Thorup played at the age of 18 in the Danish band, Beefeaters, and he met Korner on his
concert tour in
Scandinavia. They formed New Church, and then in 1970
CCS around Korner and Thorup, the rest of the line-up was rather loose and depended on the availability in the schedules of many musicians. Frequent performers within the band included Tony Carr (
drums),
trumpeter
Harold Beckett,
Herbie Flowers on
bass guitar,
Henry Lowther (
trumpet) and
Harold McNair with
woodwind instruments. They were among the first groups to record on
Mickie Most's
RAK Records and
John Cameron arranged their albums. They had several
hit singles, commencing with a cover of
Led Zeppelin's "
Whole Lotta Love", which was used as the theme for
BBC Television's
Top Of The Pops. Their music was characterised by Korner's growling vocals and Thorup's higher tones. They split in 1973 to create a band, Snape, that Korner and Thorup formed when on tour with
King Crimson in the
United States. King Crimson members
Boz Burrell,
Mel Collins, and
Ian Wallace left
Robert Fripp in
New Orleans to continue on tour with Korner. Thorup appeared on Korner's 1972 studio album
Accidentally Born in New Orleans. The album included the tracks, "
One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer" by
Rudolph Toombs, "Rock Me", "
You Got the Power (To Turn Me On)" by
Willie Chambers" and "Lo and Behold" by James Taylor. It's likely that Thorup's influence on Danish blues band,
The Blues Overdrive inspired them to record "You Got the Power (To Turn Me On)". It appeared on their
Overdrive Live! album. A
live album from this band was released in Germany. During this period, Thorup frequented London's
nightclubs, performing with Korner and
Colin Hodgkinson on bass. In 1976, Thorup returned to
Denmark to work with Danish musicians including
Sebastian. Thorup mostly played
rock or
blues, but he also got a local
pop hit, recording a
Danish version of
Kenny Rogers and
Dolly Parton's "
Islands in the Stream" with
Anne Grete in 1984. In the last couple of decades of his life he lived a quiet life, playing small concerts in Denmark and recording a few albums. ==References==