They needed a London-based manager in their quest for success and Secunda secured them a recording deal with Decca. They had a No 1 hit with "Go Now" in 1965.Secunda then took over the management of another promising Midlands group, the Move. They brazenly set out to rival the Who with a wild stage act involving their own brand of "Auto Destruction". Encouraged by Secunda, the band adopted a violent gangster image, complete with Chicago-style suits, while their lead singer, Carl Wayne, indulged in smashing up television sets and effigies on stage with an axe. Secunda worked in partnership with the producer the late Denny Cordell-Laverack.Secunda signed the Move to Deram records and they released their first record, "Night of Fear", written by their guitarist Roy Wood. The song was a pastiche of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture and went straight to No 2 in the charts. On the B-side, "Disturbance", a song about a mental hospital, Secunda could be heard supplying maniacal screams.

With the Move, Secunda gained notoriety as a sensationalist in 1967, when he circulated bizarre postcards which showed a nude caricature of the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, in the bath, The cards were supposed to promote the Move's latest single, "Flowers in the Rain". The innuendoes made about Wilson on the card led him to sue the band successfully and in a settlement all the royalties from the record had to go to charity. The record hardly needed the publicity as it was the first record ever played on BBC Radio 1 and got to No 2 in the charts on its own merits. In the wake of such needless controversy the band and Secunda parted company. The Move enjoyed a few more hits but petered out at the end of 1971, paving the way for the creation of the successful off-shoot bands ELO and Wizzard.The Move and ELO drummer Bev Bevan recalls that the Move went to London looking for a manager: "At the time Secunda was involved with a band called the Action and ran a company with Denny Cordell called New Movement. He had such incredible self-confidence we were swept off our feet and signed a management contract. We were green lads from Birmingham and he took us shopping in Carnaby Street and immediately changed our image A stunt with a fake H-bomb was very funny.

We went through the streets of Manchester hoping to get arrested. We were tramping up and down for two hours with this wretched bomb and nobody took a blind bit of notice Eventually a copper told us to move on. A photographer took a picture and the papers said we had been arrested making an anti-Vietnam protest."The biggest stunt of all just got out of hand and caused us to part company That was the Harold Wilson postcard. We didn't even know he was going to do it, and while the other stunts were fun, this was beyond a joke and we were terrified.