SINGLES
ACADEMY-Munching
The Candy/ Rachels Dream (Morgan Blue Town)
BONZO DOG BAND-Mr Apollo/ Ready Mades (Liberty)
PETE BROWN/BATTERED ORNAMENTS-The Week Looked Good On Paper/
Morning Call (Parlophone)
CHORDS FIVE-Some People/ Battersea Fair (Jay Boy)
CLOUDS-Make No Bones About It/ Heritage (Island)
CREAM-Badge/ What A Bringdown (Polydor) #18
THE CYMBALINE-Turn Around/ Come Back Baby (Philips)
THE DEEP SET-I Started A Joke/ Spicks And Specks (Major Minor)
EAST OF EDEN-Northern Hemisphere/Communion (Deram)
THE EGGY-Youre Still Mine/ Hookey (Spark)
EIRE APPARENT-Rock N Roll Band/ Yes, I Need Someone
(Buddah)
FLOWERPOT MEN-In A Moment Of Madness/ Young Birds Fly (Deram)
FORTUS MENTUM-Gotta Go/ Marrakesh (Parlophone)
FREE-Broad Daylight/ The Worm (Island)
GRAPEFRUIT-Round Going Round/ This Little Man (Stateside)
INFORMATION-Orphan/ Oh Strange Man (Beacon)
KALEIDOSCOPE-Do It Again For Jeffrey/ Poem (Fontana)
ACE KEFFORD STAND-For Your Love/ Gravy Booby Jamm (Atlantic)
KINKS-Plastic Man/ King Kong (Pye) #31
THE KYDDS-The Sun Is A Laughing Child/ Touch Of The Sun (NEMS)
JASON PAUL-Shine A Little Light Into My Room/ Paradise Pudding
(Pye)
PESKY GEE!-Where Is My Mind/ Place Of Heartbreak (Pye)
SADIES EXPRESSION-Deep In My Heart/ My Way Of Living
(Plexium)
SMALL FACES-Afterglow Of Your Love/ Wham Bam Thank You Mam
(Immediate) #36
TANGERINE PEEL-Never say Never Again/ Thousand Miles Away (MGM)
TASTE-Born On The Wrong Side Of Time/ Same Old Story (Polydor)
TIMEBOX-Baked Jam Roll In Your Eye/ Poor Little Heartbreaker
(Deram)
TRIFLE-Altogether Now/ Got My Thing (UA)
CLIFF WADE-You've Never
Been To My House/Sister (Morgan Blue Town)
THE WHO-Pinball Wizard/ Dogs Part 2 (Track) #4
ALBUMS
THE
ACADEMY-Pop-Lore According To The Academy (Morgan Blue Town)
BEE GEES-Odessa (Polydor) #10
BOBAK, JONS, MALONE-Motherlight
(Morgan Blue Town)
COLOSSEUM-Those About To Die Salute You (Fontana) #15
CREAM-Goodbye (Polydor) #1
CUPIDS INSPIRATION-Yesterday Has Gone (Nems)
FAMILY-Family Entertainment (Reprise) #6
FREE-Tons Of Sobs (Island)
HAPSHASH AND THE COLOURED
COAT-Western Flyer (Liberty)
LED ZEPPELIN-Led Zeppelin (Atlantic) #6
LIVERPOOL SCENE-Amazing
Adventures Of... (RCA)
JACKIE LOMAX-Is This What You Want (Apple)
PUSSY-Plays (Morgan Blue
Town)
SPOOKY TOOTH-Spooky Two (Island)
AL STEWART-Love Chronicles (CBS)
HAPPENING!
- Middle Earth, the
last of the true Underground clubs, closes
down operations after being refused a license to play
pop music after midnight.
- Robin Gibb quits the
Bee Gees.
- The Troggs split up.
(They reform in 1972)
- Elmer Gantry splits
from Velvet Opera. Both parties intend to carry on
Doing their own thing.
- In the wake of The
Zombies posthumous U.S success, Rod Argent agrees to
complete some further recordings as The Zombies with Hugh
Grundy on drums plus other musicians. A planned album
does not materialise but two singles appear in America,
Imagine The Swan and If It Dont
Work Out. Argent then returns his attention to
forming his own, eponymous group.
- The Mike Stuart Span
sign for the Elektra label and change their name to
Leviathan. The new group are launched at a
performance in Harrods Way In Juice Bar.
- BBC1 TV How
Late It Is-The Who (14th), Led Zeppelin (21st)
- BBC1 TV Basil
Brush Show-Tremeloes (26th)
- BBC2 TV Once
More With Felix-Manfred Mann (1st)
- BBC2 TV Colour
Me Pop-Ten Years After (1st), World of Oz (8th),
Caravan (15th), Harmony Grass (22nd).
- Granada ITV
Discotheque-The Executives (5th), The Magic
Lanterns, The Merseys (12th), Amen Corner, Unit 4 Plus 2
and some bloke called Elton Johns (19th),
Dave Davies (26th)
- ATV The Golden
Shot-Tremeloes (9th)
- ITV Today With
Eamonn Andrews-The Who (28th)
- German TV Beat
Club-Simon Dupree & the Big Sound, Searchers,
Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll & the Trinity, Hollies
(29th)
- BBC SESSIONS-Bonzo
Dog Band (9th, Symonds On Sunday), Breakthru (3rd-7th,
Jimmy Young), Edgar Broughton Band (16th, Top Gear),
Caravan (14th, Radio 1 Club), Colosseum (16th, Symonds On
Sunday), Deep Purple (3rd-7th, Tony Brandon),
Julie
Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity (2nd, Symonds On
Sunday-3rd-7th, Tony Brandon), Family (5th, Radio 1
Club-9th, Symonds On Sunday-30th, Top Gear), Force West
(3rd-7th, Tony Brandon), Forest (26th, Night Ride),
Free
(23rd, Top Gear), Glass Menagerie (9th, Top Gear),
Incredible String Band (5th, Night Ride), Jigsaw
(3rd-7th, Tony Brandon), Kaleidoscope (7th, Tony
Brandon-24th, David Symonds), Led Zeppelin (23rd, Top
Gear), Love Sculpture (9th, Top Gear), Magic Lanterns
(3rd-7th, Tony Brandon), Mason, Capaldi, Wood and Frog
(2nd, Top Gear), The Move (6th,
Radio One Club), The Nerve (3rd-7th, Dave Cash),
Plastic
Penny (3rd-7th, Dave Cash), Principal Edwards Magic
Theatre (30th, Top Gear), Terry Reid (2nd, Top Gear),
Samurai (3rd-7th, Tony Brandon), Simon Dupree & The
Big Sound (1st, Petes People-3rd-7th, Tony
Brandon), Spooky Tooth (17th, Jimmy Young),
The Symbols
(3rd-7th, Tony Brandon), Timebox (3rd-7th, Jimmy Young)
WATCHING!
- Fairport Convention,
Sallyangie and Al Stewart play the Royal Festival Hall as
part of a Folk Meets Pop concert (24th).
- Pop World
69 at Wembley Empire Pool includes
appearances by: Fleetwood Mac, The Move, Gun, Harmony
Grass, Barry Ryan, Sharon Tandy & Fleur de Lys, Gary
Walker & Rain (16th)
- The Status Quo open a
U.S tour in Philadelphia.
- Mothers Club,
Birmingham-The Who (1st), Strawbs (7th), Terry Reid
(9th), Spooky Tooth (10th), Al Stewart (14th), Brian
Auger, Julie Driscoll & the Trinity (15th), Family
(16th), Liverpool Scene (21st), Led Zeppelin, Blodwyn Pig
(22nd), Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (23rd), Bonzo Dog
Band (29th)
- Marquee-Spice (1st,
8th, 15th, 22nd), Elastic Band (1st), House Of Lords
(2nd, 9th, 16th, 30th), Steamhammer (4th, 20th), Yes
(5th, 12th, 19th), Circus (5th, 15th), Terry Reid (6th,
13th, 20th, 27th), Clouds (6th, 19th, 25th), Locomotive
(11th), Earth (11th), Killing Floor (12th), Black Sabbath
(13th), Colosseum (18th), Procession (22nd, 26th), Trash
(25th), Rainbows (26th), Village (27th), Led Zeppelin
(28th), Eyes Of Blue (28th)
- 100 Club,
London-Family, Village (13th),
Soft Machine, Jody Grind, Forest (27th)
- Blaises-Terry Reid (9th),
Pretty Things (16th)
- Speakeasy-Deep Purple
(20th)
- Whiskey A Go-Go,
London-Man (2nd, 18th), Fortes Mentum (8th),
East Of Eden (11th),
Selofane (23rd), Mr Mos Messengers (25th)
- Acton Town
Hall-Spooky Tooth (7th)
- Barking
College-Capaldi, Mason, Wood & Frog, Juniors Eyes,
Panama Jug Band (9th)
- Bedford College Rag
Ball-Love Sculpture, Timebox, Eclection, Delivery, Forest
etc (14th)
- Aston University,
Birmingham-Moody Blues (22nd)
- Birmingham, The
Factory-Greatest Show On Earth (7th)
- Winter Gardens,
Blackpool-Pink Floyd (21st)
- Boston Starlight
Room-Art Movement, The Toast (1st)
- Brentwood Bubbels
Club-Small Faces (22nd)
- Key Club, Bridgend,
Glamorgan-Pink Floyd-(15th)
- Victoria Rooms,
Clifton, Bristol-Pink Floyd (3rd)
- Cambridge Corn
Exchange-The Who, Tuesdays Children (14th)
- Locarno, Cardiff-Led
Zeppelin (5th)
- Chelsea College of
Science & Technology-Pretty Things, Barclay James
Harvest (15th)
- Chester
Quaintways-Toast (10th)
- St James Hall,
Chesterfield-Pink Floyd (27th)
- Lawns Centre,
Cottingham, Yorks-Pink Floyd (11th)
- Fairfield Hall,
Croydon- Incredible String Band (2nd), The Nice (14th)
- Dunfermline
Kinema-The Gun (2nd), Peter Sarstedt (4th), Flowerpot Men (9th), Amboy
Dukes (16th), World Of Oz, Trapeze (23rd), Love Sculpture (30th)
- Eastcote Clay
Pigeon-Harmony Grass (2nd)
- East Ham Tech
College-Freedom (21st)
- Edmonton, Cooks Ferry
Inn-Led Zeppelin (24th)
- Enfield
College-Fairport Convention (22nd)
- Farnborough Tech
College-Elmer Gantrys Velvet Opera (22nd)
- Glasgow Sgt
Peppers-The Gun (1st)
- Hampstead Country
Club-Liverpool Scene (9th),
Blonde On Blonde (13th),
Edgar Broughton Band (20th), Roy Harper, Circus (23rd),
Blossom Toes (27th)
- Harlow Odeon-Harmony
Grass (1st)
- Klooks Kleek,
Hampstead-Family (4th), Colosseum (11th), Juniors Eyes
(18th), Breakthru (27th)
- Headington Tech
College, Oxon-The Who (7th)
- Hemel Hempstead
Pavilion-Toast (12th)
- Kingston Art
College-Edgar Broughton Band, Caravan (25th)
- De Montfort Hall,
Leicester-Timebox, Pesky Gee (5th)
- Leicester
University-Led Zeppelin (12th)
- Leytonstone Red
Lion-Eclection (6th)
- London, Bibbels
Club-The Herd (15th)
- London, Central
Polytechnic-Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, Killing Floor (8th)
- Goldsmiths
College, London-Deep Purple (7th)
- Hornsey Wood Tavern,
London-Led Zeppelin (7th)
- Imperial College,
London-Family, Smile (15th)
- London, Institute of
Contemporary Arts-Andromeda, Bridget St John (7th),
Liverpool Scene (13th)
- London Lyceum-The
Move (19th), Yes, Andromeda, Hard Meat, Juniors
Eyes, Roy Harper, Turnstyle, Van Der Graaf Generator
(28th)
- London West
Polytechnic-Alan Bown, Terry Reid (22nd)
- Royal Theatre, London
Middle Earth Presents-Soft Machine, Egg,
Arcadium (1st), The Nice, Arcadium (8th), Fairport
Convention (15th-All night show), Caravan, Pete Brown
& Battered Ornaments, Writing On The Wall (22nd)
- London Seymour
Hall-Moody Blues, Rainbows (28th)
- London, St Martin's Art School-
Mighty Baby (21st)
- University College,
London-Pink Floyd (1st)
- Loughborough University-House Of
Lords (5th), Alan Bown, Chris Farlowe (8th), Moody Blues, Van Der Graaf
Generator, Legay (15th)
- Manchester College Of Commerce-Van
Der Graaf Generator, Love Sculpture (7th), Barclay James Harvest (14th)
- Manchester Tech
College-Moody Blues (1st)
- Kay Club, Milford
Haven-Deep Purple (1st)
- Newcastle City Hall-Chicken Shack,
Spooky Tooth (13th), Deep Purple (13th)
- University of East
Anglia, Norwich-Colosseum, Honeybus (27th)
- Oxford
Polytechnic-Fairport Convention (15th)
- Van Dykes,
Plymouth-Led Zeppelin (1st), Mason, Capaldi, Wood &
Frogg (6th), Groundhogs (7th), Jody Grind (8th),
Pink Floyd (14th), Caravan (15th), Colosseum (21st), Eire
Apparent (22nd), Spooky Tooth (26th), Alan Bown (28th),
Mighty Baby (29th)
- Portsmouth South Parade Pier-
Eclection (25th, supporting Country Joe & The Fish)
- Reading Rag Ball-Pink
Floyd, Pretty Things, The Gods (9th)
- Romford Kings
Head-Family (10th),
Love Sculpture (25th)
- Salisbury Alex Disco- Freedom (13th)
- Southall Farx-Juniors Eyes, The Gods
(2nd), Taste
(9th),
Eclection (16th),
Colosseum (23rd), Led Zeppelin (30th)
- Stratford Railway
Tavern, Asgard Club-Third Ear Band (7th)
- Bay Hotel,
Sunderland-Episode Six (1st), Van Der Graaf Generator, Earth (3rd), Spirit Of John Morgan (10th), Spooky Tooth (17th),
Leviathan (22nd), Idle Race (31st)
- University College,
Swansea-Pink Floyd (19th)
- Locarno,
Swindon-Colosseum (6th),
Caravan (13th), Taste (20th)
- Tolworth Toby Jug-The
End (9th),
Steamhammer (12th)
- Tunbridge Wells, Assembly Hall-Elmer
Gantry, Jason Crest, Kippington Lodge (29th)
- Brunel University,
Uxbridge-Capaldi, Mason, Wood & Frog, Fairport
Convention (7th)
- Waltham Forest Tech
College-Steamhammer (27th)
- Walton-on-Naze, Royal
Albion Hotel-Toast (7th)
- Whetstone,
Resurrection Club-The Gods (10th)
- Wolverhampton,
Connaught Hotel-Toast (9th)
- Wolverhampton
Lafayette-Harmony Grass (11th)
- Fishmongers Arms,
Woodgreen-Led Zeppelin (1st), Steamhammer (11th),
Groundhogs (25th)
REVIEWS
Bee
Gees
Odessa (LP): The
mood of this monumental work is basically one of despair and desolation. The
strings surge over the Gibb brothers' melodies, which are often very good
indeed. They have a sense of the dramatic and like to draw on large
subjects--disasters or world shaking events. Not all of the tunes are slow
paced. Arranger Bill Shepherd must be congratulated on his wide screen type
musical scores which cope with all the Bee Gees moods. The Bee Gees can be proud
of their achievement, it moves pop forward along a totally different track from
the basic "underground" experiments, and is equally worthwhile.
Bobak,
Jons & Malone
Motherlight (LP):
Enigmatic lyrics and effective guitar are the main assets of an underground
album which shows a fair degree of originality, if occasionally erring on the
side of pretentiousness. Not at all bad.
Bonzo
Dog Doo Dah Band
Mr Apollo:
"Five years ago I was a four stone apology. Today I am two separate
gorillas." Thus speaks Viv Stanshall near the end of this saga of strength
and body building, written by Viv and Neil Innes. It will take a lot of
listening as the production is too muzzy, with too much guitar and not enough
words coming through. But the tune is commercial and the lyrics rib-tickling
enough to revive Bonzo mania.
Clouds
Make No Bones
About It: Bit of a disappointment. They are a top class group, very exciting
'live', but this is rather monotonous and doesn't lead anywhere interesting.
East
Of Eden
Northern
Hemisphere: The chaps sing a jolly decent tune, and this will definitely be top
of the Upper Fifth chart before the term is out.
Eggy
You're Still
Mine: A Coventry group with an unusually good production. Listen for a heavy
bass pattern and some screaming guitar a la Jeff Beck. Vocal harmonies are good
too.
Eire
Apparent
Rock 'n' Roll
Band: This rocks mightily and sounds like The Troggs in Hamburg in 1965. The
vocals are horribly distorted and may be intended as a joke but simply ask for
people to swear loudly and snatch the arm off the turntable. A nasty sound.
Family
Entertainment
(LP): Unless you are irritated by one of the singers who has a vibrato like a
ewe in lambing season, this should delight everyone who likes intelligent
underground pop. It's all well played, the lyrics are both meaningful and witty
and the material is all original. A great deal of thought has obviously gone
into the production and it has paid off.
Flower
Pot Men
In A Moment Of
Madness: Quite a pretty noise, without being actively offensive.
Grapefruit
Round Going
Round: It seems as if there is a national conspiracy among record buyers not to
buy anything by Grapefruit. They consistently make good records, none of which
take off. Once again they feature their fine vocal harmonies, backed by a solid
band, on a George Alexander composition, that sounds like a hit. But who can
tell?
Kaleidoscope
Do It Again For
Jeffrey: A strong group one rarely sees about, which made a good album a year
ago and submerged under a wave of criticism that they were too hung up on the
Hobbit and all the Tolkien gear--which they denied. This is much better
anyway--less fairytale and more guts.
Small
Faces
Wham Bam Thank
You Mam: Wham! A healthy explosion of guitars and cymbals, crashing and rocking
that will bring guts and beat back to pop. While the future of the Faces
as a permanent group is uncertain, there is no doubting the hit potential of
this heavy riff.
Spooky
Tooth
Spooky Two (LP):
Heavy, stoned rock music, typified by intense, dramatic riffs repeated ad
infinitum, or at least until the engineer cuts off the electricity. The bag is a
strange mixture of relaxation and intensity, exhausting and recharging. You can
almost hear Spooky Tooth breathing--heavily. There is a dark radiance about
their music, to use an oxymoron figure of speech. Most highly recommended to all
heads, and all who should be heads.
Tangerine
Peel
Never Say Never
Again: One of the best songs on the new Bee Gees album and made single hit
material by a worthy new group backed by Bee Geeian strings and strong rhythm
section.
Timebox
Baked Jam Roll In Your Eye:
I am still bewildered as to why "Beggin' " wasn't a hit - and will be
forever, I have no doubt. But still the past is gone and here we are in the
present, and who am I to ignore a group who have the bravery to call a single
"Baked Jam Roll In Your Eye"? A very nasty situation this. One I feel
that could have been gleaned from the endless goon show records of hot spaghetti
trees and flying pancake machines. This is the first record Timebox have
produced themselves and in parts it reminds me of the Bonzos. A sort of mad
nursey tale of an invasion from Mars led by one "Galloping Klaus" Ho,
ho, a merry wheeze indeed.
Baked Jam Roll In Your Eye:
Groups who play well on stage and have a deal of musical talent often have
greater difficulty in finding commercial material than awful bands that can
barely play a note. If I didn't like and respect this band I would be a lot
ruder about this sad production about "Martians coming to earth--you'd
better watch out" etc.
Trifle
All Together Now:
This was in the Yellow Submarine cartoon, a fine film that deserved greater
recognition, and a new group Trifle give it a pleasing treatment.
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