SINGLES
CZAR-Oh
Lord Im Getting Heavy/ Why Dont We Be A Rock
n Roll Band (Philips)
DEAR MR TIME-Prayer For Her/ Light Up A Light (Square)
DONOVAN-Celia Of The Seals/ Mr Wind (Dawn)
FAIR WEATHER-Road To Freedom/ Tutti Frutti (RCA)
FLAMING YOUTH-From Now On/ Space Child (Fontana)
AL STEWART-The News From Spain/ Elvaston Place (CBS)
TANGERINE PEEL-Dont Let Me Be Misunderstood/ What Am I To
Do? (RCA)
ALBUMS
ATOMIC ROOSTER-
Death Walks Behind You (B&C) #12
THE
BEATLES-From Them To You (Apple/ Lyntone Fan Club Only)
CURVED AIR-Air Conditioning (Warners) #8
FREE- Highway
(Island) #41
RON GEESIN/
ROGER WATERS- Music From "The Body" (Harvest)
GENESIS-Trespass (Charisma)
HANNIBAL-Hannibal (B&C)
KING CRIMSON-Lizard (Island) #30
JOHN LENNON-John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (Apple) #11
LINDISFARNE-Nicely Out Of Tune (Charisma) #8
RARE BIRD- As
Your Mind Flies By (Charisma)
SLADE-Play It Loud (Polydor)
SPIRIT OF JOHN MORGAN-Age Machine (Carnaby)
TEN YEARS AFTER-Watt (Deram) #5
TWINK-Think Pink (Polydor)
VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR-H To HE, Who Am The Only One (Charisma)
WISHBONE ASH- Wishbone Ash
(MCA) #34
THE WORLD-Lucky Planet (Liberty)
HAPPENING!
- Jethro Tull bassist
Glen Cornick quits and is replaced by Jeffrey
Hammond-Hammond.
- Robin Gibb rejoins
The Bee Gees as the brothers settle their differences,
however their music grows more syrupy and MOR with each
successive release.
- Steve Hackett,
ex-Quiet World, finally fills the guitar vacancy in
Genesis.
- EX-Blossom Toes
guitarist Jim Cregan joins the former Taste rhythm
section of John Wilson (drums) and Richie McCracken
(bass) to form a new group, Stud.
- Rolling Stone
magazine votes Parachute by The Pretty Things
(released in June) album of the year, however it is still
a commercial flop.
- Greatest Show On
Earth change their name to Albatross, to avoid legal
action by Barnums Circus!
- Tony Kaye, organist
with Yes, breaks his foot when the groups van is
involved in a head-on collision near Basingstoke. He has
to be carried on and off stage at gigs for several weeks.
- Blodwyn (formerly
Blodwyn Pig), split up.
- BBC2 TV Disco
2-Wishbone Ash (5th), High Broom, Ray Fenwick (12th)
- BBC2 TV
Cucumber Castle starring The Bee Gees and
featuring Blind Faith etc (26th)
- BBC1 TV "Basil Brush
Show"- Dream Police (11th)
- Granada ITV
Lift Off-Dream Police (9th), Stavely
Makepiece (16th), Marmalade (23rd)
- German TV Beat
Club-The Move, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Warm Dust
(31st)
- BBC SESSIONS-Affinity
(4th, Alan Black), Aubrey Small (7th, Bob Harris),
Badfinger (20th, DLT--28th-1st Jan, Tony Brandon), Bee
Gees (28th-1st Jan, Tony Brandon), Bronco (29th, Mike
Harding), Dando Shaft (31st, Stuart Henry),
Delivery
(13th, John Peels Sunday Concert), Dream Police
(14th-18th, Jimmy Young), Faces (19th, Top Gear-26th, Top
Gear), Flying Machine (7th-11th, Terry Wogan),
Fotheringay (21st, Bob Harris),
Hollies (6th, DLT), Kinks (13th, DLT),
McGuinness Flint (14th, Bob Harris) Ralph McTell (19th,
Top Gear), Montanas (21st-25th, Jimmy Young),
Onyx
(28th-1st Jan, Jimmy Young), Orange Bicycle (Radio
1 Club 15th), Sight and Sound (28th-1st
Jan, Terry Wogan), Sky (14th,
Radio 1 Club), Soft Machine (26th, Top Gear),
Stone The Crows (6th,
John Peel's Sunday Concert), Strawbs
(25th, Night Ride), Symbols (14th-18th, Tony Brandon),
Tangerine Peel (28th-1st Jan, Jimmy Young), Tin Tin (6th, DLT),
Tremeloes
(7th-11th, Terry Wogan--21st-25th, Jimmy Young), T Rex (13th, DLT-20th, John
Peels Sunday Concert-26th, Top Gear), Warhorse
(22nd, Mike Harding), The Who (20th, DLT)
- Download Radio 1 Club 14th Dec HERE
and 15th Dec HERE
- Download Johnnie
Walker Show 16th Dec HERE
- Download Kenny
Everett Radio Luxembourg 25th Dec HERE
WATCHING!
- The Moody Blues play
at New Yorks Carnegie Hall.
- London Lyceum-Hard
Meat, Climax Chicago (6th, supporting Flying Burrito
Brothers), Emerson, Lake & Palmer (9th), Colosseum,
Gentle Giant, Nucleus (10th), Mighty Baby, Bronco (13th), Yes,
Clark-Hutchinson, Dada (18th), Family, Quiver (20th),
Jackson Heights (21st), Every Which Way (22nd), Genesis
(28th), Audience (29th)
- Roundhouse-Dr
Strangely Strange, Sam Apple Pie (6th), Hawkwind, Pink
Fairies, Pretty Things, Peter Green, Steve Took etc
(13th-Christmas Spaced), The Who, Patto
(20th), East Of Eden, Soft Robert (featuring Robert
Wyatt), Southern Comfort, Dando Shaft, Anan (27th)
- Marquee- The World
(3rd), Warm Dust (4th), Rare Bird (8th), Dream Police
(10th), Andwella (11th), Dogfeet (11th), Steel Mill
(12th), Gracious (14th), Budgie (14th), Blodwyn Pig
(15th), Little Free Rock (16th, 30th), Atomic Rooster
(18th), Medicine Head (21st), Groundhogs (22nd),
Julians Treatment (28th), Hardin-York (29th),
Custers Track (31st)
- Sirius Club-T2,
Heaven (11th), Aardvark (18th)
- Speakeasy- Gentle Giant (12th)
- Temple Club-Delivery (4th), Alan
Bown, Clear Blue Sky, Forever More (5th), Hawkwind
(11th), Writing On The Wall, Dog That Bit People (12th),
Toe Fat (19th), Warhorse, Aardvark (24th), Slade (26th),
Blonde On Blonde (31st)
- Whisky AGo
Go-Trader Horne (30th)
- 100
Club-Clark-Hutchinson (1st)
- Aldrich Community
Centre-Jody Grind (13th)
- Aylesbury Assembly
Hall-Edgar Broughton Band (2nd)
- Bangor College-Uriah
Heep (5th)
- Barnet, Queen
Elizabeths School-Pretty Things (12th)
- Barnet, Resurrection
Club-Bronco (1st), Groundhogs (8th), Hard Meat (15th),
Mott the Hoople (22nd)
- Barnstaple
Queens Hall-Hard Meat (18th)
- Barry Memorial
Hall-May Blitz, High Tide, Patto, Good Habit (17th)
- Basildon Arts
Centre-Barclay James Harvest (18th)
- Basingstoke
College-Jody Grind (19th)
- Bath
University-Hardin-York (4th)
- Bedford, Friars- Van Der Graaf
Generator (17th)
- Bexley Black
Prince-Steamhammer (13th), Greatest Show On Earth (24th),
Argent (27th)
- Birmingham Kinetic
Circus-Emerson Lake & Palmer (13th)
- Mothers,
Birmingham-Alan Bown (2nd), Jackson Heights (5th), Rare
Bird (6th), Warm Dust (11th), Van Der Graaf Generator
(13th), Principal Edwards Magic Theatre (19th), Trapeze
(26th), Little Free Rock (27th)--- *After shows by
Fairfield Parlour (1st) and Quintessence (3rd), Mothers
closed on 3rd January 1971 owing to the end of the
promoters lease. The premises were subsequently
used for storing furniture!
- Birmingham Oldhill
Plaza-Pete Brown & Piblokto (4th), Salamander, Kansas
Hook (11th), Hannibal (18th)
- Birmingham Town
Hall-Strawbs, Hard Meat (8th), Pink Floyd (18th)
- Bishops Stortford
College-High Tide (5th)
- Bishops
Stortford, Millars One-T2 (20th)
- Bolton Casino- Gentle Giant (7th)
- Bolton College-Uriah
Heep (16th)
- Boston Assembly
Rooms-Jody Grind (15th)
- Boston
Gliderdrome-Matthews Southern Comfort, Dream Police
(5th), Caravan, Mogul Thrash (12th), Jackson Heights,
Warhorse (19th), Choise (26th)
- Bournemouth, Chelsea
Village-Tremeloes (14th)
- Bournemouth Pavilion- Keef Hartley
(6th)
- Bradford, St
Georges Hall-Emerson Lake & Palmer (8th)
- Bradford
University-The World (4th)
- Braintree
College-Jody Grind (4th)
- Braintree Horn
Hotel-Pete Brown & Piblokto (20th), Warm Dust (27th),
Gnidrolog (31st)
- Big Apple,
Brighton-Ginger Bakers Airforce (4th), Pink Floyd
(11th), T Rex, Status Quo, Stray (19th), East Of Eden
(24th), Groundhogs (31st)
- Brighton
College-Affinity, Fairfield Parlour, Legs
Larry Smith (12th)
- Brighton Dome-Colosseum (5th), Deep
Purple (17th)
- Brighton Sussex
University-Black Sabbath, Patto, Third Ear Band, Dr
Strangely Strange etc (5th)
- Colston Hall,
Bristol-Pink Floyd (20th)
- Bristol Plastic
Dog-Hard Meat (17th)
- Bristol Victoria
Room-Skid Row (22nd)
- New Theatre,
Bromley-Yes, Trader Horne (13th)
- Bromley, Stockwell College- Comus
(4th)
- Cambridge School of
Arts-T2 (16th)
- Cannock Chase Tech
College-Supertramp (11th)
- Canterbury, Kent
University-Quintessence (5th)
- Canterbury Tech
College-High Broom (12th)
- Cardiff College of
Food & Commerce-Idle Race (9th)
- Carlisle University- Black Widow
(7th)
- Chelmsford
Polytechnic-Dr Strangely Strange (3rd)
- Chelsea College-Dr
Strangely Strange (1st), Brian Auger's Oblivion Express, Gypsy
(5th)
- Cheltenham Spa
Lounge-Skid Row (16th)
- Chichester
College-Bram Stoker (16th)
- Colchester, Essex
University-Cochise (5th)
- Colchester Tech
College-Van Der Graaf Generator, Sam Apple Pie, Aardvark
(11th)
- Corby Civic Hall- T Rex (6th)
- Coventry Tech
College-Marmalade (11th)
- Fairfield Hall,
Croydon-Quintessence, Mighty Baby (6th), Cat Stevens,
Amazing Blondel (18th)
- Greyhound,
Croydon-Groundhogs (13th), East Of Eden, Status Quo
(20th), Mott the Hoople (27th)
- Croydon, Gun
Tavern-UFO (2nd)
- Croydon, Star
Hotel-Stray (24th), Hackensack (31st)
- Dagenham Village
Roundhouse-Pink Floyd (12th), Deep Purple (19th)
- Derby Art
College-Ginger Bakers Airforce, Skin Alley,
Salamander (15th)
- Devizes Poperama-T
Rex, Freedom (18th)
- Dudley, Astra-Status
Quo (12th)
- Dundee City
Hall-Marmalade (20th)
- Dundee University-Al Stewart (4th),
Comus (12th)
- Dunstable Civic
Hall-Yes, Bram Stoker (14th)
- Durham
University-Gentle Giant (19th)
- Ealing Town Hall-Jody
Grind (12th)
- Eastbourne Winter
Gardens-Quintessence (18th)
- East Ham, The
Hounds-Mandrake (3rd), Shades (10th), Hackensack (17th)
- Edinburgh Art
College-Pete Brown & Piblokto (16th)
- Edmonton Cooks Ferry
Inn-Head Hands & Feet (14th), Curved Air (28th)
- Epping Wake Arms-Jody
Grind (5th), Brinsley Schwarz (12th), Groundhogs (19th),
Skid Row (20th), Sam Apple Pie (27th)
- Ewell County
Technical College-Caravan, T2, Lindisfarne (5th)
- Exeter University-Van
Der Graaf Generator (5th), Fairport Convention, Argent
(12th)
- Folkestone, Leas Cliff Hall- Keef
Hartley (12th)
- Folkestone School of
Art-Pink Fairies (16th)
- Fossegate,
Hipnotique-Supertramp (10th)
- Glasgow Greens
Playhouse-Marmalade (18th)
- Godalming, Angel
Hotel-T2 (13th)
- Grantham Kesteven
College-Bram Stoker (12th)
- Grays Tech College-T2
(18th)
- Hampstead Country
Club-Grannys Intentions (5th), Andwella, Dogfeet (10th),
Down House Rhythm Kings feat Brinsley Schwarz, Help
Yourself, Ernie Graham (11th) Skid Row, Grannys
Intentions (12th), Mogul Thrash (15th), Peter Green &
Friends (18th), Juicy Lucy (22nd)
- Hanley, The Place
(1st)
- Harlow
Aquarius-Gentle Giant, Gnidrolog (2nd), Skid Row, T2
(9th), The World, National Head Band (16th), Uriah Heep,
Atomic Rooster (23rd)
- Haverfordwest- Status Quo (11th)
- Hemel Hempstead
Pavilion-Caravan, Aquila (6th)
- Hereford
Flamingo-Tremeloes (11th), Argent (18th)
- High Wycombe Grammar
School-Curved Air (16th)
- High Wycombe Town Hall-T Rex (4th),
Fotheringay, Goliath (9th)
- Hitchin Resurrection
Club-Hard Meat (2nd), Mott the Hoople (16th), T2 (23rd)
- Hull City
Hall-Strawbs (9th)
- Hull, Rondo- East Of Eden (4th)
- Hull University-Yes
(9th)
- Isleworth
Polytechnic-Groundhogs (12th)
- Islington, Pied
Bull-Web (13th)
- Kensington, West
London College-Skin Alley (11th)
- Kettering North Park
Club-Writing On The Wall (16th)
- Kings Lynn Tech College- Black Widow
(9th)
- Launceston
College-Hawkwind (15th)
- Leeds
Polytechnic-Skid Row (11th), Comus (14th)
- Leeds
University-Emerson Lake & Palmer (12th)
- De Montfort Hall,
Leicester-Family (1st)
- Letchworth Hebdonnodal- Comus (7th)
- Leytonstone Red Lion-Steamhammer
(11th), Edgar Broughton Band (18th), T2 (24th), Little Free
Rock (26th) Stray (30th)
- Liverpool
College-Hawkwind, Keef Hartley (1st)
- Liverpool Mountford
Hall-Colosseum (8th)
- Liverpool
Stadium-Stray (5th)
- Liverpool Top
Rank-Tremeloes (16th)
- Liverpool
University-Supertramp (5th), Colosseum (8th), Quintessence, Dando Shaft
(11th)
- London Bedford
College-Mott the Hoople (11th)
- London, Charing Cross
College-T2 (10th)
- London City
University-Groundhogs, Pink Fairies, Dada, Noir, National
Head Band, High Broom (11th)
- London, Experience
Club-UFO (10th), Kripple Vision (11th), Noir (14th),
Clear Blue Sky (15th)
- London, Furzedown
College-Blonde On Blonde, Climax Chicago (4th)
- London ICA-Warm Dust
(10th), Edgar Broughton Band, Formerly Fat Harry (12th)
- London Imperial
College-Pretty Things (5th), Uriah Heep, T2 (12th)
- London Piccadilly,
Bumpers Club-Barry Ryan, Writing On The Wall (3rd),
Supertramp (4th), Gentle Giant (5th), Medicine Head
(7th), Black Widow (8th), Da Da (9th, 16th), The World
(10th), Freedom (12th), Stackwaddy (14th), T2 (17th,
31st), Patto (19th), Curved Air (22nd), National Head
Band (26th), Status Quo (29th), Da Da (30th), T2 (31st)
- London, Royal Albert
Hall-Strawbs, Hardin-York, Roy Harper (21st)
- London, Royal College Of Art- Comus
(9th)
- London, Tottenham
Sisters Club-Argent, Teargas (11th), Faces, Patto (12th),
Skid Row (18th)
- London University College-Marmalade (4th),
Al Stewart (5th)
- London, Upstairs at
Ronnie Scotts-National Head Band (14th), Aubrey
Small (15th)
- West London College- Skin Alley
(11th)
- College Of Art,
Maidstone-Van Der Graaf Generator, Caravan (4th)
- Maidstone Tech
College-Pete Brown & Piblokto, Hawkwind (17th)
- Malvern Winter
Gardens-Colosseum (19th)
- Manchester Art College- Fat Mattress
(9th)
- Free Trade Hall,
Manchester-Pink Floyd (21st)
- Manchester
Polytechnic-Pretty Things (4th)
- Manchester
University-Hard Meat (4th), T Rex (5th)
- Margate
Dreamland-Skid Row (19th), Status Quo (31st)
- Matlock Sherwood
Hall-Idle Race (5th)
- Merthyr College-Pete
Brown & Piblokto (15th)
- Middlesex
Hospital-Hawkwind (4th)
- Nelson Imperial Hall-East Of Eden
(5th), Black Widow (12th), Hardin-York (24th)
- Newbury Corn
Exchange-Black Widow (16th)
- City Hall,
Newcastle-Yes, Hardin-York (8th)
- Mayfair,
Newcastle-The Who (14th)
- Newport, Kensington
Court-Pete Brown & Piblokto (10th), Crazy Mabel
(17th)
- Northampton Blisworth
Hotel-Delivery (13th), Daddy Longlegs (20th), T2 (27th)
- Northampton
Plough-Stray (6th)
- North Gloucestershire Tech College-
Comus (8th)
- Northwich Memorial
Hall-Idle Race (17th)
- Norwich Gala
Theatre-Atomic Rooster (19th)
- Nottingham Boat
Club-Hardin-York (13th), Hard Meat (20th)
- Oxford Polytechnic-Dr
Strangely Strange (2nd)
- Oxford, Stonehenge
Club-Jody Grind (3rd)
- Perth City
Hall-Marmalade (19th)
- Peterborough Cloud
Nine-Pete Brown & Piblokto (13th)
- Plymouth Guild
Hall-Quintessence (20th)
- Plymouth Van
Dikes-Fairport Convention (11th), Trees (12th),
Groundhogs (18th), Hard Meat (19th), Brinsley Schwarz
(24th), Roger Ruskin Spear, Gringo (26th), Steeleye Span
(31st)
- Portsmouth
Polytechnic-Cochise (4th)
- Portsmouth South
Pier-Mott the Hoople, Alan Bown, Bram Stoker (15th)
- Portsmouth Tri
Corn-Slade (10th), Nite People (14th), Dada (28th)
- Potters Bar
Farx-Groundhogs (5th), Mott the Hoople, National Head
Band (12th), Curved Air (19th)
- Preston, Harris
College-National Head Band (10th)
- Reading Tech
College-Marmalade (12th)
- Reading
Windrush-Delivery (3rd-cancelled), Mighty Baby, Tear Gas
(10th), Satisfaction (17th)
- Redcar, Coatham Hotel- Gentle Giant
(18th)
- Redruth
Flamingo-Black Widow (17th)
- Romford Kings
Head-East Of Eden, Gnidrolog (14th), Sam Apple Pie (24th)
- Futurist Theatre,
Scarborough-The Who (16th)
- Sheffield City
Hall-Pink Floyd (22nd)
- Shrewsbury Music
Hall-Andwella (1st)
- Slough
College-Audience (5th)
- Southall Farx-Freedom
(6th), Argent (20th), Hard Meat (27th), Aardvark (31st)
- Southampton Concorde- Hardin-York
(10th)
- Fickle Pickle,
Southend-Curved Air (1st), Black Widow (15th), Patto
(22nd)
- Southgate Tech College- Comus (5th)
- Southport Art
College-Skid Row (15th)
- St Albans Civic
Hall-Andwella (12th)
- Stevenage, Bowes Lyon
House-Stray, Stackridge (13th)
- Stirling
University-Comus (13th)
- Stockport University College- Keef
Hartley (11th)
- Swansea Skewen Rugby
Club-Pete Brown & Piblokto (21st)
- Swansea Tech
College-Jackson Heights (4th)
- Swansea
University-Hawkwind (3rd), Quintessence (15th)
- Top Rank, Swansea-Man
(??)
- Thurrock Tech
College-T2 (18th)
- Tooting
Castle-Steamhammer, National Head Band (2nd), Groundhogs
(9th), Delivery (14th), Hackensack (16th), Alan Bown
(21st), Faces, Supertramp (23rd), T2 (28th), Gentle
Giant, Czar (30th)
- Twickenham Eel Pie
Island-Steamhammer (4th)
- Wakefield Art &
Tech College-Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Supertramp
(12th)
- Walsall, George
Hotel-Strawbs (4th), Black Widow (11th)
- Walsall Town Hall- Slade (5th)
- Walthamstow Assembly Hall- Al
Stewart (10th)
- Warrington
Carlton-Manfred Mann Chapter III (3rd), Argent (17th)
- Watford Tech
College-Audience (12th)
- Watford Town
Hall-Steamhammer, Mark-Almond (10th)
- Welwyn Garden City
Community Centre-Quintessence (4th), Blodwyn (11th),
Stray (18th)
- Westminster Tech
College-Dr Strangely Strange (5th), Status Quo (14th)
- Weymouth College-Bram
Stoker (11th)
- Weymouth
Pavilion-Status Quo (18th)
- Wimbledon,
Hobbits Garden-Strawbs (11th)
- Windsor Club 1832-Fat
Mattress (1st), Argent (15th), Mogul Thrash (29th)
- Wisbech, Lincolnshire
College Of Art-Comus (15th)
- Wollaston Nags
Head-Medicine Head (11th), Pete Brown & Piblokto
(18th)
- Catacombs Club,
Wolverhampton-Man (21st)
- Wolverhampton Civic Hall- T Rex
(7th)
- York Hypnotique-Skid
Row (17th)
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