IS 2 RECORD MIRROR, August 7, 1971 Write to VAL, Record Mirror, 7 Carnaby St., tilirrormai London WIV IPG Anew Blind Faith album?Boys, Moody Blues or Led Fund,Bangladesh, I AM launching a by campaign for the Zeppelin failed to achieve. puttingonconcertsfor ThefactthatBlind variousresorts.First we release of all the Faith disbanded and this learn that only a few places unissuedBlindFaith material remained un- accepted his offer, and then tracks cut for Polydor released was one of the some backedout.That as a follow up to their mostapallingstatesof seemstypicalofthe BLIND FAITH: ONLYA HALF OF THEIR DOUBLE ALBUMISSUED? firstalbum. We were affairsinthe historyof attitude of the high-ups to music. - J. E. Rothwell, peoplewhoreallycare I REALLYmust protest atnot remain in catalogue for Whilst on the subject of heremembersthe given to understand 138 Banks Barn, Firtree, about something and are the way Kama Sutra many years to come, as soulquizes;surelythe crosswordquizclue. there was enough Skelmersdale. tryingtodosomething handled the re-release ofanother revival mini boom climate is ripe for another Apparentlyitsaid materialfora double I FELT I must write to RM constructive. It makes me `Leader Of The Pack'. It is acould occur like the of these competitions. As in something like, the Record album - but the afterreadingaboutthe feel so mad just to think very poor reproduction ofpresentone.-JESSE '66, B&B appears to be on CompanythatLovelace pbwersthatbe were arrest of Edgar Broughton. about it. JAMES, Jesse's Disco, 34A the upswing again. I am sure the original (on the Red Watkins recorded for in the He is one of the few people Then just to top Bird label), but the worstFleetStreet,Aylesbury, with the very hip R 'n' B somehow led to believe fifties.The answer being that the tracks should today who does anything everything, when the group part is that some lines of Bucks. orientated writers that you 'Groove'. to promote a new style ofhave arrived ready to give a the song have actually been have atpresent, such as not be released. music -excitingand concert they are led away James Hamilton, Bill Millar, cut out. RM readers were not slow BlindFaithwerethe honest. And he is one of bypolice.Doesn't any- I am very disappointed Tony C. and Uncle Charlie to attack Noel Edmonds first group in Britain to go the few people whobodycareaboutmoral with thisversion, and if Gillett, you could come up to botherstoworkfora Soul for his anti-RNI piece, but number one with an issues anymore. Or is with something worthy of anybody has a copy of the no-one asked why it was album, without having had charitable cause. Bangladesh so far away it original in good condition I us dedicated R'n'B fans, a single or album released All - well it's a gooddoesn't matter. will buy it for £1. - PHIL something nice and hard to written atall.That has deal more - he was trying now become obvious. before. This is something ROLAND CARTWRIGHT. HATHAWAY, 97 Heatherquiz get our memories working. thattheBeatles,Stones, to do is raise some money 92 Some weeks ago Tony Philbeach Gardens, Rd.,Newport, Mon. AS AN avid reader of Glancingthroughmy Monkees,Cream,Beach for the Save the ChildrenEarls Court, S.W.5. hundreds of cuttings from Blackburn said ina BBC radiointerviewthathe 'Echoes' and 'Inside RM coveringthelast WOULDN'T it be nice if all actuallylistened to RNI Straight',can I just decade, one cannot help the record companies in query a comment in the noticing how, ahead of its and that he though the Britaingottogetherto MOA a bad thing because Mania returns produce a rock & roll eta July 17 edition. timeitwas. The 'Great seriesby itrestricted competition. collectors series. The Under 'We Can Work Unknowns' Norman Jopling is a classic Edmonds forever seeking AS A keen concert goer It seems, however, thatme no end. Then to find a recentreissuesarevery It Out' it is stated that promotion, saw his chance I have noticed a very I waswrong.On twosimilar performance for T. welcome as they tend to example. Waybackin LovelaceWatkins '63/'64 he was writing on and dashed off his "I Love strange phenomenon consecutive nights I atten- Rex -well! This time, reduce 'rarity' prices and Auntie" article. Sure though, were keener on artistslikeMarvin Gaye, ded performances by Mott maybe helptheoriginal appeared in one of the enough,theBBC were returning to the music the Hoople and T. Rex. Atgetting to the front of the answers to RM's 1966 Jerry Butler, Otis Redding artists as well. etc. Indeed I even have a impressed, and gave him scene.I thought that I, both shows the strangeststage and waving their arms Graham Wood's listing soul quiz. This is not so. his reward in the form of as a twenty -three -year - thingshappened.Fromthan they were on dancing. ofover200 titlesof cutting from 1963 labelled Alongwithyour the upsurge of R'n'B, and holidayreplacementfor old, had witnessed the whereIsat in the Albert And outside the hall there million sellers in his 'A -Z Blackburn. Hall my view of Mott thewere crowds waiting for of Rock and Roll' could esteemed writersIalso showing amongst others a lastofthe screaming photo of Alexis Korner' - As I don't speak Dutch, Hoople was largely blocked the group to leave. providethebasisfora was one of the prize and frantic mania that BRUCE CUMMINGS, 95 I will in future mornings be by raving dancers of all I kind of felt likeI'd series of LPs which would winners in this quiz, and turningovertoRadio occurred when such ages,whoshook their beentransported backa be of lasting interest to all Kingsway,Alkrington, still having the cutting Middleton, N.anchester. London-boredomis groupsasthe Rolling headswildlyabout andgood few years - all very except label fanatics.Onceshowing the answers to better than nauseation any Stones, Small Faces - seemed spellbound by the strange! 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Jenni Frost Music Labo (Japan) PUBLISHING DIRECTOR Andre deVekey CIRCULATION MANAGER Ben Cree Record & Tape Retailer (U.K.) RECORD MIRROR, August 7, 1971 A VISIT TO THE LENNONS WITH VAL MABBSP The Apple and the Grapefruit 'THIS IS NOT HERE' "Yesofcoursethey It involves the riseof a was£200 - Iwouldn't buy should tryit", Yoko told building in London's Cromwell it!" says the lettering above Road, the stages of which have Iasked John how his own the enormous whiteme, looking eager to give been continuously filmed by aApple involvements were door of the Lennons'an explanation. "It's not a photographer. faring. book of poetry it'sreally "OhApple'sdoingfine. Berkshire home. But it "I'm not involved in making something that you can do. thefilm",Johnclarified."I Everychartinthe worldis appears to be the mostThere are many things that just conceived the idea." crammed with Apple recordF. obvious way in, so you "John's getting more Nobody can get on to the label I have mentioned that you creative than ever", said Yoko, without us saying - not that I ringthebell,which can do physically, but itis looking at him proudly. would want to stop any of the inevitably, perhaps, also a conceptual thing. I'm "People consider that he's gone others putting their artists on, doesn't work. not idealistic about it, John through his peak, but his peak though. isyet to come. It's the same "Ringohas a singerhe It'sondiscoveringa andIare very conceptual thing that people said to me in wants to record, but though it workable side entrance that people anyway." 1964 when I wrote Grapefruit,might not be what Ilike,I you begin to sense some but maybe that is not true. wouldn't stop him doing it. I'm logic in that statement. The FILMS notinterestedintheJames door might as well not be Taylors, etc. CREATIVE "Badfinger are going strong, there, though itis; so take Grapefruit was first they sold more than me round it as not existing. publishedin1964ina "InmanywaysJohnis the world with one of their Itseems fairlycredible hardback version, but itis going through his maturesingles.And we'vestillgot when you ponder the period,heisjustbecomingGrapefruit." now that the British "You introducedthem". subject, though several more and morecreative. He paperback editionat 40p gets many more ideas and hereminded Yoko, who takes an objects around the house has been produced. has to write them all down." activeinterestin Apple, with bear the same message - "Originally the book "Ithinkeverybody'sanJohn.It'sonly been the and it's then your theory sold fifty thousand copies", artist until some school teacheramount of timethatthey've beginsto waver.It'sthe said Yoko, "but that was says you're not, about the agebeen spending abroad fighting same with Yoko's of ten.