Rockuce. MOUNTAIN: Stepping intoCream's shoes': TUE MIEwIIc WANT 11-4610iNY Mott the 1-1cople ADVERTISEMENT Album Crucifix in a horseshoe 6360 059 Single Life after death The mighty ship 6059 053 2 RECORD MIRROR, December 4, 1971 Write to VAL Record Mirror 7 Carnaby St., Mirrormai London WIV IPG Lily-white Elvis? YOU WERE sensational thisweek! (November 6th). Know what you did? Why you told the fans Elvis had a dirty thought about 1900 andsaid adirty word! Oh, goody, of course your paper will outsell all the others now and you'll be famous as the guys who killed off Elvis' lily-white image (what, no more rumours of divorce? You must be slipping - but keep on it boys- he may split his trousers yet!) Yippee! Then we'll all clean up. Super. Obviously music doesn't sella lot of papers today, so how about you re -title the Keeping up with Jones column, Bringing up with Jones, and have a super nudie pic every week.- ALAN W. BEAL, 2c Grove Farm Park, Mytchett Road, Mytchett, Camberley, Surrey. VAL: You seem to have missed the point that we were quoting from Jerry Hopkins'Elvis' book. HUGH NICHOLSON: HAUNTING SONGS Single Sarah? For PaulRip it I WOULD like to assure S. ELVIS: A SCENE FROM MARMALADE have at last reached their goal by Chapman(w/e 13th up! MGM'S 'LIVE A LITTLE, LOVE A LITTLE!' coming up with a great new LP consisting of November) that Paul THANK YOU very much (November6th). If recent example I can `Bridge Over Troubled such beautiful harmonies. McCartneyisvery much fortheElvisissuelast Springwater'srecord,or think of is Carole King's Water' - Simon and alive as his music any other for that matter, `It's Too Late' - repeated Garfunkel; 'Moon Shadow' Hugh Nicholson must be a genius to come up with week, I thinkhe is illustrates. Few artists,if definitely the greatest. I'd is 'beautiful' then this is a playscannot change the - Cat Stevens; 'Fireball' - such haunting songs of which 'Sarah' stands out just any, have done as much judgement on value, which qualityofarecord.- Deep Purple. Thatisto waiting to be released as a single! liketoletotherfans - MISS W. HARRIS, for contemporary music as oncemade remains DAVE C. THOROU- name butafew, and it 51 Race -Course Crescent, know that there will be an Monkmoor,Shrewsbury, McCartney, having written applicable. I knowthe GOOD, 49Cherry may be of interest to look Salop. Elvisdance on such classics as 'Let It Be', December 3rd at 7.00pm BBC peoplearequite Orchards, Staines, Surrey. nearthetopofRM's VAL: A single has already been taken from the album, 'Eleanor Rigby', 'Hey at the Polio Centre, clever, but how can they singles chart and you might Wendy; it's the 'Back On The Road' track. Jude' and his own 'Maybe GranleighRoad, turn a good record into aLP recognise a little song by I'mAmazed' and'Back Leytonstone Ell, near the 'sick sick' one. the name of 'Jeepster' T.Rex! Seat Of My Car', not to underground. Please write If they have this gift, - J.ROLANI, mention rockers like to me for tickets, or pay then the discerning musictracks Battersea. 'Helier Skelter', 'Back In atthedoor.- BRIAN lover can only hope that IS KEN TYLER TheU.S.S.R.'and'Get it (November13th)potty? SMITH, 134 Newport workstheother way Eddie Back'. Road,Leyton, London too,andthatsoonthe Does he not know that I'm sure the new album EIO 6PF. unadulteratedjunkthat thereisa great demand end 'Wings'willbeanother fills the charts of the day for tracks off albums. All OVER THE last five years projection of McCartney's todoisthink. will become bearable, or he has I have been trying very musical brilliance.-Overplay evenenjoyable. A good 'Something'and'LetIt hard to get Liberty DREW POLLOCK, 43 I FEEL I must bring into record staysgoodno Be' - the Beatles; 'Maggie Recordstoreleasesome MillbraeAvenue, doubt the repute of Peter matter how many times it May' -1 Rod Stewart; 'It's oldFrenchtracksand Chryston, Glasgow. Freestone'sargument is played-thebest Too Late' - Carole King; some othersongsstill unreleased in this country. Butno-one will take any Col. notice of me whatsoever, latest album available now Wilson and the Genius so I am afraid to say that SAPTU 101'2 0 King? WHY DIDN'T Keith Altham's article on Brian theEddieCochran Wilson and the Beach Boys even once mention Memorial Society must WE THOUGHT RM's. 'The Genius' Phil Spector.IfBrian Wilson was cometoanend.Once articleonElvisinthe again all fan mail must be Great Ones series was very influenced b,/someone itsurely was'The senttoLiberty Records interesting, but how come Genius', at least after 1965. fortheirstaff to answer we never get any pictures At his house Brian is supposed to have a jukebox all of your enquiries. ofCol.Tom Parkerin Iwill not run a club stockedwithnothing butPhilles and Beach Boys withoutthe Elvisfeatures?Does he records. The Beach Boys also recorded three numbers helpfrom really exist or is someone UnitedArtistswhoare dial firstmade by Spectorartists,'ICan HearMusic' goingtoownupand not ,showing any interest (Ronettes), 'ThenIKissed Her' (Crystals), 'There's No 01-247 6694 admit that Col. Tom concerning Eddie Cochran. Other Like My Baby' (Crystals). listen to Parker is really ... So now theymust run Mrs. Lennon Jonathan King?! - MOTT And I do hope Spector and Apple stick to their plan something in its place. - AND ANDY, 91Lucien of re-releasing the old Philles catalogue. - MICHIEL PETER MORGAN, 85 Rd., London SW17. PHIL SPECTOR: IN 1964 MOLL, v. Lieflandlaan 58, Utrecht 25or, Holland. Kingsway, Bristol. EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Mike Hennessey CARDFONT PUBLISHERS 1971 EDITOR Peter Jones Published by Cardfont Publishers Ltd., 7 Carnaby ASSOCIATE EDITOR (NEWS) Nigel Hunter St.,W1V 1PG.DistrubutedbyTheNational DistributorsLtd.,22Armoury RECORDMIRROR PRODUCTION EDITOR Magazine Way, Terry Chappell London, SIN18. Produced by Pendragon Press Ltd., 7 Carnaby St, London W1V 1PG. Tel: 01-437 8090 COUNTRY MUSIC EDITOR Mike Clare Old Tram Road, Pontllanfraith, Mon., and printed by STAFF WRITERS Lon Goddard Celtic Press Ltd., Industrial Trading Estate, Dowlais, A BILLBOARD PUBLICATION Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. U.S. OFFICES: Valerie Mabbs 165 West 46th St., New York NY 10036 and 9000 Bill McAllister Sunset Boulevard California, 90069 USA CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Rob Partridge Max Needham Nino Tony Cummings PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER John McKenzie Other Billboard Music Magazines- ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Keith Ellis OPERATIONS Mort Nasatir Billboard (LISA) ADVERTISING MNGR. Anne Marie Barker Discografia internazionale (Italy) CLASSIFIEDS DEPT. Jenni Frost Music Labo (Japan) PUBLISHING DIRECTOR Andre de Vekey CIRCULATION MANAGER Ben Cree Record & Tape Retailer (UM RECORD MIRROR, December 4, 1971 3 Ifpopmusic is Zs. MAIL "PEOPLEart SAY to me 'all --PROright,if pop music is IT!' an art form prove it to me - put that record on your stereo and show me where the art is.' The real art in a record does not make itself obvious `The real immediately. You have to listen to it maybe five or ten years later. art in a You listento Eddie Cochran's 'Summertime Blues' and there itis. That whole baggy trousered American record teendream is containedonthatonedisc,the production, the sound, the lyrics,the voice and the does not music - that's the fucking art. It's a piece of history!" The speaker was Pete Townshend shortly before he make ISAAC HAYES left for the Who's latest American tour and although he would be too self-effacing to admit it you could now itself Di AIM, apply the same yardstick to his earlier work like 'I Can't Explain', 'My Generation' and 'I'm A Boy', all contained obvious ontheWho's new release 'Meaty Beaty Big and Keith Altham talks immediately' Bouncy' (Track) and brilliant MOSES reflections of their times.' to Pete Townshend "We were going to call it ISAAC HAYES has a new albumoutcalled"Black `The Who Looks Back' but firstreal rock and roll film.It Moses" and this just about Kit thought it made it sound took me the first eight months sums up his position as if we were all dead!" said of this year to realiseI couldn't currentlywiththeblack Pete soberly. direct it but Istill think we can community. Not that and will do it. "Much of the material is from there's any positive religious "We need a totally new media attitude in Isaac's work, it's theold Brunswick days andit to expose the Who on and film means a lot to me personally and just that they flock to him must beit.Ithink the cinema thegroupto own oursongs and react to him with the reachespeoplein a far more again. It means a lot to me that samesecularfervourthat intense way and achieving that audience gave to Ray the Who now own 'My end is now top priority. Generation' and oldies like `La Charles around six or seven "We could have gone on doing years ago when he was just La Lies'Legal Matter' and 'It's 'Tommy' for another couple of Not True'. None of that material breaking through with that years but we are not that kind rock -gospel sound... haseverbeenre-releasedand of group. Frankly I thought the now it's available for those new ButHayes isSoul'71, 'Tommy' stage act got to be a coexisting alongside the friends we have madesince bit of a bore half way through. funky jiving of James 'Tommy'. Listening in the comfort of your Brown. Hayes is cooler but noless intense working on own home to it on stereo was a stagewithhischainmail SCREAM totallydifferentnumber from suits andhisbig back up "I've even been seriously havingtosustainattention on band, plus voices (plus, incidentally a ladysinger considering putting out the stage focusing on a group all the with the same shaven head demos of theoriginalhits.In time.