SINGLES
APPLE-Doctor
Rock/ The Otherside (Page One)
THE BARRIER-Uh/ Spot The Lights (Philips)
ERIC BURDON/ANIMALS-Love Is (MGM)
SPENCER DAVIS GROUP-Short Change/ Picture Of Heaven (UA)
DEEP PURPLE-Kentucky Woman/ Wring That Neck (Parlophone,
Withdrawn)
GRAPEFRUIT-Someday Soon/ Theme For Twiggy (Stateside)
GROUNDHOGS-Still A Fool/ You Dont Love Me (Liberty)
KIPPINGTON LODGE-Tomorrow Today/ Turn Out The Light (Parlophone)
THE KLUBS- I Found The Sun/ Ever Needed Someone (CAM)
THE LIONS-Twisted Nerve/ My Friend The Blackbird (Polydor)
THE MIRAGE-World Goes On Around You/ Carolyn (Page One)
PINK FLOYD-Point Me At The Sky/ Careful With That Axe, Eugene
(Columbia)
THE POETS-Alone Am I/ Locked In A Room (Pye)
PROCESSION-One Day In Every Week/ Wigwam City (Mercury)
RHUBARB RHUBARB- Rainmaker/ Moneylender (President)
RINGS AND THINGS-Strange Things Are Happening/ To Me: To Me: To
Me (Fontana)
SIMONS SECRETS-I Know What Her Name Is/ Keeping My Head
Above Water (CBS)
SPICE-What About The Music/ In Love (UA)
SUNDRAGON-Five White Horses/ Look At The Sun (MGM)
TRAFFIC-Medicated Goo/ Shanghai Noodle Factory (Island)
ALBUMS
BONZO DOG
BAND-The Doughnut In Grannys Greenhouse (Liberty) #40
MARMALADE-Theres A Lot Of It About (CBS)
THE NICE-Ars Longa Vita Brevis (Immediate)
PRETTY THINGS-S.F Sorrow (Columbia)
SOFT MACHINE--Soft Machine Vol 1 (Probe US Only)
SUNDRAGON- Green Tambourine (MGM)
THE TROGGS-Mixed Bag (Page One)
HAPPENING!
- The Rolling Stones
"Rock n Roll Circus" TV show is
taped in London (10th-11th). There are cameo appearances
by John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell, Yoko Ono,
The Who, Jethro Tull and Marianne Faithful etc.
Meanwhile, "Beggars Banquet" is finally
released with a new sleeve design.
- Graham Nash quits The
Hollies to form Crosby, Stills and Nash.
- Eric Burdon disbands
The New Animals after a farewell gig at Newcastle City
Hall (22nd).
- Steve Winwood quits
Traffic with the intention of beginning a solo career.
- Guitarist Mick
Abrahams quits Jethro Tull. Tony Iommi (of Birmingham
group Earth, later known as Black Sabbath) appears with
the group at the taping of "Rock n Roll
Circus", miming to a previously recorded track. Davy
OList also temporarily fills the gap.
- Kevin Ayers quits The
Soft Machine following the recording of their debut album
(which is only released in the U.S). The group, which is
now down to a duo, breaks up. Mike Ratledge returns to
the UK but Robert Wyatt completes some solo recordings in
the US, including a session with Jimi Hendrix. A
tremendous version of his classic "Moon In
June", recorded at this time, is rescued from the
only (barely surviving) acetate and appears on the Soft
Machine CD "Backwards" 33 years later.
- The Action split up.
Formed in August 1963, The Action had been a popular
Mod/R&B band, although they never managed a hit. In
recent months the group had begun to move in a more
psychedelic direction, especially when joined by
pianist/flautist Ian Whiteman and guitarist Martin Stone.
Vocalist Reg King left to go solo shortly after the group
cut a batch of demos that were finally released in the
90s. The group evolved into the progressively stoned
outfit Mighty Baby.
- Skip Bifferty split
up. Several group members form Arc in 1970. "We
cant carry on", says vocalist Graham Bell. He
attempts a solo career before joining Every Which Way.
- Steve Howes
Canto group changes its name to Bodast after bringing in
vocalist Clive Maldoon (AKA Skinner), although they are
still advertised as Canto for their
appearance at the Roundhouse (27th)
- World Of Oz hit #1 in
Holland with their Muffin Man single.
- BBC1 TV
Crackerjack-Tremeloes (6th), Marmalade (27th)
- BBC2 TV "Colour
Me Pop"--Timebox (7th), Love Sculpture (14th), Bonzo
Dog Doo Dah Band (21st).
- BBC "Happening
For Lulu" (28th)-includes appearances by Maurice
Gibb, Cartoone ("A Penny For The Sun" and
"Toby Jug") and The Tremeloes
- BBC TV "How It
Is"-Fairport Convention (13th)
- BBC2 TV Julie
Felix Show-The Hollies (14th)
- Southern ITV
"Time For Blackburn"-The Kinks, Casuals,
Timebox, Grapefruit (21st), The Move, Fortunes (28th)
- Granada ITV
Discotheque-Idle Race (27th)
- Thames ITV "Do Not Adjust Your
Stocking"- Bonzo Dog Band (25th)
- Thames ITV
Magpie-Yes (31st)
- French TV
"Surprise Partie"-The Who, The Troggs, Small
Faces, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac etc (30th)
- German TV "Beat
Club"-Joe Cocker, Manfred Mann, Simon Dupree &
the Big Sound, Bonzo Dog Band, Bee Gees, Marmalade (31st)
- Spanish TV
Telerittmo-Kinks (3rd), Status Quo (10th)
- BBC SESSIONS-Blossom
Toes (9th, Radio 1 Club), Bonzo Dog Band (21st, Saturday
Club), Alan Bown (30th-3rd Jan, David Symonds),
The Bunch
(2nd-6th, David Symonds), Bystanders (2nd-6th, Jimmy
Young-14th, Petes People), Cupids Inspiration
(2nd-6th, David Symonds-23rd-27th, Jimmy Young),
Cymbaline (2nd-6th, Dave Cash), Eclection (8th, Top
Gear), Episode Six (7th, Petes People-23rd-27th,
Jimmy Young-29th, Stuart Henry-31st, Radio 1 Club),
Fairport Convention (8th, Stuart Henry-15th, Night
Ride-22nd, Top Gear), Family (3rd, Radio 1
Club-16th-20th, David Symonds-30th-3rd Jan, David
Symonds), Free (17th, WS R&B), Grapefruit (9th-13th, Jimmy Young),
The Gun (2nd-6th,
David Symonds), Happy Magazine (16th-20th, David
Symonds), The Herd (28th,
Saturday Club), Honeybus (29th, Top Gear), Idle Race (2nd-6th,
David Symonds), Bert Jansch (18th, Night Ride),
Jethro
Tull (15th, Top Gear), Jigsaw (9th-13th, David Symonds--23rd-27th, David Symonds),
Katch 22 (2nd-6th, Jimmy Young), Kinks (23rd-27th, David
Symonds-30th-3rd Jan, Dave Cash), Locomotive (9th-13th, David Symonds),
Manfred Mann (2nd-6th,
Dave Cash-22nd, Top Gear-23rd-27th, Dave Cash), Marmalade
(15th, Petes People-16th-20th, Dave Cash-26th, Tony
Brandon), John Martyn (11th, Night Ride), Mike Stuart
Span (9th-13th, Dave Cash--30th-3rd Jan, Dave Cash), The Mirage (23rd-27th,
Dave Cash), Moody Blues (16th-20th, Jimmy Young),
The
Move (9th-13th, David Symonds-25th, Engelbert Humperdinck
Show), Mud (9th-13th, Dave Cash), The Nerve (2nd-6th, Dave Cash),
The Nice (1st, Top
Gear), The Onyx (16th-20th, David Symonds),
Orange
Bicycle (2nd-6th, Jimmy Young--9th-13th, Dave Cash--30th-3rd Jan, Dave Cash),
Pink Floyd (15th, Top Gear-20th, Radio 1 Club), Plastic
Penny (23rd-27th, David Symonds--28th, Saturday Club), Sallyangie (4th, Night
Ride), Searchers (30th-3rd Jan, Dave Cash),
Simon Dupree
& The Big Sound (2nd-6th, Jimmy Young-23rd-27th,
David Symonds), The Spectrum (16th-20th, Jimmy Young),
Spooky Tooth (4th, Radio 1 Club), Status Quo (9th-13th, Jimmy
Young--16th-20th,
Dave Cash), Symbols (30th-3rd Jan, Dave Cash),
Tangerine
Peel (2nd-6th, Dave Cash), Ten Years After (23rd, David
Symonds), Timebox (2nd-6th, Jimmy Young-8th, Petes
People--9th-13th, Dave Cash--30th-3rd Jan, Dave Cash), Tremeloes
(16th-20th,
David Symonds-21st, Saturday Club-23rd-27th, Dave
Cash-25th, Tony Brandons Pop Party--29th, Pete's
Sunday People), Van Der Graaf Generator (29th, Top Gear),
Writing On The Wall (8th, Top Gear)
WATCHING!
- The New Years
Eve Rave at Alexandra Palace stars The Small Faces, Amen
Corner, Bonzo Dog Band, Joe Cocker, The Gods, Kippington
Lodge, The Iveys and Gun. Dutch TV films the entire
event. Go HERE to
see some pictures from the souvenir programme.
- Marquee-House Of
Lords (1st, 22nd), Free (2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd), Family
(3rd), Village (3rd, 20th, 31st), Joe Cocker (5th, 19th),
Love Sculpture (6th), Dream Police (7th, 14th, 21st,
28th), Delivery (9th, 21st), Led Zeppelin (10th), Spice
(12th), East Of Eden (12th, 26th), Andromeda (14th), The
Who (17th), Yes (17th), Clouds (19th), Pegasus (23rd),
Ten Years After (26th), Just William (28th)
- Middle Earth-Gun,
Barclay James Harvest, Arcadium (7th), Uriel, Principal
Edwards Magic Theatre, Third Ear Band, Uriel (14th), Jeff
Beck Group, Blonde On Blonde (21st), Eire Apparent,
Canto, Edgar Broughton Band (27th), John Mayall,
Arcadium, Writing On The Wall, Uriel (28th) *Super
Star Jam Sessions are advertised for the nights of
the 27th/28th in addition to the groups named above.
Artists participating in these promised jams included The
Soft Machine, Noel Redding, Steve Howe, Mitch Mitchell,
Roy Wood, Carl Wayne and Zoot Money.
- Lyceum-New Formula
(5th, 12th, 19th, 26th)
- Speakeasy-Yes (13th,
24th, 31st)
- Blaises-Yes (8th,
26th)
- Hatchetts
Playground-The Toast (1st, 18th)
- 100 Club-Fairport
Convention, Greatest Show On Earth (12th), Timebox (13th)
- Revolution-Yes (13th,
16th)
- Whisky
AGo-Go-Tract (12th), South Sea Bubble (14th), The
Toast (15th), Rainbow Ffolly (24th), Riot Squad (25th),
Spring (28th), Octopus (29th)
- Klooks
Kleek-Ferris Wheel (5th), Roy Harper (10th), The Web
(12th), Van Der Graaf Generator (14th), Julie Driscoll,
Brian Auger & The Trinity (17th), Riot Squad (26th)
- Royal Albert
Hall-A Christmas Carol Party with everyone in
Dickensian dress and featuring Family, Julie Driscoll,
Brian Auger & The Trinity, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
(19th)
- Abergavenny Old Tyne
Barn-Gun (19th), Cupid's Inspiration (31st)
- Acton Town Hall-Simon
Dupree & The Big Sound, Free (13th)
- Pavilion, Bath-The
Who (9th), Jeff Beck Group, Led Zeppelin (16th)
- Belfast, Ulster Hall- Pentangle
(3rd)
- Bexley, Black
Prince-Timebox (15th)
- Birmingham Arts
Lab-Gun (13th)
- Birmingham,
Castaways-Spooky Tooth (1st)
- Birmingham, Factory
Club-Alan Bown (6th), Gun (14th)
- Mothers.
Birmingham-Eire Apparent, Caravan (6th), Eclection, Ron Geesin (14th), The Nice (15th), Gun (20th), Edgar Broughton
Band, Third Ear Band (21st), Ten Years After (22nd),
Family (24th), Colosseum (27th), Free (28th), Jethro Tull
(31st)
- Rhodes Centre,
Bishops Stortford-The Iveys (14th), The Toast
(16th), Episode Six (31st)
Borehamwood, New Links 69-Marmalade (14th)
- Gliderdome, Boston-
Amen Corner (7th), Alan Bown (14th), Status Quo (21st),
The Nice (28th)
- Bournemouth College- Pink Floyd
(5th)
- Ritz, Bournemouth-The
Sweet (7th), The Nice (17th)
- Bubbuls Club,
Brentwood-The Who (14th)
- Key Club,
Bridgend-The Nice (14th)
- Bridgend YMCA-Love
Sculpture (31st)
- Bridgwater Sydenham
Club-Orange Bicycle (20th)
- Brighton Dome- Pentangle (6th)
- Top Rank,
Brighton-The Nice, Orange Bicycle (27th)
- Bristol Corn
Exchange-Orange Bicycle (28th)
- Bristol
University-The Who (7th)
- Bridge Country Club,
Nr Canterbury-The Couriers (6th, 20th), Led Zeppelin
(13th, billed as The Yardbirds), Spencer Davis (27th)
- Caldicot, Severn View
Club-Orange Bicycle (18th)
- Canterbury, Elliott College- Gun
(7th)
- Chelsea, Pheasantry
Club-The Toast (17th)
- Cheltenham Spa
Lounge-The Toast (14th)
- Chingford Wellington
Avenue Youth Centre-The Sweet (20th)
- Canley College,
Coventry-Simon Dupree & the Big Sound, Glass
Menagerie, Kaleidoscope (7th)
- Cromer Royal Links
Pavilion-The Sweet (24th)
- Devizes Poperama-Alan
Bown (27th)
- Dundee College Of
Art-Pink Floyd, Gethsemane (12th)
- Dunfermline Kinema- Casuals (1st),
The Stoics (21st), Marmalade (29th)
- Dunstable, California
Ballroom-Locomotive (7th), Cupids Inspiration
(14th), The Herd (28th)
- Edmonton, Cooks Ferry
Inn-Spooky Tooth (2nd), Taste (16th)
- Elsmere, Elsmere
Hall-Greatest Show On Earth (3rd)
- City Hall, Exeter-Led
Zeppelin (19th)
- Glasgow
Maryland-Marmalade, Dream Police, Beatstalkers (28th)
- Hampstead Country
Club-Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation (1st), Ron Geesin &
Friends (4th), Gun (8th), Eclection (15th)
- Hanley, The Place-Joe
Cocker (15th), Locomotive (22nd), Alan Bown (26th),
Montanas (31st)
- Harlow Birdcage
Club-The Sweet (19th)
- Dacorum College,
Hemel Hempstead-Fairport Convention (10th)
- Hinckley, George
Ballroom-Grapefruit (28th)
- Hornsey Wood Tavern,
London-Ten Years After (13th), Family, Village (20th),
Jeff Beck (27th)
- Gaiety Ballroom,
Ramsey, Huntingdon-The Who (21st)
- Ipswich, Manor
Ballroom-The Nice (1st)
- Kidderminster, Frank
Freemans-Gun (15th)
- Leeds College Of
Art-Barclay James Harvest (16th)
- Leicester De Montfort Hall-
Pentangle (5th)
- Leyton Town
Baths-Simon Dupree & The Big Sound (14th)
- Red Lion,
Leytonstone-The Nice (5th), Freedom (26th)
- Little Baddow Village
Hall-The Sweet (18th)
- Liverpool Stadium- Pink Floyd, The
Move, The Klubs (7th, "Kaleidoscope '68)
- Kings College,
London-The Nice (10)
- London, Notre Dame
Hall-Open Mind (6th, 13th)
- London
Polytechnic-Family, Village (7th)
- London University
College-Terry Reid, Love Sculpture (7th)
- Manchester New
Century Hall-Gun (21st)
- Margate,
Dreamland-Alan Bown (31st)
- Morecombe Pier- Marmalade (26th,
27th)
- Nailsworth Town
Hall-Orange Bicycle (9th)
- City Hall, Newcastle-Pentangle
(1st), Pink Floyd (15th), The Nice (19th)
- Gala Ballroom,
Norwich-Status Quo (31st)
- Norwich Industrial
Club-The Sweet (31st)
- Nottingham
College-Kaleidoscope, Steamhammer (7th), The Nice (13th)
- Nottingham Union Rowing Club-
Hopscotch (7th), Gary Walker & The Rain (14th)
- Ombersley Wharf
Hotel-Greatest Show On Earth (1st)
- Winter Gardens,
Penzance-Jethro Tull (30th)
- Pinner, Clay
Pigeon-Marmalade (8th)
- Plymouth Top
Rank-Orange Bicycle (8th)
- Plymouth Van Dikes-Man (20th),
Village (26th), Third Ear Band, Clouds (27th), Keef
Hartley (28th), Juniors Eyes, Spirit Of John Morgan
(31st)
- Pontypridd Municipal
Hall-Status Quo (13th)
- Portsmouth, Kimbell's Blues Club-
Family (22nd)
- Reading
University-The Who (12th)
- Redcar Coatham
Hotel-Alan Bown (29th)
- Rhondda, Maerdy
Workmans Club-Orange Bicycle (22nd)
- Rhondda, Tynewydd
Club-Orange Bicycle (15th)
- Salisbury Alex Disco- Blossom Toes
(7th), Black Cat Bones (21st), Riot Squad (28th)
- Scarborough Scene
2-Status Quo (27th-28th)
- Scunthorpe Baths
Hall-Cupid's Inspiration (24th)
- Southampton
University-Barclay James Harvest (6th), Van Der Graaf Generator,
Principal Edwards Magic Theatre (12th)
- Southport, Cambridge
Hall-Cupid's Inspiration (20th)
- St Andrews
University-Pink Floyd (11th)
- Annabelles
Club, Sunderland-Status Quo (16th-17th)
- Taunton, Club
Camelot-Orange Bicycle (5th-7th)
- Tavistock Town Hall- Episode Six
(14th)
- Tonypandy N.U.M
Club-Orange Bicycle (14th)
- Tottenham, Sisters
Club-Taste (6th), Ten Years After (13th)
- Treorchy,
Polikoffs Club-Orange Bicycle (21st)
- Uxbridge, Brunel
University-Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band (13th)
- Uxbridge,
Burtons-The Spectrum (14th), Amboy Dukes (24th)
- Walthamstow Assembly
Hall-Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Pretty Things (12th)
- Weston Super Mare,
RAF Locking-Orange Bicycle (13th)
- Winter Gardens, Weston Super Mare-Status Quo (14th), Alan Bown (28th)
- Weybridge Brooklands
Tech College-Barclay James Harvest (13th)
- The Black Bull,
Whetstone-Taste (2nd), Van Der Graaf Generator (16th)
- Wolverhampton
Lafayette-Montanas (1st)
- Wolverhampton Park
Hall Hotel-Greatest Show On Earth (2nd)
- Fishmongers Arms,
Woodgreen-Arcadium (4th), Pete Brown/ Battered Ornaments,
Yes (6th), The Action, Sundae Times (13th), Freedom
(18th), Led Zeppelin, Closed Cell Sponge (20th),
Clark-Hutchinson, Sensory Armada (27th)
- Pavilion,
Worthing-The Who (19th)
- Yeovilton,
R.N.A.F-Orange Bicycle (19th)
- York Langworth
College-Gun (12th)
- York University-The
Nice (12th)
REVIEWS
Marmalade
There's a Lot Of
It About (LP): Hardly a progressive group but they turn out satisfying records,
both vocally and musically.
The
Nice
Ars Longa Vita
Brevis (LP): A vast improvement on their first album which shows them moving in
a direction far removed from any other group, British or American.
Pink
Floyd
Point Me At The
Sky: Point this at the chart and let it fly! Cynics who maintain that the Floyd
are a spent force should prepare to masticate their syllables. They have
successfully isolated a strain of pop production that is both infectious and
imaginative. The riffs are old but the sounds and thoughts are new. After
several plays the lyrics are still a little obscure, working on the assumption
they mean more than the introduction which simply talks about building a flying
machine and taking off. " 'Idden depth", that's what I suspect is
behind this Floydian hit.
Rhubarb
Rhubarb
Rainmaker: I was
hoping these would prove to be an original comic group, full of cries of
"rhubarb" but instead they are a dull "four-piece group from
Berkshire". Come on lads, you can do better then this.
Sundragon
Green Tambourine
(LP): A nice album by a new duo who play several instruments as well as
producing a neat, integrated vocal sound.
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