had been scheduled to be filmed in October 2000 at The Playhouse Theatre, Harlow, Essex. As well as extra support crew, make-up, wardrobe and film crew, there was also for the first time a guest musician.