JULY 1973
SINGLES
BLUE- Little Jody/ The Way Things Are (RSO)
CHICKEN SHACK- You Know You Could Be Right/ The Loser (Decca)
ROGER DALTREY- I’m Free/ Overture (Ode)
GLENCOE- Friends Of Mine/ To Divine Mother (Epic)
HETHERINGTON- Teenage Love Song/ That Girl’s Alright (Mowest)
THE JOOK- Oo-Oo-Rudi/ Jook’s On You (RCA)
DENNY LAINE- Find A Way Somehow/ Move Me To Another Place (Wizard)
MARVIN & FARRAR- Music Makes My Day/ Skin Deep (EMI)
MEDICINE HEAD- Rising Sun/ Be My Flyer (Polydor)
NAZARETH- Bad Bad Boy/ Hard Living/ Spinning Top (Mooncrest)
JOHN PERRY- Nancy Sing Me A Song/ Crying Eyes (Philips)
RICHMOND- Raise Your Heads To The Wind/ All I Really Need (Dart)
RIFF RAFF- Copper Kettle/ You Must Be Joking (RCA)
CAT STEVENS- Hurt/ Silent Sunlight (Island)
THE TREMS- Make It Break It/ Movin’ On (Epic)
HENRY TURTLE- When Eleanor Comes Around/ One Of a Million Faces (Bell)
WISHBONE ASH- So Many Things To Say/ Rock & Roll Widow (MCA)
ROY WOOD- Dear Elaine/ Songs Of Praise (Harvest)
ALBUMS
BRIAN AUGER’S OBLIVION EXPRESS- Closer To It (CBS)
ANDY BOWN- Sweet William (GM)
CHICKEN SHACK- Unlucky Boy (Decca)
ALLAN CLARKE- Headroom (EMI)
SPENCER DAVIS GROUP- Gluggo (Vertigo)
JOHN LEES- A Major Fancy (Harvest)
DEKE LEONARD- Iceberg (UA)
MANFRED MANN’S EARTH BAND- Messin’ (Vertigo)
NEKTAR- Sounds Like This (UA)
PINK FAIRIES- Kings Of Oblivion (Polydor)
QUEEN- Queen (EMI)
ANDY ROBERTS- Urban Cowboy (Elektra)
SARSTEDT BROTHERS- Worlds Together Apart (Regal Zonophone)
SHOOT- On The Frontier (EMI)
STRIDER- Exposed (GM)
ROY WOOD- Boulders (Harvest)
CHRIS YOULDEN- Nowhere Road (Deram)
HAPPENING
David Bowie finishes his British tour with a show at Hammersmith Odeon (3rd). Jeff Beck joins Bowie & the Spiders onstage but this is overshadowed by Bowie’s announcement to the audience that he is retiring. In the outbreak of hysteria that follows among Bowie’s fans, few realise that in fact it’s only Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust stage character that is being retired.