SINGLES

ANDWELLA’S DREAM-Mrs Man/ Felix (CBS)
BEE GEES-Don’t Forget To Remember/ The Lord (Polydor) #2
BREAD, LOVE AND DREAMS-Virgin Kiss/ Switch Out The Sun (Decca)
JOHN BROMLEY-Kick A Tin Can/ Wonderland Av.USA (Atlantic)
CAPE KENNEDY CONSTRUCTION COMPANY-The First Step On The Moon/ Armageddon (President)
CLOUDS-Scrapbook/ Carpenter (Island)
DEE AND THE QUOTUM-Someday You'll Need Someone/ Send Some Flowers To Julie (Jay Boy)
EGG-Seven Is A Jolly Good Time/ You Are All Princes (Deram)
FLYING MACHINE-Send My Baby Home Again/ Look At Me (Pye)
GUN-Hobo/ Long Hair Wild Man (CBS)
HARD MEAT-Rain/ Burning Up Years (Island)
HUMBLE PIE-Natural Born Bugie/ Wrist Job (Immediate) #4
JASON CREST-Black Mass/ Place In The Sun (Philips)
JUNIOR’S EYES-Star Child/ Sink Or Swim (Regal Zonophone)
KEITH MEEHAN-Darkness Of My Life/ Hooker Street (Marmalade)
NEW FORMULA-Hare Krishna/ Stay Indoors (Pye)
OPEN MIND-Magic Potion/ Cast A Spell (Philips)
PLAYGROUND-Things I Do For You/ Lazy Days (NEMS)
SIMON-Mrs Lillyco/ There's No More You (Plum)
WILD SILK-Help Me/ Crimson And Gold (Columbia)

ALBUMS

JEFF BECK GROUP-Beck-Ola (Columbia) #39
BLOSSOM TOES-If Only For A Moment (Marmalade)
BONZO DOG BAND-Tadpoles (Liberty) #36
JACK BRUCE-Songs For A Tailor (Polydor) #6
CLOUDS-Scrapbook (Island)
DR STRANGELY STRANGE-Kip Of The Serenes (Island)
FAIRPORT CONVENTION-Unhalfbricking (Island) #12
FAT MATTRESS-Fat Mattress (Polydor)
HUMBLE PIE-As Safe As Yesterday Is (Immediate) #32
GORDON JACKSON-Thinking Back (Marmalade)
THE NICE-Nice (Immediate) #3
YES-Yes (Atlantic)

HAPPENING!

• Bee Gees drummer Colin Petersen quits, leaving Barry and Maurice Gibb as a duo.
• Crazy World Of Arthur Brown members Vincent Crane and Carl Palmer form Atomic Rooster.
• The defunct Zombies threaten legal action against imposter groups appearing under their name.
• Vocalist Rod Evans and bassist Nick Simper are sacked by Deep Purple. Episode 6 members Ian Gillan and Roger Glover replace them.
• Rumours abound that ex-World Of Oz member Dave Kubinek is being lined up to replace the departed Robin Gibb in The Bee Gees. The group’s management deny that this is the case.
• Kaleidoscope sign a management deal with Radio 1 DJ David Symonds. The group change their name once again, this time to Fairfield Parlour.
• The BBC axe the “Colour Me Pop” show.
• ATV “Frankie Howerd Show”-Tremeloes (9th), Moody Blues (23rd)
• Thames ITV “Mike and Bernie Winters Show”-Orange Bicycle (11^th)
• German TV “Beat Club”-Marmalade, Robin Gibb, Thunderclap Newman (2nd), Deep Purple, The Move, Humble Pie, Procol Harum (30th)
• BBC SESSIONS-Almond Marzipan (18th-22nd, Dave Cash-25th-29th, Jimmy Young), Ambrose Slade (11th-15th, Tony Brandon), Andromeda (30th, Johnnie Walker), Bonzo Dog Band (3rd, Top Gear-17th, Symonds On Sunday), Edgar Broughton Band (10th, Top Gear-11th, WS R&B), Michael Chapman (31st, Top Gear), Colosseum (6th, Radio 1 Jazz Workshop), Cupids Inspiration (16th, Johnnie Walker), Deep Purple (17th, Symonds On Sunday), Nick Drake (6th, John Peel), Easybeats (4^th-8^th, Tony Brandon), Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera (11th-15th, Tony Brandon), Episode Six (4^th-8^th, Tony Brandon), Family (3rd, Top Gear), Flowerpot Men (23rd, Saturday People), Glass Menagerie (11th-15th, Tony Brandon), Grapefruit (4^th-8^th, Jimmy Young—11th-15th, Dave Cash), Harmony Grass (9th,Pete’s People-25th-29th, Chris Grant), High Tide (17th, Top Gear), Honeybus (4^th-8^th, Tony Brandon—25th-29th, Jimmy Young-30th, Saturday People) Humble Pie (24th, Symonds On Sunday), Incredible String Band (24th, Top Gear), Iveys (11th-15th, Tony Brandon), Jigsaw (4^th-8^th, Dave Cash), Kaleidoscope (4^th-8^th, Tony Brandon—25th-29th, Tony Brandon), Led Zeppelin (10th, Top Gear), Marmalade (4^th-8^th, Jimmy Young), The Move (4^th-8^th, Tony Brandon—18th-22nd, Tony Brandon—25th-29th, Chris Grant), Mud (11th-15th, Jimmy Young), Onyx (11th-15th, Tony Brandon), Orange Bicycle (11th-15th, Tony Brandon-18th-22nd, Jimmy Young), Sight & Sound (11th-15th, Dave Cash), Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (4^th-8^th, Tony Brandon—25th-29th, Jimmy Young), Status Quo (11th-15th, Jimmy Young-18th-22nd, Tony Brandon), Al Stewart (20th, John Peel-27th, Night Ride), Timebox (11th-15th, Jimmy Young-18th-22nd, Dave Cash), The Web (4^th-8^th, Tony Brandon),18th-22nd, Tony Brandon), Yes (10th, Stuart Henry-10th, Symonds On Sunday)

WATCHING!

• The Woodstock Arts And Music Fair is held on Max Yasgur’s farm. British representatives include The Who, Ten Years After and Joe Cocker, who are all received ecstatically, and The Incredible String Band, who bomb badly.
• The Who and The Nice triumph at The Isle Of Wight Festival, although even they are overshadowed by the return of Bob Dylan following his three year absence from the music scene. Also appearing: Joe Cocker, Bonzo Dog Band, Moody Blues, Blodwyn Pig, Blonde On Blonde, Edgar Broughton Band, Eclection, Family, Fat Mattress, Free, Gypsy, White Trash, Liverpool Scene, Mighty Baby, Pentangle, Pretty Things, Third Ear Band.
• The 9th National Jazz, Pop, Ballads and Blues Festival is held at Plumpton Race Course in Sussex (8th-10th). There are five afternoon and evening shows, headlined by Pink Floyd, The Who, The Nice (who were accompanied by a 40 piece orchestra), The Pentangle and The Bonzo Dog Band. Also on the bill: Soft Machine (who suffered a power failure), Junior’s Eyes, The Strawbs, Peter Hammill, Yes, King Crimson, Groundhogs, Ron Geesin, Family, Keef Hartley, Chicken Shack, The Pentangle, Magna Carta, Blossom Toes, East Of Eden, Village, Breakthru’, Jigsaw, Spirit Of John Morgan, Eclection, Circus, Hard Meat and Blodwyn Pig. Fat Mattress arrived too late to play!
• “Humberside Pop Festival”, Hull (22nd-24th)-The Nice, Thunderclap Newman, Pretty Things, Third Ear Band, Clouds, Eire Apparent, Jody Grind, The Mandrakes, The Rats, The Kinks, The Web, The Variations, Edgar Broughton Band, The End etc
• The Move and The Montanas play a special concert at Alton Towers amusement park (10th).
• David Bowie helps to organise and plays in the Beckenham Free Festival in Kent. 5,000 people attend to watch, besides Bowie, Juniors Eyes, Keith Christmas, The Strawbs and Bridget St John (16th).
• Roundhouse-Junior’s Eyes, Groundhogs, Mighty Baby (3rd), Eclection, Quintessence, Stray, Marsupilami (24th), YCND Benefit-Juniors Eyes, Egg, Dr Strangely Strange, Andromeda, Jody Grind, Deviants, Stray, Bridget St John, Renaissance, Village etc (31st)
• Marquee- Colosseum (1st), Circus (1st, 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th), Village (2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th), Pegasus (2nd), King Crimson (3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th), Eclection (4th, 25th), Cressida (4th), Family (5th), Samson (5th, 14th, 29th), Yes (7th, 14th), Leviathan (7th), Breakthru (8th, 18th), Renaissance (11th, 18th), Man (11th), Harmony Grass (12th), Blodwyn Pig (15th, 29th), Grail (15th), Babylon (16th, 28th), Love Sculpture (19th), Groundhogs (19th), Clouds (21st, 28th), The Mooche (21st), Affinity (23rd), Fat Mattress (26th), Glass Menagerie (26th), Jasper (30th), Hardin-York (31st), Griffin (31st)
• Speakeasy-King Crimson (5th), Atomic Rooster (28th)
• Revolution Club-Ashton Gardner & Dyke (18th), Deep Purple (20th)
• Whisky A-Go-Go-East Of Eden (3^rd, 31^st)
• Aberdeen Beach Club-Marmalade (9th)
• Friars, Aylesbury-East Of Eden (4th), Mighty Baby (11th), Principal Edwards Magic Theatre (18th), Renaissance (25th)
• Barnett Resurrection Club-Blossom Toes (4th), Juniors Eyes (29th)
• Pavilion, Bath-The Who (4th), The Kinks (8th)
• Bexley Black Prince-Brian Auger & The Trinity (3rd), Timebox (31^st)
• Mothers, Birmingham- Delivery (1st), Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (2nd), Colosseum (3rd), Edgar Broughton Band (6th), Yes (8th), Soft Machine (9th), Renaissance (10th), Jody Grind (13th), King Crimson, Blodwyn Pig (16th), Fairport Convention, Roy Harper (17th), Misunderstood (22nd), Pretty Things (23rd), Family (24th), Clouds (29th), Liverpool Scene (30th), Hard Meat (31st)
• Boston Starlight Room-Harmony Grass (16th)
• Pavilion, Bournemouth-Marmalade (22nd), The Who (29th)
• Bridlington Royal Hall-The Move (30^th)
• Catford Savoy-Pyramids (2nd)
• Star Hotel, Croydon-Steamhammer (4th), Jody Grind (15th), Edgar Broughton Band (18th), Groundhogs (25th)
• Dagenham Village Roundhouse-Blossom Toes (2nd)
• Dunfermline Kinema- Eire Apparent (9th), Casuals (17th)
• Civic Hall, Dunstable-Alan Bown, Misunderstood (2nd), The Nice (16th), King Crimson (23rd), Thunderclap Newman (30^th)
• Ealing Walpole Arena-Julian’s Treatment (16th)
• Eastbourne Winter Gardens-The Who (2nd), Bonzo Dog Band (23rd)
• Edinburgh, Hibernian Football Ground-Marmalade, Tremeloes, The Sands (10th)
• Edmonton Cooks Ferry Inn-Eire Apparent (4th), Sam Apple Pie (11th), King Crimson (18th), Liverpool Scene (25th)
• Epping Wake Arms-Edgar Broughton Band (3rd)
• Grays Festival, Essex-The Who, Amen Corner, Aardvark, Andromeda, Freedom, Ipsissimus etc (23rd)
• Hampstead Country Club-Mighty Baby, East Of Eden (24^th),
• Hampstead Klooks Kleek-Blodwyn Pig (5th), Blossom Toes (12th)
• High Wycombe Nags Head-Liverpool Scene (15th), Blodwyn Pig (22nd), King Crimson (29th)
• Hull East Park-Barclay James Harvest (23rd), Edgar Broughton Band (24th)
• Il Rondo, Leicester-King Crimson (22nd)
• Leicester, Welford Road Recreation Ground-Free Concert featuring Jody Grind, Deviants, Bridget St John, Battered Ornaments etc (24th)
• Liverpool Silver Blades-Thunderclap Newman (9th)
• London Country Club-Eclection (3rd), Hard Meat (7th), Roy Harper (10th), Liverpool Scene (17th)
• London Southall Farx-Misunderstood (3rd), Spirit Of John Morgan (24th), Juniors Eyes (31st)
• London ICA-Edgar Broughton Band (19th), King Crimson (26th)
• London Lyceum-Marsha Hunt with White Trash, Pretty Things, Hard Meat, Samson (1st), Blossom Toes, Caravan, Elmer Gantry, Dry Ice (8th), Family, Circus, Grail, Sam Gopal (15th), Deep Purple, Atomic Rooster, Pete Brown (29th)
• London Ronnie Scott’s-Humble Pie (8th-debut gig)
• Malvern Winter Gardens-Brian Auger Trinity, Spirit Of John Morgan (2nd)
• Marlow Crown Hotel-Pyramids (1st), Misunderstood (3rd)
• Middlesbrough Showboat-Thunderclap Newman (8th)
• Nottingham Boat Club- Juniors Eyes (6th), Eclection (17th), Liverpool Scene (24th)
• Notting Hill, All Saints Hall-Skin Alley (15th)
• Van Dykes, Plymouth-Moody Blues, Audience (7th), Barclay James Harvest (8th), Principal Edwards Magic Theatre (9th), Breakthru (15th), Heaven (16th)
• Orchid Ballroom, Purley-Vanity Fair (25th)
• Market Hall, Romford-King Crimson (11th)
• Salisbury Alex Disco- Consortium (30th)
• Scarborough Scene Two—Thunderclap Newman (29^th)
• Sheffield, Weston Park-Shape Of The Rain, McCluskey’s Apocalype etc (24th)
• Music Hall, Shrewsbury-The Who (22nd)
• Locarno, Sunderland-Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, King Crimson, Eclection (13th), Family, Grail (22nd), Liverpool Scene, The Mooche, Junco Partners (29th)
• Weston Super Mare Winter Gardens-The Move (9th), Marmalade (23rd)
• Fishmonger’s Arms, Woodgreen “Freakeasy”-Renaissance (1st), Groundhogs (5th), Edgar Broughton Band (8th), Blossom Toes (15th), Atomic Rooster (22nd), Mighty Baby (29^th)
• Assembly Hall, Worthing-The Who (7th)

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