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the month long tour. The OFF TO AMERICA on Saturday go Led Zeppelin. And withthe group will be a film production unit which is making a film of Jimmy Page in the team has been trailing the group since their appearance atthe Albert Hall in January. So far in the can are shots of their European tour, recording studios and Robert Plant at home on his farm. Not tomention the presentation of gold discs to the group for millionmark sales of their l LP at the end of this year. and 2. The film, which has already been sold in America buthas yet to be sold here, is to tie in with the release of their next Which could easily sell another million. And which is why somepeople are nicknaming it "Goldrush". ANNOUNCING THE NEW

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1 1 WANDERIN' STAR Lee Marvin 2 3 BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER Simon and Garfunkel 3 2 LET IT BE Beatles 4 4 I WANT YOU BACK Jackson 5 5 8 6 17 CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE Andy Williams 7 9 YEARS MAY COME YEARS MAY GO Herman's Hermits 8 11 DON'T CRY DADDY Elvis Presley 9 13 NA NA HEY HEY KISS HIM GOODBYE Steam 10 6 INSTANT KARMA Lennon/Ono with the Plastic Ono Band 11 20 EVERYBODY GET TOGETHER Dave Clark Five 12 7 LET'S WORK TOGETHER Canned Heat 13 18 SOMETHING'S BURNING Kenny Rogers and the First Edition 14 10 RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN' ON MY HEAD Sacha Distel 15 22YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK Body Andy and Marcia Griffiths 16 12 UNITED WE STAND 17 5 LOVE GROWS Edison Lighthouse FROM 18 14 MY BABY LOVES LOVIN' White Plains THE FRENCH 19 15 LEAVIN' ON A JET PLANE Peter, Paul and Mary HIT 20 21 TWO LITTLE BOYS Roif Harris PARADE 21 24 ELIZABETHAN REGGAE Boris Gardner 22 16 VENUS Shocking 2329 FAREWELL IS A LONELY SOUND Jimmy Ruffin SAINT 24 19 TEMMA HARBOUR Mary Hopkin 2526TILL Dorothy Squires PREUX 2628 YOU'RE SUCH A GOOD LOOKING WOMAN 27 27 SYMPATHY 2825 JOY OF LIVING Cliff and Hank Concerto 29 44 WHO DO YOU LOVE Juicy Lucy For 30 32 MY WAY Frank Sinatra 31 23BOTH SIDES NOW Judy Collins One THE 32 29 BE YOUNG BE FOOLISH BE HAPPY Tams SECOND 33(-)NOBODY'S FOOL Jim Reeves (RCA 191b, Voice GENERATION 34 47 WHEN JULIE CONES AROUND Cuff Links MM693 35 38 SUGAR SUGAR Archies `ready or not 11S1' 36(-) WHY (Must We Fall In Love) Supremes/Temptations here I come' (Tamla Motown TMG 730) An A.Z. MM692 37 50 STREET CALLED HOPE Gene Pitney Recording 38 31 WITCH'S PROMISE/TEACHER Jethro Tull 39 48 EVERYBODY'S TALKIN' Nilsson PEWORDS712 40(-)BY THE WAY Tremeloes (CBS 4815) 41 34 BUT YOU LOVE ME DADDY Jim Reeves 42 45 MY WOMAN'S MAN Dave Dee 4336 I'LL GO ON HOPING Des O'Connor 44 35 DOWN ON THE CORNER Creedence Clearwater Revival 45 41 HITCHIN' A RIDE Vanity Fare 4630 RUBY DON'T TAKE YOUR LOVE TO TOWN K. Rogers/First Edition 47(-)I CAN'T HELP MYSELF Four Tops (Tamla Motown TMG 732) 48(-)SPIRIT IN THE SKY Norman Greenbaum (Reprise RS 20885) 49 33 I'M A MAN Chicago 5040 COME AND GET IT MAJOR MINOR RECORDS Gt. Marlborough Street, London W.1.

RECORD MIRROR, March 14, 1970. BUT WHERE IS LUXEMBOURG? by RODNEY COLLINS The Grand Duchy is an independent sovereign state and the Because they tend to feel cut off from England, the disc city itself is one thousand years old. jockeys all value fan mail. Each of them can get anything up to The headquarters of Radio-Tele Luxembourg look rather200 letters in a really good week. ancient in a nice way. The disc jockeys out there - four for the "Thenthereare the priorityrequestcards,"said David English service, Tony Prince, Paul Burnett, Bob Stewart andChristian. "We get a couple of hundred of those a week, too - David Christian - all live in the city. Three are married and alland we try to play all the requests." find the Luxembourg people friendly even if they are inclined to Any member of the Radio Luxembourg Fan Club - it costs "keep themselves to themselves". ten shillings to join - can get a 'priority' request on '208'. They Perhaps, though, these people resent thousands of visitorsget six cards a year for free requests and disc jockeys give these descending upon their small, quiet country each year. The discpriority over the air. Additionally, the club has its own newspaper jockeys, however, because of their personalities make friendswhichissent free to members. This includes more request easily. Paul Burnett has married a Luxembourg girl, Nicole. Tonycoupons. Tony Prince sums up Luxembourg's policy in a few words. THE HEADQUARTERS of Radio-Tele Luxembourg at Villa Lougviny in PrincehasrecentlymarriedhisOldham -bornchildhood the Grand Duchy. From this building, programmes are beamed to Britain, sweetheart, Christine. Bob Stewart moved to Luxembourg last"We talk to the listener and not at him. And Luxembourg Germany, Holland, and Luxembourg throughout the day and year with his wife and new baby Daren Mark. involved the listener in the station. That's it." evening. "Luxembourg is a wonderful place to live but it is incredibly The policies of '208' from their villa in the Grand Duchy. expensive here. A tin of baby food for instance costs fourWhen you think of the top DJ's, don't forget the Luxembourg SO THIS was Radio '208' Luxembourg or, as it used to be called, shillings here whereas it would be about tenpence at home," Bobmen. You'll be reading more about them in RM in the coming `The Station Of The Stars'. Somehow itwasn't what I wasStewart told me. weeks. expecting at all. "All food is more expensive but things like cars and cigarettes THERE ARE four regular announcers on '208' out in the Grand Duchy. This station that has been broadcasting regularly to Britain for are much cheaper. But you can't live on fried cars," he smiled. Here they are - Tony Prince, Paul Burnett, and Bob Stewart. All four years now, is located at the Villa Lougviny in the city. All the Some of thedisc jockeys feelthe biggest drawback of broadcast six evenings a week dee-laying shows, and reading the national services of Radio-Tele Luxembourg are transmitted from there -Luxembourg is being about 400 miles from London where, they and the pop news compiled by RM. a large rambling building with white marble floors set among thebelieve, itallstill happens. One music paper last year described trees in one of Luxembourg's many parks. them as the four forgotten men of pop. It snowed almost continually during our visit and the city "To a certain extent I suppose that's true," said Paul. "It's appeared as one of those dream worlds you read about in thegreat fun working for 208 because it is commercial radio and that colour magazines or see annually in pantomime at the London is something we all believe in very strongly indeed. Palladium. "The only problem is that our head office for the English Earlier, at Brussels, while waiting for a plane connection that service is so far away. We really look forward to our mail which never came, I had wondered exactly where is Luxembourg. We've comes each week because we obviously tend to lose touch with all listened to the station, probably know the names of the discEngland. We get about one month a year back there but it jockeys off by heart . .. but where is it? obviously isn't the same." If you asked the average American tourist where Luxembourg All the DJ's however, enjoy working for '208'. They have was he would probably tell you it was a stopping -off place for thesettled down to the slow pace of Luxembourg life. "There's Bahamas (you can fly to the Bahamas at a cheaper rate fromsomething rather romantic about life here", said one of the team

Luxembourg) . . . others would say it was situated bang slap inwho then asked me not to quote him on that. I won't. Are there the middle of Europe. any language problems. That's the trouble with Lux, you see. Nobody goes there "A few but a lot of people speak English here, said Tony unless they are going on to somewhere else. The local childrenPrince, Oldham's 'Royal Ruler'. "When my wife Christine came leave home after schooling, because they cannot really train to beover here, she couldn't speak a word of the language but she anything there. managed to get along fine.Ithink it's really a question of But where exactly is Luxembourg? Well, it is a small countryadapting yourself to a slightly different way of life, that's all. - about 1000 square miles - with about one third of it covered Tony admits that he has undergone a change of style since with forests. Population is about 335,000. From the city, you canjoining '208'. "I've had to mature a little with Luxembourg. drive to Germany or Belgium in just a few hours. Itis in theWhen I started here I said a few silly things but we're through all centre - so itis an ideal situation for a radio station aiming for athat now. Out on the pirates you could say anything and get large European audience. away with it."

JUST BECAUSE yousing because we're curious. I'm a fanatic Stones to Frank Sinatra. I even dig bubblegum doesn't mean you have onantiquesandoldthingsin the 1910 FruitgumCompany. COMMERCIAL CUFFLINKS to chew it. The Cuff Links have had general and this country is full of Musicisreallyonly one bag - to chew some bubblegum in their aged buildings and products of a professional and artistic.It's time, but a lot of it stuck in their longheritage.Thecobblestones purpose is to relay a thought or a throats. here and there, Big Ben and the feeling, but if you're going to say "First of all," said lead singer palace.In the States,it's nothing something, you'd better believe it, Joey Cord, "we prefer to think of it but 'George Washington slept here' or the feeling won't be there. Like

as 'Sweetrock'rather than plasteredon a wall. We aren't those two tracks I mentioned that I bubblegum. We've donea few disappointed with the U.S., it's our never liked. We did those tracks that we don't really like - there are homeland, but it reallyis thrilling when we were sessionmen. We two that I hate on the LP. 'Tracy', to visit other places. Every country didn't like them then and we don't but we'regettingtothepoint has it'sfaults,butwe'rejust like them now, so we never include where those disagreeable numbers touristsand workers. We aren't them in our concert repertoire. You can be eliminated. Each of our involved in any politics. The people cantellwhen someone doesn't singles is a little more complex and are our concern.I want to try and believeinwhathe'ssinging;it says a little more than the last one. deal with people as individuals and becomes an obvious overstatement.

This transcendence will carry us out not as crowds. I like to meet as However, there is no harm in doing of the 'Sweetrock' image and into many different persons as I can it, because some of the tunes are more worthwhile and lasting music wherever I go.I am an outspoken catchy and listenerslike to hear - we hope. That doesn't mean to person myself,whichhelpsin them. We're very commercial and say that our past stuff was bad, getting to know people. I am not we don't believein some of the

there is a place for simple music. As shy. I am what I am, not what things we do, but some people like long as itbringsenjoyment to people like me to be - that's the it,soit'sworthwhile. Musicisa people." definition of a friend. way of giving vent to feelings. Our I pointed out that the majority "This attitude has been part of way of doing things for people is of bubblegum groups have one hit me most of my life, as I came from the way Disney did it - escapism. and fade away. They also have a a very close family. We used to sing Giving people a momentof

tendency to remain anonymous - a lot - whistle while we worked. I happiness. Music is ninety per cent appearances by such groups are rare carried that into music and dealings of my life.I whistle tunes when I'm and no image is ever attached to with people. The whole group is walking down the street. When I see their records. interested in peopleandbeing another performer, my foot taps to "Decca wanted us to come over accepted.Nobodywants tobe his music and I envy him. Music is a so the same thing wouldn't happen rejected. We liketoplease and pathway to the people. You'd like to us. They felt that by letting it go we're pleased in pleasing. to get to know everyone, but you unattended in Europe, 'Tracy' "Musically, we have varied tastes can't, so you try to know everyone wouldneverbecome an that you wouldn't think possible that you can." international hit. from what we do on record. I like A fair bit of philosophy. We wanted to come anyway, things from 'La Boheme' to the LON GODDARD

RECORD MIRROR, March 21,1970 3 RoundhouseNew from the Trems, Fairport forpop proms Hollies THE POP PROMS atLondon'sTHE HOLLIES follow-up to the Roundhouse, will take place eachhuge hit, "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Extravaganza '70 evening from Monday, April 20 -Brother" will be "You Can't Tell Saturday, April 25. The Bottom From The Top" and THE TREMELOES, , Tyrannosauros Rex, The line-up is as follows: April issued on April 19. , and Simon Dee have been booked for Extravaganza 20,Traffic,Mott TheHoople, The group,who have just '70 - Britain's first ever pop and fashion festival. Bronco, If; 21, Tyrannosaurus Rex, completed filming an appearance Negotiations are going on to secure Arlo Guthrie, Spooky Tooth; 22, Johnriy Winter,for the "Julie Felix Show", fly to Juicy Lucy;; 23, FairportGermany next week for a concert andClodaghRodgersfor the show which is being solelyConvention, Fotheringay, tour, which closes on April 7. sponsored by Record Mirror. Matthew's Southern Comfort; 24, A college tour of America is in The festival - which will feature the latest and greatest in Fleetwood Mac, Mighty Baby; 25, lineforthe endofApril. The progressive music, hard rock and pop - opens at Olympia on GingerBaker'sAirForce, ZootHollies "Heavy" single received a Money, Toe Fat, Jody Grind. gold discinthe States and their Friday, May 29. Itis hoped Frank Zappa will new has already entered the TAMLA MOTOWN recording star , with two girls, patients It will run for eight fun-packed days. Extravangaza '70 is fastmake an appearance and chart there. of the Eye Institute of the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Centreih New becoming the shop window for the trend, fashion and music you negotiations are in progress for the The Hollies will play a week's York. The centre examines and treats thousands of children a year with can expect to hhear this year. event to be televised by the BBCcabaret in Birmingham in May. eye trouble. Stevie, who received the Fight for Sight 1969Show Business for a TV special later in the year. Apart from the legion of record companies who are queueing Inspiration Award, for his compelling achievements in the worldof second Cambridge Jazz entertainment," gave away hundreds of his records to the kids before his up to take part in the festival, Britain's leading fashion houses will The Festivaltakes place at the Corn debut engagement at the famous Copacabana Club. be showing off their latest designs. Exchange, Cambridgeand lasts WHO DATES Take Six - one of the leaders in the field - are taking a stand threedays. Amongtheartists appearingontheopeningday play a series of concerts at the festival to reveal their secret plans for fashion in the (August29) are: KenColyer, in Britain before leaving for their Lennons pull out summer. Sammy Rimington, SteveLane's American tour in June. The dates SouthernStompers andthe Otherartists bookedthrough N E MS to appearat are as follows. possibilityofPercyHumphreys Extravanganza '70 include: Matthew's Southern Comfort, the April18,Leicester University; of Toronto fest from NewOrleans.August30 25,NottinghamUniversity; features Alex Welsh, Alan Elsdon, 27, JOHN AND YOKO Lennon have pulled out of the giant Toronto Pretty Things and the first London appearance of Syd Barrett. CivicHall, George Chisholm and Beryl Bryden. Dunstable;May 1, Peace Festival set for July 3 to 5. The couple have disagreed with Each day there will be personal appearances by top artists and ExeterUniversity; The lastdayhas the Maynard 2, Sheffield Karma Productions, the festivals organisers, about making the djs. More news of this pop event of 1970 next week . . . only in FergusonOrchestra, Swingle University; 8, University; festival into a profit -making venture. Record Mirror. Singers and Kathy Stobart. 9, Manchester University; 15, Lancaster University. Originally they agreed that A new album is being prepared people should be charged Terrell dies for release later this year.Itwill admittance,butlater John and Country label AMERICAN SINGING star, Tammi consistof material Yoko decided they would like it to hitherto A NEW recordlabel - devoted Terrell died thisweek in a un-released and taken frcim concert be a free festival. Philadelphia hospital. She was 24 performances. The orgainisers, however, haveentirely to - is being and had been ill for some time. The been advised against free concerts started by Major Minor Records. cause of death is not known but she because of the need to control the Called simply "Country", the label suffered from a brain tumor some audience. However, they have is being launched with a Traffic competition to find the best man time ago. invited John and Yoko as guests. and woman country singers and the Tammi replaced Kim Weston as TRAFFIC AND Spooky Tooth will Already booked forthe three Marvin Gaye's singing partner and dayfestivalare Johnny Winter,best country group in Britain. The both give a benefit concert for their winners will be given prizes of £100 had such hits as 'Good Lovin' Ain't road manager Albert Heaton at the Chicago, Procol Harum, Easy To Come By' and 'The Onion Youngbloods, B. B. King, Booker Teach and offered contracts on the Market Hall, Carlisle, on May 21. new label. .' Heaton at the Market Hall, Carlisle, andtheM.G.'s,SpiritandTaj on May 21. Heaton was involved in Mahal. , through Allen a road accident in February and has Klein, are reported to have asked Bob and since been unconcious. for two million dollars or 75 per REGGAE cent of the takings to appear at the festival. Marcia TOP TWENTY Seeker: new group Revival in BOB ANDY and Marcia Griffiths, This Last inRM's Top 50 with "Young, Week Week ANOTHER FORMER Seeker is GiftedAndBlack,"arrivedin returningtopop with a new group. Athol Guy is forming the Britain Britain this week. They are here for 1 2 CLINT EASTVVOOD an 8 -week promotional tour which The Upsetters Punch 21 'YoungAustralians'whichwill CREEDENCE CLEARWATER Revival who crashedour chartsincludes ballroom and club dates. 2 1 - BIRTH CONTROL CPS investigate debut at the Worlds Fair in Japan While in Britain, the duo will recora Lloyd Tyrell PM 792 next month. with'ProudMary','Bad Moon The group consists of 26 boys Rising', ('Green River' and 'Downan album and a single for release 3 17IN THIS WORLD on the Corner', arrived in Britain onbefore they return to America. The Federals Camel 40 Stones pirate LP and girls aged between 16 and 21. The 'Young Australians' first single April 7. 4 - MR POPCORN THE SOURCES of Pirate album 'Liver Than The American quartet will play Laurel Aitken Nu Beat 048 You'll Ever Be' are gradually being uncovered by the mechanicalmay be "Let There Be Peace", written by Australians Alan Slater only two concerts here. Both will Pitney tour 5 18 SOME DAY WE'LL CopyrightProtectionSociety - whose jobistoprotectand Dean Baulerstone. be at London's Royal Albert Hall BE TOGETHER copy rights. on April 14 and 15. The other dates The Marvels Gas 139 GENE PITNEY'S current tour of Mr. R. C.Ellis,thy society's onthe tourwillbein Europe, Britian has been extended. Pitney 6 3 SENTIMENTAL MAN securityofficer commented "We finishing in Paris on April 15. Theirwill play an extra week of dates- Ernest Wilson Crab 45 aregraduallyprogressinginour newsingle'Travellin'Band' is April 14 Gaumont, Ipswich 15 - released in Britain today (Friday). 7 6 MOON HOP investigations I- although I don't ABC Northampton: 16 - Granada, Derrick Morgan Crab 32 want to say anything more definite Shrewsbury: 17 -Granada, Bolton; at this moment." IIIThe Foundations go to18 - Odeon,Derby. Gene will 8 6 JESSIE JAMES The albums are believed to be America for an 8 -week tour at there-vist the Batley Variety Club for a Laurel Aitken Nu Beat 045 producedinthis country - like end of June. While there, they playfurther week's cabaret from April a 4 -week season in Las Vegas. 9 4 LOOK WHO A Dylan's'GreatWhiteWonder', 19 - 25. BUSS -STYLE which was stopped by the society The Mediators Success RE 901 recently - although some copies of 10 15 DRY ACID the legal Stones' album are being The Upsetters Punch 19 shipped in from Holland. recordNew discs for Very few of the copies, in fact, 11 7 PRETTY COTTAGE Stranger Cole Escort 810 originate from America although most of the other pirate albums Easter 12 12GIRL WHAT YOU ARE mirror currently available are still DOING TO ME AMONG THE singles for release on imported from the States - such as Owen Gray Camel CA 25 7, Carnaby St, Thursday, 26th March, due to the 'Stealin" and 'Troubled Troubador' Bank Holiday, are those from Rick 13 16 COPY CAT by Bob Dylan. London, Nelson, , Richie The Clan Bullit BU 419 The English version of the album Havens,Cupid'sInspirationand 14 7 RETURN OF THE UGLY comes with plain black labels with The Upsetters Punch 18 W1V 1PG Long John Baldry. the name stamped on the sleeves. The list of records is: DECCA 15 9 DERRICK 'THE POP' 'Live In Vain' - included on the GER 8090 The Bachelors - 'All of a Sudden Derrick Morgan Unity 540 American label - is missing. My Heart Sings'; Peter Gordeno - 16 17 WITHOUT MY LOVE TheStones'musicpublishers EDITOR PURI PM Me LONDON Little Roy Crab 39 and record companyin America ' Let Go'; Pf'tPrJoni., AMERICAN WilbertHarrison - 17 11 CAT NIP have issued writs to try and stop The Hippy Boys Camel 29 EXECUI IV;I PI OR 'Staggerlee'; MONUMENT Tony thewidespreaddistributionof Joe White - 'Groupie Girl'; MCA 'Liver Than You'll Ever Be'. David '3, 18 14 SOCK IT TO ME Rick Nelson - 'Red Balloon'; REX SOUL BROTHER Meanwhile work is finishing on PROP! II r It trlI O1 T_OR Bill Mosseama PM 765 The Sandmen - 'Mr.Sunshine'; the Stones' official live album taken The Memories - 'Exodus'; WAND 19 5 SENTIMENTAL REASON from their recent U.S. tour. FOLLOWINGINIanAnderson'sfootsteps, Jethro Tull's bass guitarist NE I 1110 The Maytones Camel 27 B.J. 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4 RECORD MIRROR, March 21, 1970 Music... Airforce Radio One ...what music?top holiday was most apalled throughout the duration, finding fest bill Easter spot myself not at liberty to get up and acquire a drink GINGER BAKER'S AIRFORCE or some Hors d'Oeuvres. Being of a conservative ARE to top the bill on Sunday, nature,I found Black Widow's entire perIormance May 24 in a Bank Holiday Festival a strain asItried desperately not to look at the atPlumptonRace Course.The for Beatles rude offerings on stage. However, the devil in me festivalis being staged by Maurice won out and tearing my hands from my eyes what King,John Hammett andMike THE BEATLES are returning to Radio One at Easter for a did I perceive? Other glassy eyed journalists, Rispoli, and £8,000 is now being previously undefiled, gaping as the censors hard spent to prepare the grounds. Full special programme, which may include some 'live' material from wroughtethics werestripped bare and sinful refreshment andtoiletfacilities the group! protrusions bulged forth. will be provided. And that's not all.Ringois booked for a'live' dee-jaying Black Widow were presenting their act, which Richie Havens will head the bill spot on the top -rated "Open House" request show. revolves around witchcraft, for the first time to the on Saturday, May 23 and other THE BBC special groups such as the Beatles, 'Stones press andsuch licentiousnessobviously artiststoappear duringthe -'The BeatlesToday' embarrassed wholesome writersofthis highly weekendinclude,JulieDirscolll, -willreplace or Who could perform'live' on respectedtrade.Also submergedinthe utter with Keith Tippett, Judas Jump, "What's New?" on Easter Monday Radio One by making their own afternoon. It has been planned by depravity were scores of London's witches and the ChickenShack, KingCrimson, tapesforinclusion in our king, Alex Sanders, who observed with lustful glee 'SceneandHeard's'production programmes." Black Sabbath,Savoy Brown, teamtogether as his wife (pictured) Maxine cavorted starkers FairportParlour, with George Ringo Starr will broadcast on Steamhammer, Harrison, who has visited Aeolian through devlish rituals. Representing Astaroth, she Christine Perfect and the Gun. the March 31edition of "Open was symbolically raped before our virtous eyes and Hall fordiscussions with the House".Theshow will be Maur iceKing is currently programmes's then pranced sans apparel until being sacrificed by negotiating for Blood Sweat and producer, Ted compered as usual by Pete Murray. sword in the final 'hair raising' scene. Beston. Ringo approached the BBC's Tears and Peter Paul and Mary to The possibility It was apparent that pressmen, myself included, join the Festival. Tickets for the of the Beatles "Open House" team through felt that their eyes had beheld a sight so unabashed making some tapes available to the Apple earlier this year offering to fullweekendareavailable from BBC for broadcast over one of that the proper tradition of receptions had been the appear in the series. MikeRispoli Agency. 4 Radio One's daily programmes is dredged away and gorged with profligacy. Gerrard Street, London W1, at a The RM understands that the one of the industry's main talking Beatlesare anxioustoinvolve Friends, I feel I am no longer worthy of the cost of 50/-, each. companionship of myfellowsafterhaving points this week. themselves more in radio and TV succumbed to viewing this flagrantdisplay of Mark White, the network's chief inthefuture.This could mean pagan ritual and oh gosh, sex. Even nowI am Jensen for assistant told RM this week: "Wefurther broadcasts later this year desperate to find a method of cleansing myself and have heard nothing about this.It and,itisalso rumoured, a'live' SACRIFICE TO MUSIC? resuming my role asa world renowned news is true, however, that the BBC has concertfromthegroupat a MERCIFUL HEAVENS! Receptionsjustain't reporter. Luxembourg made suggestions in the past that London venue. what they used to be. No more exciting chatter Incidentally, there is talk of hiring a theatre so androllickingbooze -ups;nowit'sdangerous Black Widow can present their act to the public. RADIO LUXEMBOURG springs a female exposurebent on turninginnocent Actually, ifI left the 'L' out of public, it would be major surprise on its listeners this reporters into drooling sex fiends. What will our an accurate description. The music - what music? week by bringing BACK one of parents think? Absolute afFRONTery? Ifor one Hoo hah theformerannouncers, Kid Jensen. Jensen left '208' last December after working on the station as a residentstaffannouncer.Heis flying back from Canada this week. RadioLuxembourg was persuaded to ask Jensen to return to the station afterreceiving thousands of signatures on a petitionorganisedbyFab 208 magazine. Geoffrey Everitt, British Luxembourg boss, told RM: "We are verypleasedtohaveKid Jensen back with us once again." Jensen hadoriginallyleftthe stationtocompletehiscollege education in Canada. Orbison to tour Britain ROY ORBISON starts an extensive tourofBritain on April 24in Torquay. He will be backed on the tour by The Art Movement. On the26th,heappearsfortwo New 1 series from Beatles slipweeks at the Fiesta Club, Stockton THE BEATLES are going down the -and plays Batley from May 10-16. charts this week - two weeks after Histour is expectedtofinish Warner -Reprise their 'Let It Be' was released. The mid -way through June. record entered last week's charts at ON MAY 15, Warner -Reprise Sammy Davis Jr, Count Basie, FatsNo.2 and looked like knocking Lee Zoot Money has re-formed his releasethefirstofa new label Domino, Bill Haley, Duane Eddy,Marvin's 'Wanderin' Star' from the band and is currently in the studios Trini Lopez, the Everly Brothers,top this week. However, 'Let It Be' recording an album anck a single. series called 'Valiant'. The Valiant Keely Smith,Buddy Greco andhas moved backwardstothird The sessions are being produced by label willfeaturewell known Duke Ellington. positionwhileSimon and Alan Price. 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RECORD MIRROR, March 21,1970 5 HAPPY MOVE WHEN A GROUP CHANGES its line-up and, most of all, its style 'old' material tends to be a thing rather best forgotten. But the Move's latest album 'Shazam', which features Carl Wayne, has proved to be something of a mixed blessing. The Rolling Stones were so impressed with it that they sent a telegram to the Move telling them it was the best LP they'd heard for five years! Praise indeed. But having worked on the material for the album for almost a year and considering their new fiery approach to their music, the Move find it all a little tiring. As Rick Price explained: "Since Jeff Lynne joined us it's made a great difference. And it's certainly altered the sound entirely." "I don't really like the album," added Roy. "But perhaps that's because Carl is on it. Mind you it's a good album sleeve." Left to right: Bev Bevan, Rick Price, Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne. The cover is certainly different. The colours are stark and the Move are depicted as 'Supermen' cartoon -type characters, with can't experiment so much with vocals. It takes a lot to arrange six "All the stage numbers we do in future willbe entirely their faces super -imposed. The cover was in fact designed by a different parts for voices, but with three voices only you can't get original," Jeff told me. "Both Roy and Iparticularly like classical friend "f the group, Mike Sheridan, who is also involved on a new enough power." music, and I personally love to listen to sad songs. I always feel project with Rick. Jeff Lynne, new member of the Move, who had previouslyhappiest when Ilisten to them! I have written jolly songs though, like "The Skeleton and the Roundabout'." The last statement "We're working an an album together," he revealed. "Whichworked with a highly respected though commercially unsuccessful group, the Idle Race, joined us at this point, havingwas added with a grimace. willconsist ofallour own compositions. We each sing the . . . "Ilike- some typical pop though," added Roy. "I think the numbers we wrote, some times duetting on those we co -wrote. Itbroken away from an ever increasing number of interviews best number the Move have recorded is 'Blackberry Way'. But we will probably be released on Presiden't new label and is to be He's still passing through a phase of 'settling in', but is obviously want to include more of our classical influence now too. I really called 'This is to Certify That'. And you can mention that I'll be happy with the reactions both within and without the group. like pieces of music like '2001 A Space Oddysey'." producing it!" "The first date we've played together was the Belfry at Sutton Coldfield and the reaction was quite good. NaturallyI was a bit In the meantime, the Move recognise they must fight to be Rick is able to venture into different recording fields as he is worried, not so much about the audience, as whether I'd learnedaccepted on a different musical plane. As Roy Wood said. not personally contracted to anyone. "I'm smart," he laughed, all the numbers well enough." "We would very much like to do a John Peel Show, but we and well he may as he is also planning to record a group album "With the group before," added Roy Wood. "We had oneweren't quite his cup of tea before. I think we would be now, but with fellow musicians and friends. person who wasn't an instrumentalist, so now we have to adjust.of course we have to prove it. And you can't really appear on the "I'm planning to use a five piece band with brass. All the With three guitarists you have to remember to hold back a littleother people's shows, like we might have in the past, because then musicians will be well-known names, andI'll be stealing them to let someone else have a bash." John Peel wouldn't want to know." away from their groups for about a month for rehearsals. The AlthoughRoy andJeffhavenotreallyhadtimeto When group members change, regardless of their quality, there outcome of that will be an album, and then we'll all go back to concentrate on their songwriting, Jeff's lyrical powers added tomust always be a transitory period. But the Move have one big our own groups, As I worked with a vocal harm ony group Sightthe Move will obviously become a large influence upon them. The advantage. As Bev Bevan summed up: and Sound before, I'd like to include a lot of harmony work on group's current single 'Brontosaurus' is a Roy Wood composition, "It's the happiest the group's been for ages, and it's great." the album. As the Move is basically an instrumental unit you but we can well expect to see combined efforts in the future. VALERIE MABBS

Graham Field, Dave Kaffinetti on electricpianoand ex -Turnstile member, Mark FLYING HIGH Ashton on drums. THERE WAS A TIME when a applause. with those ten years ago. "This is the first group I've progressivegroupwouldn't "Basically, we're an album Rare Bird played their first sungwith,"Stevesaid."I reviews dream of putting out a single - and performinggroup and gigat the beginning of last joined Rare Bird last October their music was album material singles are just a trailer of what December at Mothers in when it was known as 'The Bed Zabriskie Point: Poignant only. we can do.If we went on Birmingham. When their Sitting Room Group'. This was The boy in Antonioni's 'Zabriski Point'is played by Mark Rare Bird made our chartsmaking singles, I think we'd manager, Tony Stratton -Smith because we were rehearsing in Frechette. A student and part time truck driver, he is besieged with "Sympathy" (one of thebecom e too chart conscious saw them in the first place, he Graham's roominLondon. by the enormity ofhis surroundings and frustrated by his numbers fromtheir album), Even if"Sympathy'made couldn't believe they had been The wholeconceptofthe generation with their clumsy demanding pursuit to conform and bassist/singer, Steve Gouldnumber one, it wouldn't affect workingtogetherforthree group wasGraham's. He's against conformity. Outcast by all for his refusal to join sides, had this to say about the singleo'ir musical policy." months and hadn't been on the known to us as 'The Major' and he skirts the perimenters of both the revolutionary and the situation: "The hit has really Rare Bird's musical policy road before. has done over 2,000 sessions policestateuntilnearly driven to murder during acollege helped to break us withcontains a good sense of They got a residencyat on keyboardinstrumentsin takeover bidathisuniversity.Witnesstothekilling of a audiences. I don't think theredynamics - whichiswhat London's Marquee Club and recordingstudios.Everything policeman, he finds himself captured by a TV camera and seeks is anything wrong with doing agood progressive musicisall the prestige that went with it. we play is written and arranged to escape the whole dehumanizing vat by 'borrowing' a small good 'single' song at all evenabout.In the oldpop era, Thiswas possiblythebest each of us aircraft and soaring above it all. though we might be referred todynamicsdidn'tplay much thing that happened to them, by us and contribute ideas to a number. Simultaneously, a young girl snaps loose from her father and as a progressive band. In ourpart. Butthe musicians They were able to experiment 'Sympathy'is an example of allthat his myriad billions represent. In a battered jalopy, she act we do the song because the .r.E.1 improvise and the main involved these days are more turns towards the desert and drives -lookingfora mythical audience expects it, but we go thing the Marquee taught them this. We weren't really keen to awareoftheirmusical haven of meditation and a chance to think. straight into the next number was to SWING. Apart from release it as a single because it background and infinitely Buzzed by Frachette in his light aircraft, the couple meet in withoutwaitingforanybetter musicianscompared Steve, Rare Bird has organist doesn't represent what we're all about. It's indicative of onlythe endless desert where one of the most poignant, symbolic a small part of what we can do." and revealinglove scenes takes places - atZabriskiPoint. Despite the hit, Rare Bird Realising that relief and contentment in such circumstances can will still continue to work such onlybe temporary,Frachette soondecides toreturnthe Carroll clubsas London's Marquee, borrowed plane and try to lose himself inLos Angeles while MothersinBirmingham and the girl, Daria Halprin, sadly returns to her lonely desert road. the rest of the 'heavier' places. Switching on her radio, she is able to follow the news on events tout Inconcert,theywillonly at the airport and hears that the boy is hot and killed by an tells as perform with heavy acts. Some 'unidentifiedofficer' helands theplane, ofthe concertsthey are Inadaze, she returns to her father's multi -million dollar playing in the near future will desert home inbedded in a cliff and as a symbol of industrial be with groups like Flock and and social suffocation, she imagines it expolding into fragments Taj Mahal. over and over again. Following the house come visions of beach TAM tables, refrigerators, libraries, wardrobesand groceries They are recording another album this month and in April disintegrating in her mind. Infantastic slow motion which is scheduled for release photography, cornflakes packages and halves of chickens come inMay. Although theyfeel floating forward. The tension builds to screaming pitch as a WHITE there is no pressure in putting whole society, it's history and heritage are whittled down in the out afollow-up single,itis biggest emotional surge of desperation ever attempted by a tell5 the truth? possible one of the tracks will film. be released from the album. A direct, descendant of 'Easy Rider', the film undertone is Stevesummed uptheparanioa andit's medium is the hopeless battle against the group's aim thus: "We want tosystem. Drenched in the violent frenzy of the American way of be a group of constant status, lifeandsmearedwiththemythical dreamofadvertised whereas on recorditcan be paradise,themessage isfakerypollutedbydollarsand purely coincidental." murdered by a bullet.An ominoussunrisecloseswith IAN MIDDLETONpremonitions of perpetual disaster. LON GODDARD

6 RECORD MIRROR, March 21, 1970 THE DEVIOUS THOUGHTS OF 40t7111\41.11itiEYE MICK FARREN ONCE UPON A TIME, Mick Farren great help in stirring this. Too many adult business world ina killing mind -killing factory jobs and get was a socialdeviant. Thenhe bands depend on their technical mood. ahead. At the same time, another became aDeviant. Not satisfied, standard and people go to see them "The American situation is generationis trying to stop them. young Mick decided to deviate and just to watch some fast fingerwork paranoic. It's full of executives with This gaphas existed ever since dispensed withhis positionas a so, I'm getting a thing together with peptic ulcers and bent on removing survivalceasedto be the main Deviant. To be more precise, he left Steve Took and we hope to carry a those who wish to disagree. The problem in life. All they really need the group while they were in the really good rock and roll show to police are an armed gang. is a way to let off steam and a little Statesandbegantothinkfor the stage. We won't be up above the The whole clash between forces psychological security. Steve and I himself. kids, we'll be wanting them to join is allowed to survive because some are going to try and fix the steam in any way they can.I want them people see the profit in it and make side of it by providing a scene that Aside from being one of the most to get drunk, pull birds and makemoney out of it. It's different here, willbe so good people willbe bizarre individuals on any street, he noise. After five days in a factory, because we haven't got that history, exhausted afterwards. also has a non-existent waist and nobodyreally wants tositand we haven't got that war and we Socialdeviants, ecstatic music the lowest belt ever worn. That, gape, they want to have a good aren't geared to tension that results fans, orgy enthusiasts and recluses however, has nothing to do with time and get laved. There won't be from the super -patriot machine. We will be pleased to hear that both anything, but will be of interest to anyvacuuminthisband; no both shared a period of violence in Mick and Steve Took will continue activelovers of the baroque. On decisions on what we're doing right the 50's, but we grew away from it to produce solo LPs and will often first glance, he may appear to be a and what we're doing wrong, we'll and they grew into it.I struck up a be seen alone on the streets. Mick shockingreconstructionofPeter explode everything and turn a gig friendship with the Hell's Angels has just released his first LP and it Wyngarde or a fuzzy fence post, into partytime.It's a basic while I was there, because we had is notcalled'InconspicuousIn but heisinreality Mick Farren communication and theonly the same kind of upbringing - the Piccadilly',butisinsteadtitled peepingoutfrom behindMick difference between us and audience rocker thing where you had to give 'Mona, The Carnivorous Circus' and Farren. Last week he wafted into will be that we are making just aoff an airof menace when you ison Transatlantic. The album is the RM officesin search of the little more noise. Nobody should walked.The greatJohn Wayne full of ferocious rock and roll in the MorbidModule fortop level havetobe embarrassed toyell masculinitybrigade. The Angels form of the electric 'Mona' and conferences on recent events. becausetheydon'tknowthe seem to be the only thing that is various chats, discussions and "WhatI'mtryingtodo is person next to them - they will all virtuallyunchangeddespitethe wrangling that reeks of paranoia - explain to people that they are part relateto oneanother and these awareness that came in with Dylan which is what was intended. So if of a much larger thing and that rock concerts won't be like an hour andthatage,butthewhole You feellike screaming, put this they no longer need to expresson the tube." populationisprone to react the recordon.Ifyou see afrizzy themselves throughviolence", he Mick discovered a gap too big to same way we did in the 50's. bewhiskered fellow chain smoking explained'frombehind his be ignored when he was inthe "Most kids have now realised and glaring at passing police all -systems -go moustache. States.Kids were reactingwith that trying to be tough is not the vehicles, go up apd ask him what "People will relate to others if violence instead of taking time to way to act all the time and that by his nameis. Itcould be Peter they relate back and music can be a think. On the outside was a whole beingshrewd they can avoid Wyngarde!

TRIBUTE CHARLIE GILLETT made fittingrArAr.rdord tributeon thedeathofRoy Hamilton one of America's finestWrite toVal rA soul singers, mentioning that he hadRecord Mirror, just started recording for the AGP r label, and his first single was to be 'The Dark End Of The Street'. Mr. 7 Carnaby Street, 00 Gillett remarked that it would be a London WIV I PG fitting tribute to Roy if the record was released in this country. The recordis now available on the Deep Soullabel, number DS 9106.UnfortunatelyMr.Gillett Ato1110 hasn't(and I thought he would recent LP I heard, 'Hymns Tijuana GUESS WHO have, after giving it so much praise *04 Style'. before), mentioned the fact that it's Althoughatfirsthearing my THE GUESS WHO are the latest been released. - TERRY R. reaction was ugh! But then I'm not example of a group to achieve three CAPPER, 13 Pitt Road, Horfield, allthatreligiousbutifthey're consecutivetoptenentriesin Bristol, BS4 8TY. tryingtointeresttheyounger America, and precisely nothing in element ofthe population in Britain. They are a long established ELVIS FANS music. It doesn't seem such a bad Canadian group, whose discs were idea to record hymns with a nice frequently played in the discerning CALLING all Elvis fans in London bouhcy beat. days of Radio London. and the South East. The South East Itdoesn'tsayonthesleeve Last year they sprang back into London branch of the Elvis fan whose band recorded these Tijuana prominence and the U.S. top three clubis opening a monthly 'Elvis hymns perhaps you could tell me, Discotheque', where we'll spin El with 'These Eyes' a beautiful song but not a word to my brother . . etc. by two of the group, Backman and discs,show El films (he'sa Lay Preacher!) - RUBY Cummings, who pennedalltheir Membershipisfiveshillings.For ACKERMAN, 16 Kymberley Road, recent successes. Junior Walker and details please send a stamped Harrow, Middlesex. the All Stars have recently revived addressed envelope. - JIM ELLIS, VAL: The band featured on the thesong,losingalltheaching Branch leader, 31 Norman Road, album are knows asthe Torrero sadness and gaining more airplay Greenwich, London, S.E.10. Band. They are session musicians, than the original. butthe same line-upisusually The Guess Who's latest single IGNORANCE featured on all the tijuana series 'No Time' is currently number four albums on Music for Pleasure. They inthe States andistheir most I AGREE with W. & M. Garrett's are under the guidance of MD Alan commercial offering to date. I hope letterIgnorance onRadio One, Moorehouse. it gains recognition for the group which appeared in RM. before moreoftheir songs are Maybe it would be of interest to MISTAKE ruined bygrotesquely inferior many readers who probably don't versions. - DEREK HARVEY, 8 know about the rock oldies show HAVING BOUGHT Mary Hopkin's Ramsay Road, Headington, Oxford. on AFNRadio everySaturday record 'Goodbye' I played it to find evening between seven and eightitwas Marvin Gay's 'Grapevine' INTERESTING o'clock. The DJ in question is Jim with the flip side to 'Goodbye' on the other side. So could you tell me Pewter who does know what he's (S)63948 IT WILL BE interesting to see how talking about! He not only gives the how the Apple people recorded a many listeners Radio One will lose date of the records he plays but will record like this? Could you also tell now thatNorthseaInternational quite often give you abit of theme ifit's worth anything? - D. Brings out the Devii inYou has begun its full transmissions. In artist'shistory etc. - PETER BEDDER, 146Sturdon Road, my opinion it will make very little FEAST, 8 Fallowfield, Chesterton, Leicester. difference to the BBC's audience Cam bridge. VAL: The mistake here obviously ratings,not because Northseais occurredwhentherecordwas onCBS9 lacking in any way, but because of ROCK RELIGION pressedatEMI'sfactory,since CBS Records 28/30 Theobalds Road London WC1 the station's poor signal, which mars AppleandTamla recordsare many listeners' enjoyment of the SEEING THEpictureof Tony distributed by them.Iwouldn't programmes. - COLIN FENN, 35 Blackburnwith a choirgirlin think the single is worth more than Bradgate, Cufflev, Herts. Record Mirror reminded me of a the retail price, though!

RECORD MIRROR, March 21, 1970 7 cost in the region of £400. £200 each. going to play. It's no use for a "Of course a group can get The guitarist, Keith Crosssmall,newgrouphawking IN THIS AGE OF ELECTRICITY, the same stuff for second handhas bought a new £350 Gibsonthemselvesaroundagencies which would be at two thirdsguitar. The P.A. system costhopingfmbookings -as the price. them in the region of £750. InAustraliangroupEurekaNUCLEAR POWER, THERE IS "We can also arrange hireaddition they have a piano forStockade found out. Instead, purchase.It requires a 15 per£200.Thetotalcostofthey have built themselves a cent deposit. The person, ofinstrumentsalonehas beenreputation in Europe and useSTILL ROOMFORSTEAM! course,hasto be overaround£1,000.ButPetethat as their outlet. 18 -years -oldand must bea Dunton has emphasised that For less ambitious groups,"WE PREFERtostickto Steam weren't always Steam ... Parer. you can develop wiM it. commercial sounds", saysbassist "We've mated as a group for We play hemy rock,moo,and some house -owner.He cangeta Morninghaveduplicatethe local church hall is usually Michael Danieh and as the picture about four years. Most of that time of the group members are Nesting guarantor to sign for him ifequipment-forbrokenthe first step into pop. demonstrates, Steam don't try towewere known as Special to write MemseN., so there will be guitars and snare drums. So the hide much. Delivery',butourmanagement even more in the act." he's not qualified to sign an If they manage thatfirst Steam are a six piece unit, based didn't care for the name and came What has the content of their act H.P.agreement - and withcost of instruments could be asbookingthere'sstillthebn Stratford, Connecticut, U.S.A.,up with Steam. All of us liked it as gotto do withreaders herein mostgroupstheusualmuch as £1,500 to £2,000. problem of persuading people ut their music is not the least bit well,soit was changed around Britain, you might ask Theirran,forhauling foriegn toBritishlisteners. Theirseven months ago.Ourmusical "We werelooking forward to guarantor is either the group's tocomealong.Andythat record 'NaNa He KissHim policy didn't change atall when being over there right about now". manager or agent." aroundtheequipment,isusuallyfallstothegroup. Goodbye' has lurched into the RM thisoccurred, but we a Mike said. "but something didn't go So, to equip a new group it extravagentbecauseofthePublicity has to bewell top ten, barely noticing the lowerwriting a. production teamteem thataccording to plan and we're still theirfar we couldrealty work with. The here. However, we're in the stages could take as much as £2,300.money advance. Another neworganised - it's no use sticking Irce'D:r= '" 'buce, resultisr.'NaNa', which was clangingagencies and the new And that's only the basic costs. group,like Quintessence fora few handbills on walls a day "Weprefertostick written back in September. Since one has offices in England, so we Add another £200 to £500 forinstance, paid £250 for theirs.before the bop and expect a he sounds, although when time wehaverehaseda should be there very shortly.I hole we playlive, the music is muchthatime,than Nnglecelled'I'veGotta so,because we werereally a fully functional P.A. systemBut then they found it neededpacked house. Especially if the heavier. 'Na Na' is a sort of mixedMake You Love Me' and were disappointed about not makingit and you are in the £2,500 toan extra £300 to getit road areplaying upthe hap.Somepeoplecallitworking on another one atthe the firth time." 'Stones If they time h right, they just £3,000mark.Withahire bubblegum, but we want to get oment. worthy.Withsixmusiciansroad. away from that . fast as possible. "Isuppose Our strongest might ride in on top of the chart. purchase agreement it will cost Quintessencehavealotof Quintessence spent £200 in Bubblegum isjustalittletootinfluence would be Crosby Stills Which will prove that in this age of a group up to £400 as deposit.basicequipmenttohauladvertising in the local press, simple. We enjoy playing songs likeand Nash, althoughwe 'renttrying electricity and nuclear power, there the is Second hand itcould cost aaround - from Penzance one 'NaNa'andtheygiveus to sound like anyone else. Our main. still a place for ... you guessed handbills and posters. There chances we need to play heavierinter. O harmonyandthe it L.G. groupbetween£1,400tonight to Newca'stle the next.was no-one financing them, but stuff on live dates'. £2,000. Which is still a lot ofThe instrument insurance alonethey managed to beak -through. bread.Pete Duntonisthecoststhem£125.TheirTheir publicity was thorough. SINCE THE disintegration of the Seekers. guitarist Keith Poteer has reitsfP.'"X =fest hiLi%tat drummer with a new groupmanager, Stanley Barr, put theAs groups get bigger, of course,NEW notbeenIdle. -He has formed a called Morning - who havecostsas"Fiveyearsoffthey cm get an agency to look iI ng le andbackgroundmusic Oelnete= fist'r::tilderteutceg company and done a solo sing. it o4f,,,eNow we do." recentlysignedarecordingeveryone'slifeanduptoaftertheir bookings. NEMS,SEEKERS but the lure of the group has mused Newseekers comprise Eve contract with .£1,8 0 0 thebasicone of the top agency's in the phenomenon to occur - for thethe formation of . Itrnettnirrn,S Ttrty'rlersIn C'et2 He started off six years agoequipment. I reckon it costs ancountry,charge Quintessence "We had men MokIng fora LaurieHeath.Keithhimselfhas VERSATILITY been appearing for wveral numbers with a local London group andaverage of £1,000 a month toten per cent of their gig fee for rititeteit,cisard=i!"twe"isi"arneted' a £30 drum kit. He was still atkeep the band on the road." their services. For their money a combination that could nanaia Pth:: hltrietsrothrseen t'an'td Part 1: Getting it all together so. singing,harmonies,dancing partner David Joseph. concentrate school and worked at odd jobs Getting the band off thethebandhaveautomatic and Comede sket.es. When it was on managing theigroula. outlay. Their only expense wastopay off the money. Hegroundwasn'teasy.Apartprotectionagainstunethical et. thatno group suitedthis "Laurie and Marty write quite a BREAD. The vital commodity format, we had the Idea of forming to start your very own career anacousticguitar.Butas moved from group to group,from some money saved bypromoters -itisinthe one ourselves. Through word Of bet :toetiV betrr:tetrt rortt.".: tat acquiringmoreRaja Ram, the group's flutist, gency'sinterest mouth a. friendsoffriends, singles. The old seekers started out as a teenage rock star idol.Butthey've become known they've gradually to get the found nye emote who fit together as a Wart group relying on singles. it only the sons of the very richhadtoaddtotheirbasic equipmentasthegigsthegrouphadtopiece most reputable bookings - as like a gloveand havevaried After two or Mree substantial hits. together, bit by bit. backgroundsofshowbusiness our LPs started carrying us mu we have escaped the tough money equipmentwith replacementimproved. But Pete was always wellasaquick gig -finding experience. could think in thow terms instead hassles of starting a group. guitars and P.A. systems. verycareful to avoid paying They were lucky because service. TWeve donetwoLondon of follow-ups and things like that. 1 concerts,a tour of Germany, the Rock groups - with the lire purchase agreements. Theythey are a community band - Agents are usually the first northern club circuit and filmed a =stern'telils2re'weryr''" There's a longfinancialusual guitars, drums and a ton soak a group of all its earnings.serving the 'hip' people aroundpeople to know about concerts Audienms who heard the New chain from thinking how good coo o. ofamplification-need Eventually he was able to buyLondon's Notting Hill district.and promoters look through a. cabaretinLas Vegas. We've ruter7gagIntrjyrrZ; you'd look on Top Of Thesomething more. They needhis present kit outright - andSo friends of the band helped agentslistsof artists for the done big glgs a. small ones, had Pops' to actually making it. good audiences and bad ones, but faith. And they need bread. then the rest of the group wereout by giving money and a lotbest groups for their event. As be a. large the reception has. Wen seekers, Now that's athdumb Youneedmoneyfor of time and patience to gettinga result Quintessence are to go very good. i think the spirit of the question,. isn't it. SoundCity is oneofrescued by Dec. who gave seekers is still Mere, yet miser°. LON GOODAPO equipment,buying a van, London'slargestmusicalthem a five figure advance onthe band on the road. But withto Holland shortly. POTWER: Seeker old end ne petrol, rehearse rooms, roadiesstores. Said a spokesman: "Itthe contract. all the equipment a band is And then theonly other wages, buying greasy chips inall depends on how much gear All their financial problemsnothing without transport -major expenseisthe group's "Blueshasundergonea they are prepared to like me if M.1 motels, and, to begin with, a newgroupwants.Forwere solved. They were able toand that costs, usually, in themad managers. THE change in Britain. Thisit's I'mgood,not necresarilly. your own publicity. And theninstance whether they wantedbuy a new £750 van and pay£250to£300mark. A Thesearetheinvaluable rn.broadenedjnydueote.tathletatmu. is because I do Blues material. everyone, from your there's somethinglike200watt off the debts from the rest ofbroken-downvanmeanspeople who set up the group'sSEVENTIES "Idon't think Blues music manager to your agency takingamplifiers or 100 watt ones. I the group. Morning are a groupanother gig busted and a steadyequipment on stage and deal themselveswhormlisethe is valid unless it's from oneself. theircuts.Your very ownshould say it would be as wellwho areserious about theirdecline in a band's reputation.with alltheproblemsof souND limits of this particular sphere. If you're going to be a Blues teenage rock star idol is likelyfor a group to have 100 watt roleas entertainers and haveSo the average costing on theloading and unloading the van. "I don't think that people artist then create from oneself, to end up broke. amplification on the drums and agreedupontheminimumvan - during one week is:WithQuintessencetheyare by are quite so Blues conscious as that s the whole point because So many of the groups on200 watts P.A. All together, Iequipment necessary for theInsurance,£2; tax,£1; hirepaid the same amount at the CHRISTINE PERFECT they were. At one time, if you it's such a personal thing. You the road are existing at marreckon it'll cost a new group, impacttheyrequire.Thispurchase, £8; petrol, £15 - £20.group - £15 a week. With didn't play original authentic just can't copy someone else, 200 tt you've got to bring your own povertylevel with the hopein amplification alone, £300includestwo On top of that there's vanothergroupsitcanvary, Chicago Blum then people used HOME LOVING TOMMY amplifiers. repairs,whichcostinthe according to the group's status, to slight you because as far as feelings intoit. By all means that one day they are going tofor each musician. "For the I think the United States is the own particular covers such a small area of the map. guitarsanaverage pricefor Both of thesecost themregion of £5 per week and atfrom £15 to £40. they were concernedyou play your greatest country in the world." be right up there with the Who, else's the 'Stones, and maybe, evengood new ones would be £200 £350 each. Andy they boughtleast £10 for hotel bills. But Butonceyou've metall weren't "a Blues band". About version of someone A recent visit to South Africa had helped to emphasise this point for ThreemicrophonesthembeforetheDeccaassuming a group has got their thesecosts,all your teenage six months ago audiences number aslongas you put Tommyten the Beatles. But only the Royeach. quite unbelievable there, it's Ike being in a different world. They Harpers and Al Stewarts havewould cost about £100 and theadvance. In addition they havegear, and their van, there's stillrock star idol needs to do is tendedtogeta lotmore something of yourself into the playing. It's no use copying, it don't have any world press coverage. The front pages of their newspapers thecrippling_ initialP.A. £450. A drum set wouldsmaller, 100 watt amplifiers atthe problem of where they'reearn some money. broadminded and accepted are covered with news of car accidents and births, deaths and marriages. avoided you musicifitwas good. Thatwouldn't beoriginal.If And of c they have no television.Everywherewe worked we had a applies today. If music is good, saw a copyof a Picasso goodattendanoursece bemuse that's all the entertainment the people have got. people will appreciate it. paining you'dappreciateit So in that way ifs good, but generally I was glad to get away." becauseit was a good copy, South Africa would seem to bee healthy unexploited market, but "A lot of bands today are apparently there are many restrictions against musicians working there. Blues -or 1 en tated , although notbecauseitwas a good This took our conmrmtion around to Tommy's thoughts on Unions. they've shot off in their own painting. "In theoryI think it's good to have a union," said Tommy. "But it can

particulardirections. I put "I don'tthinkaudiences make things difficult. For my visit the exchange group for America was the myselfinthis category. The like badly -playedB.B. King Moody Blues. Despite that restriction,I don't think Me British union is at son of things I write now are phrasesallovertheplace, all bad.I have to belong to four unions in America before I ran work fully. fundamentally Blues -based, but particularly as there are now That's to enable me to play guitar, sing and appear on television. And that I'm trying to get away from 12 some very good British Blues means eight hundred to a thousand dollars a year in fees. bars and 3 chord structures. artists who put originality into -There's no on miming for us, but you do get paid a higher "There are such a lot of new their music. John Mayall is an fee if you perform limrestriction.If we donff get mid the correct fees for work we do, the union are there to collect it." bands cropping up that are so example and Peter Green plays Tommy Ree may well find himself joining yet another union shortly, TOMMY ROE:Vona e year. excellentandthe audiences the Blues quite naturally. Peter since he hopes to enter into acting. realise es well as the musicians wentthrough a phaseofTOMMY ROE stabbed out a cigarette in the nmrby ashtray, and aim,. "I know said that for the last couple of years," he told me, reaching that there's only so much you playing 13. B. King, but now hebefore it had time to cool was lighting up another one. for his whiskey. "But this time I hope it will materialise.Beforehire been can do with pure Blues bands playspurelyfromhimself. "I never usually smoke," he told me, "but I've worked my way throughoffered typicalpapstar roles, since the hit with 'Sheila'. But I'm glad now fourinterviewsthisafternoon,and somehow 0 helps if I've got something I didn't do any of them, because it would have ruined any serious career I after a while. A lotofDuster Bennettis superb and odo." might have as an actor." musicians, about a year ago, the material he writes is really being happy in the knowledge that by next year he will be a In the meantime ,though, Tommy will be working in cabaret in the CHRISTINE PERFECT, acceptedBluesasthe only good. When I was with Themillionaire, Tommy appears to be a highly mnsitiye, retiring yet friendlyNorth of England, and promoting his latest single on EMI Starside 'Stir It Britain's leading female blues music c onsides. ChickenShack we usedtopersonality. He . wringing his hands and added. Up and Serve If. to "I co -wrote it with Freddy Whetter of the Raiders;' Tommy told me. singer now has her own bandUnfortunately,they usedto copyBlues and got areal, "Ive been lucky today, the people I'm spoken to have brought up a I "The Raiders are now working under just that name . Paul Reser has left authentic Blum sound - but itnumber of different subjects for me to talk about anddon't feel too and her first album "Christinecopy instead ofcreating, much like I've been repeating myself." to go into management. Of course Freddie has his country and western Perfect"is due for releasein copying Freddie King and B. B. wasn't us,it was a copy. But Tommy is happiest at home away from show business influences, andinterest, and Mark Lindsay did well in the States with his single 'Arizona'. May. Since leaving The King and not givingof now the Shack have veeredthough he loves to Mink, he rarely spends mu. time in clubs. He owns a Keith Allison the bass player has cut an old Negle of mine One of the distinctive points about Tommy's singles isis the drumming, Chicken Shack she away fromallthat and playthirty acre farm, which his family keep going when he's away. He says he hasthemselves. Audiences realised and he explained to me why. embarked on a hectic schedulethis and their tawes broadened, their own thing, which is reallyhaslitleto do with fellow artists, and commonsonss his greatest friends to be, his musical director, who has Menwithh hree yeats, his bass player "I'se always used the same drummer on my records. He works on to ofclubandcollegedatesalthough they could still great. I think that with theand his next door neighbour. with Simon and Garfunkel, and is on all their recorded material. He's so throughout the country and, inappreciate a good Blues introduction of Paul Raymond, -He's a really nice person," said Tommy. "But he has a strange lob,much in demand far sessions that he won't work unlem he's paid double

I the scale, whits is one hundred and sixty dollars. He can make something themeantime,has collectedguitarist. The Shack have changedmlling napalm and things. To him I guessThemeN job. don't think like three hu.red thousand dollars a week, just like that." numerous awards as one of "As far awn gig.,are completely and they're one ofAmadei, is as violent as some people imagine. e ay see a picture in the as my newspapers and they think that America is all like that. But that picture VALERIA MABBS my favourite bands. Britain's top female vocalists.concerned - the kids listen and 9 RECORD MIRROR, March 21,1970 cost in the region of £400. £200 each. going to play. It's no use for a "Of course a group can get The guitarist, Keith Crosssmall,newgrouphawking IN THIS AGE OF ELECTRICITY, the same stuff for second handhas bought a new £350 Gibsonthemselvesaroundagencies which would be at two thirdsguitar. The P.A. system costhopingfmbookings -as the price. them in the region of £750. InAustraliangroupEurekaNUCLEAR POWER, THERE IS "We can also arrange hireaddition they have a piano forStockade found out. Instead, purchase.It requires a 15 per£200.Thetotalcostofthey have built themselves a cent deposit. The person, ofinstrumentsalonehas beenreputation in Europe and useSTILL ROOMFORSTEAM! course,hasto be overaround£1,000.ButPetethat as their outlet. 18 -years -oldand must bea Dunton has emphasised that For less ambitious groups,"WE PREFERtostickto Steam weren't always Steam ... Parer. you can develop wiM it. commercial sounds", saysbassist "We've mated as a group for We play hemy rock,moo,and some house -owner.He cangeta Morninghaveduplicatethe local church hall is usually Michael Danieh and as the picture about four years. Most of that time of the group members are Nesting guarantor to sign for him ifequipment-forbrokenthe first step into pop. demonstrates, Steam don't try towewere known as Special to write MemseN., so there will be guitars and snare drums. So the hide much. Delivery',butourmanagement even more in the act." he's not qualified to sign an If they manage thatfirst Steam are a six piece unit, based didn't care for the name and came What has the content of their act H.P.agreement - and withcost of instruments could be asbookingthere'sstillthebn Stratford, Connecticut, U.S.A.,up with Steam. All of us liked it as gotto do withreaders herein mostgroupstheusualmuch as £1,500 to £2,000. problem of persuading people ut their music is not the least bit well,soit was changed around Britain, you might ask Theirran,forhauling foriegn toBritishlisteners. Theirseven months ago.Ourmusical "We werelooking forward to guarantor is either the group's tocomealong.Andythat record 'NaNa He KissHim policy didn't change atall when being over there right about now". manager or agent." aroundtheequipment,isusuallyfallstothegroup. Goodbye' has lurched into the RM thisoccurred, but we a Mike said. "but something didn't go So, to equip a new group it extravagentbecauseofthePublicity has to bewell top ten, barely noticing the lowerwriting a. production teamteem thataccording to plan and we're still theirfar we couldrealty work with. The here. However, we're in the stages could take as much as £2,300.money advance. Another neworganised - it's no use sticking Irce'D:r= '" 'buce, resultisr.'NaNa', which was clangingagencies and the new And that's only the basic costs. group,like Quintessence fora few handbills on walls a day "Weprefertostick written back in September. Since one has offices in England, so we Add another £200 to £500 forinstance, paid £250 for theirs.before the bop and expect a he sounds, although when time wehaverehaseda should be there very shortly.I hole we playlive, the music is muchthatime,than Nnglecelled'I'veGotta so,because we werereally a fully functional P.A. systemBut then they found it neededpacked house. Especially if the heavier. 'Na Na' is a sort of mixedMake You Love Me' and were disappointed about not makingit and you are in the £2,500 toan extra £300 to getit road areplaying upthe hap.Somepeoplecallitworking on another one atthe the firth time." 'Stones If they time h right, they just £3,000mark.Withahire bubblegum, but we want to get oment. worthy.Withsixmusiciansroad. away from that . fast as possible. "Isuppose Our strongest might ride in on top of the chart. purchase agreement it will cost Quintessencehavealotof Quintessence spent £200 in Bubblegum isjustalittletootinfluence would be Crosby Stills Which will prove that in this age of a group up to £400 as deposit.basicequipmenttohauladvertising in the local press, simple. We enjoy playing songs likeand Nash, althoughwe 'renttrying electricity and nuclear power, there the is Second hand itcould cost aaround - from Penzance one 'NaNa'andtheygiveus to sound like anyone else. Our main. still a place for ... you guessed handbills and posters. There chances we need to play heavierinter. O harmonyandthe it L.G. groupbetween£1,400tonight to Newca'stle the next.was no-one financing them, but stuff on live dates'. £2,000. Which is still a lot ofThe instrument insurance alonethey managed to beak -through. bread.Pete Duntonisthecoststhem£125.TheirTheir publicity was thorough. SINCE THE disintegration of the Seekers. guitarist Keith Poteer has reitsfP.'"X =fest hiLi%tat drummer with a new groupmanager, Stanley Barr, put theAs groups get bigger, of course,NEW notbeenIdle. -He has formed a called Morning - who havecostsas"Fiveyearsoffthey cm get an agency to look iI ng le andbackgroundmusic Oelnete= fist'r::tilderteutceg company and done a solo sing. it o4f,,,eNow we do." recentlysignedarecordingeveryone'slifeanduptoaftertheir bookings. NEMS,SEEKERS but the lure of the group has mused Newseekers comprise Eve contract with Decca Records.£1,8 0 0 thebasicone of the top agency's in the phenomenon to occur - for thethe formation of the New seekers. Itrnettnirrn,S Ttrty'rlersIn C'et2 He started off six years agoequipment. I reckon it costs ancountry,charge Quintessence "We had men MokIng fora LaurieHeath.Keithhimselfhas VERSATILITY been appearing for wveral numbers with a local London group andaverage of £1,000 a month toten per cent of their gig fee for rititeteit,cisard=i!"twe"isi"arneted' a £30 drum kit. He was still atkeep the band on the road." their services. For their money a combination that could nanaia Pth:: hltrietsrothrseen t'an'td Part 1: Getting it all together so. singing,harmonies,dancing partner David Joseph. concentrate school and worked at odd jobs Getting the band off thethebandhaveautomatic and Comede sket.es. When it was on managing theigroula. outlay. Their only expense wastopay off the money. Hegroundwasn'teasy.Apartprotectionagainstunethical et. thatno group suitedthis "Laurie and Marty write quite a BREAD. The vital commodity format, we had the Idea of forming to start your very own career anacousticguitar.Butas moved from group to group,from some money saved bypromoters -itisinthe one ourselves. Through word Of bet :toetiV betrr:tetrt rortt.".: tat acquiringmoreRaja Ram, the group's flutist, gency'sinterest mouth a. friendsoffriends, singles. The old seekers started out as a teenage rock star idol.Butthey've become known they've gradually to get the found nye emote who fit together as a Wart group relying on singles. it only the sons of the very richhadtoaddtotheirbasic equipmentasthegigsthegrouphadtopiece most reputable bookings - as like a gloveand havevaried After two or Mree substantial hits. together, bit by bit. backgroundsofshowbusiness our LPs started carrying us mu we have escaped the tough money equipmentwith replacementimproved. But Pete was always wellasaquick gig -finding experience. could think in thow terms instead hassles of starting a group. guitars and P.A. systems. verycareful to avoid paying They were lucky because service. TWeve donetwoLondon of follow-ups and things like that. 1 concerts,a tour of Germany, the Rock groups - with the lire purchase agreements. Theythey are a community band - Agents are usually the first northern club circuit and filmed a =stern'telils2re'weryr''" There's a longfinancialusual guitars, drums and a ton soak a group of all its earnings.serving the 'hip' people aroundpeople to know about concerts Audienms who heard the New chain from thinking how good coo o. ofamplification-need Eventually he was able to buyLondon's Notting Hill district.and promoters look through a. cabaretinLas Vegas. We've ruter7gagIntrjyrrZ; you'd look on Top Of Thesomething more. They needhis present kit outright - andSo friends of the band helped agentslistsof artists for the done big glgs a. small ones, had Pops' to actually making it. good audiences and bad ones, but faith. And they need bread. then the rest of the group wereout by giving money and a lotbest groups for their event. As be a. large the reception has. Wen seekers, Now that's athdumb Youneedmoneyfor of time and patience to gettinga result Quintessence are to go very good. i think the spirit of the question,. isn't it. SoundCity is oneofrescued by Dec. who gave seekers is still Mere, yet miser°. LON GOODAPO equipment,buying a van, London'slargestmusicalthem a five figure advance onthe band on the road. But withto Holland shortly. POTWER: Seeker old end ne petrol, rehearse rooms, roadiesstores. Said a spokesman: "Itthe contract. all the equipment a band is And then theonly other wages, buying greasy chips inall depends on how much gear All their financial problemsnothing without transport -major expenseisthe group's "Blueshasundergonea they are prepared to like me if M.1 motels, and, to begin with, a newgroupwants.Forwere solved. They were able toand that costs, usually, in themad managers. THE change in Britain. Thisit's I'mgood,not necresarilly. your own publicity. And theninstance whether they wantedbuy a new £750 van and pay£250to£300mark. A Thesearetheinvaluable rn.broadenedjnydueote.tathletatmu. is because I do Blues material. everyone, from your there's somethinglike200watt off the debts from the rest ofbroken-downvanmeanspeople who set up the group'sSEVENTIES "Idon't think Blues music manager to your agency takingamplifiers or 100 watt ones. I the group. Morning are a groupanother gig busted and a steadyequipment on stage and deal themselveswhormlisethe is valid unless it's from oneself. theircuts.Your very ownshould say it would be as wellwho areserious about theirdecline in a band's reputation.with alltheproblemsof souND limits of this particular sphere. If you're going to be a Blues teenage rock star idol is likelyfor a group to have 100 watt roleas entertainers and haveSo the average costing on theloading and unloading the van. "I don't think that people artist then create from oneself, to end up broke. amplification on the drums and agreedupontheminimumvan - during one week is:WithQuintessencetheyare by are quite so Blues conscious as that s the whole point because So many of the groups on200 watts P.A. All together, Iequipment necessary for theInsurance,£2; tax,£1; hirepaid the same amount at the CHRISTINE PERFECT they were. At one time, if you it's such a personal thing. You the road are existing at marreckon it'll cost a new group, impacttheyrequire.Thispurchase, £8; petrol, £15 - £20.group - £15 a week. With didn't play original authentic just can't copy someone else, 200 tt you've got to bring your own povertylevel with the hopein amplification alone, £300includestwo On top of that there's vanothergroupsitcanvary, Chicago Blum then people used HOME LOVING TOMMY amplifiers. repairs,whichcostinthe according to the group's status, to slight you because as far as feelings intoit. By all means that one day they are going tofor each musician. "For the I think the United States is the own particular covers such a small area of the map. guitarsanaverage pricefor Both of thesecost themregion of £5 per week and atfrom £15 to £40. they were concernedyou play your greatest country in the world." be right up there with the Who, else's the 'Stones, and maybe, evengood new ones would be £200 £350 each. Andy they boughtleast £10 for hotel bills. But Butonceyou've metall weren't "a Blues band". About version of someone A recent visit to South Africa had helped to emphasise this point for ThreemicrophonesthembeforetheDeccaassuming a group has got their thesecosts,all your teenage six months ago audiences number aslongas you put Tommyten the Beatles. But only the Royeach. quite unbelievable there, it's Ike being in a different world. They Harpers and Al Stewarts havewould cost about £100 and theadvance. In addition they havegear, and their van, there's stillrock star idol needs to do is tendedtogeta lotmore something of yourself into the playing. It's no use copying, it don't have any world press coverage. The front pages of their newspapers thecrippling_ initialP.A. £450. A drum set wouldsmaller, 100 watt amplifiers atthe problem of where they'reearn some money. broadminded and accepted are covered with news of car accidents and births, deaths and marriages. avoided you musicifitwas good. Thatwouldn't beoriginal.If And of c they have no television.Everywherewe worked we had a applies today. If music is good, saw a copyof a Picasso goodattendanoursece bemuse that's all the entertainment the people have got. people will appreciate it. paining you'dappreciateit So in that way ifs good, but generally I was glad to get away." becauseit was a good copy, South Africa would seem to bee healthy unexploited market, but "A lot of bands today are apparently there are many restrictions against musicians working there. Blues -or 1 en tated , although notbecauseitwas a good This took our conmrmtion around to Tommy's thoughts on Unions. they've shot off in their own painting. "In theoryI think it's good to have a union," said Tommy. "But it can

particulardirections. I put "I don'tthinkaudiences make things difficult. For my visit the exchange group for America was the myselfinthis category. The like badly -playedB.B. King Moody Blues. Despite that restriction,I don't think Me British union is at son of things I write now are phrasesallovertheplace, all bad.I have to belong to four unions in America before I ran work fully. fundamentally Blues -based, but particularly as there are now That's to enable me to play guitar, sing and appear on television. And that I'm trying to get away from 12 some very good British Blues means eight hundred to a thousand dollars a year in fees. bars and 3 chord structures. artists who put originality into -There's no on miming for us, but you do get paid a higher "There are such a lot of new their music. John Mayall is an fee if you perform limrestriction.If we donff get mid the correct fees for work we do, the union are there to collect it." bands cropping up that are so example and Peter Green plays Tommy Ree may well find himself joining yet another union shortly, TOMMY ROE:Vona e year. excellentandthe audiences the Blues quite naturally. Peter since he hopes to enter into acting. realise es well as the musicians wentthrough a phaseofTOMMY ROE stabbed out a cigarette in the nmrby ashtray, and aim,. "I know said that for the last couple of years," he told me, reaching that there's only so much you playing 13. B. King, but now hebefore it had time to cool was lighting up another one. for his whiskey. "But this time I hope it will materialise.Beforehire been can do with pure Blues bands playspurelyfromhimself. "I never usually smoke," he told me, "but I've worked my way throughoffered typicalpapstar roles, since the hit with 'Sheila'. But I'm glad now fourinterviewsthisafternoon,and somehow 0 helps if I've got something I didn't do any of them, because it would have ruined any serious career I after a while. A lotofDuster Bennettis superb and odo." might have as an actor." musicians, about a year ago, the material he writes is really being happy in the knowledge that by next year he will be a In the meantime ,though, Tommy will be working in cabaret in the CHRISTINE PERFECT, acceptedBluesasthe only good. When I was with Themillionaire, Tommy appears to be a highly mnsitiye, retiring yet friendlyNorth of England, and promoting his latest single on EMI Starside 'Stir It Britain's leading female blues music c onsides. ChickenShack we usedtopersonality. He . wringing his hands and added. Up and Serve If. to "I co -wrote it with Freddy Whetter of the Raiders;' Tommy told me. singer now has her own bandUnfortunately,they usedto copyBlues and got areal, "Ive been lucky today, the people I'm spoken to have brought up a I "The Raiders are now working under just that name . Paul Reser has left authentic Blum sound - but itnumber of different subjects for me to talk about anddon't feel too and her first album "Christinecopy instead ofcreating, much like I've been repeating myself." to go into management. Of course Freddie has his country and western Perfect"is due for releasein copying Freddie King and B. B. wasn't us,it was a copy. But Tommy is happiest at home away from show business influences, andinterest, and Mark Lindsay did well in the States with his single 'Arizona'. May. Since leaving The King and not givingof now the Shack have veeredthough he loves to Mink, he rarely spends mu. time in clubs. He owns a Keith Allison the bass player has cut an old Negle of mine One of the distinctive points about Tommy's singles isis the drumming, Chicken Shack she away fromallthat and playthirty acre farm, which his family keep going when he's away. He says he hasthemselves. Audiences realised and he explained to me why. embarked on a hectic schedulethis and their tawes broadened, their own thing, which is reallyhaslitleto do with fellow artists, and commonsonss his greatest friends to be, his musical director, who has Menwithh hree yeats, his bass player "I'se always used the same drummer on my records. He works on to ofclubandcollegedatesalthough they could still great. I think that with theand his next door neighbour. with Simon and Garfunkel, and is on all their recorded material. He's so throughout the country and, inappreciate a good Blues introduction of Paul Raymond, -He's a really nice person," said Tommy. "But he has a strange lob,much in demand far sessions that he won't work unlem he's paid double

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10 RECORD MIRROR, March 21, 1970 RECORD SALE!! SENTIMENTALISTS ILLETrts, T0 the list of cult figures in sniffling stakes is Major Minor, RECORD SALE!! the music world, hippies, a small independent run by an rockers, progressivesand IrishmancalledPhilip RECORD SALE!! the rest, add a formidable new Solomon. And as we all know, force -- the sentimentalists. after a fight and a drop of the As theunderground hard stuff,the Irish like surfaces, as reggae heads nothing better than to have a towardsgrey, all -embracing really serious cry. anonymity, the power of pop's Major Minor must take the MUSIC lachrimose hiddenmajority creditforuncovering the asserts itself ever strongly. sentimentalists. First there was Thesentimentalists are Karen Young's "Nobody's probably over 40 and under Child", apositive flood of a 15, not so much the hard core tearjerker.It took "The Deal" CITY oftheold -established DANCE TO THE MUSIC by Pat Campbell to better that mumsanddads market, more a one.Forpure,distilled THE BEST dance record for a long time is Sly and the Family grandparent -grandchild schmaltz,it has to be the all Stone's "Thank You (Falettin Me Be Mice Elf Agin)" - despite 42 WILLESDEN LANE, KILBURN, manifestation. As such, ti mewinner- or loser, the mad spelling. Sly, who wrote, produced and arranged the chancesarethattheyare depending on how you look at record, hardly sings at all, but a few times manages to gasp "I LONDON N.W.6 . unaware of their importance, want to .." before he apparently staggers to the ground, stuck it.It didn't do quite so well as by some dumbing disease. The rest of the group carries on 'andprobablywouldn'tcare "Nobody'sChild",butfor without him, chanting lines that don't all fit together yet but KIOSK BALHAM UNDERGROUND STREET, anyway. But signs are that the thosewho missedout,it which do, I'm sure, make a lot more sense than they seem to. recordcompanies aretaking The arrangement makes brilliant - economical - use of bubbling LONDON S.W.14 concerned a dubious increasing noticeoftheir wah-wah guitar, and proves that rick, complicated sounds can be arrangement made between the harassed to mee the demands of dancers. requirements and contributions Almighty and a father, offering 12a EX MARKET SHEPHERD BUSH, towards records sales. There doesn't seem to be another group in the world that can LONDON W.12 hislifein return for his wife draw from R & B and rock and put together a mixture that will Broadly speaking, the more and unborn child being spared. satisfy the majority of both audiences. Everybody else is either maudlin the sentiments (some They were. He wasn't. bound in by arrangements that are too tight, repetitive, and 30 STATION PARADE, KENSAL RISE, might say touching), the better predictable for the rock audience, or else so anxious to be "free" Ifthe tearductswere that they give nothing for the R & B audience to recognise and theylikeit.Givethem a LONDON N.W.10 relate to. Yet the two kinds of music are not so different as their chance to wallow in blindness, stimulated by "The Deal" then sentimentalists will surely slosh supporters insist, and share a vocal style that is based on the 530 HARROW ROAD, LONDON W.9 orphanhood, death, childbirth, same source, gospel. and other examples of human about in a surfeit of dampness with the release of Pat's album So we get Mighty Sam or Tyrone Davis singing with suffering, and they are in their 'arrangements that say, this is soul, and Chicago singing with 21 HIGH STREET, DEPTFORD, element. later this month. "Just A Quiet arrangements that say, this is new. Soul City's compilation of Conversation" it's called, and LONDON S.E.8 Undoubtedlythemost Mighty Sam's singles of the past three or four years ("Mighty amongthegems contained Soul," Soul City SCM 004) showcases an excellent singer who significantexample ofthe therein are "Mother Went a' has never had a song or an arrangement that drew attention to 23 RIDLEY ROAD, LONDON E.8 power of the sentimentalists Walking, "The Last Goodbye" him,although"PapaTrueLove,"-TalkTo Me", and "Badmouthin'," - particularlythelast- are good soul has been the success of Rolf and the King Weepie, "Deck Of Harriss' "TwoLittleBoys." performances. The weakness is in the stereotyped productions, 297 PORTOBELLO ROAD, Cards." the Memphis sound at its least inspired. Grantedthetimingofits LONDON W.10. release, just before Christmas, Somehow the pop world Tyrone Davis' LP ("Can I Change My Mind," Atlantic 588 failedtoappreciate the 209) has the great advantage of arrangements that are not so was superb and was guaranteed ifamiliar, several of them influenced by the rhythms of the Horse, to touch the hearts and sentiments of a lusty effort by all of them light and helpful in highlighting Davis' technique of pockets of those indulging in a DerekChristienentitled, dropping his voice almost to a whisper. The LP confirms a singer seasonalexcessofgoodwill "When A WomanHas A rof individual character - despite debts to both Sam Cooke and POP & LP'S towards the family circle. How Baby." But if that one flopped, Bobby Bland - who should have become a major figure, if only then there are signs that the he had been given better songs for his singles. 37/6 NOW 30/- else can you account for a The most striking feature of the Chicago LP (CBS 66233) is song, with origins attribted to cosy couple Miki and Griff are the struggle that the singer has to go through in order to come thepickofthe pops circaon the way to a winner with close to achieving the effects that Mighty Sam and Tyrone Davis World War One (or was it the "TheLittle Orphans" which - and hundreds of other black singers - could have got without REGGAE LP'S hovers on the edge of RM's even trying. And by some strange process, the audience of Boer War?) selling close on one Chicago for some reason admire the attempts of this group'L 37/6 NOW 20/- million copies in Britain. Top 50. white singer to be soulful much more than they admire the "TwoLittleBoys" was When even the mighty Elvis achievement of Tyrone Davis. Likea large number of other rock groups, Chicago is released by EMI. There was foresakes his current return to essentiallyan instrumental group.Its aim seems to be to LP'S also the case of "Do You Love the straight and narrow rocky assimilate as many diverse kinds of music as possible, so while 19/11 NOW 15/- Me Daddy?" by Jim Reeves roadtopanderto the the bass guitarist plays the familiar Duck Dunn figures, a sax and some ingratiating brat with sentimentalistswith "Don't section plays jazz riffs straight out of Shorty Rogers' 1950 charts (cool big band jazz) and solos that are of slightly more recent avoice of almost saccharine Cry Daddy" then things are vintage - 1962 modern. The flute is 1964 Herbie Mann, guitar - LP'S innocence.That was an really getting serious. But then, of course - eternal B. B. King. And in all this, the singer goes for outstanding example of RCA El was always a bit of a softie soul, and achieves a style thatisreminiscent of the Stevie 14/6 NOW 12/6 being bangon the atheart. We shouldn't take VVinwood one second, Tom Jones the next. sentimentalists' target. thatcurlinglip too seriously, LONDONS LEADING STOCKIST OF But leaving both these big youknow. BRIAN ,REVOLUTION SOUL AND REGGAE RECORDS. MULLIGAN organisationsbehindinthe This kind of criticism may do an injustice to the double LP's suite of songs, which is advertised in an American music paper with the following statement, signed by all the members of the LIMITED PERIOD ONLY group: "With this album, we dedicate ourselves, our futures and

our energies to the people of the revolution . . . And the COME EARLY revolution in all its forms." Surely there is more to revolution than simply grabbing bits out of the past and mixing them together. For my ears, the result is not only unconvincing, but dishonest. Chicago the group and "Chicago" the record seemlike another stagein the depressing history of American music which has seen so many white singers and musicians claim and receive credit for stylistic changes that were initiated by black people. One of the most thorough analyses of this process is provided in the chapter "A SUBSCRIBE Concise Natural History of Soul" in Phyl Garland's "The Sound of Soul" (available from Billboard Bookshelf, New York, for TONY BLACKBURN justly jubilant that no less than six of his "Records 5.95 dollars plus postage). of the Week" are currently in the Pop Thirty Mike Smith of the Phyl Garland - a staff writer for "Ebony" magazine - shows Dave Clark Five has done it again - this time he slipped a disc in his neck how "serious music critics have consistently ignored black music record mirror playing soccer Four Tops too engrossed in their card playing hobby - original, American - while praising American derivations of to talk :to journalists; maybe they don't need the publicity Victoria formal European writers, and she sketches in the missing history Hay (ex -press office at Liberty/UA), assistant press officer to British Girl of black popular and religious singing. Unfortunately she does Guide Association believe it or not Mick Abrahams of Blodwyn Pig, not deal with the post-war phenomenon of professional gospel sure to be delighted with a 'laughing box' after being reprimanded by groups such as James Cleveland and the Five Blind Boys of NAME promoter for turning up late for a gig, Shepherds Bush Comets roadie, Mississippi. But she does have a marvellous 50 -page chapter, Phylis Crope said: "What do you expect for a crate of Brown and a jar of "Recording in Memphis," that gives a good feeling of how pickles;" All: they supplied the songs "Somewhere" and "More" records are put together in the city. ADDRESS whichintroduce the Gerald and Arnold spot heard about the Inevitably, given the recent developments in the political skinhead who uses after -shave on his haircut? - he just loves putting the history of the black American, the book deals with black music Brut in as a separate, distinct section of American culture. But Smokey Robinson believes - and I agree with him - that music is now I say, I say, I say. What is the American equivalent of Harley Street? - Medicine Avenue WANTED: Roadie forBrettMarvin and The "American," and can't pretend to be pure black - or white - if Thunderbolts who can sing and play guitar when the band is too drunk to it is to advance. perform Gang Bang also thinking on the same lines Q12: who So why doesn't producer James Guercio recruit Tyrone Davis Complete the form above and send to: enjoyed big hit success with "I'll Never Fall In Love Again", "Alfie", "I to do his singing, instead of ruining the larynxes of the singers Record Mirror, 7 Carnaby Street, W1V 1PG. Say A LittlePrayer", and "Anyone Who Had A Heart" (one answer with Blood, Sweat and Tears and Chicago? (There are a couple YEARLY RATES: UK £3 10. 0. EUROPE £4 0. 0. U.S.A.and only)? Smokey Robinson & the Miracles' follow-up to their UK Top of hundred other white groups that could use a good black singer too; and a couple of hundred good black singers looking for CANADA (Air Mail) £8 10. 0. ($20.50)AUSTRALIA (Air Mail) Ten smash "Tracks of My Tears" long, long overdue publicist Bill Harry turning abitBeastialinthe evenings Foundations album jobs.) £10 0. 0. "Digging " issued in South Africa in a plain cover, the authorities don't allow mixed groups to be seen

RECORD MIRROR, March 21, 1970 11 THE GRASS ROOTS: "Leaving It All Behind" (Stateside SSL 5012). Very steady and staunch pop with brass and competent vocals. Not meant to provoke thought, but easily distracts. Sid Feller, whom everyone recognises as a wonderful, whimsical feller, arranged the brass and strings that support sturdy songs lacking nothing except depth - and that's no Notso crime in some circles. *** L.G.

SOUL GOLD VOL. 1 (Polydor Stereo 583 757). Release Me; Shout Bamalama; Lover's Holiday; The Train; Pledging My Love; Danny Boy;

Pickin' Wild Mountain Berries; Honey; I Have No One; Flat Foot Sam; I Dusty Almost Called Your Name; There's A Break In The Road. DUSTY SPRINGFIELD: "From Dusty ... With Love". - Brand New Me; A collection of soul goodies which vary from Bobby Goldsboro's old hit Joe; Silly Silly Fool; The Star Of My Show; Let's Talk It Over; Lost; Bad "Honey" played by saxophone man Sil Austin to Mickey Murray raving Case Of The Blues; Never Love Again; Let Me Get In Your Way; Let's Get with"Flat Foot Sam" and Shout Bamalama". Some great material Together Soon (Philips SBL 7927). including Peggy Scott and Jo Jo Benson's "Pickin' Wild Mountain Berries" The great lady on a ten -track set. There is love here, and warmth and and Betty Harris's "There's A Break In The Road". A good album for soul some great songs. But there are also some disappointments .notably when freaks. R.P. Dusty seems to be striving too hard for effect. On -song, phrasing -wise, she's the guv'noress, but sometimes gets so involved that the full weight of the lyrics gets tucked away. Still,it's a minor point in the sea of Springfield superiority. THE BEST OF TOMMY JAMES AND THE SHONDELLS (Roulette "Brand New Me" we know. "Joe" is plaintive, slower; "Silly Fool" is Stereo SRLP 41. Ball Of Fire; Crystal Blue Persuation; Mony Mony;(Baby, superb,crackling along with pace and style - with aself -analytical Baby) I Can't Take It No More; Hanky Panky; Crimson And Clover; Sweet approach. Romantic choral -type track next, but the side -one closer "Let's Cherry Wine; Sugar On Sunday; Mirage; I Think We're Alone Now. Talk It Over" hits the heights again ... great work from the backing group. Then "Lost" - a punchy piece, with a curious deliberationin the As the titles tells you, this is the BEST of Tommy James And The Shondells.It includes the chart topping "Mony Mony" as well as the selling. Beauty of an arrangement. "Bad Case" tends to lose direction, specially early on, but it's back to form again for "Never Love Again", curiously underrated "Crystal Blue Persuasion". The group are undergoing hauntingly direct styling. Next trackis another change of style, a bit reassessment by some underground circles in America who are beginning to see that James is a great rock 'n' roller. Every fan will want to get all of monotonous melodically, but it's an all-out finale, again with chorus. James's biggie's all on one album. T.M. Not Dusty's best, maybe. Even so, streets ahead of most. - P.J.

ROY ORBISON: "The Big '0' Backed By The Art Movement". London Stereo SHU 8406. Although Nashville's always been Roy Orbison's THE RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO: "Another Voyage" (Chess Stereo CRLS recording base in the past, he now issues an album recorded in London last 4557). If You've Got It Flaunt it; Wandrin' Rose; How Beautiful Is Spring; year. Orbison's success story is an incredible one - he remains on top after Do What You Wanna; My Cherie Amour; Bold And Black; Opus Number ten years and it's sheer professionalism that keeps him there. Five; Uhuru; Cecile; If You've Got It, Flaunt It (part two). This is not his best album, but an ambitious one because here Orbison Ramsey Lewis's mixture of jazz with pop and soul music never varies has tried something different in his presentation and has broken away from from his own well -developed style - and on this album there are another a successful format. ten examples of his piano playing. Lewis always keeps a subtle emotional The new format, though, will also be successful. Gone is the full lush pitch on his music which makes it good for grooving to at parties. But as a orchestra to be replaced by a pop group augmented with strings. Here, he serious attempt at jazz, Lewis falls down. He's strictly middle-of-the-road. turns his hand to a different type of pop number - there's Wilson Pickett's But he's good at what he does - and he's got a lot of fans who think the "Land Of 1,000 Dances", the Platters oldie "Only You" (12 years old??) same. R.P. and the Beach Boys "Help Me Rhonda." Orbison's performance throughout is faultless and I am sure this LP will not disappoint any of his many followers. Thoroughly entertaining. Reviewed R.C. by the THE ALAN BOWN! (Stereo Deram SML 10491. My Friend; Strange Little Friend; Elope; Perfect Day; All I Can Do; Friends In St. Louis; The Prisoner; Kick Me Out; Children Of The Night; Gypsy Girl. FRANK ZAPPA: "Hot Rats". - Peaches En Regalia; Willie The Pimp; Son Panel When I was a young lad down in the depth's of Plymouth in Devon, our Of Mr. Green Genes; Little Umbrellas; The Gumbo Variations; It Must Be three monthly treat was the visit of one Alan Bown Set to yon local A Camel (Bizarre RSLP 6356). discotheque. In those days it was "Extraaa! Extraaa! Read All About It! .. According to a recent chat with Frank, he and the Bizarre label ran ." Then they made a radical change to more progressive scenes culminating aground a while back and thisis material that he left to them. Still, it's THE FUGS: "The Belle Of Avenue A" (Reprise RSLP 6359). A sickly cover in the wonderful old Fugs fashion houses yet another in their latest album. A very pleasant and inventive group, they have the hard core Zappa. As expected, it's like the living theatre of record. Very talent and the writing power to break through. R.P. freaky and often a strain to relax with. Not bedtime stuff, but "Peaches En fine gutter satire on everything within reach. Parts of it could be compared to gone mad in the streets of Laredo, the Doors suffering Regalia" is a very good instrumental. *** L.G. from tracheotomies and tin ears and Berlin marchers with severe colds and nasal twang. A most rewarding effort is Tuli Kupperberg's composition with the sophisticated title of 'Bum's Song'. An enthusiastic melody forTHE MUSICAL THEATRE: "A Revolutionary Revelation" (Pye Janus nights on the lonely prairies. **** L.G. NSPL 28128). Revolution; We Want; Computer World; You Only Reap What You Sow; Reflections In The Life Of An Assassin; There Must Be A Better Way Of Life; A Love Pill; Before The Apple; I've Seen God In Many THE CREAM Places; A Revolutionary Revelation. GRATEFUL DEAD: "Live Dead". - Dark Star; Saint Stephen; The As the social climate of America deteriorates, is increasingly Eleven; Turn On Your Love Light; Death Don't Have No Mercy; Feedback;becoming a weapon of protest. Steppenwolf's latest album "Monster" and OF THE We Bid You Goodnight (Warner Bros. WS 1830). Jefferson Airplane's "Volunteers" both concentrate on the theme. And One of America's top rock groups present a double album set of near now The Musical Theatre. Unfortunately they lack all sublety and have symphonic proportions. Over one hour's playing time and only seven produced a propagandist album of minimal effect. Sample lyric: "Mrs. COUNTRY CROP tracks. Most of it is slow, emotional vocal exercises with moody and oftenPellegrini gets drunk on a Martini, but forbids her child to get high on vague backing. Occasionally the long musical storyline builds to an organmarijuana." So what? Whatever the purpose behind this album,it has DON GIBSON and crying guitar interlude that inspires. Most of the vocals are slightlysucceeded in bringing a number of undistinguished tunes to some banal rough, but the Dead never really depended on voices. The set should be lyrics. Perhaps in America where the problems are more immediate it Don't take all your loving means more. C.A. HLE 10305 London looked at as an atmospheric unit rather than a series of tracks to be objectively defined. When you finish, you feel as if you've been through something - an effect you can't get from a single, kids. Very strange studio GLENN BARBER effects that may grind your nerves. *** L.G. She cheats on me MISSISSIPPI JOE CALLICOTT: "Presenting the Country Blues" (CBS HLE 10306 London BlueHorizon 63227).a 69 -year -oldexpertinthis field - a voice well-worn, long-time retired, but now coping with falsetto exercises with LORETTA LYNN authentic skill. Extremely specialist, naturally, but interesting. MIKE COOPER: "Do I KNow You?" (Dawn Stereo DNLS 3P05). The Wings upon your horns Link; Journey To The East; First Song; Theme In C; Thinking Back; Think MU 1118 MCA She Knows Me Now;Toc Late Now; Wish She Was With Me; Do I Know You?; Start Of A Journey; Looking Back. VARIOUS ARTISTS: "The Best Of Bacharach" (Fontana Special SFL JACK GREENE A good album from the young folk singer. Cooper wrote all the songs - 13193. Dusty Springfield, Walker Brothers, Frankie Vaughan, Madeline & JEANNIE SEELY and is a good guitarist ("The Link") and a reasonable singer. The only fault Bell,JulieRogers, etc.,plus a splendid Dee Dee Warwick reading of isthelackofvarietyinthis otherwise excellent collection of songs. "Alfie". Puts in perspective the melodic and lyric talents of the composer. Wish I didn't have to miss you Especially good as "Journey To The East" and "Wish She Was With Me." And he's married to Angie Dickinson, too! MU 1119 MCA D.F. CONWAY TWITTY That's when she started FRANKIE LAINE: "The Great Years, Volume 1" (Fontana Special SFL PEGGY SCOTT AND JO JO BENSON: "Lover's Heaven" (Polydor 583 13184). Ole leather -lungs himself, and it's back to 1947 when he launched to stop loving you 756). Lover's Heaven; Over The Hill Underground; Magic Fingers; Moneyhimself loudly with "That's My Desire". Some rate him just as a very vocal MU 1120 MCA Don't Satisfy; Knee Deep In Clover; I Want To Love You Baby; Sugar cowboy, but there is a wider range to his talent. Try: "Exactly Like You", Makers; True Soul Lovin'; We're Gonna Together; Show It; Bigfor instance. BILL ANDERSON City Blues. One of America's best soul duo's - and one which is curiously neglected & JAN HOWARD in Britain, - go through an almost textbook exercise in what soul is all about. One of the best soul albums for a long time, with some beautiful If it's all the same to you SHIRLEY AND JOHNNY: "This Is . . . " (Philips SBL 79191. Good MU 1121 MCA songs, such as "Lover's Heaven" and "I Want To Love You Baby". Well arrangements here for a duo still in search of the big single. Best samples of produced. Hope it makes it. T.L. this young British duo: "Don't Make Me Over", and asurprisingly WILMA BURGESS re -adjusted "River Deep" and some unfortunate schmaltz. The sun's gotta shine MU 1122 MCA TRADER HORNE: "Morning Way" (Dawn Stereo DNLS 3004). Jenny May; Children Of Oare; Three Rings For Eleven Kings; Growing Man; MIGHTY SAM: "Mighty Soul".(Soul City SCM 004). A Papa Don BOBBY LORD Down And Out Blues; The Mixed Up Kind; Better Than Today; In My production and one which sustains interest for the specialist addict but Rainbow girl Lonliness; Sheena; The Mutant; Morning Way; Velvet To Atone; Luke That loses out for the real mood -switch fans. A hard, live-in, but basically elastic MU 1123 MCA Never Was. voice. Fifteen tracks, some lyrically wild. The first album from a new duo of Judy Dyble - who was with the Fairport Convention and ex -Them member Jackie McAuley. Soft, almost group records gentle songs - far removed from the roughness of Them or the growing DECCA ethnic quality of Fairport Convention. Slight references to other tunes inMAVIS STAPLES: "Mavis Staples". (Stax SXATS 1026). Now here's a their songs ("Children Of Oare" sounds slightly like "We Three Kings") but highly promising new gal, warmly bluesy and controlled from the 45 rpm records nevertheless, this album has been compiled with care and effort. Intelligent production box by Steve Cropper. "Son Of A Preacher Man", "Chained", arrangements which include use of clarinet, auto -harp, organ, piano, celeste "A House Is Not A Home" show up best her eloquent phrasing and her The Decca Record Company Limited Decca House Albert Embankment London SE1 and harpsichord. A good introductory album. subdued sense of emotion. This one is worth trying.

12 RECORD MIRROR, March 21, 1970 ANOTHER HIT FOR THE butdoesn'tgetoutofhand. DANNY RAY AND THE WHO? Somethingprettysaleablehere. FALCONS: The Scorpion (MCA CHART CHANCE. 5037).Instrumentaloffair THE WHO: The Seeker; Here For catchiness, mostlyorgan,pipe, More (Track 604036).Tough KING CRIMSON: Cat Food; Groon shuffly rhythm. Sak-ish."" enough, basically a simple formula . (Island WIP 6080). Re -jigged the seeker after truth, searchingpersonnel, stereo single and one for KENNY YOUNG: Shine On Ruby lowand(falsetto) high.Usual theclubdevoteesofthis Mountain (CBS 4870). Hit -writer heartiness,drum -wise,fromthe so -promisingteam.It'sinvolved, on a typically commercial piece ... Moon . . .that tough, tight, tensepowerful, gimmicky, outer-spacey, sing -along really. But samey.** basic rhythm. By no means theirbut it doesn't really lose direction. best, in terms of happening things, An acquired taste, actually, but a JACKIE TRENT: l'It Be Near You but it's all there. Pete Townshend possible. CHART CHANCE. (Pye 17918). Okay ballad from the song, natch. CHART CERT. musical "Nell" which stars Jackie. TAM WHITE: LewisCarroll; Very pleasant in show -tune style.** Future Thoughts(MiddleEarth ANNIE BRIGHT: Stand Up And 104). Goodlyricshere for the VALVERDE BROTHERS: With A Be Counted; I Think I'll Be Leaving soft -voiced talent. He has an urging Girl Like You (CBS 4868). Still not BILL NILE'S GOODTIME BAND: BLACK VELVET: African Velvet BUTTERSCOTCH:Don'tYou Tonight (Columbia DB 8666). I way with this, his own material ... quite theright material for this I Try Not To Laugh (Deram 290). (Beacon 129). Re-release of some Know (RCA Victor). Gentle group actually lust after t"is voice. It's gotsomehow reminiscent of "Feelin' talented team. Minor -key start but Happy-go-lucky sing -along, creating hefty organ-ic material . . . it's a scene.** a touch of the huskiness, a lot ofGroovy" melodically, but with a it builds.** just that ... a good time.** hard -pushinginstrumental, worth the rirasingabilityand thisis string backing and a great deal of spinning.*** SHE KANE: Big Step (UPC) Good chart -worthy material, what's more.charm. But it only needs a nudge to RICHARD BARNES: Take To The SAVWINKLE AND guitar -vocal scene; so-so song.** Annie starts bluesily but quietly, make it. CHART CHANCE. Mountains (Philips BF 1840). Harp BRENDAN SHINE:Tumbling then fair explodes into a chorus. I TURNERHOPPER: Your Mother and acoustic guitar, gentle voice but ThinksI'm A Hoodlum (Pye Water (Rex). Irish ballad- LOOKING GLASS: Can You think it, and she, stands out. Do try FAMILY DOGG: When Tomorrow morepower in the chorus. tuneful.** Believe (Philips). Gospellyand it. CHART CHANCE. 17913). Okay duo, writers too, on Comes Tomorrow (Bell 1100). ThisWell-rounded.*"* a pretty urgent sort of song. But great."** isgentler, more directly tuneful, not really distinctive enough.** ALLAN SHELDON: Mirror Of My : Mighty Joe; than some of their earlier efforts, JOSEPH WARD: Go My Love Mind(Plexium). Pacey,rippling YELLOW: Roll In Down The Hill Wild Wind (Penny Farthing 713). but chartworthy for all that, Male ballad.** (CBS).Pretty massive Potentially as big as "Venus" and, lead, cleverly laid down harmonies, (Columbia DB 8665). Produced by TONY HATCH AND THE CHERRY CHILDREN: Yoko (Pye production.** to mymind, more directly and one of those straight romantic, Hollie Tony Hicks and Justin de Villeneuve, no less, this is a 17912). Could make it, this saga of VAUGHAN THOMAS: Need You commercial.Rollingrhythm, sometimes schmaltzy little songs. big -voiced ballad which has theladyfromthe Orient. Girl (Page One).Nicebuilding JOE CARSENI: Why Did I Fall For instrumental, then more excellences Bitdisappointing,actually.But f am iI y -f ave-rave appeal. Nice Kiddie-winkies and sing -along.*"* beat -ballad - worth hearing.*** Love (Chapter One). Gentle from the fantastic Mariska Veres. surely a hit. CHART CERT. lyrics.*** ballad."* Disc already moving, clapper -wise on the continent. Nice tight sound, SWEET RAIN: Gonna Get Along riff -based. Watch it. CHART CERT. Without Ya Now (Pye Int. 25516). Great little song, this. Revival by girlie HARRY SECOMBE: The Song Of group who make with the charming sounds.*** Santa Vittoria; To Learn To Love (Philips 1841). Sub -titled "Stay", JAMES WILSON: The thisis a movie theme and one of Auction those big, big tenor jobs that suits (Pye 17917). Good singer, this Irish lad. Suitably impressive big ballad, chubby Harry more than neatly. No lushlyarranged and smoothly rampaging chart -buster, but a sung.**" steadysellerwhich could easily m ake it.Sympatheticbacking. THE BULLRING: CHART CHANCE. Birmingham Brass Band (CBS 4881). Novelty gimmickypiece,veryMidlandic, SLADE:ShapeOfThings To Come; C'mon, C'mon (Fontana TF with an overall catchiness and drive. DREAM POLICE: I'll Be Home In THE FLYING MACHINE: Hanging A toe -tapper, indeed.** 1079). Very powerful and ratherA Day Or So (Decca F 12998). On The Edge Of Sadness (Pye intuitive production here. Group Marmalade man Junior Campbell 17914). Big chunky beat forces this has strong basic attack and fairly go DREW ROSS: Close Your Eyes produced:bigstrings, very good along. Good harmonies eventually And Go To Sleep (CBS 4880). No beserk through the vocal chorus. lead voice and song which registers but takes time toregister. Good It's persistent music, heavy enough, lullaby, more abigbeater.Fair first time. Commended.*** production.** vocal violence.** ANNIE BRIGHT: Chartworthy. REGGAE DEPARTMENT ETHIOPIANS: Hong Kong Flu (J.J. 3303). Saga of the popular ailment. It's lively reggae, too, if repetitive. Could click.***

THE WHALES: Papa's Gonna Kiss It Better (Pye 17916). Fast reggae, but of a rambler but with some A popularsongsin"EasyRider". flip (which might have made a more excellentvocal touches. CREEDENCE CLEARWATER clicker.** REVIVAL: Travelin' Band; Who'll Presumably the BBC will be hip to commercial plug -side). A very good HERO Stop The Rain(Liberty LBF the great drug -digginglyrics,but smoothyetballsyS.V.G.,they even without radio plays it must startedout singing Marvin Gaye THE JAY BOYS: Jay Moon Walk 15310). I know that people go (Harry J. 6609). Extremely catchy quacking on about C.C.R. being an sellwell.Gitalong home,little songs on OKeh in 1964."*" organ -led instrumentalwhich old-style Rock 'n' Roll group, but dogies-yi hah! Perkyflip. registersfromthefirstpoppy even so I was CHART CHANCE. THE WATTS 103RD STREET completely phrase. Danceable.""* unpreparedforthisrecord- RHYTHM BAND: LoveLand; "Travelin' Band" is an unabashedly STEVIE WONDER: Never Had A Sorry Charlie(Warner Bros. WB 7365). As the Band are one of theBYRON LEE AND THE straight copy of Little Richard! As Dream ComeTrue;Somebody DRAGONAI RES: Squeeze up (part such,they havedoneitvery besttrickyrhythm exponents, Knows, Somebody Cares (Tamla 1) (Trojan7731).Almost cleverly,consideringtheir Motown TMG731).Obviously about, it's a shame that this (from suggestive, I guess. Just a purred restrictiveinstrumental their latest album)is a somewhat line-up - another smashforStevie, phrase and a riff=type basic the drumming especiallyis ordinary semi slowie. Well sung and really ultra -commercial hum -along bits instrumental phrase. For dancers.** good. Great fun, and sure to get the and all. Now - expand your minds played, and (often the case these days) in stereo without label kids jiving in the aisles (yes folks, a mite, and dig the Mothers of ALTON ELLIS: Remember That the Rock Revival IS here!). Jangling Invention"Burnt Weeny mention. Instrumentalflip,from their "Together" album.*** Sunday (Duke 72). Slow ska, rather 'significant" flip. CHART CERT. Sandwich" album; not only does it strident main voice. Fair but takes have two great "oldies -but -goodies time to get moving.* that aremore "forreal"than LOU CHRISTIE:LoveIsOver; CROW: Evil Woman, Don't Play Generation (Buddah 201081). Yes anything on "Ruben & The Jets", Your Games With Me; Gonna LeaveANSELL COLLINS: Cock Robin folks the Rock Revival is REALLY but also there is some superb blues A Mark (Stateside SS 2159). This(Dan 4401). Organ round a riff - here, as, to a jittery fast backing, fiddle by Sugar Cane Harris (of Don noisily unsubtle aggressive "heavy" butjustanother instrumental Lou Sacco reverts to his "Lightnin' & Deweyfame)!Dig? CHART beater,recently a bigU.S.hit, reggae bit.* Strikes" sound! On current form, a CERT. seems to have been held back while CHART CERT. an inferior British cover was given a MAYTALLS: Sweet and Dandy chance. The real thing has one of THE DELFONICS: Didn't I (Blow (Trojan 7726). Crisp drumming and those catchy,punchy rhythmsome extra -lively vocalwork. OLIVER: Jean; The Arrangement Your Mind This Time); Down Is patterns, some jazzy brass, and lots Up, Up Is Down (Bell BLL 1099). Fast -pacedska, a scurrying (Crewe CRW 1). First offering here of effort. Not bad.*** sound." `SYMPATHY on Bob Crewe's own logo (a sickly Althoughboththisand Eddie Holman's"(HeyThere) Lonely green label) istheU.S.smash OW NE GREY: Every Beat Of My C13120 ve-sion of the "Miss Jean Brodie" Girl" are huge hits in America, they BUDDY HOLLY: Rave On; Umm Oh Yeah (MCA MU 1116). Only Heart(Camel 37). Nice sensitive theme.This was WilliamOliver will mean precisely nothing here. reading a oldromantic Flying high in the charts Thisisslow sweet wailing Soul two yearssincethiswaslast of fair Swotford'sfollow-upto"Good reggae Morning Starshine", and despite the Vocal Group music, fitonly for re-released (withthe more ballad.Rather commercialcouplingof"Peggy outstanding.*** time -gap between them it should do SOUL GROUP FREAKS such as Sue") during the first Rock Revival. wellsince he singsthe myself,PeteWingfield, Tommy from the album "Umm Oh Yeah" is a nice much -plugged Rod McKuen slowie Barclay, Trevor Churchill, and a THE ELDORADOS: Savage Colt slowie.*** perfectly pleasantly.Slightly handful of others. BEAUTIFUL, I (Bullet428). Organ -dominated RARE BIRD CAS1005 CHART can't stop playing it, and Oi'll give "MiddleEastern"flip. JERRY NAYLOR: But For Love; instrumental. Fair theme; but does CHANCE. it foive.*****! go on a bit.** Angeline (CBS S 4882). The one-timeCricketon a FRATERNITY OF MAN: Don't THE ARTISTICS: I'm Gonna Miss Cashman -Pistilli -Westslowiethat ERROLL DANIEL: Live In Bogart Me; WispyPaisleySkies You; Hope We Have (MCA MUsounds Glen Campbell-ish: good, if Harmony (MCA5038). A 1117). Re-release of lovely 1966you like that sort of thing. Buzz yeah -yeah chorusbehind a (Stateside SS 2166). Along with Manufactured and distributed by Steppenwolf 's"Pusher",this Soul Vocal Group material - great("BabySittin'Boogie") ska-voice urging the usual peace in brilliant bit of cod -Country music is rhythmic things happening on top,Clifford -penned flip, with Beatles ourtimes. Niceenough.And BBC Records Ltd,37Soho Square ,London W1.(01 734 3932) one of the most note -worthy and and a more direct big beat on thetinges.* ** well -produced.**

RECORD MIRROR, March 21, 1970 13 The Frustrations

Back row: Allen Warner, Pat Burke. Centre row: , Steve Bingham, Tony Gomez. Front row: Eric Allendale, . THE BIGGEST PROBLEM for the Which is liable to be quite some Foundations, as far as Colin Young time, since the Foundations are set isconcerned,is the lack of time for a two month coast to coast tour they've had in which to rearrange of America in June and July, and their state act. prior to this they will be visiting "We've beendoing the same Sweden,Denmark,Austria and numbers on stage for the past two Spain, where they have had four years", he explained with disgust. number one hits. Group organist "It can get really stale then, but we Tony Gomez arrived to join us at just haven't had the opportunity to this point, andlaunched into set aside several weeks to rehearse. enthusiasticconversation onjust "It's s'tuations like this that can some ofthe peoplewhose lead to groups messing about with influences he has absorbed, or those druns, because of the frustrations he has admired. that build up. We've been using our "We'reinvolving a lotmore hits on stage and about the only progressive sounds into our material

other number we do that's not our now. I likeLed Zeppelin, Love, ownis Sonny Boy Williamson's Chicagoand Blood, Sweat and 'HelpMe'.Really we findthe Tears.NaturallyI'mparticularly teenybopper scene a drag, and I interestedinorganists andthat think ballrooms are dying anyway." often involves ajazz feel. I saw Forthese reasonsthe Roland Kirk down at Ronnie's and Foundations are planning to take he was quiteincredible. One some time out for heavy rehearsals, eveninghe went intothe street between visits to the studio to put outside blowing away, and he was the finishingtouchestotheir just like the Pied Piper! forthcoming album. "IfindKeith Emerson to be "We've been in the studios for a very interesting, he's got alot of while now completing the album," nice ideas. Vincent Crane,of Colin told me, adding an aside that Atomic Rooster is quite good, but he didn't like other people to buy HARVEY he's not reallysaying anything RACES F himdrinks since he always new. I find some classical music to preferreddoubles!"Allofthe AttitA be very relaxing, I particularly like tracks are our own compositions. Albinoni." It's mainlymyself and Eric ANDREWS Allendale who write, but the rest of In case heshould sound his the group seemtobetaking a over -confident, expounding greaterinterest now, particularly views on othermusicians, Tony Tony Gomes. I wrote 'Born To Live added. "As an organistI've got a Born To Die', which was released as hell of a long way to go. It takes a Places a single, but didn't do too well. lot to master." Since then I haven'tputmy Butit'snot just music about material on an A side. Well a man's which Tony talks at length. During gotta live!" our meeting the conversation The group'scurrentsingleis progressed from the fact that he and faces 'Take A Girl Like You', which is a was a mere five foot three in height, BillMartin and tothetheorythat withman's composition. evolutionthe bodyisbecoming "One of the other problems of smaller, because brute strengthis working continuouslyis that you no longer sonecessary, and the OSDN 9 ODN9 never have time to organise your brain becoming larger. private life," Colin told me. "Any "It's very hard to imagine," said time you're not travelling is spent Tony, "But anexperiment was

sleeping to catch up. I have a few recentlycarriedout on a dog, Newest in thenovaseries,analbum bya girlfriends, but withallthe time keepingitsbrainfunctioning by

we're away I don't think it's really electric impulses after it was dead. fair to any girl. Naturally there are Imagine what knowledge could be temptations, and you always get stored and usedifthis was done gifted writer/singer of contemporary folk. the girls who get 'knocked out' over with men." you at gigs. Tony has also been delving into "I haven't written to my father the realms of the supernatural, and for a long time. He didn't want me relateda story involving a friend to go into music, but I'd travelled who's young son became convinced DECCA to Britain with him several times, that someone came into his room at 12"Stereo or Mono LP and I likedthecountry, so I nights, and would actually point decided to stay and build up my out the visiting 'boy'. Then later 28/6 Decca House Albert Embankment London SE1 own career anyway. Now Idon't the family discovered that a young getin touch becauseif I did I'd boy had died in the house. At that SERIES recommended price The Decca Record Company Limited have to go into all the explanations point the discussion got a little too ofwhat exactlyI'm doing and 'eerie' for lunch time listening, and explain my financial situation. So I as the barman dipped the lights, we don't bother! Maybe when I've got fled to the light of day! everything organised." VALERIE MABBS

RECORD MIRROR, March 21, 1970 TOP U.K. ALBUMS TOP U.S. ALBUMS 1 (1) BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS 1 (1) BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER Simon and Garfunkel (CBS) Simon and Garfunkel (Columbia) ALL the charts 2 (2) LED ZEPPELIN II (Atlantic) 2 (2) PAINT YOUR WAGON Soundtrack (Tom Mack) (Paramount) 3 (-) Beatles (Apple) MORRISON HOTEL Doors (Elektra) 3 (5) FROM MEMPHIS TO VEGAS - 4 (12) FROM VEGAS TO MEMPHIS 5 (4) WILLIE AND THE POOR BOYS TOP U.S. SINGLES Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fantasy) Elvis Presley (RCA) 4 (3) EASY RIDER (Stateside) 6(3) ABBEY ROAD Beatles (Apple) 7 (7) SANTANA (Columbia) 5 (6) MOTOWN CHARTBUSTERS VOL. 3 1 (1) BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER Simon & Garfunkel (Tamla Motown) 8 15) CHICAGO (Columbia) 2 6 (4) LED ZEPPELIN II (Atlantic) (3) THE RAPPER Jaggerz 9(8) LIVE IN LAS VEGAS Tom Jones (Parrot) 10(6) HELLO, I'M JOHNNY CASH (Columbia) 7 (7) HELLO I'M JOHNNY CASH (CBS) 3(6) GIVE ME JUST A LITTLE MORE TIME Chairmen 8(8) ABBEY ROAD Beatles (Apple) 11 (16) GRAND FUNK Grand Funk Railroad (Capitol) 9 (15)SOUND OF MUSIC Soundtrack (RCA) Of The Board 12 (15) RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN' ON 10 (26) TOM JONES LIVE IN LAS 4 (15) INSTANT KARMA (We All Shine On) John Ono Lennon MY HEAD B. J. Thomas (Scepter) VEGAS (Decca) 13 (10) I WANT YOU BACKJackson 5 (Motown) 11 (11) FUNNY GIRL Soundtrack (CBS) 5 (4) RAINY NIGHT IN GEORGIA Brook Benton 14 (13) TRY A LITTLE KINDNESS 12 (10) BASKET OF LIGHT Glen Campbell (Capitol) 6(-) LET IT BE Beatles (Apple) Pentangle (Transatlantic) 15(9) ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK (Parrot) 13 (24) BEST OF THE SEEKERS(Columbia) 7 (9) HE AIN'T HEAVY HE'S MY BROTHER Hollies 16 (14) EASY RIDER Soundtrack(Dunhill) 17 (11) WAS CAPTURED LIVE AT THE 14 (13) JOHNNY CASH AT SAN QUENTIN (CBS) 8 (13) LOVE GROWS (Where My Rosemary Goes) Edison Lighthouse 15 (16) LED ZEPPELIN (Atlantic) FORUM Three Dog Night (Dunhill) 16118) CHICAGO (CBS) 9 (10) EVIL WAYS Santana 18 (18) LIVE PEACE IN TORONTO 1969 Plastic Ono Band (Apple) 17 (22)OVER AND OVER Nana Mouskouri (Fontana) 10 (11) 18(9) CANNED HEAT COOK BOOK (Liberty) DIDN'T I (Blow Your Mind This Time) Delfonics 19 (23) FRIJID PINK (Parrot) LET IT BLEED Rolling Stones (London) 19(--) GET TOGETHER WITH ANDY 11 (2) TRAVELLIN' BAND/WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN Creedence 20 (17) WILLIAMS (CBS 63800) 21 (22)JOE COCKER! (A & M) 20 (17) HOT RATS Frank Zappa(Reprise) Clearwater Revival 22 (20) BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID Burt Bacharach/Soundtrack (A & M1 21 (38) SOUNDS GENTLE ValDoonican (Pye) 12 (5) MA BELLE AMIE Tee Set 23 (21)TO OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN'S 22 (20)THRESHOLD/DREAM Moody Blues (Deram) CHILDREN Moody Blues (Threshold) 23 (55) GLENN MILLER STORY Soundtrack 13 (29) SPIRIT IN THE SKY Norman Greenbaum 24 (191 THE BAND (Capitol) (RCA RD 27068) 14 (41) ABC Jackson 5 25 (25) TWELVE IN A ROE Tommy Roe (ABC) 24 (12) LET IT BLEED Rolling Stones (Decca) 26 (32) STAND Sly and the Family Stone (Epic) 25 (43) GRADUATE Simon andGarfunkel (CBS) 15 (18) HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN Frijid Pink 26 (41)SOUNDS OF SILENCE Simon and 27 (27) AMERICAN WOMAN Guess 16 (17) KENTUCKY RAIN Elvis Presley Who (RCA Victor) Garfunkel (CBS1 27 (27)GOING PLACES Herb 17 (20) CELEBRATE Three Dog Night 28 (37) IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON Alpert (A & M) KING King Crimson (Atlantic) 18 (19) EASY COME, EASY GO Bobby Sherman 29 (26) 28 (14)BEST OF THE CREAM (Poiydor) CROSBY/STILLS/NASH (Atlantic) 30 (24) THIS GIRL'S IN LOVE WITH 29 (19) CHILDREN'S CHILDREN 19 (21) CALL ME Aretha Franklin YOU Aretha Franklin (Atlantic) Moody Blues (Threshold) 20 (12) PSYCHEDELIC SHACK Temptations 30 (33)THROUGH THE PAST DARKLY Rolling Stones (Decca) 21 (7) THANK YOU/EVERYBODY IS A STAR Sly & the Family Stone 22(8) HEY THERE LONELY GIRL Eddie Holman 23 (32)COME AND GET IT Badfinger COUNTRY SINGLES 5 YEARS AGO 24 (25)GOTTA HOLD ON TO THIS FEELING Jr. Walker & the All Stars 25 (39) UPTHELADDER TO THE ROOD Supremes 1 (1) FIGHTIN° SIDE OF ME' 26 (34)THE BELLSOriginals Merle Haggard & the Strangers, (Capitol) 2(2) I'LL SEE HIM THROUGH THE LAST TIME Rolling Stones 1 (6) 27 (14) RAINDROPS KEEPFALLIN' ONMY HEAD B. J. Thomas Tammy Wynette (Epic) 2(1) IT'S NOT UNUSUAL Tom Jones 3(3) IF I WERE A CARPENTER 3(3) SILHOUETTES Herman's Hermits 28 (31) DO THE FUNKY CHICKEN Rufus Thomas Johnny Cash & June Carter (Columbia) 4(2) I'LL NEVER FIND ANOTHER YOU 29 (16) NO TIME Guess Who 4 (11)MY WOMAN MY WOMAN MY WIFE The Seekers Marty Robbins, (Columbia) COME AND STAY WITH ME 5 (7) 30 (27)THETHRILL IS GONE B. B. King 5(7) TENNESSEE BIRDWALK Marianne Faithful) Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan (Wayside) GOODBYE MY LOVE The Searchers 31 (22) OH ME, OH MY Lulu 6 (91 OCCASIONAL WIFE Faron I M1171- PE SEFING THINGS 32 (35) IT'S A NEW DAY James Brown young (Mercury) Ci,erie Pitney 7 (8) COUNTRY GIRL I'LL STOP AT Nei-mm(3 33 (24) I WANT YOU BACK Jackson 5 Jeannie C. Riley (Plantation) Sandy Shaw 34 (36)ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Glen Campbell & Bobbie Gentry 8 (10)ONCE MORE WITH FEELING YES I WILL file Beatles 9 10) Jerry Lee Lewis (Smash) 10(5) GAME OF LOVE 35 (37) SOMETHING'S BURNING Kenny Rogers & First Edition 9(4) ITS JUST A MATTER OF TIME Wayne Fontana 36 (23)ARIZONA Mark4Andsay Sonny James (Capitol) 10(5) HONEY COME BACK 37 (26) NEVER HAD A DREAM COME TRUE Stevie Wonder Glen Campbell (Capitol) 38 (61)LOVE OR LET ME BE LONELY Friends of Distinction 11 (10) ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Glen Campbell & Bobbie Gentry (Capitol) 10 YEARS AGO 39 (44)SHILO Neil Diamond 12 (13)TOMORROW'S FOREVER 40 (38)JENNIFER TOMKINS Street People Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton, (RCA) 1 (-)MY OLD MAN'S A DUSTMAN 13 (14)WE'RE GONNA GET TOGETHER 41 (64)YOU'RE THE ONE Little Sister Buck Owens & Susan Raye (Capitol) 2(1) RUNNING BEAR 42 (66) LONG LONESOME HIGHWAY Michael Parks 14 (15)A LOVER'S QUESTION Johnny Preston Del Reeves, (United Artists) 3(3) DELAWARE Perry Corm 43 (43)TAKE A LOOK AROUND Smith 15(6) WELFARE CADILLAC 4(2) POOR ME Adam Faith 44 (45) Guy Drake, (Royal American) 5(5) THEME FROM A SUMMER WALKIN' THROUGH THE COUNTRY Grass Roots 16 (16) I'VE BEEN EVERYWHERE PLACE Percy Faith 45 (49)GOTTA GET BACK TO YOU Tommy James & Shondells Lynn Anderson (Chart) 6(4) YOU GOT WHAT IT TAKES 17 (18)NORTHEAST ARKANSAS MISSISSIPPI Mary Johnson 46 (-)AMERICAN WOMAN Guess Who COUNTRY BOOTLEGGER Kenny 7 (10)WHAT IN THE WORLD'S COME 47 (84)TENNESSEE BIRDWALK Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan Price (RCA Victor) OVER YOU Jack Scott 18 (24) IS ANYBODY GOIN' TO SAN 8(7) WHY Anthony Newley 48 (46)MY ELUSIVE DREAMS Bobby Vinton ANTONE? Charley Pride (RCA) 9 (-) FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU/ 49 (47) IF I NEVER KNEW YOUR NAME Vic Dana 19 (44)YOU WOULDN'T KNOW LOVE WILLIE AND THE HAND JIVE Ray Price (Columbia) Cliff Richard 50 (63) LET'SGIVE ADAM & EVE ANOTHER CHANCE 20 (30) I KNOW HOW 10(8) SLOW BOAT TO CHINA Gary Puckett and the Union Gap Loretta Lynn, (Decca) Emile Ford. 111111111111.1111111111111011111111 ADVERTISEMENT I CECILIA I DO YOU LOVE ME BY POF 165 POF 165 CHOISE POF 168 DEEP FEELING

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RECORD MIRROR, March 21, 1970 15 JIMY MLL SUCCESS STORY "I'm not a positive producer. I share the artists hang ups. I'm certainly no Phil Spector imposingmy will on the artists"

IT COMES PACKAGED as awho had any faith in me was a "So we've formed our own successstory.Labelledtheguy called Chris Blackwell (the company - called Ringmaker RollingStones,Traffic,Managing Director of Britain'sat the moment. Some offices Spooky Tooth, the Move ... itIslandRecords). I'd done aarecomplete jokes - they also mentions Jimmy Miller -record called 'Insence' by thedon'tcareaboutbusiness, producer. Anglos and Chris liked it andwhile others are completely the HitrecordsareMiller'sbrought it out in Britain. other way round and don't mother 6 of the best profession. The 'Stones owe "All the pirates played thecare about the artists. We hope him`Jumpin'JackFlash',record, but unfortunately, thetoavoidthat by havinga `Beggar'sBanquet','Honkydistribution wasn't so good asperfectbalance.Atthe Tonk Women' and'LetItitis now and although it wasmoment we are a production Bleed'. The Traffic owe himheard quite a lot it wasn't a hit.company,musicpublishers, everythingthey'verecorded. But Chris asked me to comemanagementagencyand He's been to the top of theover - and so I came. publicity agency." chartswiththeMove's "The first record I did over And there'sRadio `BlackberryWay'andhe'shere was `Gimmie Some Lovin'Geronimo. A commercial looked after the developmentby the Spencer Davies Group.station - very similar in its of Spooky Tooth. And nowThat made number two over_____hu_sinessoperationto Radio he's moving into radio - withhere and in the States about LuxembOurg- which nt the RadioGeronimo,a legal ten record companies startedmoment broadcasts in English station operating from Montebidding forit. For that firstlate on Saturday nights. Miller Carlo. yearIproduced justIsland isveryexcitedaboutthe Milleris a tall cowboyishartists.After thatIbecame project. American with delicate facialindependent - and the only "The aim of our company is features. He could have been atwo Island acts I continued toso big thatIdon't want to film actor in countless westernsproduce were Spooky Toothsound like blowing steam. But - as the goodie, of course.and Traffic. the radio station concept is Instead he is a . "Then cametheRollingreally an extension from the He explains:"IcametoStones. People often say that finished record product. We England on September 1, 1966brought them back from thelive in a country where there's - at 7.40 am. `Satanic Majesties. ..' album.one pop station to cater for a "I'd been trying to produceButthe'Stoneswerenation's pop taste. records in the States but it wasresponsible for that. I'm not a "Radio Geronimo hopes to difficulttogetrecordpositive producer. I share thegive an alternative. The bread companiesinterested.Theartists hang-ups. In a way I'mcomes from advertisers - but trouble was that I had no trackthe liason between them andtheywon'thaveeditorial records - no string of hits - sothebusinessset-up.I'mcontrol over the programmes. Ihadtofinance my owncertainlynoPhilSpector "We'veputoutcheck cut-pricesessions by gettingimposing my will on the artists. signals on Saturday nights and some friends in to do session "So I'm not the person who work for me and then sneakbrought the 'Stones back. Inwe're happy with the results. lookingto make off to a non-union studio tothebeginningofourWe're not money. It'll be enough if it just make the record. relationshiptogetherthey would come into the studio inpays foritself. We hope to "Then,when wehad make money inour record recorded it, I'd search throughMarchandaskhow each ventures. The musical policy thetelephonedirectoryforother'sChristmas had gone. record companies. I'd pick oneThey really hadn't seen eachwill be rather like the better and go and try and sell theother for that time. FM stations in tthe States. We "Now, they're back doinghopetosense what people record to them - asking for want from their letters - and about500dollars.Lookingtours. It's required courage for we hope to have jazz, classical back I can see that they'd havethem to do that. It used to had more respect for me if I'dtake them three nights to getmusic, gospel,r and b. The only criteria will be the music's asked for 50,000 dollars. onesongbut now they're "As it was, of course, thedoing a song a night. They'remerit. record company had a pile ofplaying as a group again. "But the whole media has records - some costing 30,000 "But it was after the Rollingto be changed. You ask me in No. 1 SYLVIA McNEILL dollars - so when it came toStones that I was asked to dowhich direction the change will plugging mine it came at thethe Move's 'Blackberry Way'. Icome.Ican only say you'll SYLVIA McNEILL is a girl of the seventies in every way. Pictured here in a jaunty cap teaming with a brown certainly notice the difference velvet trouser suit, she still retains a feminine flair. She knows her own mind, and decided at the age of twelve, bottom of the pile. met Tony Secunda, the group's when she worked with a school folk group, that singing would be her career. Since then Sylvia has worked with "So to succeed you had tomanager, during that time andonce changes have been made." Liverpool group, the Escorts, covering much of the world, formed her own group Tricycle and even run her own firsthype your own recordwe got talking in depth. Our Interviewover.Jimmy music agency in Yorkshire. Now, at the age of twenty-two, Sylvia has been acknowledged for her vocal ability by company into promoting yourideasseemedbeautifullyMiller has spared enough time. television producer Jack Good, who flew from Hollywood to record her current solo single 'Ugly Man', on RCA similar. But in dissimilar areas, 1922. record. I supposeabout There was a photo call, the two-thirds of them could haveif you see what I mean. Tonyradio station, Ginger Baker's beenhitsifthey'dbeenwas interested in the businessAirforce album and the new pushed. side of the industry and I wasRolling Stones album to deal "Anyway, the first personinterested in recording. with.

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