SINGLES

ANDWELLA’S DREAM-Mr Sunshine/ Shades Of Grey (CBS)
SYD BARRETT-Octopus/ Golden Hair (Harvest)
BONZO DOG BAND-I Want To Be With You/ We Were Wrong (Liberty)
CONSORTIUM-I Don’t Want Her Anymore/ The House Upon The Hill (Pye)
SIMON DUPREE AND THE BIG SOUND-The Eagle Flies Tonight/ Give It All Back (Parlophone)
EXCEPTION-Pendulum/ Don’t Torture Your Mind (President)
FAT MATTRESS-Magic Lanterns/ Bright New Way (Polydor)
ROBIN GIBB-One Million Years/ Weekend (Polydor)
INFLUENCE-I Want To Live/ Driving Me Wild (Orange)
KATCH 22-It’s The Sunshine/ Mrs Jones (CBS)
MAGNA CARTA-Romeo Jack/ 7 O’clock Hymn (Fontana)
MARMALADE-Reflections Of My Life/ Rollin’ My Thing (Decca) #3
HARVEY MATUSOW’S JEW’S HARP BAND-Afghan Red/ Wet Socks (Head)
MAYFIELD’S MULE-Double Dealing Woman/ (Drinking My) Moonshine (Parlophone)
MEDICINE HEAD-His Guiding Hand/ This Love Of Old (Dandelion)
NITE PEOPLE-Is This A Dream?/ Crème Tea (Page One)
THE ONYX-Time Off/ Movin’ On (CBS)
PALACE COURT BRIGADE-Whistlin’ In The Sunshine/ Girls Grow Up (CBS)
PANAMA LTD-Lady Shallott/ Future Blues (Harvest)
TIM RICE AND WEBBER GROUP-Come Back Richard (Your Country Needs You)/ Roll On Over The Atlantic (RCA)
SHY LIMBS-Lady In Black/ Trick Or Two (CBS)
TRADER HORNE-Sheena/ Morning Way (Pye)
TRAPEZE-Send Me No More Letters/ Another Day (Threshold)
YEAR ONE-Eli’s Comin’/ Will You Be Staying After Sunday (Major Minor)

ALBUMS

ARCADIUM-Breathe Awhile (Middle Earth)
ARZACHEL-Arzachel (Evolution)
DAVID BOWIE-David Bowie (Philips)
KEITH CHRISTMAS-Stimulus (RCA)
COLOSSEUM-Valentyne Suite (Vertigo) #15
FOREST-Forest (Harvest)
FREE-Free (Island)
THE GUN-Gun Sight (CBS)
HOLLIES-Hollies Sing Hollies (Parlophone)
HUMBLE PIE-Town And Country (Immediate)
IDLE RACE-Idle Race (Liberty)
LED ZEPPELIN-Led Zeppelin 2 (Atlantic) #1
JOHN LENNON/ YOKO ONO-The Wedding Album (Apple)
MANFRED MANN-Manfred Mann Chapter Three (Vertigo)
MIGHTY BABY-Mighty Baby (Head)
MOODY BLUES-To Our Children’s Children’s Children (Threshold) #2
PINK FLOYD-Ummagumma (Harvest) #5
PLASTIC ONO BAND-Live Peace In Toronto (Apple)
ROLLING STONES-Let It Bleed (Decca) #3
SMALL FACES-The Autumn Stone (Immediate)
SPIRIT OF JOHN MORGAN-The Spirit Of John Morgan (Carnaby)
WRITING ON THE WALL-The Power Of The Picts (Middle Earth)
V/A-Nice Enough To Eat (Island)
V/A-No-one’s Gonna Change Our World (Regal Starline)

HAPPENING!

• The Rolling Stones tour America for the first time in three years.
• Sandy Denny and Ashley Hutchings quit Fairport Convention.
• The Iveys change their name to Badfinger.
• Flaming Youth make an hour-long colour TV special in Holland.
• Ex-Yardbirds Keith Relf and Jim McCarty return in new band Renaissance.
• Sax/Flute player Jim King leaves Family. He is replaced by ex-Blossom Toes man John ‘Poli’ Palmer.
• The Nice are filmed in concert in Basle, Switzerland, for a TV documentary.
• Jeff Beck is seriously injured in a car crash that keeps him out of full-time action until April 1971. Beck had intended to link up with the rhythm section of Vanilla Fudge, Tim Bogart and Carmen Appice, to form a heavy rock trio but the accident halts these plans. Bogart & Appice form Cactus instead and when Beck eventually returns it’s with a new version of the Jeff Beck Group (BB&A do eventually get together in 1973 though).
• The Easybeats split up.
• Semi-pro Yorkshire vocalist Robert Palmer (ex-Mandrakes) replaces Jess Roden in The Alan Bown! He records new vocals for “The Alan Bown!” album but the U.S release retains Roden’s vocals.
• Founder member of The Pretty Things, guitarist Dick Taylor, quits to become a producer. Drummer Twink also leaves the group. Vic Unitt of the Edgar Broughton Band replaces Taylor while Skip Alan returns to the drum seat that he vacated to Twink the previous year.
• Keyboardist Chris Holmes leaves Timebox. He is not replaced and the group is eventually re-launched as Patto.
• Love Sculpture drummer Kongo Jones leaves to form his own group and is replaced by Terry Williams.
• Pink Floyd fly to Detroit to appear at the Science Fiction and Voodoo Festival on October 31st, and then fly back the following day for a gig in Manchester.
• A new underground music club, The Temple, opens on Wardour St, London (28th)
• BBC1 TV “Monster Music Mash”-Slade (4th, playing “Wild Winds Are Blowing” and “Martha My Dear”)
• BBC1 TV “Crackerjack”-Tremeloes (7th)
• BBC2 TV “Line Up”-Hollies (14th)
• Granada ITV “Lift Off”-Tangerine Peel, Ray Davies (12th), Spectrum, Magic Valley, Peppermint Circus (26^th)
• Harlech ITV “Just Watch It”-Flaming Youth (26^th)
• German TV “Beat Club”-Yes, Caravan, Man (29th)
• BBC SESSIONS-Art Movement (10th-14th, Jimmy Young), Black Sabbath (29th, Top Gear), Bonzo Dog Band (27th, Radio 1 Club), Colosseum (22nd, Top Gear), Deep Purple (9th, Stuart Henry), Elastic Band (17^th-21^st, Terry Wogan), Flowerpot Men (17^th-21^st, Jimmy Young), Elmer Gantry (3rd-7th, Dave Cash), Forest (19th, Top Gear), Griffin (1st, Top Gear), Honeybus (17^th-21^st, Jimmy Young), Idle Race (3rd-7th, Terry Wogan—17^th-21^st, Dave Cash), Juicy Lucy (8th, Top Gear), Manfred Mann Chapter III (23rd, Dave Lee Travis), Marmalade (10th-14th, Terry Wogan), The Move (24th-28th, Dave Cash), Mud (15^th, Johnnie Walker), Onyx (10th-14th, Dave Cash—17^th-21^st, Jimmy Young), Orange Bicycle (2nd, Dave Lee Travis-10th-14th, Terry Wogan), Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (10th-14th, Jimmy Young—17^th-21^st, Dave Cash—24th-28th, Terry Wogan), Slade (10th-14th, Dave Cash), Soft Machine (29th, Top Gear), Status Quo (1st, Saturday People—9^th, Dave Lee Travis—10th-14th, Terry Wogan-24th-28th, Jimmy Young), The Sweet (22nd, Saturday People), The Symbols (24th-28th, Terry Wogan), Timebox (3rd-7th, Jimmy Young—15^th, Tony Brandon’s Saturday People), Toby Twirl (17^th-21^st, Jimmy Young), Tremeloes (8th, Saturday People), Tyrannosaurus Rex (22nd, Top Gear), The Web (1st, Johnnie Walker—17^th-21^st, Dave Cash)
• Download Radio Luxembourg David 'Kid' Jensen's Dimensions Show 14th November

WATCHING!

• King Crimson begin an 18 date U.S tour, at the end of which Ian McDonald and Michael Giles quit the group.
• Roundhouse, Chalk Farm-Edgar Broughton Band, Fairport Convention, Eclection, Juniors Eyes, Jody Grind, Man, Little Free Rock (16th), Taste, Slade, Manfred Mann Chapter III, White Trash, Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Roy Harper, Julian’s Treatment (23rd), Deep Purple, Yes, Free, Atomic Rooster, Brian Auger Trinity, Liverpool Scene, Manfred Mann Chapter III, Village (30th)
• Marquee-‘Igginbottom (1st, 11th), Writing On The Wall (3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th), Arcadium (3rd), Atomic Rooster (4th), Samson (4th), Circus (5th, 12th, 19th, 26th), Groundhogs (6th), Junco Partners (6th), Renaissance (7th), Grail (7th, 25th), Affinity (8th, 15th), Cressida (8th), Trees (10th), Hardin-York (14th, 28th), Black Sabbath (14th), The Mooche (15th), Skin Alley (17th), Juicy Lucy (18th), Clouds (20th), Glass Menagerie (22nd), Hawkwind (24th), Blossom Toes (25th), Timebox (28th)
• Klooks Kleek-Graham Bond, Writing On The Wall (4th), Sam Apple Pie (6^th), Roy Harper (9^th), Timebox (13^th), Fleetwood Mac, Forever More (18^th), Savoy Brown, Shades (25th)
• Revolution Club- Skin Alley (13th), Graham Bond (27th)
• Speakeasy-Mott the Hoople (12th)
• Temple Club-Steamhammer, Sam Gopal (28^th)
• Cromwellian Club- She Trinity (10th)
• Aberdeen University- East Of Eden (26th)
• Aberdeen Music Hall-David Bowie (12th)
• Auchinleck Community Centre-Fat Mattress (1st)
• Friars, Aylesbury-Edgar Broughton Band (3rd), Caravan (10th), Graham Bond (17th), Van Der Graaf Generator (24th)
• Barking College- John Martyn (18th)
• Bath Pavilion-Deep Purple (12^th)
• Bexley Black Prince-Timebox (9^th)
• Birkenhead Plaza-Marmalade (24th)
• Birmingham Bennett Concert Hall-Deep Purple (24th)
• Mothers, Birmingham-Fairport Convention (2nd), Cressida (8th), Van Der Graaf Generator (12th), Graham Bond, Hardin-York (16th), Writing On The Wall (19th), Renaissance, Blossom Toes (22nd), Liverpool Scene, Audience (23rd), Strawbs (24th), Third Ear Band (26th), Spirit Of John Morgan (29th), Tyrannosaurus Rex (30th)
• Bishops Stortford- Skin Alley (15th)
• Ritz, Bournemouth-Strawbs (7th), Julian’s Treatment (14th), Edgar Broughton Band (21st)
• Pavilion, Bournemouth-Slade (16th)
• Bridgewater YMCA- Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (20th)
• Brighton Bond Room-Fat Mattress (11th), Locomotive (18th-20th), 
• Brighton Dome- Incredible String Band (8th), David Bowie, Strawbs, Edgar Broughton Band, Steamhammer, The Fox, Heaven (19th)
• Brighton, Jimmy's- Free (20th)
• Bristol Colston Hall-Family, Al Stewart (2nd)
• Bristol Old Granary- Gracious (17th)
• Brooklands College- Skin Alley (21st)
• Cardiff Top Rank-Bonzo Dog Band (19th)
• Carlisle Cosmopolitan Club-Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (9^th), Colosseum (23rd)
• Chelsea College Of Science-Atomic Rooster, Orion (15th), Eclection, Gracious (29^th)
• Clapham Nags Head- Mick Softley (13th)
• Colchester University of Essex-East Of Eden (8th), Colosseum (22nd), Liverpool Scene, Tea & Symphony (28^th)
• Colsterworth, Lincs, Fox Inn-Tangerine Peel (29th, 30th)
• Couldrose RNAF-The Toast (6^th)
• Coventry Central Hall- Al Stewart, Magna Carta (13th)
• Coventry Mercers Arms-Fat Mattress (9th)
• Fairfield Hall, Croydon- Incredible String Band (7th), Family (16th)
• Greyhound, Croydon-Juicy Lucy (23rd), Renaissance (30th)
• Croydon, Star Hotel- East Of Eden (3rd), Graham Bond (24th)
• Croydon Tech College- White Trash (15th)
• The Village, Dagenham-Graham Bond (8^th), Soft Machine (15th),  Family (18th), Colosseum (21st), Spirit Of John Morgan (24th), Edgar Broughton Band (29^th)
• Devizes Corn Exchange-Fat Mattress (7th), Savoy Brown (14^th), David Bowie (21st)
• Dundee Caird Hall-David Bowie (15th)
• Dundee Palais-Fat Mattress (6th)
• Dunfermline Kinema-Fat Mattress (2nd), David Bowie, Juniors Eyes (9th), Orange Bicycle (15th),  Deep Purple (16th), Harmony Grass (30th)
• Dunstable California Ballroom- Alan Bown (22nd)
• Civic Centre, Dunstable-Aynsley Dunbar, Wishbone Ash (10^th), Soft Machine, Forever More (17th), Taste, Man (24th), Pink Floyd (26th)
• Ealing Arts Lab Green Man- Accolade (23rd)
• Eastbourne College- The Mooche (8th)
• East Ham Hounds Club-Mandrake (20th), Ipsissimus (27^th)
• Edinburgh Caley-David Bowie (14th, Midnight show)
• Frisco’s, Edinburgh-Van Der Graaf Generator (28th)
• Edinburgh, Middle Earth North-Colosseum (26th)
• Edinburgh Usher Hall-Incredible String Band (1st)
• Edmonton Cooks Ferry Inn- Glass Menagerie (17th), Audience (24th)
• Epping Groovesville-Gracious (7^th), Eclection (9th, replaced on the night by Wildmouth), Sam Apple Pie (16^th), Deep Purple (23rd)
• Ewell Tech College- Audience (15th)
• Farnborough College-Andromeda, Aardvark (29^th)
• Feltham, Avery Hill College- Deep Purple (21st)
• Fife University-Colosseum (27th)
• Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall-Deep Purple (8^th)
• Fulham, King’s Head-Van Der Graaf Generator (7^th), Pete Brown & Piblokto! (14^th)
• Glasgow City Hall-Incredible String Band (2nd)
• Glasgow Electric Garden-Fat Mattress, Van Der Graaf Generator (3rd), David Bowie (10th), Deep Purple (17th), East Of Eden (24th)
• Glasgow Maryland-Colosseum (25th)
• Coleford Youth Centre, Gloucester-Status Quo (14th)
• Gosport Thorngate Hall- Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (24th)
• Tower Ballroom, Great Yarmouth-Status Quo (9th)
• Gaiety Ballroom, Grimsby-Status Quo (7th)
• Guildford Civic Hall-Deep Purple, Quintessence, Bridget St John (28th)
• Hamilton Town Hall-David Bowie (13th)
• Hampstead Country Club-Jody Grind (6^th), Manfred Mann Chapter III, High Tide (9^th), Mott the Hoople (13^th), Juicy Lucy (20th), Graham Bond (23rd), Glass Menagerie, Noir (27^th), Taste, Skin Alley (30^th)
• Hanley, The Place-Dave Berry (13th), Zoot Money (16th), Atomic Rooster (18th), Episode Six (22nd)
• Harrowfield Youth Centre- East Of Eden (21st)
• Civic Hall, Haverfordwest-Status Quo (8th)
• Hereford Flamingo-Savoy Brown, Raw Material (7^th), Atomic Rooster, Spring (14^th)
• High Wycombe Nag’s Head-Skin Alley (14th), Mighty Baby (21st), Third Ear Band (28^th)
• Hounslow Arts Lab- Pete Brown & Piblokto! (18th)
• Locarno, Hull-Status Quo (13th)
• Hull University-Man (1st)
• Islington, Pied Bull-Maple Oak (30^th)
• Kilmarnock Grand Hall-David Bowie (8th)
• Kingston, Kingston Hotel-Blossom Toes, Brian Auger, Aardvark (9^th), Strawbs, Skin Alley (16^th), Pete Brown & Piblokto!, Genesis (23rd), East Of Eden, Gracious (30^th)
• Kirkaldy Raith-David Bowie (14th), Marmalade (22nd)
• Lancaster University-Bonzo Dog Band (15th)
• Leeds University-Pink Floyd, Idle Race (8th), Deep Purple (15^th), Graham Bond (29th)
• Leicester University- Graham Bond (22nd)
• Letchworth Youth Club-Stray (11^th)
• Cavern, Liverpool-Little Free Rock (29th)
• Liverpool Philharmonic-Tyrannosaurus Rex (22nd)
• Liverpool University-Pink Floyd (27th)
• Llanelli Glen Ballroom- Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (18th)
• London Belsize Park, Abraxas Club-Titus Groan (20th, 27^th)
• London CCB Theatre- Brian Auger & The Trinity, Gordon jackson, Kevin Westlake, Keith Tippett and surprise guest (16th)
• London, 107 Charing Cross Road CDT- Manfred Mann Chapter 3, John Martyn, Bulldog Breed (14th)
• London College Of Printing-Clouds, Village, Hardin & York (8^th)
• London, Commonwealth Hall-Elmer Gantry (28^th)
• London Cousins- Nick Drake (14th), Ralph McTell & friends, Keith Christmas (15th), Al Stewart (22nd)
• London Goldsmiths College-Manfred Mann Chapter III, Atomic Rooster, Marsupilami, The Fire (7th)
• London Hammersmith College- Stray (14th)
• Imperial College, London-Juniors Eyes (1st), Blossom Toes (8th), Edgar Broughton Band (15th), Egg, Principal Edwards Magic Theatre (22nd), Deep Purple (29th)
• London Institute of Education- Manfred Mann Chapter Three, Black Widow (28th)
• London Lyceum-Deep Purple, Yes, Viv Stanshall, Griffin (2nd), The Nice, Rare Bird (9th), Flaming Youth, Hardin & York (14th), The Move, Renaissance, Juicy Lucy, Andromeda, Viv Stanshall (16th), Spirit Of John Morgan, Rare Bird, Griffin, Egg, Galliard (23rd), Pink Floyd, Audience (30th)
• London, Northern Polytechnic- Trash, Aardvark (21st)
• London 100 Club- Steamhammer (18th), Sam Apple Pie (25th)
• London Palladium- Nashville Teens (23rd, supporting Gene Vincent0, “Save Rave” concert-David Bowie, Grapefruit, Graham Bond, Magna Carta etc (30th)
• London Polytechnic-Soft Machine, Stray (8^th), Strawbs, Magna Carta (22nd)
• London Purcell Rooms-David Bowie, Juniors Eyes, Comus (20th)
• London Queen Elizabeth College-Bonzo Dog Band (28th)
• London, Ronnie Scott’s-Soft Machine (11^th, 18^th)
• London, Royal Colege Of Science- East Of Eden (28th)
• London Royal Dental College-Stray (7^th)
• London Royal Festival Hall-Incredible String Band (15th)
• London School of Economics-John Martyn, Sam Apple Pie (15th, supporting Freddie King), White Trash, Savoy Brown (29^th)
• London, South Bank Polytechnic-White Trash, Opal Butterfly (28^th)
• London, St Pancras Town Hall-Quintessence (9^th), Liverpool Scene, Keith Christmas etc (29^th)
• London, University College-Pretty Things (8^th), Circus (9^th), Quintessence, Octopus, Eire Apparent (29^th)
• Loughborough University- Graham Bond (21st)
• Maidenhead, Dolphin Hotel—Clark-Hutchinson (29^th)
• Manchester Free Trade Hall-Tyrannosaurus Rex (21st, Mickey Finn’s debut gig)
• Manchester George's- Skin Alley (23rd)
• Manchester Houldsworth Hall-Edgar Broughton Band, Third Ear Band (14^th)
• Manchester, Magic Village- East Of Eden (22nd)
• Manchester University-Pink Floyd (1st), Famous Jug Band (19th), Colosseum, Magna Carta, Barclay James Harvest (28th)
• Marlow Crown Hotel- Blossom Toes (23rd)
• Middlesbrough Showboat-Flowerpot Men (21st)
• Newcastle City Hall-Pentangle (1st), Family, Yes, Blossom Toes (14th), Tyrannosaurus Rex (23rd)
• Newcastle University-Eclection (26th)
• New Cross, South East London College of Further Education-East Of Eden, Village (29^th)
• Norwich Cat Trap- Graham Bond (19th)
• Norwood Tech College- East Of Eden (1st)
• Nottingham Boat Club- Man (2nd)
• Oxford Stonehenge- Skin Alley (20th)
• Oxford Town Hall- Skin Alley (22nd)
• Paisley Flamingo-Marmalade (21st)
• Penzance Winter Gardens-The Toast (7^th)
• Perth Salutation Hotel-David Bowie (7th)
• Peterborough Cloud Nine- Jody Grind (23rd), Eire Apparent (30th)
• Plymouth Van Dikes-Flaming Youth (29^th)
• Polesworth Memorial Hall- Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (15th)
• Portsmouth Southsea King's Theatre- Al Stewart, Ralph McTell, Michael Chapman, Wizz Jones (16th)
• Reading University- Killing Floor, Graphite (21st)
• Redcar Coatham Hotel-Bonzo Dog Band (22nd)
• Richmond Athletic Ground-Free, Groundhogs (7^th)
• Romford King’s Hall-Colosseum (21st)
• Ross on Wye Top Spot- Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (21st)
• Sheffield Polytechnic- Famous Jug Band (13th)
• Sheffield University-Atomic Rooster (8th), Colosseum (29th)
• Southall Farx-Atomic Rooster (9^th), Quintessence (16^th), East Of Eden (23rd), Edgar Broughton Band (30th)
• Stirling Albert Hall-David Bowie (11th)
• Streatham, Phillipa Fawcett College-Forever More (29^th)
• Stroud Subscription Rooms-Fat Mattress (8th)
• Sunderland Annabel's- Graham Bond (28th)
• Locarno, Sunderland-Principal Edwards Magic Theatre (3rd), Edgar Broughton Band (7th), Christine Perfect, Mighty Baby (14th), Free, Quintessence (21st), Tyrannosaurus Rex, Spirit Of John Morgan (28th)
• Tolworth Toby Jug- Free (19th), Graham Bond (26th)
• Truro PJ Club-The Toast (8^th)
• Eel Pie Island, Twickenham-Clouds (5th), Pete Brown’s Piblokto! (7th), Warm Dust (14th), Battered Ornaments (21st), Greatest Show On Earth (26th), Mandrake, Hawkwind Zoo (28th)
• Twickenham St Mary's College- Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, The Gun (15th)
• Twickenham Tech College-The Web (8^th), Black Cat Bones, Genesis (15th)
• Brunel University, Uxbridge-Caravan, Idle Race, Genesis (1st), Graham Bond, Keef Hartley Band (15th), Third Ear Band, Magna Carta (21st), Pink Floyd, Gracious (28th)
• Waltham Forest Tech College-Pink Floyd, Jan Dukes De Grey (7th)
• Watford University-Caravan, Aardvark (8th)
• Whitelands College- Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (28th)
• Wolverhampton Civic Hall-The Toast (10^th)
• Wolverhampton Lafayette- Graham Bond (20th)
• Wolverhampton Whispering Wheels- Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (14th)
• Wood Green, Fishmongers Arms-Juicy Lucy (7^th), Edgar Broughton Band (11^th), Graham Bond (14^th), Writing On The Wall (18th), Mott the Hoople (21st), Audience, Ferris Wheel (25th), Pete Brown & Piblokto (28^th)
• Woolwich Polytechnic-Caravan, Genesis (28th)
• Wootton Wawen Navigation Inn- Magna Carta (16th), Shelagh MacDonald (23rd)
• York, St George's Hall- Fairport Convention, Third Ear Band (16th)

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