SINGLES
THE
ATTRACTION-Stupid Girl/ Please Tell Me (Columbia)
BEAN AND LOOPYS LOT-Hay Wire/ A Stitch In Time (Parlophone)
THE BEATLES-Paperback Writer/ Rain (Parlophone) #1
MARC BOLAN-The Third Degree/ San Francisco Poet (Decca)
BOZ-Pinnochio/ Stay As You Are (Columbia)
THE CRAIG-I Must Be Mad/ Suspense (Fontana)
CREATION-Making Time/ Try And Stop Me (Planet) #49
CRYIN SHAMES-Nobody Waved Goodbye/ You (Decca)
CHRIS CURTIS-Aggravation/ Have I Done Something Wrong (Pye)
CYMBALINE-Top Girl/ Can You Hear Me (Mercury)
THE FALLING LEAVES-Beggars Parade/ Tomorrow Night (Decca)
CHRIS FARLOWE-Out Of Time/ Baby Make It Soon (Immediate) #1
HOLLIES-Bus Stop/ Dont Run And Hide (Parlophone) #5
KINKS-Sunny Afternoon/ Im Not Like Everybody Else (Pye) #1
THE KNACK-Stop/ Younger Girl (Piccadilly)
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY-I Aint Gonna Eat Out My Heart
Anymore/ Rejected (Columbia)
THE PINEAPPLE CHUNKS-Drive My Car/ Dream About (Mercury)
SPIDER-The Comedown Song/ Blow Ya Mind (Decca)
TREMELOES-Blessed/ The Right Time (Decca)
WIMPLE WINCH-Save My Soul/ Everybodys Worried Bout
Tomorrow (Fontana)
ZOMBIES-Indication/ How We Were Before (Decca)
ALBUMS
HOLLIES-Would
You Believe (Parlophone) #16
KINKS-Well Respected Kinks (Marble Arch) #5
THE MINDBENDERS-The Mindbenders #28
HAPPENING!
- US only Beatles album
Yesterday And Today is released and then
quickly withdrawn following a torrent of complaints about
the Butchers block cover photo.
- Bassist Clint Warwick
quits the Moody Blues. Klaus Voorman is offered the job
but he is also considering an offer to replace Jack Bruce
in Manfred Mann.
- Jack Bruce announces
that hes joining a new instrumental trio
called The Cream.
- Manfred Mann leave
HMV and sign a deal with Fontana.
- The Easybeats sign to
UA Records and move to the UK. The group of British and
Dutch ex-pats have established themselves as the most
popular group in Australia.
- BBC TV A Whole
Scene Going- Merseys, Twice As Much (1st), The Kinks, The Yardbirds (8th), The
Who, Chris Farlowe (15th, last in the series)
- BBC TV Top Of
The Pops-The Beatles make their one and only live
performance on TOTP on the 16th. They mime to Paperback
Writer and Rain. The Hollies (Bus
Stop) and The Yardbirds (Over Under Sideways
Down) also appear.
- BBC TV "Hey Presto, It's Rolf
Harris!"-Hollies (29th)
- ABC TV Thank
Your Lucky Stars-Tony Hazzard (4th), Kinks (11th)
- Granada ITV Scene
At 6:30-Chris Farlowe (14th), Hollies (15th)
- Rediffusion ITV
Ready Steady Go!-Merseys, Oscar (3rd), Spencer Davis
Group, Manfred Mann, Tony Hazzard, Twice As Much (10th), Hollies, Chris
Farlowe (17th)
- Rediffusion ITV
Five Oclock Club-David Garrick (14th), Hollies (21st)
- TWW ITV Now-Troggs
(8th), David
Garrick (15th), Hollies (22nd)
- BBC SESSIONS-Downliners Sect
(18th, Saturday Club), The End
(11th, Saturday Club), Chris Farlowe (29th, Parade Of The
Pops), Hollies (26th, Easy Beat), Merseys (8th, Parade Of
The Pops), Pinkerton's Assorted Colours (11th,
Saturday Swings), Small Faces (10th, Joe Loss Show--22nd, Parade
Of The Pops), Spencer Davis Group (4th, Saturday Club),
Steampacket (11th, Saturday Club), Troggs
(3rd, Joe Loss Show--26th, Easy
Beat), Yardbirds (25th, Saturday Club),
WATCHING!
- Marquee-The Move
(2nd, 23rd), The Objects (3rd), Pink Floyd, David Bowie
& The Buzz (5th, 12th), Graham Bond Organisation
(6th), Manfred Mann (7th), Alan Bown Set (7th, 30th),
Tony Rivers & The Castaways (9th), Summer Set (9th),
Spencer Davis Group (14th), Amboy Dukes (16th), Sands
(20th, 28th), Yardbirds (21st-first gig with Jimmy Page),
The Herd (27th), Small Faces (28th), The Action (30th)
- Flamingo- John Mayall with Eric
Clapton, Zoot Money (3rd), Shotgun Express (4th), Amboy Dukes (5th)
- Manor House Bluesville- Spencer
Davis Group (10th)
- Ram Jam Club-Steampacket (2nd), The
Gass (3rd), Cliff Bennett, Amboy Dukes (4th), Yardbirds
(9th-cancelled due to Keith Relf suffering an asthma attack), Moody Blues (24th)
- Ricky Tick Club-The Gass (4th), The
Yardbirds (10th)
- Tiles Club-The Eyes (2nd), The
Dyaks (4th), Wynder K Frog (5th), Peter Jay & The Jaywalkers (6th),
Graham Bell & The
Trend (10th), The Creation (12th)
- Aberystwyth
University-Merseys (14th)
- Mecca Palais, Ashton-Under-Lyne-Pinkerton's
Assorted Colours (9th), The Yardbirds (23rd)
- Bath Pavilion-Troggs
(6th)
- Bexley Black Prince- Downliners Sect
(5th)
- Gay Tower Ballroom,
Birmingham-Merseys (6th), The Yardbirds (13th), The Who
(20th)
- Birmingham Silver Blades- Manfred
Mann (17th)
- Borehamwood
Links-Merseys (17th)
- Bournemouth
Pavilion-Small Faces (19th)
- Brands Hatch Racing
Circuit-Small Faces, Chris Farlowe, David Garrick, David Bowie & The
Buzz, Episode Six etc (19th-Radio London Trophy meeting)
- Bridgwater Town
Hall-Troggs (20th)
- Bridlington
Spa-Merseys (11th)
- Brighton Florida
Rooms-Merseys (5th)
- Brighton Mecca-Kinks
(1st)
- Bristol Corn Exchange-Troggs (8th)
- Bromley Court Hotel, Bromley-Moody
Blues (15th), The Yardbirds (29th)
- Burnley Locarno-Small
Faces (23rd)
- Palais,
Bury-Yardbirds (25th)
- Cambridge Corn Exchange- Troggs
(7th)
- Carlisle Cosmo
Club-Merseys (10th)
- Carlisle Market
Hall-The Who (18th)
- Chard Guild
Hall-Troggs (25th)
- Cheltenham Blue Moon- Falling Leaves
(18th)
- Chichester
College-The Who (25th)
- Cleethorpes Winter
Gardens-Merseys (9th), Pinkertons Assorted Colours (16th)
- Crayford Town
Hall-Merseys (7th), Pinkerton's Assorted Colours (14th)
- Derby Rialto- Artwoods (3rd)
- Devizes Town
Hall-Merseys (3rd)
- Doncaster Top
Rank-Small Faces (8th)
- Dunfermline Kinema- Troggs (14th),
Four Just Men (28th)
- Durham University-Yardbirds, The
Action, Graham Bond, Roulettes (24th)
- East Kilbride Olympia- Small Faces
(4th)
- Edinburgh, Mr Magoo Club-Troggs
(13th)
- Elgin, Two Red Shoes- Small Faces
(2nd)
- Exeter St Luke's College- Manfred
Mann (26th)
- Folkestone Tofts- Zoot Money (4th),
The Gass (5th), Alan Price Set (11th)
- Glasgow Odeon- The Kinks (5th)
- Great Yarmouth
Brittania Pier-The Who, The Merseys, The Herd etc (26th)
- Starlite Ballroom, Greenford-Quiet 5
(10th), The Yardbirds (12th)
- Harpenden Public Hall- Artwoods
(4th)
- Town Hall, High
Wycombe-Troggs (24th)
- Zambesi Club,
Hounslow-The Yardbirds (11th)
- Hull University-The
Who (16th)
- Middlesex Borough
College, Isleworth-The Yardbirds (4th)
- Kidderminster Town
Hall-Troggs (9th)
- Kings Heath
Plaza-Kinks (11th)
- Leeds Queens Hall- Manfred Mann,
David & Jonathan, The Outer Limits (11th)
- Leeds University-The
Who, Wayne Fontana, John Mayall etc (23rd)
- Leicester
University-Small Faces (17th)
- Malvern Winter Gardens-Kinks (7th), The Who (21st)
- Oasis, Manchester-The
Factotums (4th), Wishful Thinking (14th), Pinkertons
Assorted Colours (18th)
- Manchester, Princess
Club-Hollies (24th)
- Margate
Dreamland-Merseys (4th), Small Faces (18th), Wilde
Flowers (24th, '266' Beat Group contest)
- Market Harborough Embi Club-
Artwoods (5th)
- Morecombe
Marine-Kinks (3rd), Troggs (26th)
- Nelson Imperial
Hall-Kinks (4th)
- Corn Exchange,
Newbury-The Yardbirds (17th)
- Newbury Plaza-Merseys
(5th)
- Norwich Training College- Manfred
Mann (25th)
- Nottingham Britannia
Boat Club-Troggs (22nd)
- Oxford Christchurch College- Manfred
Mann (20th)
- Queens College, Oxford-The
Hollies, The Yardbirds (18th-Paul Samwell-Smiths last
gig)
- Oxford, Wadham Commemorative Ball-
Moody Blues (21st)
- Perth City Hall-Troggs (10th), The
Who (17th)
- Peterborough Halcyon Inn- Artwoods
(7th)
- Orchid Ballroom,
Purley-Small Faces (29th)
- Ross-On-Wye Top
Spot-Kinks (10th)
- City Hall,
Salisbury-The Yardbirds (16th)
- Salisbury
University-The Who (24th)
- Sheffield Mojo-Troggs
(5th), Manfred Mann, Merseys (12th), Small Faces (26th)
- Sheffield
University-Tony Rivers & The Castaways (29th-The Who
were booked to play but Pete Townsend didnt turn
up, having fallen into a jet-lagged sleep on return from
a short business trip to New York)
- Southampton Top Rank- Troggs (27th)
- Southampton University- Manfred Mann
(24th)
- Stafford Top Of The
World-Small Faces (10th--cancelled owing to Steve
Marriott collapsing with low blood pressure)
- Stevenage Bowes-Lyon
House-Troggs (4th)
- Stevenage
Locarno-Merseys (15th), Small Faces (22nd)
- Stockport Manor Lounge-Troggs (2nd),
Merseys (16th)
- Stourbridge Town Hall- Artwoods
(8th)
- Streatham
Locarno-Merseys (2nd), Small Faces (9th)
- Sunderland
Locarno-Kinks (2nd)
- Sunderland Top
Rank-Small Faces (15th)
- Uxbridge Blues Festival, Hillingdon
Borough Showground-Manfred Mann, The Action, Steampacket, Brian Auger,
Julie Driscoll and The Trinity, The Good Goods (18th)
- Warrington Parr
Hall-Merseys (20th)
- Wellington, unconfirmed venue-
Troggs (3rd)
- Weston Super
Mare-Small Faces (11th-cancelled owing to Steve
Marriott's illness)
- Wolverhampton Civic Hall- Manfred
Mann (10th)
- Wolverhampton Queens
Hall-Hollies (27th)
- Worthing Assembly Hall-Artwoods
(2nd), Troggs (23rd)
- Worthing Pier Ballroom- Manfred Mann
(9th)
- York University- Manfred Mann (23rd)
REVIEWS
The
Creation
Making Time:
Gripping groupy groover with cool drumming and guitar played with a violin bow.
Certainly an original sound, rather like a swinging Queen Mary fog hooter. A
technique that's going to spread.
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