SEPTEMBER 1972
SINGLES
Black Sabbath—Tomorrow’s Dream/ Laguna Sunrise (Vertigo)
Bombadil—Breathless/ When The City Sleeps (Harvest)
Junior Campbell—Hallelujah Freedom/ Alright With Me (Deram)
Dave Cousins—Going Home/ Ways and Means (A&M)
Kevin Coyne—Cheat Me/ Flowering Cherry (Dandelion)
Sandy Denny—Pass of Arms EP (Here In Silence/ Man Of Iron/ Strange Meeting) (Island)
East Of Eden—Boogie Woogie ‘Flu/ Last Dance Of The Clown (Harvest)
Foggy—How Come The Sun/ Take Your Time (York)
Peter Frampton—It’s a Plain Shame/ Oh For Another Day (A&M)
Geordie—Don’t Do That/ Francis Was a Rocker (Regal Zonophone)
Glencoe—Look Me In The Eye/ Telephonia (Epic)
King-Earl Boogie Band—Starlight/ Goin’ To Germany (Dawn)
Lindisfarne—All Fall Down/ We Can Swing Together (Charisma)
Nazareth—If You See My Baby/ Hard Living (Pegasus)
Rab Noakes—Drunk Again/ Miles Away (A&M)
Paladin—Sweet Sweet Music/ Get One Together (Bronze)
Bridget St John—Nice/ Goodbye Baby Goodbye (Dandelion)
T Rex—Children Of The Revolution/ Jitterbug Love/ Sunken Rags (T Rex/EMI)
Tin Tin—Talking Turkey/ Cavalry Coming (Polydor)
Toe-Fat—Brand New Band/Can’t Live Without You (Chapter One)
Trapeze—Coast To Coast/ Your Love Is Alright (Threshold)
Uncle Dog—River Road/ First Night (Signpost)
Wild Turkey—Good Old Days/ Life Is a Symphony (Chrysalis)
ALBUMS
Budgie—Squawk (MCA)
Alun Davies—Daydo (CBS)
Man—Live At The Padget Rooms, Penarth (UA)
Dave Mason—Headkeeper (Blue Thumb)
Andy Newman—Rainbow (Track)
Southern Comfort—Stir Don’t Shake (Harvest)
Rod Stewart—Never a Dull Moment (Mercury)
String Driven Thing—String Driven Thing (Charisma)
Taste—Live At The Isle Of Wight (Polydor)
Tin Tin—Astral Taxi (Polydor)
HAPPENING
Glam Rock invades the USA as Slade, David Bowie and T Rex all begin tours in New York.
Former Audience drummer Tony Connor joins Jackson Heights.
Dave Ball is replaced as Procol Harum lead guitarist by ex-Cochise man Mick Grabham.
Fairport Convention undergo another upheaval as drummer Tom Farnell and American guitarist David Rea quit.
Caravan add 3 new members: keyboardsman Derek Austin, bassist Stuart Evans, and Geoffrey Richardson, who plays viola, guitar etc etc.
Ex-Tyrannosaurus Rex member Steve Peregrine Took signs a management deal with Tony Secunda, who had handled the affairs of a certain Marc Bolan until a surprise split between them earlier in the year.
Skid Row split and leader Brush Shiels forms a new trio, called "Brush", with ex Taste & Stud drummer John Wilson and Adrian Fisher, ex-Andy Fraser's Toby.
Free cancel several dates of their tour after Paul Kossoff trips over some wires and knocks himself out during rehearsals. He's found to be suffering from concussion.
Deke Leonard, ex-Man, joins Help Yourself to help them out on live gigs.
Groundhogs drummer Ken Pustelnik quits. He's replaced by Clive Brooks, formerly of Egg.
Strawbs replace singer/guitarist Tony Hooper with ex-Fire man Dave Lambert.
BBC 2 TV "Old Grey Whistle Test"- Frampton's Camel (12th)
ITV (not totally networked) "Dave Cash Radio Programme"- Tony Hazzard, Arrival etc (28th)
BBC Radio 1:
In Concert: Roxy Music, Tir Na Nog (16th), Slade (30th)
Dave Lee Travis: Sweet (18th-22nd)
Noel Edmonds: Roxy Music, Blackfoot Sue (18th-22nd)
Alan Freeman: Slade, Mott the Hoople, Duncan Browne (18th-22nd)
Pete Drummond: Mick Abrahams (14th)
Bob Harris: Aubrey Small (11th)
GIGS
Aylesbury Friars—Genesis (2nd, 22nd, 29th), Quintessence (30th)
Baldock Victoria Hotel- Decameron (19th)
Battersea Town Hall—Third Ear Band (30th)
Billericay Archer Hall—Man (1st)
Birmingham, ‘Enry’s Blueshouse—CMU (17th), Supertramp (19th)
Birmingham Kinectic Circus—Hawkwind (1st)
Birmingham Polytechnic- Climax Chicago (29th)
Boston Starlight Rooms—Stray, Snake Eye (9th), Glencoe (23rd)
Bournemouth, Chelsea Village—Genesis, Capability Brown (3rd), Curved Air (17th)
Bracknell Sports Centre—Genesis (16th)
Braintree Horn Hotel—Sam Apple Pie (1st)
Brighton Dome—Deep Purple (15th)
Bristol Ashley Down—Trees (30th)
Bristol Colston Hall—Yes (9th), Deep Purple (16th)
Bristol Granary—Colin Blunstone (7th), Skid Row (14th), Juicy Lucy (17th), Manfred Mann’s Earth Band (23rd), Capability Brown (28th)
Bristol Locarno—Family, Man (17th)
Bristol Top Rank—Mott the Hoople (29th)
Brixton Sundown—Deep Purple (30th)
Bromley Tech College—Jackson Heights (30th)
Buckley Tivoli- Madrigal (1st)
Burton on Trent 76 Club—Walrus (1st), Skid Row (15th), Wild Turkey (22nd), Budgie (29th)
Buxton Pop Festival—Wishbone Ash, Curved Air, Uriah Heep, Vinegar Joe, Wizzard, Glencoe (16th)
Cambridge Corn Exchange—Hawkwind (22nd), Wishbone Ash (29th), ELO (30th)
Canterbury St Thomas’ Hall—Vinegar Joe (9th), Roxy Music (30th)
Cardiff RAF St Athan's- Montanas (28th)
Chadwell Heath Hinds Head—Medicine Head (29th)
Chelmsford Chancellor Hall—Principal Edwards Magic Theatre (8th)
Cheltenham Town Hall—Free (8th)
Clitheroe Castle—Amazing Blondel, Byzantium, Spirogyra (2nd)
Coventry Locarno—Mott the Hoople (28th)
Coventry Theatre—Deep Purple (17th)
Croydon Anerley Town Hall—Help Yourself (29th)
Croydon Fairfield Hall—Free (10th)
Croydon Greyhound—Hawkwind (3rd), Vinegar Joe (10th), Genesis (17th), Pink Fairies (24th)
Crystal Palace Garden Party—Yes, Lindisfarne, Capability Brown, Gary Wright’s Wonderwheel, Mahavishnu Orchestra (2nd)
Dagenham, Village Roundhouse—Hawkwind (2nd), Status Quo (30th)
Derby Cleopatra’s—Fusion Orchestra (16th)
Doncaster Mayfair—Blackfoot Sue (15th)
Doncaster Top Rank—David Bowie (1st)
Dudley, JB’s—Colin Blunstone (8th)
Dundee Caird Hall—Deep Purple (21st)
Dunstable California Ballroom—Blackfoot Sue (2nd)
Dunstable Civic Hall—Mott the Hoople (15th)
East Ham Town Hall- Fusion Orchestra (15th)
Edinburgh Caley Cinema- Stone The Crows (17th)
Edinburgh Empire Theatre—Deep Purple (23rd)
Edmonton Sundown—Vinegar Joe, Stackridge (21st), Brinsley Schwarz, Man (28th), Duncan Browne (29th)
Fulham Greyhound—Good Habit (3rd), Second Hand (4th), Stackridge (14th), Incredible Hog (15th), Toe Fat (17th), East Of Eden (19th), Trees (28th)
Glasgow Green’s Playhouse—Stone The Crows (15th), Deep Purple (22nd)
Glasgow Kelvin Hall—Yes (4th, 5th), Free (16th, cancelled)
Glasgow Town Hall—Quintessence (1st)
Gravesend Civic Hall—Stray (24th)
Greenford, Big Brother Club—Stackridge (6th), Genesis (13th)
Guildford Civic Hall—Stray, Snake Eye (3rd), Colin Blunstone (9th)
Hampstead Country Club- Gary Moore Band (28th)
Hampstead Theatre Club—Kevin Ayers in “Banana Follies” (6th-24th)
Hanley Victoria Hall—Sandy Denny (14th), Mott the Hoople (17th), Stone The Crows (29th)
Hastings Pier—Stray, Snake Eye (2nd)
Hemel Hempstead Pavilion—Status Quo (3rd)
Hereford Flamingo Ballroom—Stray, Snake Eye (5th)
High Wycombe, Chiltern Rooms—Colin Blunstone (3rd)
Hull Centre Hotel- Decameron (17th)
Inverness Rose Street Hall—Brinsley Schwarz (16th)
Kelso Tait Hall—Genesis (23rd)
Kennington Oval—Hawkwind, Jeff Beck Group, Man, Sam Apple Pie (16th), ELP, Wishbone Ash, Genesis (30th)
Kew Boathouse—Stackridge (28th)
Leeds Polytechnic—Curved Air, Stackridge (29th)
Leeds Town Hall—Stone the Crows (19th), Deep Purple (29th)
Leicester Croft Club- Clear Blue Sky (18th)
Leicester De Montfort Hall—Deep Purple (14th), Free (19th, cancelled)
Liverpool St George’s Hall—Pink Fairies (6th), Unicorn (14th, supporting Julie Felix), Principal Edwards Magic Theatre (20th), East Of Eden, Renaissance (28th)
Liverpool Stadium—Hawkwind, Brinsley Schwarz (30th)
Liverpool Top Rank—David Bowie (4th)
London Central Polytechnic—ELO (29th)
London Marquee-- Medicine Head (1st), Mick Abrahams Band (3rd, 22nd), Juicy Lucy (4th), East Of Eden (5th), Stackridge (8th), Wild Turkey (11th), Pink Fairies (12th), Renaissance (13th), Hardin York & Fenwick (15th), Byzantium (18th), Genesis (19th), Spreadeagle (19th), Rab Noakes, Peter hammill, Steve Tilston (20th), Capability Brown, String Driven Thing (21st), Trapeze (25th), UFO (26th), Dick Heckstall-Smith Band (29th)
London Music Workshop—Jackson Heights (20th)
London Queen Elizabeth Hall—Sandy Denny, John Martyn (6th), Matching Mole (7th)
London Rainbow Theatre—Procol Harum (22nd)
London, Royal Festival Hall—Free (23rd, cancelled), Steeleye Span, Amazing Blondel (30th)
London Speakeasy—Byzantium (19th), Blackfoot Sue (20th), Good Habit (28th)
London Stratford Theatre Royal—Magna Carta (2nd)
London Torrington- JSD Band (3rd), Solid Gold Cadillac (28th)
Lowestoft, Waverley—Decameron (1st)
Malvern Winter Gardens—Mott the Hoople (30th)
Manchester Belle Vue- Fusion Orchestra (28th)
Manchester Free Trade Hall—Mott the Hoople (16th), Free (18th, cancelled), Deep Purple (25th)
Manchester Hard Rock—David Bowie (2nd, 3rd), ELO, Quintessence (28th)
Manchester King’s Hall—Yes (10th)
Margate Dreamland—Hawkwind (1st), Stone The Crows (8th), Quintessence (22nd), Stray, T2 (29th)
Merton Civic Hall—Genesis, Fruupp (1st)
Middlesborough Town Hall—Mott the Hoople (19th)
Mile End Sundown—Slade (7th), Wizzard, Sam Apple Pie (13th), Uriah Heep (14th), Vinegar Joe, Stackridge (20th), Status Quo, Stray, Snake Eye (21st), Brinsley Schwarz, Man (27th), Pink Fairies, Duncan Browne, Hookfoot (28th)
Newbury Corn Exchange—Stray, Snake Eye (1st)
Newcastle City Hall—Yes (12th), Stone the Crows (18th), Mott the Hoople (20th), Deep Purple (24th), Lindifarne, Genesis, Rab Noakes (28th)
Newcastle University—The Kinks (29th)
Nottingham Cavendish- Mungo Jerry (1st)
Nottingham Cricket Ground—Wizzard (2nd)
Northampton Rock—Curved Air (30th)
Norwich, Keswick Hall—Manfred Mann’s Earth Band (30th)
Oakengates Town Hall—Stray, Snake Eye (6th)
Orpington Civic Hall—Fusion Orchestra (30th)
Petersfield Mercury Club- Fusion Orchestra (20th)
Portsmouth Guild Hall—Deep Purple (19th)
Portsmouth Parade Pier—Caravan (29th)
Reading Town Hall—Quintessence (15th), Caravan (30th)
Redcar Coatham Hotel—Free, Hackensack (17th)
Romford Albemarle- Clear Blue Sky (15th)
Sheffield City Hall—Stray, Pretty Things (25th), Deep Purple (28th), Stone the Crows (30th)
Sheffield Top Rank- David Bowie (6th)
Southampton Guild Hall—Stray, Snake Eye (4th), Deep Purple (13th)
Southport Moulin Rouge—Trees (29th)
St Albans City Hall—Pink Fairies, Snake Eye (16th), Plainsong, Tir Na Nog (30th)
St Albans Civic Centre—Edgar Broughton Band (2nd)
Stoke, Victoria Hall—Sandy Denny, John Martyn (14th)
Sunderland, Top Rank—David Bowie (5th)
Sutton Coldfield, Belfry—Slade (2nd)
Torquay Pavilion—Wizzard, Gnidrolog (3rd), Wishbone Ash (10th)
Tunbridge Wells Assembly Hall—Hawkwind (4th)
Watford Blazes Disco—Aubrey Small (19th)
Watford Town Hall—Strawbs, Sutherland Brothers (28th)
Wimbledon Town Hall—Genesis (1st)
Windsor Festival—Hawkwind, Arthur Brown, Pink Fairies, Renaissance, Home etc (23rd)
Wolverhampton Civic Hall—Free, Hackensack (20th, cancelled)
Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall—Gypsy, Gnidrolog, Help Yourself (2nd)
Worcester College of Education—Fusion Orchestra (29th)
Worthing Pavilion—Manfred Mann’s Earthband (29th)