SINGLES
ANDWELLAS
DREAM-Sunday/ Midday Sun (CBS)
BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST-Brother Thrush/ Poor Wages (Harvest)
BEATLES-Ballad Of John And Yoko/ Old Brown Shoe (Apple) #1
JEFF BECK-Plinth (Water Down The Drain)/ Hangmans Knee
(Columbia)
ALAN BOWN-Still As Stone/ Wrong Idea (Deram)
EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND-Evil/ Death Of An Electric Citizen (Harvest)
THE CASUALS-Sunflower Eyes/ Never My Love (Decca)
DONOVAN/JEFF BECK GROUP-Goo Goo Barabajagal (Love Is Hot)/ Bed
With Me (Pye) #12
EASYBEATS-St Louis/ Cant Find Love (Polydor)
FREE-Ill Be Creeping/ Sugar For Mr Morrison (Island)
GENESIS-Where The Sour Turns To Sweet/ In Hiding (Decca)
GENTLE INFLUENCE-Always Be A Part Of My Living/ Captain Reale
(Pye)
ROBIN GIBB-Saved By The Bell/ Mother And Jack (Polydor) #2
GRACIOUS-Beautiful/ What A Lovely Rain (Polydor)
THE GROOVE-The Wind/ Play The Song (Parlophone)
HEAVY JELLY-Time Out Chewn In/ The Long Wait (Head)
KINKS-Drivin/ Mindless Child Of Motherhood (Pye)
THE KULT-No Home Today/ Mr No 1 (CBS)
NEIL MacARTHUR-Dont Try To Explain/ Without Her (Deram)
MAGNA CARTA-Mid-Winter/ Spinning Wheels Of Time (Mercury)
MARMALADE-Baby Make It Soon/ Time Is On My Side (CBS) #9
THE MINT-Luv/ Simone (Tangerine)
ONYX-Tamaris Khan/ So Sad Inside (Pye)
PASHA-Somebody Shot The Lollipop Man/ Pussy Willow Dragon
(Liberty)
RAINBOW PEOPLE-Living In A Dream World/ Happy To See You Again
(Pye)
SHEPPERTON FLAMES-Take Me For What I Am/ Goodbye (Deram)
SPOOKY TOOTH-Son Of Your Father/ Ive Got Enough Heartache
(Island)
CAT STEVENS-Where Are You/ The View From The Top (Deram)
TIN TIN-Only Ladies Play Croquet/ He Wants To Be A Star (Polydor)
TOGETHER-Memories Of Melinda/ Good Morning World (Aurora)
MARK WIRTZ-My Daddy Is A Baddie/ I Love You Because (CBS)
ALBUMS
PETE
BROWN/BATTERED ORNAMENTS-A Meal You Can Shake Hands With In The
Dark (Harvest)
CASUALS- Hour World (Decca)
JOE COCKER-With A Little Help From My Friends (Regal Zonophone)
DEEP PURPLE-The Book Of Taliesyn (Harvest)
FOREVER AMBER- The Love
Cycle (Private Pressing)
HARSH REALITY-Heaven And Hell (Philips)
JUNIORS EYES-Battersea Power Station (Regal Zonophone)
PESKY GEE!-Exclamation Mark (Pye)
PINK FLOYD-Soundtrack From The Film More (Columbia)
#9
HAPPENING!
WATCHING!
Blind Faith play their only UK concert, a free show to an estimated audience of 120,000 in Londons Hyde Park. Support acts: Richie Havens, Donovan, Edgar Broughton Band, Third Ear Band.
Bath Festival bill includes Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin, Ten Years After, The Nice, Colosseum, Clouds, Liverpool Scene, Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, etc (28th)
A group called Quiet Melon play a gig at Cambridge University. In fact the group consist of the remaining members of The Small Faces (Ronnie Lane, Kenny Jones and Ian McLagen), Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood of The Jeff Beck Group, Ronnies brother Art and Long John Baldry.
The Who begin a major U.S tour performing Tommy.
Marquee- King Crimson (1st, 8th, 29th), Circus (1st, 10th, 20th), Pegasus (4th, 24th), Terry Reid (5th, 12th), Man (5th), Jeff Beck Group (6th), Steamhammer (6th, 19th, 30th), Procession (7th, 14th, 21st, 28th), Kippington Lodge (7th), The Nice (10th), Yes (11th, 25th), Groundhogs (13th, 27th), Audience (14th, 16th), Strawbs (15th, 22nd), David Bowie (15th), Family (17th), Grail (17th), Leviathan (18th), Killing Floor (19th), Juniors Eyes (23rd), Mandrake Paddlesteamer (25th), Blodwyn Pig (27th), Octopus (28th)
FARX club-Steamhammer, Jan Dukes De Grey (1st), Caravan (15th), Eclection (22nd), Spooky Tooth (29th)
Roundhouse-Procol Harum, Group Therapy, Jody Grind, East Of Eden (1st), Gun, White Trash (22nd)
Revolution Club-Deep Purple (28th)
Speakeasy-Spirit Of John Morgan (2nd), Samson (3rd), Glass Menagerie (4th), Renaissance (5th), Velvet Opera (6th), Audience (7th), Blonde On Blonde (9th), East Of Eden (10th), Jackie Lomax (12th), Entire Sioux Nation (13th), Majority (14th), Steamhammer (16th), Bodast (17th), Audience (18th), Gracious (20th), Bodast (25th), Arcadium (27th), Andromeda (28th), Audience (30th)
Friars, Aylesbury-Mandrake Paddle Steamer (1st), Pretty Things (9th), Free (19th), Blossom Toes (23rd), Liverpool Scene (30th)
Ulster Hall, Belfast-Pink Floyd (10th)
The Factory, Birmingham-The Nice (6th)
Appearing at Mothers in Birmingham this month: Soft Machine (1st), Procol Harum (7th), The Nice (8th), Edgar Broughton Band (11th), Clouds (13th), Group Therapy and Deep Purple (14th), Bonzo Dog Band, Deviants (21st), Blodwyn Pig (22nd), Delivery (27th), Colosseum (29th)
Birmingham Town Hall-Led Zeppelin, Liverpool Scene, Blodwyn Pig (13th), Pink Floyd (20th)
Railway Hotel, Bishops Stortford-Blodwyn Pig (4th), Liverpool Scene (11th), Third Ear Band (25th)
Rhodes Centre, Bishops Stortford-The Iveys (7th, 21st), Ace Kefford Stand (14th)
Clouds Circus, Bletchley-Blossom Toes, Barclay James Harvest (21st)
Boston Starlight Room-Ten Years After (21st)
Brighton Dome-Pink Floyd (16th)
Colston Hall, Bristol-Pink Floyd (14th), Led Zeppelin, Liverpool Scene (21st)
Old Granary, Bristol-Blossom Toes (2nd), Caravan, Griptight Thynn (19th), King Crimson (30th)
Cambridge Midsummer Pop Festival- Edgar Broughton Band, Deviants, Tuesday's Children, Henry Cow etc (8th), Blossom Toes, Mighty Baby, Jason Crest, 1984 etc (9th), Brian Auger & The Trinity, King Crimson, Juniors Eyes, White Trash, Roy Harper, Terry Reid, Kippington Lodge, East Of Eden etc (10th)Third Ear Band, Family, Screw, Mandrake Paddle Steamer, Strawbs, "Dave" Bowie, Audience etc (11th)
Top Rank, Cardiff-Pink Floyd (30th)
Fairfield Hall, Croydon-The Nice, Roy Harper, Idle Race (22nd)
Roundhouse, Dagenham-Caravan (21st)
Dunfermline Kinema- Manfred Mann (1st), Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (8th), The Shy Limbs (21st), Easybeats (28th)
Ely College-Gun (28th)
Ewell Tech College-King Crimson (24th)
Exeter Tech College-Caravan (25th)
Hampstead Klooks Kleek-Liverpool Scene (14th), Deep Purple, Mighty Baby (24th)
Hastings Pier-Grapefruit, The Web, Jason Crest (27th)
The Cherry Tree, Herts-Family (10th)
Rathbone Hall, Liverpool-Barclay James Harvest (20th)
Royal Philharmonic, Liverpool-Pink Floyd (21st)
London Lyceum-Procol Harum (1st), Caravan, Juniors Eyes, Principal Edwards Magic Theatre (27th)
Royal Albert Hall-Eclection, Caravan (5th), Pink Floyd (26th), Led Zeppelin, The Liverpool Scene, Blodwyn Pig (29th), Fleetwood Mac, The Pentangle (30th)
London Stratford, Railway Tavern- Python Lee Jackson (28th)
Loughborough University-Thunderclap Newman (28th)
Free Trade Hall, Manchester-Led Zeppelin, Liverpool Scene, Blodwyn Pig (15th), Pink Floyd (22nd)
City Hall, Newcastle-Led Zeppelin, Liverpool Scene, Blodwyn Pig (20th)
Queens College, Oxford-Pink Floyd (24th)
Van Dikes, Plymouth plays host to Jethro Tull (6th), Caravan (7th), Strawbs (13th), Sam Gopal (20th), Soft Machine (21st), Pink Floyd (27th), Colosseum (28th)
Guild Hall, Portsmouth-Pink Floyd (15th), Led Zeppelin, Liverpool Scene, Blodwyn Pig (26th)
Kings Hall, Romford-Family (16th)
Salisbury Alex Disco- Blossom Toes (12th)
Southend Penny Farthing-Nashville Teens (26th)
Bay Hotel, Sunderland-Spirit Of John Morgan (6th), Jethro Tull (13th), The Nice (16th), Tyrannosaurus Rex, Free (27th), Yes (30th)
Winter Gardens, Weston-Super-Mare-Pink Floyd (29th)
Catacombs, Wolverhampton-Caravan (16th)
Ivy Lodge Club, Woodford Green-Episode Six (4th)
REVIEWS
Edgar Broughton Band
Evil: Violent underground rock with shades of pop's most notable absentee, Arthur Brown. Edgar has a good band and much going for him, but this is not a particularly impressive debut for either band or new label.
Casuals
Hour World (LP): Despite the occasional donning of underground effects and electronic gimmickry, this is mainly a staightforward beat group album, and they do it very well with good vocal harmonies and nice arrangements.
Sunflower Eyes: A pretty ballad that should give them a reasonable hit. Nice lead vocals and restrained backing. The final harmonies remind me of the Radio Rhythm Boys of the late twenties.
Deep Purple
The Book Of Taliesyn (LP): The Harvest label has really got off with a bang and if the rest of their output can maintain this standard they will deserve the thanks of all progressive pop collectors. This is an excellent set which underlines the absurdity of the fact that Deep Purple don't mean too much in their native Britain but have already made it in the States. They are a thoroughly musicianly group, with Jon Lord's organ playing outstanding, and include five excellent originals on the album along with River Deep Mountain High, We Can Work It Out and Neil Diamond's Kentucky Woman.
Harsh Reality
Heaven & Hell (LP): The harsh reality is they obviously haven't a clue what they are doing or why. The dreadfully tasteless cover, depicting the group stripped to the waist and covered in inked-on blood, is an attempt at drama rendered in a singularly hammy manner. The venture into Mothers Of Invention type freaking out is painful and embarrassing.
Heavy Jelly
Time Out: A straight instrumental track that sounds as if the group is having fun but doesn't really mean much as a single.
Kinks
Drivin': Let's hope Top Of The Pops don't refuse to play this follow-up to the ill-fated Plastic Man, which should have been a big hit. This is equally catchy and typically Ray Davies, and as far as I can tell the word "bum" is not in evidence. There's a nice Lovin' Spoonful kind of shuffle beat and Ray sounds as wanly amused as usual.
Magna Carta
Mid Winter: Attractive flutes and guitar provide a beautiful backing to the vocals and Spike Heatley has done a fine job in arranging the accompaniment which lifts this out of the realms of the usual.
Tin Tin
Only Ladies Play Croquet: "la la la la" sing Steve Groves and Steve Kipner on a Maurice Gibb production that sounds coquettish enough to trip into the charts. The sounds reminds strangely of the Bonzo's famous "Head Ballet" with a doctored piano backing or whatever keyboard instrument it is that they use. Do you know what? It's a hit, innit!