SINGLES
AMBROSE
SLADE-Genesis/ Roach Daddy (Fontana)
BRIAN AUGER AND THE TRINITY-What You Gonna Do/ Bumpin On
Sunset (Marmalade)
BEE GEES-Tomorrow, Tomorrow/ Sun In The Morning (Polydor) #23
THE BLINKERS-Original Sins/ Dreams Secondhand (Pye)
BLODWYN PIG-Dear Jill/ Sweet Caroline (Island)
ERIC BURDON/ ANIMALS-River Deep, Mountain High/ Help Me Girl
(MGM)
COLOSSEUM-Walking In The Park/ Those About To Die (Fontana)
CONSORTIUM-When The Day Breaks/ Day The Train Never Came (Pye)
DAVID-Please Mr Postman/ Light Of Your Mind (Philips)
DREAMS-Baby, Im Your Man/ Softly, Softly (CBS)
FRESH AIR-Running Wild/ Stop, Look, Listen (Pye)
THE GODS-Maria/ Long Time, Sad Time, Bad Time (Columbia)
HARDIN-YORK-Tomorrow, Today/ Candlelight (Bell)
HARSH REALITY-Heaven And Hell/ Praying For Reprieve (Philips)
THE HERD-The Game/ Beauty Queen (Fontana)
HONEYBUS-She Sold Blackpool Rock/ Would You Believe (Deram)
IDLE RACE-Days Of Broken Arrows/ Warm Red Carpet (Liberty)
JETHRO TULL-Living In The Past/ Driving Song (Island) #3
JUNIORS EYES-Circus Days/ Woman Love (Regal Zonophone)
KIPPINGTON LODGE-In My Life/ I Can See Her Face (Parlophone)
LIONS OF JUDAH-Our Loves A Growing Thing/ Katja (Fontana)
JACKIE LOMAX-New Day/ I Fall Inside Your Eyes (Apple)
MANDRAKE PADDLE STEAMER-Strange Walking Man/ Steam (Parlophone)
MISUNDERSTOOD-Youre Tuff Enough/ Little Red Rooster
(Fontana)
MOOCHE-Hot Smoke And Sassafras/ Seen Through A Light (Pye)
MUD-Shrangri-La/ House On A Hill (Philips)
NIRVANA-Oh! What A Performance/ Darling Darlane (Island)
OEDIPUS COMPLEX-Up Down Round And Round/ Empty Highway (Philips)
OPEN MIND-Horses And Chariots/ Before My Time (Philips)
PARKING LOT-World Spinning Sadly/ Carpet Man (Parlophone)
REG PRESLEY-Lucinda Lee/ Wichita Lineman (Page One)
PROCOL HARUM-A Salty Dog/ Long Gone Geek (Regal Zonophone) #44
SERENDIPITY-If I Could/ Castles (CBS)
SHY LIMBS-Reputation/ Love (CBS)
THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN-Something In The Air/ Wilhelmina (Track) #1
VELVET OPERA-Anna Dance Square/ Dont You Realize (CBS)
THE WEB-Monday To Friday/ Harold Dubbleyew (Deram)
ALBUMS
GEORGE
HARRISON-Electronic Sound (Zapple)
HOLLIES-Sing Dylan (Parlophone) #3
JOHN LENNON/YOKO ONO-Life With The Lions-Unfinished Music #2 (Zapple)
THE STRAWBS-The Strawbs
(A&M)
TYRANNOSAURUS REX-Unicorn (Regal Zonophone) #12
THE WHO-Tommy (Track) #2
HAPPENING!
- Martin Lamble,
drummer with Fairport Convention, is killed when the
bands van crashes on the M1 in the early hours of
the morning as they return from a gig at Mothers club in
Birmingham (12th). Ashley Hutchings and Richard Thompson
are injured while designer Jeannie Franklin
(Thompsons girlfriend) is also killed. Roadie
Harvey Bramham, who had fallen asleep at the wheel, is
later prosecuted for dangerous driving and
serves a prison term.
- Pete Townsend is
arrested and charged with assault after knocking a
plainclothes policeman off the stage at New Yorks
Fillmore East (16th). The cop had been trying to explain
that the show had to be stopped owing to a fire. Townsend
is bailed the following day.
- EMI announce the
formation of a new label-Harvest.
- Peter Dunton replaces
Louis Farrell as drummer with Gun. Dunton later plays
with Dream and T2.
- Crazy World Of Arthur
Brown begins a US tour with Scots group Cartoone as
support.
- BBC1 TV Colour
Me Pop-Family (10th),
Cats Eyes (17th)
- BBC SESSIONS-Alan
Bown (5th-9th,
Tony Brandon19th-23rd, Tony Brandon), Art Movement
(19th-23rd, Jimmy Young), Cats Eyes (19th-23rd,
Jimmy Young26th-30th,
Tony Brandon), Colosseum (24th, Johnnie Walker),
Cymbaline (26th-30th,
Dave Cash), Elastic Band (12th-16th,
Dave Cash), Episode Six (12th-16th,
Tony Brandon), The Explosive (26th,
Keith Skues), Flowerpot Men (5th-9th,
Dave Cash), Gentle Influence (5th-9th,
Jimmy Young), Glass Menagerie (19th-23rd, Tony
Brandon26th-30th,
Dave Cash), The Gods (12th-16th,
Tony Brandon), Grapefruit (5th-9th,
Dave Cash12-16th,
Tony Brandon), Happy Magazine (19th-23rd, Jimmy Young),
High Tide (21st, John Peel), Honeybus (5th-9th,
Tony Brandon17th, Johnnie Walker-19th-23rd, Tony
Brandon), Hopscotch (5th-9th,
Dave Cash), Idle Race (5th-9th,
Tony Brandon19th-23rd, Tony Brandon), Jigsaw (12th-16th,
Jimmy Young), Juniors Eyes (4th, Top Gear),
Kaleidoscope (2nd, Stuart Henry-17th, Johnnie
Walker-19th-23rd, Tony Brandon), Katch 22 (5th-9th,
Dave Cash26th-30th,
Dave Cash), King Crimson (11th, Top Gear),
Kinks (5th-9th,
Tony Brandon19th-23rd, Tony Brandon), Locomotive
(19th-23rd, Dave Cash), Magna Carta (28th, Night Ride),
Manfred Mann (5th-9th,
Tony Brandon11th, Symonds On Sunday26th-30th,
Dave Cash), The Onyx (12th-16th,
Tony Brandon19th-23rd, Jimmy Young), Orange Bicycle
(5th-9th,
Jimmy Young), Pentangle (15th, Radio 1 Club-18th, Top
Gear), Pink Floyd (14th, Night Ride), Pretty Things
(25th, Top Gear), Procol Harum (25th, Symonds On Sunday),
Rainbow Ffolly (12th-16th,
Dave Cash), Sight & Sound (5th-9th,
Jimmy Young26th-30th,
Dave Cash), Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (3rd,
Johnnie Walker5th-9th,
Dave Cash17th, Petes People-19th-23rd, Jimmy
Young), Spectrum (12th-16th,
Jimmy Young), Status Quo (5th-9th,
Jimmy Young19th-23rd, Dave Cash), Tangerine Peel
(12th-16th,
Dave Cash), Timebox (5th-9th,
Tony Brandon19th-23rd, Dave Cash), Tyrannosaurus
Rex (11th, Top Gear), The Web (5th-9th,
Tony Brandon19th-23rd, Tony Brandon)
- Download John Peel's Night Ride 7th
May
WATCHING!
- Pink Floyd and the
Pretty Things headline a benefit concert for Fairport
Convention at Londons Roundhouse on the 25th.
Family, Blossom Toes and Eclection also appear.
- Van Dykes in Plymouth
also hold a benefit (29th) featuring King Crimson, Yes,
Eclection, Forest, Jackie Macauly & Judy Dyble
(Trader Horne), Principal Edwards Magic Theatre and
Bridget St John.
- Official live
premiere of Tommy by The Who at Ronnie
Scotts Club (1st)
- Jethro Tull, Ten
Years After and Clouds play a short UK tour including the
Royal Albert Hall (8th)
- Marquee- Clouds
(1st), Steamhammer (2nd, 16th), The Klubs (3rd), The
Turnstile (3rd), Groundhogs (4th), Alan Bown (6th), Trash
(7th), Junco Partners (7th, 23rd), Terry Reid (8th, 15th,
16th, 22nd), Grail (8th, 20th), Procession (10th, 17th,
24th, 31st), Mandrake Paddlesteamer (10th), Sam Apple Pie
(11th, 21st, 30th), Delivery (11th), Circus (13th, 26th),
Yes (14th, 28th), Leviathan (15th), Hard Meat (16th,
22nd), King Crimson (16th, 25th), Pegasus (17th), Blodwyn
Pig (20th, 30th), Colosseum (26th), Eyes Of Blue (31st)
- Blaises-King
Crimson (4th)
- Country Club-Juniors
Eyes (1st),
Free (4th), Pretty Things (5th), King Crimson (11th), Deviants, Jody
Grind (15th), Spooky Tooth (18th), Edgar Broughton
Band, High Tide (22nd), Keef Hartley (29th)
- Klooks
Kleek-Juniors Eyes, Aardvark (6th), Delivery (20th), Jan Dukes De Grey (27th), Trifle
(29th)
- Speakeasy-Juniors Eyes (27th), Sam
Gopal (28th), King
Crimson (30th)
- Revolution Club-King
Crimson (14th)
- Whiskey A Go-Go-Gracious (17th),
Bunkers Brain (18th), East Of Eden (20th), Trapeze (25th), Smile (31st)
- Roundhouse-Juniors Eyes, Ron Geesin,
Bridget St John, Mike Absalom, Screw etc (24th, "Festival Of The
Street"), Al Stewart (25th, with John Fahey, a benefit for
Fairport), Soft
Machine (31st)
- Abergavenny Croeso '69 Blues
Festival- Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull, Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, Eyes Of
Blue etc (23rd)
- Rush Common House,
Abingdon-Status Quo, The Fire, Jo Jo Gunne (9th)
- Barnet Resurrection Club- Glass
Menagerie (19th), Groundhogs
(26th)
- Birmingham Factory- Mapleoak (5th)
- Birmingham Metro- Idle Race (17th)
- Mothers,
Birmingham-Pink Floyd, Roy Harper (2nd), King Crimson
(3rd), Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Blonde On Blonde
(4th), Pretty Things, Sam Gopal (10th), Fairport
Convention, Eclection (11th), Free (16th), Tyrannosaurus
Rex (17th), Liverpool Scene (23rd), Colosseum, Pete
Browns Battered Ornaments (25th)
- Birmingham Town
Hall-Jethro Tull, Ten Years After, Clouds (15th)
- Bishops Stortford
Rhodes Centre-Status Quo (5th)
- Bournemouth
Ritz-Colosseum (16th)
- Bradford
University-Casuals (9th)
- Bridlington Spar
Club-The Herd (10th)
- Bristol Colston
Hall-Ten Years After, Jethro Tull, Clouds (9th)
- Top Rank,
Bristol-King Crimson (2nd)
- Bury Territorial Army
Drill Hall-Status Quo (17th)
- Cambridge Dorothy Ballroom-
Tuesday's Children (26th)
- Cardiff Top Rank-The
Gun (12th)
- Chadwell Heath
Greyhound-Mandrake Paddle Steamer (1st)
- Coventry College Of
Art-Pink Floyd, Spooky Tooth (15th)
- Lanchester College,
Coventry-Pink Floyd (17th)
- Fairfield Halls,
Croydon-Pink Floyd (30th)
- Dagenham Village Roundhouse-
Fairport Convention advertised but obviously cancelled (17th), Eclection (24th)
- Dumbarton Trident
Club-Marmalade (15th)
- Dunfermline
Kinema-Casuals (3rd),
Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation (24th), Spooky Tooth (25th)
- Dunstable California Ballroom-
Harmony Grass (17th)
- Edmonton Cooks Ferry Inn- Procession
(26th)
- Epping Wake
Arms-Colosseum (18th), Sam
Apple Pie (25th)
- Ewell Tech
College-Caravan (29th)
- Feltham Crown & Sceptre- Strawbs
(21st)
- Folkestone Tofts- Fleetwood Mac
(24th)
- Glasgow Odeon- Marmalade (19th,
20th)
- Harwich Town
Hall-Status Quo (3rd)
- Hereford Park
Hall-Status Quo (16th)
- High Wycombe Blues Loft- Keef
Hartley (16th), Ashkan
(23rd)
- High Wycombe Town Hall- Free (17th),
Pete Brown
& Battered Ornaments (24th)
- Ilford, General Havelock- Sam Apple
Pie (17th)
- Keighley Tech
College-The Herd (3rd)
- Royal College of Art,
Kensington-Soft Machine, Eire Apparent (9th)
- Kilmarnock Municipal
Buildings-Marmalade (17th)
- Town Hall, Leeds-Pink
Floyd (16th)
- Liverpool
Philharmonic Hall-Pentangle (16th)
- London Aldgate, Sir John Cass
College- Roy Harper, Al Stewart (23rd)
- London, City University- Idle Race
(23rd)
- London College of Printing-
Steamhammer (17th)
- London Cousins- Ralph McTell, Keith
Christmas etc (17th)
- London, Harrods
Boutique-Taste (28th),
The Misunderstood (30th)
- London
Lyceum-Colosseum, Alan Bown, Spooky Tooth (2nd),
King Crimson, Junior's Eyes, Turnstyle (9th), John Mayall, Yes, Gypsy, Hard Meat (16th), Procol
Harum, Soft Machine, Mighty Baby (23rd), The Nice (30th)
- Parliament Hill,
London- Pink Floyd, Roy Harper, Pretty Things, Pete
Browns Battered Ornaments, Jody Grind (5th), Procol
Harum, Yes, Blossom Toes, Soft Machine, Third Ear Band
(18th), Fleetwood Mac, Group Therapy, Edgar Broughton Band, Spontaneous
Music Ensemble, Duster Bennett, Bridget St John (30th)
- Queen Mary College,
London-Pink Floyd (3rd)
- London, Royal Festival Hall-
Pentangle (24th)
- London, Upstairs at Ronnie Scott's-
Arrival, Audience (19th-24th)
- London School Of Economics- East Of
Eden (24th)
- University College,
London-New Formula (3rd),
Spice (10th),Yes
(17th), Blossom Toes (24th)
- London, Wigmore Hall- Tim Hollier,
Amory Kane, David Bowie (22nd)
- Lymington, Chords Club- Spice (24th),
Eire Apparent (31st)
- Manchester College Of
Commerce-Pink Floyd (2nd-recorded for the album
Ummagumma) supported by: Pete Brown & the
Battered Ornaments, Principal Edwards Magic Theatre,
White Trash, Edgar Broughton Band, Groundhogs, Smokey
Rice.
- Manchester Free Trade
Hall-Ten Years After, Jethro Tull, Clouds (6th)
- Margate
Dreamland-Marmalade (3rd)
- Newcastle City
Hall-Jethro Tull, Ten Years After, Clouds (14th)
- Newport
Cleopatras-Spice (25th),
Onyx (29th),
Cupids Inspiration (31st)
- Earlham Park,
Norwich-East Anglia Rag Barbeque-The Hollies,
Spooky Tooth, Soft Machine, Gun, Marmalade (10th)
- Norwich
University-The Gun (10th)
- Notts County Football
Ground, Nottingham (10th)-Fleetwood Mac, Tremeloes,
Marmalade, Love Sculpture, The Move, Status Quo, Dream
Police, Van Der Graaf Generator,
- Nottingham Boat Blub- Man (18th), Juniors Eyes
(23rd)
- Commemoration Ball,
Pembroke College, Oxford-Pink Floyd, Juniors Eyes
(31st)
- Paisley Ice
Rink-Marmalade (16th)
- Van Dykes,
Plymouth-Battered Ornaments (1st), Yes (2nd), Gun (3rd),
Edgar Broughton Band (9th), Fairport Convention
(16th-cancelled), Jackie Lomax (17th), Terry Reid (23rd), Liverpool
Scene (26th), Eclection (30th), Pretty Things (31st)
- Portsmouth Guild
Hall-Jethro Tull, Ten Years After, Clouds (13th)
- Salisbury Alex Disco- Clouds (22nd)
- Scarborough, Penthouse- Van Der
Graaf Generator (8th), Juniors Eyes (29th)
- City Hall,
Sheffield-Pink Floyd (24th)
- Southall, Farx-The
Gods (1st),
Colosseum (4th), Mandrake
Paddle Steamer (8th), Groundhogs (11th)
- Stockport Town
Hall-Pretty Things, Clouds etc (2nd)
- Stratford Railway Tavern- Bridget St
John, Screw (16th), Bum (18th), Ipsissimus
(23rd)
- Bay Hotel,
Sunderland-Breakthru (19th)
- Tolworth Toby Jug- Pete Brown's
battered Ornaments (18th)
- Waltham Forest
College-Spooky Tooth, Andromeda, Mandrake Paddle Steamer
(2nd)
- Warwickshire Equestrian Centre,
Balsall Common- Amen Corner, Jethro Tull etc (24th)
- Welwyn Garden City Cherry Tree-
Liverpool Scene (20th)
- Wolverhampton Tech College- Spice
(17th)
- Fishmongers Arms,
Woodgreen-Jackie Lomax (2nd), Renaissance (16th), Pretty Things (23rd),
Groundhogs (25th)
- York University- Pete Brown &
Battered Ornaments (23rd)
REVIEWS
Bee
Gees
Tomorrow,
Tomorrow: Rumours were circulating in the corridors of pop that only Robert
Stigwood remains of the original Bee Gees, and that he has formed a backing
group and is shortly to go on the road, commencing with two weeks residency at
Batley Variety Club, but I think these can be safely discounted as wholly
unfounded. This is a fine epic song from Maurice and barry Gibb, and Barry sings
with all the power and feeling at his disposal. The strings and piano soar and
crash, the tempos shift and the mood is of despair, but the promise of a silver
lining just around the corner. Hi ho silver lining, and well done Barry.
Colosseum
Walking In The
Park: It seems odd that people should ask "Where is the excitement in
today's scene?" when Jon Hiseman is in our midst. This is a tremendous,
towering tour de force and should be a monster hit--if those deejays would do
their job.
Misunderstood
You're Tuff
Enough: Not a particularly good record. This is the first release by the
reformed band and they lack rehearsal. It was important to get something out in
a hurry and this blues rave-up serves as a nice introduction and discotheque
material. Better things will be forthcoming.
Thunderclap
Newman
Something In The
Air: Stand by for sensation! Pete Townsend's proteges are about to be unleashed
on the public. Thunderclap is the phantom pianist featured in a cliff-hanging
boogie-type break sandwiched between the straight vocals. They make a weird team
that will blow several minds. Townsend did the production and it's a strong
chart contender, once their image is established.
Velvet
Opera
Anna Dance
Square: A bright, entertaining square dance, much in the mood of a Dave Mason
composition Traffic used to play. Nice guitars and a compulsive dance beat.
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