After his first band ‘The Climbers' in his hometown Alesund (Norway) broke up, Jan decided to hitch-hike to the capital Oslo, to find work. Being impossible in those days to hitch-hike in Norway with long hair, he walked the 600 km. It took him a month and a half.

 

He found work, first with ‘2nd Evolution Corps', then ‘The Pussycats', the most popular band in Norway at that time. He then joined ‘The Beatnicks' for a few tours in Scandinavia. ‘The Beatnicks' was also a very popular band, and had fans all over Scandinavia.

 

He decided to stay with this good band and it showed to be a clever decision. The band gave him the occasion to meet and play with musicians like Jeff Beck, John Mayall, Alvin Lee and many others. They finally left Scandinavia and stayed in Germany for a while, where they met Roy Robinson.

 

They went to France and signed up with CBS and became ‘TITANIC', whose story you already know. When ‘TITANIC' split up at the end of the seventies, he did a lot of studio-sessions in Paris and was asked to join ‘SPACE', for their first tour in the Soviet-Union 1983. ‘SPACE' was a french band who enjoyed a big hit with the instrumental ‘Magic Fly'.

 

‘SPACE' was very popular there, due to Boris Volinov, an astronaut who had brought their cassette with him on a space-flight. Their third concert was being filmed by French television at the ‘Olympic Stadium' in Moscow in front of 52'000 people, and Jan surprised the band as well as the Russians by launching into a rock'n'roll medley, 100% American, to end the show. Fortunately, no political consequences occurred all though Jan was probably, the first in the world to sing ‘rock'n'roll' behind the wall.

After twenty years in Paris, he decided to leave the business and spend the rest of his life in the sun, down south on the French Riviera.

 

Impossible to stop playing, once a musician, always a musician, he started playing a little, jams and stuff. That's how he met Mick Walker, an English musician, being there for the same reasons, and Phil Wilton. They soon got together as a band ending up in Geneva, where they met Didier Blum. They knew that Roy also felt, like Jan, that as ‘TITANIC', they had a lot more to say, and so they called him.

 

This is more or less how ‘TITANIC' came to be reformed.

As a young man growing up in Sydney Australia, Phil Wilton spent most of his spare time training for his chosen sport which was, curiously, short track ice speed skating. When he finally became Australian champion at the tender age of 20 he figured he'd ‘arrived'.

 

He then decided to focus his attention and same driving determination on making wild exciting noises on the saxophone. Since those days Phil has been a ‘Hired Gun' in many different rock outfits including the legendary ‘John Morgan Band' playing gigs all around the world.It was whilst playing with John at ‘Le Pappagayo' St-Tropez, that he came across Mick Walker, and then later Jan Loseth.

 

They decided to put a band together called the ‘Jan Loseth Group' and played regularly in Geneva. It was Phil's idea to get in touch with Roy to find out if he'd be interested in going back on the road' and now he's making those wild exciting noises with ‘TITANIC'.