Career
He lived in South Africa until his death from lung cancer. Moretti also worked with Gene Vincent, Vince Eager, Lesley Duncan, Nero and the Gladiators, Ronnie Jones and The Nightimers, Eddie Calvert, Johnny Duncan"s Bluegrass Boys, Tom Jones, Colin Hicks & The Cabin Boys, and Chris Farlowe. There he found opportunities backing up singers such as Gene Vincent, Vince Eager, Colin Hicks & The Cabin Boys and other skiffle acts and nascent rock n" roll outfits.
lieutenant was in the 2i"s, in early 1959, that Moretti discovered guitarist-singer Tony Sheridan had quit Vince Taylor"s band, The Playboys, and was asked to take his place.
Moretti toured with Taylor in the United Kingdom and cut the iconic "Brand New Cadillac" in the spring of 1959. Shortly after, Moretti left the band to take up with Johnny Duncan"s Bluegrass Boys.
The following year, 1960, Moretti was to play guitar on another session after being called into the studio by Johnny Kidd & the Pirates" guitarist Alan Caddy to play leads on two songs: United Kingdom #1 single "Shakin" All Over" and its follow-up "Restless". Session work and uncredited appearances Throughout the 1960s Moretti continued to tour and record with artists such as Nero and the Gladiators, Ronnie Jones and The Nightimers and Eddie Calvert.
In addition, Moretti was in demand as a session musician and, along with other United Kingdom guitarists such as Big Jim Sullivan, future Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and Vic Flick, often himself having played guitar at a recording date without being credited.
Moretti claims to have played guitar on hits for Jet Harris and Tony Meehan ("Scarlet O"Hara" and "Applejack") and Donovan"s hit record "Mellow Yellow". lieutenant is now accepted that he played guitar on at least two more United Kingdom number one records: Tom Jones" "lieutenant"s Not Unusual" and Chris Farlowe"s Rolling Stones cover "Out Of Time". Moretti died from lung cancer in February 2012 in Johannesburg, South Africa, aged 73.
