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B4100490 PUBUCAT1ON FEBRUARY 16 1974 7p Wizzord's RICK PRICE talks about his spellbinding life with ROY WOOD

NA AN ., KING: `The real .04_' story of my Bubble Rock hit' ` f c %71

f 1 , NEIL SEDAKA: So much better the second time around!

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The 5004 4 5 9 BAND ON THE RUN nuke ease. with a ..ng Morn «mol re WON, (1 5 r J 7 SOLITAIRE Andy WiMerns CBS 1824 Paul McCartney B Wings Apple PAS 10007 radio lsl.yed The 4sket lee mrurs gene_ 1 Neer knew 6 3 10 beviag mane beep phayled DANCE WITH THE DEVIL 5 4 7 SILVERBIRD thanked them tor r sa.0 pl.yr`` Leo SeyerChrysalis CHR When will the atim rake up See. Mire, Sew .the Copy Powell RAK 164 1050 it r 7 19 4 WOMBUNG SONG 6 3 4 OVERTURE AND BEGINNERS breaks. Ndl Sndalta ~ow H gad (11B.rd T. Weld .mare Wombles CBS1794 some more placer lorward. nor 81. 8 6 5 ROCK IN ROLL BABY StYlisticsAVCO Rod Stewert/Feces Uve Mercury 9100 001 7 10 81 GREATEST 6105 026 SIMON B GARFUNKEL'S 9 9 7 ALL OF MY UFE Diana RossTemle HITS CBS 69003 8 16 4 TOUCH ME IN MORNING Motown TMG 880 THE 11ud.oe Ford ready u, rot up the rherr. Beissa slew 10 7 9 THE SHOW MUST GO ON Diane Ross Tamla Motown STM111239 .e.eeral nm,nth. e( play la it: (barir Rlrh a big -D U6 War 9 12 19 I'M A WRITER NOT A FIGHTER for the UK. 1n N. Thal Leo Sayer Chrysalis CHS 2023 mould be a 14 nun at AmU. Y INl Gilbert MAMS 505 should rake eeee'yrre happy 19trark damn, Dark lees 11 12 6 HOW COME Ronnie Lene GM GMS 011 O'Sullivan lady 10 8 18 Cher nukes Why 414,1 buy 11a11 Menad! no 12 15 5 TEENAGE LAMENT 74 THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON 4; people ya Alice Pink Royd Harvest SHVL 804 Mirk Ranson r the chart. Maybe he need. Cooper Werner Brothers K16345 o boo do people know. Brarn.vllle J emotes 13 18 11 6 6 TUBULAR BELLS Mike Old(ield Virgin V lherel. 2 TEENAGE DREAM Marc Bolan EMI MARC In 3e (7111. H111y. Iu.'perrMe, 2001 S. the .ro0 wed. flounces ele Gary and the Yates. Shaer ere Rubble Rork and Prelude. 14 13 12 LOVE ON A MOUNTAIN TOP 7 12 14 23 THE BEATLES 1962-1966 Apple PCSP 717 Robert Knight Monument MNT 1875 13 15 23 THE BEATLES 1967-1970 Apple PCSP 718 15 17 6 LIVING FOR THE MY 14 33 19 SLADEST Slade Polydor 2442 119 Stevie Wonder Temla Motown TMG 881 15 29 7 TOM JONES GREATEST HITS So Mud Ior sal wad's number nay The others had teas 16 30 2 MA HE'S MAKING EYES AT ME Torn Jones Decc. SKL5176 berry for there's Bowie and Ite5L Kobel ealue, to W ....I. Lens Zavaroni Phillips 6006 367 16 23 15 GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD Ile sounds very uke IS. Jagger to me. There's Jed ream P. 17 11 10 RADAR LOVE Elton John DJM DJLPD 1001 McCartney and You're !Malmo from R. Shaer. fled Mr A Where to N he neat Golden Earring Track 2094116 17 9 8 BRAIN SALAD SURGERY Stardust. r N. going .peed sew days, 18 10 11 FOREVER Roy higher than lean lulu. Womble.e Should he rrrewwg eel Wood Harvest HAR 5078 Emerson Lake B PelmerMenticors K 53501 week. Very lntere.Uogl 19 20 3 LOVES THEME 18 22 3 DIANA AND MARVIN Love Unlimited Orchestra Py.7N 25635 Diana Ross B Mervin Gey. 20 8 12 YOU WONT FIND ANOTHER FOOL LIKE T.mla Motown SIMA 8015 us soul chart ME New Seekers Polydor 2058 421 19 11 15 PIN UPS Devid Bowie RCA Victor RS 1003 1 (1) Boogie Down - Eddie Kendricke (Tuttle) 21 23 4 NEVER NEVER GONNA GIVE YA UP 24 4 INNERVISIONS 2 (3) Jungle Boogie - Keel a The Gang (De-LKeI Berry White Pye7N25633 Stevie Wonder Temle Motown STMA 8011 3 (2) Put Your Hands Together - O'Jays 22 - - JEALOUS MIND Alvin SterdustlMegnet 21 18 8 TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEAN (Phllly) MAC Yee Atlantic K 80001 4 (4) Trying To 23 21 6 THE I tit Hold On To My Woman - Lamont LOVE LOST 22 45 2 TALKING BOOK Herold Melvin & The Blunotesnotee feeler (ABC) Stevie Wonder Tam'. Motown STMA 6007 5 (8) Sexy Mama Philadelphia PIR 1829 -Momenta (Stang) 23 13 11 STRANDED Rosy Music Island ILPS 9262 8 16 16 MY (5) Let Your Hair Down- Temptations 24 COO-CA-CHOO 24 31 109 BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER (Motown Alvin Stardust Magnet MAG 1 Simon B Ger(Link.' CBS 7 (8) Joy Naar Hayes 25 27 5 HIGHWAYS OF MY LIFE - (Enterprise) 25 17 50 ALADDIN SANE 8 (9) The Is ley Brother Epic 1980 ILtkeToLtve Love - B. B. King (ABC) David Bowie RCA Victor RS 1001 9 (12) I'll Be The Other Woman Soul a 26 33 2 THE AIR THAT I BREATHE - Children le 26 - 1 THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD Stall I Rollie. Polydor 2058 435 , D evid Bowie RCA Victor LSP 4816 10 (13) The Love's Theme - Love Unlimited (20th 27 44 2 HAPPINESS IS ME AND YOU 27 19 36 MURKY DORY Century) Gilbert O'Sullivan MAM 114 Devid Bowie RCA Victor SF8244 28 25 4 STAR Stealers Wheel A Et M AMS 7094 28 30 2 A NICE PAIR Pink RoydH.rvest SHOW From Billboard's US Specialist Soul survey. 29 28 4 AFTER THE GOLD RUSH Prelude Dawn 403 1052 DNS 29 20 32 NOW AND THEN . 30 29 4 II CANT GET NOI SATISFACTION Carpenters AIM AMLH 83519 S Bubble Rock UK 53 30 40 6 HELLO Steles Quo Vertigo 31 43 2 SLIP AND SUDE 31 34 11 ROCK ON Devid Essen CBS 65823 Breaker Medicine Head Polydor 2058 436 32 32 8 BY YOUR SIDE Peters B Lee Philips PAPER LACE? Know Arm! Mel a The g.lon« el 32 26 13 LOVE ME plenty IWVE YOU LOVE 33 21 9 A TIME FOR US elrpluy Will Yea get angle bill 11 made the Armoires Gary Glitter BELL1337 Donny Osmond MGM 2315 273 Marto sometime barb. Nell Diamond rb.ilenging with 'Me Hotline big 33 22 13 PAPER ROSES Mane Osmond MGM 2006 34 50 3 MOONTAN Golden Earring Track 2406112 hit of ye.Wryear. Pour Top, eknald do It 316 and Potter, Quiver and The 9udrrWnd Brother.. (Mid 34 31 5 GALLOPING HOME 35 - - JONATHAN UVINGSTONE SEAGULL be NI* their big break? Would Ire goodie C K ranee off. London String Chorale Polydor 2058 280 Neil Diem ond CBS 69047 - /BILLY DON'1 BE A HERO 36 50 2 A LITTLE WVIN" Neil Sedek. Polydor 2068 36 27 4 THE PLAN Osmond. MGM 2316251 Paper lace, it,. Strop BUS 37 26 6 SING IT AGAIN ROD 1014 434 ,c LOVE ME 36 39 3 BABY WE CANT GO WRONG Rod Stewart Mercury 6499 484 TENDER Mlek Ronan RCA (PRO 0111 PUSSY NASSAU Bretoning Or The Cilia Black EMI 2107 1 End Atlantic KIM! 38 - A SONG FOR YOU .. BACKFIELD 5001105 37 42 4 SCULLERY Clifford T. WardCharl.ma CB IN Mel a The (barred CON nor Carpenter. ABM AMLS 63511 S THE WORST RAND 1N THE W 221 ORID 1600118 01 39 - 1 DIANA ROSS GREATEST HITS JUST MY SOUL RESPONDING Smokey Robles. Tunis 38 47 2 REMEMBER (SHA LA LA LA) Bey City Tame Motown STMA 8006 Motown TMO eu Roller. 6111338 40 39 11 OL' BLUE EYES IS BACK r' FUNKY BTVFF Pool The Gant Polydor UPI 474 39 32 24 FOR THE GOOD TIMES Perry Como RCA Frank Sinatra Reprise K 44249 YOU'RE 815TEEN Bingo Starr Apple K feud -WHO 2402 41 25 8 THE RISE AND FALL OF 21GGY STARDUST DO YOU THINK YOU ORE (bearwiek Ora 40 36 14 LAMPLIGHT Devid Es.. CBS 1902 David Bowie Dees 1]010 RCA Victor SF 8257 9MOKIN' IN THE BOYS 41 24 10 POOL HALL RICHARD / I WISH IT 42 - - MANTLE PIECES ROOM Brownsville Statism WOULD RAIN Face.Warnar Brother. PN1tan] Clifford T. Word Charisma CAS 1077 ANDD Y 1 K 16341 43 35 3 THESE FOOUSH AND Yee Atlantic K 10407 THINGS BONGO Bon Band 1aa dal 42 34 11 VAOO VIADrupi AEMAMS7083 Bryan Ferry MOM 43 37 6 THANKS FOR !Mend 1LPS 9249 COME GETET TO THIS Marvin dare Tome M,orwa 7110 SAVING MY UPE 44 42 2 TAKE ME Billy Paul HIGH Cliff Richard EMI EMC 882 Philadelphia PIR 1928 DREAM KID Sutherland Quiver IQ? 44 BURN BABY BURN 3016 Brother* Lead - - Hudson Ford1A B M 45 28 12 BACK TO FRONT gift AMS 7096) Gilbert O'Sullivan MAM HE AINT HEAVY -HE'S MY BROTHER Nell Manna 46 - WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW 502 MCA lot 46 37 10 MIND GAMES John LennonApple PCS Mel.nle (Neighborhood NBH 1 JUST CAN T GET YOU OUT OP MY MIND Fine r TuP S 7185 46 - - THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL 47 - 1 THE BEST OF BREAD Prahe PROdl9 City 1111 Ch.rll. Rich (CBS Brad El.ktrs K42115 QUEll PAST IN A HURRY N.. York Polydor 1897) aft 47 36 7 TAKE ME HIGH Cliff 48 1 SOUND OF MUSIC Richard EMI 2088 - LEAVE O ALONE Green Roddy. kith ISTN 48 - - UNTIL YOU COME BACK TO ME Soundtrack RCA Victor SB/RB 6616 LIMN' FOR YOU Al Green Lad ,e HL rail /Meths Franklin (Atlantic K 103991 49 41 3 JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR REME MBE T Des G1*Poar Be.1 N 45301 49 - - DARK LADY Cher (MCA 1011 Soundtr.ck MCA MDKS 8012/3 SHOW AND lTULLees 11 N'ilsa Bell I./ 50 45 17 TOP OF THE WORLD Carp.nter.A B K 50 - 1 CLOSE TO YOU VJOKERSew Band SOp Ia7th Bonet 2eu1. AMS 7086 Carpenter. Aft M AMLS 998 T VIVA a6PANA SylviaIh'ha SOS --....., cr same MIRROR. FEBRUARY 16, 1874

chart addresses WANT In wele. w your rare star? Here are addressee but nor! fan club remember .me thing, It y,et do eel In ouch g writ.. for droll. and M1 eorlom a n. a... ter reply. The kind of vvlrr you Rt mete. from drab dbapgdnted if Mint. Y slab m don't he worn In be pertly rand. Obviously we cannot imam.,imam.,imam.,dreme* anything .0se than IM bying the ...trireme* Oven are aaahe nee. Geordie Fan Club, P. O. Ron (Pit, l .,rid no W L Shoo Turner Fan flub, UR Record.. /a Grafton London M 1, Way, Roe, Munir, c/o (lr.hlre. Peter leay. a Suntory Rood, It enemy, Oar) Glitter, e/o\ter, P.O. Km le. Landon. Elt 211W. COMPILED BY Winn, Petal Me(iraey. tendon WI IUP. TONY JASPER Bixekfaot Sur, a/o.lenn c. P.O. Rat 171. tonMn Mrs de. tl.m,nd Brother. Fa n Club. toedno W IA IY E. Gilbert O'Sullivan Fan Club, P.O. Roe 251. Neocaalr changes .under - Lyme. Staff*. r3.P Info emiety, Hrote Sandford, MIA Elphlnavnr K -tad. IGNer.L rot the news we Oh Ma %onth.m. Ifento, nve you about Geordie. Reach Boy.. e/a tbrlanir and Jill. tat Flom. Adelnhl wed (lea ....re. 3e /frown etrrvr, M or heater 2. MIIk-helL arirer r a.nnd ss Uavid ~My. c/o Mole Miller, 50 Parker Street, tendon. have made the record it's Lena W(T. rwm)w mon concerned alter LENA 7.AVARO!YI looks The Ilan Family. c/o .1111, Pond My Fxm10, t nlraer dams. Jimmy's Aholbdaury s., W'I V eal dim- ilke being one of the Avenue. tendon P. be homed In March and biggest talents greener. Peen Qub, PO Loa Itll. Downey. California. ma February a, to Mt VSA. r die's British pop for some the m in enn Ina April a and Jaekaon Five Official Fan Club. Mho (brnline IMndms, Is Jurro album le time. The famous Ameri- Doren Orion. Edo, 1T. starch can Mild Mea.e. Present Industrial company, Star are The Olfleisw Swart Fan nub.b, ere tbrf*trne, 17 (*nnd.wd treoble's will mean quite Mr already showing tre- Road. Wandsworth, tandem SW In. of Milting around of planned mendous blterest and if Brotherly lave, Slim P. Holden, 71 A.m. Read, retard releases and obvl.m.- anybody should know, Doveroott,Jimmied. ly we'll merges any thine Mat then Stag should! Richard. Imernational flirt ItlMnrd van flan, n eedn a further word. Lena moves to sixteen PO Rot Amsterdam, in w'iesard lYaa ha Society. e/s Mike Sheridne, A Mulberry this week's chart after (Goad, only two Itulrneville, Itfrmin(ha m 35. birthdays weeks. Ma! TheNew Seekers Pen quh, I Eonlon Rood. Rirkenheod HELLO, birthday people! (He's Making Eyes At Street. London NMI. '1 Poe Me) has If you Info on 2.1. Nina Simone and already been a . want anyone eel mentioned hero plowee write look closet) at the 27nd seven million seller but A ask and we'll print bather barn in *..vend week.' - 'raw- H'n the bic da) tar with Lena the song time. Should you fled bad newtee from any tested slab nc oreaa Aedy It Daa id Williams!: 23 assumes new direction niaa uon please write n rid eel s u. aO h evidence to hark -up your sserenn and we'll look ins, 11 K 11 moms maybe starer new eye - and feel. storm jnsefahe I liner for Stevie mmplaini. For both ante o Chart Addre.vn. of chart hill. It would be invidious to i d Mart mºkers Sweet and aim it Parade, accord a Radio Mirror. 7 Cbrpahy Surat London make comparisons with ,e 141%. 1PG. n from other M roe former versions oh.' , Ill Andy Santee day as well, yet at someone in their power to produce hit VI the same time hat a dayt: 25 George it should twenties. record people. Several of l ' Harrison: to Sandie Shaw, be stated Lena does not Lena has the drive of the winners after their Janney ~b. See y. nest sound like a ten -year -old Lulu or Brenda Lee when hit have not been too girl. Her dlac is not, as they started the path to fortunate in future chart with so many teenage or fame. She could be our attempts. There should winners younger records, paln- girl answer to America's be no problems for Lena. fully obvious an older male teen Michael Goodie* winners: Howard song talent, Lena le managed by Greek Manned: K. J. »nod. given to a Jackson. Phil Solomon. He told PerlsmraiM: Kano Tyler. struggling youthful Once again Opportun- Chart Parade, 'She's t'' I Dagenham: Simon Shaw, voice. Lena sounds like ity Knocks has shown Its done a great number!" I. -3. 1 r1 Wes, Brnmvaleh: David Eldon. Oldham: N. Ilan. [you sley Rigcla Hill; NON write Rothnie, Rath: Paul Wells, RAN %IONDJEFFRF:Y from record al locale Donegan on bemuse I have Men trying Sheffield: J. Fawkes. Hull asks oh) does jimmy Rorknprake and r deed for se long to vain neenething twieroler; 11. Dunn. Mid. Saver play different order hoe many dintº he did have .dtho' any venom.. 1,.. CI'i dlWlea.'r,shrou h. .. at to more ago on hie dine in the charts Oo,d for you lan. thanks nt our tab reggae programmegram o eonnulting (bartieMdlild'n for your oord.. romp »ere Truly Garrett, kind RRM thane, particularly an excellent edited volume, -:wy _ P/i i Tina Thredeuld. John RRM 'aye fts chart in the Rork Fee seems to reared no a. ti.ndenron, Jenny Charles, same as th nBBC! less than to idol I'm ,loba Garvani. M. Randall, II M, only a few year. nOrlIeWIllii punted. Dane. star pick le. Fobs arts. Gary Graf- back that a men curl why he holed sore right up tl1/1i egty, A. R. (brinle. James began. Before that the ROO to the last he node the 20 so ROM AND RAY leen M.sr Reid. Jean leach. J. Tiger Feet people, MUD el. owed to make their own chart ha.By. Ube you 1 rnjosed J 10 litudatn, Philip C.sllydine, by a Mint the the fees enthwosm and years awl 5 years speak out on the 5nI 'Iva, compilation ago Sayer. vlare O'BrIen, Thomas Cook. unle paper listing. tad NF suddenly real,ard how good brilliant, inrndMl,, Danny Dowsing. Patrick gave the order you hear Lonnie was In those days. February l6, 1664 February 15, new sew him at Top Of The Polo. he did hie nwng s Renee. ith. George La,., Jimmy um nn Sunder.. Ian Sparks, of East clam, 111 Hell As Nice - I eve. Alvin I (1) Needles and Pins - Amen Corner Stardust la really Ray nand Wenham. David Done Snell. of IHghnate, says: "I was very- won soed good goy. Searchers 2 (2) for r Deader. Terry law. Dania landed, nays she hen rd John leant that I had Albaleos - FIres- '1. glad bins. Tremendous 2 (2) I'm The One wood Mae on ltrlg%s. Clyde Paul. K tern Pees praising the track album In your competition - production Ihr Sweet Park bison lb-rilse Bremer. Gerry b The Pacema- 3 (1) Blackberry Way - production and Steve I Reach Boys: h. Berber. P. kers Move. great. Lamplight, (hare Foreman. J. King. N. Cliff's top ten 3 (a) Diane-Bachelors (II For Once In My Life another knock out n.eunda Cron. Mrs S. Fairvw. (brie REMEMBER our recent A Woman Soon (I: H Power 4 (3) HIPPY Hippy Shake -Stevie Welder Great, great. greet to M.- Roe. G. McGrath. Linda MOW lion or you o vote on To AB Our Friend. (7) 15 Swinging Blue 5 0) Dancing In The Stler'e wheel umber. ('adore, Terry Beardmore. the alkürne great le single. With Thr Eyes Of A Cldid (- Jean. Street - Martha Meet Lulu the other doy and from Cliff? Ili.. hrndub have ); Is All My Lose (lo); in 5 1111 - Manfred Reeves & Vandellas ere knork,d-o t by her. We Trevor Reidy. Albums of Mann yet asallabb- lo he seat ml been up W the name thing Summer Iloiiday (i). The 6 (a) Please Don't Go - raved over Amoureuae thin Mon their result I hewer In braokets ten you Donald Peen a..eks belore and and Glad The Ilay I Mel M,vie (7); 2 where the song scored in our I Ill All Over - 7 (6) You Got Soul lter It hit the Dave Clarke 5 - wan The v one One. (1); 3 Sing listing. 10 song. scored in Johnny Nash Prelude, brilliant, *humid he back again 7 As A Of Freedom (15): 4 both Top les. The big 15) Usual - Brenda II (7) I'm Gonna Make in the Top Tea. Respect CUB Son. Lee EVE OF DESTRUCTION The Next Time (9): 5 Uvin' euprines In the above are You Love ate - Diana Richard. not too ..meek el a A n orm- plan Berry McGuire 7 only Just (101 Don't Blame Me - (toss A The cord 1Bgb Doll (3); &Silvery Rain (-); Wind Me Up which Frank Temple - Take Mr llee I. hark oe the recording The Twelfth 01 Never (0); $ regtnlered on our voting, llield bons ntay.d al the op hes-ause 9 (151 I Thank Of you Myrrxlth an album on .Imes 1'); v Visions (13); 10 Jeans and a met which did - D Id Ob la Di Ob La Pena M taleeL Dent like the The ?Jerseys Ili h tiled Seeda. Barry is Living In Itartnny (-I: 11 net rrrrive even one vote. Marmalade T -Rea mound, love that new 10 (-I Anyone Who Had A 10 Mae beer m Fehneary 141 for RuG.helor Roy (5); It Wind Girl. 1(013.111(013.11Be A Homan (5) To lave Somebody r Dane 0(1 and Ssevue a tour Heart -011a Black Simone %bander Me Up (.); 13 Girl. 1.'11 Be - Nina Y lgreat

I 1973 Results =1 J i es - albums -lie artists' NOW the figures have many points as Elton take first spot two years the world of Bridge Over nearest challengers, the been added up. Now we names and point*. John or add together the running. This year Carole Troubled Water and powerful combiration of Remember the method of know 1973 has been combined score of Elton. King was right out of the Simon Et Garfunkel's Gary and Mike Leander. compilation is to take fantastic year for David Gary. Rod. Cat and David running but Lynsey and Greatest Hits. The Beatle They certainly deserve issued Bowie% He tops the the every Chan during Cassidy! It in simply Olivia will be back at the compilations have re- title of Top writers of the 1973 and for number one singles and album list. INCREDIBLE, end of '74 trying to ings. Almost. almost stored - the Uverpool year and of course they the score is 50 and so remove Surf off the top - foursome was chased to chart statia- also take the top forth. And that. Mi.. C. David to the Once you've stomached spot! tics. The have producers Crown. They'll lest by Gary Glitter in the the Beadle Carpenters Whiteside from Beafrt. Is success it's done extremely well but remember 1973! You singles field but whet con hard to concentrate Carly Simon why Gerya I Love triumphs the Osmonds only at Love only mode orie nay about the album elsewhere but note It's in Me album category and Don McLean. Michael Love Me seven? Top Singlet order) Just look el the not Slade or Wearied or D iane is a long way Jackson. Judy Collins. .gM in the based on cod. Wet one David has Sweet claiming the Group behind. Will Sufi score Mike Chapman and Drifters and T -Ras were 73 for il'a more then crown for singers but weeks end positions in scored heavily this yea, or is she Nick y Chinn may not have right up there last year. be 'DOUBLE another major DAWN Note Skid taking much alive Om 50. It would basically single. ortist? written Top Of The World Each is very to compile on ,world-wide tol. Gilbert Doe in the female genets Donny certainly runs but (hay must be but '73 was not one to be (mposeibla O'Sullivan and think and the way she's going away from David Cassidy overjoyed et their ramm- particularly remembered. c mod aolw atnce it mould for hen ..m a more David the Detroit lass could do in the male artist table. ing, emoting year scoring Now turn to page 23 for take age. to get IM 'aim oat made tam times as what few have ever done. Groups and were Brill in almost double their ih complete listing of figures. Slade set for

major UKtour ( SLADE. whose new album Old, New, Borrowed and Blue, has in Its first week of release qualified fora gold dIso, are to tour Britain from midAprll single as It wasn't Made a trip to Australia and As yet no details are policy. Japan which will prob. available regarding ably be followed a dates, but Meanwhile the group ley venues and embark on holiday, the tour is likely to end are about to at London's Ham- e, mersmith Odeon around Bowie's the middle of May. A new single Is likely =10 to be released to coincide with the tour 1 back and a new album, (1.1 \ \ already to the can, DAM)BOWIE begins his 1974 assault on the should be out in the charts this week with the release of Rebel Rebel - mmer. New from his first song cut specifically as a single since Jean -us Genie. A Slade spokesman ,The cut was recorded in London over two days . said it was unlikely that Manfred Just before Christmas and Is coupled with Queen anything off Old, New, 1 MANFRED MANN'S Earth. Bitch, a Velvet Underground - type rocker taken Borrowed and Blue band follow up their from Itunky Dory, would be released as a I" ioybrlsger hit with a single RCA have still not fixed a release dale for the r taken theme. Solar Fire, Father live album of Bowie's last concert at Hammersmith off Night, Day Father Of Odeon but It is expected be some in leased March 1. to out time the Spring. This could tie In with The 10 minute track has the premier of the Argent been edited down to three film from the same concert. dela coupled with Geordie minutes and Is Bowie is due in Holland soon to receive an award ARGENT'S new single, long-awaited second album, Don't Be Solar Fire TN o. and spend some GEORDIE'S Al present Earthbnrtd are will probably time in New York Thunder & Lightning from Fooled By The Name has been delayed once again LP, Is touring the States with Urlah later in the year where he plans to mix his next their current Nexus due to manufacturing problems arising from the Beep. studio album and develop Ideas for the -Nineteen to be released on Epic on February 22, three day week. The album was srheduied Eighty Floor Show." for release on SL ValenUne'l Day ( Febrile ry 111 after O alreadylready bee }sal Wizzard y -r from Its inelMittel release dale last November. A new April 5 release Isle Winter has been decided on to coincide with the start of W ROY WOOD and W igeard band's spring tic lair and the have new single. Rock 'n' possible release of new Roll Winter, out mi Warner .Ingle. Bros, next week. The band P 1 Meanwhile Geordie leave alno have a new album, Eddie 1'1 4.. London this week for hoe I And The Falcons. released at week 25 data concert tour at the end of March. p o 1, Australia and New Zealand The Willard hmself, Roy t . followed by a week In awn Wood. Nu Met completed for television and radio I solo single. Going Down The appearances. Road. mi which he playa all . 4 the instruments including the DAY and Prize Giving at Monogram Studios Kid Jenaen (Radio Luxembourg), Kick Partin (second bagpipes. Release Is planned SPEECH on February 4 when Status Quo were presented with guitar), Tony Prince (Radio Luxembourg) and Alan RECORD for the beginning of next six month. gold discs for sales of their album Hello and silver discs Lancaster (haw and -string electric). sleanwhlle the band are for the soles of their single Caroline. Quo departed for the Slates the following day to & RADIO currently In the middle of their Scene from the revelries shows (from left): Francis commence a six -week tour. They are also completing a Oral British lour. Rossi (lead guitar and vocals), John Coghlan (drums), new album to be released on their return. MIRROR 7 Carnal?, street. London WIPING. Tel. 01131 s+s.. A BIIJJtOAItD 1't'BIJI'i Pie's `best ' yet' Queen debut TIO:r QUEEN'S new single, The Seas Rhye, Is released' EDITOR HUMBLE PIE left the country this week to on February 26. Their first British tour starts on Peter Jon. isslsTANT undertake their 19th American tour which opens in March 1 at Blackpool Winter Gardens. I.IIITON extends Peter 1tan,, Orlando, Florida on February 15. The tour PRODUCTION CDITOR from the eastern seaboard to the mid west and ends Other dates - Plymouth ILinda Lewis Cheltenham (Mar 14). - Needham V being released on February have had to scrap plans of a Olas 21ax single entitled Sideway University 151, .lane-, Hamilton 22 ill March tour owing topressures sow (Mar Purple Shuffle is to be released Stirling University (Mar 16). Tony By worth Pies gultartat Steve Marrlot ILLNESS In Deep Purp'te has by Raft at the and of owork-TV Is planned for Belgium, Barba rella's, Birmingham 1'tIB'WIur1A Pity It commented: Ira more of a meant that their eight week February. Neither the Holland, France, Germany (Mar 17), Winter Gardens, John M. henaM group album and I think It's American bur with the new new single or its B side. and Spain. Later Wa year Cleelnoepee (Mar in). Man. I' '(TION vtAA/.r.11 the best thing we've done to Savoy Brown has been put Safe And Sound are Carmen will be appearing at cheater University (Mar 20), Len Butkr back In February It The first the Tokyo Song Festial and Locamo, Sunderland (Mar ADy I:l

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IT WAS the Beetle ,the Fab, superfan - then Four from Uverpool. who made PARLOPHONE the most revered label of ail In can up the sensational slates. see if you match Beforá then the Pound Sterling sign super- .ImposedImposed on a flower -horn Seekers was say just one of many labels enjoying the THE NEW SEEKERS NEW SEEKERS upsurge of pop hich have a busy schedule followed rock n' roll. ahead before they Adam Faith had made sure dlsband. soon to disband 8 Parlophone This week was in on the they're in cabaret at n early rock oodbye 'n' roll Talk Of The West, St. e espolosion, but the Beatles concert lour which lakes In 29 Theatre. Taunton (Mar 29), talk frankly of Agnes, browns were something else. They and next week In nix weeks. Festival Hall, Palgnton (Mar a it'ti Thr lour starts at Granada 20), brought a great the Theatre Club, Capital Hall, Cardin (Mar deal of Hall. Sutton. Other dales 31), De Montfort Hall, r fame and fortune to EMI Wakefield. Winterr life, love and On Gardens. leleeater (Apr 2), Guild Hall, and practically ensured the Martdt 4 the group play Bournemouth (Mar 26), Preston (Apr 3), Usher Hall, company's future. London's Talk Of The Town for Gaumont Theatre, Ipswich three Edinburgh (Apr 4). Caled Vet weeks and on March 25 (Mar 27), Central Wall, Hall, Dundee (Apr Music marriage for all that. embark on Si. ... and their farewell Parlophone had been Chatham (Mar 29), Odeon hail. Abenieen (Apr 6 ), Apollo around since 1923. Orlgl- Theatre, Glasgow (Apr 7). nally was City Hall, Newcastle (Apr e), it another City Hall, Hull (Apr 9), the future ,subsidiary of Carl Lind- in brief. Southport Theatre (Apr I2). strom. Odeon and Parlo - ABC Blackpool (Apr 13). e phone Records. MUD already have another COL IN si(XITTS album, Futurist Theatre. idr EMI (The Gramophone Chapman / Chinn single lined Ore 01 The Rm. M Scarborough ( Apr 14 ). Ireland Company) bought out up to follow up their Tger Feet niesoud by Warner on 1 Apr 15 201, Coventry Theatre d Parlophone in 1927 when it mash cot, titled The C tCrrpl February 25. Mran (Apr 21), Civic Hall, Fame's In. The release dale has not while his lour date. am Wolverhampton (Apr 22), The was renowned as a o jar: been (Waltzed but It's certain Ned Lion. tendon Dome. Brighton (Apr 21), enthusiasts label - Louis that the B side wW bee Mud (Feb. H), Rirnúnghum Guild hall. Portsmouth (Apr 'Armstrong and Sydney. composition. Univerety (Feb. 15), 25). New Theatre, Oxford ( Apr better Bechet being two of the Talbot Hotel, 51.110 28), Vletnria Hall. Hanley best known artists. These RARE. RUTH. whom (Feb. Ill. Baikal: Tosco (Apr 29), Town hall, carne label via album Amax Caballero flail (Feb. IN), Sooth- B lrwingnam (May 2), Town to the the Is ea 5, swats are 11. second OKeh label in America, ..h, plon University Hail. treed. (May 3), Opera eurreeuy on tour. Dales (Feb. 23). House. Manchester (May 4), along with manyesn many Include Bolton Teen COCKNEY REBEL'S next London Rainbow (May 5). others. There also (Feb. I5). LMrrslrr - single UUerl Is to be Scottish Irish Hawaiian Poly (Feb. 1s). Cristal Judy Teen time (Feb. released on March II despite series and later a very University RI. the recent re-release of successful serles for Olen Ragman, Wn it sss SH (Feb. 22), Cnaty Sebastian, which was round British jazz bands that ran tbntieeW hit. The eul is ., Hallroom, Taunton a half coupled with Spaced Out for nineteen and (Star. 9). GET AWAY remelt all. just years another Steve Harley com- heard During this period bands BECK, BOGART AND AP- position. Dates: Dunalable at Roxy's Ferry Civic Hail (Feb. 29); Slealord tthentan isolatedbin somewhere like Humphrey Lyttleton PICE set off on the second leg R.n for ALVIN University (Manta 1i; Dagen- ,e the when of their 1974 world bur this Carnine=... grew In came to the fore then ham Roundhouse (5); Here - man there tool Yes Mirk Jaeger week with . five dates In Skit fle arrived Parlophone beginning February lord Flamingo (8). Bianca, nice time vas had by signed the Vipers who Germany Wd though so we're told ... just 12 and ending on February 17. LOU iEl:D'S saw bark from a Deets records were renowned In their The sand Usen bur Italy and cle is. Caroller Says reception for 'curly' Jooaer 'day. an February 425 they go b (RCA). track horn his Campbell but still benea heccause PLUS In the mid -50's EMI America In ppear al the Kernli album.Ibu Racking Dave tae Travis and 7Wge Dread ate all the food and began using Parlophone es Mardi Gras music [saliva) In Lou on the. number le s led e with bass maestro, leek helara Id of We home Ire .. an oddments label for New Orleans fellow /olbuma Stevie Wader'. jingle artists ouch as War, Leon Bruce, watered Stem some of the American Hunter and per. session al Capitol radio, Neil the amazing product they were signing. Russell, and Dr. John. Sedaba has been domg likewise cannoned Aymlry Owe he the 'Bees' but they are stn Issuing big has like Charlie, l;LTON JOHN'S new e se. friends In Thr Rod .. back to Mud Gracie s Butterfly. single, (lade. singing and the country's Top Of the Goodbye JOE WALSH'S Amerlean Soon British talent too Wind from The Pop band keep on Wombles and Road mash album. The Smoker getting was showing up In the Yellow Brick You Drink The Player You Get thew ear number claim ripped WI is to d' n.rasrd by enthusiastic fans but I'm form the Temperance album Is getting heavy re -promotion told of on February that Rob Davis's hairdo hms not by WM from Probe after musing out Seven, Charlie Drake, Jim R. Tun- R cuete mill be tam affected! ... seem that Barry British le. because of New Blue, Data. and Bernard Crib - Benny And The de. Seeker Peter Oliver shortages. A 22-minute bins. Indeed it was quite a the name stock unfort lenced his and aau hem un eatele 1.11 showcase of coedy. album. film of the hand Is being his (Press Imported for The Old Grey conference week . ore Cliff Bennett and Mike. FORMER Natural Acoustic ~Mlle Test d will be deepest dolenns Pelee . . Geordie & Cilla RW Haley and as Comets "Come Outside" Saone Hand vocalist, Krysa Racism available to colleges through- al laa'a Rda n ÍmÁ iwere the pre Beatles has signed a new 1000 term out the country. This follows El's Keith as solo aa'Ual with 'dtmakers In 1962. then in contract a the cancellation of the band's Ia...Pac) refo October of that year the RCA remrda. Kryaa 1201 left tour here because of "The orfl ec. t byjuPstlayssedy mmaeytsu lne Beatles came along and the band after two albums to (Slab- " Me second year rang ... 1'In told se's egusienng otters and everything. Love follow a solo career and she changed bas brought together a thu is cure gawp mid you, that Me Do was the first and the ROY HARPER Follows Cease g) recording band of Steve up his Vale mime appear (ien's ala So look out for or rest you should all know. Maybe Gerry Ie algamasboatel,m rsea se'sarta ea al (guitar); amen l London'. Ran organ ace they At the same time the Conway and oit u)1 ... 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1..); worse than the Rock-A-Doodle- path., Unda performed e lot o1 Whereas Ace movement wt¡M Doo was an outstanding hlt for teW , clubs and universities parties am cashing in on. lady enjoying the latter. Jim Linda. her second effort Fathom's Deep L: Cregan, who was co producer Playaround off "It's a very funky dyrp arts have the same i1 has got a good on the last album Fathom's didn't wile chant to It. I impact. She puts It down to tell at the people to forma the fact that the song was circle and go into itas shut% written for an album and was It's nice because we used for the singles lo too complicated do it when I was a voce' g¡I market nd it makes you feel pan of the crowd." Disappointment Linda's escapade IJDUa's on a ,n dta States hasn't realty changes "When Rock -A -Doodle be- her ideas on the future one came a he it was a case of she's ready to launch hers rushing out another follow- to the public to the hem of her up," she recalls, ''and ability. Playaround came out. I was a sidewayi '9 can take all the hassles shuffle that it bit disappointed didn't I don't let it get do anything though because to e, some people can't lake it "Now I've got this new but I let it get so far and than Deep lead the sparse backing single due out in a couple of just say "forget it", group on the tour. weeks called Sideway Shuffle. Unlike Playaround it "When I stop emirs/hag a "I've still got to keep going was specially written as a then I'll pull out. It's like gang over there because I think it's single. on the road, you bane e slow going to be a very commitment and ahee a process and definitely not an certain time you get really fed overnight thing. Word games up. I think that I'll be very coal when I reach 40 because I eta "Probably I the neat time go let certain things affect me over it will be on tour with "I found this book about a and I still get all childish about somebody who Is well-known. tribe called the Navahos and It The audiences thought that has got all their language in it. Lark, my second album was Like when they want to say the new onel" 'I'm Laughing' it's interpreted as 'my cheeks are frothing Band problems IF LINDA LEWIS had to cllenb and her backing band were "It was so different. I think "So the word they have for often second -billed to some- Everest in order to achieve her people are more into me In the not going anywhere or not One of the problems 23- burning ambitions she'd body who wasn't even East Coast up Boston way making up one's mind is Nee known. never year-old Linda faces in order nudge out of dreamland, wipe whereas they'd heard of Na Na which means to walk the mellifluous smile off her me In places like Texas. to get the success she so sideways. I just put it together face and goddam do it. At one point she had obviously is after, is to get a company put and people can do a certain packed her bags and was "The record permanent band behind her. me upin these amazing space. kind of dance toil. " Linda returned from - the ready to return home in the age hotels and then we'd go to Finances didn't allow Linda John States before Christmas after middle of the tour, but So it's odds on that we'll and it was this crummy to take her own group to the completing her second tour determination renewed, Jim the gig soon be seeing a new dance It was so mixed up at States and single success mere, a visa which shehe Cregan her to stay old joint. adopted from Linda's song over persuaded and then would provide the necessary messed up a bit by and Unda stuck it out to the times, crummy which certainly won't be any Beattie says "was funds to do this. the agency' because Linda end. wonderful."

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THOSE MERRY MANIACS Cos who make I Luv You, Look Wot up the chart - You Dun, topping Slade Tak Me Bak 'Orne, are real Mama Weer All Crane Now, gentlemen Devoted to their fans, Gudbuy T'Jane, Cum On Feel they've had a nonstop The Noise, run of Skweeze Me success in the past Pleeze Me and couple of years on, ever yet onwards. And the albums, remah untouched by the big- leading up to time. the latest Neddy's famous hat, for Sladest, Old, New, Borrowed example, rs the same size now and Blue. as when he first roared home a number one record - Fare, supertans. know that it's important to vote for their For example: when the boys favourites In populanry pots. returned from a hectic and So Slade came super -top In exhausting tour of America, out British group poll, with they had an Invitation for one about three times as many Slade -man to open a special votes as the next placed, T. unit for spastic children at Rex. Noddy Holder was Hackney, out in East London. second top In the male singing division; Dave Hill was top Now many superstars British guitarist Don Powell would have pleaaded tiredness top drummer (nearly twice as and the need for a holiday, But many votos Ringo Stand; and ALL FOUR Slademen Insisted Jim Lea got two placings - on going along to meet the for miscellaneous instrument children, sign autographs and divwell as In the guitar chat up the organisers ision. For example: Dave Hill, alias the H -Bomb, is still only twenty o e, but a veteran of umpteen hit records. Despite all the hang-ups of life at the 'Our fans top, his phone number is still listed in the local directory and he'll still take time to chat to have got any fan who wants to call him up. And he revealed that one energy group of fans broke a window hr Ns home one night, when he was away on tour, and to spare' broke INTO his Tudor -style house Then remorse set in and they phoned him to ask he would be reporting whether that's what any GOOD the break-in to the police. As But /an would do. We're looking Tab to them about that area the fans area vital part of any member of Slade all fans us know the face. soon as he realised it was lust - We'll do REAL super -fan. o1 music and you'll be an 'in" show. They decided early on should know tans, Dave said he was for the his history. the rest- Each superlan, cunous one who can person. But then a Supertan that the people who bought Because very annoyed, naturally Maybe It's the of the loyalty of the judged by a special panel of off every pertinent tact would know all about that tickets for a show were fans. he's levered on always pop folk, will receive enough, but would nor be rattle the boys' bodies and entitled to enjoy themselves providing top value FOR the commemorative reporting them. "It just about Superlan YOU know just THEY wanted - . - fans occur to me, no backgrounds. Did When Don Powell was as plaque to he presented by wouldri t 147 Ib, Jim stomp along with the band, had happened, to that Nod weighs involved in that terrible car - well, that's a sacred matter what 127. Slade did a special disc for a fan Into 129, Don 142, and Dave crash and his life was in join in the singing, let rip. All deliberately get controlled by Noddy Holder, girlie magazine, and most of he said met up with a Slade danger and there was sadness messages trouble", who it's said could a the were of thanks Great know just right rgund the pop worst, control manIf youwould you Cup Final crowd or even the to fans ... Dave for all the talk about say on there were fans who camped what to - thousands at a Nuremburg good -luck charms when he a Last word from Noddy Millions music. outside the hospital , Just the subject 01 Rally. was into he good -luck charm Holder: "We think the world would know that waiting on each bulletin about that Slade Suler/ans era, and for gifts for his new of the fans. We'd lone to meet No wonder, then, old-rock voice of the dynamic drummer. That's millions of tans Don digs the home; and Jim revealed that each and every one of them, have attracted late, Johnny Kidd - the stuff that Superfans are a of the woad, he great Boring ore fan, during Slade tour, but know It's just from all parts All Over was his made of .. . they really like them deserve Shakin' gave him a much -loved violin impossible. They'r ell Superstars his, And loves the CARE about the members of had his what biggest which belonged to great . " super tars - and that's the band. Says Noddy; "Our Beatles. - tens grandfather. we're looking for: THE Slade -have energy spurn want the s And when Slade first made to and Great, yes. But we That top voice with Jim 're So . we're looking for Supertax. a trek to the States to try and proud that they spend one standout SUPERFAN. still Lennon, and his two the gwn. John the there, some of it listening to our the SUPER -fan among The. wellory the groups are Jethro break through scene Wnte about supertanship to we David tavourite many fans spent long -saved records and coming to our millions of Slade tars, Each coupe. and the Rolling Stones Gervtvieve Hall, Record and eoville ohn Holder, Tel money telegrams shows. Pop music was killing week we're inviting the fans of John for the Beatles, to send of Radio Mirror, 7 Carnaby N. George Powell and Dave goes good luck long itself because it had become a different star to take pan Donald for Paul in particular. - really with Street. London, WIV IPG .. - Whe Lea have been too. end messages. No hope of boring, but our fans yelped us we opened the series James -singing o1 enmes to be let by Monday, fora lorry Nod is into the blues return, make it come ehrve again " David Cassdy, and the entres liming the headlines Wonder and Joe anything in just an February 76. They had three singles Steve earnest wish that the Slade fairly poured in. while. Cocker, but then his own Chas Chandler, es -Animal for Fontana and Polydot message ytpu°r hit Amenca (giant from Newcastle whose Maybe you're not with Get voice h out of the before realty breaking as it had everywhere eke biggest hit was House Of The superfen yourself, but know Nxt weak: Anot het And Get With It - . . a Rising somebody who IS. Then write Down tun the Who, as well as the Stones - Of course Saida believe in Suet and discoverer of $uperfan $upemontesr buster which led to Hendrix, is 'n on his or tier behalf. Just let chart end the Beatles. the tans because they believe Jeer the FIFTH of hits with unusual titles Lux now %" LBC reaches twice name as many kids new RESULTS of a new Radio Luxembourg lintenership boss survey shows that 49 per cent of radio listeners MARSHALL STEWART, between 18 and 24 now tune regularly to 208 - for four years editor of double the previous figure! BBC Radio Four'. Today M1 The analyssis,,y Omnlbue, programme. has been shows that people appointed editor of the now listening to radio CSJ top job London Broadcasting following the early clone down CRISPI AN St. John Is now top Company and lndepen. of televisions. Capital A total sample of man at Radio Atlantis dent Radio News. He »»e adults showed Mal 34 per following the departure of o takes up the appointment cent were now listening to programme director, Gerrard radio more often. Immediately. chatters Van Damn. He has been given born Stewart, In the Landon ITV area, the title of managing director Coventry CAPITAL RADIO lea. Luxembourg, with only and promises "lots 37, began his career at a tures a and Iola of heavy blue. line-up evening broadcasts, claims to surprtseº." Auanlb would be reporter and later sub on this Saturday's Night reach 21 per cent of all adults carrying on after the Dutch editor with the Coventry Flight mien and chat compared with Caplbl'n 21 Act cores Into force, he told Standard. After RAP show. .Alexis Kerner, John per cent and LACE'S %% RAM: "I don't know about the service he Joined the Baldry, PER CENT (both 24 hour Flemish nervIce though, but Zoot Money, broadcasting). Birmingham Evening Dis- Maggie Bell (above), we are really going to try and patch then later worked However, Luxembourg with hit al Bntato with a totally Duffy Power. Nick South, if., bias towards for a Coventry news and Ian the young International service." The Carr, all squeeze claims to reach is per cent of station expects to take agency serving the nation- into the studio for a the 15-24 year olds compared delivery of a nee 50 k -w. al Press. He Joined the Session of animated with Capital's 211 per cent and transmitter within Use next BBC as a radio news slab disco wion. LBC's 20 per cent few weeks. editor In 1903. Before becoming editor of Today, he was editor of the BNC. Screen scene South East Region. THIS much acclaimed against the left-wing and they part after the film, The Way We Were ideals of fellow college birth of their child. It ends based on the novel by student Katie Momsky. as It began, Katie Deeb bulletin Arthur Laurent. has been Redford and Streisand organisms protests and note. Boys of the a masslva box-office eventually get together' Hubbell walking around ALL YOU Marc Bolan fans take presents Caravan, lough attraction in the States with a nice chick on his The superstar comen out of his teenage and Peter Hamill. Friday sees and it should do well here The set Is based around arm. dream on Sunday to play some of his Rockspeak and the American Blues H only for the appearance the time when the Un- Whether the American favourites and talk about his life on My Legend 74 features on Saturday's In of Barbra Streisand and American Activities Com- political thing win catch Top 12. Bolan can also be heard on Concert. Robert Redford. mittee moved in on the on in this country I don't Saturday's Story Of Pop which Is called Hollywood movie Industry know. From an entertain- From The Underground. The Steeleye Span take» the Sounds On All American boy to root -out the 'commies'. ment point -of -view It had programme takes a limb at the San Sunday spot and on Monday Alan Black Hubbell Gardiner always Despite her love for her it moments but I wouldn't Francisco scene and the RAH sounds fills In for Bob Harris. Horsilps, Ralph knew he'd get things easy husband Katie can't recommend it that came from the Northern discos. McTell And Bob Sergeant get into Top in We until he came up forget her socialist mind 20H20 BEATTIE Tonight (Thursday) John Peel' Gear on Tur»day. not been succeasfuL It (as In liberation) pro- Polynesia this year. It will 3 closed down McIntyre,. gramme on Radio Seagull be run to tell all the 1 gand based station for not hunted by Tony Allan. A nativen (keep them under Radio Brum _ iving both sides on lot of comments obviously control) how dangerous arguments and now wants come into a mind like mine the proposed French takes off to stop bins broadcasting but the only one that le nuclear tests will be. propaganda from off going to be printed is how Politics may be, but it is ATV announcer Kevin shore. will gay -Bb programme difficult not to sympa- Morrison sot Ole ball rulbeK Yea The station has only differ from any other, thiee. at Bit MO - Blnninghaat been heard ono. on 1100 Still, If it dons work, it AnoAonRadbNow - Broadcasting this rude/ TmY.S: kcs (appros 270 metres) should she an interesting It's coming! t a.00 ee, with the three =r : but an the evening they experiment and the Andy Archer is obvious. hour breakfast show. interfere with W'HCW on courage of an al Seagull ly a follower of Coe- McIntyre. I1 timadacts at Ladew'oud. deserves praise. From e. m to 12.00 Brian KENEW'ED RUMOURS 1170 km fucinus. Ile believe. the Sevin and Norms Sine pry for from the ex -minesweeper Then been The station should be this week of a new ship Stare they have DI's on Caroline should be co -hoed, fdlwed by a ,2 w 12 miles off New booming Veronica it's possible. Columbus off the air. They hope to through now as under more control (mush until 2.01 y news and - a 10 kw In the radio business, Jersey. It has re -start soon on 1608 lies, they are claiming to use 50 rally and possibly in one phone-in shoo with truth is rarely the best transmitter which is 24 hours per day. The k. w. The start of the 50 or two other respects). Windows Auetraban sat W andnd maybe Were. considered very powerful address is Dr. Carl k, w. era was hailed by While station owner, [Ionian gets the trot .f his two surprise for In America. Moves to stop McIntyre do Mrs Irene various romnwnb from slots between 2. m and 1 M Mira have a Ronan O'Rahilly thinks Alta the Dutch Government the station by the O'Dell, Beach and Pitts- the Mebo2 which ere best they should be allowed then agony ,oiumnit American egah'alent of burgh Avenue, Cape May, not mentioned. All we Leighton hosts another P.X. after all! freedom to play whatever for hour. ImcoiSn tekr the IBA which looks after 0H04. have got is 7,000 in an Radio Free America, N..1. now the mink they want. Andy over for the evening music may all land -based Indepen- While »ti11 in America year wait until some of our readers Caroline believes that comments Wrtnauon dn50,5 sn a very right wing dent radio - the Federal RNI recently received a comes on the air. know. is like "We want a tender her round pp (wcavehnf1'' religious political station Communication reception report from the After the IISA we come at once or own well -staffed new have so far else" do the run by the Rev Carl Comminsirsn - West (bast. Not for the to another colony. In station inner no good At 7.3) ltobn Valk short wave transmitter Melbourne. The Music maulwith a three hour nod whatsoever. Meanwhile new .rd though but for the 220 Broadcasting Society is show broken by Ronan is quite happy sports round -up between metres when It was only setting up a "pirate" by s about this verbal free- and D. 10 This is Nlloaed on 10 k, w. station. It will be an all dom. There's obviously a anal hour of music ass We left out a station day classical music strong case for both side. guests STU NUNNERY from last week's list - programm run by inter. and dispute has arisen Manx Radio. D you live erg subsrrip Lion. between Ronan and Andy. Programme ereenlsw. Join THE BEST KEPT SECRET SINCE anywhere in the North So far no success has There's a strong pond. Russell Jays the play Ira at Ir West (L'pool imperially) been had with all the bitity that the golden tones will be made up of the berms Y's very clear on 232 submissions made to the Archer the top 50 plus od9 of the "dances"' .arcs/ e DYLAN, JOHN, NILSON, metres all day. This is not Government of Australia will no longer be heard M.O.R. This sou be In the evenings us lave!' a BBC or IBA station. 1e. ovee the pant five over 7:aa metres- All we It years, rock aimed al Use illy'. tT RUSSELL totally independent and for a licence to broadcast can say la, be es badly etudsnt population. e has musk throughout the on land. needed, lie mold well turn generally *abbe.St year ( ataa+ daylight hours. A New /Ashland organ - up on one of the more upward.. Overall lie crest 6 On Tuesday nights we nation in to ad up bbluhed stations in the hopes to rater for ttuno w~ are to be treated to a gay ofteher. station In French furore. M.ARk LETT the Into 40 bracket. RECORD 6 redo MIRROR, FEBRUARY 16, 1971

Aidan Day music boss

of Euston 0 THE Tower OPENING of Capital Radio in London came at just the right by Peter haven't heard - say on time for Harvey an album - and they will Aldan Day - the got the job station's ebullient young once they had a record that I may have point It out to me. The convinced he music director. him should missed, and so failed to chances are I'm going to apply. place like It." J He'd been wdrk Mg as a For it on the play list." four months he has At first Capital Already production man at ridden the aimed Capital_ can tide of record at a claim Lo be Scorpio Sound. getting pluggers and "quality pop" responsible promotion- formula to for breaking a six years with the Beeb al pushers appeal to the record out and ti seems young adults, but Into the national of his system, when to have though charts. the done him no the audience Is It was people "upst alrs" harm whatsoever. still first with began sending He's essentially the same, the Prelude's After The work In sole charge of the down. This was the music has moved quite Goldrush and played It musical content so it's a definitely onto a consistently embryonic Capital Radio big strain. wider until other r up In base. Soul and rock gets stations picked it up. Euston Tower "You get to know who which soon thrown in with smooth Then there's the met and Is genuine and who's Just top become ballads, yet there's not forty that Aldan draws friendly with playing the game," he hint. the emphasis on the up each week. It's done Despite their much cided yet but dome says with a character- super production type and ' in time for publdsed listening fig- summer Capital la It Is to Capital's istic toss of the head. the Saturday "I records there was at show he ures, Mr Day and Co. going to be out and about abiding good fortune that think the pluggers get and reckons it's first. a week are still concerned that and on the warpath , they decided immediate. used ahead of RRM' for to you too and while This is not entirely not enough people know more listeners. " ly to seek out personnel they know won't charts. And because he I listen A id an's doing. can Capital exists. Hearing hint say with radio experience. to something please himself, he that again just "It's been a gradual thinks nothing of "We aim to put that you can't help thinking Aldan fitted the bill so that they can do their letting process influenced by a record drop a few right soon by doing that Capital has mly just neatly with his years as a job, I do respect someone everyone, not least of all places then moving It up something really out- got It's soot In the door Radio One producer, so who genuinely believes the jocks. They may pick again. "It makes it more rageous In London. and is bursting to come almost automatically he that there is something in up on something I Interesting." Nothing has been de - through.

4:lib 'Hi, this is Bob Stewart. 1 ^ . ti +h"t' Regardless of whether you've -: got o£20 cassette recorder The Pow -noise tape.. or o £200 hi-fi cassette deck, high quality you'll improve your sound by for -volume _ Scotch cassettes. the Low -noise? Yes -Scotch Cassettes h I 'fusingMyself and other DJ's at e ¡i f do, Rodio use have less background noise, so your m i Luxembourg Only Scotch They re the mpg comes through loud and clear. And there s ,ae 1Jimi Hendrix the creative to disk cars after the day's the ruins to save the notion. freedom he needed so bably, day. "" Winston Churchill was highly rated in the nation -saving Now Curtis is in London with Zeus, with Just like being a Rolling patter seekers. So was Vera Lynn, with her nostalgic song his own band, a The Devil Made Me Do Stone? messages to the lads "over there". . . "We'll Meer single, "Well," said Mick, " not Again', she sang meaningfully. It: at on Dawn . . . and se really. 1 think those irate West Now our morale is to be boosted by Paul Trevlllion. album to follow. Indian cricket tans wanted to Until recently Paul was with Dec., Records and billed, Born on an Indian get to the Englnad players for correctly lthought. es the world's best worst singer- Alas reservation, Curtis later met a rather different reason than he lost that title in a public contest to a man who Jimi in New York, He tells ne- girts want to get to pop stars." perpetrated a dreadful Frank Sinatra impersonation. "The guy was doing real bad, Mick said: "At school, my Now our hero is with Polydor Records. He is to become didn't even have a guitar, interests were gins. rock and the Vera Lynn of the Seventies His first record, Smile On, He's sold one to pay part of -roll and cricket. In that contains a message of hope and optimism to us all. huge hotel bill order-" "'Smile, smile, smile; he goes, Smile-damyer-smile - "So I gave him one el my stiff upper lip chaps . every dowd has a silver lining/ own guitars as a present, and He beavered his way into my consciousness vie the we realised we had a good telephone "I'm telling the nation to smile'; he said. rapport, so we worked Look for tchip-tchip '7'ee got the loveliest smile in the world. Who better to together. Jimi worked with out a persuade people to smile away their problems?" me as co-featured anal ONE OF the biggest upon the unsuspecting chart -chance, was on holiday I loaf hope Mr. Heath finds something to smile doing lead vocals even though hits In ages Is . - at a ski resort and he heard an Continental lBritsh about , he didn't much Ike singing. Tchip-Tchip. by a group called Seems that Louis Van accordionist Werner Thomas Added Peek "No more am i the worst singer. I'm using "What people don't know is Cash And ,Carry - and it's Rijmenant, president of- playing his own composition, my good voice now. ffs whole new urger, " that after the Hendrix all the a Tchip-Tchip - the bloke been fairly storming Eurovoo IBelgiuml, chap . And In truth he IS doing rather well on gigs. He pulled Experience became popular, charts. It is soon to be loosed with an car for the offbeat had been playing it for years in 2,000 teenagers purely on the strength of his Jimi came back to New York with applause rather than awfulness and they loved him. He's being let loose and we recorded two more Spanked money his reward. on the Penthouse Club later this year. Polydor think he's albums together. We kept in Louis signed him up as a winner. HE thinks he's the'"kning': touch, right until he deed." SMACKED hordes for certain writer. He expedemented He's being managed by new management set-up Now Curtis Knight has members of the Emerson, with Moog synthesiser involving the very astute Sydney Rose. completed a biography, Jim, lake and Palmer entourage. (dubbed four times), got the Last time I wrote of Paul, I printed picture of him which took three years to roadie Alex For Greg Lake, approval of his own singing, so that you could make a getaway should he Complete "It's en King, valet Brian Magoo and kids , and the record was come up in the street and sing at you. affectionate look at lemon Pompele. The launched- A huge hit Bobby promoter Jerry Now sprint one of him smiling, so that evasive action who I really liked and parry used the sauna bath in Li a Sener's Cash and Carry have can be taken should he strutsmiting at you! respected." their Salt Lake City Hotel, then even. planned the follow-up, decided to go swimming The Frog, . in the rude. But first we're In fora whole But it was a public pool. So lot of Tchip Tchip. Please et was naughty. So they were remember you first read about vrsisted by the police, taken in it here . . . and nowt Fanport handcuffs to jail. Released on 100 dollars bait Said manager The girl who Stewart Young: "The police for the spanked them on their turned dowry El bottoms and told them never "LOOKS like the Sweet NICE STORY from Roy to do that again." And fined about his friendship Osmonds, are going to be given a Orbison THE POLYDOR people them 75 bucks apiece for with Elvis Preseley, "I gigantic boost in the early on get lots of letters. some disorderly conduct. had one record In ti which the number helpful and some alarm- Mind you, they sold out States which was Ooby means plenty of touring Memphis ing, from Ormond fans. their concert that night, Even and rampaging and Dooby, and did a show there Lake had a little Like the one from two it Greg plenty of promotion for - and Elvis came along and Birmingham /an -club difficulty sitting down - - much applause as me their records. got as members, Susan Allsopp being there. And he To handle their affairs just by and Anne -Marie Evans: said he liked the show, and Late Sunrise there: Ed Lefler, a "Our idea is to yet J figure who that I was that good he'd Mirror management donations all the fans and s SO RECORD and Radio is convinced the boys never work on the same stage one week, all the then with the money build offer. have the style, sound as me. our own Ormond airport records Buddy Holly ever "Anyway we went to a few and looks to make It big This would mean they made as a prize in a parties and one night we went in America. Confident would not have to bother competition all you had to to pick up Elvis's girl friend. - indeed, for quite a few about looking for an do to win was put the five He had a new Cadillac with British superstar acts airport to land on. most influential people in pop purple fur in it and I think he have met the American "All they do is land at in a one -to -five order, was making about twenty fans face-to-face and their own airport, If Nio So the next week the Sun millions a year at the time. ended up with egg on were finished by the time newspaper offers all the "So he knocked on the door the British cheeks. of their next trip, just Buddy Hotly aver But then Mr. Lefler and the girl said: 'I'm sorry - records as a prize in a think of the Osmonds' ode knows the scene there you' re too late' . . . turned surpnsed races when - competition - all the reader round and walked back inside. they ten He's the guy who land at their own had to do was put floe of Osmonds "We went on to Elvis' house pop figures in managed the airport. " listed ineuenbal and had some Pepsi-Cola. I on their way to world - Alarming is the an A -to -E order. acclaim. couldn't believe that some one they from a junior -school girl And you know what woman would turn down a , Alan say about Imitation . date with Elvis Presley!" "Dear Ormond- I would lie to storm you that your younger brother 451...;, ; k Del could be big once again Donny has made a child with me which I had DEL SHANNON has his place on pop history. might lust follow fellow rocker Jerry Lee recently but which has Songs lie Runaway, Hats Off To Larry and Lewis into the country field. Or he could get P. was when Little Town Flirt wem Inemanonal hits back In contemporary with some new songs he wrote died. S. : h were the early sixties. couple of years before the with Jeff Lyme. you in England. the ring Beatles hit it Ringo Stan now there was a But interms of pulling in today's fans, Sorry about - but I have just get real Shannon fan neither he nor I should son no to a magi -single sect Del perseveres He's beck mid -March for comprising the three above -mentioned titles the pregnancy." got club dates, and Still deciding which way his could be the start of a real big I bet Alan has lust career ~id W row- 1he.e-leOies.t Weyer comeback. over the shock - . - "I SUPPOSE you went instalment out grlpong d my seeding and an heron group herd the selventur-packed life." said album, obviooaly .lnnafsan thought King peering at Satisfaction was a hit, and me through gold -rimmed made a note to note cower version of tpectacles. so though I was V the album, even so some son of micro-organism much as they recorded et In being Inelysed under a Engles in my voice -M my ewe rose ape, trotter' he exclaims. "And I suppose," he "How they got my yoke God rattled on' "you want to only knows, but a was unveil an eeekisive so that absokeely identical, the only you can reveal It to the whole thing was if you Ilse en to both world. ' versions back to back, their drum "Well, actually, Mr. King 'a sound an't all it should I be. I began mildly, only to r I be immediately interrupted 1 "I think at this stage I'll Horror give my album a dug, It's r \ t er cased Bubblerock Is Here To "It came out in Italy in the Stay," he continued. From f `s,. summer, which Satisfaction went straight to was No. 1. and sold 400.000 I notice taken lees in RRM's copies, then to my honor it charts. wtvch automatically started doing makes the same in It the only chart worth France, there was my record reeding. " ISo who am I to ºy ' and here was I not naming a fugue?) penny on it. So I rushed out "Anyway make yourself the Bubblerock version stuck comfortable, and I shell the name Bubblerock on It, begin to give you the for want of a better name, exclusive, fascinating story end had to work it very hard behind Satisfaction.' till it broke at last, and It's Now Jonathan doesn't now selling about eight to exactly talk to you, or at you, ten thousand a day and more like under, over and all doing happily ever after. It around you, with an just shows you can have a het egotistical air which is very sitting on your catalogue and not even know tongue in cheek and so it " ludicrous - he's got to be - Having finally finished kidding. Hasn't het 'a telling his tale, I asked him why he had Chosen to release Satisfaction as the single. Once .. . "I did twelve different ongs on the album,' he "Once upon a time in answered, "All In different 1972, Jonathan King made way. I've always thought this album," he was thus Satisfaction was a saying at seventy-eight record, I love the Rowing revolutions per minute - Stones songs The Stones "called Bubble Rock Is Here are such a good personable To Stay, which I've group, they always adapt mentioned before and will no their songs to their own doubt mention again. particular style, which e Anyway this album had no very individual style. artist's name on it, and was "Much more individual made up of very well known than say that of the Beatles, pop tunes of the last decade so as a result you only hear a Stones song as or so, done In a totally Stones different style. re cord, and their nu bers "I did for instance Rock are not really recognised for the musical and lyrical power as an old a man of good taste, I Around The Clock can that they've got. time waltz, I did Twist and believe him. I think they're very with a string quartet; I "The other one is of Shout underrated as songwriters, did Mr, Tambourine Man course David Bowie's Pm. so I thought I'd do with an orchestra of fifteen Ups, which is also a collection of songs Satisfaction, in way which tambourines, the first track done in presented melody FYI his own way. the and ¡ng So I was It was in fact Satisfaction, on the lyrics In a different done Country and Western beginning to feel like a light.' trendsetter, and trendsetters style, tongue in cheek as you computer the artist's name a few thousand copies, but again is a whole series of So that's the feel proud of themselves but whole story now know It. for payment of royalties. That was all. There were two classic hits from the folks. If past, are extremely poor, because Jonathan King "So the album came out, The computer would then people in the pop world including a version o1, thinks as fast as he It's they never make any money talks - nobody would play It, seize up and have a fit and be about a year later who My Party which is fairly It s no wonder he's as they don't sell am so because they found there sick all over the BBC's floor, decided to do the same sort similar to my version done a successful. records, but they're ahead of en artist's name on it, so as a result we had no of thing in a concept album. previously, wasn't year although everyone else. and therefore s they played plays at all. Brian Ferry did one called he's never Bran "Anyway this all carne Genevieve it. they couldn't give the "The album came out did These Foolish Things, which heard my version, and being to a head when all of a sudden, Hall Now you. can meet Tony and his family up the cordovoa Drums beat. I AMERICA'S De Franco Family is being tipped es were bought for Merlina. Soon the De Franco the BIG new hit sensation And Tony was handed a Family hit Britain. We for 1974. tt all started, we trombone. want to find a Record and know, with Mr. and Mrs. At one big banquet, Radio Minor reader land Antonio De Franco. The Tony belted out Hey friend( who'd like to Ieee children who make Jude. He brought the come to London and meet up the group are Benny house down, earned five Tony De Franco. But we'd ( dollars and spent the lot evo v .1201E Merlina 1161, Nino hate that reader to be Os,0000000 (181, Marisa 1191. and on chocolates. Suddenly tongue-tied at the meet- Franco Family ó000000e ,the much -photographed ,the De ing, so we've set simple 0000000e Tony, who la fourteen. were big round their local competition O +L -s Tony sayer -I obviously region of the Niagara 0 don't mind it when Peninsular in Canada. Tell us WHAT you d talk ev.ass compare me to And their fame was to %ny about if you met people WHO discuss Osmond. I think headlined le Stateside fan him: you'd Donny him: WHY want a guy and he magazines. with you his great to meet h?m. sells a lot of records.ords." They went to the eC Stores. A sIng le sold well The best entry gets: an Big br rBenny 7 all when he was did an album all expenses paid trip to the Heartbeat It's A copy of the album. And Radio Mirror, started it London eight- Then Nino picked named after It - meet the new star, PLUS Lovebeat album. The Entries by February 25. Carnaby Street. Record W1V upon guitar. Manse took Heartbeat h's A Lave - an autographed copy of TWENTY runners-up get a to Peter Jones, 1P0.. rnr , 12 Rtt-vnv a nano ecenuARy RECORD Er redo MIRROR, FEBRUARY M, 1971 playing contempory HOW MANY of you are able for I was to take rind with my bnd at the 13 eaculfon back drifting to the Wee erneand was ' a bete fifties early sixties. same 1 s, `J7 - 1 "When ELO darted he hat televoonr, on his own withore to the eels from Classical Music." 1.1r" a specific when Mary Lou away C U des which he het make - up on. He's got a and Peggy At first Neil was writing - disr:usee with Sue were hopping people, Jell, which eon of eornpee if you Rke and a bopping songs for the other was gdltp to genet. end on at the H,gh had his first aMatt bektg norrref on st School when and at eighteen he 1 hop, Saturday which he fco Merrbesr; t feel night was big hit, Stupid Cupid 1+ $ I au played all meIrsnudments á b,g a,fe drive-in movie, Francis_ a and everything seemed to wrote for Connie y well all tit classical Neil emergod as instruments happen at sweet sateen? Not Then In 1959, - then I played. wd corm u P m with his first him and say, very many of you oat there in a writer/singer ` a played, then played. 'oh you're greet. the I ve Record end Radio Mrrrortand; American than success, it sr lie the Move ry, danwed you Juice you it was a I'll bet. Diary, in Britain doing rho first ELO album. thef, . .' end Ire limn, to titled I .r f,r then but little number it ar n, 1 And yet the songs of that rocking 1 oo time want it wa woe corn 1 Be, awayatand he era war be fa meat to you, not Go Apo. ob its that Jeff's idea whole successful of won't even say that was ruca only because of the The what the bard should sound went on for five years. or anything. He doesn't tremendous flood of re- shindig like was different to Roy's. realise sold twenty million that people can feel released singles we were He had Jeff is a good wnter, not the world, but ,/ as that way about him, he inundated with In 72173. or the records all over ºuccessful as Roy, but hit records W doesn't feel like a star, he fact that the Osmonds, In 1964 the ; nevertheless a good wdler, had so rover treats anybody Cassidy nd other adolescent stopped, and 1966 I as if he obviously it was tritstrating for feels like a star, tore gene, artistes were recording deer stopped performing. a s it s\ him to have his awn songs flash with anybody own particular versions of Did he feel cut up about f or donne Roy's way. anything, and the only way he these classics, but because all? ss ' I "It was irrpossibie to do get up them and some of these he laughed, "but e make 'Idols' who "Yes", Roy's in Roy's way, and Jeff's complete idol of himself became phenomenal at that welcomed the solitude, and - Ge- n Jeff's way 'ms that would unlie me, I do it naturally) period of time, are still writing, found out who my real friends o' - married -., i have been two different s to doh behinds funny face. recording and were; I was already performing 1 \\N: sounds, so they 1usd to decide I suppose he can then look at today, end ere very two children at the time ; still much with `: on doing it ore way or the it, if it was really silly and he regarded delighted to stay at with awe. and was 1 J , . 2 other -.anyway this thing that ddn't want to be involved, Neil Sedaka is one of the home, " Cg few artists horn the original So how did he get back into rock 'n' roll era, to have orhit7 emerged almost untarnished fe 1971 an offer come in with a 'present day' feel to his from England for the Talk of music, which appeals imme the Town, which he accepted `R* deatery to the brand new and It became a critical "I Y generation of teenies who success, he afterwards played ONLY D,üed up Rekuitar was and tobehimself' great bought petrifiedme all although he wasn't seem to have sprung out the Albert Hall which was also at 15 'cos l was a he pan of the on us head the stuff. The Egg Beaters ELO nucleus. started up as a very personal and say to himself, well h's from then his record and I wanted Mclean Rick played on out of the Drivel successful; thing Cracked up after a month relationship between Roy and really not Ire anyway " re -issued B'm their first album, The But wait a minute, even company at the time my mates catkin I Electric Jeff sure there's a joke them Light Orchestra. became mre and Was There anything about today's Popperspipar oOh Carolon area r. I single,and hadn't played an Rick lie theold e nr somewhere) Price trained until such D work sX 1 and then I joined tells as Roy's that RickK didn't it became the hit before "Now Miie is a son Neil Sedaka as well - what lo and behold that:' sad a mg Neer another band vMvch lasted of they didn't sort of hatee each like? earlier. r for comedian, impressionist about the original 1959 version we mentioned Wniero b earing Rce eellnot song three years." writer, other, but they couldn't work "No, there's nothing about of Oh Carol which was re- "One part of me was happy exactly sower everything - he's got the How did he come to be with it In together. Another thing Roy Roy's work mat I don't Ike, I I accepted his blood," Rick said RRM's issued by RCA in 72, and becaue was being wore a force loath Geñny Hall and was doing was a load the Move? enthusiastically. of think that's the mason we get became a massive hit for him by a new generation, but I was and had Ms her tied 'Nye wrote interviews with "I in a vocal harmony some and every paper on so well. I've still got the all over again also depressed because I felt I a ribbon, songs together and "I was in Mongrel, after six years of black ,evert pair with had enough faith in what he said that Roy Wood e ELO, respect for him as if I band called Sight and Sound, made a didn't obscunty? was living in the past; as a of extraordinary ma ars. couple of albums, one Keith Smart and and man" a Birmingham based band. Charlie was doing," Jeff wasn't getting know him. A lot of pmtple creative person I felt it was of which got released and did Grima, the two So Neil Sedaka es with us which reminded of We'd drummers. Then how about telling a mentioned or finervwed .. o respect him because they mad r had a little success, I absolutely nothing, looking backwards, so I said, it still it was Roy came to see me to for a second dme around and something out el see of mean we'd released ask if deluded outsider I prompted. anything, it was getting too some son of genius Into his records good for I I was going to continue with a me. think Mike I'd be Interested in starting is to be enjoyed not only for Yolk en's novels. and they had been played up "It's really very com- much fa him. 'cos he was wok; it's dMuclt, if you're MP on does a lot better than I do a new his past achievements, but performing and recording "No that's a he with rock 'n' roll band. He plicated, but the Move as putting in half the work and close to somebody Me the radio but that was about his songs, to also for the new dimension he `NF career, then the public would Continued. "I m actually he's got saw Mongrel playing and liked being taken away from him all was getting no credit for it. So remember how clever they ice two it. I knew Roy and the Move,. mom time for I is now prolecting have to accept my new chords for a writing than the rhythm section as a whole, the time by the lead Cad Roy backed down and said. really are, I mean guitarwe in a because they were another singer it gets material, because I did not have. He gets songs which included Charlie Now isn't it just typical hool pantorn ne who I was and Wayne; Roy was doing all the look you can keep the band, boring, but I keep reminding want to be known as an oldies band in Birmingham and we all published all over the world. Keith, so we all left the when you want to give an air 11; I had to sing Hamel, The band writing and tinging on most of I'll leave. " mysea Jun how good he is knew eachc othervaguely. He's totally of confidence In order to hide freak, or an aging rockr k s t art " Ran andmat 'cos g o. involved with and started Wi r:ard " the records Carl was just because I've sat dawn write wr r Anyway after one my in to What was the new Neil 9e.I of Wizzard, fact he's Our fan - Didn't you feel apprehen- fronting the band on the road. a sang nights an undercurrent of nervous- the cha m lio kad Introvert g and Sedaka? teacher Me." 9ogs. Royphantomdid a D ae, oof the club secretary and talkb Inner sive about rg with you get big Roy was the backbone, nothing will come, 1 ness, all are great more Ike a ceaOq than opera me, but know "The first song that I on he screamed up laugh, his fan - club lever Roy and his ever changing awkwardness. Neil everything about the hand Tell me why, I Roy can sit down In the middle waves of anyone else in his asked, with thought reflected the new Neil Jaguar and said that he consists of a terrible piece of bands? I except for the front man, Sedara has been one of my Or the fact, I threw Y, that and all há talent and success does of the day, in the mddle of a Sedaka was That's When The wanted to tab to me, so we paper with tea stains spilt over "Well was apprehensive. heroes for long I Neil it wass getting too much for he have to hide behind traffic jam. and mote song as as can from you always had a horse a Music Takes Me, which drove off somewhere and he it. He does the spelling all yes, but it's different for me. I remember, still young by - Oft ttg hie, to take the fact that facade. Why can't he just be He's oncrediale arel I admire Irm strapped to your became a hit for me in early asked if 1 wanted a job. I had wrong, the kids must really roil know the background of ell everyone kept praising Carl hen the way), so naturally I lost "Ah, you're as *oil am, himself? to h" to make my mind up then - it around when they receive it, the different bands he's Wayne, eventually Carl left. Mr. Price may hoped that m Y meetingdo with aren't out'' ho There was no hesitation as described As far as Neil Sedaka songs Y wets. was two o'clock In the because he has h repented all started up, and although bum wouldbe O. K. fuM band. Egg g h but by the time Jeff Lynne Rick answered. himself as extrovert. and a are concerned I'll admit to morning," dirty, horrible and tea stained, looks very ficklea to an Dined the idea o/ ELO had I don't know how I fifinally v was startedd relyl "Because he's bleedin show -WI, aryl at first Beaters ' Y"MY being biased, but I prefer him When Roy Wood eventually It knocks me out. I suppose outsider, I know everything built mainly because while made it through thefront door of an ego tn just uP, withdrawn introvert., a there's glance yam may be tempted to in a romantic mood as wolnoi left the Move to form ELO, it's a new approach to a fan - he's done beforehand, and I Carl was there, Roy was no way that he could go on gree, but his constant thread of ho rented apartment to the opposed anted get up on Be in to his rockers, so Rick worked a great deal with club. " can understand why he's done getting bored with the Move -stage s Roy Wood. of candid loyalty make spacious living room, but as front of l my mamamee show He's you to seeing as his latest I hall ho it. So the fact concerto single A L his lie - long song writing So how comes joined up that repined and had been thinking about n done aware fare would have it. I must have off. Fortunately my man an the TV but he was that he's a very the Loving is definitely a rock with Roy again for Wivard? him for Wivard proves that I bumped into every piece of friend Mike Sheriden, and ELO anyway. absolutely preodhrd on the together sort or/person. "They're all so different", 'ñ roll number, I asked him furniture in that white room - he replied, "youou have to do whether he considered that the D o obi, and the with the album. talk about nervous I was We've I - them all in order to survive, I moving backwards. "But decided I wasn't Beach Boysoys was a hard spent a lot of money and Petrified, certainly enjoy performing, but "If you listen to the record", job. " getting anywhere, my Somehow h didn't seem to time on It as we had the head was I hectic and very he answered, "I'll play getting bunged for very warm find it's less you a Did the band think It opportunity to do exactly matter, after at home and couple of tracks from up se I left in 1966. I had Neil being very gratifying staying the new was a good Idea to be as we wanted. " greeting, music, especially when album, A Little Loving is nine_ months doing asked whether he writing only Threl broken in on the other H awing spun their perceptive, Carol i Andy Williams picks up one oh one of eleven tracks; If you side of the Atlantic, after tually nothing and then could get me a dank. single several times. I the Searchers recorded it, also Although I listen to Tony Hatch gave me a my songs. which I understand know that Neil the lyrics and the all they are British? raised the Better make that a Christie, but it wasn't question of It chart e e backingb P is intopten."your Tony had a reluctancyto lingerg overv orchestratione estration tt' does not "Some people erig ,tuts I was think it soundingia bit like Led tranguilbser, replied, and . I He meant of course that until Andy recorded it, that it his past, and must have talked sound like the 1950's the -iR`I,f, was wrong for Clark. had a few hits thankful to find that 'my hero' us to go Zeppelin. Tom truly beautiful song Solitaire finally took off. " about himself in varying guitar playing Is very out and Stan over there," with her. Jones and had a lovely sense of humour. a "! 'If it had sounded like a Neil has been I sophisticated, Humperdink. then I got which always reduced me to prolific degrees, a thousand times, I did It in an answered Paul. are you staying In Led Zep we would have How long leaves me writer for the last past twenty felt compelled to ask Calitomia with a sick of that Ilke heap of jelly, and him to band called 7 .! "They thought It meant stopped it re. Detain for, I asked. years, so I asked him what being everything else." mesmerised every time I hear retrace his astounding career the Section, who are the best too much pressure, but "I'm here for three he give leased." retorted Tony. it. advice would to yet again,. musicians en the State, they we needed to go out there months', he replied handing aspiring songwriters. bar k "In "I wrote Solitaire for myself His eyes twinkled as he James Taylor, Carol King and learn from a big our minds the first Jeff Beck me a Cointmau on the rocks. tour about two and a half years "There are three basic talked fluently and enthusiasti- and Joni Mitchell, to name a thing you want to do with "I usually cane over once a rm rather than do thee small Tony also worked with ago", he explained. "it was for things to consider when cally about his life, making you few. I warded to retain the here. a new three..olece group year, this time I'm covering a clubs over By the George Harrison and the an album called Solitaire, my writing a commercial song", feel as though you were the happiness and the enthusiasm is to get away from the fourteen City Concert tour, end of the tour we were Mollies before joining the r a he answered, "first simplicity, that I had in Obvious solicitor who was good first person he's ever told.. the 1950's, but reallypulling it toparh- bands like which Includes. Manchester, secondly, a of hook Jeff Beck group for friend of Clive Davis, the kind or rsoHe spoke of how his updated." Hendrix and Zep if you and Glasgow. parents year. He wasalso in a Birmingham president of Columbia records catchy phrase that continues After his tour Neil will go like. The Three Man Army My home is in New York" had always wanted him to be a band called May Blitz at the time. heard the song to happen In the song, thirdly back home and start work on e music we've done has not he must have noticed concert pianist, and had Basic rock which Tone says was his and thought it would be terrific something which appeal to the second album for Polydor onto been with any group in the involuntary look Of dismay encouraged him to study experience" before go; for Andy, so he sent it to Clive, ordinary person, something records, his new British record At this point Tony and ind and the single is not which passed across my lace, serious music at the age of B. ing back to session work Andy Williams heard it end the ordinary person can relate company, he doesn't perform Paul were eager I should truely representative of as for one fleeting moment I "At thirteen," he recalls, "I He still does some loved it, then called me to ask to, BUT I Mirk you reed more much in the States, and is hear some of the new the rest of the album.' recaptured aperdng twelve of was a social Bop, I didn't even s Io s and recently P I would change the lyrics, so than that today. waiting until he gets a good `4 e fy r.VCO album and I must admit Adrian. who the most gloomiest hours of play baseball because my Couldn't worked with Bowie d we changed the Macs to suh record deal amt there. the two tracks we make the interview. does my life in that abysmal city. '1 have so many amateur mother was afraid I'd Injure mo On Ken Russell's film Andy, Meanwhile his first album listened to, I Can't Make most of the songwrising. "We don't actually hue in writers come to me with my fingers. so I began playing version of Tommy Laughter In The Ran well be The Blind See and After the Gun fell apart in the he continued, "we "I'd been performing the beautiful songs - on the pop tunes and writing my own But Three Man Ay city", released in March. the Burning Angel. were 1970 he went to the States in song for two years beforehand piano new a song can songs, and found that I was REMEMBER comes first. emphasised, lire up state tk - No story of pop would mare ií an and joined the Buddy mountain,. " in England throughout all the sound great on the piano being asked to partes and was be their hit good. Tony complete without the name of ThD Paul "Basically we're a rock Milesband Meanwhile With more nd more Concerts, cabarets and when it's written, but when more of a socialsuccess. " Awe With in In fact we'll have to Neil Sedaka, for Neil is part of and out March, the band "This Is our second tour lan to go back for two but we can go a lot Paul formed Parrish and performers sorting their own television I did, h was an you put it on the record, Sounds something like a Curvet played band, finish the Interview soon pop history as he is very much the could make it big this with the Ooobies," said months in April." George material, the singer/song unknown song, but every time there's the production, the before and after commercial further than that." said Gurvitz with as we've got to refearse-" a part of tomorrows word, Aderian Curtis to ad. year. Paul, 29, when I met him "We had some great who in the sixties Parrish is novelty I sung it you could literally arrangement, the sound, the doesn't it? He won Tony Okay boys. practice writer no longer a Neil Sedaka - brie paten of Well the two have and Tony in town last from the ands here to stay Neil was hear a pin crop, the reaction orchestration. a whole heap of scholarshipwbich enabled him Right nowow they've receptions Soudrummer with Tony's background makes perfect - perceptive rock is the reamed ,,y w r ion week. in 1961 Sounds was overwhelming. things to be considered before to study' forr, his doctor - supported the Doobie audiences although being nds Incorporated starts with forerunner or the trend of essence of warmth n T New the "Its funny but when I wrote patting the desired effect, I'm Brothers on their British last September we the opening and backing all the great Incorporated 1 asked him which of the music degree, at Juliard rah ti Man group be deal fortunate dates and their single. toured the States with with t our lint tour rockers like Jerry Lee William Tell days ROY three he prelened doing, it, 1 thought it would to be in a pieiion School of Mute n New York. a. ,a Polecat Woman. a track them and the Beach anywhere. we and Th were great Pe tree Clark. and I nave conplete ' I I together Lewis. 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A BALAYA THEIR NEW ' ! (On The Bayou) SINGLE AMS 7098 15 Roy Hill catches up marry session men. 'There certainty won't be as many as test time, we're with Gerry and Joe going to concentrate on doing most of the playing ourselves,' seed Joe, 26, in a Soho fghting We tag. basement "But we will need a group for the road. " IN A fleakyl basement studio At that We trundle into the in the heart of London's freezing Reluctant Chinese studio and perch community Stealers ourselves on Wheel are supposed a couple of high Joe was reluctant to talk to be stools about making some demo tracks for Gerry's break from ' (I Stealers Wheel last year a new album. "Right now we're working saying It had a psychological on a new album But alas, where's which I hope affect on then fans in that it Gerry will be out in Rafferty and Joe Egan got March or ApriL harmed the group's reputa- to I There was a big lapse ask myself as the studio's time the last tion. becomes between albums, Clock the centre of Ferguslie Park attraction. Hall an hour was done about "I had months of doing the a year after Stealers.Wheel. small clubs and the motorway elapses when in drifts Egan We were concentrating too scene without Gerry which I clutching a sandwich and a much .1> cup of Coffee. on getting out on the hated," he went on. road and promoting the first J much prefer concerts "Sorry I'm a bit late," he album. "I " says in broad Scottish "We didn't have very much Geny and Joe have been writing together now off and on for 10 "Gerry's probably been held time so what we're II years, they at up by the plane. He lives in doing now is writing and were school together In Scotland and commutes to Paisley, Scotland. London. " And horn the way Joe was talking, the partnership looks like lasting for a long erne to ,Plonk come. After a bit of a chat Joe 'We got such a leaves long his samy on the table -Priority and wanders into the studio recording all at once and then good singles inthe Charts, for a plonk on the piano. The we'll "We're very democratic in concentrate on going on there's a neww bad ones engineer, Steve, our turns a few the road. " about," he chuckles. aPProach to things. For knobs at the controls and instance on the last album we Joe, who Joe's mumbling comes was pleased with Surprise wrote four songs each and through the speakers. the news that Star is slowly tour together. The ones but surely moving up the Stealers Wheel has become written together were our Another thirty minutes go British and American charts, a success in the States record separate ways and it was just which now has a stamp on it. main priority which is how we by and Joe makes a call to his hopes to see a new Stealers wee without the group playing Gerry and I. We split up very It hasn't reached in perfection wore." Wheel record company to see if single evolve from their over there which Joe says amicably, everyone more or by any means yet, we've got a there's any message from recording. Comes as a big surprise. less agreed about the different lung way to go, we're still At that it was time to put Gerry. approaches in music. progressing. As soon s we away the tape which Joe, "Gerry and I are both more "We must get over mere stop then it's time despite his experience with "They've not heard any- concerned about albums, but soon. We have repeatedly put of it though is progressing "The essence to up. mikes, was somewhat thing so we might as well go there's nothing wrong with it off. We were was pack " suppose to go that Stealers Wheel petrified of, I hope by the way ahead with the interview,' he making a good single. Right last November, but the rest of. always Gerry and me. We On the new album Gerry Joe. that got you Gerry there suggests. now could do with some the guys had gone their own have our own brand of music and Joe don't plan to use okay

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UMW Reviews Reviews Peter James iK Jones AM1I CAlI Hamilton

THE ROLLIN, STONES: Brown Sug ar; Bitch; Let It Rock IRS 191W). This re- issue of the original combiatlon is the star attraction that heads a series of Luxembourg - plugged maxis on the Atlantic label. The ¡ only other Britishers In t * d the set are YES: And You And I; Rounda- rJ K bout (Atlantic 104071. which, being the unedited album cuts ¡total time 19.091, gives 104 you a better deal then }) . the US -released singles ,77171' HOLY MACKEREL: DENIS ROUSSOB: RINGO STARK: TONY ORLANDO and versions. Of the maxi., some BILLY PRESTON; How Tennessee Walla( San- When I'm A Kid You're Sixteen ( Apple DAWN. Who's In The American long Hen The Train ta Pone& PN8 ( only U). Philips 11009 183). 5995). A natural-born Strawberry Patch With differ slightly Been Gone; You're So This is the oldie, This b the Greekborn hR This chap Starr Sally: Ukele Man 'Bell from the last lot put out by in 72, so Unique (AIM AMS generally handled star for whom big has a style, and tense 1343). Althasgh from WEA 70971. Familiar with be warned. The Yanks title but gentility but things are predicted - of big-time - he'll a album called moo too as Billy epee sometimes Involved one- time lead singer of take chart stardom in Dawn's New Ragtime are OTIS REDDING: On) The that other Jack of all with talents like Sam that exciting but now his stride, I'd say- It's Follies", this new (Slttln Oock trades. Sammy Davie Of The Bay; I Can't Cooke and Bobby disbanded team Aph- an old teen -face song, Levine h Brown ditty is Jr., In a smoothly Womstoc-k. It now is rodite's Child. Nor- which fairly bounces less Ragtime than Turn You Loose: II rendered, meaning he's Can't Get Nol Satiefac- swinging to mally into a sort along, with his Volee 1520'. Rezzametazz , . impersonation of Nat F' tear tion 1K 103901, PERCY span, by one of of rock -cum -By gen. over a hammered and I still can't help "King" Cole. Delight the Met rock bands tine chant form of piano, back-up fearing that it's SLEDGE: When A Man a too A Woman; fully anachronistic, in around -a powering, music, but this is chorus and something authentically so to do Loves My Special Prayer, Baby America It Is but the frighteningly Intense straightforward sounding Like comb. all that well here. flip to Help Me 1K 103941, the more typical vocal job, and some and-whatsit paper. However. I have commercial, WILSON PICKETT: In Preston pie that' booming, brash displaying hie high -set There's a good-time' nothing but praise for served up as our flip sounds behind. All at voice over some feel to the whole thing it and hope I'm proved The Midnight Hour: 1000 here. Yeah, despite a l t s o stuttering rhythms. oohs and aahs, a bit wrong. The less frantic land Of Dances; -temp Funky Broadway myself, I like ill And danerabBlty. I once It'. foot-tappy stuff; of a dated acmes flip is a paean to the IK remember, anyone said we'd be wad if we Insistent. And he phere, and it's a performers of those 103891. SAM h DAVE: giant Hold On, I'm Comin: who spots the occa- didn't get their We GM ~range. a fair pro- hit in the States. days. MoR PICK. sional similarity to Ray It Nailed Down into portion of near-freney Ringo Starr may not Soul Man; I Thank You 1K 103911, Charles, who Ray the chart.. We didn't. or urgency In the way turn out to be a Stevie ARETHA BLACK OAK ARKANSAS: FRANKLIN: Respect; I started out by copying we be he singe . , , Wonder or a Johnny Perhaps won't even the Jim Dandy; Red Hot Loeb' Say Mr. Cole, MUSIC n A Little Prayer: stupid thin time la -lab bita. Nice Mathis, but he's (Atlantic K 104051. Arkansas PICK. definitely a Rock Steady Inn. round - CHART record. - CHART lad to is pronounced "Arklnsaw", if CHANCE. watch. I believe he unknown). THE CHANCE you didn't know or have spent COASTERS: Along JOE WALSH: Meadows; plays drums, too - long CHARTCERT, winter night poring over Came Jones; Charlie Book Ends (Probe POR 6111. an atlas In search of a non- Brown; Seerchin' Two from "The More MICHAEL CHARMERS: (nul. You CHAPMAN: LLOYD I'm existent State! These lads THE DRIFTERS: Under Smoke, The Less Pissed You The Song ). Love A Banjo (Derain Gonna You Just pleasant surprise per- from there make an energetic the Boardwalk; Sweets Get" (or whatever!), the top With More .1). choral accom- Little Bit (Harry formance. noise out of La Vern Baker's For My Sweet; Save findsJoe of James Gang fame and Barry song 1957 paniment a sturdy This White GRUMPY: Rule Brit hit, an amusing tale The Last Dance For Me sounding like CSNBY backed Mat, there's an Infectious gives Lloyd a chance to amnia ( We're Doing about a Our comic -cuts super -hero Inul, and SONNY Et by The Who, sort of, while the air to one, without whip himself a deep - who's always coming to this into Bit) (Decca). Group of the CHER: I got You Baba; slow flip is a more deliberate anything really suggest- voiced bit of frene" f t the musical toddles got rescue, which followed her What Now My Love; plodder. a a 'Tweedlee ing chart breakthrough. start, talking hin praise to together In candle -lit Dee'. Still, as up- The Beat Goes On IK F olkoey feel. the lady he later will be office, pondered the three- datings go, 'tain't that bad, 10388). BLUE MAGIC: Where THE RAOTIMER.Y: The loving. But once Into the day bit and came up with and it's a nice choice of Have You DON GOODWIN: This Is Your Been; Stop Sting (Pye). Scott Joplin's singing bit, it's less this glib bit of mlckey- material for hard rockers... I To Song; Help It Along (Pclydor Stan ¡Atlantic K ragtime music la an sweatYELLOWSTONE taking. Sort of topical mean, they even scream 104031. The guys who of the AND about "red hot fuckln 2066-4031. Aber 28 family Integral part tongue-in-cheekery. " on moves, were too good to RedfordNew man movie VOICE: Super -Duper Star PETE WTNSLOW AND the heavy flipl POP PICK. this 18 -year -old is now appear from the ski resort of Aspen, on the same The Sting. Now, 57 years (EMI). With butitin KING-SIZE BRASS: Java stage as Tina Turner alter his death. Joplln screams and so on, this la ( BBC). Theme from the Colorado, and was spotted et AMERICA: Green Monkey; a Las are currently hitting in music Is suddenly "1n"; so a tuneful and fast -paced Vision On TV programme Vegas audition by Paul Rainbow Song 'Warner Bros K Anita, who penned American with the (his raggy could oUr little opus and la-lahed and from a very good and co - piece 163481. No. not the Garnett produced 'with delicate Sweet Soul up Interest. whenever the lyrics dry album called The Girl On expatriate siowie on Cooper Et The Kinfolks Briton, Johnny Harris) his first the flip hare. RATS: Don't Let Go up. But nothing all that The Test Card. as instrumental from '63, this is minor fit, this Pop slowly that Yet it's good deal ( MAM). Good rampaging distinctive for my money. MADELINE BELL: An- more CSNbY harmonized steals more sombre than the rock, with a full guitar LES DAWSON: Spread It other Girl (RCA Victor). its plucking strings whining set to a buzzing guitar fguts straight cut of Andy sparkling and tinkling boost, and the usual full- Around New Fans need worry not it's faster A (Ocean). - backup and dry drumming Williams's old "Can't Get -side that we blooded vocal line this label and a career a ... new not give -up on the which gives me an Used To Using You". get h was smart team angle for the tubby comic Other move are relentless recently -out I'm So Glad . uncontrollable urge to hear than the fact that he sounds to flip it. Sweet recording rampagers. he his a book out now as . the B side Soul fans - it's of that "Ohio" again. Ah, that was Ike a vibrantly healthy hunk of will love their They go for stomping well. He chucks in a few one, now flipped for dee- wailing vocelese nice) . , and só s this, AND teenage fan fodder, I dunno and excitement and get IL Get Jazz -styled cliches, works attention. on. Miss the Norman jay it's quieter US hitside flipside. why I bother to tell you elites, Berrie It good. Should be a big with big band and girlie Bell In good nick; on a production, but Pop No put-down intended. Very as It won't be a hit here) I disco mover, this. chorus - all in all a pounding bluesy nice, intact! pickers may need more hope) of hook. Pick of the week Pick of the week BOB DYLAN: On A Night Uke This; whom he made hie Initial break sway GENESIS: 1 Krum What I Like (In with It, or even whistle along. Do Fo Young Ostend WIP 61881. How from the confines of "Folk", and in a Your Wardrobe) (Charlsrrta CB 22e). A howcser listen to the lyrics, study the happy is tii. men? Having used "Folk" to gaily bouncy groove: however, fine for clever rang. Group Y hat enough, in ousoees, enjoy the odd frenzied find fame, the would-be Presley of his fans though they be, neither H nor its term of sn stage and un -album to make. ' moment, then play it again and you'll generation ho been frustrated In his mournful lurching flip contain any it with a eagle that. Sot it mold be a bit Sod something or two you missed the drive towards vsrsatHlty by surprises other than Si Possibly renewed tea. teener. Nice cheegrw of rhythm. first time retied. Lovely group this - combination of the public who made him vigour. I personally prefer Ronnie Lens. norre full-blooded ~rumanlaJ mo (]¡ART CHANCE. end his own vocal limitation. This, the but as Ws been so aegerly awaited this is moor- Rut do sot expect to sing along first single from his new label deal. finds obviously the headlining PICK OF THE him backed again_ by the gang with WEEK. RECORD B radio MIRROR, FEBRUARY le. 191. 17 DANNY DAMN Trnvelin' (RCA31I0), T-IWONE WALKER Very Rare The Exciting Sound Of - (Reprise K 94001). Here Is a double - . (RCA 1003). Danny album set of Aaron fronts the Nashville Walker, Brass, an allay T -Bone, aggregation with a very famed through the Stales epedal led of and guests - like Diary an Integral part of Gillespie. Iterate _ "MINI the country music Mann, scene Al Oran. Toot Shoe and C and W with the Gerry Mulligan, . , plus big -band bash and the always panache. efficient In five years, Sweet Insptratlons. Gul- he has become a regular lariat and ringer T.Fl ere million -seller, and the is Into a specialist field. Une -up is trumpets, flute, Rut he swings in a way trombone, bass trom- Men that geta through to all bone, drums, guitar and seer ms of the musleal BRIAN JOSEPH FRIEL banjo. Now being highly community. Second Rand Dealer. (. boosted in Britain, the (Nairn DM1J4 3054). The Danny Davis sound is VARIOUS folk who like to deservedly set to become 50 Yeam Of Popular Hits eategortse every new truly international. (BBC 138). The BBC singer will have a tough Radio Oreheatra, con- job with Brian Joseph ducted by five different Friel, for he's e name. BILLIE 11OIJDAY on different Scotsman whose style tracks - and some real seems to loan all the The Voice Of Jazz, oldies which will surely musical bridges. That Volume Five (Verve 2304 drum up nostalgic he's real likely The Phantom. But ithe 115). Recordings from yearning for mum and prospect in shown up by guess L that Brian le a 1955, and including the th; dad who will surely ray the barking group rocker at heart, and be wondrous Strange Fruit, "they don't write sings luminaries who really sells with a lot of style plus the original Lady like this any more." wanted to help out. Like and enthusiasm Ile Sings The Blues within Actually they do, be- ?coot Money and B. J. sings Rock And Roll's In all-star backing line-up. cause the beet tracks are Me as If he Cale and a lead guitarist really means by . - . George Harrl- who. presumably for it. And Refiroad Mama son contractual reasons, conjure. up a different CARMEN MCRAE sort lurks under the name of Imagery . it Takes A WHole Lot Of FRANK MEIJI . lying by the track, Sometime To Give My Human Feeling (People UEMIS ROUSSOS dreaming about Raquel 8). With a tightly. love To. (Spark SRLP Welch, licking Iceeream Forever And Ever. (Philips =5 031). This is the Ill). Even H Frank organised small -group Greek star who is the plan.- as r olf my back. Brlao being tipped all over doesn't get the hit tingles backing, the jazz - really big name in 1974. The voles is high eel, full of .loseph Friel Ls a new as he used to, he has a singing giant touches on emotional drama, and the music is a kind of fusion of talent who poattively fasties like Straighten following of loyalties and Cries out for recognition. Byzantine atmosphere and the beak excitement of this album shows that he Up And Fly Right and rock and roll. Thin album, with the mandolin, anomie It would be a tragedy H the slowed -down still has real style. Some Imagi- guitar, Moog and bousouki momenta, is a huge seller tse didn't hear (hone nation. and a nice long very gond song selections on the continent. Titles include My Friend The Wind, Including Elton and crics. So try him, then taut Inside A Silent Mornings buy him. Tear. Velvet and Forever And Ever. Though We Bernie's Country C0r11- a different sort of pop -chart sound, it all falls into fort. California Cotton place. Greek tousle could well he the nest "in" thing. Fields Is another hit VARIOUS spot. READING FESTIVAL A (GM Records CML very 1008). ITs a very sad fact but festivals In PETER HAMMH.L Britain are not what they used to be. AB thud who The Silent Corner and bonnie Wave ever enjoyed them the Empty Stage (Otari will thank God for ma CAS 1083). One has Reading, the last bastion to be very tolerent to of outdoor rock. And the actually sit down nd lady music? It's palmy raw listen to the whole of this and earthy Statue album by Peter Ham- BONNIE RAR Quo's Don't Waste My mitt. Basically a writer, Takin' Time (Warn- ~ , &Wow. Time being the the music play. second ers). DespiteMa its many raunchiest - but at leant fiddle to the lyrics. The perversities, the rock 'n' It's alive. The Faces only track which caught roll business is still one .how up well If little my ear was the first sector in dire need of the / e basic and there's a nice track on Side Two, titled r/ / attentions of women's 1 ti track from Greenslade. Red Shift, whim Is a liberationists. All right, "r I Then Lesley thoneºn's spaced out number with the singles charts occa- Earth Mother brings the JUNIOR CAMPIte:L1. UFO sound effects, and sionally produce a Suri musical standard right Second Time Around pulsating lead guitar Ouatro or a Lulu. And up for a fittingly classy (Derain NHL 110.1). R'. running right the way Joni Mitchell and Judy end to the collection from strange to think that through. An an album It Collins have featured in Tim Hardin with Hang after all this time, this .. would make a very good the album charts. But On To A Dream and Junior (Lrebdl's debut play - which reminds how many more can you Person To Pereira album, but first solo roe - hove you read his name? Not many that's P. H. album it is. Aptly titled book! for sure and if this album Second Titee Around. It NORCIE PARAMOR ontatins string was the product of a J o BBC Top Tunes of hln masculine mind. or at at hit single (Kends Out SHIRLEY BASSET (BBCRF.B 171). With the An') Help Your Fellow Hall least was marketed In a b Midland Radio Orches- Live At Carnegie name, it would be a Man; Sweet Illusion; (United Artists 301/2). man's tra, Norris re-creates H11elejah Freedom. dead Bert. But, filed some of the music which ' At 13.99 a collector's It's swwv. 9. The only two numbers under Pop (Female) _ heralds top BBC series, piece Ramey fans. A . 's.a for unlikely to receive the not penned by Junior live session, skilfully :.. rangOg from the tong - Leeson sad kind or amount of ; running re, - ; Desert island organised into a two it deserves. Put McCLrleey's Drive My record set, and It all ttention .4 ` Discs' Sleepy Lagoon. to ami my favourite quite simply. Bonnie Halt ¡a Gar, Family Favourlles and builds to a brisk finale of the finest Bob Pyle. somber, following Something, and has one through to Of fside, which Poeklvely 4th Street. It's around. All the greatest compliment I better delta blues guitar- into This My and voices is the theme of Match of race one far leaping Is Life raw emotion of Janis can bestow. Take your ist and VII give him/her e The Day. - on to The Party's Over - the fine time in your local record backing aboutto with wild applause and most of job. Excellent G. a control of Joni. I don't store and pick up on this music. too, from the underlining the lady's men who can one. Not quite as excellent members of JACK JONES ability to communicate know many 0408). THE DANKWOIET11 RIG blues better than classical as her earlier Little Feat - Harbour (RCA with audiences Over sing the is by RAND ail that's the offerings but find me a R. G. The title track the world. Even more Bonnie and Peter Allen but the Lifeline (Philip. 6308 emotional than her stemmed titles are Paul 169). 794 Lifeline opus studio recordings. BRENT DOWE GROOVE HOLMES MICHART PARKINSON Williams' That's What fills the whole of the Me Up (Trojan American Pie (People Meets The Goons (BBC Friends Are For, Cook round half, and le la flue Build parts, and the other .de UPSETTER -9 TRLS 78). Reggae le), Organ star, with 185). Much -requested and Greenaway's Would Double Seven (Trojan and singer, small group backing recollection of the eve- You Say I You, the Includes suet intriguing composer tae Mint as Fleeting The TILLS 70). Mostly the and the main problem Ls which includes bongo. ning the Goons went on opening Here's To love. Upsettere, Is and conga drumming telly to be chatted up by AR Flab and WRVR. Also but with the that the voice and the evocative part of this highly. odd added inducement to sometimes submerged and some neat guitar Michael Parkinson . Cried Out. Jack's style le big band buy fourteen tracks of kind of minor -key touches from Gerald October 1972, was Use romantic_ The backing disciplined solid Hubbard. American Pie date. braes. sequence la Tomorrow's -core reggae. Lmg meandering, or possibly That Parker arrangements are World which sou writ- Sentence is a rood opener; Who managed a -free just and Stick It's all down to modesty. to retain less and sax - and well written. by Together Can I Turn To, elongated semblance of sanity is a gui- ten, are good But We obviously a gentle percusahuh, John Dankworth hIm- samplers, should when more from the original, a good tribute to bis Northern piano. and tarp - wish you flexible voice, tars. -if. to sample. out front. closer. grit. flute touches MAINMAN PRESENTS

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RCA Records and Tapes RECORD B ~a MIRROR. FEBRUARY le, 1974 t9 THE NEWS that the New :u Sulkers ere to split In May N r after their lotlhcomMg old bass player. Coneen as a tour, comes Oliver, despite boner Mow to SI their many - only e New farts. Rut In retrospect Seder since You Pj o, said can't blame the group he had no idea the group's mind to wanting too go then own ' a the rece of waysays after nearly 5, Ina five years together, .{ t.t- nigh, that I'd possibly Although decision to r-- doe ,two mysny us Man breek up wasthe made just J a New elker, I though the before Chrstrnas. it's been in group would go on for 10 Me minds of Eve Graham years although for I had ro and Lyn Paul well over a minion of long that long.. year now. Had It not been `ty ) I'm nott the so n of person for the two girls wantrng to t who can ` ' . compromise lee go solo, the New Seekers that long. I'm completely in could have gone on for it sympathy with the way the bast another year as the girls feel." h w boys seemed reasonably . r contentwith the group. Marty, Paul and Peter did I ) consider lrirgag two new "In some ways I feel girls into the group, but tesponsrble for the break decided against the idea. up; said Eve as we chatted Thal was the last in the office of the group's consideration, but the publrest. writing was on the wall and it was inevnable the thing "I didn't know what I was would be the concltaron to starting at the time. I was Mrs particular act," said completely shocked when I Many. did tell the group I was planting to leave and Lyn said she had the same thing in mind, Ending a cycle f thought they would continue as a lour - piece. It was too late for me to retract "We all saw it as the curl my poshlon. For a while I felt of a cycle and consequently a bit guilty and wondered ith everybody d is env, en should I stay and let Lyn Now who will teach move on to develop leave. But it didn't work that whatever our particular fields way and the boys decided of interests are in. " they didn't want to continue or get two other girls. " Although we am to see the Eve, now 30, admitted that end of the New Seekers, h her age influenced her looks as it e'1 he hearing decision the their music for some lime to to quit very world much. to slog? come. Their new album, ironically called Together, rs said I was a bit fed up," she (rindan, Paul Layton and due out in March and a new From the top went on. Peter Oliver feel about h2 single, I Get A Little "I'd always been solo or Sentimental Over You, '1 think if I was probably "I think (here was a little Roy Hill fills in Comes out on March 1. Eve I'd always been in a group at restlessness Lyn's age (she's 24), I might going on, but says there's aleo plans fa an have the front and could use the had the girls not wanted to stayed with this group album in the summer, a stage and microphone as I for another couple of years," leave I think the New recording of their farewell wanted, I don't always like to the details of she explained, Seekers would probably concert al the Rainbow on stand In a line. When you're have continued at least Octt May 5, and as many singles R I wait now , . in a group you've got to "But the end of this year," said V as the record company warn compromise and I thought . this is a good opportunity, the first major - year - old Marry, who also to release. and a half years was we're at the top. I might four looks like following a solo have cashed in on it a bit long enough to have career, The New e more than) have done had I compromised. split of '74 been a bit younger." Seekers had served its Paul's personal feelings purpose - it had given me a are that he thinks the break , Next week the Meanwhile Lyn, looking as name and I it up is a lmle premature. good thought wanted to leave and I'd have attractive as ever, was was a good time to leave. " left it a couple of more think it's emphatic that Eve should in "It was a mutual thing "I a great shame, five talk about weeks, there would have except but it's inevitable the no way feel responsible for Lyn said that the contract Eve and I instigated it group been no way I could have got - stated only one girl singer and the boys fell along with had to end some Irmo. I the split. of my As the future and could leave the group. out contract. It it." didn't motivate the ending, - turns out the boys "About a year ago I called didn't but I do Mel there's n And how do my ex , record producer and "If Eve had said she want to cany on anyway. just Marty challenges," said the 25W lore and marriage

Heins, looking flash in black glitter null and Mal rarttliar Al Stewart Lindisfarne bleached hale. Rot everyone ae-leg as he let loose with ALL STEWART, sell mod. IT'S NICE to be bark on the Iceland strongly whirb nave Just like Eddy, Summertime ellbti Imt on Dylan I road. said I.indbfurta's Alan keyhwrds and guitarist ken Blurs. Ilound -dog, Bloc Suede _rand conceited ever,ver, Hull and after witnessing the ( dirk chance Sr seal Shires to name but a few comes over far belle, on usingrecetalun the Geordies d the Bernal fit from /lull classics. peoord than live. Ills get Irom a packed Purifies. al anal*. but Mhos that hobbling on with erformance wal London Hensel Hempstead, It's ob- dos On The 7yae lady LIVE University es a dis- b1 of glad to a seek and shawl It might be vious a pmple.,e Elena,. and 15.1, lowing norm. le years since he 444 u appointment. we them hack. number, (Tear »hie light top rock roll tiler, but Thr hulk or his material There was Ray Jad.un reminded au of the old

. bluely Wilde , was looking as came 1mm the Past, Present playing everything on hie Lindisfarne not that they've young *sever. and Future album whirls Ill harmonica 1mm the Rlaydon ~iced dace the spilt. Peet Raen lo Z Lars (he went on Irallyt »as a canny aught and butt he was the star admit Is superbly neatly. Undoubtedly World War Blues and for nearly 10 minute.) while the band and andleeee d the Wow and even the eels Too the band lounged about the M .b w l udy rnloled seemed content. Wilde he Soho (needlrn to say) didn't l. acnsacross al that well. but and the audience did the Apologies ge ant to s. Apart Item a trip down the band got behind conga, bleb Jigs and had Ion, at entreaty( set Claire IlatatI memory lens oily some of his once to an, nn. Lindisfarne even for missing the McInnes« cal Mb like Manna, Teenager In Sewarts, his Rends Moerm rid Old Admirals did him ,raped play let !VIM Me On her set. But abet I ware %tam Love and Rubber Hall, 'Harty not that It wen very nice. She's gill ee paid justice The Corner many men.agojrnt had to he tribute to the great requested mind you. Their giant le be hearing a tit nose Buddy with "I've such a selection of Rally Fury. luukinc very glom holy Rave Oe album. ReiU On Ruby, of befog* long. W)Y HILL and Let's Go To The Hop. songs I wandered on stage Ted rock w lib his sevenOes Intake. with no Idea what I'm going to Fur) errs Meddling act of the Carl Simmons. he's dynrmle s g , «ante Stewart As It w11AT MFNORIES, what '74 Rork 'n' Rog Show MINA on the piano and that's his set was hr gave us a nicker, ads bone McGuiness Flint memories. The (long attracted a lulbhouse 1 summed up In one sentence. Electric L.A. Sunset. which stare I've lied that word) Lewisham Concert Hall. So It cones to the mamma Stewart on aleetrle DINOW AILS multi hr a grunt et 1nr vnr "lid. tut Tom wen out in twee In all their Demrmn*tety Fury's turn we've all been waiting for and gullet. Ile doesn't appear to aleGulness and blends prompted general apetby +mite the get-up. Seresminu birds brought the .how to an a e a he better to introduce it than tic London hoppers. line an oustanding guilarest English try lag .o hard to break the al Srreumiee lord Stitch who and his style beat suits the Sure they ..and very Odd. clean. +rid a.grtrr - or heavies and elamher on had Irked nil with the lust had to say Rork 'e' roll rock It. best - net what hatnenteol b the hare. country l Sr leur'h Net Sets Tornadoes ding a couple it Ill . . . stage lire forever Right acoustic.Other numbers included On excitement F..ven the odd ale hotly was off numbers before going on W Dave. from ...it album was perhaps d.. rid Zero She Files. Sono Out Ol Ride On sty Rainbow Hong by discontented bark Tommy Bruce, It was pity Fury didn't to number and throughout la Stachndee m key. m11 (lay and thirty second eh ing but the err a. Jolson 1 rork n' roll. down winal, a th+1 bum 40 °Maly lilting nri'n tae w ll but you n'1 The impresth It knit seem. Wa® he .unit his way through Hall bounced on slate to called Snug Fret Song. tell bark. Sunday Ironically after his covered all, then musically have become be M.y To 1'arsdlr. Onip Make but it took the sent fleet o-as completely Sod Gene *bleb raw hit at dk-nae d the curtains lo There w ss When Pm Dud n.Msva sod I.tr I've Pt -car Lac e Nan the cruder by Modred.. ho seemed rod Iwk loot emit They'd wrrM u. d Wore duo, tht'e. we ales ter chat and r weer, sir cab. wanly all is Reno Goce Botor, and rockers eke elakle' All Marty Wilde, uppreelat Stuart'. Mow' tilts music. up tide rore. Ks DIVVY ira gay twined d Over W get inW Me gear. IWYHILL ROY HIW 1I:TFN RECORD B cado MIRROR. FEBRUARY 16, 1970 yankee doodles barry taylor in new york

Motts play Broadway . season / Alice <::%+a:-:'c'p-:E :. ' : ;!. :)e,: . 'e w r_ Z,J.ns on the screen / Elton recording 7. :i:%::::'-:! IAN LAKE k it HUNTER was In Nee* PALMER ere have new album . MAGIC CHRISTIANS York tunenUy reMeg on 1110 France's aMr couple d days last part Numem Uno rock Lome and Get It - thin group, reek flay MOTT THE Of their American lour. group LES VARIATIONS comprised of Gary Wright NOOPi.E'S WORM tour. lhdlnarfly is not against the have a new album called (Spooky Tooth/, Trevor whleh was Jun meepleted lie taw, but you're supposed to do Moroccan Roll. ti's their Burton (Move), It with your bathing suit third, Alan V.hlte announced that Molt will hit on and the first II, be (Yen), and Denny Leine At the _ the Broadwny stage d the gold record released here .. ELP are IWInga) recorded Peat Una Inc crowning mimeo y feu EL releasing anew single, Still Theater one whole TON - klroartney'n song men before week, from May 672. Thin w111 JOHN'S, Goodbye You Turn Ste On/Hraln Salad Badfingrr! mark the nest time that rack Yellow Bark Read, the guest Surgery. The latter side in not group has been stated for ºich or honour honor up In Mind an their latent album of MUD Latter aye/Up platinum colored sot - a perfehnance. The Urb has a and a the .ante name . GARY The Airy Mountain - I litre are Ming capacity in 2,m0, or cold colored shirt which had FARR and DOCTOR JOHN two obscure sides recorded by the song leas than hall that of Radio Utica horn the album will open New York's n went Mud Mat were written and City Music Ilan where the Imprinted on It When large rock dub. the Rottom Line. produced by Ray Davie.. rake was group played on their last snit rolled at to the Il'. the Ideal place to play for Could be That he and brother to time city. Said Ian: 'The center 01 the floor, Elton new groups wishing to esrape Dave played on them too. sound there (Radio City decided to beat everyone to the the vastness of our other wasn't great and we warded a punch, and promptly proceded emporiums. with a senling PETER NOOSE - Right more Intimate plan AI- to smear the cake In his own capacity of about 400 On Mother - You blow that lhougR Moll never had to "Y ' Here are same single Ile did Bowle'n Oh You Pretty depend that on th aLI9cc In their Speaking d Elton, he used you might want to scout Things but how 'bout this one? t performance.. Sounds Hunter some of lib hoe on the West around for when checking out like It dales back to o Ij, that the gooup caul wko m (.M for mire productive your local bargain bin, All David'. flunky Dory days. t me ideas for special things, bite lintsheg d have been leased over the presentation. but he's the nil v aa e t quick vocal tracks for his laat few years . . ARNOLD WRNS - hang to pool out: 'The muse still upmnóng album. Also in the ACID GALLERY - hence On To Yourself / Moonagc Dr. John. . . opener has to can first. studios Joining In on the Daydream You really AIJCT COOPER Round The Maypole / Right - will make project were DUSTY Toe Blues This one as auahta try to gel like Records pace a bit, but Intthitely Ilea.vnt No poma for his drametle television SPRINGFIELD. member. at - - acting released In 1965 and w to re-release cols. originally heavier than the versions he eoetnlgw tnetisanele, ire debut ea the March 6 THREE DOO NIGHT, l eplsude CAT supposedly the group That recorded In 1971 -over a year recorded hlmsrlf. an added Ray song. d me Snoop Sete, a popular STEVENS, nd former eventually evolved Into before these two songs bonus, there are d If there re any other weekly program. Aare will BEACH BOYS Bruce John- Qulntle appeared different verses! couple'Thin Is a singles or play ston and (Yellow River). The albums that yea the role d - no, not Wally Brian W ass,. nong sounds very reminiscent Stardom( album Bowie didt must for Howie fano. know of which et into the Cleaver, but a "biaarrely The Album Tale Of The of Roy Wood, which Is not very magnificent Job of production NICKY HOPKINS k HIS category. please let us know made op young nun". 1 can't Week goes for The .surprising. as the on this one, slowing down the WHISTLING PIANO Mr. and we'll paw the word. imagine Award Bop wlvard - ices they managed to Just Won't Slop, a GENE wrote and produced It - think that one up He'll also VINCENT LP of uptempo prabably played and sang on take the opportunity to numbers recorded around it too. perform nl the one mien from tine. P.P. his Billion Dollar Babies ARNOLD - If You album, Quick ones: TEN YEARS Think You're Groovy Sack Things ... Attlee AFTER are booked to produced and arranged by te also srJhedukd play to appear on Radio City Music Ilan In May. 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-Peter Dignam answers your letters. Write to RRM,a 7 Carnaby Street, London W1V 1PG I TOO have noticed a tad t cycle, It happens to be mine. and It.oúleaning aealnsl the Bapman wall Isldel Whatever ) e happened b, payola, nee? Egg on it . . . 1. I write In reply to Brian Immediately slammed by the fights Robson's letter about the critics. Faces new live album. I agree that the album larks 1 can find no evidence In the new material and Is not the , 1 WOULD just like to say that David Bowie L.P. that Rod and the bend best album they have ever Is the best singer, are but la still very songwriter, and drunk or fooling around on recorded It back performer stage and If this Is one of the enjoyable listening. ever rd. Ire bra 'messiest hr has By the way Peter, a live WHEN I read the teller from As for recordings Womble' (see last e not 'Womble' m RRM, I was week'. ever heard he must have album la recorded In MadMan), he can't very eedrecord collection, studio. AFaiies Fan disgusted. p1011 up on good music because fans have been crying Southend. David Bowle in the best all notables pick up is out for a live album for ages Oh. 'tarry I didn't thing since sliced bread. Only rubbish! Love On Ya. Brian, and It memo a pity Ihal noon as knew that. OOPS. I've fallen fool could say ó e U not a Womble Hake. one great singer, r very 'ancestor Is released it I. off my typewriter, Brian. original Ust. I can only say I am glad WAT MORE can I say. Womble did not send hi or her except that If there la Me on Droppin9s address, or a nasty letter Man, I nueeent Womble gets Violence world have been sent! there quick. 'rot there's RE ALICE COOPER not IN A RECENT letter In Mk hotel Meanley t'n'vlviw,s horde hie owing where to go next. Scalped Me1IMen. Mr. A. Morris 13 Llpgate Place, U tter -strewn trail. answer: Great Britain. suggested we allwldadrop Portshead, As for what music to play or SO you had a picture of Alan everything and rush t to Bristol. t' what kind of ad to put on, how O.nnnd and Karen Carpenter eaten to Lira Minoan) album about "The Heal Of Alice did you? Then how come only I did just that and remain WELL Ise may be a NLMRLE Cooper Show"? With music few weeks later you unconvinced of her talent. little number, but then again IF, according b Womble's front lave It To Death to somehow have Karen with She may be very good o hey not every MOTHER'S letter, David Bowie produces Muscle Of Love. Richard wearing 'Alan's' stage and film. but little of the PRIDE. (Oh sell, please trash. I for one certainly hope Lela see hint get hanged, shirt? excitement she Is supposed to vow-wives, I don't like eilasd tole trash keeps on coming. I guillotined. eledricchaired, Jane Morton A radiate comes over on record. bread anyway). don't think I've everreally get hie head kicked in, eat Wymor, Doesn't It seem little appreciated y music ehlek ens, the lot. Newbrldge, strange that someone wile so Mm. ÑOTCKD in your page that Beah as Bowles einee the It really would be the best of much talent should have eo some person uttred some tles Alice Cooper Show, to please Mlle chart sucee n. pretty derogatory words P.S. I feel sorry for come over soon Alice. AARGIlI Anther eagle-eyed A Made Inver relating to David Bowb. I Womble. Omltrey Waved RRM reader spots the Ikalningtan, suppose that rote will male would be a much more I'ete Aitken 42 Lltterd ale Road, deliberate mistake. Well Tel beautiful place. I RAF W yton, Wallasey, Cheshire. maybe they Ike the ne- Salop. several dimwits to write In to hate shirts, defend tit pansy. EVERYBODY! Hunts. Is 11 just Roger this Mike Martin NELL I did ask for more Greene,. are skillful scalpel MR. MORRIS I have noticed sad cycle at work dld'nt mean severalon aerations. H only 19 Broom Park. I FEEL sorry for him Imo. loknee didn't I? Certainly no again? deep EVERYTHING, but 1em people Too lnbrook, Me Micah we've remelted are feeble froths In that Mlle tore you named a .ensallon mele philosophy the world N. Ireland. anything k go by. btmd le. oh. -n you 0141 around the country tony byworth

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