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importedat at considerable
considerable expense
expense from specialist shops or ortransported
transported by bywell-
well-
travelled
travelled friends.
friends. Jimmy
Jimmy Page claims to have had had one
one ofof the
the first
first in
in England.
England.
David Crosby from
David from The
The Byrds
Byrdsthinks
thinks he
he had
had one
one even
evenbefore
beforeGeorge
GeorgeHarrison.
Harrison.
By 1966,
By 1966,Harrison
Harrisonisisgrowing
growingin instature
stature within
within The Beatles, but but is already
already a
major
major figure
figure among
among his his peers.
peers. His
His interest
interestin innew
new sounds
soundshas hasgiven
givenrise
riseto
tohis
his
sitar
sitar part
part onon "Norwegian
“NorwegianWood", Wood”,one oneofof the
thekey
key compositions
compositionsofof1965. 1965. Now, withwith
the
the arrival
arrivalof of Ravi Shankar
Shankar in in the
the country,
country,he heassumes
assumesaanew newrole:role:asasananagent
agentof of
cultural exchange
cultural exchange and and sonic curiosity.
Even in aa group
group as tightly
tightly knit as The Beatles, the environment
environment of of1966
1966 is one
where the individual
individual is is given
given room and and his
his interests
interestsaccommodated.
accommodated.The The
writing
writing of 1966
1966reflects
reflectsthis:this:the
thetrench
trench friendships
friendships formed
formed between
between group groupandand
reporter
reporterin in previous
previous years have developeddeveloped intointo more
morenuanced
nuanced relationships,
relationships, and and
a group
group needneed no longer
longer be berepresented
represented by the the writer as aademocracy.
democracy.
This is the
This the world of ofThe
TheHistory
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Rock, anew
a new monthlymagazine
monthly magazineand andongoing
ongoing
project
project that
thatreaps
reapsthethebenefits
benefitsof of this
this access
access for the
the reader
reader decades
decades later, one one year
year
time. In the pages of
at a time. of this
this second edition, dedicated
dedicated to to 1966,
1966, you will will find
find
verbatim
verbatim articles
articles from
from frontline
frontline staffers,
staffers, compiled
compiled intointo long and illuminating
illuminating
reads.Missed
reads. Missedour our1965
1965 volume?
volume?You You can
can find out how to rectify
rectify that on page
that on page 144.
This year, Ringo is is interviewed
interviewed less, and and Bill Wyman is not not required
required to to file
file aa
letter
letter from
from America.
America. However, Mick Mick Jagger
Jaggerisisquestioned
questioned in depth,depth, andand Brian
Brian
Jones readily opensopens up an intriguing
intriguing private
private world. The more contrarian contrarian PetePete
Townshend
Townshend often absents himself
often absents himself from proceedings
proceedings completely.
What will will surprise
surprise the modern reader most is the access to, and the the sheer
sheer
volume
volume of, material
material supplied
supplied by artists
artists who are giants
giants of popular
popular culture.
culture. Now,
wealth, fear and and lifestyle would conspire conspire to to keep
keep reporters
reporters at aa rather
rather greater
lengthfrom
length from the
thelives
lives of musicians.
musicians. At this this stage,
stage, however,
however,representatives
representatives from from
New Musical
Musical Express
Expressand and Melody
MelodyMakerMakerarearewhere
whereititmatters.
matters. Backstage
Backstage with The
with The
Beach Boys.
Boys. Returning
Returning to Hamburg with with The
The Beatles.
Beatles. Close by while Dusty
Springfield troubleshoots
troubleshoots aa problem with a monkey
problem with monkey in in an
an orange
orange crate.
crate.
Join them there.You'll
them there. You’ll be be gassed.
gassed.

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Contents
Nancy Sinatra
66 News!
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“I
"I pity
pity Paul,”
Paul," says
Harrison, as he
Harrison,
says George
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George
marries Pattie
Pattie
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The Kinks
The Kinks
RayDavies
Ray ponders
Davies ponders
"Englishness" and
“Englishness” and his band’s
band's new
44
44
turned
Nancy Sinatra
The film
film star
star
turned singer arrives
Boyd.
Boyd. The
The Rolling
RollingStones
Stones are
are status as the
status as the performers
performersof of "George
“George in London
London in the
the wake
unwanted guests in
unwanted inAmerican
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Formby" -style songs. “Maybe
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I'm of “Boots…” mania.
of"Boots..." mania.
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hotels. Will
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BrianEpstein
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now too
too sensitive,” says Ray.
sensitive," says Songwriter
Songwriter Lee
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manage Elvis Presley? Hazlewood proves
Hazlewood proves to
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their grievances…
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pop stars
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Stevie Winwood?
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The Who
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accident 50u Rolling Stones
5n Rolling Stones
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Post It, Black"
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Small Faces
on stage.
stage. We also
also meet
meet the
the Bonzo
Bonzo Mick Jaggeris
MickJagger is the subjectof
the subject of two
two
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Dylan’s
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thethoughts
thoughts
in-depth
in-depth interviews, and compiles
his thoughts
thoughts on marriage and
band
band attempt
songs
attemptto
songs and
and sounds
different
to reconcile
sounds (“They’re
different sscenes!”),
("They're two
cene s!"),and
andenjoy
enjoy
of Paul

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Paul Simon.
Simon.

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debate the
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behind
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a monkey.
monkey.
interpretations of
popular song.
song. And deals with
George Harrison,
and
Harrison, Ravi
and The Byrds lead
new experimental
RaviShankar
lead the
Shankar
the quest
experimental sounds.
quest for
sounds.
Sgt
Sgt Barry
Barry Sadler.
S adler.Meanwhile,
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Paul
McCartneyreviews
McCartney reviewsthe

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singles.
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Bob Dylan
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6n The Beatles
The band
band return
return to
to

20u
2n Stevie
"Uptight" is aasensation,
“Uptight”
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comes to
sensation, and
the UK to
to the to spread
spread
and
returns to
returns
shows and
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theUK
UK to play electric
and to tease
newspapermen. "AllI
newspapermen.
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Hamburg and

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Cilla Black
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name it, I’ll “just laughed”,
"just laughed", they
they confess.
confess.
view of life
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factory. protest about
protest about it…”
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Roy Orbison
66
66
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the already
already melancholic
overtake
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top that?
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music
Nancy Sinatra What will the
What the death of his muse,
death of muse, ensues –-with
with unpredictable
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7n News
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popular than
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and hear
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John and
andGeorge
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how to write a Beatles
how Beatles album.
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Scott Walker
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90
90 Fame,S
a gas incident.
fortune… and
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incident. What is going
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and then
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manager
manager admits
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his entrepreneurial
entrepreneurial kingdom
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SmallFaces
Faces
(and
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his flat).

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grasp their
experimental destiny.
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and his
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1on Ike & Tina
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Stones, the
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tour with The Rolling
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that made “River Deep,
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Bob Dylan?
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New York, Dusty Springfield deals
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Clapton joins
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HISTORY OF
OFROCK
ROCK1966
1966|17
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JJANUARY

January 22, 1966: George

January22,1966: George Harrison
H arrison
and actress and model
actressand model Pattie Boyd
Pattie Boyd
tie
tie the
the knot
knot in Epsom, Surrey
Epsom,Surrey

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wry grin, "'cos now
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fantastic Chinaman's headthat thatyou
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lotwith
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had smashin' antique
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tablefrom
fromBrian
Brian Epstein.
Epstein.
won't get aamoment’s
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"John andand Ringo knew we were weregoing
goingto toget
getmarried,
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wasn't
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Georgemeant meantthe theworld’s
world'spresspress-dozens
– dozens of ofphotographers
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question of of them
themcalling
callingoff offtheir
theirholiday.
holiday.As AsII say, we wanted
wanted itit to be as
journalists, who
and journalists, who sardined
sardinedinto intoaa small
small room
room at the weekend to hear hear quiet
quiet as possible. They sent sent nice
nice telegrams.
telegrams.
about
about TheTheWedding
WeddingOf OfThe
TheYear."
Year.” “When
"When did did we decide
decide to getgetmarried?
married? I thinkthink it waswasjust
justbefore
beforeChristmas.
Christmas.
the record,
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George finally
finallytiedtied the
the knot
knot just after the
just after the NMEwent
NME went to We were
werein inthe
thecar
carand
andPattie
Pattie was
was driving
driving and and I said,
said,‘How
'Howaboutabout getting
getting
press
press last (thanks). He and
last week (thanks). and Pattie
Pattie were married
married in in a quiet
quiet ceremony
ceremony married, then?’and
married, then?' andshe
shesaid,
said,'Yes,
‘Yes,OK,'
OK,’ without takingher
without taking hereyes
eyes off the the
at Epsom
Epsom in Surrey.
Surrey. Most
Most of ofPattie’s
Pattie'srelatives
relatives werewere there,
there, and George’s
and George's road. What aa driver!”
road. What driver!"
mum
mumand anddaddadhadhadhad
hadfourfour days' notice to travel down
days’ notice down Incidentally, if you’reaa girl fan
Incidentally, ifyou're fan and
and youyou hate
hate Pattie…
Pattie...
from
from Liverpool.
Liverpool.Pattie
Pattiewore
woreaa short,
short,red redfox -fur coat
fox-fur coat It’s really a pity
It's you can’t
pityyou meether
can't meet herinin person.
person.She's She’s twice
twice
given to
given
settled
to her
settled for
her by George
George as
for a dark,
as aawedding
dark, Victorian-style
wedding present.
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and one
George
present. George
one of those
those “Pattie’s
"Pattie's wearing as attractive
as attractive in
charmthat
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andshe shehas
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again
gent's
gent’s fur coats, reminiscent
fur coats,
the telly
on the
reminiscent of
tellysometimes.
sometimes.
ofold gangster gear,
old gangster seen
gear, seen
the trousers
the trousersnow,now, whenhe
when
which she
which
hemet
mether
she had
herononthetheset
hadaa big part.
part.
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AHardDay'sDay’s Night, in in

to
At the
thepress
him and
to him
pressconference
conference a girl
and fluttered
flutteredher
girlreporter
hereyelashes
eyelashesas
reporter breathed
asshe
breathed up
she said:
said: "How
“How
up but II assure
assure you,
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("Iknow
was wearing
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atthe
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them")and
press conference
and someone
conference
someone
earth did
on earth did you manage to
you manage tokeep
keepitit a secret?”
secret?" I’ll never be
I'll never be asked George
asked George who would be be “wearing
"wearing the trousers”
trousers" in in
“Simple”
"Simple" said said George.
George. "We“We didn’t tell anyone.”
didn't tell anyone." theirmarriage.
their marriage.Quick Quickas as a flash he retorted,
retorted, "I “I know
know
wasaatruthful
It was truthful enough
enough answer answer-–and andclueclueto to the
the way wearing aaskirt”
skirt" Pattie’s wearing
Pattie's wearingthe thetrousers
trousersnow, now,butbutI'dI’d like toto assure
assure
so many
manyBeatle
Beatlesecrets
secretshavehave been
been kept
kept in the past. The you, I’ll
you, I'll never
never be wearing
wearing a skirt!”
skirt!"
security
securitysurrounding
surroundingthe thefamous
famousfour fourhas hasgotgotto
to aa Man There were comments
comments about him “breaking "breaking a millionmillion
From Uncle
Unclepitch.
pitch. I struggled
struggled through
through aahorde hordeof Street types,
of Fleet Street types, lost
lost girls’
girls' hearts”
hearts" by getting
getting married,
married, but buthehereplied
repliedmodestly:
modestly:"Oh, “Oh, I don’t
don't
a couple of coat coatbuttons
buttons andand hadhad my myfeet
feet trampled
trampledon onbefore
beforeII managed
managedto to think
think soso -20,
– 20,perhaps,
perhaps,ififthat!
that!Anyway,
Anyway, I think think most
most girls are intelligent
intelligent andand
have
have a fewfewwords
words with
with George
George and andPattie.
Pattie.George
Georgewas was taking
takingitit all quite
quite they wouldn’thate
theywouldn't hateme
mejust
just forgetting
for gettingmarried.
married.II think it’s a thing
think it's thing mainly
mainly
calmly, answering
answering the the same
same questions
questions time time after time without
after time without the the blown
blown up up by thepress.
bythe press.Paul
Paul getting
gettingmarried,
married,IIdon't don’tknow.
know. That's
That’s hishis
slightestsign
slightest signof of boredom.
boredom. "Did “DidTheTheHollies
Holliesgo go to
to the wedding?”II asked.
the wedding?" asked. business.
business. IfIf he
he wants to, good
wants to, good luck
luck to him,
him, andand I know I wish wish himhim thethe very
He looked blank blank for aamoment.
moment. Then Then he laughed
laughed and andsaid,
said,"Hah!
“Hah!That
That best. It just
best. just depends
depends on him…him... and andthethegirl
girl he asks.Actually,
he asks. Actually, I feelfeelsorry
sorryfor
for
thing
thingabout
aboutme meknocking
knocking'If ‘IfI Needed
Needed Someone’.
Someone'. You Youshouldn’t
shouldn't have
have done
done him.
him. He’ll
He'll bebe hounded
hounded to deathdeath now us us other
other three
three are married.
married. I can’tcan't
it, Alan.
Alan.AllAll the otherpapers
the other paperstook tookititup;
up;ititjust
justgot
gotout
outof of hand."
hand.” really givemy
reallygive my own verdict on
own verdict on married
marriedlife lifeyet,
yet, except
except thatthatit's
it’s great.
great. You'll
You’ll
He wasn’t
wasn't annoyed
annoyed but butquickly
quickly moved
moved on on to other
other topics.
topics. Who wantswants to have
have to come
come back nextnext week
week ififyou
you want
want another answer,give
another answer, give me me a bit ofof
talk
talk about
about songwriting
songwritingwhen whenyou've
you’vejustjustgotgot married?
married?"We're
“We’re notnot going to to time!
time! Children,
Children, oh oh they
theycancanwaitwaitforfor about
about twotwo years.
years. There's
There’s still
still time
time for
take aa honeymoon
take honeymoon till tillall
allthis
thisfuss
fusshas
hascalmed
calmeddown,"
down,”he hetold
toldme.
me."I“I reckon
reckon having
having aa laugh
laughandandaabitbitof
of fun, just us
fun, just us two.And
two. And'We ‘WeCanCanWork
Work It Out!’”
Out!'"
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we'llwait
we’ll waitawhile...
a while…till tilleverybodyleast
everybody leastexpects expectsit!it!We've had some
We’ve had some great I’m sure
I'm they can
sure they and will.And
can and will. AndI'd I’d like to toextend
extend to tothem
them both
both thethe good
good
0 wedding
weddingpresents,
presents,you youknow.
know. Things
Things for the house house andand that.
that.Paul
Paul gave us wishesand
wishes andcongratulations
congratulations ofofthe
theNMEand
NME and myself,lots
myself, lotsofofluck!
luck!Alan
AlanSmith
Smith

HISTORY OF
8 I |HISTORY
8 OF ROCK
ROCK 1966
1966
 Accept no substitute:
Accept substitute:
Pete
Pete Townshend
Townshend on on J A N U A R Y – M AR C H
stage at the
stageat the Windsor
National Jazz &
National Jazz & Blues
Festiyal,July30,1966
Festival, July 30, 1966
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Donovan and
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andhis
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recorded
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ago. Donovan
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few thousand records of “Substitute” ‘Keith,
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mind keeping
keeping the the drums
drums down down a bit?’”
bit?'"
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market, and you will
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beautifully confused. “Ah well,
well, its Polydor, y’see,” said Keith.
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Brixton
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Friday last to to find
find out
out Who’s
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mountainous barrier barrier of amplifiers
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title should have read ‘Circles’.”
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house,where years ago they
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impending marriage were right."Insanity,"
right. “Insanity,”was washis comment. Union
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theperpetually surprised
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expression, Roger Daltrey
Daltrey of of the
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surrounded themselves withinin miming
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stare and John Entwistle,
stare Entwistle, theirtheirbass
bass player
player the little
the ballroomadjoining
little ballroom adjoiningthe thepub.
pub. television,
television, is waiting
waiting
and auxiliary
and Frenchhorn,
auxiliary French
been said –-Who?
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horn,of ofwhom
PeteTownshend
whomitithas
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has “We left Decca
"We left Decca “That’s about
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Keith. “We’ve
about half
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half of our equipment,”
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for the
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think the
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know,"said Roger.“We’re
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the BBC
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Februaryi3,1966:
Stones rehearsingThe
Stonesrehearsing
Sullivan Show inNew
SullivanShowin
the
TheEd
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out is anybody’s
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date already fixedisis BBC
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the group’s
the group's sweat-stained
sweat -stained groundwork
groundwork for their their first hit.
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Young Steve
Steve–-he's 17–quietly
he’s 17 -quietlyslipped
slipped into aasoul
soul scene,
scene,
previouslysewn
previously sewnup upby byhis
his elders,
elders, Uncle Baldry, Pa PaBurdon,
Burdon,
Old Man
Man Farlowe,
Farlowe, Big BigDaddy Lennon and
DaddyLennon andall.
all.And
And Stevie’s
Stevie's
fellowartists
fellow artistswere
were among
amongthe thefirst
first to about him.
to rave about him. Steve’s
Steve's
alone comes
voice alone comesas asaabig shocktotothe
big shock thefirst-time
first-timelistener
listener–not
-not
because it can
just because can be
bedescribed
described asas“authentic”,
"authentic", which
which usually
usually
means the
means the singer is isnot
notentirely
entirelyclueless,
clueless, butbutbecause
because ititisis »

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utterly devoid
utterly devoid of pretension
pretension and and is delivered
delivered at the the same
same timetime
with compelling authority.
with compelling authority.
Next comes
comes Stevie’s
Stevie's piano
piano playing,
playing, whichwhich I find more
interestingthan
interesting thanhis hisguitar,
guitar,although
althoughSteve Steve scat singing along along
with guitar line is
with the guitar issomething
something else! else!Which
Whichinstrument
instrument came came
first in his
his career,
career, and and what was his his first
first musical
musical love – jazzor
love-jazz or
blues? When
When did did Steve startstart developing
developing his his multi
multi-skills?
-skills?
Steve:“I"Icome
Said Steve: comefrom fromaamusical
musicalfamily
familyon onboth
bothmy mymother
mother
and father's
and father’sside, side,butbutII was never forced into into playing
playing by my
parents.II first
parents. first started
startedplaying
playingwhen whenIIwas wassix;six; picking
picking
out tunes
out tunes on onthethefamily
familypiano,
piano,and andmy myfirst
firstjob
jobwaswas
with my father’s
with father's bandband whenwhenI was about about nine.
nine. THE
“It’s
"It's aafunny
funnything thing-– my firstfirstinstrument
instrument was piano, SPENCER DAVIS
GROUP
thenI got hold
then hold of ofaacheap
cheapold oldguitar
guitarand andstarted
started to tolearn
learn
that. When
that. When I joined joined my mybrother
brother Muff’s
Muff'smainstream
mainstream
jazz band
band I wentwent backback to topiano
piano and and packed
packed up up the
the
guitar.But
guitar. But when
when I joined
joined thethe group
group withwith Spence
SpenceI
started
startedon on guitar
guitar again!"
again!”
When
When did did he start singing? "Well,
start singing? “Well, whenwhen the the group
group
startedwe
started we were
were looking
looking around
around for for a coloured
coloured singersinger
January 17, 1966: The Spencer
Januaryi7,1966:TheSpencer
but we couldn’t
but couldn't get one. IIstarted started singing because because we we DavisGroup
Groupsqueeze into
squeezeinto
couldn’tget
couldn't get anybody
anybodyelse." else.” Did he consciously
consciously strive the Shakespeare Hotel
theShakespeare Hotelinin
Woolwich, south-east
south-east London
London
for aa coloured
coloured sound? sound? “Yes "Yesand and the
the thing
thing was IIdidn’t didn't 2S111411
have to train
train my myvoice because IIhad
voice because hadstarted
started listening
listening
to coloured
coloured musicians
musiciansat atan
anearly
earlyage before my
age before myvoicevoice came
came as as no great surprise
su rprise to toarrive
arrive outside
outside Spencer’s
Spencer's
broke, and startedstarted singing
singing during
duringthe theperiod
periodwhen whenitit was breaking,
breaking, when when semi-detached to
semi-detached to find that he was becoming
find that becoming deeper deeper by apparently
apparently
I was
was 13.13.My Myfirstfirstmusical
musicalinterests
interestswere werein inskiffle,
skiffle,then thentrad,
trad,thenthen having
having a moat moat dugdug around
around his property.
property. “It’s "It's the
the drains,”
drains," observed
observed
mainstream
mainstreamand andmodern
modernjazz. jazz.WhenWhen the trad thing
the trad thing finished
finished I discovered
discovered Spencer
Spencer drily, indicating
indicating the thefour
four-foot
-foot trench
trench in in his
his grass
grass verge.
verge. “I "I came
came
Ray Charles.
Charles. Now NowIIlistenlistentotoeverything.
everything.IIthink thinkall allmusicians
musiciansshould shouldlisten
listen home from a gig
home from giglast
lastnight,
night,jumped
jumped out out ofofthe
thevan vanandandstraight
straight into into thethe
to all forms
to forms of music.”
music." hole. Then
Then I galloped
galloped all through
through the thehouse
housewith withclay clayallallover
overmy mybboots.
oots.
Will Steve
Steve develop
develop his his jazz piano playing?"I'd
piano playing? “I’d like
like to, but now we've
but now we’ve got Pauline
Pauline nearly killed me."
nearlykilled me.”
a hit record
record we have to be be careful. There are
careful. There areonly
only aa few clubsclubs where
where we can can Spencer’s
Spencer's softly spoken spoken wife PaulinePauline didn’t strike me
didn't strike me as having
having the the
get away
awaywith withone oneor or two
two jazz
jazz numbers
numbers now. now.II still
still practise
practise aa lot on piano. piano. “killer”
"killer" instinct
instinct whenwhenII found
found her her struggling
struggling to to keep
keep the the boiler
boiler alight
alight in
I’m developing
I'm developing my my style
style on
on guitar,
guitar,too. too.II know
know it sounds
sounds like like a cliche but but the kitchen.
the kitchen. Looking little like
Looking a little likeNana
NanaMouskouri
Mouskouri with with her her long
longhair hairandand
I want
want to to bebean anall-rounder.
all-rounder. I’ve I've never
never been
been aapurist
purist and and I’ve
I'venever
neverhatedhated secretarial specs,she
secretarial specs, shespoke
spoketo to me
me of the the strain
strain of movingmoving house.house. IItypedtyped
pop or anything
pop anything like likethat.
that.IIjust
just want
wantto to playmy
play myown ownmusic.
music.My My old man man her as the
the kind
kind ofofgentle
gentleperson
person who whoavoids
avoidstreading
treading on on ants.
ants. “Come
"Come and and
always told me me it’s
it'saadicey
diceybusiness,
business, and and I know
know that. that. But therethere hashas never
never the loft,”
see the loft,"invited
invitedSpencer
Spencerenthusiastically,
enthusiastically, “the "the loft
loftknocked
knockedme meout.”
out
been
been any opposition
opposition to me me becoming
becoming aamusicianmusician-only – onlyfromfromschool.
school. Being ignorant
ignorant of the the ways of kitchen
kitchen boilers,
boilers, we left Thomas Thomas to to ignite
ignite
Frankly, I can’t can't dodo anything
anything else!"else!” things and
things and climbed
climbed up the loft
up to the loft-what
– whatSpencer
Spencerintends intendsto to bebe his stereo
What
What are are Steve’s
Steve's personal ambitions?"The
personal ambitions? “Thething
thingIIdon'tdon’twant wantus usto todo
doisis room.Already
room. Already floored
floored andand wallpapered,
wallpapered,the theloft
loft is a very
veryuseful
useful extraextra
go like
like The
TheYardbirds
Yardbirdsplaying playingin inballrooms,
ballrooms, and and I'd I’d hate
hate to end up in room, but with no no chairs
chairs installed
installed we retiredretired to the the front
front room,
room, wherewhere
pantomimelike
pantomime likeTheTheRockin'
Rockin’Berries.
Berries.IIjust just want
wantto to go on playing
playing Spencer began began an an autobiography
autobiography for for me.
reasonablygood
reasonably goodmusic." music.” “As
"Asananinfant
infant ofoftwo
twoor orthree
three IIcancanremember
remember the thelast
lastperiod
periodof ofthe
theWorld
World
hopes to
Steve hopes torecord
recordaasolo soloalbum
albumwith withbig-band
big -bandbackingbacking-what's
– what’s War,”
War,"said
saidSpence.
Spence.“I"Ican canremember
remembermy myhomehometown, town,Swansea,
Swansea,under under
happeningon
happening onthatthatscene?
scene?"It's“It’sbeen
beenput putback
backaa bit bit as we are are rushing
rushing attack, with green
attack, with greenand andwhite
whiteflares
flareslighting
lightingthe thesky.sky.My My father
fatherwas was inin the
the
material
materialfor the next single. single. ItItwould
wouldbe bean anexperimental
experimentalthing thing –-'Stevie
‘Stevie Services
Services and andwe we were
were always
always on on the
the move.
move. My first school was in aa little little
WinwoodSings
Winwood Sings TheThe Soul Hits of ’65’ '65'–-andand IIwouldn’t
wouldn't mind mind just justdoing
doingitit as as place
place called
called Doe Doe Lea in in Derbyshire.
Derbyshire. We were werelivinglivingwithwithsomesomepeoplepeople on on
a demo. It wouldn’t
wouldn't be all big-bandbig -bandbacking;
backing; somesome of ofthe
thetracks
tracks would
would a farm
farm and
and I used
used to go gototoschool
schoolin inaahorse-drawn
horse-drawn cart.” cart."
feature
feature me me on pianopiano and and guitar."
guitar.” Spencer's aptitude
Spencer’s aptitude for languages
languages was wasshown
shownin ininfancy
infancywhen when he he had
had
Does
Does Steve ever ever feel
feelsurprised
surprised at at his
his own
own achievements?
achievements?"Yes “YesII do really. learnt to read
learnt to read by thethe age
age ofofthree.
three.“I"Icould
couldunderstand
understand The Dandy Dandy and and
It was
was aabig bigsurprise
surprise to tomemeabout
about the the voice.
voice. IInever
neverexpected
expected I’d I'dbecome
become Beano by by thethe time
time IIwaswasfive,”
five,"said
saidSpence
Spenceproudly.
proudly.“From "Fromthose thoseliterary
literary
knownas
known as aa singer. Lead guitar, guitar, too. I had had always
always considered
considered piano pianoto to be
be heights I moved
heights moved to to Captain
Captain Marvel
Marveland and Superman
Superman comics. comics. Strangely
my maininstrument,
mymain instrument,but butnownowI Ithink
thinkIIenjoyenjoyplaying
playing them themboth bothas as much.
much. enough,
enough, I've I’ve begun readingthem
begun reading themagainagainjustjustlately.
lately.It'sIt’saakind
kindof of light
light
I’ve tinkered
I've tinkered about about withwith drums
drumsas aswell. When Pete Pete [the
[thegroup’s
group'sdrummer]
drummer] relief from
from the the James
James BondBondsophistication
sophistication which which is creeping
creeping into into all
was having lessons I used
having lessons used to go alongalong withwith himhim andand sit andand listen.”
listen." kinds ofofwriting."
writing.”
Have Steve,
Steve,Muff,Muff,Spence
Spenceand andPete
Petechanged
changed at all all during
during theirtheir Spencer's first musical
Spencer’s musical interests
interests camecame about
about on on his return
return to to school
school in
successful
succes sful year
year together?
together? “I "Ican
canhonestly
honestly say saywewe haven’t.
haven't. IIthink we’ve
thinkwe've Swansea,
Swansea, where wherehe he joined
joinedthe theschool
schoolchoir.
choir."There
“ThereII quickly
quickly got proof
been
been a bit spoilt.
spoilt. At Atevery
everyjob
job we weget getbetter
betterappreciation.
appreciation. IIsuppose suppose one one day
day that all Welsh boys
that all boys areare not
not born
born with melodious
melodious voices," voices,” said Spence.
said Spence.
we’re going
we're goingto to be
bedisappointed."
disappointed.” Chris
ChrisWelch
Welch “We
"We sang
sang ‘AllAllThrough
Through The Night’ Night' and and ‘Drink
'Drink To Me MeOnly’
Only' and and I’dI'dswear
swear
three-quarters
three-quarters of ofthem
themwere were tone
tone deaf!"
deaf!”
About thisthis time
time thethe radio
radio show
show EducatingArchiew
Educating Archie was as making
making an an impact,
impact,
—
- NME NMEFEBRUARY
FEBRUARY 4 4—- with
with Spence
Spence especially
e speciallyinterested
interested in the harmonica
harmonica playing playingof of Ronald
Ronald
PENCER DAVID
SPENCER DAVID NELSON (his (his father
father was aa paratrooper!)
paratrooper!) Davis Chesney.
Chesney. “I "I got
gotaamouth
mouth organ
organ and and learnt
learnt to to play ‘Any Any Umbrellas
Umbrellas To Mend’ Mend'

S soared in
soared
Stones’
NME offices
officesfor
in my estimation

foran
estimation last
Stones' chauffeur-driven
chauffeur -driven Austin
aninterview
interview with
lastFriday
Friday when
Austin Princess
with himhim at his
whenhe
Princess to
his home
he sent
sent The
to collect
home in Potters
The Rolling
collect me me at the
Potters Bar! The
the
The
–-badly,"
badly,” Spencer revealed. But
about through
about through Dutch
fascinated
fascinated young
Dutch Uncle Herman,
youngSpencer,
Spencer,who
Buthishisfirst
firstreal
realmusical
Herman, whose mandolin
who immediately
immediatelyreque
musicalinstrument
instrumentcame
mandolin playing
requested
playing
ste d a guitar
guitar and
came

and got
chauffeur
chauffeur transpired
transpiredto tobebenone
noneotherotherthanthanThomas
Thomas"I “IGotta
Gotta Group"
Group” piano accordion,
a piano accordion, from his parents: parents: “It "It was
wassupposed
supposed to to be
beaaChristmas
Christmas
Keylock (“I’ll("I'll play
playyou youThe TheHabits’
Habits' new new disc
disc later”),
later"), who owns owns a car-hire
car -hire present,” recalledSpence.
present," recalled Spence."In “In fact,
fact, I talked
talked themthem into into letting
letting me me have it
firm and
firm andonly only turns
turnsout outfor
forR&B-sters
R&B-sters like the the Stones
Stones and Spencer.
and Spencer. one month
month early, so so IIcould
couldlearnlearnthree
threecarols
carolsand andgo gostaggering
staggeringaround around
During
During the the trip
trip I asked
asked my myother
othertravelling
travellingcompanion,
companion, charming charming Bess Swansea
Swansea with withthethesqueezebox,
squeezebox,almost almostasasbig bigas asII was.
was. Thus
Thus I completed
completed
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Coleman,
Coleman, just just what kind of character character she thought thought SpencerSpencer was. my first
first professional engagementfor
professional engagement for3535 bob!"
bob!”
“He
"He hashas had
had aauniversity
universityeducation
education and and speaks
speaks Spanish,
Spanish, FrenchFrench and and By
Bythe
theage ageof of11,
11,Spencer
Spencerwas wasshowing
showinggreat greatpromise
promisewith with hishis Latin,
Latin,
Germanfluently,"
German fluently,”she shesaid.
said."So“SoI'dI’d say he was deep, deep, very deep.” deep." It It therefore
therefore French and
French and Welsh in in school.
school. “My "Mydeclensions
declensionsand andconjugations
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superb,”said
superb," saidSpence.
Spence."I “I had
hadaa kind
kind of photographic
photographic mind."mind.”At At16,
16, Spencer
Spencer Street in
Oxford Street in the
the middle
middle of the the rush
rush hour. Then Muff Winwood Winwood
left school
schoolwith
withsevensevenGCE GCE O- 0- levels credit and
levels to his credit and began
beganworkin
work inaaPost
Post and Spencer
and Spencer drovedrove to to Spence's
Spence’s new new home home at Potters Potters Bar in the the Rolling
Office Savings
Savings Bank.Bank. He Hewas wasallowed
allowedto tocontinue
continue hishis language studies
language studies limousine, currently
Stones limousine, currentlyon onloanloanto tothe
thegroup,
group,while whileSteve Steve wentwent in in
one day
one day aa week.
week. search
search of his mate mate PetePete Townshend
Townshendof of The
The Who.
"These were the
“These the years
years of Chris
Chris Barber’s
Barber's JazzJazz Band
Band forforme," said Spencer.
me,” said Spencer. At the
the spacious
spacious semi-detached,
semi-detached, still still in the throesthroes of decoration,
decoration,
“It was
"It was also
alsothethe year
yearthat
that IImet
metPauline
Paulineat atthe
theBexley Heath Fair
BexleyHeath Fair-– on the
the Spence’s
Spence's wife, Pauline,
Pauline, brewedbrewed food foodwhile whileSpence
Spenceand andMuff watched
Muffwatched
dodgems. I bought
dodgems. bought my first guitar. guitar. AAdiabolical
diabolicalthing
thing with
with aabutterfly
butterfly Jimmy
Jimmy Smith
Smith on on Jazz 625.625.But Butas asmidnight
midnight neared neared itit was was timetimeto to trek
trek bbackack
drawn
drawn on on the
the front. learned three
front. I learned three chords
chords and and listened
listened to Lonnie
to Lonnie town, and during
to town, during thethe drive
drive in in Spence's
Spence’s Triumph TriumphVitesse, Muff
Donegan.To this
Donegan. this IIowe
owemy present success,”
mypresent success," he he added,
added, sarcastically.
sarcastically. reminisced
reminisced about aboutthe theoldolddaysdays in Birmingham.
Birmingham. "Remember “Rememberwhen whenwe we
Spencer formed
formed a skiffle
skifflegroup
groupcalled
calledThe TheSaints
Saintsandandthey were “moved
theywere "moved backed Jimmy Witherspoon?
backed Jimmy Witherspoon?ItIt was was about
abouttwo twoyearsyearsago, ago, andandwe we were
on" celebrated venues
on” from such celebrated venues as as Trafalgar Square, Charing
Trafalgar Square, CharingCrossCross getting
getting £40£40 a night,
night, which
which was was a lot of ofmoney.
money.But ButJimmyJimmyWitherspoon
Witherspoon
Station and
Station and Marble
Marble Arch. “I "Isuffered
suffered aasetback
setbackhere
herewhen
whenthe theguy who
guywho only
onlygotgot about
aboutseven
sevenquid?
quid? He told us us heheliked
likedthe thegroup
group and and waswasreally
really
was teaching
teaching me guitar tried to run
guitar tried run off with
with Pauline,”
Pauline," recalled
recalled Spence.
Spence. knocked
knocked out. out. It was a great
great session
session and and Steve played played piano piano all night.night.
"Fortunately
“FortunatelyII could run run faster
faster in thatthat direction
direction thanthanhe hecould."
could.” remember when
I remember when The Moody MoodyBlues Blues used used to to play on on thethe same
same session
session as
Bored with his job in the
with his the Civil Service,
Service, Spencer
Spencer wrote
wrote to to his
his old school in us. Did youyouknow
knowSteve StevetaughttaughtDennyDennyLaine Laine how how to toplay
playharmonica?”
harmonica?"
Swansea and
Swansea and was accepted
accepted back back to study languages.He
studylanguages. HepassedA-levels
passed A-levels Arriving at Marble
Arriving Marble Arch, Muff Muffand and Spence
Spence stocked
stocked up with cartons cartons of of
in German
German and and Spanish,
Spanish,but but failed
failed thethe French
French because
becauseof bad migraine
of a bad migraine milk at aanearby
nearby cafe,
cafe,thenthen wentwent into into the
the studio
studio where Steve was wasalready
already
attack. Birmingham University
attack. Birmingham accepted him
University accepted him on an honours
on an honours course.
course. sitting
sitting atat a grand piano,in
grand piano, inaawhite
whitepullover,
pullover,playingplayingaaslow slowShirley
Shirley ScottScott
“During
"During the the holidays I busked busked around
around Europe
Europe with my guitar,”guitar,"Spencer
Spencer blues. Muff
Muffand andSpence
Spencewere wereaboutaboutto todump
dumpmilk milkand andhamburgers
hamburgers all all
went on.
went on. "I'd
“I’d taken
taken £5 withwith me me andandwhenwhenII got to Paris I erected
erected a small
small over thethe grand
grand when there there came came a faint faint moanmoan from aatechnician, technician, who
placardsaying
placard saying'Please
‘Pleasehelphelpaa poor
poor student
student on onhis
his trip
triparound
aroundthe theworld'.
world’.ItIt stumbled ashen
stumbled ashenfaced
faced towards
towards us and with a muttered
us and muttered “Please” "Please" hastily
hastily
soundedbetter
sounded betterthat that'just
‘justtoto Berlin.
Berlin’. I became
became knownknown as the the musician
musician from
from draped
draped aa cover
cover over the the top.
top.
the Left Bank
the Bank and and diddid well
wellenough
enough on onthethesouth
south coast
coast ofofFrance
France from
fromthe
the Steve grinned
grinned reprovingly
reprovingly as as he played some soulful chords. chords. “This "This
Americans who
Americans who stay stayinin luxury
luxury hotels."
hotels.” piano costs £2,000 –-more
piano costs more than thanan anorgan.
organ.Get Get me me a hamburger,
hamburger, Muff" Muff.”
waswith
It was withthe theuniversity
universityjazz band that
jazz band that But it waswas timetime for work.work. They They had had to add add the
the
Spencer
Spencer really becameb ecameinterested
interested in rhythm-
rhythm- vocal to the the backing
backing track track already
already recorded
recorded the
and-blues.He
and-blues.
interval,
interval, and
committee,
He played a guitar
and as
committee, booked himself
guitar spot

himselfwith
spot during
chairman of the
as he was chairman
during the

with biased
"I learned
“I learned previous week.
previous
paper
paperwith
the pen
the
week. Steve produced
withthe
penfrom
thewords
produced a tatty
wordsscribbled
fromaa copper,"
copper,” he
scribbledininred
he revealed.”
revealed."
tatty piece
redink.
piece of
ink."I“Igotgot

regularity."My
regularity.
our
“My bbest
clarinettist. He
our clarinettist.
est friend
friend was Don Campbell,
He taught
taughtme me aa lot about
Campbell,
about
three chords
three Steve was was to
Spence were backing
Spence
to take
take the
the lead vocal and
backing on the the chorus.
and Muff and
chorus. "Hey, “Hey, I’ve
and
I've
mainstream
mainstreamjazz.
year in a road
year
wasalso
It was
jazz.He
road accident,
alsowith
withthe
He was tragically
accident, I miss
theband
tragicallykilled
miss him.”
band that
him."
killed last

that Spencer first

last
and listened got two lines,”
surprised.
lines," exclaimed
surprised. "How
demanded Spence,
demanded
exclaimed Muff,
“How on earth
Spence, trying
earth can
Muff,pleasantly
can we read
trying to decipher
pleasantly
read this?”
decipher the
this?"

heardthe
heard
had 12
had
theMuff
Muff-Woody
12-year-old
-WoodyQuartet,
-year -oldStevie
Quartet, who at that
StevieWinwood
Winwood playing
that time
playing piano.
time
piano.
to Lonnie handwriting.
handwriting.But
the parts,
the parts,and andthe
ButSteve took charge,
thethree
threewere weresoon
charge, explaining
soonsinging,
explaining
singing,
“When they
"When they played
playedaa gig in in pubs
pubs they
they used
used to unaccompanied,
unaccompanied,sounding soundinglike likePotter's
Potter’s Bar'sBar’s
have to hide Stevie as
have
trousers,”smiled
trousers," smiledSpencer.
as he
hewas
wasstill
Spencer."Anyway,
stillwearing
wearing short
“Anyway,aafew few
short Donegan"
Donegan” answer
answer to The Walker Brothers.
The engineer,
engineer, an
Brothers.
an explosive chap, prone prone to
months
monthsafterafterhearing
hearingthem themfirstfirstII got a regular
regular pulling
pulling all the the plugs out out with
with furious
furious oathsoaths and and
gigat pub in
gig at a pub inBirmingham.
Birmingham. IIdidn’t didn'tfancy
fancyitsolo, sothe
it solo, so the throwing tape
throwing tape around,
around, indicated
indicatedthrough throughthe theglass panel
glass panel
boys joined
boys me.”
joined me." that
that hhee was wasready
readyto torun
run thethe backing
backing track. track. On went the
interview ended,
When my interview ended, the the boiler
boiler was alight studio
studio red red warning
warning)light, ight, andand the the boys
boysgathered
gathered round round
and
and smoke bellowing from
smoke was bellowing from every
everyaperture
aperture in the microphone,
the microphone, leaping leaping energetically
energetically up and down
up and
the house!
the house! I made
made my exit hurriedly.
hurriedly. Picture
Picture if you to
to the beat.Jackie's
the beat. Jackie’slyricslyricson onscraps
scrapsof ofppaper were
aper were
will my
mywaving
waving languidly
languidlyfrom from the theback
back seat
seat of placed imposinglyon
placed imposingly onaamusic
musicstand. stand."Well,“Well,it's it’sgot
gottoto
my chauffeur-driven
chauffeur -driven saloon. saloon."To “TothetheTopTop Of The
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said Steve.
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centre,Thomas,”
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commented “Somebody
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lighter, swingier
swingier
imperiously.The
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Keith Altham by vibes
vibes played
playedin inunison
unison with with guitar.
guitar. NearNearthe the coda,
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than
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engineer spent
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easilybe be
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another great
great Jackie Edwards
Edwards song called an
an A-side.
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offendingbass-drumbass -drumbeats beats had had been
been surgically
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"Somebody
“Somebody Help
Help Me", with lyrics tailor-made
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removed after after much
muchsweat sweatby by the
the engineer,
engineer, when whenMuff came came into into control,
control,
was committed
committed toto tape
tape with moderately excited confidence
with moderately confidence that
that listened
listened and and complained:
complained: "What's “What’s happened
happenedto tothat
thatgreat
greatbit bit in the
communicated
communicatedeven
eventoto the
the hardened
hardenedstudio
studioengineer
engineerused
usedtoto dealing
dealing middle?”
middle?" The The engineer
engineergave gaveMuff Muff a penetrating
penetrating look lookand andsaid,
said,"You“You wantwant
with everything
everything from symphony orchestras
from symphony orchestrasto to jazz trios. The group
group it? You
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haveit,”
it,"and
andthrew threw aalength
length of tape tape over his head. head.
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– minusdrummer
drummerPeter
PeterYork-met
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initiallyfor
foraa picture
picturesession
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gofor
foraa drink,”
drink," said Steve in in aasudden
sudden flash inspiration."Oh
flash of inspiration. “Oh
man,
man, I don’t
don't wantwant a latelate night,”
night," complained
complained Muff Muff.But But Spence,
Spence,
ace mediator,
mediator, promisedpromisedSteve Steveaa drink
drink and andMuff Muff thatthat it would
MY TRIPPER' STILL TOP, BUT ... short session.
be a short session. Off Offto toaabeatbeatnightclub,
nightclub,they theywere greeted by
were greeted
The
The Animals,
Animals, Viv Viv Prince
Prince and andPJ PJ Proby.
Proby. Steve was soon soon up up on
on
stage, jamming
jamming on onguitar
guitarwith withBrianAuger,
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ROCK 1966
1966 |113
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JJANUARY

“We
THE
THE SMALL FACES
SMALL FACES
are
are torn. On
torn. On
record,
record, they
they deliver
deliver
pop
pop genius. Live,
genius. Live,
they play
freeform
How don’t
don't
play“sort

How can
reconcile
"sort of
freeform numbers".
numbers”.
can they
reconcile the
they
the two?
two?
\

Says
Says Steve

sound have t
SteveMarriott:
“I’m
Marriott:
more of
"I'm more
sound man…”
of aa
man..."

to work
at
at it”
it"
— MELODYMAKER
- MELODY MAKER FEBRUARY 12 —_
BRUARY12
THE
HE WORDWORDIS ISoutout- the Small
– the Small Faces
Facesare are“selling
"sellingout”.
out".“They’ve
"They'vegone gone

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If we

I'm
wecan
can score
Steve was
score two
wasworried
commercial," cry distraught
commercial,”
wailing"Sha-La-La-La-Lee".
wailing

twoor
worried that
thoroughlyinvolved
I’m thoroughly
obvious they
quite obvious
the
the scene

whole point in recording

scene out.
“We’ve
"We've sussed

orthree
out.

three big
that he’d
involved-–and
bighits,
distraught girls
“Sha-La-La-La-Lee”.Yet
they have not “sold

sussed it all out,”

recording a commercial
hits,then
he'd created
then we’ll
created the
andpleased
girls as they listen to singer
Yet if

out," Stevie
commercial record
we'll start
the wrong
pleased-with
ifyou

Stevie said.
record is to
youhave
"sold out”.

start making
have seen
out". OnOnthe

said. “We’ve
totry
"We'vegotta
tryand
andget
making the
wrong impression:
– withwhat
seen the

getour

impression: "It's
whatwe wedo
singer Steve
the boys
the contrary,
contrary, they

gotta make
ourname
the kind
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doonstage,
onstage,but
namereally

not that
SteveMarriott

they have

make some
Marriott
recentlyititis
boys recently

reallyestablished.
kindof records
that I don’t
buton
is
have “sussed”

some bread.
"sussed"

bread. TheThe
established.
records we want
don't dig the
onrecord
recordwe
to.”
want to."
the group.
we have
group.
have to
conform.
conform. They're
They’re two different scenes."
two different scenes.”
“I
"I know
knowthatthat some
some people
people don’t
don't like ourour discs
discs after
after seeing
seeing the
the stage
stage act,”
act,"said
saidbass
bassguitarist
guitarist
Plonk Lane, “others
"others like the the records
records but but think
think that
that the
thestage
stage act
act is too loud
loud and
and that.”
that."
“We
"We want
want to
to get
getthe
thefull
fullforce
forceofofour
ourstage
stagenumbers
numberson onrecord,”
record,"explained
explained Steve. “Mind "Mind you,you,it’ll
it'll
be further outthan
further out thanour ourpresent
presentstuff.
stuff.I've
I’vewritten
writtenaalot lotof things,
things, andand aa certain
certain MrMr Townshend,
Townshend,of of
a group
group whose
whose namenameII won't
won’t mention,
mention,isisbringing
bringingsomesomedemodemorecords
recordsround
roundinina afewfewweeks,"
weeks,”
laughedSteve.
laughed
The Faces’
Faces' newest
newest member,
member, Ian Ian “Mac”
"Mac" McLagan,
McLagan, cornered
cornered the conversation:
conversation: "Well “Well IImean,
mean, ifif
you get saxes
saxes into
into the
the group
group it’sit's death,
death, death,
death, dedeath!
ath!II wanted
wantedto toget
get an
an electric
electricpiano
pianoto tosit
sit on
on my
organ but
organ but the
theonly
only really
really suitable
suitablemodel
modelwas wasout
outof of production.
production. For Forthe
therecord
recordwewedouble
double-tracked
-tracked
this old upright
this upright thatthat was sitting
sitting inin the
the studio – it’saavery
studio-it's very electric
electric piano sound, actually.
piano sound, actually. We dig dig
PICTORIAL PRESS

April1966:
April 1966: the SmallFaces
theSmall Faces
the Booker T sounds,
the sounds, but we fill fillout
outsome
someof ofthose
thosebad badbrass
brasssolos
soloswithwithourourown
ownweirdweirdsounds.”
sounds." recreate alate
recreatea late-night
-night
“Sometimes
"Sometimes we we getget hung
hung up up on
on a sound
sound for hours,”
hours," muttered Plonk."Actually,
muttered Plonk. “Actually, it'sit’s a very
verybadbad “mystery session”in
"mysterysession" in the
basement their rented
basement of their rented
scene that
scene thatwewe have
have to to watch carefully. We might
watch carefully. might hit on on aariff
riffthat
thatreally jumps.We like
reallyjumps. like the
the sound
sound house at22 Westmoreland
houseat Westmoreland
and
and stick it. Then
stick to it. Then as asititgoes
goeson onweweplay
playsubtle
subtlevariations
variationsround
roundthe themain
mainriff.
riff.I can
I canunderstand
understand »» Terrace, Pimlico, London
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14 OF ROCK
ROCK 1966
1966
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 Face:
iliNj feel
left
mARR,A

out of it
Two weeks ago the four Small F.
chalked up their first ever nun
one and completely
Promise. But just justified
how many their e
pei
realise the Small art one
Britain's leading Facesgroups?
their production Cert.,
manager.cum-tha
one. Bill Corbett, who used to
1966 A N U A R Y – M A R CH
JJANUARY-MARCH

that
that some people
people get boredbored ’cos
'cos they
they don’t
don't dig thethe lives at
at aashow
showthe thenight
night before!
before!IIdon’t
don'tthink
think this
this
changes.
changes. I getget hooked
hooked on on aapart
part like
likethis
this and
and end
end up manager really knewwhat
manager really knew whatitit was was all about,
about, because
because
playing
playing forformyself.”
myself" when
when we got gotthere,
there,there
therewere
wereno nocrash
crashbarriers
barriersand and
“It’s
"It's the
the worst
worst thing,”
thing," said
said Mac, “you’ve
"you've got to to play
play he said, ‘Don’t
'Don't worry, I can can handle this.’We found
handle this.' found we
forthe
for theaudience
audience and and notnot yourself.
yourself.It’sIt'ssomething
something that that had
had to walk backwards
b ackwardsand and forwards
forwards fromfrom our
our
the
the Small
Small Faces
Faceshave havetrouble
trouble with,
with, especially
especially as as dressing
dressing room through through the thewildest
wildest crowd
crowd you
we dodo sort
sort of
offreeform
freeformnumbers
numbers with completely
completely ever saw!
saw!We Wewere
wereall allbeing
beingpulled
pulledtotothe
theground
ground
improvised middle sections.”
improvised
“When
"When Mac Macfirst
were so knocked
were knocked out
sections."
joined us,”
firstjoined
out with
us," said
said Marriott,
Marriott, “we
the way he played
with the played
"we "We just
“We just want
want and dragged about, all in
On aahappier
happier topic
made up their
topic–-the
their minds
minds not
infear
fearofofinstant
the boys’
not to try
try to
instant death!”
boys' music
todo
death!"
music-– they've
they’ve
doeverything
everything
organ that
organ
watchedhim
watched
that we just
himgo.
juststood
stoodabout
go. Now we’ve
about onstage
we've got
onstage and
got ititunder
and
under control
control to work as themselvesin
themselves
thoughtwe
thought
inthe
we could
thefuture.
future.Said
couldwrite
SaidSteve:
write songs
Steve:"At
“Atfirst,
songs for ourselves,
first,we
ourselves, but
we

and
and use him as aa carpet.”
carpet." we find they’re too way-out.
they're too way-out. We've
We’ve decided
decided to to
Said Mac:
aabass
Mac: “What
basssound
"What he
soundunderneath
he means
means is that
underneath the
that I’m
the guitar,
I'm
guitar, bass,
mates together
mates use other
use otherpeople's
commercial
people’sstuff
commercial numbers.
stufffor
for aa while. More
There’s always time
numbers. There's time to to
and
and drums,

can
drums, keeping a steady
aa melody
melody so sothat
can loon about
that the
about on
steadyrhythm
the vocal,
on top.”
vocal, bass
top."
rhythm and
bass and
and
and guitar,
guitar, as long as experiment
experiment when
“Another
"Another thing
keepitit simple.
keep
when we’re
we're more
aboutour
thing about
simple.A A lot of
more established.
ourmusic,
ofgroups
established.
music,we
groups forget
welike
forget the
the
like to
to

“At
"Atpresent
stage
present we
stage and
we only
and sometimes
only do
sometimes on
dothis
this freeform
on our
freeform stuff
stuff on
our B-sides of records,”
on
records,"
possible”
possible" simplicity, or they
sometimes
they don’t
sometimes get four blokes
don't have teamwork.
teamwork. You
blokestogether,
together,andand playing
playing
said
said Steve, “I "I know
know ‘Sha-La-La-La-Lee’
`Sha-La-La-La-Lee' is a long long great, but
great, but as individuals. Honestly, we believe
individuals. Honestly,
haul from
haul from it, but
but one
one day we hope to be
daywe be doing
doing right
right weird,
weird,far-out
far-outstuff.”
stuff" so much in being
much in being aa team, it’s not
team, it's not true.And
true. Andwe wedon't
don’thave
havetotowork
workatatit,
it,
either.
either. We’re
We're aasort
sortofofnatural
naturalunit.
unit. WeWeknow what each
knowwhat each other
other is
isthinking.
thinking.
“Anyway,
"Anyway, we welive
livefor
forthe
themoment.
moment. And we we just
just want
want to work
work asas mates
mates
— NMEFEBRUARY
- NME FEBRUARY 2525—- together
together for as long
longasaspossible.
possible.We’re
We'rejustjustordinary blokes. If
ordinaryblokes. Ifthings
things don’t
don't
sTEVE
TEVE MARRIOTT SAID, SAID,“Me "Memuvver
muvverand and farver
farver kept onon at meme to
to work out
out in the
the future? Well… it's
future? Well... it’s back
back to washing
washing up upininJoe
Joe Lyons!”
Lyons!" Steve
Steve

S get aa decent
the
in a group
in
decent job.”
the chart-climbing
job." Steve
chart -climbing Small
group waswas allall I wanted
Steveisisthat

wanted to
Small Faces
todo.
thatcheerful

do.So
cheerful little
Faces group.
group. He
So I played
little bundle
He went
played it shrewd.
bundle of energy
went on:
energy of
on: "But
shrewd. II got
“But playing
got a job at
concluded.
concluded. Alan
AlanSmith
Smith

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Lyons Corner
Corner House,
House, washing
washing up –- an’ an' a few weeks
weekslaterlaterIIdropped
dropped
aa crate
crate with about 3,000 dishes
about 3,000 dishes in init!"
it!” OR MANY MANYGROUPS, GROUPS,the theday
daydoesn’t
doesn't end
end after
after a gig. They They may

F
FOR may
roared with laughter
He roared laughter and and waved his his arms
arms about,
about, describing
describing the
the fall into one of the the country’s
country's in in-clubs,
-clubs, slope
slope off withwith their
their
incident."Don't
incident. “Don’tthinkthinkIIdid diditit deliberately,
deliberately,mind! mind!ItIt was
was anan accident.
accident.But But girlfriendor
girlfriend or arrange
arrangeaaquick quickboozebooze-up. For the
-up. For the Small
Small Faces,
Faces,
it was
was one
one ofofthose
those dead-end
dead-end jobs jobs you get get out
out of
ofininaahurry
hurryanyway
anyway-– andand it’s
it's invariably
invariably home home to their house in
their house in London's
London’s Pimlico.
Pimlico.
when
when they
theygave
gave me me thetheboot
bootII waswas thethe happiest
happiestblokeblokealive!
alive!II tell you, And down
down in in the
the basement
basement the the mystery
mystery sounds,
sounds, as the group
as the group call them, them,
a couple
couple of weeks
weeks an’ an' I waswas playing
playing with with a group
group again.
again. Great.
Great. And
And meme take
take place. Ian “Mac” "Mac" McLagan
McLaganmoves moveshis hisHammond
Hammond organ organ intointo the
the
mum
mum and and dad
dad couldn't
couldn’tsaymuch.
say much.II did try an an ordinary
ordinaryjob, job, didn't
didn’tI?"
I?” corner, Ronnie "Plonk"
corner, Ronnie “Plonk” Lane
Lane plugs
plugs his his old guitar into an
guitar into an amp,
amp,and andSteve
Steve
The Who,
Like The Who,Steve Steveand andthethe rest
rest of
ofthe
theFaces
Facesreally
reallylive their music.
live their music. ButBut Marriott sits at aabeat-up
Marriott beat -uppiano.
piano.Someone
Someonegrabs grabsaatambourine,
tambourine,and and
that's
that’s where
where the the resemblance
resemblance to to The WhoWho ends.
ends.There’s
There'sno nohard-bitten
hard-bitten someone
someone else a pair pair of
ofbongos
bongos-– and and the “sounds”
"sounds" are are under
underway. way.
moodiness
moodinessor or "image"
“image” where where the the Small Faces are areconcerned.
concerned. When “We’re
"We're still
still playing
playing roughly
roughly the the same
sameold oldstuff
stuffbut
butwe werelive
relive it,"
it,”
they're
they’retalking
talkingabout
abouttheirwork
their worktheir theireyes
eyeslight
lightup upwith
withthethejoy
joyof
of it, and
and explained
explained Steve SteveMarriott.
Marriott."It's
“It’sthetheBooker
BookerTTkick kickreally.
really.He Heplays
plays12 12-bar
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theyjump
they jumpup upandanddown
downand andmove move around
aroundas as theytell
they tellyouyou how knocked
knocked numbers,
numbers, but butthey
they are
are fantasticallyhip
fantastically hipsounds. sounds.InInBooker
BookerTT And The The
out they are
out they are by a new new sound
sound they’ve
they've achieved,
achieved,or or bythe
by thewaywaytheir
theirhit
hit"Sha-
“Sha- their guitarist
MGs, their guitarist Steve Cropper is the
Steve Cropper the guv’nor.”
guv'nor."
La-La-La-Lee"
La-La-La-Lee” isisgoing goingdown downininthe theballrooms
ballroomsthey theyvisit.
visit. What is
What is the pointor
the point or aim
aimof of these moonlightsessions?
these moonlight sessions?"After
“Afteraagig, gig,or
or on
on
All the
the Small
Small Faces
Faces are are of
ofaauniform
uniformtininess.
tininess. “It
"It just
just a night
night off, we likelike to
togetgetaafewfewcool
coolmates
matesalong
alongand and have
have these
these
happened
happenedthat thatway,"
way,”grinsgrinsSteve. "We're just
Steve. “We’re just mates
mates workouts. You can
workouts. can play
playmostly
mostlywhat
what you you want,
want, whatwhatyouyou
who happened
happened to tohit
hititit off.
off Somebody
Somebodydidn't didn’tsay,
say, feel, and
and for however
however long longyou
youwant.
want.Sometimes
Sometimes we
`Right, let's get
‘Right, let’s getaacrowd
crowdof oflittle
littleblokes
blokestogether
together andand get a bitbitweird
weirdand and far-out,
far-out, and
and sometimes
sometimes we we do
do
form
form a big group!’”
group!'" slow Ray RayCharles-type
Charles -type bluesblues –-ininfact
fact wewe often
often
Looking overover (and
(and after)
after) them
them with with get quite
quite a fewfewideas
ideasandandoriginal
original numbers
numbers
fatherlyefficiency
fatherly efficiencyisisbig big Bill Corbett,
Corbett, from
from ourour mystery
mystery sessions.
sessions.
a road
road manager
manager who trained trained the hard hard "It's the
“It’s the right
right time
time to to experiment,”
experiment," said
way. HeHeused
used to to be
be aachauffeur
chauffeur with with The
The Steve, who was playingplaying an an old
old slide
slide pick-
Beatles. Bill looks
Beatles. looks down
down over over his horn--
his horn up
up guitar whichhe
guitar which hehadhadbought
boughtfor for£10.
£10.
rimmed
rimmedglasses
glasseson onto to them
themlike like a “I
"I got
got this
this thing today.It's
thing today. It’saa gas
gas for
headmaster
headmasterabout aboutto tohand
handout out200 200 playing Muddy Waters/Elmore
playing Muddy Waters /Elmore
lines.
lines. "You can't do that!”
“You can’t that!" he'll
he’ll say, or James -typebottleneck
James-type bottleneckguitar guitar-–
"Now then, you
“Now then, you can't
can’tssay ay that.”
that." although not
although notreally
really my scene.
4
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theSmall
SmallFaces Faceschorus
chorus I’m
I'm more
more of aa sound
sound man.”
man."
back obediently,
obediently, and and thenthen they
theylook look Mac began
Mac began to to explain
explain to to what
what
out the corners
out of the corners of their their eyes and and grin
grin lengths the
lengths thegroup
groupwouldwouldgo go to with
at each
at

sound,
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in September
September last. worry about
worry aboutwhichwhich numbers
numbersto toput
putin,in, and
and which
which
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new group
group organist
organist Ian Ian McLagan:
McLagan: "We “We played
played to leave out,
out, and and have
have ends
ends arranged
arranged for each number. number.
at a northern
northern venue
venuerecently.
recently.Bill had phoned
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improvise aawild wildmiddle
middlepart,part,and and then
then just
just
manager
managerearlier
earlierin inthe
theday day to
to tell him to put put crash
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peter the number
number out. out. I attach
attach great importance
importance to the
to the
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stage.We We knew they'd be
knew they’d be end
end of aa number,”
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audience remember
rememberand andnotice
noticethetheend."
end.”

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ROCK 1966
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singles

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who's hitbefore
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completely justified their their early got
got toto be British
British by the It’s
It's the worst record
record they’ve
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might go. Good
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record.
promise.
promise. But just how how manymany peoplepeople realise
realise sound.
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rather made, I’mI'm afraid.
afraid. The best
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foraa
the
the Small
Small Faces are one of ofBritain’s
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leading like John Lennon
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groups? Certainly
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productionmanager manager- - and again
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but I know it’s it's The
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band's on aagood
good scene.
scene.
cum -chaperone, Bill
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Bill Corbett, used to do not The Beatles!
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Silence (DECCA) Anita Harris.
Anita Harris. Oh,
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like a load
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hope
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"arrived" quicker
quicker than than someone?
someone? There’sThere's no walking about.II know,
walking about. know, TheThe it’s
it's a hit.
hit.
The Beatles –-he he also says that that they’ll
they'll become individuality about the
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"Still I'm Sad"
one of thethe country’s
country's biggest groups, and, and, he sound to associate itit with with revisited. Oh, it's
revisited. Oh, it’s not
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Tim Thomas Walking
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adds gruffly:
adds gruffly: "They “They ain't
ain’twoken
wokenup upto toitit yet."
yet.” anybody in particular,
particular, Bachelors,
Bachelors, is it? Let’s
Let's hear (POLYDOR)
(POLYDOR)

With organist
organist “Mac” "Mac" McLagan
McLaganan animportant
important although
although the the song
song and the next one
the next one then!
then!(Steve
(Steve Yeah, nice (long, long
man
man in their recent
in their recent rise
rise to stardom,
stardom, the the Faces arrangement
arrangement are are good.
good. Is it gets up and hurls
hurls it it off
off the pause). IIdon’t
don't like
like it. A bit
it.A bit
have only been
have b eentogether
together two months.months. BeforeBefore The Mojos?
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give up. record player) II like Gracie
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group, theythey hadhad only been in
onlybeen Dave Clark!
Clark! You’re
You're joking
joking –- Fields
Fields as well!
well! a put-on.
put-on. A good
good try. May
existence for four months.
existence Altogether that
months. Altogether thatis is six it’s
it's the best thing
thing they’ve
they've I reject
reject it?
monthsin
months in which
which they've
they’ve scored
scored two two hit
hit records
records ever done. I dig dig that
that –- it’ll be
it'll be Freddie
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& The
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and been
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the last
In the last month,
month, the Faces have havegathered
gathered (COLUMBIA)
(COLUMBIA) Girl (VOCALION)
Girl (VOCALION)
great momentum
momentum and and have smashed ballroom
have smashed ballroom The Who
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Freddie & & Sounds like Them
Sounds Them oror The
and attendance records sky
and club attendance skyhigh-
high – butbut still Oh, great. It’s just
great. It's just too much.
too much. The Dreamers. Ugh –-II Animals. It’s
Animals. It's not the Sons Of
not the Of
they haven't really got the
they haven’t the acclaim
acclaim they they They sound like like Billy
Billy Fury
Fury don’t…
don't... II can’t…
can't... Ugh!
Ugh! I can’t
can't Fred, is it?
it? They
They should have
should have
deserve. Even when
deserve. when they
they hit hitnumber
number one one they
they (falls
(falls on floor
floor laughing).
laughing). It’s It's listen
listen toto their
theirrecords.
records.II built
built the
the organ
organ sound up
got aacool
coolreception:
reception:“Naturally
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we’re knocked good. It’sIt's great.
great. I think
think think
think of trousers falling more. AAlittle
little monotonous,
monotonous,
out,” said Steve
out," SteveMarriott
Marriott “but "but some
some people
people they’ll
they'll get aaNo 1 with this.
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like Freddie asaa but I dig
dig monotony.
monotony. IIdon’t
don't
don’t saya
don't say a thing."
thing.” That’ll
That'll please Pete –-and and person
person but but I don’t dig his
don't dig know ifif other
other people
people do
Nevertheless, the
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Faces are are in good spirits Keith’s mum! I can honestly
Keith's mum! honestly records.
records. Very Very polished,
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double
and working
and workinghard hardon ontheir
theirLP LP and
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Steve says
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theyhave trouble selecting
selecting Generation”,
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singer off the
got off the Eric
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singles: “It’s
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Del Shannon
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that we write
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My Ears (STATESIDE) better. He should
better. He
are alright
are alrightfor forthetheLP,
LP, but
butnotnotfor forsingles.
singles.We We writing more and
writing more and more I don’t like that
don't like organsound.
that organ sound. phrase
phrasedifferently.
differently.
have sift through
have to sift through other
other writers'
writers’stuff.
stuff .`Sha-
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this Oh, whataa bad scene. I can’t
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and the
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the raaaaain.”
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heard thisthis on
on my way here.
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getssquashed!
squashed!
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“Mainly we want
want to incorporate
incorporate all all the
the little
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(IMMEDIATE) remember
remember his his name.
name. Not my sort sort of stuff
stuff –- my
musicalthings
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fansdig.dig.It's
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going to to be I love
love this
this number
number –-ififititis is mum might might like it. Or
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it’s not.
not. The
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no, my
mymum mum won’t
won't
commercial
commercialtracks," tracks,”saidsaidPlonk
Plonk Lane,
Lane, the the Everyone’s
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Mozart (COLUMBIA) like itit –-but
butmymydad
dadwill.1
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group's guitarist.
group’s bass guitarist. on-beat-four-in-the-bar
on -beat -four -in -the -bar That’s
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harpsichord –- don’t
don't know this fella, fella, but
but
“Yeah,
"Yeah, we wepromise
promise our our fans,
fans, and
and all the the people
people sound. People
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from I think.
think. It’s
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Andrew I think
think he wrote
wrote ititas
as well.
who dig our
who our music, that it’ll still
that it'll still be raving kind kind The Four
Four Tops using Oldham Orchestra,is
Oldham Orchestra, is it? I don’t
don't like it.
of stuff,”
stuff," said
said Steve.
Steve. on-beat
on -beat drums
drums and off-beat
off -beat The
The massed bands of the the
“The troubleis
"The trouble wedon't
is we don’t get get a lot
lot of
of Tasmanian Air Air Force
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time,” muttered
time," muttered Plonk, Plonk,"you“youget get a " featuring Sootyon
featuring Sooty on vibes!
vibes! It’s
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numberhalf
number half written
written and and then
then your
your The Tornadoes!
Tornadoes!Ah, Ah,then
thenititis
is It’s
It's a jumping
jumping record.
record. Is it
nut goes, and
nut and it'sit’s not finished.”
finished." the
the massed bands of the The Four
The FourSeasons?
Seasons? Oh,
Oh,II
Mac started:
started: "We “Weget get a nice idea for
nice idea Tasmanian Air Air Force!
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it's the
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the number to
the number begin with but
to begin but then
then Joe
Joe Meek wouldsell
Meek would sell his Butter” lot. The Newbeats.
Butter" lot.
suddenly wehave
suddenlywe have to to finish
finish themthem in in echo chamber. It’s It's dated
dated –- I can’t
can't hear
hear aaword
word they’re
they're
time
time for aa recording
recording session,
session, and and good forknees
good for knees-ups.
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hated “Bread
"Bread AndAnd
the endings
the endings are are rushed.
rushed.It It takes
CHERYL'S bad
bad scene (speeds record record up Butter”
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the most
most vile
vile thing
thing
a long time
time to get get aanumber
number to COIN' HOME to
to 73rpm). That’s
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what they I’ve
I've ever
ever heard. This is
heard. This is
sound
sound how we wewantwantit.”
it."• call pop art goes off
art goes its head.
off its head. better, but it’s
it's still
still horrible!
horrible!
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really think
think about
about it. The main
it.The main point
point is that
that about hopinghis
about hoping his son getsgets killed. It’s awful,
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record. the American State Department Department is clearly terrible,
terrible, andandshows
shows how much much taste
taste American
American
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RINGO STARR: I couldn’t couldn't carecare what
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cannot get get people
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think it’s
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nationalistic-minded
-minded and and
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red-blooded
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think it will
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proves be a hit
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too much
much sense.
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hate any
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people prefer heroes to
prefer heroes to pacifists.
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don't like at all, but
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night. It's all down
down to to whoever
whoever has a few
few people
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probably will. It
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bitbetter
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better but
the birds
but Billy’s
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birds on his side.
hisside.
a million
million others.
thing
thing is it’s
others. The only good
it's different. Butso
different. But
good
so is
Eamonn Andrews.
Andrews.
Martha & The Vandellas
(TAMLAMOTOWN)
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Junior Walker Stars

“British! To the core!”

"British! To core!" Who
Who is this? Is itit Martha?
think it’sas
think it's
records.
as good
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records. The
Martha? I don’t
good as the
don't
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MM FEBRUARY 19
MM FEBRUARY 19 Paul
SulMcCartney
McCartney reviews
reviews the
the singles
singles ordinary. Still,it's
ordinary.Still, it’s better
betterthan
thanaa lot on this. He has had had aagreat
great thing
thing onon
of
of the
the records
records outout atat the
the moment.
moment. his last
last couple
couple of of records
records but but this
this
SINGLES
SINGLES a bit,
bit, but
but it
it doesn’t
distinguished
doesn't seem very
distinguished at at the
very
the moment.
moment.
sounds like
cash ininon
likesomebody
somebodytrying
onthem.
them.It’sIt'sjust
trying to
about the
justaboutthe
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most stupid way of
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cashing inin
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(during long Paddy,
Paddy, Klaus &Gibson
Klaus & Gibson FROMAWAY because it’s it's got
got nothing
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falsettonote).
falsetto note).That's
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great. A very No
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(PYE) YOU? other recordshave.
other records have. Down with
commercialsound.
commercial sound.II love thethe high
high It’s
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great -bound beaa hit.
hit. I've
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cashing -in, II say!
say!
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was aatrumpet,
trumpet, got
got my publicity man leaning
publicity man leaning over over
especially.
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ly.Very arranged. my shoulder
shoulder and he’s
he's their
their KIK1 DEE
publicity man, too.
publicity man, too. But
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is a great
great
Gene Pitney
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Pitney Backstage (STATESIDE)
(STATESIDE) song and I!think
think they
they have done itit
Gene Pitney!
Gene Pitney! Again
Again it’s
it's well. Hit!
Hit!
commercial. But
commercial. But I don’t like it
don't like it
particularly.IIlike
particularly. liketo
tohear
hear him
him The
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singing a different
singing typeof
different type ofsong
song (PARLOPHONE)
(PARLOPHONE)
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– thisisis his single type.
-this type. The Action:
Action: II like this record butII
record but

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and has blonde
five
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think
think II like the
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can't tell withthis
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don't really like it.
it. the
the song isn’t
isn't good
good
enough
enough to tomake
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StevieWonderin
Stevie Wonder in
1966: regarded as the
196enregardedasthe
babyoftheTamla
baby of the Tamla
Motownfamily
Motown family

HISTORYOF
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ROCK 1966
1966
 STEVIE WONDER
STEVIE WONDER

“Let’s face it.

"Let's face
You can tell
a Tamla
record a
mile off !”
mile off!" STEVIE WONDER, now
hintit WONDER, now 15
15(and
(andnot
notso
solittle),
little), arrives
arrives
in
in London
Londonto topromote
promote“Uptight”. Laterinin the
"Uptight". Later the year,
year,
NME
NMEinterviews
interviews UK
UKrecord
record executive
executive Peter
Peter Prince
Prince
to
to learn
learn more
more about
about the
the rhythms
rhythms ofof working
working life life
at
at Tamla
TamlaMotown’s
Motown'sDetroit
Detroit hit
hit factory.
factory.

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STEVIE WONDERISISone
TEVIE WONDER oneofofthe
thefriendliest
friendliestand
andmost
mostcheerful
cheerful

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the NME
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harmonica

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pop singers

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succeeds at everything
totallyblind.
been totally
dates and
dates and was
was preparing
singers to arrive
topping the
from topping
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playerand

everything he
blind.He
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arrive in London for

turnshis
chart when
US chart

hishand
inBritain
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returntotoAmerica
when he
gained aa reputation
andpianist.
"Uptight" –- which he wrote
entry, “Uptight”

handto-to –and
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formany
he was

andyet
weeksago
whenII met
many months.

reputation as a top-class
pianist.And Andthis
thisweek
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met him
forall
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was barely

all15
with
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himself-jumps
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– jumpstotoNo
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in

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for ballroom
himin
ballroom and
in his
andTV
his London
TV
London hotel.
hotel.
“This
"This is the
the third timeI've
third time I’ve been to England,"
been to England,” he he said,
said, sipping
sipping aa coke, “but
"but I think
think I’ve
I've
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had a better
better time, audience-wise,
time, audience -wise, this trip than
this trip thanon onthe
theearlier
earlierones.
ones.But
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suppose
'--', the record ‘Uptight’
the Uptight' hashashelped
helpedaa lot."
lot.”
Whenever
Whenever Stevie goes goeson ontour
tourhe
hehas
hasthree
threeconstant
constanttravelling
travellingcompanions
companions –-
Clarence Paul (musical
Clarence Paul director),Bo
(musical director), Bo Hamilton (drummer)and
Hamilton (drummer) andTed
TedBull
Bull(tutor).
(tutor).
Althoughhe
Although hespends
spendsaalot
lot of time
time away from school, Stevie studies studies wherever
wherever he he »»

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goes.
goes. “Most
"Mostof ofthethedaydayis is devoted
devoted to tohishislessons,”
lessons,"said saidtutor
tutor Ted.
Ted. “We
"We figured
figured that
‘Uptight’
`Uptight didn’t
didn't
“He’s
"He's anan excellent
excellent pupil pupil and and learns very quickly. His favourite
learns very favourite need
needaa harp. Vocal
harp.Vocal
subjects are
subjects are mathematics
mathematics and science. is
ismuch
muchstronger
stronger
“Although
"Although IIlove lovemy mymusic,
music,I realise
I realisethat thatthere
thereare areother
otherthings
things in in on
on such
suchaanumber”
number"

lifeand
life andthatthat aagood
goodall-round
all-roundeducation
education is isvery
veryimportant,”
important," he hesaid.
said.
“When
"When on tour tour I have
have to to write
write essays
essays about
about the theplaces
placesII visit.
visit. In the
the
essay
es s ayI’ll
I'llbebewriting
writingwhen whenIIget getback
b ackI’llI'llcertainly
certainlyinclude
include my my
meeting
meeting with with Paul
Paul McCartney.
McCartney.II met met himhim in in the
the Scotch
Scotch Of St StJames
James
Club.
Club. He’s
He's aareally
really swinging
swinging guy, the the only
only Beatle
Beatle I'veI’ve met.”
met."
He has
has decided
decided that that composing
composing and and arranging
arrangingwill will play a very very
important
importantpart partininhis hislife.
life.II asked
asked Stevie about about the the song he has has
writtenfor
written forGeorgie
GeorgieFame. Fame."News “Newstravels
travelsfast fastininthis
thiscity!
city! I wrote
wrote
aa song
songwithout
without a title title for
forGeorgie
Georgiebut butIIdon’t
don'tknow whether it will be
knowwhether be
issuedhere
issued hereor ornot.
not.I'mI’msuresureGeorgie
Georgiewill willmake
makeaagreat greatjob jobofofit.
it.He
Heis is
one
one ofofthe
themostmosttalented
talented artists
artists inin Britain.
Britain. Wonder
Wonderwhat what he’ll
he'll call
call
it?” Stevie
it?" Stevie mused.
mused.
One person
person who who knows
knows Stev Stevie iewell
wellisishis hisattractive
attractivepublicist,
publicist,
Nancy
Nancy Lewis,
Lewis,who whowas wasborn bornin inDetroit
Detroit(where Stevie comes
(whereStevie comes
from) but
from) but nownow worksworks in in London.
London. NancyNancyfirst firstsaw
sawStevie
Stevie
play in Americathree
playinAmerica threeyearsyearsago.ago."He's
“He’snow now6ft 6ft lin,"
1in,”she she
told me,
told me, “but whenII first
"but when first saw him him he he was known known as as
Little Stevie
StevieWonder Wonder-and – andnot notsurprisingly.
surprisingly.He He was
in the middle of ofaamassive
massivestage stage-a tiny,thin
– a tiny, thincreature
creature T-54124 :

barely 5ft, surrounded

barely surrounded by by aa crowd of tall tallmusicians.
musicians. ea arm
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But as as soon
soon as ashe hestarted
started singing
singing people
people forgot about about
Mt
his height.
his height. EvenEven whenwhenhe he was
was only
only 18 he he had
had anan
enormous
enormous voice.
"His life
“His lifeseems
seems to to revolve
revolveround round music.
music. He He carries
carries UPTIGHT RYTHING'S
his harmonica
harmonica everywhereeverywherewith withhimhimand andifif hehe goes into MIGHT!
aa room
room with
with a piano,
piano, he’ll
he'll be led to ititand and sitsitthere
there playing
playing $TIVII WONots
figured
figured that ‘Uptight’didn't
that 'Uptight' didn’tneedneedaa harp.Vocal
harp. Vocalis
away
away forforhours.
hours.At At the
theTamla
TamlaMotown
Motownstudios studios he heisisregarded
regarded much stronger on
much stronger on such
such a number.”
number."
as
as the
the baby
baby of the the family,
family, with with Berry
Berry Gordy
Gordy as asfather.
father. Everyone
Everyone sits sits Whatdoes
What doesStevie
Stevieth think
in k ooffthe
thecriticism
criticism thatthat allallTam
Tamla la
in on each
each other’s
other's sessions and there’s there's always a great great turnout
turnout when
when Motown
Motown records soundthe
records sound thesame?
same?"Well,“Well, I realise
realise that
that there
there is quite
quite
Stevie records.
Stevie records. a bit
bit of
ofsimilarity
similaritybbetween
etwe enTamlaTamlaMotownMotown records,
records, but the the guys at
"The amazing
“The amazing thing thing is his cheerfulness.
cheerfulness. I've I’ve never seen seen him
him depressed.
depressed. Motown realise this this and
and they
they are beginning
beginning to to change
change it. The sound sound
Quite
Quite often
often when whenI've gone into
I’ve gone into his
his dressing
dressing room, room,he's he’ssaid
saidto to me,
me, "You're
“You’re may
maybe bethe
thesame
samebut, but,let's
let’sface
faceit,
it,you
youcancantell
tellaaTamla
Tamlarecord
recordaamile mileoff.
off.
looking
lookinglovely today, Nancy."
lovely today, Nancy.” Motown had
Motown had a distinctive
distinctive sound,"
sound,”said saidStevie, “and "and it is isaasound
soundthat that
Another
Anotherof Stevie’sStevie's hobbies
hobbies at at the
the moment
moment is typing. typing. “He’s
"He's an an excellent
excellent just
just about
about everybody
everybody has tried to copy copybutbut not been been ableable to.to.IIthink
thinkthat
that
Braille typist and and now he’s he's building
building up speed as
up speed touch typist,”
as a touch typist," said the
the distinctive
distinctive sound soundis is something
somethingto todo
do with
with thethe acoustics
acoustics in in the
the studios
studios
Nancy. “At "Atpresent
present he’s he's attending
attending the theMichigan
MichiganSchool SchoolFor For The
The Blind, at Detroit.”
Detroit."
where
where he'she’s regarded
regardedas asan anidol
idolbybyallall the
theother
otherkids.
kids.A ofhis
A lot of hisspare
spare timetime Which way does
Which does Stevie think the music
think the musicscenesceneis is going
going to develop?
is devoted
devoted to helpinghelping other other blind
blind children.”
children." “I
"I couldn’t
couldn't say,”
say,"he heanswered,
answered,“but "butIIstill
stillthink
thinkthatthatbeat
beatrather
ratherthan
than
as IIwas
Just as wasleaving
leavinghis hisroom
roomStevie
Steviewandered
wandered over overto tohis
hisrecord-player
record-player beautywill
beauty willbe befeatured.
featured.Mind Mindyou,you,it'sit’squite
quitepossible
possiblethat thatpretty
prettyssongs
ongs
but
but couldn't
couldn’tfind findthe therecord
recordhe hewas
wasgetting
gettingout. out."By “Bygosh,
gosh, my eyesight's
my eyesight’s will come
will come back back this year.
this year.
gettingbad,"
getting bad,”he hecracked,
cracked,grinning
grinningwidely.widely.NorrieDrummond
Norrie Drummond “At
"Atthethemoment everythingininthe
moment everything theUSUSisis'A‘A Go-Go’.
Go -Go'.It’s It'sthethenew word.
newword.
means anything
It means anything that thatinvolves
involves somesome sort action, or
sort of action, ormovement.
movement.
If someone
someone thinksthinks aa record
recordis is good
good they mightsay,
theymight say,'It's
‘It’saa go-go
go-go record’,
record',
— MELODYMAKER
- MELODY MAKERJANUARY JANUARY 29 — 29 - y’know.”
y'know."
CCs TEVIE'S GOT
TEVIE’S GOTAAMonster,”Monster,"scream screamthe theadverts
adverts in in American
American What are
What areStevie's
Stevie’s main
mainmusical
musicaltastes?
tastes?"Well,
“Well,IIdig dig Ray Charles. He’s my
Charles. He's

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Stevie's
Stevie’s biggest
papers. They are
papers.
"Uptight (Everything's
“Uptight
biggest Stateside
Stateside hit
are referring,
referring, of course,
(Everything’sAlright)",
hityet.
course, to his hit
Alright)”, which looks like
yet. At the the height
height of hit-disc
hit record,
record,
likebeing
hit -disc fervour
being
fervour in in
idol.
idol.II also
stuff
jazz but
jazz
also like Neil
stuff I like
likeas
but I can’t
NeilSedaka
aswell.
well.Stan
can't dig this
Sedaka –-gee,
StanGetz
gee, just
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this feedback
just about
he’s thethe man.
stuff!”
feedback stuff!"
anything.There's
about anything.
man. IIlike likesome
someof
There’saalot
ofthe
lotof
of jazz
theavant-garde
jazz
avant-garde

America,
America, 15 -year-old Stephen
15-year-old Stephen D Judkins
Judkins flees flees to Britain
Britain for two weeks
for two weeks He blew one one very
very long
longfeedback-like
feedback -likenote noteon onhishisharmonica,
harmonica, smiled smiled at
of touring
touring and and televising. He will willnaturally
naturally be be pushing
pushing “Uptight”
"Uptight" and and the ring of reporters
the ring reporters and andsaid,
said,"Man,
“Man,do doyou
youdig digthat?"
that?”NickJones
Nick Jones
he naturally
naturally hopes hopesititwill willprove
proveto to be
be as as big a hit hit inin England.
England.
“Well,
"Well, IIdon’t
don't knowknow ififititwill
willgo,”
go,"laughed
laughedStevie,Stevie,as ashehesipped
sippedhis hisorange
orange
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juice. "Of course

juice. “Of course IIhope hope ititwill.
will.II think
think thatthat the
the English
English kids kids like thisthis sort
of beat
beat a lot.
lot.Actually
Actuallythe the idea
idea came
came from from The Rolling Stones. Stones. They AHEARSE
HEARSE OFTEN OFTENPASSES PASSESthe themany
manyfront front doors
doors of the the Tamla
Tamla
started
startedthis thisthing
chromatic harmonica.
thingon
harmonica.
harmonica is
The harmonica
on`Satisfaction'."

fact Stevie’s
is in fact Stevie'smain
demonstrated on
‘Satisfaction’.” He demonstrated

maininstrument,
instrument, but
onaa bulbous
bulbous

but he doesn’t
doesn't
A moves
Motown headquarters
But there’s
moves sombrely
sombrely along
headquarters in
there's no sound of the
no sound
along the the road.
inGrand

road.Instead
GrandCentral
the death
Instead(if
CentralBoulevard,
death march
marchas
(if it
Boulevard, Detroit.
asthe
thesleek
weren't for the
it weren’t
Detroit.
sleekblack
black car
car

feature
featureitit at at all "Uptight". Was there
all on “Uptight”. there any any specific
specificreason?
reason?No, No,no,no, soundproofing) you'd
soundproofing) you’dprobably
probablyget getaa happy
happyearful earfulof of The
The Four
Four Tops,
I talked
talked this over with with my mymusical
musical director,
director, Clarence
Clarence Paul, and we Jimmy Ruffin, The
Jimmy The Supremes
Supremes or orTheTheTemptations,
Temptations,slamming slamming out out
another hit
another hit from
from the the depths
depths of
Tamla's basement studio!
Tamla’s basement studio!
Life is full
full of
ofcontrasts
contrasts like like this at
this at

Stevie really ism

STEVLF WONDER is out of this
friendliest and mast ebeerfut
Tamla,as
Tamla,
Detroit
asII found
Detroit recently
managerof
manager
division, which
division,
hearse,for
hearse,
undertaking
found whenwhenII visited
recently as promotion
of EMI's
which includes
for example,
visited
promotion
EMI’s licensed
licensed repertoire
includes Tamla.
example,belongs belongsto
repertoire
Tamla. The The
to the
the
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STEVIE WONDER

Supremes,
Supremes, Florence
Florence was lead lead singer
singer and and not
not Diana.
Diana. Tamla was was doing
doing
aa bit
bitofofexperimenting
experimenting with with sound
sound (as usual!)usual!) and and they decided decided to
make
make the the switch.
switch. IIdon’tdon'tthink
think the the girls
girlsminded,
minded, because because they’re they're
pretty
pretty sensible and and they know their their career
career is being beingwell wellhandled.
handled.
I find
find Florence
Florence is isprobably
probably the the quietest
quietest of the trio, while Diana Diana is
the
the one with all the the nervous
nervous energy energyand andall allthe
thego. go. Mary
Mary has has a nice
nice
humour.
humour. I saw the the girls do do aastage
stageshow showin inDetroit
Detroitand andititwas wasfunnyfunny
to
to hear
hear the
the way
waythey jokingly talk about
theyjokingly about eacheach otherother in in the act. They
the act.
refer
refer toto each
each other
other as “Flo "Flothe thequiet
quiet one,
one, Mary
Mary the the sexy
sexyone oneand and
Diana
Diana the the skinny
skinny one”.
one". But Butas aseach
eachgirl girlisisdescribed,
described,she shebreathes,
breathes,
“You
"Youwannawannabet…?”
bet...?"
People
People ask me ififany anyof ofthe
theTamla
Tamlagroupsgroupsare arebad-tempered
bad-tempered off-
stage.
stage. The
The absolutely
absolutely honesthonest answeranswer is no. no. They
Theyare areso soco-operative
co-operative
and
and professional
professional they’re
they're a shining
shining exampleexample to to many
many other stars. The
other stars.
Supremes
Supremes are no exception exception to this, but they do have have one one very
veryhumanhuman
weakness:theylove
weakness: they lovefish fishandandchips!
chips!When WhenII was in Detroit Detroit they theywerewere
bemoaningthe
bemoaning thefact
fact that
that they
they couldn't
couldn’tget get fish and and chips
chips in America
inAmerica
as
as ininLondon
London-the – the way they liked them, wrapped in newspaper.
theyliked newspaper.
There’s
There's nothing flashy or over-sophisticated
nothing flashy over -sophisticated about about The TheSupremes.
Supremes.
In fact
In fact they're
they’reveryverymuch
muchearly early-to-bed-and-early-to-rise
-to -bed -and -early -to -rise girls. girls.
I found
found that one of the
that one the big exceptions
exceptions they they make
make to to this rule is at
this rule
talk:Wonder
Music talk: Wonder
“Motown
"Motown Monday”,
Monday", which which has has justjust started
started up at the the Roostertail
Roostertail Club
with
with Peter
Peter Noone, lead
lead in Detroit.
in Detroit. This fantastic
fantastic event event nevernever fails to pack pack ’em 'em in intotosqueezing
squeezing
singer of
of Herman’s
Herman's point. The
point. The Supremes
Supremes were were featured
featuredthe thenight
nightII was was there,
there, doingdoing
Hermits,outsidethe
Hermits, outside the
officesof
offices of Motown aa very
verylong
longactactand
and accompanied
accompanied by byaa terrific
terrific16 16-piece
-piece band.band. It It was
Records ininDetroit,
Detroit, aa tremendous
tremendous show.
Michigan, 1966
Michigan,1966
One
One recording sessionIIwent
recording session wentto towas
wasfor for backing
backing tracks tracksfor foraa Four
Four
Tops LP LPand
and IIsawsawthe thefamous
famous songwriting
songwriting team teamof ofHolland
Holland-Dozier--Dozier -
Holland. They are
Holland. are three
three coloured musiciansin
coloured musicians in their
theirlate late twenties.
twenties.
As
AsTamla
Tamlaflourished,
flourished,ititbought
boughtup upmoremoreand andmoremoredetached
detachedhouses
houses They radiateso
Theyradiate so much
much enthusiasm
enthusiasm it's it’s incredible!
incredible!
on
on thethe boulevard,
boulevard, for use use asasoffices
officesand andother
other departments.
departments. Two Two floors Berry Gordy wasn’tat
Gordywasn't at the
thesession.
session.In Infact,
fact, I gather
gather it's it’s a long
longtime time now now
of
ofoneonehouse
housewere wereknocked
knockedthroughthrough to make make a studio
studio –- and
and a chain
chain of since Berry did didany
anyactual
actual record
record production
production himself. himself. He’s He's become
become
underground
undergroundtunnels tunnelswas wasbuilt
built to connect the
to connect buildings. That’s
the buildings. That's why
why very much
much an an administration
administration man manand andleaves
leaves the the work of ofturning
turning out out
I talk
talk about
about “the many front
"the many frontdoors
doorsof of Tamla”.
Tamla". hits
hits to others.
others.
Hearing about
Hearing aboutB erryGordy’s
Berry Gordy'sstreet street full
fullofofhouses
housesmight
mightshatter
shatter your
your Actually, it is
Actually, isaalittle
littledifficult
difficult to to feel
feelatateaseeasewithwithBerry,
Berry,becausebecause when when
imaginary
imaginaryimpres impressionsion ofof avast,
a vast,10 -storey talent
10-storey talent factory. believe me;
factory. But believe me; you’re talking
you're talkingto tohim
himhe heseems
seemsto tohave
haveso somany
manythings thingson onhis hismind!
mind!All All the
the
they
they sum sum up up the
the label’s
label's success
success story story more
more thanthan you’d
you'd think.
think. time his
time his eyes are are darting
darting to papers on
to papers on his
his desk, and and I got gotthe theimpression
impression he
Everybody there there actually
actually likes working in the jammed-up
likes working jammed -up closeness
closeness was itching
was itching to to be back at at work.
work.IIsuppose
supposeit’s it'sunderstandable:
understandable: this thisis is the
the
of offices
officesconverted
converted from frombedrooms
bedrooms and dining dining rooms.
rooms. It makes
makes things
things very energy that’s helped to build Tamla up
that's helped up to toits
itspresent
presentimportance.
importance.
seem friendly and
seem friendly and it helps
helps create
create thatthat famous
famous Tamla “family "family atmosphere”
atmosphere" The label
label had five hits
had five in the
hits in the US Top 50 50while
whileIIwas wasin inDetroit,
Detroit,so soyouyoucan can
folk talk
talk about.
about. Not longlong ago
agothere
there were
were plans
plans to to uproot
uproot the
the whole set-up
set-up understand howjubilant
understand how jubilant everybodywas.
everybody was.
and
and move into aamodern modern building.
building. NobodyNobodyhad much enthusiasm
had much enthusiasm for the
for the The family atmosphere
The atmosphere really reallydoesdoesexist.exist.They're
They’reaa close-knit
close-knitgroup group
idea andand eventually
eventually it was was scrapped.
scrapped. Tamla, enjoying
at Tamla, enjoying theirtheir music but thinking thinking about aboutititas as well. They They take take
Probably the
Probably the most
mostsurprising
surprisingthing thingofofall allat
atTamla
Tamla(for (for me)
me) was seeing
was seeing tremendous amount
a tremendous amountof trouble with arrangements;
of trouble arrangements; things thingslike like
the studio. After hearing
the studio. hearing thethe fantastic
fantastic record
record sounds
sounds produced
produced there,
there, basslines
basslines are areworked
worked on on with
with great
great care.
care.
I expected
expected to to set
set eyes
eyes onon a half-acre
half -acre room room packed
packed with with loads
loads of They absolutely
absolutelypack packthe thestudio
studiowith withmusicians
musiciansfor foraasession.
session.In Infact,
fact,
equipment.
equipment.What Whatgreeted
greetedme mewas wasan anaverage -looking studio
average-looking studioinin they tend to book bookmore musicians than
more musicians than theyneed
they needjust justto tobe be on the safe
on the
a basement,
basement, with withthetheceiling
ceilingtaken
takenaway awayto to give more
more space.
space.An organ
An organ side! One
Oneguy will be
guywill behanging
hangingaround around waitingwaiting for forsomething
something to do doandand
and
and a grand
grand piano
piano were kept permanently
permanently at at the
the then
thenthey they bring
bring himhim in in to play the the tambourine!
tambourine!
far end
end of the the room.
room. I’mI'm not
not knocking
knocking the the place
place Anothertalented
Another talentedTamla Tamlaartist artistII met met waswas
-far
– farfrom
realise
fromit.
realise just
to people…
it. Seeing the
just how much
people... the
the actual
much the
actual studio
the Tamla
artists and
the artists
studio made
Tamla sound
and thethe engineers
made me
sound owes
engineerswho
owes
who
me
"I like some of
“I Chris Clark,
Chris
from the
from
Clark, a white
theWest
white girl who
West Coast
Dusty Springfield.
Dusty
Coastand
Springfield. Then
andwho
who originally

Then there
wholooks
therewere
originally came
looksaalot
were The
came
lotlike
like
The Four
often
often seemseem to
clock. I’ve
to be working there
I've never
never seen
seen so
there right round
so many
many people
round the
people getting
the
getting so
the
the avant- Tops –-wonderful
Britain on
Britain
wonderfulgroup.
on their
theirfirst
group.II first met
firstvisit
visit and
and Obi
met them
them in
Obi (Renaldo)
(Renaldo)
much
muchfun funout
In fact, the
permanently
permanentlyon
outof working.
of working.
the whole of Detroit
onthe
thego.
Detroit seems
go. It's
seems to to be
tough industrial
It’s a tough industrial
garde jazz, but
garde andII went
and
could
went down
could listen
listento
downto
to some
remember it was tough
I remember
to Ronnie
RonnieScott's
some jazz.jazz.
tough to
Scott’sclub

to get
getthem
clubso

them any
sohe

any
he

town, packed with people.

almost
almost all car car workers
people. Many
workers-flood
Manyof ofthem
them-–
– flood across the Hudson can't dig this
I can’t TVdates
dates in
People didn’t
inthis
thiscountry
didn't know
country on that
know them them too
that occasion.
too well and
occasion.
and manymany
River every
everyday dayfrom
fromCanada,
Canada,on onthetheother
other bank.
bank. didn't
didn’twant wantto toknow.
know. This time, time, I think think there
there
But it’s
Detroit
it's not
Detroit its
notthe
the car
carworkers
workers who are giving
name these
its big name thesedays:
days: it'sit’s the
the ever-
stuff"
feedback stuff” were more offers than
Levi is isthe
theoneonewho’s
than they could
who'salways
could handle!
alwayshappy,
handle!
happy,jumping
jumping
growing
growing list of Tamla Tamlacharacters,
characters, from The aroundand
around andso soon,
on,whereas
whereasLawrence Lawrenceisis
Supremes
Supremes to to the
the Tops, Temptations,
Temptations, Miracles,Miracles, virtuallythe
virtually theMD MD of thegroup.
ofthe group.He He looks after the
Junior
Junior Walker, Jimmy JimmyRuffin, Martha &The
Ruffin, Martha & The music
music partspartsand andthat thatkindkindof ofthing.Ab
thing. Abdul dul is a pleasant
pleasant
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Vandellas
Vandellas and andMarvin
MarvinGaye.Gaye. person,too.
person, too.II think
think he he was
was once
once engaged
engagedto toMary
Mary of
I've met
I’ve metThe Supremes both
The Supremes both in in Britain and and in Detroit, The Supremes.
Supremes. I was was unlucky
unlucky in in that
that “What
"What BecomesBecomes
and
and honestly
honestly they they never change. They are
never change. are marvellous
marvellous Of The
The Brokenhearted”
Brokenhearted" singer singerJimmyJimmyRuffin Ruffinwas was
girls with
with a great
great sense
sense of humour
humour and andaa re allysharp
really sharp out of town
out town while
while I was was in in Detroit,
Detroit, but but I did did meet
meet
interest
interestin infashion.
fashion.When WhenII met metthemthemjust justaawhile
whileago, ago, his brother
his brother David David (one (one of the the Temptations).
Temptations). He
theywere
they werespending
spendingtwo twodays
daysin in Detroit
Detroit afterafter a hectic
chiki's was naturally
naturally very proud proud of Jimmy’s success.
ofJimmy's success.
tour
tour of Japan. I remember
remember when whenI first met The Peter Prince
Prince interviewed by Alan
interviewedby Smith•
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hope
England
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New songs
“Dedicated
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doesn't JJ
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such as
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earned

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The Kinks
Kinks comparisons
comparisons
to George Formby.
to George Formby. AllAll of
of
which fuels the
which fuels unique
the unique
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vision RAYDAVIES.
DAVIES.
“We’re going to
"We're going to do
do less
less — NMEMARCH
- NME MARCH 1818—-
ballrooms and clubs,” he NA LARGEwhite
N A LARGE whitehouse
housein inEast
EastFinchley
Finchley withwith anan orange
orange door
door(which
(whichhe hesays
saysis is

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ballrooms and clubs," he "red"), in
“red”), in aa room
room withwith orange
orange walls
walls and
and an orange
orange carpet,
carpet,sitssits an
anex -student of
ex-student

says, “and
says, "and dodo summer
summer Croydon Art School
leader
School playing
leader of The Kinks, now
playing aaSpanish
now recognised
Spanish guitar.
recognised as
guitar. This
as being
being one
RayDavies,
This is Ray
one of the
Davies,the
the Big Four
Four in
thesoftly
inpop
softlyspoken
pop music,
spoken
music, who who
seasons
seasons andandcabaret”
cabaret" Pete
trying to
are trying to produce
produce something
Townshend of The Who,
Pete Townshend
something new in composition
Who, Yardbirds’
Yardbirds' Paul
composition and sound.
PaulSamwell-Smith
sound. The other three
Samwell-Smith and and that
three are
that well-known
well-known
composer "Lennon
composer -McCartney".
“Lennon-McCartney”.
Ray’s compositions
Ray's compositions have havebeen
beenrecorded
recordedby byartists
artistslike
likePeggy
PeggyLee,
Lee, Cher,
Cher, The Honeycombs
Honeycombs and and
Berry,and
Dave Berry, andtwo twohave
havebeen
beenspecially
specially commissioned
commissioned by by Presley. He’s
He's also
also written
written all the
Kinks hits
hits andand had
had a fewfewwords
wordsto tosay
sayabout
about“Dedicated
"Dedicated Follower
FollowerOf OfFashion”
Fashion"–-thethe group’s
group's latest
hit, which
which has has earned
earned themthem plaudits
plaudits like “The "The George
GeorgeFormby
FormbyQuartet”
Quartet"and and“Herman’s
"Herman's Hermits
Hermits
Mk II”.
II".“I"Ifeel
feelcomplimented
complimented when when people
people saysayitit sounds
soundslikelikeFormby,"
Formby,” smiled
smiledRay.Ray. “He
"He earned
earned aa lot
of bread!
bread!This Thisnumber
number has has proved
proved we wecancando dosomething
something completely
completely different
different from our previous
previous
singles – itmeans
singles-it meansnothingnothingtotome menow.now.It's
It’s just a tune
tune onon the
the radio – I’vealmost
radio-I've almostforgotten
forgottenit. it. There's
There’s
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nothing complicatedabout
nothing complicated aboutit.it.It's
It’saavery
very simple
simplesong. song. In
In fact, we deliberately
deliberately ‘underdid’
`underdid' it. it.
“The
"The way
waywe we recorded
recorded itit at first waswas too
too elaborate.
elaborate. If youyouwork
worktootoohard
hardon onaanumber
number youyouloselose
something.
something. IIgot got Shel Talmy to to come
come back from America, America, where
where hehe was
was busy suingThe
busy suing The Who,
Who,
and we did
and did ititagain,
again,simplifying
simplifying the the arrangement.
arrangement. II worked
worked out out the
the rhythm
rhythmon onaa guitar
guitarwhile
while
travelling in aa car carandandthethewords
wordsseemed
seemed to tofall
fallininnaturally
naturallytotothe
thechords.
chords.I Ithink
thinkit’s
it'simportant
important
that words should
that words shouldfall fall in
in almost
almost by by themselves.
themselves.I've I’vebeen
beentoldtoldthat's
that’sthe
theway
wayThe
TheBeatles
Beatleswork."
work.”
Rayis particularlypleased
Ray is particularly pleasedoveroverthe thesuccess
successof ofthethenew
new number,
number,as as his
his only other excursions
excursions
into the
the realms
realms of different
different sounds
sounds withwithTheThe Kinks have proved proved less successful.
successful.
tt.
“Mind
"Mind you, ‘See 'See My Friend’ was a good
MyFriend' good prestige
prestige record,”
record," he said.
said. “It
"Itinfluenced
influenced a lot of ofpeople
peopleinin
groups.
groups. I playplay ititatat33 1/3 rpm now
331/3rpm nowbecause
b ecauseit itsounds
soundsbetter
betterlike
likethat
that–-great
great sound.
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Townshend
Townshend were wereimpressed
impressed by bythat
thatdisc,
disc,andandthat
thatpleases
pleasesme.”me. I don’t
don't care
care if aabloke
blokevotes
votesLabour
Labour
When
When I saw sawRayRayhe hehad
hadjust
justreturned
returned from
from aa few
fewdays
daysininSwitzerland.
Switzerland. or Conservative,
Conservative, as aslong
long as
as he
he
“Pete’s
"Pete's underpants
underpants are arethethebig
bigthing
thingin inEurope
Europenow,"now,” he told me. me. “He
"He appreciates
appreciates what whatwe'vewe’ve gotgot here.
here.
wears the
wears the nylon variety that that I sing
singabout
aboutin in‘Dedicated…’
`Dedicated...' and and when
when he he We havehave so somuch
much thatthat is great,
great,
sent his
sent his to
tothe
the hotel
hotellaundry
laundry theytheybbecame
e came thethe talking
talking point
point of thethe place.”
place." compared
compared with with other countries,
countries,
At
Atthis
thisjuncture
juncture Ray’s
Ray'sattractive
attractive wife RasaRasacamecameintointothe
theroom
roomcarrying
carrying and people just
and people just don't
don’t realise
realiseit.it.
their
their nine-month-old
nine -month -old baby baby Louise,
Louise, whom
whom she she deposited with Daddy.
deposited with Daddy. “You
"You I want
want to to keep
keep writing
writing very
write about
write aboutthis
thisandandI'll
I’llsue,"
sue,” said
said Ray,
Ray,balancing
balancing baby
baby precariously
precariously on onhis
his English
English songs.”
songs."
knee.
knee. He Hethen
thentransferred
transferred his offspring to to me
meand
andIIspent
spentconsiderable
considerable Despite his his recent
recent enforced
enforced
time
time trying
trying to teach
teach her to to say “Beatles”, much
say"Beatles", much to toDaddy’s
Daddy'sdispleasure.
displeasure. rest,
rest, which
which was was largely
largely duedue toto
Ray crossed
cros se dtotohishisrecord
recordplayer
player and
and put
put onon "Little
“LittleManManIn InA A Little
Little Box”,
Box", overwork,
overwork, Ray is isnow
nowbusier
busier
which he
which he composed
composed for forfriend
friendandandcompere
compereofA of AWhole
WholeScene
Scene Going Barry
GoingBarry than ever writingsongs
than everwriting songs for Eft'
“Boom”
"Boom" Fantoni.
Fantoni. "I “I played
played it to to Dick
DickRowe
RoweatatDecca
Deccaand andhehegotgothysterical
hysterical other artistsas
other artists aswell
well asas The I F'asli ion -.tie, ipnn9r
and
and rushed
rushed off
something.”
off to see the
something." Could it be
the National
the NationalAnthemAnthemon
the Queen,”
Queen," grinned
besomething
something to
onthe
thedisc?
grinned Ray.
to do
Ray. “It’s
dowith
"It's with
withRay
with solicitors
Rayhaving
solicitors or
havingincorporated
incorporated
Kinks. “I
he told me.
finish
"I did
did six
me. “But
threeof
finish three
yesterday,”
sixyesterday,"
"But I’ll
I'll only
of them.
only
them. I reject
reject
THE KINKS
While we wesipped
sippedour ourcoffee,
coffee,Ray Raylaunched
launched into intoanother
another lecture
lecture on his a lot
lot of
ofmymystuff.
stuff. Actually,
Actually, oneone
musical theories, which
musical theories, illustrated by
which he illustrated byleaping
leaping to the piano or playingplaying of the
the bad
bad things
things about
about me me
his guitar.
guitar. “There’s
"There's a strong
strong French-Spanish
French -Spanishinfluence
influence coming
coming into into the
the is that
that if IIcriticise
criticise myself,
myself,
pop material,"
pop material,” said said Ray. “Noel
"NoelHarrison
Harrison may well have started
maywell started it off with
offwith I change
change the the songs about about so
aa number called 'Young
number called ‘Young Girl Of OfSixteen’,
Sixteen, which
which waswas anan enormous
enormous hit hit in
in much
much I end end up up doing
doing themthem
the States
the States a year ago. ItItwas wasas asgood
goodaanumber
numberas as‘Michelle’
'Michelle' but but made
made no no in three differentstyles."
three different styles.”
impact
impact here.
here. It hadhad these
these Spanish-French
Spanish -French sounds… sounds... Does outside
outside criticism
criticism
“Listen
"Listen to to this,”
this,"hehesprang
sprangto tothe
theupright
uprightpiano.
piano.“What
"Whatdoes doesthatthatremind
remind bother
bother Ray?Ray?"Yes,"
“Yes,” he
you of?”
of?" hehe demanded.
demanded. "I'll “I’ll play it onon guitar,”
guitar," hehe said,
said, and
and finally
finally changed
changed admitted.
admitted. Maybe MaybeI'm I’m too
too
the tempo
the tempountil untilitit came
cameout outsounding
soundingjust justlike
like'Girl'.
‘Girl’. “The
"The basis is isin
inthose
those sensitive
sensitive but but I tend
tend to take what what people say much
people say much too too seriously.
seriously. I figure
figure that
that
few chords,”
chords," saidsaid Ray. “My "Mygreatest
greatest trouble
trouble is that
that I’m
I'm a composer
composer with withnono if they
theysays aythings
thingsagainst
againstme metheytheymust
musthave
havea areason – they must
reason-they must mean
mean it.
time.All my
time. work is done
mywork done while
while we are are travelling. It’s tough.
travelling. It's tough.I'veI’ve no
no time
timetoto “Influences?
"Influences? I don’t don't admit
admit to myself that that I have
haveinfluences,
influences, but IIsuppose
suppose
do
do all
all the
the things
things IIwant
wanttotoget getover."
over.”KeithAltham
Keith Altham I must
must have.
have. You Youcan’tcan'tlisten
listenwithout
withoutbeing
beinginfluenced.
influenced. Perhaps
Perhaps Bob
Davenport influencedme-I
Davenport influenced me – saw
I sawhim himaacouple
coupleof of times
timesat at art
art school.
school. And
then
then I'mI’m a great
great admirer
admirer of of Noel Coward.”
Coward."
— MELODYMAKER
- MELODY MAKER APRIL
APRIL16
16—_
Does Ray Rayhave haveany anysetsetprocedure
procedure when when writing songs? “The
writing songs? "The chords
chords
AY DAVIES, OF
RAYDAVIES, OFTheTheKinks,
Kinks,isisprobably
probablyone oneof ofthe
themost
most come
come first,”
first," he says.
says. “The
"The lyrics
lyricsgrowgrowfrom
fromfitting
fittingwords
wordsto tosounds.

R
sounds.
consistently misunderstood
consistently misunderstoodpeople peoplein inthe
thepop popworld.
world. This is I usually
usually compose
compose at the piano piano-–because
becauseI'm I’mnot
notaagood
goodpiano
pianoplayer.
player.If If
partly due to his
partly his complex,
complex,introvert
introvert character
character which makes makes you are reasonably
you reasonably good on an an instrument
instrument and anduse useitit to
to compose
compose on on then
then
him,
him, as admits, aa bad
as he admits, bad mixer. It is isalso
alsoduedueto tohishisquite
quiteremarkable
remarkable you tend
you tend toto try
trytotoget
get too
too complex
complex-–and andthat
thatdoesn't
doesn’twork workininpoppopmusic."
music.”
honesty-
honesty –both bothabout
aboutthe thebusiness
businessand andhimself.
himself.It's It’s an
an honesty
honesty which It seems to me me that
that part
part of the
the wider
wider acceptance
acceptance of popularpopular music
musicis due
is due
precludes
precludes self-deception
self-deceptionjust justasas it does false modesty
modesty-–Ray Ray is aware
aware of of to aa movement
movement towards towards more more adult
adultlyrics
lyrics and
and away from the endless trite
endless trite
both
both hishis own faults and
own faults and his own talents.
talents. burblings of Americanteenage
burblings ofAmerican teenagelove.love.The
Theincreased
increasedinterest
interestininfolk
folkisis
We metmet for
foraadrink
drinkininAcker
AckerBilk’s
Bilk'sSoho
Sohodrinking
drinkingclub, club,thetheCapricorn,
Capricorn, thisthis partlyresponsible-
partly responsibleand – andsosoare
arethethelyrics
lyricsofofwriters
writerslikelikeRay.
Ray. He agrees:
agrees: “In"In
week.
week. Over his his pint
pint of bitter
bitter Ray
Rayadmitted:
admitted: "If “If IIwas
wasin inany
anyother
other business
business my first-everarticle
myfirst-ever articleininthe theMMI
MM Isaid saidIIdidn't
didn’tuse uselove
loveininmymyssongs.
ongs. Since
Since
things
thingswould
would be be just the same
just the same forme.
for me.I'd
I’d have the same same friends
friends and
and the
the then,
then, all those
those where I have haveused
useditithaven’t
haven'tbeenbeenparticularly
particularly successful.
successful.
same
same enemies.
enemies.IfIf I waswas aabutcher,
butcher, they’d
they'd write aboutabout me me in the Meat Trades
in the I’m
I'm just notnot interested
interested in inthe
themoon
moon-and-June rhymingbit."
-and -June rhyming bit.”BobDawbarn
Bob Dawbarn
Journal
Journal as the most
as the most antisocial
antisocial butcher.
butcher.But this is aafunny
But this funnybusiness.
business.I'm I’m
not great mixer
not a great mixer andand somehow
somehow an an image
image has has been
been built
built up around it.
up around it. The
The
strange
strange thing
thingis that it has
is that has helped
helped me me-–and
andthat
thatstrikes
strikesme meas as funny.
funny.
— NME JULY
- NME JULY 8 8—-
"I sort
“I sort of
ofdrifted
driftedinto
intothethe business
business because
because I wanted
wanted to earn earn a living. RAY AY DAVIES
DAVIESLIFTED LIFTEDthe theplastic
plasticlid
lidcovering
coveringhis his salad
salad and
and
I wanted
wanted to play guitar
interest
interestwaswasclassical
to Bach. Apart
Apart from
guitar but

from the
but I was
classicalmusic,
music,and
the Bach,
was never
never interested
andwhile
Bach, the
interested in
whileI've
the only
I’vebeen
only things
beenill
in being
being aa singer. My
illI've
things I listened
been listening
I’ve been
listened to were
Myfirst
first
listeningaalot
were Glenn
Glenn
lot R
with
with his
viewed the the mayonnaise
he sighed and
his fork trying
mayonnaise disgustedly.
and probed
probed about
trying to find an untainted
disgustedly. "Oh,
about disdainfully
untainted piece.
“Oh, no
disdainfully among
piece.The
no –-II hate ketchup!”
among the
TheKingKing Kink was
ketchup!"
the lettuce
lettuce

Miller, Frank
Frank Sinatra
Sinatra and
and classical
classical guitar
guitar music
music-it – itsort
sortofof cleaned
cleanedmy my taking the
taking the news
news of the the group’s
group's third
third No 11withwithhis
hisusual
usualequanimity.
equanimity.
mind
mind out and started
out and started fresh
fresh ideas."
ideas.” “Yes – it’s nice,"
"Yes-it's nice,” he agreed. “We’re not making
agreed. "We're inferiorrecords
making inferior recordslike like'Set
‘SetMe
Me
isone
It is oneofofmany
manyparadoxes
paradoxes aboutabout Ray
Raythat,
that, despite
despite his his reputation
reputation as as a Free’
Free' any
anymoremoreandand`SunnyAfternoon'
‘Sunny Afternoon’isisthe thebest
bestofof the last three
three discs. ItIt
rebel, he is ispassionately
passionatelypro-English
pro -English- anunusual
– an unusual patriotism
patriotism which
which shows surprised
surprised me meititwas
wasso sogood
goodreally-
really –Shel
Shel(Talmy)
(Talmy)did didaagreat
greatjob jobmixing
mixingit."
it.”
in two of hishisinterests
interests outside
outside music:
music: football
football andandthe themusic
musichall.
hall."I“I hope
hope "Pye Records
“Pye Records are arefunny
funny people,”
people," he hedeclared,
declared, reflectively
reflectively sipping
sipping his
his
England
Englanddoesn't
doesn’tchange,"
change,”he hetold
toldme.
me."I'm
“I’mwriting
writingaa song song now called 'You
now called ‘You lemon
lemon tea.
tea. “I
"I walked
walked in inthere
there last
last week
weekandandsomeone
someone said,said, ‘Hard
'Hard luck
Ain’t What
Ain't What You Used Used To ToBe’,
Be',which
whichexpresses
expresses whatwhat I feel. IIhope hope wewe don’t
don't get about your disc, isn’t
about your isn't it – Imean
it-I meanThe TheBeatles
Beatleskeeping
keepingyou youoff the top spot.’spot.'
swallowed
swallowedup up byAmerica
by Americaand andEurope.
Europe.I'm I’mreally
reallyproud
proudof ofbeing
beingBritish."
British.” I mean,
mean, what’s
what's it all about?
about? IIunderstood
understoo d we wewere
wereoutselling
outselling Sinatra
Sinatra at the
the
nodded towards
He nodded towards the the bar where Acker
bar where Ackerwas wassending
sendinghis hisaudience
audience timeand
time andII knew
knew we we must
must havehave a chance.
chance. ButBut they seemedto
they seemed tohave
have given
given
hysterical
hystericalwith withan anunbelievably
unbelievablybbawdy awdyjoke.
joke. "Acker
“Acker and and people
people like
likethat
that up. A lot
up. lotofoftop
toppeople
peopleseemed
seemedto tobe
beupset
upsetthat
that we
wehadhadmade
made ‘Sunny
'Sunny
are great-–and
are great andyouyouwouldn't
wouldn’tfind findhim
himanywhere
anywherebut butininBritain.
Britain.AllAllthis
thisisis Afternoon’atatall-
Afternoon' all –do
doyou
youknowknowI'm I’mstill
stillwaiting
waitingfor formy
my Gold Disc from from
why IIbought
bought an an old
oldhouse,
house, built
built during
during the the Battle Of OfTrafalgar,
Trafalgar,rather
rather Pyefor
Pye for 'You
‘You Really Got Me'."
Really Got Me’.”
than
thanaa new, modern
modern one. We were
were alla IIseated
seatedin inthe
the top
top floor
floor London officesof
London offices of The
The Kinks’
Kink&
management-Messrs
management – MessrsCollins Collinsand and
Wace-
Wace –decorated
decoratedwithwith photographs
photographs

RAY THE and

and EP and
Kinks. "I
Kinks.
and LP sleeves
“I mean
sleeves depicting
mean Pye must
depicting The
must havehave
The

PATRIOT
RAV DAVI.
something againstus,"
something against us,”smiled
smiledRay,Ray,
indicatingthe
indicating theLPLPsleeves.
sleeves."Look“Lookat at
those
those pictures-
pictures –especiallythat
especially thatone." one.”HeHe

KINK
Ms ...As....
indicated
indicatedthe thesecond
second album
album showing
showing
ha x.
abh 4p. The Kinks waving at
The at aapretty model
prettymodel
fromaa fire escape.
from escape.
ha aka..
ss ow lathI Ww gm* hal 70.t.t71:
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am/ NI YON Ohl /WO
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 June 8, 1966:in
June8,1966: in a dressing
dressing
roomat
room theBBC
at the BBCTVCentre
TV Centre
before performing
before performing
"SunnyAfternoon"
“Sunny Afternoon”on on
the
the Barry
Barry Fantoni-hosted
Fantoni-hosted
show
show AAWhole Scene Going
WholeScene Going

Ray
Rayis is at present designingthe
present designing thenext
nextLP LP sleeve
sleeve
himself
himself and andshowed
showedme meaa couple
couple of rough rough
sketches
sketches he had had made
made in in the
the office.
office. “I’m
"I'm going
to have this this kind
kindof oftheatrical
theatricalmask maskwithwith the the
head
head lifted up and and butterflies
butterflies fluttering
fluttering out out
from the
from the inside.
inside. Huge butterflies
butterflies all all over the
cover
cover and and just
just the
the word ‘Kinks’
'Kinks' on the the front.”
front."
What does Barry Fantoni Fantoni think
think of the design,
I asked
asked Ray?Ray?BarryBarrywaswas thethe compere
compere ofA of A Whole
Whole
SceneGoing Goingand and also
also anan artist.
artist. The ties
tiesthat
that blind:
"Why does
“Why does everyone
everyone ask me about about Barry?”
Barry?" (l–r)
(I -r) Pete
PeteQuaife,
Quaife,
said Ray,smiling
said Ray, smilingand and shaking
shaking his head. head. Dave
Dave Davies, Ray
Davies, Ray
MickAvory
Davies, Mick Avory
"I haven't seen
“I haven’t seen himhim for somesome time.
time. He's
He’s got
this funny bird who makes
this funny makes handbags
handbags and and they
have these weird conversations
conversations together. Barry Barry
says, ‘Now
`Now you yougo goononmaking
making handbags
handbags if you
want
wantto, to, dear.'
dear.’ You know know how how he he talks,
talks, andand she played dreadful places.
played some dreadful places. Ifwe again
If we go again
cries and says,
cries and
making
Kinks were
The Kinks
'No, I can’t
says, ‘No,
making handbags.'
handbags.’It's
wereinvolved
can't go
It’svery
involvedin
goon on-I– Ican't
funny!"
very funny!”
inaacertain
can’tgo

certainamount
go on
on

amount
"We're not
“We’re I would
would want
want 100
andfacilities.
and
100per
percent
centbetter
facilities.II couldn't
couldn’tbear
tour – really.There
tour-really. Thereare
aretwo
betterorganisation
bearaakind
twoways
organisation
kindof
waysof
ofDick
DickClark
Clark
of promoting
promoting inin
of criticism
criticism last week when
Savile's
Savile’s club in
when playing Jimmy
in Manchester
Manchester and andthey
theyrefusrefuseded
making any
making the US. One is to
the
country
countryand
andthe
to do
do aamonster
theother
monster tour
otheris
is to
to do
tour of the
do three
threeor
whole
the whole
or more
more
to sing either
Follower
either ‘Sunny
`SunnyAfternoon'
Afternoon’ or
Fashion'. “We
Follower Of Fashion’.
playing these these numbers
"Wejust
numbers on our
or‘Dedicated
justhaven’t
'Dedicated
haven't been
our personal
personal
been more inferior major TV
theway
the
TVshows
showswhich
way I want
want to
In addition
addition to
whichare
to do
do it."
to these
arenetworked
it.”
theseplans
networked-that's

plansRay
– that’s

Ray is also working

working
appearances
appearancesbecause
act,” said
act," said Ray. “We
becauseititdoesn't
"Weplay
doesn’tfit
play‘Well
fit in
'WellRespected
in with the
Respected Man’ Man' records like on a revue
on revue which
which he has written
rewriting."Satire
rewriting. “Satireis
written and
is aa very strong
andis
strong word,”
is now
now
word," said
said
at the beginning
-– but
bring
bring the
beginning and
but to include
include the
the pace
andbuildup
build upas
the other
pace down.”
down."
aswe
other two numbers
wego go along
numbers would would `SetMe
‘Set MeFree’”
Free' Ray.“I
will be
"Iwouldn’t
wouldn't say
be sketches
will be
saythat
sketches about
be related
relatedto
that ititwas
about people
tothe
thesongs
wassatirical
satirical but
people in London
but there
London which
songs–-BarryFantoni
there
which
Barry Fantoni may
Having laid
Having laid hold
holdof a piece
piece of apple
apple pie and and be the
be subjectof
the subject of one."
one.”
meticulously
meticulouslyexcavated excavatedthe thefruit
fruit from
from the the offending
offending pastry,
pastry, Ray added added After this,
this, the
the conversation
conversation suddenly
suddenly bbecameecame monopolised
monopolised byRay'sby Ray’s
that
that things
thingswere weregoing
going to have to change. change. An Anentirely
entirelynew
new act is being being description of
description banana shot.
of his banana shot. Ray hashas returned
returned to the football field and
to the and
built
built up include these
up to include these new -style hits
new-style hits andand The
The Kinks
Kinksare arebroadening
broadening seemed greatly encouraged
seemed greatly encouragedby byhis
hisdebut
debutin inaa Finchleyp
Finchley park last Tuesday
ark last
IVAN KEEMAN/REDFERNS, DEZO HOFFMANN/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK

their
their appeal.
appeal."We “We are going to to do
doless
lessballrooms
ballrooms and and clubs
clubs and and dodo whenhe
when he hammered
hammeredhome homeaa30-yarder.
30-yarder."It “Itswirled
swirledinto intothethecorner
cornerof of the
the
cabaret
cabaretand andsummer
summerseason,"
season,”said saidRay.
Ray."Not“Not Blackpool,though,"
Blackpool,though,”he he net,"
net,” demonstrated
demonstratedRay, Ray,swinging
swingingaaleg. leg."Rather
“Ratherlike likeDidi," grinned,
Didi,” he grinned,
hastened.
hastened."I “I couldn't
couldn’tplay playaa season
seasonin in Blackpool.
Blackpool. That would really naming
namingaa past
past Brazilian
Brazilian footballer, famous for forthis
thisparticular
particular shot.
break
break me up –-really! really! Dave Davies was down down with
with a bad
bad bout
bout of tonsilitis
tonsilitis and and Ray explained
explained
"Wewill
“We willdo dopantomime
pantomime though though-I – Imean,"
mean,”he hesmiled
smiledandandshookshookhis his he
he had
had to earlyfor
to go early their date
for their date in Worthing,
Worthing, just to put put in
in an
an appearance
appearance
head, "they're so right
head, “they’re right forforpanto
panto-really.
– really. Can't
Can’t you see
see the
theother
otherthree
three withthe
with theother
othertwo.
two.WeWe walked
walked downdownto to the
theoffice
office below, where we found found
all dressed
dressed up up in their costumes.
in their costumes.Swords Swordswill will get stuck in scabbards,
scabbards, The Kinks'
The Kinks’ co
co-manager Robert Wace pacing
-manager Robert abouthis
pacing about hisoffice,
office, taking
takingthe the
they'll
they’ll forget lines and
forget lines and trip
trip over. They’d
They'd be be marvellous.”
marvellous." measurements
measurementsfor foraanew
newcarpet.
carpet."Why“Whydon'tdon’tyouyoumeasure
measureyour yourfoot,"
foot,”
Rayhas
Ray has never
never beenbeen overwhelmingly
overwhelminglyanxious anxioustotovisit
visitthe
theUS since his
US since observed Ray withaadetached
observed Raywith detachedinterest.
interest."I“Iamamnot notaaRay RayDavies
Daviesfanfan today,"
today,”
last trip
trip when
when he became
became so so depressed
depressedthat thathehelocked
lockedhimself
himselfin inhis
hishotel
hotel returned
returnedRobert
Roberthaughtily
haughtily and
and continued
continuedhis his pacing.
pacing.
room and
room andrefused
refusedto tocome
comeout outuntil
untilhis hiswife
wifeRasa
Rasawas
wasflown
flownout outtoto join
join The other
other half of
ofthe
themanagement,
management, Grenville Collins, pointed pointed out
him.
him ."Financially,
“Financially,don't don’tyou youthink
thinkititwould
wouldbe be enormously
enormouslybbeneficial
eneficial for a few
fewof ofthe
theblotches
blotchesandand stains
stains on the
the carpet. “Thatwas
carpet. "That wasRobert
Robertin in 1963,"
1963,”
you to tour
you tour thetheUS?"
US?” I asked.
asked. he
he indicated
indicatedaa black smear.
smear. Ray
Rayraised
raised an an eyebrow
eyebrowand andmurmured
murmured
“Financially
"Financiallyititwould wouldbe bebeneficial
beneficialfor forusustotoplay
play every
every night,
night,but butwewe something abouthaving
something about havinggotgotananidea
ideafor
foraanew
new songsong as as he strode
strode onon
don't,"
don’t,” returned
returnedRay. Ray."The
“Thelastlasttour
tourwe wedid didininAmerica
Americawas wasterrible.
terrible.We We down the
down the stairs.
stairs. Now
Nowwhatwhat rhymes
rhymeswith with carpet?
carpet?KeithAltham
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THE INHERITORS
THE INHERITORS Melody Maker.
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Intelligent articles
articles Home”
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recently. It’s
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I think
think it’s
it's time
time that
that like that
that are
are enough
enough to
to renew
renew my ridiculous, but
ridiculous, but I don’t
don't mind.
mind. Why
young people
people started
started faithin
faith in the
theworld
worldof music.
music. Keep should
should hehe post
post all
all this, it’s just not
this, it's
taking
taking more interest
more interest it up,
it MM.
up, MM. worthwhile.
worthwhile. You hear hear everybody
everybody
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ZOOT MONEY, London,
London, WI
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knocking each other. It’sIt's getting
getting CI."'
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or out of hand.
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realise that
realise thatin in 10 years’
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PRIVET ENTERTAINMENT everybody
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the “cleanliving"
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country’sdifficulties.
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LEEDS,London,
London, W1 WI MAKE ONLY ONE GREAT BASS
people
people who are are running
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about thethe stage.
stage. Since
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teenagers shouldn't start
teenagers shouldn’t start kicking changed our line-up there
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you people
people inin
up a stink.
up stink. The papers
papers areare always
always only threeof
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five "Good
“Good News that made
Britain that
filled with stuff about
about strikes,
strikes, Week” boys with us –- and
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wish it could
could have
conditionsand
conditions andII wouldn't
wouldn’tlike like to
to a little
little bit
bitmore,
more,because
because whatever
whatever lasted
lasted longer. Special thanksthanks toto
thinkthat
think thatin in10
10 years’
years' time
time it’s
it's people say, we
people wethink
thinkit it basically everyone
everyone who bought “Uptight”;
bought "Uptight";
going to be partly
going partly my fault. comes down to to that.
that. it’s
it's fantastic to have
fantastic to have a record
record in
BILLY FURY, London,
BILLY London, W1WI HEDGEHOPPERS
HEDGEHOPPERSANONYMOUS, ANONYMOUS, your chart
chart for the
the first
first time.
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Manchester They’ve
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working hard
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BOB
BOB ONLY
ONLY KNOWS
KNOWS in Americanow,
inAmerica now, butbut I hope
hope to
Sorry, reader
reader DDSutherland,
Sutherland, but make
make it back to to England
England very
you’ve got hold of the
you've the wrong
wrong endend soon.
soon. Have a swinging
swinging timetime for
of the
the Dylan self-protest
Dylan self stick. If
-protest stick. me until
until I come
come back.
you'd care to
you’d care toread
readcarefully
carefullywhat
what STEVIE
STEVIEWONDER,
WONDER,Detroit,Detroit,
I wrote
wrote a few weeks
weeks ago you’d
you'd see Michigan
Michigan
that
that I slammed
slammed thethe people
people who
claimedthat
claimed thatDylan's
Dylan’slacklack of KEEP
KEEP IT
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CLASSY
success with
success with recent records was
recent records Why do dopeople
people still
stillthink
think the
the
because
because Dylan the theethnic
ethnicwas was whole scene
scene is still
still geared
geared to records
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protesting against
againstDylan
Dylan the the Promoters take
groups? Promoters
pop
pop folk idol. IIdon’t
don't think
think Dylan
Dylan advantage
advantage of of the
the fact they
they can
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is at
at all
allworried
worried about
about being
being get a local
local group
group for £10£10instead
instead records
successful.And I don’t
successful. don't agree
agree that
that BASS INSTINCTS
BASS INSTINCTS of paying
paying more
more and
and providing
providing get your Sinatra's
Paul Simon’s
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brand of talktalkis
is Why dodoIIget
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SEEKERS, Melbourne, Australia
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need groups, but I don’t
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THE DIGNITY OF LABOUR whenyou
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NOW, ANSBITER INRINCi YOU
singers are underworked
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CRISPIAN ST ST PETERS,
PETERS,
overpaid. Since
overpaid. Since our
our disc hit the A BRUSH WITH THE WALKERS
A BRUSH WITH THE WALKERS London
London SW3
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actually had
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The Walker Brothers
with only
with only 12 hours’ sleep. But
hours' sleep. But at voices and
and make
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records. HOPPING
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least we enjoy our work. Please
least Please But our high
high opinion
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 May 13, 1966, Wimbledon
May13,1966, Wimbledon
Palais, south
south London:
London:
a previous
previous Who
Who no-show,
no-show,
this
this time
time by Roger
Roger Daltrey,
Daltrey,
leaving
leaving Pete Townshend,
Keith Moonand
Keith Moon and John
John
Entwistle
Entwistle totogo
goon
on stage
stage
and play withouthim
playwithout him

"If itithappens
“If happens again,
I'm leaving”
I’m leaving
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MAY28 28Newbury
Newbury Ricky-Tick
Ricky -Tick club,
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Friday, May 20:
20: when
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Keith
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late for a Who
for a Who show,
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with a
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Moon was nursing
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“Well, y’know – whoneeds
needsit? it?IfIf it
Eye witness
witness accounts
accounts as as to what
what really happensagain
happens againI'mI’mleaving!"
leaving!”said saidKeith.
Keith.
happened are
happened areconflicting.
conflicting.Says Says Philip
Philip Pete Towshend, playing at the the Blackburn
Blackburn
Hayward, promoterfor
Hayward, promoter forthe
theRicky
Ricky-Tick club:
-Tick club: Locarnoon
Locarno onMonday
Mondaynight,night,said:
said:"We“We werewere
"Keith Moon and
“Keith and John
John due on stage.
stage. Keith had had
Entwistle didn’tget
Entwistle didn't get to
to gone outout with
with somebody
somebody
the club
the club until
until 10.10pm “I swung out
"I swung out with
with Theymust
else. They must have have
and, because the been
been outout for over two
audience were
audience getting
were getting my guitar, not hours
hours andand in in the
the endend we
bit restless,
restless, Pete start playing
a bit
Townshend and
Townshend andRoger
Roger really meaning to
really meaning to
had to start
without
without them.
them. Finally
Finally
Daltrey took the
Daltrey
without them,
without
the stage
them, and
stage
and did
hit Keith. I lost my
hit Keith. I lost my Keith turned
end
turned up.
end of ourour show
up. At the
show we
the
we got
number with
a number
supporting
with the
supporting band.
band.
the grip and
grip and it caught
caught mad
mad in
and
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in ‘…Generation’
and it annoyed
annoyed me me in in the
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"Anyway, and him on the head”
him on the head" middle
middle of the the number
number
John
John arrived
arrived after
after whenaa cymbal
when cymbal from from hishis
visitingReady,
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drums fellfell and
and hit hit my
Go!and
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wentstraight
straight on
on stage.
stage.They
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had leg. IIwasn’t
wasn't hurt;
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wasjust
justannoyed
annoyed and and
completed about
completed about35 minutes of their
35 minutes their upset.Then
upset. ThenIIswung
swungout outwith
withmy my guitar,
guitar,
40-minute
40 -minute spot and and were putting
putting ononaa good
good not really
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meaningto tohit
hitKeith.
Keith.IIlostlost my
show andand playing veryverywell.
well. Halfway grip the instrument
grip of the instrument and anditit just caught
just caught
through 'My
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‘My Generation’ energetic himon
him on the
thehead.
head.At At the
the weekend,
weekend, I went
part, Keith’s drums
part, Keith's fell forward.
drums fell forward.PetePetewas
was to Keith’s
to Keith's home
home in in Wembley
Wembleyto to apologise
apologise
about hitting
leaping about hitting his
his guitar
guitar in the
in the but
but he wouldn't answer
he wouldn’t answerthe thedoor.
door.It's It’s over
over
amplifier when Keith bobbed
amplifier when forwardto
bobbed forward to and
and done
done with
with now
now and and there’s
there's nono
retrieve the drums
retrieve the drumsand andreceived
receivedaablowblow on
on suggestion that
suggestion that we might break breakup up
the side
the side of his
his head.”
head." because
becauseof what happened.”
happened."

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perform"lAmARock"on
perform “I Am A Rock” on

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“Everybody
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asks me
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about
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Bob Dylan”
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Paul Simon
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talks LSD,
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British Folk
FolkClubs
ClubsMy favourite!
My favourite!I’d
I'drather
rather work
work
in a British
British folk
folk club than an American
American club.
There the
There the atmosphere
atmosphereis is more
more like a nightclub
nightclub
with waiters
with waiters and
and tables. At British
British clubs, the
audiences are very very attentive and very
attentive and very open-
open-
minded. Thereisis beautiful
minded.There beautifulidealism
idealismand
and none
of that
of thatNew
NewYork
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cynicism.New
NewYork
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a cynical
cynical town.
town. They
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don't believe
believe
much. Dylan
much. once said...
Dylan once said… Forget it,
Forget it,
IIdon’t
don't want toto talk
talk about
about Dylan.
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admit that
that I’m
I'm not
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very familiar withwithTheThe Bachelors'
Bachelors’ work.work.
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heardtheirtheir record
record of of “Sound
"Sound Of Of
Silence” and
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thought ititwas was quite
quite
good and entertained
good entertained aa lot of people. agree
agree on most if
if he’s
he's criticised
criticised me. me. He He might
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preferred our our own
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certainly writtenwrittensome somebeautiful
beautifulsongs.songs.ThereThere
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Rock'n'Roll Whenit’s it'sgood,
good, it’s
it's very
very we disagree
disagree are good
good and and bad badcontemporary
contemporary songwriters
songwriters
good, and
good, and whenwhen it's
it’s bad,
bad, it's
it’s lousy. on some of of and goodgood and bad folk folk singers. Ewan MacColl MacColl
Some of the best are
the best are The
The Rolling
Rolling my songs. He is one
one of of the
the good
good ones.
Stones. Inever
Stones.' never could
could stand
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wholeconversation
conversation about about itit in
in
until I heard “Satisfaction”.
until "Satisfaction". When it’s it's them
them andand I an interview
interview with with an old guy recently recently and
bad it’s
bad it's Gary Lewis &
Gary Lewis & The
The Playboys. don’t
don't because we spoke for for about
about ten minutes before before
Their music
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doesn't meanmean a damn thing. thing. It’s
It's I don’t
don't believe
believe in in them
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realised he hewaswastalking
talkingabout
about pounds,
pounds,
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puerile. Yardbirds and The Hollies. Hollies. Soldiers
SoldiersEmotionally,
Emotionally,I’m I'mtremendously
tremendously against
against shillings
shillings and and pence.
pence. I thoughtthought IIwas was in the
Bob Dylan
Bob DylanEverybody
Everybodyasks asksme meabout
about Bob
Bob Dylan.
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Intellectually, II realise they are part part middle
middle of ofaa Chekhov
Chekhovplay. play.LSD
LSDhas has
Unfortunately,
Unfortunately, I'm I’m always being being compared
compared to to of the game of of international politics.II wish
international politics. wish we tremendous potentiality.There
tremendous potentiality. There is aadefinition
definition
Bob
Bob Dylan,
Dylan, but but II don’t
don't think
think we are talking
talking didn’t
didn't have them, particularly
particularly in in America
America now that genius is the
that genius the ability
ability to see relationships
relationships –-
about the
about the same things. Our Our philosophies
philosophies are are with Vietnam. I don’t don't know what what the
the solution
solution all kinds
kindsof ofrelationships
relationships–-that that other people
different.He
different. Heisis always dumping
dumping people
people more
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be.They tell the
the American
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are don’t
don't see. see. Scientists have expounded expounded a theory theory
than I do. It’s
than It's really
really easy
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somebody there
there because of a moral moralcommitment,
commitment, but but we that
that a chemical reaction reaction makesmakes for genius. LSD
for genius.
down. It’s
down. It's tougher
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mindstimulant,
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biggestthing
biggest thingDylan
Dylanhas has got going for
got going forhim
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to communicate
communicate with. with. Artie
Artie just want
just wantto tolive
livein in peace
peace and and geniuses! They could could cure
likes
likes him.
him. More than II do.
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doesn't matter
matter to to them rich man but but it
rich man but but it all mental mental disorders.
disorders. But if
Garfunkel Artie.
Garfunkel Artie. Shy
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withdrawn. He He seems who it is that
that comes along it is not
not used
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properly it
strangeto
strange tomost
mostpeople.
people.I've I’veknown
knownhim himsince
since and burns
burns their
their villages. didn’t affect him.
didn't affect him. can cause cause lasting
lasting damage.
damage.
we were kids. He’s
and believes strongly
He's veryvery bright
strongly in
bright and sensitive
in what
what he's
sensitive
he’s doing.
doing. We
Barry Sadler
record
SadlerOh
record is the
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the American
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Temperance Seven."
Temperance Seven.” ODEON THEATRE
Jim
Jim McGuinn
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all came The
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facet of the the Bonzos
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and hard work in
hard work in IANNTOCA

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out ofof folk
folk into
into folk
folk rock.
rock.'I don’t
don't think
think its producing
producing oneone of thethe funniest
funniest sights and and sounds
sounds on on the scene. They hope
the scene. hope _BOB DYLAN
commercialisation.
commercialisation. It’s It's just another
another way wayof of to become
become professional
professional on on leaving
leaving art school in July
art school Julyand
and areare already
already reps 7 pat
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saying what you you want
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culled from old 78s andand song
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music is much
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folk clubs. try to avoid
avoidbeing
beinginvolved
involvedin inone
oneparticular
particular period.
period.
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think the
the regime
regime in South Africa is
Africa is Their music
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generates neurotic frenzy, played played on on tubular
tubular bells, banjos,
banjos, tubas,
tubas,
Rhodesia
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emotionbut but not
not saxophones-and
saxophones – andspoons.
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rest of
of the
the tour
tour
a lot
lot of thinking.
thinking. II think
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is: Belfast ABC(6),
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and I don’t
don't think
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to do
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contributes delightful
delightful dancing
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what he did.
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certainly think
think the African
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in Rhodesia
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and high explosives, beat beat each
each other
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bludgeons and and (11),
OA Birmingham
Birmingham
government,and
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Rhodesian situation
situation occasionally don
occasionally don gorilla
gorilla suits.
suits. Odeon (12),
Odeon (12),
develops into
develops into a situation
situation like South Africa Africa it Drummer
DrummerSamuel SamuelSpoons,
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chainedto tohis
hiskit
kit of ancient
ancient drums,
drums, Liverpool
Liverpool Odeon
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will be a tragedy.
will tragedy. People
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(14),Leicester
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Montfort Hall (15),
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the street whatwhat he thought
thought he'd he’d probably
probablysay: say: admirers.
greatest admirers. Sheffield
Sheffield Gaumont
(16),
(16),Manchester
Manchester
“What’s Rhodesia?"
"What's Rhodesia?” And greatest
greatest ofofall,
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Anger Not
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often, except
except at myself.
myself. Most
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featuring explosions, masks, masks,shrieks,
shrieks,groans
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Odeon
of my experience
of experience of of anger
anger is withwith people
people who complicated machinery
complicated machinery entranceentranceand anddelight
delight thousands
thousandsof of Bonzo (19),
(19),Edinburgh
Edinburgh
are angry
are angry at at us. lovers. “Publicans
"Publicans nevernever complain
complainabout aboutthethenoise,"
noise,”says
saysNeil.
Neil."Only
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showman.Can’t Can't say IIgogo the
the customers aren’tdrinking
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Hall (26 and27).
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tonight
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in 1966: (l–r) Sydney “Big Sid”
beat movement.
beat movement. He’s He's thethe prototype English
prototype English Nicholls,
N icholls, Roger Ruskin Spear,
Roger Ruskin Spear, Rugby
Rugby (May
(May6) 6)and
and
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beat "Satisfaction" on, on, I've
I’ve “Legs”LarrySmith,
"Legs" Larry Smith,Leon
Leon the
the Burlesque Club,
Burlesque Club,
Williams,VivianStanshall,
Williams, Vivian Stanshall,
listened to
listened to everything
everythingthey've they’vemade.
made.IIwas was Sam Spoons,
Sam Rodney “Rhino”
Spoons,Rodney"Rhino"
Leicester (7).
Leicester (7).
smashed when when IIheard
heard“Satisfaction”.
"Satisfaction". Slater,Neil
Slater, Neil Innes,Vernon
Innes, Vernon MM
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MAY77
Dudley Bohay-Nowell
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“I
"I don’t
don't get
over things
very easily…”
easily..."
Shoes, shopping
Shoes, shopping and
and aaChelsea
Chelseaapartment
apartment are
are nice,
nice,
but theycan't
but they can’tfully
fullyturn
turn DUSTYSPRINGFIELD's
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD’s head.
head.
Throughout the
Throughout the year,
year, NME
NME builds
buildsaacordial
cordialrelationship
relationship
with the
with the singer,
singer, gently
gentlyuncovering
uncoveringaa person
personof of deep
deep
feelings and
feelings and musical
musicalconviction.
conviction. “I
"I don’t know what
don't know what
to do,"
to do,” she
she says.
says. “I’ve got to
"I've got to go
go to
to Wigan…”
Wigan..."

T'S EVERYDAY
T’S NOT EVERY DAYyou
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clutching

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of monkey-business

before

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mournfully
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muttering
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themiddle

before I knew that

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scene which
which greeted
greetedme
that four
with"You
very un-hipand
holdingon onto
theRSPCA.
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devil,” Dustywas
mewhen
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happensvery
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whenII strolled
four days
days later
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wailing."Heaven
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No sir! That
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the floor, and

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at Wembley last Friday,

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must bring
and Dusty
Dustywas
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around

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was the

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luck!
bring luck!
was

why.He's
as

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just
been
been delivered in inthis
thisorange
orangebox...
box… no noname,
name,no noanything.
anything.IIsuppose
supposeit’sit'sa birthday
abirthdaypresent-
present –
I’m
I'm 26 tomorrow.
tomorrow. But But I don’t
don't know
knowwhatwhatI'mI’mgoing
goingto tododoabout
abouthim.
him.I've
I’vegot
gotto togo
go to
to Wigan.”
Wigan."
Wigan waits for no
Wigan waits no monkey,
monkey, so soshe
shewaswashaving
havingto tododosome
somevery
veryswift enquiries about
swift enquiries about who
who
could give thethe little
little fellow
fellowaahome
home forforthe
thenight.
night.Meanwhile
Meanwhile he heappeared
appeared to be be frightened
frightened and and
hungry (viz, one
hungry one nibbled
nibbled trouser
trouser suit), so Dusty
Dustytook
took himhim away
awayfrom
from the
the bright
brightstudio
studiolights
lightsup
up
her dressing
to her dressing room.
room. Here she shefed
fedhim
himwith
withapples,
apples,and andhe
heshowed
showedhis hisappreciation
appreciationbydoing
by doing
something highlyunexpected
something highly unexpectedindeed. indeed.Seems
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monkeyshavehave no respect for stars
no respect stars –-top
top of
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He went
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wildwhen
whenDustyDustygentlytried
gently tried to put him
to put him back in thethe orange
orange box.
box.“Obviously
"Obviouslyhe he
regards it as aaprison,"
regards prison,” she said. “He’s"He'ssuch
suchaasad sadlittle
littlething.
thing.He
Hemust
mustbe terrified."Eventually
be terrified.” Eventually
he was
was left
leftwith
withaafriend
friend and Dusty and
and Dusty andII adjourned
adjourned for foraa cup
cup of excellent
excellent tea
teaat atthe
theReady,
Ready,
Steady, Go!Go!canteen,
canteen, where she she still
stillseemed
seemed preoccupied
preoccupied with her her monkey
monkeygift. gift.
"I appreciate it,"
“I do appreciate she told
it,” she told me,
me,“but
"butititisisaalittle crueljust
little cruel justsending
sendinghim himalong
alonglike likethat.
that.
I couldn’t hope to
couldn't hope to look after
after him myself, what
him myself, with being
what with being on
on tour
tour soso much.
much. MindMind you, I really
really
pets. IIused
love pets. used to
to have
have aacat named Boots,
cat named Boots,agesagesago,
ago, but
buthe
he died.
died.And I've got
And I’ve got aadog now, »
dog now,,

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ROCK 1966
1966
DustySpringfield
Dusty Springfield
performingon
performing onReady,
Ready,
Steady, Go!, Wembley
Steady,Go!,Wembley,
Studios, London, 1966
Studios,London,1966
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namedMo.
named Mo. I don’tdon't see much much of Mo because
ofMo because he’s he's looked
after by
after by my manager’s
manager's sister. sister.He'sHe’saa lovely little thing thing
but he’s
but he's got something
something wrong with with himhim thatthat makes
makes his
bones brittle
bones brittle andand he's
he’s always breaking breaking them."them.”
She looked
looked very verysad sadand and IIgallantly
gallantly switched
switched the the
subject
subject to the the first
first topic
topicthat thatcame
cameinto intomy myhead-
head – how
long hadhad she been been singing
singing professionally?!
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tugged absently
absently at at the
the lapel
lapel of her her corn-coloured
corn -coloured
trouser
trouser suit ("Darling" one of
suit (“Darling” ofthe
theproduction
production assistants
assistants
had said
had said earlier,
earlier, “the suit’s sweet
"the suit's sweet and and allall that
that butbut you
can’twear
can't wearitit to sing aa ballad”)ballad") and and told me:
“Well,
"Well, IIcertainly
certainly haven’t
haven't been beensinging
singingfor for1010 years.
years.
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dailypapers
papers printed
printed that,that,and andit'sit’s just
just not
not
true. I have been
true. been singing aawhile while though,
though,and andII guess
guess my my
brotherTom
brother Tomhelpe helped d meme get into into the
t hebusiness.
business. I was was with
with
a group
group called
called The TheLanaLana Sisters
Sisters(now The Chantelles),
(nowTheChantelles),
and then
and thencame cameThe TheSpringfields.
Springfields.One Oneof the the first
appearancesIImade
appearances madewas wasat ataa talent
talentcontest
contestin inEaling.
Ealing.
Tom played
played the the piano,
piano, and and I sangsang numbers
numbers like Ar
AprilI 15,, 1966:
66:D sty
Dusty
'I LoveAPiano'
‘I Love A Piano’ and and ‘When
'When That Midnight Choo-
That Midnight Choo- backstage at Ready, Steady,
backstageatReady,Steady,
Go!withhergiftfroman
Go! with her gift from an
Choo Leaves For
Choo Alabama’!” (laughs).
ForAlabama'!" (laughs). unknown well-wisher –
unknownwell-wisher-
Suddenly an an announcement
announcement came came over the the r"- "I supposeit'sabirthday
“I suppose it’s a birthday
present.I'm26tornorrow"
present. I’m 26 tomorrow”
tannoy,asking
tannoy, askingwould wouldMiss MissDusty
DustySpringfield
Springfieldgo goto to
the reception
the receptiondesk. desk.She She downed
downedher hercupcupof of tea.
“I’ll
"I'll bet
bet it’s
it's that
that monkey
monkey again,” again," she she grinned.
grinned. And AndI'll I’ll 1111 NOWT NAVE -

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memories
memories Fortier for her because
because she she is aa very
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MONKEY STOP PRESS:
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and she can
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and there’s
there's aawhole
whole sorts
sorts of things.
things. Dusty is so soemotional
emotional that that a broken
broken
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waiting listofof other
otherpet pet-lovers
-lovers who who havehaveoffered
offeredto togive
give itit a home
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relationship canaffect
affectherhervery
verydeeply
deeplyfor foraa long time. "There
long time. “There are are
needsbe.
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letterstotoDusty,
Dusty,please!
please!Alan AlanSmith
Smith two occasions
occasions in in my
my life when when IIhavehavesuffered
suffered from from aabroken
broken romance,”
romance,"
she told me almost shyly. “In
almost shyly. "In other casesit's
other cases it’s just
just sort
sortof fizzled
fizzled away, but
twice
twice it has been been as as if my whole world
mywhole world has has broken
brokenup. up.II don't
don’tget get over
over
—
- NME NME JUNE JUNE 33—- things
things like like that
thatveryveryeasily.
easily. It takes
takes a long time. time. I’dI'd like
like tototell
tellyouyoumore,
more,but but
OU DON'T
yOU DON’T EXPECT EXPECTto tofind
findDusty
Dusty Springfield
Springfield gorgeously
gorgeously it’s
it's very
very personal
pers onaland and notnot the
the kind
kind of ofthing
thing you you could
could put put in in print.”
print."

Y singing “Good
singing "Good Lovin’”
Chelsea Barracks…
Majesty’s Armed
Majesty's Armed Forces anywhere
Lovin'" in
Barracks... and
anywhere in
in an
andwith
an empty
withnot
empty drill hall in the
notone
in sight.
oneof of the
sight. But that’s
thelads
the middle
lads of Her
that's the
middle of

the way I found found

In the
buying
the past
past few
buying a house.
Says Dusty:
house.
fewweeks

Dusty:“It’s
weeksmost mostof

"It'saamagnificent
ofher

magnificent place
herspare
sparetime

placein
timehas

inChelsea
hasbeen

Chelsea(even
beentakentakenup

(eventhough
upwith

though ititneeds
with

needs
our "You
our “You Don’tDon't Have Have To Say You YouLoveLoveMe” Me"star starwhen
when we wemet met this
this week! doing
doing up up a bit) and and I’mI'm thinking
thinking of ofitit in
in terms
terms of of an investmentas
an investment aswell
wellasasaa
The dishy
dishy DustyDustywas was dressed
dressedlike like aa Paris
Paris model
model from from the the front
front page of home.
home. It’s It's got
got aalovely
lovelyroof roofterrace
terraceand andthree
threebedrooms,
bedrooms, aadining dining room,
room, an an
Vogue,
Vogue,leaning
leaningover overan anupright
upright pianopiano and and singing
singing in in a clear, ringingringing voice L-shaped
L-shaped living livingroom,
room,aabreakfast
breakfast-room-cum-anything-else-at-all
-room -cum -anything -else -at -all room, room,
that bounced
that bouncedaround aroundthe thealmost
almostdeserted
deserted dressing
dressing room.
room. A Afew fewfefeet away
et away a large
large kitchen,
kitchen, aapatiopatio andand aayard. Actually, IIhaven’t
yard.Actually, haven'tquitequite completed
completed the
stood a blackboard
stood blackboard with withthe thechalked
chalkedlegend:legend:"Details
“DetailsOf Of Enemy, Know purchase
purchase yet, yet, because
because I'm I’m having
having the the place
place surveyed
surveyed just to make make suresure
What YouAre
What You Are Doing.”Doing." everything
everything isisall all right
right structurally."
structurally.”She Shecrossed
crossedher herfingers
fingersfor forluck.
luck.
Heaven
Heaven knows where all the the usual
usual soldiers
soldiers were at at aatime
timelike likethis
this-– out There are are two
two Dustys.
Dustys.The Thesensible,
sensible,practical
practicalone onewhowhothinksthinksaboutabout
on manoeuvres,
manoeuvres, I suppose suppose-but – butI'll
I’llguarantee
guaranteeyou youthat thatthe the delectable,
delectable, things
things like that, and the
that, and theother
otherone one(as(as sheshe admits)
admits) who who needs
needsto to be
be
lonesome
lonesome-looking -looking Dusty Dustywas wasaa sight theywould
sight they wouldhave haverather
ratherseen! seen!"You
“You controlle d when
controlled when she she runs
runs amok on expensiveexpensive shoppingshopping sprees.
sprees.
Don’tHave
Don't Have To Say SayYouYou LoveLoveMe” Me"be beblowed.
blowed.They Theywouldwould have have gone gonemad!mad! She toldtold me:
me:“I "Iliterally need to take someone
literallyneed someone along alongwith withme mewhenwhenII go
What,
What, I askedasked her, her, is aa nice
nice girl
girl like
likeyouyoudoingdoing in in aaplace
place likelikethis?
this? shopping
shopping for forclothes.
clothes.IfIfII do, I buy buy aacouple
couple of ofnice
nice dresses
dresses at at almost
almost £10 £10 –-
Chirped Dusty:
Chirped Dusty:"What “Whataaquestion,
question,folks! folks!Actually,
Actually, I’m I'm rehearsing
rehearsing for for my
my and I’ll like them.
and I'll them. If IIgo gooutoutononmy myown ownI Igo gomadmadand andsee seesosomany beautiful
manybeautiful
first TV series
first series for for the
the BBC.
BBC.ItItgoes goesoutoutshortly,
shortly,but butdon’t
don'texpect
expect to see see me
me things, importedclothes
things, imported clothesand andso soon,
on,and andIIspend
spendfar fartoo
too much.
much.II have a
doing anything
doing anything differentdifferentlike like playing
playing the the xylophone
xylophone on a trampoline. trampoline. 'magazine' taste
‘magazine’ taste in clothes-I– Isee
in clothes seeananelegant
elegant picture
picture in magazine and
in a magazine and
All IIdodoisissing….
sing....and,
and,oh, oh,play
playthetheguitar
guitar aabit. bit.I’ve
I'vebe behaving
havingguests guests like
like I have
have to to go
gooutoutand
and buy.buy. Mod
Mod gear?
gear?No, No,not notififyou
youmeanmeanreally
really offbeat
offbeat
Dudley Moore
Dudley Moore and and so so on, but I won’t won't be be joining
joining in in their
their acts
acts veryvery much.
much. stuff. I think
think you can can be with with it without
without going crazy, crazy, andand I knowknowmy mytastes
tastes
I don’t
don't believe
believe in in cramping
cramping people’speople's style. This series series willwillbe bemy whole
mywhole change
change just as fashionsfashions change change-I'm – I’mbuying
buyingshoes shoesnow nowof ofthethekind
kindII
world for the the next
next fewfewweeks.
weeks. LumpedLumped togethertogether it comes comes to to three
three hours
hours wouldn't have
wouldn’t have been
beenseen seendeaddeadin inaa year ago. And Andthere’s
there's another
another thing:thing:
of programme,
programme, and and you wouldn’t
wouldn't believe how much much rehearsal
rehearsal and and shoes.
shoes. I went went outout this
this morning
morning and andbought
boughtfour fourpairs
pairsfor for£50.
£50.FiftyFifty
preparation
preparationgoes goes into that. Funny Funnything,thing,I've I’ve been to this this barracks
barracks three three pounds! Don't
pounds! Don’ttelltell me
me its extravagance 'cos
its extravagance ’cosII know. should have had
know. I should
timesnow,
times now, and andII still
still haven’t
haven't seen seenaasoldier!
soldier! It's It’s like a ghostghost town!”
town!" someone
someone with withme meto to stop
stopme."
me.”
She pulled
pulled up aa canvas-backed
canvas -backed chair chair and and satsat down,
down, and and as we weprepared
prepared We got got upup totoleave
leaveand and IIasked
askedDusty
Dusty ififI Icould
coulddrop dropher hersomewhere
somewhere in
to chat
chat for aafew fewminutes
minutes IIthoughtthought I’d I'd throw
throw in in aawayway-out -outquery
queryjust just for the West End.
the End. SheShesaid saidyesyesandandthethecabcabstopped
stopped at one one of ofLondon’s
London'smost most
luck. What
What interviewers’
interviewers' questions,questions,IIasked, asked, borebore you you thethe most? exclusive stores, Dickins& Jones.
stores, Dickins Jones. IIjustjustdidn’t
didn't have
have time
time to go in inand
and
You
Youcouldcould telltellititwas
wasaatopictopicdeardeartotoher herheart.
heart.“Mainly,”
"Mainly,"said saidDusty,
Dusty,“the"the “control”
"control" her. her.But
But I hope
hope she she didn't
didn’tspend
spendtoo toomuch!
much!Alan AlanSmith
Smith
one about
one about'Do ‘Doyouyouleave
leave youryour makeup
makeupon onforforaa week?
week?’' Some Some people people seemseem
to think
think II leave the the whole
whole lot on, just just caked
caked there.
there. II don’t,
don't, but butI do
sometimesleave
sometimes leavemy my eye makeupmakeup on. on. That’s becauseit's
That's because it’s such
such an aneffort
effort toto
—
- NME NMEJULY JULY 1515—-
STAN MEAGHER/EXPRESS/GETTY

take off! Another

take Another boringboring question
question is is 'How
‘How did did you start?’start?' So much much has has OY BOATS FLOATING
rTOYBOATS FLOATING onona pond…
a pond...innocent
innocentlaughter
laughter in in the
the
been
been saidsaid and
some people
some
Dusty
and written
peoplecan
hasn’tgot
Dustyhasn't
writtenabout
canbe."be.”
aboutThe

gotaafollow-up
The Springfields,

follow-uptoto"You
Springfields, I'm

“YouDon't
Don’tHave HaveTo
amazed at
I’m amazed

ToSayYou
at how dense

Say You Love Me”

dense

Me"
T hit “Goin’
summer sunshine
summer sunshine-these
Dusty Springfield sings
"Goin' Back”.
Back".But ButDusty
– theseare
singsabout
Dustyhas hasher
arethe
aboutin
herown
thekind
inher
own vivid
kindof of childhood
herhauntingly
childhood memories
hauntinglybeautiful
vividrecollections
beautiful chart
recollections of times times
chart

yet. But ititwill willbe berecorded

recordedany anydaydaynow,now,and andthe thechoice
choiceisisbetween
between two two when she wore aagymslip gymslipand and played
playedhappilyhappilyin inthe
thepark,
park,dreaming
dreaming
ballads.They're
ballads. They’renot notItalian
Italianlike likethe
thecurrent
currenthit hit("a(“apity,"
pity,”she shesays,says, that one
that one day she might might be a famous famous star. star.
“becauseII adore Italian
"because Italian songs. They Theyhavehave suchsuch emotion.
emotion. I think think thethe “I
"I remember
remember the the low dronedrone of planes
planes afterafter a bombing
bombing raid," raid,” she she told
told me
me
originalItalian
original Italianversion
versionof ofmyre
my recordcord waswas far far superior.”)
superior.") this
this week. “I "I remember
remember the theendendof of the
the war, dressed
dressed up upin in aa white
white baby
baby

36 HISTORY OF
36 |I HISTORY OF ROCK
ROCK 1966
1966
1965
 DUSTY SPRINGFIELD
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD

siren suit for the the victory

victorycelebrations.
celebrations. I remember
remember a long long I signed
signed them
them up on the the spot.”
spot." He Heremembers
remembers that that although
although he hewas was sorry,
sorry,
table in the the road,
road, piled
piled high
high with
with cakes
cakes for
forthe
theparty…
party... didn't think
he didn’t thinkitit was the the end
end for DustyDustywhen whenthe thehit -making Springfields
hit-making Springfields
happy faces again… again... the the sight of my myfirst
firstbanana,
banana, when when thethe later decided
decided to to split
split and
and go their own ways.
their own
supplies
supplies of fruit fruit started again!
started again! “I
"Iknew
knewshe shehadhadterrific
terrificpotential,”
potential," he he told
toldme, me,“and"anddecided
decided right right away
away
"Iremember
“I remember how howIIlikedlikedpeppermints
peppermintsand andmint
minthumbugs,
humbugs, to make
make aa lot of titles
titles with
with her and releasean
and release anLP.LP. One
One of the the first
first solo songssongs
and
and I waswas fat,
fat,with
withlittle
littlepebble
pebble glasses
glasses because
because I was short-short- we diddid was
was ‘Wishin’
`Wishin' And Hopin’’,Hopin", which which was a terrific terrific hit for her her in in the
the
sighted.
sighted. Even today todaymy my sight
sight is bad.
bad. IIremember
remember how howlI liked States. Even then then sheshe knew
knew the the kind
kind of ofnumbers
numbers she she wanted
wanted to record. record.
ice-lollies…
ice -lollies... how howlI got gotsick
sickon onthetheswings…
swings...my first holiday
myfirst holiday She had had always been been anan avid disc collector.
collector. She really really knewknew what what was was
in Bognor…
Bognor... being being a little
little baby,
baby,playing
playingwith
withboat
boat ininthe
the going on.
bath. OnceII fell off
bath. Once offaatable
tableon onto toaastone
stone floor
floor and
and hit my “In
"In fact,
fact, Dusty
Dustyisis such
suchaa record
recordlover,lover, youyou could
could give give her
her oneone great
great newnew
head, andand another
another time timeII fell fromfrommy mypram
pram andand hithit myself Americandisc
American discandandititwould
wouldprob probably
ably me mean moreto
an more toher
herthanthanififyou yougavegave
on the
the pavement.
pavement. Perhaps Perhapsthat thatexplains
explainsaalotlotofof things!
things! her
her a Rolls-Royce.
Rolls-Royce.ThroughoutThroughout my my career
careerII have have beenbeenluckyluckyto to bebe
“When
"When I was was aboutabout 10,10,IIwaswaspure pureStStTrinian’s.
Trinian's.IIremember
remember associated
associated in in one
one way or oranother
another with with somesome greatgreat artists…
artists... AnneAnneShelton,
Shelton,
I always
alwaystried tried to tokeep
keepup upwith
withpeople
peopleolder
olderthan
than myself,
myself,and and Vera Lynn, Frankie Vaughan,Ronnie
Frankie Vaughan, RonnieCarroll,Carroll,Shirley
ShirleyBBassey,ass ey, and and a lot of of
I would
would jump jump about, lookingvery,
about, looking very, veryfat
very fatin
inaa big gymslip.
gymslip. others, too.
others, too.
I went
went to toaaconvent
conventschoolschoolin inHigh
HighWycombe,
Wycombe,and andanother
another “They
"They allall have
have that
that special
special something.
something. And AndDusty Dustyis is no
no exception.
exception.II will
school in Ealing.
Ealing. IIdidn’tdidn'tthink
think schooldays
schooldays were the the this. IfIfDusty
say this. Dustyhad just made
had just made an an absolutely
absolutely sensational
sensational record, record, and and sheshe
happiest
happiest days daysof of mylife
my lifeand andII still
still don't.
don’t.There
Therewere wereaa lot
lot of felt that
that by
bytrying
trying again
again she she could
could getgetititjust
juston onperpercentcentbetter…
better...then then trytry
hard
hard times,
times, and andI know that that when
when you look back backyouyou always
always again she would. She
again Sheisissuch
suchaaperfectionist
perfectionistthat thatsometimes
sometimes she she hashasbeen
been
tryto
try to get affectionate
affectionate about about the the past
past and
andremember
remember the the misunderstood
misunderstood by bypeople
peoplewho whodon'tdon’tknow knowher herwell.
well. I have heard heard it said said
happiness. It's
happiness. only natural.”
It’s only natural." that she can
that she can be be difficult,
difficult, but but what
what can
can you expect expect when when she she loves her her
“I
"Ididn’t
didn't like
like lessons
lessons but but IIdidn’t
didn't have
have the
the courage
courage to cheat.
cheat. music so much? So many
music many artists
artists get upsetupset if they they feel that that thethe people
people
Not that
that it’s
it's aacourageous
courageous thing, thing, anyway.
anyway. I liked
likedhistory
history and
and around them
around themare are not
not getting
getting thingsthings right.
right.
geography and and French
French and and English
Englishgrammar.
grammar. IIstruggled
struggled “One
"One ofofDusty’s
Dusty'sgreatest
greatest loveslovesisisthe therhythm
rhythm section
section-–and andshe shewill will often
often
through to
through toGCE,
GCE, but but I got
gotaahate
hateon onabout
aboutEnglish
Englishbecause
because overand
go over and makemake suggestions
suggestions which, in the the early
early days,
days, somesome musicians
musicians
the book
the book they
theygave
gave me me toto read
read was was Mansfield
Mansfield Park, Park, which
whichII didn’t like.
didn't like. resented.
resented. They Theyknew knewit, it, and they weren’tgoing
and theyweren't goingtotobe betold
toldby byaa newcomer!
newcomer!
I think
think I waswas too
too wrapped
wrapped up upin inBudd
BuddShulbShulberg.erg. Now? Now Nowthey theydon’t
don't taketake exception.
exception. They
“Up
"Up to the age of seven
the age seven or eighteight I think
think II was
was know
know that that when
when she she makes
makes aa suggestion,
suggestion, it's it’s
a nice child.
I often
measles,
child. I wasn’t
often used
wasn't fat, I was
used to wear
measles, and
wear pretty
and after that
wasquitequite pretty,
frocks. Then
prettyfrocks.
that everything
everything seemed
pretty, and
Then I had
seemed to
and

to
"Dusty had
“Dusty had always a good one.
always
for her music.”
When
music."
When we spoke
one. She

spoke at
She hashas an

at Johnny’s
an instinctive
instinctive feel

Johnny's office (early (early in in the

the
change.II got fat and
change.
pictures.II was brought
pictures.
and horrible.
horrible. II used
brought up up on the
used to to love the
the pictures.
pictures. II
the
always been day) he
which had
which
he had
had been
hadgone
been at
gone on
ataaDusty
on till
Dustyrecording
till ten
recording session
ten to five in inthethe morning.
morning.
remember
rememberthe thefirst
first one
one I sawsawwas was called …The ...The We're
We’re both both night
night birds,”
birds," he smiled.smiled. “Dusty"Dusty
BodySnatchers.
Snatchers.IIdon’t
ever allowed
ever allowed me me to
don'tknow
to see
knowhow
see it. I was
howmy
wasbrought
mother
mymother
brought up on
an avid disc
an prefers to
prefers
there.We just
there.
to record
record at
just go goon
at night
night and
ontill
andwe
tillwe’re
we take
we'rehappy
take it from
happywith with the the
20th Century
20th CenturyFox
idol, and
and I always
and dancing
and
Fox musicals.
musicals. June
always dreamed
dancing and
dreamed of being
and singing
singing myway
June Haver
Haver was
being like her
my way through
was my

through aa
her collector”
collector" result."
and let
and let the
throughthe
through
swivelledround
result.” He swivelled
tinglingsound
the tingling
theroomroomonce
round to
soundof
once again.
again.
tothe
of"Goin'
therecord-player
record-player
“Goin’Back" Back” soak soak

wonderful
wonderfulworld world of musicmusic and and Technicolor. YOU 00N1 OAK 10 SAY YOU IOW/ MI
“We
"We alsoalso spend
spend a lot lotof oftime
timeputting
putting the the
“I
"I dreamed
dreamed so much much of being being in in showbusiness.
showbusiness. I backing voices on,
backing on, with
with Dusty
Dusty and and Madeline
Madeline
enteredaa talent
entered contestat
talent contest at the
the Little Theatre
Theatre in Bell and and Lesley
LesleyDuncan.
Duncan. They They get getaatremendous
tremendous
Ealing, and
Ealing, and I won the the heat,
heat, butbut decided
decided not notto to go to sound. Dusty
sound. Dusty sessions
sessions are are quite
quite hard
hardwork. work. She
the finals
the finals because
becauseII was also chosen chosen for the the is pretty
pretty serious
serious in in the
the studio,
studio, and andit's it’s a good
school choir. IIremember
remember-–oh, oh, so muchmuch-–my my first
first thing. Incidentally, we’re
thing. we're always
alwayspretty prettymuchmuch
big, romantic
romantic crush,
crush,when whenII was very, very,very
veryyoung
young agreement about
in agreement about the materialmaterial she records… records...
and
and thethe last
last of thethe German
German prisoners
prisoners of ofwar
war were whether
whether I've I’vefound
foundthe thesongsongmyself,
myself,or or it's
it’s
in the district.
district. One had lovely lovelycropped
cropped hair hair andand something
something she shehas hasbrought
broughtin. in.ToTo tell
tell you the the
thatblond
that blondNordic
Nordiclook.look. I waswas mad mad about
about him,him, truth, I've
truth, I’ve a sneaking
sneaking preference
preferencefor Dusty singing
but he didn’t
but didn't seem
seem interested;
interested; itit was the pebble a ballad, somethinglike
ballad, something like'Who
‘WhoCan CanI ITurnTurnTo'. To’.
glasses, I suppose.”
glasses, suppose." On these
these she is magnificent
magnificent –- and and there
there is no
had been
She had been sitting
sitting talking
talking under under the the hair
hair dryer
dryer doubt that
doubt that she definitely emotionally
she is definitely emotionally affected affected
at an
an exclusive
exclusive West End End salon,
salon, and suddenlyititwas
and suddenly was when
when she she sings
sings a song like ‘YouDon't
songlike'You Don’tHave HaveTo To
time for further
time further styling treatment
treatment from from the quietly Say
SayYouYou LoveLove Me'."
Me’.”
discreetassistant
discreet assistantclose closeby. by.Somehow
Somehowititwas was hard
hardto to “At
"Atthe thesame
same time,time, she has has a fantastic
fantastic love love of
visualiseaa fat schoolgirl
visualise schoolgirl in a gymslip, gymslip, with pebble pebble ft.c.~ w DUST rhythm
rhythm and andblues;
blues;and andeven evenifif I sound
sound biased,
biased,
glasses.Alan
glasses. AlanSmith
Smith to 4.
iracit CLLR
34- I think
think that in her field she
that in she does
does ititbetter
betterthan than
anyone
anyone else else in this
this country.”
country."
But things
things don’t
don't always go smoothly smoothly and
—
- NME NMEAUGUST AUGUST 1919—- professionally at
professionally the sessions,
at the sessions, JohnnyJohnny told told me. There was the the time
time a red-red-
DUSTY SPRINGFIELDHAS
USTY SPRINGFIELD HASbeen beencalled
calleddifficult,
difficult,delightful
delightful faced member
member of the studio studio staff staff dropped
dropped aa whole whole armfularmful of of dishes
dishes just just as

D
restaurant,
and intense;
and intense;goony,
true. I have
true.
restaurant,silent
have seen
silent with
goony, moody
seen her
moody and
her sitting
with nostalgia
andmarvellous.
marvellous.All
sitting by candlelight
nostalgia as some heart-
All of which
candlelight in a Thames-side
heart- throbbing
which is
Thames -side
throbbing Latin
Dustywas
Dusty
finishing
went into
was reaching
finishing touches
into the
reachingaa top note; and
touchesto
the studios
to`Goin'
‘Goin’ Back’.
studios at at7pm,
7pm,but
and the
Back'. Dusty
the time
Dusty and
butatat1am
time they

lamthey’d
theywere
and everyone
everyone else
they'dachieved
putting the
were putting
else concerned
achievednothing nothingand
the
concerned
andtheythey
heaped
heapedititon onheavy
heavywith withthe theItalian
Italianversion
versionofof"You “YouDon't
Don’tHaveHaveTo To all went
went home.
home.
Say YouYouLoveLoveMe”. Me".I have
I have seen
seenher herelegant
elegantand andserious
seriousatatrehearsal
rehearsal Thunder and lightning had been been rumbling
rumbling and and flashing
flashing acrossacross
sessions,
sessions, and and covering
coveringher her shyness
shynessat ataa TV show showwithwithgoon
goonhumourhumour the
the night sky… and
night sky... with every
and with every bolt,
b olt,thethesound
soundcrackled
crackled through
through the the
and
and funny
funny faces.
faces. equipment.
recording equipment.
But IIspeak
speakonly onlyas asaabystander.
bystander. One Oneof ofthose
thosewho whoreally
reallyknows
knowsDustyDusty Now-who
Now – who says
is Johnny
Johnny Franz,
her recording
her
Franz, the the amiable,
amiable, quiet
managerfrom
recording manager fromthe theday
-spoken ex-pianist
quiet-spoken
daysheshewalked
ex -pianist who
walkedinto intohis
whohas
hisoffice
hasbeen
office with
been
with
Springfield's
Dusty Springfield’s
aren't
records aren’t
DUSTY ALWAYS KNEW
The Springfields.
Springfields. "The “The three
threeof of them
themsat satright
righthere,"
here,” he
he recalls,
recalls,"right
“rightinin electrifying and WANTED
front of my desk,
front desk, andand sang
sang ‘Dear
`Dear John’.
John. It It was a new new sound,
sound, a fresh
fresh sound.
sound. magnetic?!
magnetic?! Alan Smith•
Alan Smith •
FFIANZ
says JOHNNY
her recording managerbeen
IlLS11 SPRINGFIELD hin
d.figiortu] sod ildeme; V0
numellow. AU of wlikh F, inns
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May 3, 1966: Bob

3,1966: Bob
Dylan at
at the
the Mayfair
Mayfair
Hotel
Hotel in London
London

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 BOB
BOB DYLAN
DYLAN

“You
"Youhaven’t
haven't
heard
really heard
American
music
music
BOB
BOBDYLAN’s

audiences
DYLAN'selectric
music shocked
shocked American
audiences in in 1965.
electric
American
1965. Now,
Now, MMMM

before…”
and
and NME
NMEchart
chartitsits arrival in

before..:'
arrival in
the UK
the UK inin 1966:
1966:preparing
preparing
the
the ground,
ground, interviewing
interviewing
this perplexing
this perplexing young
young manman
and
and his
his intimates,
intimates, thenthen
reporting the aftermath.
aftermath. — MELODYMAKER
- MELODY MAKER FEBRUARY 19 —-
FEBRUARY19

“I’m notgoing
going to to play
play any
any OB DYLAN
BOB DYLANREMAINSREMAINSa fascinating
a fascinatingsubject
subjectof ofconversation
conversation

B
"I'm not fourgood
for four goodreasons.
reasons.Because
Becausehe hehas
hastalent
talentandand originality;
originality;
more
more concerts
concerts in in England,"
England,” because, in
because, in spite
spite of brushes
possesses a great
he possesses
brushes with
great deal
deal of
with the
ofpersonal
the press
press and
personal charm;
andall
charm; because
all the
therest
because he
restof
of it,

Dylan
Dylan declares,
declares, before
before develops andand changes
guessing; and
changes course
and because
course often
because he'she’s been
often enough
enoughto
been lucky. IIcan
to keep
canthink
keep people
think of
people
ofother
other
an
an unexpected
unexpectedturn turn of
of reasons,
reasons,but
Dylan
butthey
Dylan inevitably
theyarearenot
inevitably finds
notso so good.
findshimself
good. Like all members
himselfbeingbeingelevated
members of the
elevatedinto
intoaakind
the pop
kindof
pop aristocracy,
aristocracy,
of legend
legend before
before the
the
events
events shrouds
shrouds him him still
still time
time is ripe. Probably this
signsthat
of signs that the
the wonder
this is aadamaging
wonder boy of
damaging process,
offolk
folkhas
process, and
hasfought
and there
foughttotoguard
there have been
guardagainst
been plenty
againstcorruption
plenty
corruption by
furtherin
further in mystery.
mystery. flattery, publicity and hysterical adulation.
adulation.
TONY GALE/PICTORIAL PRESS

Still, theprocess
Still, the process goes
goes on and
on and it becomes
it becomes harder,harder,
year by year,
year, to
byyear, to sift facts from
mythsand
myths andeven
evenremember
rememberhow howititwas
wasthat
thatBob
BobDylan
Dylanstole
stoleononto tothe
thescene
sceneaafew
few
short years ago.
short years ago. American
AmericanwriterwriterRobert
RobertShelton,
Shelton,folk
folkmusic
musiccritic
criticofofTheThe New
York
YorkTimes
Timessince
since1958,
1958,isiswell
wellpleased
pleasedto tojog
jogthe
thememory
memory on on this. He was,
this. He was, so
so to
to
speak, in atat the
the birth
birth and
and seems
seems to have
havewritten
written the
the first
first column
column about
about Dylan,
in September
in September1961. 1961. In
In London
London lastlast week,
week, Shelton
Sheltontold
told me
me hehe was
was still
still most
most
interested
interestedin intalking
talkingabout
aboutDylan
Dylanand andwas
wasat at present
presentwriting
writingaa book about about him.
him. »»

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“I’d
"I'dmet
met Dylan
Dylan in in the
the spring
spring or summer
summer of of 1961, after
after hehe sang
sang in in aa “I
"I have
have enormous respectfor
enormous respect forMcColl
McCollas as a singer, “Is this a microphone?”:
"Isthis microphone?":
aasomewhat
somewhatdisobliging
disobliging
hootenanny
hootenanny atatFolk Folk Cityin
City inGreenwich
GreenwichVillage. Village. I told him him whenever
whenever he he was
was writer and philosopher
writer and philosopherof ofthe
thefolk
folkrevival,
revival, but
but he
he is Dylan meets
meets the
the press
working
working somewhere regularly tocall
somewhere regularlyto callme meas asI'd
I’d like toto dodoaafeature
featurestorystoryonon so
sothoroughly
thoroughly out of oftouch
touch with
with Dylan’s
Dylan'sgeneration
generation
him. He got
him. gotaajobjob atat Folk
FolkCity Citylater
later ininthe
theyear,
year,and andIIwent
wentback backthere
thereandand that
that it was ill-advised
ill-advised of ofhim
him to topontificate
pontificate from hishis
did
did the
the interview
interviewwith withhim.him.He Hewaswasreally
reallyaakid kidthen,
then,18 18oror19,
19, but
but I felt
feltthat
that lofty and
and distant
distant eminence.
eminence. The The Dylan
Dylan generation
generation is is
here was
here wasan anincredible
incrediblemusicianmusician and and personality.
personality. IIremember
remembersaying sayingthatthat making
making its own rules rules inin belief,
belief,political
politicalcommitment
commitment
he looked
he lookedaacross crossbetween
betweenaacherubic cherubicchoirboy
choirboyand andaabeatnik,
beatnik,and andthat
that and
and literary
literary and musicalstyle.
and musical style.If If the
the folk elders
elders insist
insist on
on
he was
he was going
going to togogostraight
straight up. up. There
There werewere several
several of us us who
who were
were setting
setting up stultifying
stultifying rules
rules for folk
folkcomposition,
composition,they they
tremendously impres
tremendously impressed s ed with him. him. I wasn’t
wasn't the the only one. will discover
discover that
that it is they,
they,not
notthethe Dylan
Dylan generation,
generation,
“He
"Hehadhad thethe magic
magic star star quality even then.
quality even then. You couldn’t
couldn't taketake your
your eyes
eyes off that are alienated.
that are Dylan should
alienated. Dylan shouldbe be allowed
allowed to
him when
him when he was on stage. stage. He Hewaswasoften
oftenaalittle
littleuntidy
untidy musically,
musically, but but the
the experiment
experiment and andnotnotbebeasked
askedto tocomplywith
comply withaapolitical
political-
-
setting was very
setting veryinformal
informal and and relaxed, and and thethe hints
hints of ofprofessionalism
professionalism economic catechism.He
economic catechism. Heisis too
too big anan artist
artist for that.”
that."
were already
already there.
there. In those days
In those days he was doing doing some
some traditional
traditional songssongslikelike Max Jones
MaxJones
`House Of
‘House OfThe TheRising
RisingSun’,Sun,also also aafew
fewWoody
WoodyGuthrieGuthriethings.
things. He Hewas wasvery
very
much under
much under the theinfluence
influenceof oftwo
twosingers,
singers,Jack Jack Elliott
Elliott andand Dave
Dave Van Ronk. Ronk.
Itwas
It wasaadirect
directpersonal
personalinfluence.
influence. His Hisown ownstuffstuffthen
thenwas wasprincipally
principally
— MELODY MAKER
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humorous song and
humorous and commentary,
commentary, the the commentaries
commentaries being outrageously HATTING UP UPBOBBOBDylan Dylanisisnot notthe
thesimplest

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CHATTING simplest
funny. He was
funny. was very
very funny
funny then.then. He was doing
He was doing 'Talking
‘TalkingNewYork
New York Blues’,Blues', job in
job in the world. It used
the world. used to to be
be easier,
easier, butbut asas he
he
which
which satirised
satirisedhis hisreception
receptionby bythe
theclub
clubowners
ownersininNew NewYork,York, andand gets olderolder he he seems
seems to to grow
growmore moreand and more
more
`TalkingBear
‘Talking BearMountain
MountainPicnic PicnicMassacre
MassacreBlues’.‘Bear
Blues'.BearMountain...'
Mountain…’ was fed upup with
with questions.
questions. One One of the the difficulties
difficulties is
based on some sort of
based ofriot
rioton onan anexcursion
excursionboat, boat,and
and he hetook
tookthe thecutting
cutting
getting
getting him him alone.
alone. WhenWhen you've
you’ve failedfailed in that,
that,
from aa newspaper
from newspaper and andconverted
convertedititinto intoaavery
very funny
funnysong. song.II saw aa greatgreat hindrance is his reluctance
the next hindrance reluctance to to impart
impart
deal of
deal ofhim
him during
during thisthis whole
whole first year. We Weusedusedto toknock
knockaround
around information. It's
information. that he won’t
It’s not that won't
listening
listening to music together, together, and and that
that period
period was wasinteresting
interesting because
because answer.
answer. But his his replies,
replies, sometimes
sometimes
Dylan
Dylan was listening to
was listening to every
every bit of music music he he could
could hear.
hear. He He walked
walked around
around
oblique and often designed to send send
with
with hishis ears
ears hanging
hangingout, out,eager
eagerto tofollow
follow whatever
whateverwas was going
going on on in folk carry vagueness
up, carry vagueness to the the borders
borders
music.
music. He’dHe'd come
come over overto tomymyhouse
house and and play
playpiano
piano andand listen
listen to records.”
records."
of evasion.
evasion. QUEEN JANE
Had Dylan made made any anyrecords
recordsat at this
this stage? This is understandable
is understandable with the APPROXIMATELY
"No, he
“No, hehadn’t.
hadn't. I had had tried
tried to toget
getseveral
severalrecord
recordcompanies
companies to record record him
personal
personal stuff: stuff:Are Are you married?
married? Will
but they
but
write-up,
wereeither
theywere
write-up, I believe,
eitheruninterested
believe, John
uninterestedororunavailable.
JohnHammond
Hammond recorded
unavailable.But
recorded him.
Butas asaaresult
him. His first
resultof
first Columbia
of my
Columbia
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know”)
be meeting
meeting The
know") or: Do Do you
The Beatles? (“I
youhave haveaamarriage
("Idon’t
marriage
don't BOB
album caused
album
Dylan's
causedaa stir, stir, but
talent, though
Dylan’s talent,
but only
though Hammond
only a small one. Columbia
Hammond and
Columbia was
andaa publicist
publicist named
was slow to
named BillyJames
to recognise
recognise
Billy James
certificate?
certificate? ("Why
in what
what I’ve
(“Why are you so
I've got?”).
got?"). But Butit’s
sointerested
it'sharder
interested
harder to to see
see
DYLAN
recognised
recognisedit, it, and
andfor for aawhile
whileBob Bob was known known as Hammond’s
Hammond's Folly. Folly.the
the reason
reason for equivocation
equivocation on on thethe ONE OF US
Although Dylan wasn’t wasn't recognised
recognised by bythetherecord
recordcompanies,
companies, there there was
was
subject of ofwhat instruments he'll
what instruments he’ll be MUST KNOW
a whole circle
circle of Greenwich
Greenwich Village Village folk peoplepe oplewho who realised
realised from
from the the
playing
playing on the tour.
start
start that
that he something special.
he was something special. TheyTheywere paternal (and
were very paternal Having
Having read read that
thathe he was booed at
was booed at
maternal)
maternal)to to him
him and and he appreciated
appreciated it. a US
USconcert
concertlast lastyear when he emerged
yearwhen emerged
“He
"He was a good good friend
friend who wouldgive
who would give as as much
much as ashehegot,
got, but
buthe hewaswasstill
with still
withan anelectric
electricguitarguitarfor forthe
thesecond
secondhalf, half,and
andgreeted
greetedby bymas
mass shoutsof,
s shouts of,
not easyto
not easy toget
get close to. to.Always
Always there there was aa feeling
feelingof ofslight
slightdetachment,
detachment, as
“We
"We want as
want the the real
real Dylan”,
Dylan", IIwanted
wanted to toknow
knowififhe’d
he'dbe beusing
usingan anamplified
amplified
if he
he were
werewatching
watching the the scene
scene withwith bemusement.
bemusement. He He likes laugh and
likes to laugh guitar
guitar over here.
joke around
around aa lot, and and play
playgamesgameson onpeople,
people,and andas asIIsay,
say, his own songs “I’m
"I'm not
not suresureifif I will
will or
or not,”
not," was was thethe best
best I could get.
could get.
were often humorous.
were often humorous.InInthe thenext
nextyear,
year,1962,
1962,he hegot
gotcloser
closerto to the
theCivil
Civil
At times
times the the answers
answers are are amusing,
amusing, more moreoften
oftenconfusing.
confusing.Asked Askedif if the
the
Rights movement,
movement, to the the young
youngAfrican-American
African-Americanleaders. leaders.Early that
Early that
label “folk
"folkrock”, rock",sometimes
sometimesapplied appliedto tohis
hiscurrent
currentmusic-making,
music -making,meant meant
year, not yet yet 20,
20,he hestarted
startedto towrite
writeand andsingsingthose
thosetenacious,
tenacious, poeticpoetic blasts
blasts
anything
anything to tohim,
him,he hequeried
queriedback backatatme: me:"Folk
“Folkrot?"
rot?”
like 'Hollis Brown'
like ‘Hollis Brown’and and'A ‘AH ard Rain’s
Hard Rain's A -Gonna Fall’.
A-Gonna Fall'. When we'd
When we’d established
established the theterm,
term,he heshook
shookhis hishead.
head."No, “No,well,
well,they
theysaysay
"He was
“He wasinfluenced
influenced by bythethe whole Broadside magazine magazine scene, which a lot
lot of
ofthings
things aboutabout me. me. I'm
I’m aa folk singer,
singer, no more more andandno noless."
less.”
included
includedPete Pete Seeger, and and this
this was probably
probably his period period of greatest
greatest As IIhadhadjust justbeen
beenreading
reading an an American
American interview
interview which said Dylan
political
political involvement,
involvement,although althoughhe hewaswaswriting
writinglove lovesongs
songs all along the
all along the
disowns
disowns all all the
the folk songs
songs he hewrote
wroteand and thethe protest
protest songs that that made
made him him
way. TheTheoutstanding
outstanding songs all all had
had some
somesocialsocialcommentary.”
commentary." famous,this
famous, thislastlastwaswas onon the
the confusing
confusingside. side.I pressed
pressed on. on.
much, in
How much, inShelton’s
Shelton'sopinion,
opinion,was wasDylan’s
Dylan'sacceptance
acceptance and and rejection
rejection
“I read
"I read thatthat you you no no longer
longer singsing protest
protestsongs.
songs.WhyWhyis is that?”
that?"
by the
the folk
folkestablishment
establishment dependant dependant on considerations?
on political considerations? “Who said that?”
"Who that?" he mumbled,
mumbled, then warmingto
then warming tothe
thetheme
theme(for (for him):
him):
"In this
“In this period
period I’m I'm speaking
speaking of, those those who generally put politics first “All
"Allmy mysongss ongsare areprotest
protest songs.
songs. All AllIIdo doisisprotest.
protest.You Younamename it, it,I’ll
I'llprotest
protest
and
and artartsecond
secondthoughtthoughtDylan Dylanwas wasaayoung
younggod. god.After
Afterhe hetook
took a moremore
about
about it."it.”
personalised
personalisedapproach approachto to creativity, the the political
political determinists
determinists suddenly “Are you
"Are you stillstillmaking
making up as many many songs songs as as you used
used to to do?"
do?”
discovered
discoveredflaws flaws in in his art.art. In this
this respect,
respect, Ewan McColl's comments
Ewan McColl’s comments in in
“Yes, I’m
"Yes, I'mmaking
makingup upasasmany
manywords words as IIused used to.to.I’m
I'monly interested in
onlyinterested
the
the AINI
MM last lastSeptember
Septemberabout aboutDylan
Dylanwere werepatent
patentnonsense.
nonsense. writingsongs.
writing songs.IIdon' don’tt want
want to to make singlesany
make singles anymore."
more.”
Who did Dylan Dylanthink thinkwaswas thethe
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best folkk singer
singer in the world,
the world,
someonewished
someone wishedto toknow.
know.
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"Oh, PeterLorre."
Lorre.”
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just get
getthe
the word
wordfrom fromother
other people
people to turn
turn upup affixed to
affixed to his
hisshoulder,
shoulder,lurched
lurched about
about the
the
somewhereand
somewhere
To raise
raise the
I injected
andI'm
the level
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levelof
namesof
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conversation a bit,
of Bukka
Bukka White,
White, Son HouseHouse
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break
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room like Quasimodo,
his ear and
break to “whirr”
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the machine
machineininthe
scratching
and his nose, with the occasional
occasional
theface
face of
andBig
and Big Joe Williams.
such blues
such
Williams. Did Dylan
blues singers?
singers?
Dylan still
still listen
listen toto
is protest. perplexed reporters.
A lady
reporters.
ladyin ingrey
greydenims
denimswavedwavedwhatwhatappeared
appeared
“I
"I know
know Big Joe,
listened
listened to
Lately I’ve
Joe,of
these men
to these
I'vebeen
ofcourse.
men on
been listening
course. But
But IInever
never
records too much.
on records
listening to Bartok and
much.
and Vivaldi
name it,
You name to be twotwo huge
hugegrey
they proved to be
they
tape recorders.
tape recorders.We
greyfrankfurters
frankfurters about,
bemicrophones
microphones attached
We were
were apparently
about, but
attached to
apparently bbeingeing
and that
and thatsort
sortof
was happening.”
happening."
of thing.
thing.So So I wouldn’t know what
wouldn't know what
I'll protest
I’ll tapedfor
taped for posterity.
photographers
posterity.For
photographersexposed
For some
some 15 minutes,
exposed innumerable
minutes,
innumerablerolls rolls
Right upup until
until opening
opening day, there there was absolute
absolute of
offilm
filmat atDylan
Dylanlooking
lookingbored
boredslumped
slumped on
mystery about
mystery
Dylan's
the number
about the numberand
accompanists. So
Dylan’s accompanists.
andidentity
SoII asked
identityof
asked himhim how
how
of Bob about it"
about it” aa window
window sill.
glasses
sill.Finally
glasses as aa bonus
Finallyhe
bonus to tothe
heremoved
removed his
thecameramen,
his dark
cameramen, but
dark
but
many there
many therewere
were in in his
his group.
group. somehow
somehow managed
managed to tolook exactly the same.same.
“Oh,
"Oh, 14,
14,15,”
15,"hehesaid
saidindefinitely.
indefinitely. Pitt,surely
Ken Pitt, surelythe year'smost
the year’s mostoptimistic
optimistic publicist,
publicist,announced
announced thatthat Mr
“What?
"What?All All here?”
here?" Dylan would now now answer
answer questions.
questions. “Is "Is this
this aamicrophone?”
microphone?" enquired
enquired
“Yes,
"Yes,they’re all here.”
they're all here." Mr Dylan
Dylan about
about a large
largecylindrical
cylindrical object
object on on the
the desk
desk under
under his nose.
nose.
“What
"What about Mike Bloomfield?"
about Mike Bloomfield?” Having ascertained
ascertained thatthatititwas
was indeed
indeedaa microphone,
microphone, Dylan Dylansignified
signifiedhehe
“Who?”
"Who?" was ready to beginbegin by giving
giving aaslight
slightgrunt
grunt and
and shifting his chair
shifting his chairaa bit.
“Mike
"Mike Bloomfield.
Bloomfield. He Heplayed
played guitar
guitar on youryour last
last album.”
album." “Which
"Which musicians
musicians havehave you you brought
brought withwith you?"
you?”
“Michael
"Michael Bloomfield…
Bloomfield... No, No, I used
used himhim in thethe studio buthe's
studio but he’s not
not here
here After this
this question
question had had been
been asked
asked again,
again, then
then rephrased
rephrased several times,
times,
with me.
with me.WhoWhois? Oh, George,George, Harry,
Harry, Fred, Jason.”
Fred, Jason." Bob replied,
replied, “You
"Youwantwantnames?”
names?"
Beforewe
Before weparted,
parted,another
anotherjournalist
journalistwas was questioned
questionedbyDylan.
by Dylan.He He reporter said this
The reporter this might be helpful.
helpful.
mentionedhis
mentioned hispaper.
paper.DylanDylanlooked
looked blank.
blank. "It's
“It’s the leading musical paper
paper “Gus,
"Gus,Frank,
Frank,Mitch…”
Mitch..." mumbled
mumbled Dylan.
in the
the country,”
country," saidsaid the
the reporter
reporter firmly.
firmly. posterity's sake
For posterity’s sake IIframed
framedaaquestion
questionwhichwhichmightmightbe beconstrued
construed as as
“The
"The only paperI Iknow
onlypaper knowisisthetheMelody
MelodyMaker,"
Maker,” waswas Dylan's
Dylan’sreply.
reply. One
One "being aware”
“being aware" as Quasimodo
Quasimodo aimed aimed his mechanical hump
his mechanical humpatatme. me.Whyis
Why is
way andand another,
another, he he makes
makes it clear he’she's not
not out
out to
towin
winfriends
friendsand
and it that
that the titles of his recent
the titles singles,like
recent singles, like "Rainy
“Rainy DayWomen
Day WomenNos Nos12 12 and
and
influence
influencenewspapermen.
newspapermen.Maxfones Max Jones 35”
35" apparently
apparently bbore ore no
no connections
connections to tothe
thelyric?
lyric?
“It
"It has
has every
everysignificance,”
significance," returned Dylan. "Have
returned Dylan. “Have you been been down
down in
North Mexico?”
North Mexico?"
— NME MAY
- NME 13 —-
MAY13
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Not recently.
recently.
AIR BRISTLING
HAIR BRISTLINGABOUT ABOUTlikelikea aFijian
Fijiansuffering
sufferingfrom
fromaasevere
severe “Well,
"Well, IIcan’t
can't explain
explain it toto you
you then.”
then."

H electrical shock, wearing a blue

electrical
trousers,
trousers,Bob
Hotel last week
Bob Dylan meandered
week followed
followedby byaasquad
blue suede
meandered into
suede jacket

squadofofcameramen
jacketand
intoaa suite
cameramen and
and white
white striped

and sound
sound
striped
suite of the Mayfair
It would
wouldappear
Houston
“Rainy
"Rainy Day
appear that
Houston have worked out
Women” as
D ayWomen"
that the
the states

asbeing
states of
out the
ofWashington,
Washington, Baltimore
the explanation,
beingan
explanation, for they
analleged
alleged approval
Baltimore and
they have
approval of LSD
and
havebanned
banned
LSDand andmarijuana
marijuana
engineers,
engineers,the
thelatter
latterto
torecord
recordthe
the"press
“pressreception".
reception”.AA large
large drugs.
drugs.AA dubious honourthat
dubious honour thatDylan
Dylanshares
shareswithwithThe TheByrd
Byrds’s' “Eight
"Eight
gentleman,
gentleman, with
with a grey top
top hat
hat and
and movie
moviecamera
camera permanently
permanently High",also
Miles High”, alsobanned
banned in those those states
states last week. IItried triedto
toget
gethim
him »

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FREE TRADE HALL - “Judas!” Dylan outrages

"Judas!" outrages
the folk
the folkpurists
puristsby
by
bringingon
bringing onThe
The Hawks
flw Mrs. MreMr- and “going
"going electric”
electric" for
for
thesecond
the secondhalf
halfof
ofhis
hisset
set
BOB DYLAN at the
at Free Trade
the Free
Manchester,
Trade Hall,
Manchester, May
Hall,
17, 1966
Mayl7,1966
TUESDAY, MAY 1716,, 1.966
at. 7.30 p.m.
to talk
to talk about Paul Simon,
about Paul Simon,
whom he phoned phoned recently
recently
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in the
in the US, and and about
about BobBob Lind.
Lind. C' ELL, IT’S
IT'SKINDKINDof oflike
likeeating
eatingaapumpkin pie,” said
pumpkin pie," said
G 36
I
“Never
"Never heardheard of them,”
Mr Dylan. With that
my innings
innings closed and
them," obliged
obliged
that I declared
declared
and watched
watched
“W
"It's sweet
“It’s
backing
sweet –- but it gets
Robertson, the
Robbie Robertson,
backing Bob Dylan on his
gets very
verysticky
the man

stickysometimes.”
man whose group had
his controversial
sometimes."
controversial British
had been
been
tour.
British tour.

with interest as the

with interest the others
others gotgotbatted
batted about.
about. The 22-year-old
22 -year -oldguitarist
guitaristdid didnotnotregard
regardfacing
facinghostile
hostileaudiences
audiences such
“Bob,
"Bob, your
your hair
hair has
has got me me worried,”
worried," said one lady
said one lady reporter. “Howdo
reporter. "How do those Dylan encountered
as those encountered at at Dublin
Dublin and andBirmingham
Birminghamas asone
oneof the
of the
you get it like
you likethat?”
that?" sticky patches
patches in his work with the
workwith the folk poet.
poet.
“I
"I comb
comb it like that.”
that." explained: "At
He explained: everyconcert,
“At every concert, outout ofofall
allthe
theyounger
youngerpeople
people present,
present,
Someone tried
Someone tried shock treatment:
treatment: "Are youmarried?”
“Are you married?" there are
there bound to
are bound to be some who insist insist ononsaying
sayingsomething.
something. In In Dublin
Dublin
“I
"I don’t
don't want
want to to lie to you. It It would
would be be misleading
misleading ifif I told you ‘yes’,”
'yes'," they
theywerewereholding
holdingup up'Stop
‘StopThe TheWar'
War’signs,
signs,forfor example."
example.”
Dylan declared
declared and and in the same
in the same breath:
breath:"I brought mywife
“I brought my wife over here here Who
Who are are the
the boys
boys in Robbie’s
Robbie's group?
group? Richard
Richard Manuel
Manuel plays piano,
plays piano,
on the
on last visit
the last visit and no-onetook
and no-one tookanyanynotice
noticeof ofher."
her.” Garth Hudsonplays
Garth Hudson plays organ,
organ, Rick Danko Danko (bass), Micky Jones (drums),
MickyJones (drums), allall
A suggestion
suggestion was made made thatthathe he was
was secretly
secretly married
marriedtotoJoan JoanBaez.
Baez. except
except Richard (from Stratford),
Richard (from Stratford),and andMicky
Micky (from
(from Los Angeles), coming coming
"Joan Baez was
“Joan wasan anaccident,”
accident,"returned
returned Mr Dylan. Dylan. from
from NewNewYork.
York.
Dylan’s
Dylan's good friend,
friend, folk
folksinger
singerDana DanaGillespie,
Gillespie,was wasmentioned.
mentioned. Dylan Dylan “There
"There is no no name
name for the the group,”
group," admitted Robbie. "We
admitted Robbie. “We have
have been
been
brightenedvisibly-he
brightened visibly – hepractically
practicallytore torehishisface
facein inhalf
halfinin his
his effort to playing togetherfor
playing together for a long time,
time, working with with different people,just
different people, justfor
for
smile. "Is
smile. “Is Dana here?”he
Dana here?" he asked.
asked."Bring
“Bringher herout.
out.II got some
some baskets for her”.
baskets for her". fun, mostly
fun, mostlyin inthe
theSouth.
South.Bob Bob asked
asked me me to playaa couple
to play couple of jobs
jobs with
with him.
him.
Regretfully Dana Dana was not not there
there andand the the conversation
conversation reverted
reverted to I did.
did. Just
Justfor
forthe
thesake
sakeofofscience
sciencefiction,
fiction,then
thenthetheother
other guys
guysjoined
joined him.
him.
monotoneinanities
monotone inanitiesagain.
again.We We discovered
discoveredin in quick
quick succession
succession that thatDylan
Dylan Our drummer
drummer retiredretiredandandwe wegotgotMickyJones.
Micky Jones.Micky Micky is aa very famous
veryfamous
cannot
cannotsee seetootoowell on Tuesdays…
Tuesdays... his tonsils don't
his tonsils don’t fit him…
him... he he drummer in
drummer inthe
theStates.
States.HeHehas hasplayed
played withwith aa lot ofofpeople,
people,including
including Trini
Trini
consideredPeter
considered PeterLorre
Lorre thethe world's
world’s greatest
greatest folk singer….
singer.... all his songs
songs Lopez and JohnnyRivers
and Johnny Rivers andandaa lot of blues
blues groups.”
groups."
protest about
protest aboutsomething...
something…he hehas
hasjust justwritten
writtenaabookbookin inone
one week about
about Robbie Robertson
Robertson disagreed
disagreed with with thethesuggestion
suggestionof of a “hip-swinging
"hip -swinging
spiders...
spiders…and andhe hedidn't
didn’tknowknowwho who the the gentleman
gentlemanin inthe
thetoptophat
hatwas.
was. Dylan
Dylan trying
trying toto look andand sound
sound likelike MickJagger".
Mick Jagger”.
"I thought
“I thought he was waswithwithyou,”
you,"he hereturned,
returned,deadpan.
deadpan. The The lady
ladywith
with the “It’s
"It's the
the furthest thingfrom
furthest thing fromhis his mind,"
mind,”exploded
explodedRobbie.
Robbie. "He
“He doesn’t
doesn't
giant frankfurter-mic
giant frankfurter-mictorpedoed
torpedoed it itforward
forwardsosoasasnot nottotomiss
missaasyllable
syllableofof even come into contact contact withwith anyany of that
that kind of stuff.
stuff.He’s
He'snotnotinterested
interested
this
this sparkling
sparklingrepartee.
repartee.As Asthe
thereporters
reportersfiled filedoutoutofof the
the suite
suite I took one one of
of screaming people
in screaming peopleor or that
thatkindkindof thing. He just wants
of thing. wants to play
playhis music."
his music.”
Dylan’s undercover
Dylan's undercoveragents agentstotoone onesideside(I(I knew
knew he he was
was a Dylan
Dylan manman as he But hadhad his
hismusic
musicbecome
become“watered
"watered down”down"rhythmrhythm and blues’?
blues'?
had dark
had dark glasses
glasses on) and enquiredwhy
and enquired whyaa manman withwithDylan's
Dylan’s obvious
obvious Said Robbie:
Robbie:“It’s"It'snot
notrhythm
rhythmand andblues
bluesand andIIcertainly wouldn’t call itit
certainlywouldn't
intelligence
intelligence bothered
botheredto toarrange
arrangethis thisfarce
farceof of a meeting.
meeting. folk-rock. It’sIt'sstreet
street music.
music. Everybody
Everybodyin inthe
theorganisation
organisation comes
comes fromfrom
“Man,”
"Man," he he extolled,
extolled, “Dylan
"Dylan just justwanted
wanted us us totocome
comealong
alongand andrecord
record the
the street. It’s not
street. It's not folk music
music either. I listened
listened to BobBobDylan’s
Dylan'sstuff
stuffbefore
before
a press
press reception
reception so we wecould
couldhearhearhow howridiculous
ridiculousand and infantile
infantile allall I knew
knew him him and
and thought, ‘Well, that’s
thought, 'Well, that's folk music.’
music.' Then
Then IIrealised
realisedthatthat he’s
he's
reporters
reporters are."
are.” only
onlymademadeaacouple
coupleof of songs
songs thatthatarearefolk
folk music.
music. TheThe rest
rest are
are just
just stories.
stories.
REX FEATURES

I stumbled brokenly back

stumbled brokenly back to my Plasticine,
Plasticine, the the sandpit,
sandpit, my chalk slate “I
"I can’t
can't class Bob DylanDylan as as aafolk
folkmusician
musician or or aaprotest
protest singer.
singer. AndAnd most
most
at the NME!
NME!But Butyou’ve
you'vegot gottotoadmit
admitthere’s
there'sonly
onlyone oneBobBobDylan – thank
Dylan-thank of the
the people
people who know know anything
anything aboutaboutititdon't.
don’t.Folk-rock
Folk-rockis is just
just what
what
goodness!KeithAltham
goodness! Keith Altham some peopleprefer
some people preferto tocall
callit.
it. We didn’t
didn't call
call it that
that at all.”
all."

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 BOB DYLAN
BOB DYLAN

Has Robbie’s
Robbie's group
group recorded
recorded with
with Dylan? turned
tumed in inhis
hisgrave"
grave”and
and"Rubbish".
“Rubbish”. But the majority
majority
“Well,
"Well, we’ve
we'vegotgotaanew
newrecord
recordjust
justabout
about to
to come
come of the
the audience
audience wanted
wanted to hear Dylan out
out and
and
out,” he revealed.
out," “There’saawhole
revealed. "There's wholebunch
bunchof ofpe
people
ople shouted down
shouted down the
the hecklers.
on it. There
on There are a lotlot of
ofdifferent
different kinds
kinds of sounds
sounds and
and
I play
play on
on just
just about all of them.
about all But there
them. But areaalot
there are lot of
young musicians
young musicians who whoare aregood
good at
at that kind of thing
that kind thing
— NME JUNE 17 —-
NMEJUNE17
and were
and were brought in. It's
brought in. It’s a double
double album
album lasting about90 minutes.
lasting about I’m the
minutes. I'm the HAT WAS
WHAT WAS BOBBOB Dylan’s
Dylan's reaction
reactiontotocriticism
criticismof ofhis
hisrecent
recent
only member
only memb er of the
Army band
band on
exceptme."
except
on it.
the group
group on ‘Rainy
And none
it.And
me.”BobDawbarn
Bob Dawbarn
none of
'Rainy Day
ofthe
theguys
Women’. There
D ayWomen.
guysbelong
belongtotothe
Thereis
is a Salvation
theSalvation
Salvation
Army –
SalvationArmy- W
guitar?
British
British tour? How did
publicity
publicity he
These were
guitar? These
he had
were a few questions
did he
had received?
hefeel
feelabout
received? Why had
aboutthe theunfavourable
had he used
unfavourable
used an
questions I asked his close friend in England,
an electric
electric
England,
Dana Gillespie.
Dana Gillespie. Singer Dana, Dana, who who is 17, 17,first
firstmet
metDylanDylanduring
during his his
British tour last year and and is one one of ofthetheselect
selectfew fewwhomwhomDylanDylanadmires
admires
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IUNE4 4
—- and respects.
and respects.
INANAMAZING
N AN AMAZING speech speech fromfromthethestage
stageof of London's
London’sAlbert Albert Hall,
Hall, “He
"He was
was very
verysurprised
surpris edat atthe
thereaction
reaction of ofthetheEnglish
English audiences,”
audiences," she

Ihe wouldn’t
Dylan denied
Bob Dylan
songs",attempted
songs”,
wouldn't appear
denied suggestions

appearin
suggestions that
attempted to explainexplain his
inBritain
Britainagain.
thatsome

again.This
someof
his changing
This all
of his songs are “drug
changing musicmusic and
came out
all came
"drug
and indicated
indicated
out at his concert
concert
told me. “He
"Hethought
music and he just
thing about
The thing
thought England
England was far ahead
justcouldn’t
couldn't understand
about Bobby is that
ahead of any
understand why he was
that hehe always
alwayswanted
wanted to
anyother
other country
wasbooed
to be
country in pop
booedandandcatcalled.
beaarock’n’roll
catcalled.
rock'n'rollsinger
singer
there
there last
last Friday. After After Dylan
Dylanhad had been
been singing
singing for
for some
some minutes
minutes like Elvis
ElvisPresley.
Presley.When Whenhe heachieved
achieved fame fame as a folk folksinger
singerhehethought
thought he
accompanying
accompanying himself himself on guitar
guitar and
and harmonica,
harmonica, he he stopped
stopped and and might
might be able to to change
change andand become acceptedas
become accepted asaa rock
rock singer too. When When
began
began talking
talking to the the huge hushed
hushed audience.
audience. the audience
the audience booed
booedand andjeered
jeeredhis his rock numbers in
rock numbers in London,
London, he just
“I’m
"I'm not
not going
goingto toplay
playany more concerts
anymore concerts in inEngland,”
England,"he heannounced.
announced. rocked more to annoy annoy them.”
them."
“So I’d
"So I'djust
justlike
liketo tosay this next
saythis next song
songisiswhat
whatyour
yourEnglish
Englishmusical
musical papers
papers Dylan also told Dana Dana that
that hehe had
had married
marriedwhen whenhe hewas
was17.
17. “He
"He told
told me
me
would call
would call a ‘drug
'drug song’.
song'. I never
never have
have and
and never
never will
will write
write aa‘drug
'drug song’.
song'. that his wife was aa half
that his half Red
RedIndian
Indian girl,”
girl,"continued
continued Dana, “buthe
Dana, "but he said
said the
the
I don’t
don't know
know how to. It’s It's not
not aa‘drug
'drug song’
song' it’s
it's just vulgar.”
vulgar." marriage
marriage hadhadonly
only lasted
lastedtwo two years."
years.”
Dylan carriedon
Dylan carried onwith
withhis
hissongs
songslike
like"Desolation
“DesolationRow" Row”and and"It's
“It’sAll
AllOver
Over Why hadhe
Whyhad he been
beenso so difficult
difficult withwith the the many
many reporters
reporters who who wanted
wantedto to
Now, Baby Blue”. Then
BabyBlue". Then hehe was
was joined
joined by thethe group
group for hishis electric-sound
electric -sound interview him?
songs. Explained
songs. ExplainedDylan: Dylan:"I“Ilike
like all
all my old songs.
songs. It’s
It's just
just that
that things
things “Bobby
"B obbyisisonly
onlyinterested
intere stedininthe theinternational,
international, glossy glossymagazines
magazines
changeall
change all the
the time.
time. Everybody
Everybody knowsknows that.
that.I never said they were
theywere like Time,
Time,Paris
ParisMatch
Matchand andthe thelike.
like.He’s
He'sreally very concerned
reallyvery concernedaboutabout
'rubbish'
‘rubbish’(he(he pronounced
pronouncedthe theword
wordin in a northern
northern accent).
accent).That's
That’s not
not in my publicity,
publicity, but
but then
then hehe only
only reads
readsthe theglossies.
glossies.He's He’s very choosy
choosy about
about hishis
vocabulary.II wouldn't
vocabulary. wouldn’tuse usethe
theword
wordrubbish
rubbishififititwas
was lying
lying on the
the stage
stage friends
friends asas well. HeHe likes
likesPaul
PaulMcCartney,
McCartney, John JohnLennon,
Lennon, Keith
KeithMoonMoonand and
andII could
and pick it up.
could pick Marianne
MarianneFaithfullFaithfulland andher her husband.
husband.But But he
“This
"This music
music you are going to to hear…
hear... if anyone
anyone has very
has very few closeclose friends.
friends. PaulPaul Simon
Simon toldtold meme
has any
has any suggestions
better,
suggestionson
better, or how thethe words
onhow
howitit could
wordscould
could be
couldbe
be played
beimproved…
played
improved...
"Folk music
“Folk recently that
recently
some
some of his
that when
his old
when Bobbywent
oldfriends
Bobby wentback
friends in
back to see
in Greenwich
Greenwich Village last last
We’ve been
been playing thismusic
musicsince
sincewe wewere
were1010 year, they
theywerewere very offhand.
offhand. Theywere
They were jealous
jealous
We've
years old. Folk
years
andwas
and was very
playing this
Folkmusic
very us
musicwas
useful.
eful. If
wasjust
justan
you don’t
Ifyou
aninterruption
interruption
don't like it, that’s
that's
was just an of
ofhishissuccess.
friendswho
friends
success. Now Now he
who go roundround to
heonly
onlyhas
to his
hasone
one or
his place."
place.”
ortwo
tworeal
real

fine. This is not

fine.
to. You
Youhaven’t
not English
English music
haven'treally
reallyheard
music you
you are
heard American
are listening
American music
listening
music interruption Dana
Dana went went on
conversationalist
on to tell me
conversationalist Dylan
me what
Dylanis and
what aa witty
witty
and how theythey used
used
before. I want
before. want now to to say what you're
saywhat you’re hearing
hearingis is to spend
spend all day dayjust sitting talking.
just sitting talking. "He doesn't
“He doesn’t
just songs. You’re
just
words and
words
You'renot
andsounds.
nothearing
sounds.You
hearing anything
You can
cantake
anything else but
takeititor
or leave
leave it. If
If
and was very like Bob Lind,
like
listeningto
listening
Lind, youyou know,”
to 'Elusive
know," she
‘Elusive Butterfly’
she added.
added. "We
Butterfly' one
“We were
one day and
were
and he
there
there is something
great.I'm
great.
something you disagree
I’msick
sick of people
mean?’It means
mean?'
disagree with,
asking:'Wh
people asking:
nothing.”
means nothing."
with, that’s
‘What
that's
doesitit
at does useful"
useful” was curled
was curled up
How then
own
up laughing
then did
own lyric on “Rainy
laughingat
did he feel about
"Rainy Day
atthe
thelyric."
lyric.”
about the criticism
criticism of his
Women”, which
D ayWomen", which has has
Here Dylan
Dylan was
wasinterrupted
interrupted by shouts,
shouts, beenin
been in the
theNME Chart six weeksnow?
Chart sixweeks now? "He “He
including
includ “Woody
ing"Woo dy Guthrie
Guthrie would
would have claimed that'Rainy
claimed that ‘RainyDay DayWomen'
Women’was wasoneoneof the the cleanest songshe
cleanest songs he had
had
everwritten.
ever written.It was just justthat
thatmany
manypeoplepeopledidn’tdidn'tunderstand
understandit and read
their own
their meaning into
own meaning intothethewords."
words.”
The next step in the the career
career of the the enigmatic
enigmatic Mr Mr Dylan
Dylan seems
seemsto to be
be
OntheTriumph
On the Triumph
Tioothathe
T100 that he
towards film directing.
towards film directing. He He admires
admires the thework of the the young American
youngAmerican
crashed
crashed on directorAndyWarhol,
director Andy Warhol,who whohas hasmade
madeaasix -hour-long film of people
six-hour-long people
July 29, 1966
July29,1966 sleeping.
sleeping. But Dylan
Dylan finds this idea
finds this idea a bit dull.
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also likes
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around to to making
makingaafilm film we'll
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that,too!
too!Non-ieDrummond
Norrie Drummond

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motorcycle accident
his motorcycle
occurred near
nearthe
and suffered
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last week.
homeof ofhis
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manager,Al
as aa result
result of

Grossman,
Al Grossman,
JOHN LAUNOIS/GAMMA/CAMERAPRESS

at Woodstock,
Woodstock, New York. York.Dylan
Dylanwas
wasriding
riding the
the machine
machine toto aa garage
garage for
repairs when the
repairs when the rear
rear wheel
wheel locked andand threw
threw the
the motorcycle
motorcycle out of of
control. He was
control. was tossed
tossed over
overthe
thehandlebars.
handlebars.
A concert
concert at Yale
YaleUniversity
University is
isamong
among the the singer’s
singer's dates to be
dates to be
cancelled.
cancelled. His His doctors
doctors say he
he must
must recuperate
recuperate for at atleast
leasttwo
twomonths.
months.A A
concert
concert at at New
New York’s
York'sPhilharmonic
Philharmonic Hall Hall inin November
Novemberis is still on, at
present. There
present.
is aa veil
veilof
ofsecrecy
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where Dylan
Dylan is is in
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hospital. In
In fact, news
news of the
the
accident itself took
accident itself took three
threedays
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to leak
leak out
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press. RenGrevatt
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Nancy Sinatra:
NancySinatra:
"Without music
“Without music
life wouldbe
lifewould be
frightening"
frightening”

HISTORYOF
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ROCK 1966
1966
“You
"You don’t
don't
kick success
in theface."
in the
When
face.”
When NANCY SINATRAlands
UV 1"NATRA landsininLondon,
London,she
she brings
aa famous
famous family
family name
name–- and
and also
also her
her straight-
straight -
talkingproducer
talking producerLeeLeeHazlewood.
Hazlewood. Does
Does Frank
Frank advise
advise
her,
her, too?
too? “No,” says Nancy.
"No," says Nancy.“He"Hestays
stays out
out of
ofit.”
it."

— MELODY
MELODY MAKER
MAKER APRIL 30 —
ANCY SINATRA,
SINATRA,NEWLY NEWLY famous
famous daughter
daughter of aoffamous
a famous father,
father,

N
"These B
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Boots

few hours
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hours after
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descended
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since

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Grab You, Darlin’?”.
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onBritain
the third
thirdof
whole entourage.
a whole

ForWalkin’”
Darlin'?".
arriving here
and record
Britainlast

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hereto
record an
totape
an album
tapean
album at
lastweek

andher
week in

herfollow-up
in the
of The Beatles got hitched.
entourage. Her mother.
Frank Sinatra; businessman
songwriter Lee Hazlewood, the man
songwriter
the biggest

follow-updisc,

anappearance
biggest blaze
hitched. And with
mother. Mrs Nancy Sinatra,
businessman and andactoractorBrad
man who who wrote
disc, “How

appearance on Rediffusion’s
at Pye Records’
"How
blaze of publicity
with her
Sinatra, first
Brad Dexter; and
wrote

Rediffusion's
Records' Marble Arch Arch
publicity
her she
she brought
brought
of
first wife of
and her hit
hit

studios,
studios, Nancy
Nancywas wasbesieged
besiegedbythe by themassed
massedforcesforcesof ofthe
theBritish
Britishpres
presss at
at aa
record companyreception."Thankyou
record company reception. “Thank you allall
forfor
b being here,”she
eing here," shesaid
said
through
througheyes eyes close to totears
tears–-from flashbulbs as well
from flashbulbs wellas asemotion
emotion-"I'm
– “I’m
excited at being
being in London
London for the the first time.
time. It’s
It's so
so famous
famous for beingbeing
swinging,”
swinging," she went on as as she
she stood
stood precariously
precariously atop atopaa tabletable to speak
speak to
the massed
the massed gathering
gatheringthrough
throughaa microphone.
microphone.Nancy Nancy has, has, of course,
course,been
been
accusedofgaining
accused of gainingsuccess
successbecause
becauseof ofher
her father's
father’s name,
name,but butinin London
London
she denied this. "It's
denied this. “It’s not all that
that much
much of an an advantage,”
advantage," she she said.
said.
“People
"People expect
expect a lotlotof you when
ofyou when you’ve
you'vegot gotaafamous
famousname, name, and
and they
they
can be cruel
cruel when
when they find you’re
theyfind you're not not that
that much
much better
better thanthan all the rest.”
rest."
Since
Since the break-up of her marriage
eunpdoefnhte ranrirni to Tommy
trooT Sands,
iynSg Nancyy hsaasnbde
tan ds,r Ng has been
completely
c ci t I:ybiindependent,
nedaeki earning her own living through films and »
 A P R I L – J U NE

recordsand
records andeven
evenhas hasherherown
ownhome homein inBeverly
Beverly Hills.
Hills. some
some good good news newstoday-
today –'How ‘HowDDoes oe s That
That Grab Grab You,
"It's great to
“It’s great tobebeindependent
independent althoughalthough I’m I'm only
onlyjust
just Darlin?'
Darlin?’has hasgone
gone highhigh in in their
their chart
chartin insixweeks,"
six weeks,”
startingout
starting outin in business."
business.” she smiled.
smiled.
With her on the the trip
trip is Lee Hazlewood,
Hazlewood, who who as as well How long longhave haveLee Leeand andNancy worked together?
Nancyworked together?
as writing
writing for for Nancy
Nancy is a well-established
well -established West Coast Coast “Not
"Not quitequite aa year.
year. I waswas looking
looking for a song song for aa long long
songwriter, who
songwriter, who has written
written for many many artists and
artists and time, and
time, andII had nearly given
had nearly given up,up, then
thenLeeLee camecame up up
wrote almost
wrote almostall allthe
thehits
hitsfor
for Duane
DuaneEddy Eddy aa few yearsyears with 'Boots...'.
with ‘Boots…’.I've I’ve had
had hits
hitsbefore,
before,of course.
course. I had had
ago. “Really
"Really I’m I'm aarecord
record producer
producer at at heart,"
heart,”he hesaid.
said."The one
“Theidea
ideaforthatwas
for
one that wasveryverybigbigall
allover
overthe theworld,
world,'Like‘LikeIIDo'. Do’. Kathy
Kathy Kirby
Kirby covered
covereditit
“Boots…”, which
"Boots...", which was was really writtenfor
reallywritten foraaboy,
boy, came
camefrom froman here.
here. It was
anold
old jazz
jazz was aahit hitfor
formemeeverywhere
everywhere else!” else!" AAfrown frowncrossed
crossed Nancy’s
Nancy's
record ofthe
record of the'20s’20s I had andand which
which had had a similar
similar bass beautiful
bass descension
descension to tothe face, causing
theone
beautiful face, one causing me to funnel funnel Coke in inthe
thewrong
wrongchannel.
channel.
on the
the record.
record. I can’t
can't remember
remember the thetitle
titleand
andin infact
fact the
the record “I
"Iwas
recordwas wasat
was takenataacocktail
taken cocktailpartyp artylast lastnight
nightand andsomesomecynical
cynicalpeople
peoplestarted started
away by someone
awayby someoneafter afterII wrote
wrote "Boots...".
“Boots…”. saying,
saying, 'How‘How silly to do do aafollow-up
follow-up of of‘…Darlin’’.
'...Darlin". IIshould
should havehave said said howhow
“A
"Alotlotofofpeople
peoplehave havesaidsaidthat
thatthethedescension
descension is a series series ofmuch
much itit was selling.
ofgood
goodnotes
notes selling. If people
people like the the song, what what does
does it matter?
matter?
followed by bybbad,ad,but
butthis
thisisn’t
isn'ttrue.
true.TheThebass
basspartpart-it
– it can
can onlybe
only beplayed
playedon
How muchmuch control
on control does Nancy have
does Nancy have over choice of material? material? “I "I take
take mymy
a non-fretted
non -frettedinstrument
instrument like the the bass
bass –-uses
uses quarter
quartertones,
tones, and
and this
orders this has
orders fromfrom Lee.
has Lee. Once
Once in in aawhile
whileII like to do something something on onmy myown ownfor for an
an
been used
been usedfor for a long
longtime
time in jazz. To
injazz. Tosay that they are wrong notes
saythat album. If I could
notes is just
album. If just could find the timeI would
the time would like to do do one
one album
album of all sad sad
showing
showing that that thethe people
people don't
don’t know
know what they're talking
what they’re talkingabout."
songs, and
about.” and another
another of ‘in 'in numbers’.”
numbers'."
There has been been some criticism
criticism aboutabout “…Darlin’” soundingso
"...Darlin'" sounding Why hasthere
somuch
muchlike
Whyhas therebeen
like beensuch suchan anincrease
increaseofofgirl girlpop
popsingers
singersin inAmerica
America
“Boots…”. Whose
"Boots...". Whose decision
decisionwas wasthis?
this?"Mine,"
“Mine,”replied
repliedLee. recently? “It’s
recently?
Lee."After
“After all,"
all,” "It's a matter
matter of timing.
timing. There There do seem seem to be more more girl singerssingers
‘Boots…’ was
`Boots...' was a four million seller all
million seller all over the world. You
the world. Youdon’t England than
in England
don't kick
kicksuccess
success thanAmerica
Americaat atthethemoment.
moment.Most Mostof the people
of the people who buy buy
like that
that in the face. That’s That's whywhywe we kept
kept the
the same
same recordsare
records are girls
girls and people tend
and people tendto to believe
believe
sound.The
sound. The third
thirdrecord,
record,however,
however,will will be men
men more more than thanthey theydo do women."
women.”
a beaty
be atything,
two and
two andwith
Nancy has
thing, completely
withaa one
has been
completely different
one-word
different to
-word title.”
been concentrating
title."
concentrating on
to the first
the first

on films moremore
"Marines even
“Marines What
What are her musical
things.II studied
things.
Most of us
Most us take
musical tastes?
studiedclassical
take music
tastes? “Lots
classicalmusic
music for granted,
"Lots of
musicsince
granted, but
ofdifferent
sinceIIwas
butit's
different
was12. 12.
it’s aa big
thanrecords.
than records.Was
records are
records are only
Wasthis
only made
thisher
herfirst
firstlove?
love?"Well,
“Well, the
really to help along the
made really
the
the
sent me
me boots partof
part of everyone's
and see what
everyone’slives.
whathappens.
lives.Remove
happens.
Remove music musicfrom fromlifelife

film career," said

film career,”
films recently
said Lee. “She’s
recently-including
controversial-politically,
"She's completed
– includingone
controversial – politically,socially
completed several
onewhich
whichis
sociallyand
several
is highly
andevery
with
with Vietnam "Even astronauts
“Even
their
astronauts have
their spaceships.
spaceships.Without
frightening.You
frightening. You know
have music playing into
Withoutmusic
know I really
musiclife
reallylike
lifewould
likeThe
wouldbe
TheBeatles,
Beatles,
be

way. We’re
about
We'rereally
about that
reallykeeping
thatone."
one.”
keepingour ourfingers
fingers crossed
crossed
clinging
soil clinging because
becausetheyhave
talented,
they haveso
talented,clever songwriters.
somuch
muchmusic. music.They
songwriters. I certainly
They are
certainly admire
are
admire
Lee said
said the Americanscene scenewas wasstill
still very them.II did ‘Day Tripper’on on an an album;
album;we we
much
much dominated
bback
ackin inthe
theAmerican
dominated byBritain.
thepicture.
by Britain."But
picture. Now the
“But we are
the Stones are
are getting
are the
the
getting to them”
them" them.
changed a couple
changed
would suit
would
Day Tripper'
couple of lines
suit me.
me. I hope
lines around
hope they don’t
around so they
mind.”
don't mind."
they

biggest thingthing backback home

home -– bigger than than TheThe In which
which direction
direction does Nancy Nancywant want to
Beatles.You've
Beatles. You’ve still
still got a grip,
grip, but you’relosing
but you're losingit. it.After
After all, expand her
expand
all, you
you sent
sentususher career?
career? "I've practically everything
“I’ve done practically everythingbut butII don't
don’twant wantto to
some marvellous groups
some marvellous groupslike the the Stones and and The Beatles
Beatles-but
– butyou
youalso
do nightclubs.
also
nightclubs. There There is too too much
much competition
competition and andI'm I’mnotnotin inaa position
position to to
sent us
sent us some rubbishas
some rubbish aswell."
well.” compete
compete with withgirlgirl club
club singers.
singers.It's It’s all a matter
matter of experience.
experience. I can’t can't go
into a small
into small clubclub and
and learn
learn the the ropes
ropes as I have havethe thename
name of ofSinatra,
Sinatra,and and
the
the name itself suggests
name itself suggests bigger things. things. I don’t
don't think
think I could
could stand
stand the the life.
— MELODY MAKER
- MELODY MAKER MAY 'AAY7 — 7-
I travelled
travelled on the the road
road with
with my ex-husband,
ex-husband, Tom Tom Sands,
Sands, and andit's it’s even
even
CHINESE CONJUROR
ACHINESE CONJURORAND AND thetheDagenham
Dagenham Girl GirlPipers
Pipers were
were tough for aaman.
tough man. He Hecouldn’t
couldn't stand stand it.

A
pantomime
that stood between
all that
Nancy, sweet
pantomimedevised
devisedby
between me
sweet and
me and
and swinging,
byRediffusion
RediffusionTV
and Nancy
Nancy Sinatra
Sinatra last

called Hippodrome,
TV called
last week.
swinging, was involved in a curious
curious
Hippodrome, committed
committed
“It’s
"It's not
have to in
not fair

show. Artists
fair totoappear
in nightclubs,
appear before people
nightclubs, and
Artists likelike Buddy
anddo
BuddyGreco
do one
Grecoall
people who
one or or two
who pay the
two hit records.
allcome
comeout
the kind
kind of money
records. They
outofofnightclubs
They need
nightclubsbefore
money they
need aa great
beforethey
great
have
theyhave
to video
video twice
twice weekly
weekly at
at Wembley
Wembley for aa new
new series
series to
to be
be seen
seen later in thethe hits, and
and had all the the experience
experience to start start with.”
with."
year. During
During thethe run-through,
run-through, Nancy
Nancy was torn. Every time
was torn. time anan Does Frank
Frank Sinatra adviseNancy
Sinatra advise Nancyon on herher career?
career? "No, “No, he doesn’t.
doesn't. He He
opportune
opportunemoment
momentfor foraa chat
chat came
came up, either
either the
the Dagenham
Dagenham Girl stays
stays outout of it.it.My
Myparents
parents thinkthink its best.”
best."
Pipers or the
the Chinese
Chinese conjuror
conjuror commenced
commenced operations,
operations,rending
rendingall all Nancy
Nancyhas hasaa tremendous
tremendousadoration adorationfor forher
herfather:
father:"In “InThe
The WeeSmall Small
conversation
conversationimpossible.
impossible.At point, when Nancy became
At one point, became involved Hours is is my
myfavourite
favourite album,
album, and andof of his
his films
films I likelike The
TheManchurian
Manchurian
with
with Paul &Barry
Paul & BarryRyan,
Ryan,I Iseriously
seriouslyconsidered
consideredinterviewing
interviewing the the Candidate
Candidate and andRyan's
Ryan’sExpress,
Express, and andgoing
goingback backto toThe
TheMan ManWith With The The
conjuror
conjuror instead,
instead,butbutbeyond
beyondasking
asking"How's
“How’s tricks?"
tricks?” we didn’t
didn't seem
seem to Golden
GoldenArm Arm –-he hewas
was so marvellous
marvellous in in that.
that.He He went
went to a clinic
clinic and and studied
studied
have much
much in common.
common. But as the the dust
dust raised by pipers,
pipers, acrobats,
acrobats, these poor people
these poor people who are addicted addicted to narcotics,
narcotics, and and it was frightening.
frightening.
clowns and
and conjurors
conjurors settled,
settled,Nancy,
Nancy, her
her arranger
arrangerBilly Strange and
Billy Strange and “I
"I think
think his own favourite
favourite film film is The TheManchurian Candidate.He
Manchurian Candidate. He waswas
"Boots..."
“Boots…” composer
composerLee Lee Hazlewood,
Hazlewood,escaped
escapedfor foraa Coke break with with more
more excited
excited over that thanI've
that than I’veever
ever seen
seen him.him.II hopehope to to see my father father
MM questions.
questions. when he
when comes here
he comes here for filming,
filming, and and we plan to
we plan to go to to Vietnam
Vietnam together.
together.
Nancy, stunning
stunning in in We’ll
We'll be beentertaining
entertaining the thetroops.
troops.We We couldn’t
couldn't do do much
muchelse, else, I'mI’m afraid.
afraid.
a pink
pink sweater
sweater and
and God willing,
willing, I hopehope it will be be allall over
over before
before then. We’ve made
then. We've made aa lot lot of
tights,
tights, poured
poured aa Coke friends with
friends with marines
marines over there. They even
over there. even sentsent me methree
three pairs
pairs of ofcombat
combat
and relaxed
and relaxed in chair
in a chair boots with Vietnam
boots with Vietnamsoil soil still
still clinging
clingingto to them.
them.ItIt was was horrible.
horrible. I wrote wrote
with
with an
an American
American asking
asking themthemto to tell
tell me
me their story, but
their story, but I haven’t
haven't had had a reply yet.”
replyyet."
NANCY IN magazine.
magazine. "We “We hadhad "Boots...", with
Before “Boots…”,
recordsuccess?
record
with what
success?"I
what sort
“I was
sort of
was recording
ofmaterial
material was
recordingsweet
was Nancy
Nancy trying
sweet-little-girl
trying to gain
kind of songs,
-little -girl kind
gain
songs,
which are
which are great
great for sweet sweet little
little girls. IIthinkthink I’mI'm sweet
sweet but but I’ve
I've been
been
married
marriedfor forfive years and
five years and everybody
everybodyknows knowsI'm I’mnot
notaa virgin.
virgin.
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“Little
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out of
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timing was
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theirmind.
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sadomasochistic [as has
mind. Success
right for
was right forme.
atthe
themoment.

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moment. But
has been
forthe
me. Perfect because
thesong
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been suggested
songcame
because more
anybodywho
suggested in
camebecause
who says

because the
more girls wear
America]
inAmerical
the
wear boots boots
now thanthan boys.

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Now Does
Thal I Move dancing.
“I’ve
"I've been
dancing.At

Around
been in in music
At high
music since
highschool,
since IIcan
school,in inLos
canremember
remember –- music, acting
LosAngeles,
Angeles, we we put
put onon shows.
acting and
shows.We
and
We did
did

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all our
our ownown writing
writing and and skits. The TV TVstation
station
in Los
in LosAngeles
Angeles usedused to toput
puton onamateur
amateur shows
and
and I made
made my my first
first TVTVappearance
appearance when when I
was 13. ItItwas
was wasin inaatrio
triocalled
called TheThe Tritones.”
Tritones."
At
Atthis
this Billy
BillyStrange
Strangeand and LeeLeeHazlewood
Hazlewood
both
both collapsed
collapsed with with laughter.
laughter. “What"What did you you
do?
do? ‘Good
'Good Ship Ship Lollipop’?”
Lollipop'?" asked asked Billy.
“We
"Wewere weredoing
doingall allthe
thepopular
popular things,”
things,"
pouted
pouted Nancy. “We "Wewere werepretty good, and
prettygood, and
used
used to go goto toall
allthe
theother
otherschools
schools to to
entertain.
entertain. We We had
had a girl bongobongo player.
player.
Another girl!"
Another girl!”
“They
"They took tooktheir
their orchestra
orchestra with them them
everywhere,”
everywhere," grinned Billy.
grinned Billy.
“I
"I play
playpianopiano a bit,”
bit,"continued
continued Nancy,Nancy,
ignoring the
ignoring the interruptions.
interruptions. "But “But I've
I’ve
neglected
neglectedmypractice.
my practice.I'm I’mworking
workingso so hard,
hard,
I don’t
don't have time.But
have time. But I studied classicsfor
studied classics for11
11
years. IIthink learning piano
thinklearning piano is one one of the
ofthe
greatestways
greatest ways of learning
learning about music in
about music in
general.II had
general. one lesson
had one lessonaa couple
coupleof of weeks
weeks
ago
ago and
and IIwaswassurprised
surprised how it all allcame
came
rushingback.
rushing back.II studied singingfor
studied singing for six months
months
and
and my teacher
teacher put my exercises
exercises on ontape.
tape.
Every
Everyonce oncein inaawhile
while when when I get getambitious,
ambitious,
IIlisten
listento tothem.
them.A A musical
musical education
education is
very important.
important. I think thinkit'sit’s important
important for for
every child
every child toto have
have training
training of all all kinds.
kinds.
Ifhe
If hehashastalent,
talent, ititwill
willcome
comeout. out. When
When
I was
was in in New York IIalso
NewYork alsostudied
studied
modernjazz
modern jazzballet." ballet.”
Talking about about exercise
exercise seemed
seemed
to be affecting
affecting Lee Hazlewood,
Hazlewood,
crouching on the
crouching the floor
floorwith
with a “I take
"I my orders
takemy from
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cigarette."It's “It’sthat
thatcrick
crickin inmymybbackack Lee”: Nancy
Lee": Sinatrain
NancySinatra in
again," groaned, and
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obligingly began
obligingly beganaaslow slow massage.
massage."Wow, “Wow, partnerand
partner and producer
producer
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that’s better," breathed.
better,” he breathed. The City Never Sleeps Lee Hazlewood
Lee in 1966
H azlewood in1966

made a brief
I made brief check,
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disappointed
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Sinatras in
in the
the lit restaurant,
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repertory company.
company.We could go
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before IIcame
came
out on
out onthetheroad!
road!ButButwe wecouldn't
couldn’tallallfitfitininone
onecar."
car.”
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ChrisWelch
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to LondonII was going with with him. But you
him. But
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know how it is…
is... I just
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didn't want tobe
be
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apart from her for so long.
long. I’ve
I'vebeen
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Joyhadhadrevealed
revealed toto me
methe
the secrets
secrets ofoftheir
their romance.
romance. For down.
down. I don’t
don't want
want to be away from from Nancy
Nancy for forthat
that length
length of time!”
time!"
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their British
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who accompanied themon on their
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first American tour, and
tour, and not
not marriage,”
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offering oneone of his rare
rare and faint smiles.
and faint smiles. "But“But if
renewed
renewed the the acquaintance
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theirstay
stayin inCalifornia
California last summer.
last summer. you mean is
you mean is it aahandicap
handicap having
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Frank Sinatra
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girlfriend's father,
father,
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lunch inin London
Londonlast lastweek
week Ron told me:
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with usus on
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took only a passing
passing interest
interest in each other.
in each other. this trip,
this trip, but it wouldn’t
wouldn't make
make anyany difference
difference ififsheshewasn’t
wasn't-– there
there are aa
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six weeks ago met again
ago we met again when dozen other people
dozen other people around
around Nancy almost
Nancy almost
I went
went to
to the
the Hollywood
Hollywood Palace
Palace show to take
take constantly.Anyway,
constantly. Anyway, NancyNancy Sr is is the
the greatest
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some
some pictures
one
picturesof
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one of dozens
place
arrived expecting
of her. I arrived
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up from her home
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dinner date.
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arrived
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Nancy's given in their
their honour
honour and and took them them
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dead
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addressed himself
through dinner.
dinner.And
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handle his daughter!”
daughter!"
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Sept30,1966

J A N U A R Y – M A R CH

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LADY JANE, which is ismy
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Brian Jones on dulcimer
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at tracksamong
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which would Jack Nitzsche
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Keith
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singles."LadyJane", lyric interpretation
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another very
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every conceivable instrument thrownin.
instrument thrown in. WHAT
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virtually a tribute
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-year -old record
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Keely Smith,
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"Last December,
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A compulsive fast-moving
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complete with
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plaintive, and
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said,‘I'Iwant
wantto tohear
hearthe the theme.’
theme.' And two weeks weeks later
later I heard
heard
characteristics –-strident
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accordingly, but the melody; there
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crashing cymbals,
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the sound And
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the fascinating oriental flavours
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want this
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showed it to to Frank
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vocal. But
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there's virtually no melody.
melody.And And backing steadily
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the Capitol
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weeks called StrangerIn InThe
The Night.
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lyric,
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composed with with Frank
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FrankSinatra
suggests that that harpsichord
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and 'Downtown' forit.
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Frank Sinatra’s
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like Italian
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must get former
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future singles will be in in the
the same
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stoned”. The
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latter in in particularly. With Frank
particularly. Frank Sinatra
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“Some
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sitar in his
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do you tear
tear any
any up?
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reckonwe've about200
written about 200 between us. We don’t
between us. don't write
write that
that many
many songs
songs for
other people.
other people. Usually they are
Usually they are supposed
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"Paint It, Black”,

In “Paint Black",are
are all
allthe
thedifferent
different sounds
sounds you use on it
you use it just
just striving
striving after
aftereffect?
effect?Did
Did
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you think itit all
all out?
out?
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Of coursenot.
not.Sometimes
Sometimes we wethink
thinkup
upthings
things like
like“Lady
"LadyJane". Thatwas
Jane”. That wascalculated
calculatedbefore
before
we even went into into the
the studio.
studio. But “Paint
"Paint It, Black”
Black" was
wasjust
justgoing
goingto tobebeaabeat
beat group
group number.
number. »»

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October7,1966:Midc
Jagger and the Stones
JaggerandtheStones
perform “Lady Jane”
perform"LadyJane"
on Ready,
on Steady, Go!
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February 13, 1966:
February13,1966: STONES
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Keith
Richards during a
Richardsduringa
Stonesperformance
Stones performance
on The Ed
on Sullivan
EdSullivan
ShowinNewYorkCity
Show in New York City

Was it
We got
it aasend-up?
send-up?Yeah.
got Bill
Billon

going, “Bi-jing,
going,
onpiano
bi-jing, bi-jing,”
Yeah.If
piano and
bi-jing,"and
"Bi-jing, bi-jing,
big joke. It was
bigjoke. was in
in Los
If you’d
you'd been
and Bill plays
and all
allthat
been at

sort of
bi-jing,bi-jing”
bi-jing"and
at the
plays in this
that sort ofstuff,
stuff,and
and that’s
Angeles. And we just
LosAngeles.And
session,itit was
the session,
funnystyle.
this funny
andwe
style.He
weall
that's how it all
just stuck
was just

allwent

stuck the
just one
Hegoes,
wentrunning
allstarted.
the sitar
one big joke.
goes,"Bi-jing,
“Bi-jing,
running about

sitar in
in because
about
started. It was just
just one
one
some
because some
Would you
play

audiences
you go
playonlyto
wouldn't ssay
wouldn’t
audiences are
turn
goififthey
only towhites?
aythat.
that. They
aresegregated.
aroundand
turn around
said you
theysaid
whites?Oh Ohno.
Theyjust
you could
could
no. But they
they

segregated.InInAmerica
andsay,say,"We
“We won’t
the
just say the
Americait's
won't play to
MEM
it’svery
verydifferent.
tosegregated
different.You
You can
segregated audiences,”
audiences,"
can

geezer
geezer came
camein.in. He was in aa jazz
jazzgroup
group and
and playing
playing sitar
sitar in his
his pyjamas.
pyjamas. and all that,
and all whichis
that, which is mainly donefor
mainly done for publicity.
publicity. But if they wantto
theywant to
And wewesaid,
said,“Oh,
"Oh,that’ll
that'llsound
sound good
good because
because it’s
it's got
gotthis
thisthing
thing that
that goes segregate them,
segregate them, they'll
they’ll segregate
segregatethemthemno nomatter
matterwhat
whatyouyou do.
do. They
g-doing,
g- doing, doing,
doing, doing, etc.”
doing, etc." just won't
just won’t let coloured
coloured in. in. They wouldn’tlet
Theywouldn't letthem
themin
inwhen
whenwe weplayed
played
Birmingham, Alabama.
Birmingham, Alabama.There Therewas
wasnothing
nothingwe wecould
coulddo.
do.We've
We’ve got
People
People are
are taking
takinglonger
longernowto
now tomake
makesingles?
singles?Yeah,
Yeah,ifif they
they can.
can. I a clause
clause in our
our contract,
contract, butbuthow
how could
couldwe we prove
prove it until
until after the
after the
couldn’ttake
couldn't takeasaslong
longas
as The
The Beatles,
Beatles, I don’t
don't think. BecauseI'd
think. Because I’d lose all show? It’s
It's not
not like
like playing
playing in
in Kilburn!
Kilburn! InIn Kilburn
Kilburn it would
would bebe the
the
sense
sense of excitement.
excitement. coloureds.
Irish and the coloureds.

Have you heard any trackson

heard anytracks onThe
TheBeatles'
Beatles’new
newLP?
LP?Yeah,
Yeah, I've
I’ve heard most
heard most You
Youstill
stilldon’t
don't dig America all
digAmerica all that
thatmuch?
much?IIhate
hateit.
it. I like
likecertain
certain things
things in
of them.
them. They are very good. They've
verygood. They’ve taken
takenaalong
long time
time over
over them andaalot
them and lot America.I like Los
America. LosAngeles
Angelesbecause
because it’s
it'swarm
warm andand ititmakes
makes aachange
change from
from
of care
care and
and trouble.
trouble. They’ve
They've used
used lots
lotsof
ofsounds
soundsand
andsome
someinstruments
instruments England.
England. It'sIt’s just
just an
aneasy
easylife
life for aa couple
couple ofofweeks.
weeks.Materially Americais
MateriallyAmerica is
they used
they usedon
on Rubber
Rubber Soul. And
Andthey
theyhave
haveused
used more
more normal
normal things like
things like fantastic. It’s just
fantastic. It's just the
the people
people whowho are
are so bloody
bloody awful.
awful. It’sIt'saagreat
greatcountry
country
strings and other instruments.
instruments. if there
there weren’t
weren't anyany people
pe ople there.
there. Vietnam
Vietnam hashas changed America.ItIt has
changed America. has
divided
divided it andand made
made people think. There’s a lot
think. There's lotofofopposition
opposition-– muchmuch more
Is the
the future
future ofof the
theStones
Stonesin inround
round-the-world tours?No.
-the -world tours? No.IIdon't
don’treally
reallylike
like than you think,
than you becauseall
think, because all the
the opposition
oppositionis is laughed
laughed at at in American
doing world tours.
doing tours. I’d
I'd rather
rather tour
tour here than anywhereelse.
than anywhere else.But
But we haven’t
haven't magazines. It's
magazines. It’s made
madetoto look ridiculous.
ridiculous. But there
there is real
real opposition.
opposition.
been international
been internationalall allthat
thatlong
longand
andwe've
we’ve just
just Before, Americans
Americans used used to
toaccept
accept everything
everything
finishedtouring
finished touringeverywhere
everywherefor for the
the first
first time.
time. – mycountry
-my countryright
rightororwrong.
wrong.But Butnownowaalot
lot of
We’ve done
We've
write in
write
done all
in and
allthese
these little
they buylots
and they
littleplaces
buy lotsof
placesbecause
of our
because kids
our records.
records.We
kids
We feel `America is a
“America young
be right,
be
people are saying my
young people
right, not
not wrong.
wrong.
mycountry
country should
should

we should
should play there
there once.
once. So Somany kids write
manykids
from South
SouthAfrica
we don’t
they're so disappointed
Africa and they’re
don't go there.
there.
disappointed great country Have you
youbeen
in America?Yeah.
inAmerica?
questions on this
been asked questions
Yeah.II said
said just
this subject
just what
subject
I’ve said now.
what I've

Would you go to
Would
see anything
toSouth
wrongin
anything wrong
Africa?Yeah. I don’t
SouthAfrica?
ingoing
going to South
don't
Africa.
SouthAfrica.
if there
there If you’re
you're not
not American,
American, you see,
unpatriotic.IfIfThe
unpatriotic. The Beach
be called unpatriotic.
unpatriotic.
see, you’re
Beach Boys said
you're not
not being
saidititthey
being
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theywould

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one
better to
to play
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coloured audience
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toone
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audienceor
whiteaudience
oris
audience and
is it better
better not
and
not to
weren't any
weren’t Can talk about
Can we talk about your forthcoming
forthcoming film?
film?No,
play toeither
playto eitherofof them?
them?WhoWho loses
loses out? Do the
the
there"
people there” I’m not supposed
I'm supposed to talk about it
it-– and
andI can’t
can't say
CBS/GETTY

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coloured people gain anything from not
anything from much about
much aboutitit anyway
anyway because
becauseit's
it’sall
all sort
sort of
seeing
seeing us if theytheywant
want to? daft.But
daft. But we
we will be acting in it.
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 ROLLING STONES
ROLLING STONES

How about
about author
author Dave Wallis’
Wallis' alleged
alleged remarks
remarks appeal to young
appeal to young people.
people.II think
thinkwewewere
wereright.
right.But
Butitit
when
when he heard the
he heard theStones
Stoneswere
wereto
to film
film his story?
his story? took us ages to
to prove
prove ititand
and people
people tried to put
tried to put us
us
I don’t
don't really knowwhat
reallyknow whathehesaid.
said.Anyway,
Anyway,itit was
was down
down so much thatwe
much that we hated
hatedall
all of them.
them. InIn the end,
the end,
supposedto
supposed tobe
behis
hiswife.
wife. It might
might have been blown
been blown trad was out
trad was out and all the
and all clubs were
the clubs were full of rock’n’roll
rock'n'roll
up. He’s
up. He's treating
treating itit like
like a great
great work of literature.
literature. groups and we thought
groups and thought itit was alright.
alright.
It’s just a good
It's good story.
story. We’re
We'rechanging
changing it anyway.
anyway.
He doesn’t ownit.
doesn't own it.We
We own
own it. How doyou
Howdo youseesee yourselfin
yourself in1010years?
years?OhOhGawd!
Gawd!

Bob Dylan
Dylan-have
be copying
– haveyou
copying Mick
heard he's
you heard supposed to
he’s supposed
Jagger? I keep
MickJagger? keepreading
reading this.
this.
"If you’re
“If you're big I hope
hope I’ll
making
I'll be
be an
makingoccasional
making the
still making
an actor
actor and

the same
and I could
occasionalrecords.
same kind
could still be
records.Frank
FrankSinatra
Sinatraisis
kind of records
records he made
made
I’ve never
I've never seen
I’ve never
I've
Dylan. Well, I’ve
seen Dylan.
never met him.
him. I’ve
I've seen
I've never
seen him,
never talked.
him, but
but
Everyone
talked. Everyone enough, you 15
15years
years ago.
ago. You
Youmight
technicallyaa million
technically
mightsay
million times
Frank Sinatra
sayFrank
times better
Sinatra isis
better than me,
than me,
else has,
has, but
but I haven’t.
haven't. He asked
asked me
me round the
round the but doesn't really
but it doesn’t reallymean
meananything
anythingas asfar
far as
othernight,
other night,but
butII didn't
didn’tgo.
go. can have a hit selling records
style you
records is
you are,
isconcerned.
concerned. No matter
are, ififyou’re
you'rebig
bigenough
matter what
enough you
youcan
what
can have
have
Do you
youlike
likehis
WomenNos
Women Nos12
12&
hiscurrent
current single,
& 35”?
single, “Rainy
35"? Yes, it’s
Day
"RainyDay
it's aa laugh.
laugh. record every a hit

Do you care
hit record
record every
every five years

care if aaRolling
Rolling Stones
years or so.

Stones single
single
Do his lyrics mean
stoned"
stoned” means
anything?"Let's
mean anything?
means something.
something.
“Let’sgo
go and
andget
get
five years or so”
so" doesn’tcome
doesn't
alright.
comein
alright. As long
inatatNo
longas
No1? No. No
asthe
therecord
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recordsells
that’s
sellsabout
about four
four
or five
fivehundred
hundred thousand.
thousand. EMI claims
claims
How about “PaintIt,
about "Paint It,Black"?
Black”?ItIt means
meanspaint
paintititblack.
black."I
“ICan't
Can’tGet
Get No incredible sales
incredible sales for The Beatles’
Beatles' records.
records.
Satisfaction”means
Satisfaction" meansIIcan't
can’tget
getno
nosatisfaction.
satisfaction.TheTherest
restof
ofthe
thesong
songisis just
just
expanding
expanding on that.
on that. What must
What must aa record
record sell
sell to
to make
makeNoNo 1? AAhundred
hundredand and fifty
fiftythous and.
thousand.
That’s
That's what
what Manfred Mannsold
Manfred Mann soldup
upto
to about
aboutthree
threeweeks
weeksago.
ago. The Walker
Do you
you care
care if
ifpeople
people can’t
can't hear yourwords?
hear your words?No,
No, not
not really. It’s
It'sthe
the sound
sound Brothers were tops
Brothers were topsforfor four
four or five weeks
weeks and
and they
they only sold about
about a
we’re after.
we're after. Though peopledo
Though people doknow
knowthe
thewords
wordsofof most
most of them.
them. People
People quarter ofaa million.
quarter of million.Our
Ourbiggest
biggestrecord
recordwas
was"It's
“It’sAll
AllOver
OverNow"
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was
have been saying
have been they haven’t
saying they haven't been
beenable
able to hear the
to hear the words
words on records ever
on records ever No 11only
onlyinin the
the MM
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sold about
about800,000.
800,000.
since rock’n’roll
rock'n'roll started.
started.
you think
Do you thinkThe
TheRolling
RollingStones
Stoneswill
willbe
begoing
going in
in 10 years?
years? It’s
It's very
very

GEORGE WILKES/HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY

What you think
What do you think of Sinatra
Sinatraback
backin
inthe
theTop
Top10? Stranger things
things have unlikely.
unlikely. But we’ve
we've been
been going
going four
four years
years now
nowand
and that
that was very unlikely.
veryunlikely.
happened.
happened.II haven’t
haven't heard
heard his inaawhile
his record. Once in these things
while these things come
come People say things
things like, “Well,
"Well,the
thefilm
filmwill
willcome
comeoutoutnext
nextMarch
Marchandandthen
then
along. Like
along. Like Ken Dodd.
Dodd. we'll do
we’ll do aaquick
quicktour,”
tour,"and
andthey
theywrite things on little bits of
write things ofpaper
paper and
and sign
sign
contracts! It's
contracts! veryweird.
It’s very weird.
On single
single records,
records, do
do you
youthink
think the
the Stones
Stonesareareasaseasily
easilyidentifiable
identifiable as
they alwayswere?
theyalways were?YeYeah,
ah, I do.
do.I’m
I'mnot
notbeing
beingbig-headed
big -headedor oranything,
anything, it’s
it's youagree
Do you agreethat
thatthe
thenext
nextBeatles
Beatlesfilm
filmisisvery
veryimportant and they
important and they
just that
that I happen
happen to be the
the singer
singer and
and IIthink
thinkpeople
peoplerecognise
recognise my
myvoice
voice couldbe
could beininabit
a bitofofaa quandary?
quandary? IIthink
thinkThe
TheBeatles
Beatles are
are very limited.
limited.
straight away.IfIf they
straightaway. they do,
do, they
they are
are not going toto think,
think, “Oh
"Oh yeah,
yeah, that’s
that's The Everygroup
Every groupisislimited,
limited,but
butI think
I thinkthey
theyare
arevery
voylimitedbecause can't
limited because I can’t
Rolling Stones.
Stones.But
Butititdoesn’t
doesn'tsound
soundlike
likethem.”
them."Otherwise
Otherwisethey wouldn’t
theywouldn't forinstance,
see, for instance, Ringo withwith aagun
gun in
inhis
hishand
hand and
and being
being nasty
nasty in
have recognised
recognised thetheStones.
Stones. a movie
movie and
and going
going to tokill
killsomebody.
somebody.ItItjust
justwouldn’t
wouldn'thappen.
happen. But
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What are
What areyour
yourthoughts
thoughtson onThe
TheBeach
BeachBoys?
Boys?IIhatehateTheTheBeach
BeachBoysBoys
– TheBeach
-The BeachBoys,
Boys,butbutII like Brian Wilson. He’s He's very
very nice
nice and
and very
differentto
different to them.
them.TheyTheyareareall
all sort
sort of stupid,
stupid, like some of the the groups
groups
were when they started off and
started off acted daft
and acted daft all
all the time, yelling
the time, yelling about
about
andall
and all that.
that.Taking
Takingthe thep---
p---out
outofofeverybody.
everybody.Like Likeaa lot of rugger
rugger
typeswho
types who come
cometo to invade
invadeaa pub.
pub.
I’ve
I've just
just got the
the Beach Boys album,album, PetPet Sounds.
Sounds. It'sIt’s good.
good. I don’t
don't
like the
the songs much.
much. I think
think they
they are
are great
great records.
records. I think
think Brian
Wilson is aagreat
Wilson great record
record producer.
producer. But I thinkthinkwe he could
could vary the
actual
actual sound
sound of the the voices.
voices.TheThesound
sound-not the harmonies
– not the harmonies –-grates
grates
on me
on me aa bit.
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things about us. Why
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children seem to to be precocious.
precocious.
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from so-and-so and and they
they usually
usually spend so much much time time in in America?
America? They all want to
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IIS IORY OF 1965
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people askyou aboutpolitics?
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really,
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it's very difficult
difficult to say whatyou
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that, it's easy andand that’s whatyour
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into songs like "Satisfaction"?
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the church
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really"Girl reaction". The
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never buy
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so-called
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SITAR SOUNDS

“Everybody
"Everybody
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recordand
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instrumentation start?
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knows? It could
could have been any one
been any one of the
the
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revolutionary records
records that thathave
have been
been brought
brought out the
out in the
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past two years:
years: The
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future.Steve
future. Steve Marriott,
Marriott,of of the
the Small
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electronic music." John somewhat loosely, describe
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digging everything
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something we we dig, group took a few
group took fewminutes
minutes out out of its
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into aanumber
number whenever
whenever we we can.”
can." schedule.
schedule. "I “I mean
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soundhas has always
always intrigued
intrigued me. me.
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interested in the the sounds
sounds originating
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Harrison and and it turned
turned him himon. on.
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Tony Crane. bought one which the Beatles used
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'Norwegian Wood'.We Wood’. We used used it
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particularly knocked
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with today's
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engineer. A
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because
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illustrate Alla Rakha’s breathtaking
breathtaking tahia tahia solo
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time they've
time they’ve been been imported
importedthe theprice
pricegoes goesup." up.” with
with aa 17-beat
17 -beatpattern.
pattern.
Indiacraft, aa branch
Indiacraft, branch of shops specialising
specialising in Indian Indian goods,
goods, verified this: Incredible
Incredible isthe is theonlyonlydescription
descriptionfor forShankar,
Shankar. Hisawesome
His awesome
"Sitars
“Sitars areare entirely
entirely handmade
handmade and and therefore
therefore an an enormous
enormousquantityquantityof of command
command of of the
the sitar
sitar and
and his musicmusic are areperhaps
perhaps unequalled,
unequalled, and
them aren't
them aren’tproduced.
produced.Secondly,Secondly,they theyare are very fragile and and don’t
don't travel certainly
certainly the theemotional
emotionalresponse responsehe hecancanevoke
evokein inaa largely
largely non non-Indian
-Indian
verywell.
very well. We Wehad hadtwo twoconsignments
consignments that that were audience fora
audience for amusic
musicwhich whichisis
completely smashed
completely smashed when whenwe we opened
opened them."them.” ROYAI. FESTIVA). HALL devilishly subtle
subtle and sophisticated
sophisticated is

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, at 8
Who is isbuying
buyingthese theseinstruments,
instruments, and and how somethingtotomarvel
something marvel at.at.
Bob BobHouston
Houston
muchdo
much dothey
theycost?cost? "We“We carry sitarsfrom
carry sitars from£35 £35 to to
Rasa Douplia: 11d. present
£100. YouYoucan canget getmore
moreexpensive
expensiveones ones which
which are are
very elaborate,
elaborate, but but wewe don’t usuallysell
don't usually sell them.
them.We We
have noticed
sitars.
noticed a great
sitars. Various pop
great upsurge
upsurge in demand
pop groups
groups have havebeen
demand for
been inquiring
inquiring
RAVI SHANKAR with ALLA RAKHA labia
.

interestin
interest
flattered by
obviously flattered
inhis
hismusic
bythe
music(Beatle
thesudden
sudden
(Beatle GeorgeGeorge
about
aboutthem,
them,and andas asfar
farasasII recollect,
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Harrison left a recording
recording session session to to
Harrison
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hear hisRoyal
Royal Festival
Festival Hall Hall concert)
concert)
Stones andand Donovan
Donovan have bought bought them.”them." but was philosophical
but philosophical about aboutititall. all.
Page has
get them
has heard
heard rumours
imported."But
them imported.
rumours that
“ButIIdon't
thataafirm
don’tknow
firmis trying to
is trying
knowififitit will
to "Jazz has only
“Jazz He hadhad heard
record where
record
heard The The Beatles’
where Harrison
Beatles' “Norwegian
Harrisonused usedthe
"Norwegian Wood"
thesitar.
sitar.But,
But, he
Wood”
he
materialise,” he
materialise,"
privately through
privately
His wife was
he added.

was coming
added. "I
throughaafriend
coming to
“I managed
friendof
to meet
managed to get mine
of a friend
meet him
friend and and so
him from India,
mine
so on.
India, and and
borrowed a maintained:"It
maintained:
a serious
serious interest
be like so
be somany
“Itisisgood
interestin
many things,
goodififitit is going
inthe
themusic,
music,but
going to

things, just a passing

toencourage
encourage
butififititisisgoing
goingto
passing fancy, then
to
then
she bought
she bought a sitar
when it arrived
when arrived-it
withher.
sitarwith
– itwas
her.II was terribly
wasininaacoffin
terribly excited
coffin-like
-like tea
excited
tea chest.”
chest."
flavour of it is
is not
these
not going
thesefeelings
goingto
feelings from
tobe bemuch
from the
muchgood.”
thestage
good."He
stageof the
Herepeated
repeated
the Festival Hall.
Jimmy then
sitar: “There
strings
strings built
then explained

builtinto
explained the mechanics
"There are anything
intothe
anything up
theneck,
neck, over
mechanics of the
up to 20 sympathetic
over which
sympathetic
which are are the
the

the
Indian music"
Indian music” Shankar's association
Shankar’s
goes backbackto
using saxist
using saxist Bud
association with
to the
the ’50s
'50s when
Bud Shank
Shank on
withjazz
when he herecorded
musicians
jazz musicians
recorded an
America’sWest
onAmerica's
an album
album
West Coast.
Coast.
metal frets.
metal frets. These
These are are tied
tied on with with rope
rope and and are are It wasn’t
wasn't aa conscious
conscious “Indo-jazz”
"Indo-jazz" meeting.
meeting.
movable to
movable to suit
suit whichever
whicheverscale scaleyou're
you’replaying
playingin. in.Over
Over thethe frets
frets are
are six Shankar simply wantedaaflautist
Shankar simplywanted flautistfor forthe
themusic
musiche hehad
hadwritten
writtenfor foraa film.
main
main strings
strings whichwhich are are plucked. The The sympathetic
sympathetic strings vibrate when when But once
once in in the
the studios,
studios, he wrote wrote some lines to utilise utilise Shank’s
Shank's jazz jazz abilities.
abilities.
the
the main
main strings
stringsare areplayed,
played, giving an answering answering drone. drone. It's rather like
It’s rather He is isastutely
astutely knowledgeable
knowledgeable on on jazz. Musicians
Musicians of the the calibre
calibre of John John
switchingto
switching to feedback
feedback to to sustain
sustain aa note note on on thethe guitar,
guitar,except
except that
thatit's
it’s in
in Coltrane
Coltrane have have taken
takenlessons
lessonsfromfrom him. him.But But he is sceptical
sceptical of ofcombining
combining
tune.
tune. InIn fact, the the mechanics
mechanics of the the sitar, once once youyouunderstand
understand them, them, are are jazz with
jazz with his his own
own music.
music. "Ours
“Oursis is a very
very disciplined music,” he
disciplined music," he explained,
explained,
very basic
b asicand andfunctional.
functional.They Theymakemake the the guitar
guitar seem spastic.”
spastic." “really
"really a classical
classical tradition.
tradition. It is isalso
alsoaaphilosophy
philosophyand and aaway way of ofexpressing
expressing
There
There is aa lot lotof ofinterest
interest in inthe
the sitar
sitar asas far
faras aspop
popmusic
music is isconcerned.
concerned. many emotions-not
many emotions – notininaasuperficial
superficialway, way,but butfrom
frominside
insideus. us.IIlove
lovejazz jazz
What role does Page think
What think it will eventually
eventually play? “It’s "It'scertainly
certainlygoinggoingto to and know many
and know manyof the the good
good musicians
musicians from fromthe theold
oldera,
era,like
like Duke
Duke
be exploited
exploited to the the fullest extent.
extent. The trouble trouble is, they they areare difficult
difficult to to tune
tune Ellington,
Ellington, Count CountBasie,
Basie, to Dizzy GillespieGillespie-who – whoisisaavery
very good
good friend
friend of
and obtain-apart
and obtain – apart fromthe
from thefact
factthat
thatyouyoucan'tcan’tget gettuition
tuitionin inBritain,
Britain,II mine
mine-–and andJohn
JohnColtrane
Coltraneand andJohnJohnHandy.
Handy.Some Some of the the younger
younger
thinkat
think atthe
themoment
momentit's it’saastatus
statusthing.
thing.AAlot lotofofpeople
peoplessay ay they’ve
they've got sitarssitars musicians want
musicians wantto to learn
learn about
about Indian
Indianmusic, music,but butthe
thetrouble
troubleis is they
they
and they
and they sit together
together and and have sessions,
sessions, but but asas yet
yetnobody
nobodyhas hasproduced
produced haven't the
haven’t the time.
time. Theyjust
They just want wantto to take something superficial
take something superficialfrom fromit. it. If
any evidence.
evidence. Probably everybody everybodywill will endend up up playing
playing themthem like guitars
guitars –- they could spend spend two or three three years,
years, perhaps…But,
perhaps...But, of course, it isn’t isn't
that's
that’sall theywant.
all they want.Sometimes
Sometimesthe thesitar
sitarwillwillbe be used
usedwell, other times times it possible economically,
possible economically, I understand
understand that. that.So, So,from
fromwhat
whatwe we hear,
hear, jazz has
jazz has
won’t. It depends
won't. depends if if they
they useus ethemthem withwith taste.
taste. Like Harrison’s
Harrison's thing.
thing. He He only borrowedaaflavour,
onlyborrowed flavour,II like it, it,but
buttruthfully
truthfullywe wethink
thinkititveryvery childish.”
childish."
could have got the
could the same
same soundsound out out ofofaabanjo – but he
banjo-but he showed
showed more more taste
taste Shankar
Shankar feels that that jazz shouldn’t
shouldn't have haveto to gorge on otherother musical
musical
using a sitar. As
using Aslong
longas asartists
artistsdon’t
don't use
use sitars
sitars for
forthe
thesake
sakeof ofitit-when
– when traditions. "I
traditions. think the
“I think the jazz groups
groups are arebecoming
becoming very verysophisticated
sophisticated and and
guitars
guitars would
would be just just asassuitable
suitable–-then then the the instrument
instrument won't won’tbe be abused."
abused.” are losing some some valuable
valuable element.
element. They are getting getting close to to the
the avant-
avant-
garde
garde plane.
plane. I listen
listen to to avant-garde
avant-garde musicians
musicians who whoarearemy my friends,
friends, jazz jazz as
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mentallywhat what they
— MELODY MAKER
- MELODY MAKER JUNE TUNE1111- — are doing, physically the the music
music oftenoften gives me me aapain.
pain. ItItisisunfortunate.”
unfortunate."
CC HE AFFINITY
AFFINITYBETWEEN BETWEENjazz jazzand andIndian
Indian music
music is very For so sodedicated
dedicated aamusician,
musician, the the upsurge
upsurge of ofinterest
interestin inthe
thesitar
sitarcreates
creates

“T
musician,Ravi
musician,
superficial,
superficial, and
might
might be
Ravi Shankar,
and it
be similar."
Shankar, who arrived
only the
it is only
similar.” These These are
the improvisational
are the
improvisational aspect
the words of India’s
arrived in London last week to
aspectwhich
India'smaster
master
tofind
which

findhimself
himself
teaching problem.
a teaching
understand
understand the
interest
interest justified
problem. “I
thesitar
"I am
sitarwill
justifiedit,
am frightened
willcash
it, I would
frightened that
cashin
would start
inononthe
start a school
that people
thesudden
people who don’t
suddeninterest
school here,here, as
don't really
interestininitithere.
asmy
here.IfIf the
very advanced
myvery advanced
the

a fashionable
fashionable figure figure in both both the the jazz and pop
jazz and pop spheres.
spheres. Shankar
Shankarwas was students would
students wouldbe beable
able to teach." BobHouston
to teach.” Bob Houston •

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THEBEATLES
BEATLFare areunder
under new
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influences and
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hard on theirnext
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Paul immerses himself in
immerses himself in
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andThe TibetanBook
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The Dead.
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Meanwhile, the
the band
bandreturn to Hamburg,
return to Hamburg, andand
an emotional reunion
reunionwith
with Astrid
Astrid Kirchherr.
Kirchherr.

— NMEMARCH
- NME MARCH 1111—-
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something unusuallastlastweek
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June22,1966: John
Lennon
Lennon the daydayafter
after
thefinal
the final recording
session for
for Revolver
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INTERVIEW,
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foraa somewhere to stay
somewhere to stay overnight whenI've
overnight when I’ve had
had too
too
paper serviette
paper serviette as he’d
he'd forgotten
forgotten aahandkerchief
handkerchief and
and much bevvy
much bevvyto
to drive
drive home.
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began... kind of TV
What kind TVprogrammes
programmesdo do you
you watch? The
Power Game is my
myfavourite.
favourite. I love
lovethat.
that. And
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next to
to
You have
haveoften
often said
said that
that you don’t wantto
don't want to be
be it Danger
Danger Man andand The Rat Catchers
Catchers-– did
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you see
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“Paul clever one,
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one, shot
was so
shot a nun
so glad
nun by mistake?
gladitithappened
mistake? I love that
to the
happened to
that and
clever one.
the clever one.
and

therefore the
therefore
No, we’re
start of the
the start
we're going
going to
the retirement
to Germany,
retirement process?
Germany, America and and I are very What’s going to come
What's come outout of
sessions? Literally, anything.
sessions?
ofthe
thenext
nextrecording
recording
Electronic music,
anything. Electronic music,
Japan this year. It’s
Japan this It's an
an accident
accident that
that we’re
we're not jokes...
jokes… One thing’s
thing's for sure
sure-the
– thenext
nextLPLPis going
working
working now; we should should have had
after Christmas
holiday after Christmas and then
had two weeks
then started
weeks
started on the
on the
keen on this to be very different.
there
there was no
different. We wanted
nospace
spacebetween
wanted to
betweenthe
to have
have it so that
thetracks
tracks-just
– just
that

next film, but

next film,
months.
months. We
but it isn’t
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to do writing
isn't ready
ready and
want to work and
writing songs,
songs, taping
won’t be
and won't
and we’ve
be for
we've got
taping things
things and
gotplenty
plenty
and so on.
electronic continuous.
continuous.But
I are
are very
very keen
keen on
make it clinking
make
theywouldn't
But they
on this
wouldn’twear
this electronic
clinking aa couple
wearit.

couple of glasses
it. Paul and
music.You
electronic music. You
glasses together
together or or
Paul
Paul and
songs
and I ought
songs for the
ought to getget down
new LP next
the new
down totowriting
next week.
writing some
week. IIhope
hope he
some
he and
and
music"
music” with
with bleeps
bleeps from
tape to repeat
tape repeat the
the radio,
from the radio, then
the noises
thenyou
you loop the
noises at intervals.
intervals. Some
the

Jane aren’t going away or God

aren't going Godknows
knows whenwhen people
people build
build upup whole symphonies from
whole symphonies fromit. it. It
we’ll
we'll be
be ready
readyto torecord.
record.George
Georgethought
thoughtwe’d we'dwritten
writtenthem
themand
andthey were
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would have been better
have been better than
thanthethebackground
backgroundmusic musicwe wehad
hadfor
for the
the last
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all ready – that’swhy came dashing
why he came dashing backbackfromfromhishishoneymoon
honeymoon-and– and film.
film. All those sillybbands.
those silly and s. Never again!ChrisHutchins
Never again! Chris Hutchins
we hadn’t got a thing
hadn't got thing ready. We’ll
We'llhave
haveto toget
getstarted,
started,there’s
there's been
been too
much messing
much messingaround.
around.But ButIIfeel we’ve
we've only
onlyjust
just finished
finishedRubber
RubberSoul and
Soul and
I keep
keep looking
looking forfor the
the reviews,
reviews, then
then I realise
realise we diddid ititmonths
months ago. We’re
We're
-— NMEJUNE
NME JUNE 2424—-
obviously
obviously not not going
going to to work harder thanwe
harder than wewant
wantto tonow,
now,but
butyou
you get
get a bit HAVE INTERVIEWED PAUL
IHAVE PAULMcCartney
McCartney travelling
travelling in in a car
car atat
fed up of

Now that
ofdoing
doingnothing.

that you’ve
nothing.

you've got
got all
allthe
themoney you need
moneyyou andplenty
need and plentyof of time
time onon your
your
I speed. Battling
speed. Battling up
room. On the
room.
ladder. Walking along
up aa crowded
the telephone.
crowded flight
telephone. At
along Tottenham
flight of stairs.
At a recording
Tottenham Court CourtRoad.
stairs. In a smoky
recording session.
Road. In a taxi.
smoky billiards
session. Climbing
Climbing up
taxi. Trapped
billiards
up a
Trapped in
hands, don't
hands, don’tyou
youever
ever get the
the urge to do
dosomething
something different?
different? I've had
I’ve had a room
room with fans breaking breaking the the door
door down.
down.Even Even on on a roof.
roof
one
one or two things upmy
things up my sleeve,
sleeve, I was
was going
going to
to make
make recordings
recordings of of some
some Bizarre situations
Bizarre situationssome someof of them
them may may havehave been,
been, butbut the
the one
one that beats
that beats
of my
mypoetry.
poetry. But
ButI’m
I'mnot
nothigh-powered.
high-powered. I just
just sort
sort of
ofstand
stand there
there and
and let them
them all alltook
tookplace
placeat atBBC TV’sTV'sTop TopOfOfTheThe Pops
Popsthe theother
otherday.
day.Paul,
Paul,perched
perched
things happen
things happento tome.
me.II should
should have
have finished
finishedaa new
new b ook-– it’s
book it's supposed
supposed on the
the edge of aabath, bath,answered
answered my questions. questions. I sat on on aalavatory!
lavatory!An An odd odd
to be out
out this
this month butI've
month but I’ve only
only done one page!
done one page! I thought
thought why should
should place for an an interview,
interview, perhaps,
perhaps, but at at that
that time
time the room in question question
I break meback
breakme back getting
gettingbooks
booksout
out like records? happened
happened to tobe
bejust
just about
aboutthetheonlyonly quiet
quiet place
place inin the
the entire
entire TVCentre.
Centre.
Girls
Girlswerewerehere,
here,therethereandandeverywhere:
everywhere:mooning mooning up up and
and down
down the the
youever
Do you everworrythat
worry thatthe themoneyyou
money youhave havewon't
won’tbebe enough
enoughto to last
last corridors, standing
corridors, standingin inthe
theentrance
entrancehall, hall,and
andbeing
beingforced
forcedaway away from
from The
your lifetime?Yes!
your lifetime? Yes! I get
getfits
fitsof
ofworrying
worryingabout about that.
that. I get
getvisions
visions ofofbeing
being Beatles’
Beatles' dressing
dressing room room nextnext door.
door. CupsCups of tea tea were
werebrought
brought in inand
and PaulPaul
one
one of those
those fools who do itit all allin
inby
bythe thetime
timethey’re
they're 30. Then
Then IIimagine
imagine rested his in inthe
thewashwashbasin.
basin.
writing
writing aa series
seriesforfor the
the People saying
saying I waswas going
going to to“spend,
"spend, spend,
spend, “Fans,”
"Fans," he he said
saidsimply,
simply,almost
almostthinking
thinking aloud.
aloud. “Funny,
"Funny, really. Some Some of of
spend…”
spend..." II thought aboutthis
thought about thisawhile
a whileback backand
anddecided
decidedI'd I’dbeen
beenaa bit them
them havehave aa go at at me,
me,andand John
John and and George
George and and Ringo. They Theysay we don’t
saywe don't
extravagant and
extravagant andbought
boughttoo toomany
manycars,
cars,so so I put
put the
the Ferrari
Ferrari and
and the Mini enough personal
make enough personal appearances.
appearances.IfIf onlythey'd
only they’drealise.
realise.II mean,
mean, they they
up
up for sale.
sale. Then
Then one
one ofofthe
theaccountants
accountants said saidII was
was alright, so I got
alright, so gotthethe thinkwe've
think we’vejustjust been
been loafing about the
loafing about the past
past few months.
months. Don’tDon't theythey
cars back. It's
cars back. It’s the
the old story
story of
ofnever
neverknowing
knowing how how much
much money we’vegot.
moneywe've got. realise we’ve been
realise we've workingon
been working on our
our nextnext album
albumsincesinceApril?
April? It's
It’s a long
longtime.time.
I've tried
I’ve tried to find
find out,
out, but
but with
with income
income tax tax to
tobebededucted
deducted and the the money
money “I
"I suppose
suppose there’s
there's some somewon't
won’tlike like it, but ififwewetried
triedtotoplease
pleaseeveryone
everyone
coming
coming in in from
from allall over the
the place,
place, the
the sums
sums getget too
too complicated
complicated for forme;
me; we’d never
we'd never get started.
started. As As it is,
is,wewetry to be
tryto beasasvaried
variedas aspossible…
possible... On the the
I can’t
can't even dodo my
mytimes
times table.
table.Every
Everynow nowandandagain
againthetheaccountant
accountant next LP LPthere’s
there'saatrack with Ringo
trackwith Ringodoin’ doin'aachildren’s
children'ssong, song,and andanother
another
clears some
clears some money
money of tax tax and
and puts
puts ititinto
intomymyaccount
account saying,
saying, “That’s
"That's with
with electronic
electronic sounds."
sounds.”
there andit's
there and it’sall
all yours,
yours, but
but don't
don’tspend
spendititall all at
at once!”
once!" The thing I’ve
thing I've He started
started to to finger his lip, lip,almost
almostwithoutwithout thinking,
thinking, and and I asked
asked him him
learned
learned isisthat
thatifif I'm
I’m spending
spending£10,000I
£10,000 Isay saytotomyself,
myself,"You've
“You’ve had
had to about reportsthat
about reports thathe'dhe’dbroken
brokenaa tooth. “You’re right,”
tooth. "You're right,"he headmitted
admitted
earn £30,000 before tax
earn taxto
to get that.”
that." candidly.
candidly. "I “I did
did it notnot long
long ago when when I came came off a moped.
moped. Now Now I'veI’ve had
had it
capped... look."
capped… look.” I looked
looked butbutIIcouldn’t
couldn'tsee seeanything.
anything.A perfect mend.
A perfect mend.
What
What sort
sort of people
people are
are your guests
guests at
at home
home inin Weybridge? We Weentertain
entertain Only
Onlyaa small
small scar
scar remains
remainson onhishislip lip as
as a souvenir.
souvenir.
few.Proby
very few. Probywas thereone
was there onenight,
night,Martin
Martinanother
another-I
– I think
thinkthos
thosee are
are “It
"It was
wasquite
quite aaserious
serious accident
accident at the the time.
time. It probably
probably sounds
s ounds daft,daft,
the
the only two we’ve
we've specifically
specifically said
said “Come
"Come totodinner”
dinner" to and
and made
made having
having a serious
serious accident
accident on on a motorised
motorised bicycle, but I came came off offhard
hardand and
preparations. Normally Ilike
preparations. Normallyl likepeople
peopleto todrop
dropround
roundononthe
theoff
off chance.
chance.ItIt I got
gotknocked
knocked aboutabout a bit. My Myhead head and and lip were
were cutcut and
and I broke
broke the the tooth.
tooth.
cuts out all that
cuts that formal
formal entertaining
entertaining business.
business.We've
We’ve just had Ivan and
just had I was
was only
only doing
doing aboutabout 30 at atthethe time,
time, but it was was dark
dark and
and I hit
hit aastone
stone andand
Jean down forforaaweekend
weekend- they're old
– they’re oldfriends
friendsfrom
fromLiverpool
Liverpool-and
– and Pete went flyin'
went flyin’through
throughthe theair.
air.ItItwas
wasmy my fault
fault all
all right.
right. It was
was aanice
nicenight
night and and
Short, the fellow who runs
fellowwho runs my supermarket, cameround
supermarket, came roundon onSaturday.
Saturday. I was
was looking
looking at at the
the moon!”
moon!"
He sipped
sipped hishis tea and and reached
reached for for a cigarette.
cigarette. “What
"What about
about all all this ‘Didn’t
this 'Didn't
the house
Is the house at Weybridge
Weybridgeaapermanent
permanent home? home? Paul
Paul McCartney
McCartneylook lookillillon
onTV',
TV’, then?”
then?" he went went on, referring
referring to to Mama
Mama Cass' Cass’
No it’s
it's not.
not. I’m
I'm dying
dying totomove
moveintointo town
town but
but I’m
I'm waiting
waiting to seesee how
how Paul
Paul remarks in NME’s America
remarks inNME'sA merica Cal Calling last week. “I
ling last "I haven’t
haven't been
been ill. Apart
Apart from from
gets
gets on when
when he goes into into his townhouse.
townhouse. IfIf he he gets
gets by all
all right
right then
then I’ll
I'll sell
sell the
the accident,
accident, I'm I’m dead
dead fit. I know
knowwh what atititwas,
was, though.
though. WhenWhen we
the place at Weybridge. Probably
the place Probably to to some
some American
American who’ll
who'll paypay aafortune
fortune filmed thoseTV clips
filmed those clipsforfor'‘Paperback
Paperback Writer’ Writer'I’d I'donly just
onlyjust
for it!
it!IIwas
wasthinking
thinkingthethe other
other night,
night, though, thatititmight
though, that mightnotnotbe beeasy
easyto to bashed my tooth, an’ we'd
we’d been
been working a bit bithard on ,0,0 'Es

/
bashed my tooth, an' hardon
co-
find
find a buyer. How How do doyou
yousell
sellsomebody
somebody aapink,pink,green
green and
and purple house?
purple house? the
the LP an’
an' IIhadn’t
hadn't had
had much
much sleep. That was it.
Thatwas
We’ve
We've had had purple
purple velvet
velvetput
putupupononthethedining
diningroom
roomwalls – it sets off the
walls-it the "We haven't had
“We haven’t hadmuch
muchtimetimefor
foranything
anything but the
old scrubbed
scrubbed table table we eat on.
on. Then
Thenthere’s
there's the
the “funny”
"funny" room upstairs.
upstairs. LP.
LP.IImean,
mean,14 14songs
songs- – all
allgot
gotto
tobe
bewritten
written i,.;
I painted that all
painted that all colours, changing
changing from from one
one to another
another asas I emptied
emptied and recorded
and recorded till you're satisfied with them.
till you’re them.
each
each cancan of paint.
paint. How do do you
youshow
showsomebody
somebody thatthat when
when they come to It’s
It's hard
hard work, man.
man.
look the
the place
place over? And there’s
over?And there'sthetheplants
plants in
inthe
thebath…
bath... I suppose
suppose I could
could “I’ve
"I'vedone
doneaabit bitofofreading,
reading,though – Frank
though-Frank
have
have a flat
flat in
in town,
town, but
but IIdon’t
don't want
want toto spend
spend another £20,000 just
another £20,000 just to have Harris’ MyLife And
Harris' My And Loves.
Loves.IIdon’t
don'tbelieve
believe half
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ROCK 1966
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1965
 it!
it!He
Hecan’t
can't’arf
'arfboast.
boast. IIalso alsoread
read JeanJean Cocteau’s
Cocteau's
Opium. Frightening.
Opium. Frightening. No. No.WhatWhatam amII saying?
saying? It'sIt’s
not frightening
not frightening at at all.
“Films?
"Films? Yeah,Yeah,IIsaw sawCul-De-Sac,
Cul-De-Sac,with withDonald
Donald
Pleasence. Not bad, not bad.
Pleasence. bad. But it’s it's aabit
bitdrawn
drawn
out towards
out towards the the end.end. I alsoalso sawsawthe theplayplayJuno
Juno
And the Paycock. Great! Great!
"No,IIdon’t
“No, don'tthinkthink any any of us us will
will write
write aa playplayoror
aa musical,
musical, not for aalong longtime. time. People
People are are always
always
asking us
asking us that,
that, but the thing thing is that
that we put put all
all
our imagination
our imagination and and ideas into our our songs.
songs.
Honestly,they
Honestly, theytaketake so somuchmuchconcentration.
concentration.
"Tap erb ackWriter'?
“‘Paperback Writer’? Well, Well,thisthiscame cameaboutabout
because I love the
because the word
word ‘paperback’.”
`paperback'."
seemed to savour
He seemed savour the the word
word and and rolled
rolleditit
around his
around his tongue.
tongue."Anyway,“Anyway, when when we did did the
the
song, we
song, we wrote
wrote the the words
words down down like like we were were
writing
writing a letter.”
letter." He Hewaved
wavedhis hisarm
armas asififwriting
writing
across
across a sheet
sheet of paper. paper. “We "We sortsort of ofstarted
started off
`Dear Sir
‘Dear SirOr OrMadam’,
Madam',then thencarried
carried on on from
from
there. If
there. Ifyou
you look at at the
the words
words IIthinkthink
you'll
you’ll see what what I mean, mean, the the way they they
flow like aa letter.
letter. But But that’s
that's it really,
there's
there’s no no story
story behind
behinditit and and it wasn’t
wasn't
inspired
inspiredby by any real -lifecharacters.”
any real-life characters."
Paul and
Paul and thetherestrestof of The Beatles
shrugged off
shrugged offquestions
questions about about themthem
not making No
not making No 1 firstfirst time
time with
`Paperback Writer’
‘Paperback Writer' with with a sort sort ofof
"That's showbusiness”
“That’s showbusiness" air. They “I’m sick of
"I'm sick of doing
doing
regard
regard it as just just one one of ofthose
thosethings…
things... sounds that
that people
people
can claim
claim to have
to have
and as they’re
and they're up up there
thereat at No 1 thisthis heard before”:
before":
week, perhaps
perhaps they’rethey're right.right. Paul Paul McCartney
McCartney
shows more more interest
interest when when you ask ask in London, 1966
London,1966
shows
him
him about
about his homes. There are three
his homes. three
now:
now: one one in in St John’s
John's Wood, London, London, States,
States, thethe bloke who makes makes great
great long films of
for which
which he is
£40,000; one
acquisition-
one in
isreputed
reputed to have
in Liverpool;
Liverpool;and
have paid
paid
and thethe newest
newest "I suppose
“I people just sleeping.
We sitsit down
down and
sleeping. Nothin’
Nothin' weird
and write, or go gointo
weirdany
intothe
more.
anymore.
the recording
recording
acquisition –aafarm farmininScotland.
Scotland."Aye “Ayethe thenoo,"
noo,” studios,
studios, and andwe we just
just see
see what
what comes
comesup." up.”
he beamed,
"It's
beamed, affecting
“It’s just aawee
affecting aa credible
small place,
wee small
credible Scots accent.
place, up up there
thereat
accent.
at the
the tip
tip
we'll
we’ll get down He took another
He
longest
longest session
another sip
sessionwe
sip of tea. “D’you
weever
everdiddidin
"D'you know the
inthe
thestudios?
studios?ItIt was was
of Scotland,
Scotland, and
occasional
occasionaltrip
and aye plarrn
triptherre
Suddenly he dropped
Suddenly
therrefor
dropped the
plarrn tae make
forawee
theScots
make the
a weespell
Scots bit
the
spellof solitude.”
solitude."
and got
bit and
to a musical for the
the Rubber Soul
five inin the
the evening
Yeah, it was
Yeah,
Soulalbum,
evening till
was tough,
tough, OK,
album, an’
till half
an' it went
half-past-six
OK, but
went on from
-pa st-six the
butwewe had
hadto
the next
todo
next day.
doit.
it.We
We dodo
back to normal.
and
normal. “It’s
and aa farmhouse
farmhouse as
"It's not
not bad,
aswell.
bad,though
well.II can’t
though –-200
can't tell
tell you how
200 acres
day"
one day” a lot
lot of
because
oflonger
longersessions
because I suppose
sessions now
suppose we’re
now than
than we used
we're far more
used to,
more interested
interested in
much
muchitit was, but it was waswell wellworth
worththe the money
money our sound.”
sound."
as far as as I’m
I'm concerned.
concerned.As Asfar
far as
as thethe StJohn's
St John’s I asked him about about The Beatles’
Beatles' film situation.
situation.
Wood house house goes, I’ve I'vefurnished
furnished it in in traditional
traditional style because II don’t
style because don't go “Still
"Still the
the same,”
same," said said Paul, flatly.
flatly.“There’s
"There's nothing
nothing yet, but we don’t don't mind
mind
for this
this modern
modern stuff stuffthat thatalways
alwayslooks looksas asif it needs
needs something
something doingdoingtotoit.
it. waiting.One
waiting. Onething thingisisdefinite,
definite,in inthe
thenext
nextfilm
filmwe wewant
wantto tododo all
all the music
the music
I like
likeitittotobebecomfortable.
comfortable.And Andthose thosemod modleather
leatherchairs…
chairs... ugh. They’re
They're ourselves.
ourselves. It hasn’t hasn't bebeenen what
what we’ve
we've wanted before, with
wanted before, with usus writing
writingsongssongs
too cold." He
too cold.” He looked
looked suitably
suitably pained.
pained. and othersdoing
and others doingthe thescore.
score.II suppose
supposewe'll we’llalso
alsogetget down
downto toaa musical
musical one one
“Do
"Do IIknowknow anything
anything about aboutproperty?
property?Not Notreally.
really.Well,
Well,I suppose
suppose II do,
do, day, but
but you
you can can bet it won’t
won't bebe like
like any
any other
other musical.
musical. We don’t don't want
want to to do
do
come
come to think of
to think I'm just
of it. I’m just being
being vague.vague. But Butdon’t
don't think
think I’m
I'm a big
bigproperty
property any
any of that
that kind
kind of stuff Lionel Bart
stuff Lionel Bart waswas doin’
doin' 5050 years ago.”
years ago."
tycoon.
tycoon.I only buy buy places
places IIlike.like.IIhaven’t
haven'tgot gotanything
anything abroad.”
abroad." He fingered
fingered a red red carnation
carnation in in his
his lapel
lapel (all thethe Beatles had had them;
them; gifts
asked him
I asked him about
about the the mystery
mystery instrument
instrument mentioned
mentionedininmy myNME NME of aagirl
girlatataaLondon
LondonAirport
Airportterminal,
terminal, wherewhere they’d
they'd been
been for cholera
cholera
feature
featurelast last week, bought bought for £110 £110by byrecording
recordingmanager
managerGeorge
GeorgeMartin
Martin injections
injectionsin intimetimeforfor their
theirFar
Far East
East tour).
and
and used
used byhim
by himon ononeone track
track of the the forthcoming
forthcoming album. album.George
George hadhad “I’m learning
"I'm learningall allthe
thetime.
time.You
Youdo, do,ifif you
you keep
keepyour
youreyeseyesopen.
open.IIfindfindlife
life
amiably
amiablyrefused refusedto toname
nameitituntil untilThe TheBeatles
Beatleshad hadgiven
giventhe
theall -clear.
all-clear. is an
is an education.
education. IIgo go to plays and and I am am interested
interested in in the
the arts,
arts,but
butit'sit’s only
only
Paul
Paul laughed.
laughed."Why “Whythe themystery?
mystery?It's It’s only
only a clavichord
clavichord and and itit makes
makes becauseIIkeep
because keepmy my eyes
eyes open
open andandII see what’s
what's going on around around me. me.
a nice sound.
sound. There's
There’s no no real
real weird
weird stuff stuff onon this
this LP.Anyway,
LP. Anyway, I’ve I'vestopped
stopped Anyone can
Anyone learn…ififthey
can learn... they look. I mean,mean, nowadays
nowadays I’m I'm interested
interested in in the
the
regarding
regarding things things as as way-out any anymore."
more.” electronicmusic
electronic musicof of people
peoplelike
like Berio and and Stockhausen,
Stockhausen, who's who’s great.
great. It
I reminded
reminded him himof ofananoccasion
occasionwhen whenI'd I’dtold
toldhim
himthatthat"Twist
“TwistAnd AndShout"
Shout” opens
opensyour youreyeseyes andand ears.
ears.
was
was well worth worth releasing
releasingas asaa single,
single, and and he'd
he’d answered
answeredthat thatititwas
wastoo
too “On the
"On LP, we’ve
the LP, we'vegotgotthis
thistrack with electronic
trackwith effectsII worked
electronic effects worked out
“way-out.”He
"way-out" Heagreed.
agreed."You're “You’reright.
right.We Wethough
thought t ititwas,
was,atattthe time.
he time. myself,with
myself, withwords wordsfromfromThe
TheTibetan
TibetanBook BookOf Of The Dead.
Dead. We did did ititbecause
because
Anyway,
Anyway, these these days daysI’ve I'vestopped
stoppedthinking thinkingthat thatanything
anythingis is weird or I, for one,
one, amam sick sickofofdoing
doingsounds
soundsthat that people
people cancan claim
claim to have heard heard
different.
different.There'll
There’llalways alwaysbe bepeople
peopleabout aboutlike likethat
thatAndy
AndyWarhol
Warholin inthe
the before. Anyway, we played
before. played ititto
tothe
theStones
Stonesand andTheTheWho,
Who,and andthey visibly
theyvisibly
sat up
sat up and
and were interested.
interested.
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"We also played
played it to to Cilla…
Cilla... who just laughed!”
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theletter,
letter,John
Johnwrote:
wrote:"I've“I’vegotgot one
one ciggy to
few invited
invited journalists
journalists had had to mingle with the famous famous four as as best
best they
they Thursday."
last till Thursday.”
could.
could. I sawsawthat
thatno-one
no-oneseemed seemedtotobe bespeaking
speakingtotoRingo, Ringo,who who stood
stoodon on That’s the
That's the sort
sort of memory
memory The The Beatles
Beatleshave haveofofHamburg
Hamburg–-miserable
miserable
his
his own in aa corner,
corner, so soIIstruggled
struggledover overandandalmost
almoststrangled
strangled myself on on poverty. On On Sunday,
Sunday,however,
however,they theyreturned
returned in triumph. They
in triumph. They swept
swept
a coat
coat rack
rackin the process.
in the process. into
into the
the city at thethe head
head of an an eight-car
eight -carmotorcade
motorcade escorted
escorted by by a dozen
dozen
wasthe
It was the same
same oldoldRingo:
Ringo:pleasant,
pleasant, but but aalittle
littlestaccato
staccatowithwiththethe motorcycle policemen.
motorcycle policemen.To Hamburg, the
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world-beating Beatles Beatles
conversation.
conversation."Yeah, life's great,”
“Yeah, life’s great," he heconfirmed.
confirmed. “Bin "Bin workin’
workin' hardhard had
had arrived.
arrived. But to aahandful handful in the Grosse Freiheit Freiheit-–aa tinytiny street
street of sordid
sordid
though.
though.Not Notmuch
muchtime timeto torest.
rest.When
WhenI'm I’mfree?
free?Well, IIget getup upabout
abouttwo-ish
two-ish clubs
clubs (above
(above one one of which
which theythey once
once lived)
lived) –-John,
John, Paul,
Paul, George
George and Ringo
and Ringo
most
most days, and I usually
days, and usually go goclubbing
clubbing till tillthree
three in in the
the mornin’.
mornin. II like that.
that. If were back.And
were back. And thethe friends
friends theythey made
made thenthenone
one by one filteredfiltered through
through
it’s a nice
it's nice day
day I gogo over
over andand havehave a swim swim in in John's
John’spool.
pool.I'dI’dget
get one
onemesmeself,
elf, militant -likeGerman
the militant-like Germansecuritysecurityto renewacquaintances.
to renew acquaintances.
but
but it's worth it when
it’s not worth when John’s John's is just just upup the
the road.
road. There was
There was Bettina,
Bettina, the the buxom
buxomblondeblondewho who worked
worked in in the
the Star Club bar bar
"Me buildin’
“Me buildin' business?
business?Not Notbad,bad,not notbad.
bad.We've
We’ve sold quitequite a few
fewflats
flatsand
and and who
and who hadhad a crush
crush on on John.
John. "She used to call out for
“She used forherherfavourite
favourite
myfirm's
my firm’sbeen beendoin'
doin’aabit bitof of work round round at at George's
George’s and and John's
John’s places."
places.” numbers,”
numbers," John John later
later recalled,
recalled,adding,
adding,"She “She got
got me drinks
drinks whenwhen we had had
"So you’ve
“So you've beenbeen making
making aa bit money out of George
bit of money George and and John?”
John?" no money. And Andpills – printthat!"
pills-print that!”Friends
Friendslike like Cory, the the attractive
attractive girl PaulPaul
I ventured
ventured brightly.
brightly. "Yeah,"
“Yeah,” said said Ringo
Ringo mournfully.
mournfully. courted. Her parents
once courted. parents own a restaurant
restaurant in the Grosse Freiheit Freiheit-– the
bade farewell
I bade farewell as as Ringo
Ringoshouted shouted drily to to an
an amiable-looking
amiable -looking Mr Epstein Epstein street thathouses
street that housesthe theStar
StarClub-
Club –and andthatthatwas
wasoften
oftenaasource
sourceof offood
foodfor
for
nearby, "Alan
nearby, “Alan Smith’s
Smith's gonna
gonna do do a fantastic, exclusive article
fantastic, exclusive articleallall about
aboutme."
me.” hungryBeatles.
the hungry Beatles.
I hastened
hastened over John and
over to John and George in in another
another corner.
corner. And Bert
Bert Kaempfert
Kaempfert-– the the man
man who recorded The
who recorded The Beatles in in their
their
"...It's like any
“…It’s anyjob,"
job,” George
George was was saying.
saying."You “You workwork hard
hard so youyou can
can sit Hamburg
Hamburg days. days. HeHe called
called backstage
backstage on on Sunday
Sunday to to see them
them and and paypay his
bback
ackwhen
when you want want to. That’s
That's what what we've done. We’ve
we’ve done. We've got gotourselves
ourselves into
into respects
respects like like the others.And Astrid Kirchherr,
the others. Kirchherr, the the girl who
whowas wasengaged
engaged
this
this position
positionso sowe
wecancanrelax
relaxaa bit. bit. No, we’rewe're not rushing
rushing into intoaafilm.
film.We'll
We’ll Stuart Sutcliffe. She
to Stuart Shearrived
arrived withwith her
her fiancé
fiancé Gibson
Gibson KempeKempeand andthethe
wait 10 years
wait years if we have
ifwe have to. Why rush? rush? little bundle
little bundleof ofletters
lettersfromfromJohn Johnto toStu,
Stu, "the
“the best
bestpresent
presentI've I’vehad
hadin in
"No, we’re
“No, we're not
not thinking
thinking of writing writing a scriptscript ourselves.
ourselves. It's not our
It’s not our job. years”, he said
years", saidas ashehethumbed
thumbed throughthrough them,
them, showing the the occasional
occasional one one
Yeah, there’s
there's someone
someone special
specialI'd I’d like
like to meetmeet when
when we go to toGermany
Germany to around him. Many
to those around Manywere were in inpicture
pictureform
form-Lennon
– Lennon drawings that that
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next week-Adolf
next week – AdolfHitler!
Hitler! would
would probably
probably fetch fortune if they
fetch a fortune theywere auctioned today.
were auctioned today.
"Yeah,there
“Yeah, there isisaagood
goodreasonreasonwhy whywe don'tdo
we don’t dotoo
toomany
manyappearances
appearances in in So The
The Beatles
Beatles werewere in inHamburg.
Hamburg. But apart from the
apart from the friends
friendstheretherewaswas
Britain.
Britain.We've
We’ve got to to live
livehere hereas aswell
wellas aswork.
work.IfIfwe don'tappear
we don’t appear tootoo often,
often, little to
little to remind
remindthe thefour
fourof of earlier
earlierdays
daysspent
spentthere.
there.TheyTheysang sangto toaa crowd
crowdof
it makes
makes itit easier for us to live out
easier for out of ofthethe public
public eye. No, No,we…”
we..." The
The door
door morethan
more than7,000
7,000 inin the
the huge
huge Ernst
ErnstMerck
Merck H Hall
all–-aa concrete palacethey
concrete palace theyhad
had
opened
openedand andthe therest
restofof it was
was hidden
hidden by the the noise
noise of ofthe
thehubbub
hubbub outside.
outside. never even
never even seen
seen before.
before. There
There was no return return toto the
the Star Club where where their
their
There’sno
There's nodoubt
doubtabout
about it:it:it's
it’sstill
stilla ahectic
hectic life,
life, being
being a Beatle.
a Be atle. Alan
AlanSmith
Smith musicfirst
music firsttook
took its
its shape.
shape.
“We’d like
"We'd like to
togo,”
go,"JohnJohnadmitted
admitted sadly,
sadly,“but
"but there’d
there'd be millions
millions of people
people
thereand
there andititwould
wouldbe beno nofun.
fun.We'd
We’d probably
probably get get crushed
crushed to todeath."
death.”
— NME JULY 1 —
-NMEJULY1- They stayed at the the magnificent
magnificent Schloss Hotel in inTremsbüttel
Tremsbiittel–-more more
rrHE LETTERWRITTEN
HE LETTER WRITTENby byJohn
JohnLennon
Lennonsummed
summed it all up: than30
than 30 miles
miles from
from Hamburg,
Hamburg,deep deepin inthe
thecountry.
country.DozensDozensof ofgreen
green--

T it was sent by him

Sutcliffe, and
him some years
and was one of
years ago to the
ofaacollection
the late Beatle, Stuart
collection handed
Stuart
handed back to him
him in
uniformed
uniformedpolicemen
had
had journeyed
policemenpatrolled
journeyedfrom from the
patrolledthe
the city and
thegrounds,
grounds,searching
and surrounding
surrounding towns
searchingout
townsin in the
out fans
fans who
the hope
hope of

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THE BEATLES

June 26, 1966: The

June26,1966: The Beatles
Beatles
the only one one whowhocouldcoulddrive drive-where
at the
the Ernst
Ernst Merck Hallin
Merck Hall in
sneaking
sneaking a glimpse
glimpse of their their idols. There
There the – wherethe thecarcarwas.
was. He said, ‘Oh, 'Oh,the the
Hamburg, wherebackstage
Hamburg,where backstage was no
was no return
return to tothe
thelittle
littleflat
flatover
over aa strip
strip engine
engine is is broken,
broken,so so we left ititthere.’
there.' A Apractically
practically new new £2,000
£2,000 car car and
and
they receivedaa poignant
theyreceived poignant visit club where they once once lived. Although
Although its they
theyhadhaddumped
dumpedititby by the
the seaside!”
seaside!"
from
from photographer Astrid
Astrid
(inset,with
Kirchherr (inset, "Fifth
with “Fifth owner had had cleared
cleared out out thethe tenant
tenant six weeks
sixweeks Manfred
Manfred showedshowedme meaa copycopy of his his Star Club News. On the
StarClubNews. the cover was was
Beetle" Stuart
Beatle” StuartSutcliffe)
Sutcliffe) previouslyso
previously so that
thatThe The Beatles
Beatles could
couldgo go a picture
picture of Gene Gene Vincent
Vincentsigning signingan an autograph
autograph for John John Lennon.
Lennon. “They "They
back for aa party,
back party, thethe rooms
rooms stayed empty.
stayed empty. were great fans fans of all allrock’n’rollers,”
rock'n'rollers," he he reflected.
reflected. We talked talked into the the early
“Security,” the Beatles-minders
"Security," Beatles -minders hours of Sunday
hours Sundaymorningmorning-at – ataatime
time whenwhen the the luxury
luxury express train train
explained. “We
explained. "Wecouldn’t
couldn't possibly
possiblyletlet specially hiredhired for the the Beatles
Beatlesentourage
entourage was was bearing
bearing its its precious
precious party party
themgo
them go there."
there.” the
the 300 miles
miles from from Essen
Essento toHamburg
Hamburg itself. itself.They
Theyarrived
arrivedat atbreakfast
breakfast
A pity,
A pity,for
forThe
TheBeatles
Beatleswill willnever
neveragain
again time and
time and went
went straight
straightto to bed
bedat at the
the hotel
hotel in Tremsbüttel.
Tremsbiittel.
that former home.
see that home. WithinWithin aamonth
month the the Bylunchtime
By lunchtime the thecrowds
crowdshad hadgathered
gatheredoutsideoutside–-not surprising
not surprising
buildingis
building is to
to be demolished.
demolished. They They rode
rode in since their
their magazine
magazine host host had had announced
announcedfull fulldetails
detailsof ofThe
The Beatles'
Beatles’
a limousine
limousine heading
heading the procession
procession of of “hideaway”
"hideaway" in in aa previous
previous issue. issue.I joined
joined John,John, Paul, and and Ringo (George
vehicles which carried carried the entourage.
entourage. was a late
late riser)
riser)in intheir
their suite
suite inin the
the midst
midst of ofaadiscussion
discussion about about the title
the title
The whole
The whole fleet of gleaminggleaming Mercedes
Mercedes of their nextLP.
their next LP.
cruised
cruised uninterrupted
uninterrupted ininand andoutoutofof the
the city “We’ve
"We've had had allallsorts
sorts of ofideas
ideasduring
during this this trip – MagicCircles,
trip-Magic Circles, Beatles
the escort
as the escortof ofwhite-coated
white-coated outriders outriders On Safari
Safari andand Revolver – that’sthe
Revolver-that's theoneoneJohnJohnlikes
likesthe
thebest,"
best,”PaulPaultold toldme. me.
sealed
sealed off side sideroads
roadsandand ordered
ordered Minutes
Minutes later they made an appearance appearance on onthe
thehotel
hotelbalcony,
balcony, to the
traffic to
traffic to pull
pull off the the road until The
until The delight of the thecrowd
crowdoutside.
outside.As Astheytheywalked downstairs to
walked downstairs to the
the waiting
waiting
Beatles had passed. passed. cars I heard
heard John John comment,
comment, “How "How about about Bettina
Bettina being
being on onthethestation
station at at
Their concerts
concerts were promoted promoted by seven o’clock
seven o'clock thisthis morning?
morning? Thought Thoughtshe shewaswasgoing
going to to ask
ask for aanumber!”
number!"
a German
German magazine
magazine which never never motorcade took aadevious
The motorcade deviousroute routethrough
through country
country roads. roads. ThereThere were
1 rated
rated them
them aa mention
mention in
in their
their Star
Star no incidents,
incidents, but the
the German
German police had
had taken
taken no
no chances
chances -
– outside
outside the
the
Club days.
days. But Butrumour
rumour has has it that
that another squad
hall another squadof motorcycles and
of motorcycles and a number
number ofvehicles
of vehicles that that looked
looked
the
the journal
journalpaid paidthe thegroup
groupso so like armoured
armoured cars carsstood
stoodby. by. The Beatles, however, however, made made aaquick quickand andeasy
easy
muchfor the
much the concerts
concerts in in Munich,
Munich, entrance
entrance to to their
theirbackstage
backstagedressing dressingroom roomand andwere
weresafely
safely locked away away
Essen and Hamburg Hamburg that that even before a gang
before gang of ofyouths
youths attempted
attempted in invain
vainto to storm
stormthe thedoor,
door,aiming
aimingtear tear- -
with
with capacity
capacity audiences
audiencesitit lost bombs at the
gas bombs the police,
police,who whoretaliated
retaliated with with high-powered
high-powered water hoses,
money on
money on thethe "Blitztournee",
“Blitztournee”,as as it drenching the
drenching the would-be
would-be Beatles assailants. assailants.
triumphantly
triumphantly named named the three-day Then camecame the the first
first show.
show. More than than 10 minutes
minutes after
afterPeterPeter& Gordon's
& Gordon’s
tour. Doubtless
tour. DoubtlessAxel Axel Springer, the the finished, the
act had finished, the chanting,
chanting, impatient
impatientaudience audiencegave gaveThe TheBeatles
Beatles
German
German press press bbaron aron who counts
counts a wild
wild reception.
reception. The The group played well, but
group played but John’s
John's voice was was showing
showing
the magazine amongst
the magazine amongst his that it doesn’t
that doesn't pay to to keep
keepout outofofpractice
practicefor forseven
sevenmonths
months-for after the
– for after the
collection, would
collection, would willingly have Munich
Munich and and Essen
Essen concerts
concertshe hecould
couldbarelybarelycroak
croakaa note.
note. It was was
paidtwice
paid twicethe theprice.
price.To To buy
buy The
The particularly noticeableinin"Paperback
particularly noticeable “PaperbackWriter". Writer”.Even Even weeks
weeks of recording
recording
Beatles for three
Beatles days is no
three days no small
small sessions had
sessions had failed strengthen his
failed to strengthen hisvoice
voice sufficiently
sufficientlyfor concerts. This
for concerts. This
feat and
and worth
worth aa fortune
fortune in in prestige.
prestige. was thethe second
second warning
warning they they gotgotabout
aboutkeeping
keepingin inpractice
practice-in – in Munich
Munich
11111ilw- I was
wasespecially
especially interested
interested to to I understand
understand they theyhadhadto torehearse
rehearsein intheir
theirhotel
hotelroom
roomfor forfear
fear of forgetting
forgetting
report The
report The Beatles’
Beatles' return
return toto Hamburg-for
Hamburg – forititwas wasin inthat
thatcity
citythat
thatII first their hits on
their hits on stage!
stage!
met them in
met them in the
the autumn
autumnof of1962.Iwas
1962. I wasthere thereforforaa week report Little
week to report Between concertsconcerts they they suffered
suffered another
another insane
insane press conference,
press conference,
Richard’s appearance
Richard's appearanceatatthe theStar
StarClub
ClubandandThe TheBeatles
Beatleswere were onon the
the same
same answering questionslike,
answering questions like,"John,
“John,how how aboutaboutRingo?"
Ringo?” (to which Lennon Lennon
bill. There
There were
werefriendly
friendlyarguments
arguments betweenbetween John John Lennon
Lennon and and Little replied, “I "I think
thinkyou're
you’re soft").
soft”). One irked woman woman reporter
reporter asked, "Beatles,
asked, “Beatles,
Richard which always ended
Richard which ended with Lennon exclaiming exclaiming “Shuddup,"Shuddup, why are are you
yousuch suchhorrid
horrid snobbies?”
snobbies?" (to (to which
which George
Georgerepliedrepliedthat that they
they
grandfather"
grandfather”at atthe
theolder
olderman.
man.But But one night I heard
one night heard Richard
Richard remark
remark to to weren’t
weren't and and that
thatitit was all in in her
hermind).
mind). Then Then Paul
Paul made
made aalittle littlespeech
speech
the club owner Manfred
the Manfred Weissleder, “Those "ThoseBeatles
Beatlesare aresosogood – watch
good-watch about
about how how they
they bbelieved
elieve dininanswering
answeringquestions questions directly
directly even evenif it made made
them,
them, Manfred,
Manfred,they theycould
couldbe bethe
thebiggest
biggestthing
thingin inthe
thewhole
whole world."
world.” them unpopular.And
them unpopular. Andhe hegotgot a round
round of applause.
applause.
Manfred attached
Manfred attached no no more importance to
more importance toLittle Richard's words
Little Richard’s words thanthan Then theythey retired
retired to the the dressing
dressing room, where where the the small
small collection
collection
I did,
did, but
but we
webothbothrecalled
recalled themthem well enoughenough of friends
friends was waiting. waiting. Before the the second
second
when I visited
when visited the Star Club last last Saturday
Saturday night.
night. show, I askedasked John John about
about a local
local story
storythat that
Manfred remembered a business
Manfred also remembered business argument
argument The Beatles had had been
been “arrested”
"arrested" by by the
the police
police
with Brian
with Brian Epstein
thatlast
that
Epsteinshortly
last season
seasonat atthe
shortlybbefore
theStar
StarClub.
Club. The
theybbegan
efore they
The Beatles
egan
Beatles
"Bettina got
“Bettina on a previous
on
a club
previous visit for attempting
club where
where they theywere
attempting to
appearing. He
were appearing.
to set
set fire to
He said,
managerwas
manager
his group
received
wasdemanding
group-half
demanding£250
– halfas
received before.
before.
as much
£250aaweek
much again as they
week for
theyhad
had me drinks and “Thatone's
"That
well this,
one’sgot
this, little
owner-who
owner – whowanted
gotaa bit
bit twisted.
little thing
twisted. We
thing on stage
wantedto
We set
stage and
toget
set fire
fire to
and the club
banned because
get us banned
to this,
this,

Manfred
Manfred had hadsaid
“Nonsense,” retorted
"Nonsense,"
said it was too too much.
much.
Epstein."These
retorted Epstein. “These boysboys
pills when we we had told him
anymore
any morebut
him we weren’t
butwere
weren't going to
weremoving
movingto tothetheStar
to play
playthere
Star Club
Club –-
there

will soon
soon be bigger than
Weisslederdidn’t
Weissleder
he paid
paid the
the money. The tall,
Elvis Presley."
than Elvis
didn'tbelieve
believethe
Presley.”
theargument
tall, blond
argument–-but
blond German
German had
but
had
had no money
had called the
called

announced,
the police."
Paul nodded
announced,"Come
police.”
nodded in agreement.
“Comeon
agreement. Then
onchaps,
chaps,let's
Then Ringo
let’sgo and and
a flood of stories
stories to
earliest memory
earliest memoryof
to retell
retell about
of them
about The
them wentwent back
The Beatles.
Beatles. His
back to some –- print
print that!"
that!” do another rock’n’rollshow,"
another rock'n'roll
send-up
send-upvoice. voice.
show,” in in his best

two
two years before even he he first
first employed
employed them: them: After thethe show
show theytheywere
were whisked straight straight
“One night
"One night I saw
saw them
them going into into aa club
club opposite
opposite back to to Tremsbüttel,
Tremsbiittel, where whereinvitation
invitation after after
mine. They
mine.
and
and said,
They looked so strange
`Theymust
said, ‘They must be
strange I turned
turned to a friend
be visitors fromfrom another
another
friend THE BEATLES invitation for
invitation
1

–-including
includingone
them to
for them
onespecially
attend aa variety
to attend
speciallystaged
stagedby
variety of parties
by aa count
parties
count at his
planet.-
planet.’”Manfred
Manfredlaughed
laughedatatthe thememory
memoryof of the
the NOW"FRE MAN castle in the the forest
forest-were
– weredeclined.
declined.But But thethe saddest
saddest
night he
night he says John went on the Star Club stage stage WHAS, S 6-1°"
message
message of all was was wired
wired onon The
The Beatles’
Beatles' behalfbehalf
naked-apart
naked – apartfrom fromthe theguitar.
guitar.Though
ThoughJohn John later Var , to Manfred Weisslederat
Manfred Weissleder atthe
theStar
StarClub.
Club.It It said,
said,
told me
told me he had
had onon a pair
pair of shorts
shorts (“And
("And aa toilet
toilet seat
seat “Sorry
"Sorrywe we can't
can’tmakemakeitit tonight".And
tonight”. Andin inhishisoffice
office
aroundme
around me'ead").And
’ead”). AndWeis Weissleder
sle der recalled
recalled thethe overlooking the Grosse Freiheit, Freiheit, Manfred
Manfred shook shook
day he lent them
them a car car to drive
drive to to the
the seaside.
seaside. “That
"That his
his head
head and andsaid,
said,"It's
“It’s a pity, they
they never
never missed
missed
night
night I had
had to
tointerrupt
interrupt themthem on on stage to ask askPaul
Paul-– a night
night before…”
before..." ChrisHutchins
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"Onstage
“On stage
am never
I am
frightened"
frightened”
Not
Not yet 30, ROY
yet 30, ROY ORBISON
OP4ISONisisa ahighly
highlypaid
paidsinger
singerand
and(lately)
(lately)
film star, reunited
film star, reunitedwith
withhis
hismuse
muse –- his
his wife
wife Claudette.
Claudette. Amid
Amid this
this
optimism, Roy’s tour
optimism, Roy's with The
tour with The Walker
Walker Brothers
Brothers foreshadows
foreshadows
trouble, while
trouble, while later in the
later in the year
year tragedy
tragedy strikes.
strikes.

— MELODY MAKER
- MELODY MAKER MARCH
ARCH 2626-
—
NGLAND IS MY second home,” said world
worldpop popgiant
giantRoyRoyOrbison
Orbisonon on his
his arrival

“E
ccENGLAND IS MY second home," said arrival
home
home here herethisthisweek.
week. Roy starts starts his latest British
his latest tour tomorrow
British tour tomorrow(Friday),(Friday), and andis is one
one
of America’s
America's most most frequent
frequent and and popular
popular visitors.
visitors. Before he he plunged
plunged into the grind grind
of touring,
touring, Roy talked talked about
about his happy round
his happy -the -world success
round-the-world success and and hishis
philosophical
philosophicalattitude attitudeto tothe
thepoppoplife.
life.
“The
"The things
things I look
lookforward
forward to tomost
mostcoming
coming to toEngland
England areare meeting
meeting old friends friends andand
thosegood
those goodaudiences,
audiences,and andI'm
I’mlooking
lookingforward
forwardtotoworking
workingwith withThe TheWalker
WalkerBrothers.
Brothers.IIenjoyed
enjoyedtheir their'My‘MyShip
Ship
Is Coming
Coming In’.In. But actually
actuallylIveryveryseldom
seldomlistenlistento tothe
theradio
radioin inthe
theStates.
States.WhenWhenIIget get home
home at at weekends,
weekends,II write write
music and
music andplay
play my guitar. That satisfies
guitar. That satisfiesmy my musical
musicaldrives.
drives.If If I listen
listen toto music,
music, IIlike
likestrings
stringsand and light
lightmusic.
music.
I haven’t
haven't had muchtime
had much timeto togo
go into classical music."
into classical music.”
Roy’s
Roy's latest
latest record
record is called
called “Twinkle
"Twinkle Toes",Toes”, hishis own
own composition:
composition: "It's “It’sabout
aboutaadancing
dancinggirl.
girl.IIdiddidaaTV show showwithwith
some
some dancing
dancing girls and and each
each time
time IIdo dothethePalladium
Palladium show showthey have dancers.
theyhave dancers. The song song isisjust
justan anobservation.
observation.In In
it, the
the girl is
isdancing
dancing andand pretending
pretending to tobe
behappy
happyand andgay,
gay,but
butII think she’slonely
think she's lonely and
andcovering
coveringup." up.”
Does Roy
Royagree
agreeloneliness
loneliness is aarecurring
recurring themetheme in in his
his songs?
songs? “It "It is,
is,but
butthere
there is
ishappiness
happiness too. In ‘Running'Running
Scared’
Scared' I got the the girl,
girl, and
and inin ‘Only
'Only TheThe Lonely’
Lonely' IIgot gotthe
thegirl
girltoo!
too!ThereThereisisalways
alwaysaamixture
mixtureof ofloneliness
lonelinessand and
happiness.”As
happiness." As an
an emotional
emotional singer, does does Roy think whitepeople
Roythinkwhite peoplecan cansingsing with
with soul? “I "Ithink
thinkwhitewhite people
people cancan
sing with
sing with soul
soul-I– Ido
dovery
very definitely. I sing singmostly
mostlythe same songs
the same songs on each show, and
on each and they have to to be
besung
sungwith
with
feeling to be enjoyable
feeling enjoyable eacheach time. If you’renot
time. Ifyou're notdoing
doingitit with
with soul,
soul, thethe audience
audiencecould couldtell
tellititwas
wasaa repeat
repeat of of the
the
record and
record and not a performance.
performance. There have have beenbeen many
many comments
comments that that my performances
performances come come over better better on
on
personal
personalappearances
appearancesthan than onon recordings.
recordings. OnOn a arecording
recording youyou cancan hithit
a ahigh
highnote
noteand
andlose
losea alot lotof
ofitit on the
the final
final
record. But at aalive
record. liveperformance
performance you get getallallthe
thegood
goodparts
parts–-and
and thethe bad!"
bad!”
PICTURELUX/EYEVINE

Roy
Roytalked
talked quietly withconviction
quietlywith convictionand andwithout
withoutaatracetraceof ofconceit.
conceit."On “Onstage
stage I am never frightened
frightened and andpast
past
shows
shows have
have always
always been
been pleasant,
pleasant, so so I just assume futureones
assume future oneswill willbe.
be.On On my
my last tour
tour there
there was was a fire in in the
the
stalls
stalls and
and the place filled
the place filled with
with smoke.
smoke. It was impossible
impossible to to breathe,
breathe, let let alone
alonesing.
sing. But I carried
carried on. The point point is,
it wasn’t
wasn't gallantry
gallantry or anything,
anything, but but I could
could concentrate
concentrate on on my performance
performance and andforget
forget the
the smoke.
smoke. My musical musical
ambition is to expand
ambition expand whatwhat I’mI'm doing and and stay successful.”
successful." »

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ROCK 1966
1966
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ROY ORBISON

RoyOrbison,
Roy Orbison,
photographed
photographed
on April
April 28, 1966
28,1966

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 Orbisonone
Orbison on a scrambler
bike atHawkstone
bikeat HawkstonePark,
Park,
Shropshire –-moments
moments
beforebreaking
before breakinghis
foot,March
foot, March1966
1966

A P R I L – J U NE

“It’s
"It's not
not just
just for
formoney
money either.
either. It’s
It'saasimple
simplefact
factthat
thatwriting
writing and
and
singing, and giving other people enjoyment,
singing, and enjoyment, is fantastic.
fantastic. That’s
That's not
meantto
meant to sound
soundhokey-
hokey –ininoother words aa put-on.
ther words Money is not
put-on. Money not nearly
nearly
as important
important as asknowing
knowingpeoplepeoplecan cancome
comeandandhear
hearmemeand
andforget
forget ,r41!).11.1:141,Jjjj
about
about their
theircar
carpayments
paymentsfor forawhile.
a while.ToTo be successful you
be successful you need
need
purity
purity in performance
performance and andrecording.
recording.Ifyou're
If you’resinging
singing to impress
impress
people –that's
people- that’sno nogood,
good, and
andif you’re
you're singing
singingto tomake
makemoney
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that’snono good.
good. It's true that
It’s very true that successful
successful people,
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who are
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admired,do
admired, doititfor
forthe
thelove.
love.IfIf I had
had to go
go to
toprison
prison or was
was
43 *pm
shipwrecked,and
shipwrecked, andIIhadhadnonoguitar,
guitar,IIwould
wouldgo go on
on singing.”
singing."
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— NME APRIL
- NME 1—
APRIL1- am; Nf'h
AAla
so;
HE WALKERS
WALKERS BROTHERS, Roy Orbison
BROTHERS, Roy Orbison and
and Lulu –- all

T
rrHE 61.

the
the stars
stars of aacurrently
currently touring
touring package
package-– have
have been
been hit
hit
by an
an illness
illness and
and injury jinx which
which has
has struck
struck with
with
a motorcycle accident, flu, concussion
concussion andand laryngitis!
laryngitis! The TWINKLE TOES
Walker Brothers
Brothers were unable
unable to appear
appear in
in Wigan on Wednesday
Wednesday
after
after John injured by fans who mobbed
John Maus was injured mobbed the
the trio
trio as
as ROY ORBISON
they
they entered
enteredaa hotel
hotel in
in Chester
Chester late
late on night. John had
on Tuesday night. n11111110
concussion
concussion andand an ambulance brought
an ambulance broughtaa doctor
doctor who treated
treated a
head injury
head injuryand
andthen
thenordered
orderedhim
himtotobed.
bed.Scott
ScottEngel
Engelwas
wasalso
alsoseen
seenby
by see his days as as aapop
popsinger
singernumbered?
numbered? "No, “No, I don’tdon't think
think age comescomes into
into
the
the doctor
doctorinin Chester
Chesterandandadvised
advisedto torest
restbecause
becauseofofaasevere
severeattack
attackofof 'flu.
’flu. it for
forme.
me.There
There areare other
other things
things in in life I want
want to to dodo –-II want
want to to have
have my
Roy Orbison’s wife
RoyOrbison's wifeClaudette – alarmedby
Claudette-alarmed by exaggerated
exaggerated reports
reports of his
his own empire
empire andand some
some other
other people
people chasing
chasing aboutabout the the world
world earning
earning for
injury inaamotorcycle
injuryin motorcycleaccident-flew
accident – flewtotoBritain
Britainon
onTuesday.
Tuesday.She Shearrived,
arrived, that's still
me. But that’s still in
in the
the future.
future. Claudette
Claudette and and I haven’t
haven't sat down down andand
unexpected,atathis
unexpected, hisLondon
Londonhotel
hoteljust
justafter
afterhe
hehad
hadleft
left for concerts in
concerts in discussed what's
discussed what’sgoing happen when
going to happen when I reach
reach 30 30because
because we wedon’t
don'tthink
think
Chester, and
Chester, and travelled thereto
travelled there to see him.
him. Orbison
Orbison will probably have to
probablyhave to walk it’s
it's going
going totochange
change anything.”
anything."
with crutches
with crutchesforforthe
therest
restof
ofhis
hisBritish
Britishstay,
stay,following
followinghis hisfall
fallfrom
fromaa stresses the joint planning
He stresses planning he he does
does with
with hishis wife Claudette.
Claudette. They are are
motorcycle during
motorcycle duringaa scramble
scramblecourse
courseride
rideon
on Sunday.
Sunday. He fractured his foot,
fractured his such
such an an ideal couple
couple that the pop
that the pop world
world breathed
breathed aasigh sigh of relief
reliefwhen
whenthey they
which has
which has been
beenencased
encasedin inplaster,
plaster,and
andisishaving
havingtotosing
singseated
seatedononaa stool.
stool. were reconciled
reconciled not not so long ago. ago.This Thisfollowed
followedaashort shorttime
timeapart
apartduring
during
which Roy Orbison’spersonal
which RoyOrbison's personalagony agonyseemed
seemedtotoreach reachaapeakpeakininhishissong
song- -
writing.
writing. TheThe Orbison’s Nashvillehome
Orbison's Nashville homelooks
looksover over a lake and and is aa
-— NMEAPRIL
NME APRIL 55—- possession of ofwhich
which theytheyare areparticularly
particularlyproud. proud.
CCI JUST WANTED
WANTED TO TO come
come over and say how much
and say much I enjoy your your “I
"I have
haveaafull-sized
full-sized swimming
swimming pool pool inin the lounge. That's
the lounge. That’sone oneof the
the ideas
ideas

“I
dined
dined in
singing... and
singing…
It was oneone of
andcould
couldII have your autograph
ofaadozen
in a London restaurant
dozen such
restaurant in
such interruptions
inthe
autograph for my
interruptions for
thesmall
smallhours
hoursof
forRoy
my daughter?”

of Sunday
daughter?"
Orbison as
Roy Orbison
Sunday morning.
as he
morning.
I came
came up with
house
house to
with when
to have
when I designed
have everything
everything so
designed the

everything we
weeks and have everything
sothat
we wanted
place,” explains
the place,"
thatifif we
we wanted
wanted we
wanted without
explains Roy. “I

withouteven
we could
could stay
evengoing
"Iwanted
wanted the
stay up
up there
going outside."
outside.”
the
thereforfor

After much
much singing
singingand and much
much travelling,he
travelling,he One
One of the the built-in
built-in mod modcons consisisaasuper
super--
was tired
tired and
and hungry,
hungry, but but he smiled
smiled obligingly powered
powered beam beamcooker
cookerwhich whichwill will cook
cook a frozen
frozen
at the
the woman
yet again
woman and andmoved
again to sign her scrap
movedhis hisfood
foodto
scrap of paper.
paper.
to one
one side
side “To
"To be steak
steak in
onus
on
in less than
than 60 seconds.
uswe can prepare
seconds. "If
prepare a meal meal in
“If people
people drop
in minutes
minutes –-no
drop in
no
in

It’s
It's one
one of
Orbison –-his
Nothing
Nothing angers
ofthe
thethings
hiscool,
things you you notice
notice most about
cool, calm, collected patience.
angers or upsetsupsets or even annoys
about Roy
patience.
annoys him,
successful you
successful need
need to
It is
threatens
togo
isthis
threatens to
go out
out at
thisapparent
at all."

tolimit
all.”
apparent aversion
limitRoy's
aversion to travel
Roy’s singing
travel which
singing career
which
careerfarfar more
more
and it is
and
manner
isalmost
mannerwhich
almost certainly
certainly this quietly confident
whichenables
enableshim himtotofollow
followon
confident
on stage
stage
need purity in than
than any
flies to
anypop popsinger
toBritain
singerage
Britainandandthen
agelimit.
limit.Yet
thentravels
Yet he
he frequently
travelsthousands
frequently
thousands moremore
the excitement
excitementofofThe TheWalker
WalkerBrothers.
Brothers.You Youfeel
feel miles
miles appearing
appearing in inaa different
different town town each
each night
night
the
he could
he could do
even The
even
do it equally
The Beatles.
e quallywell
Beatles.
well with
with the Stones or
the Stones or performance when,
when, he admits,
money" singing
money”
admits, he could earn
singing muchmuchcloser
earn “twice
closer to
"twice the
to home.
home.
He is
him talk
him
is not
not typical
typical of pop
talk of playing
playing the
pop singers.
singers. You
the London
Youdon’t
London Palladium
don'thear
Palladium as as
hear
and recording”
and recording" He answers
answers itit this
sincerely
sincerelyIIdo. do.And
thisway:
way: "I
And I especially
“I love Britain,
e spe ciallylove
Britain,
loveLondon
London- –
being
being thethe zenith
zenithof ambition; rather
of his ambition; ratherhe hesays,
says, this city islike
this cityis likeaa second
secondhome hometo tome.
me.Also,
Also, mymy
“I might
"I might comecome in and and do a Palladium
Palladium TV and and one
one or
or two
two spectaculars
spectaculars to to records havesold
records have soldhere
hereconsistently
consistentlyfor foraavery
verylonglongtimetimenow nowand andIIfeel
feel I
put some
put some sterling
sterling intointo a British bank.”
bank." He seems seems to to project
project no nosex
sexappeal
appeal owe something
something to to those
thosepeople
peoplewho who buybuy them;
them;it's it’s a relationship
relationship I'm I’m
on stage,
on yet when
stage, yet when he hegrowls
growlsin inone
oneof of his
his songs
songsthe thefirst
first20
20 rows
rows in in the
the happy to keep
happy keep up.”
up."AndAndanother
anotheradult adultautograph
autograph hunter hunter hovered
hovered over his his
circle scream
scream in abandon.
abandon. shoulder-–as
shoulder asif showhim
if to show himthe thesentiments
sentiments are are mutual.
mutual.
I asked
asked himhim ififClaudette
Claudette had had been
been the the inspiration
inspiration of of all his
his
compositions:
compositions:"Not “Not just Claudette but
just Claudette but everything
everythingII have ever written written waswas
sparkedoff
sparked off by anan incident
incident in inmy
mylife.
life. Some
Some of the the songs
songs date
date backback to when
when
— NME JUNE10
- NME JUNE 10 —-
I was
wasat atschool – that’sprobably
school-that's probablythe theperiod
periodwhenwhenyou youseem
seemto to have
have most
most HE DEATH THIS week of his
DEATH THIS his wife
wifeClaudette
Claudette ends
ends an
an era
era of

T
rTHE
emotional
emotionalupsets upsetsin inyour
yourlife.
life. inspiration for
inspiration for Roy Orbison
Orbison-–forfor it was always
always with
with herher in
in mind
mind
“But
"But IIguess
guessshe sheinspired
inspired most
most of them.
them. Little incidents like when
incidents like when we that he
that he wrote
wrote and
and sang
sanghis
his emotion -filled songs. On Monday,
emotion-filled
were courting,
courting, had hadaarow row and
and broke
broke up. up. I said
said IIwouldn’t
wouldn't speak
speak to her her again,
again, 26 -year -oldClaudette
26-year-old Claudettedieddiedtwotwohours
hours after
after her
her motorcycle
motorcycle was in
then
thenwhenwhenII camecame out the barber’s
out of the barber's one one day
daylI saw her across the street street lorryas
collision with a lorry asthe
thecouple
couplerode
rodeononseparate
separate machines
machines from
and wanted
and wantedvery verymuch
muchto togogo over
over and speakto
and speak to her.
her. That inspired`Cryin"."
That inspired ‘Cryin’’.” their home
Nashville to their home in nearby
nearby Hendersonville,
Hendersonville, Tennessee.
Tennessee.
Orbison seems seems indestructible.
indestructible. His next birthday birthdaywillwill be his
his 30th,
30th,though
though It was
wasClaudette
Claudette who
who persuaded
persuaded Roy to topersevere
persevere with
with his
his songwriting
songwriting
with Elvis Presley
with Presley aayear yearahead
ahead of ofhimhimyouyoumight
mightconsider
consider hishis youth
youth isis and singing after their
and their marriage,
marriage, when abandoning
abandoning his his ambitions
ambitionswouldwould
FITZPATRICK/MIRRORPIX

assuredfor
assured for all time. Every British tour
EveryBritish tour he makes
makes is more
more successful
successful than than allowed him
have allowed him to
to take
take anan ordinary
ordinaryjob
job and
andlift them out
lift them the poverty
out of the poverty
the previous
the previous one one and
and every nighthe
everynight he brings
brings thethe house
house down.
down. they
they had to endure
had to for a time.
endure for time.
“East
"East Ham Ham was yours,”
yours," observers
observers on on the tour, who
the tour, who seem
seem toto think thereisis
think there They cared
cared deeply
deeply for each
each other
other and whenitit was revealed
and when last year
revealed last year
a star battle
battle atat stake,
stake, will pat him him on on the back at the
the back the end
end of the
the night
night and
and that theywere
that they wereseparated
separatedRoy Roytold
told me he was
was heartbroken.
heartbroken. It was was obvious
obvious
say. And
Andso sohehecollects
collectstownstownswhere
where he hehashas“gone
"gonebiggest”
biggest"in inthe
themanner
manner that
that they wouldsoon
theywould soon be be together again and
together again and last summer they were,in
summer theywere, in
of aaparty winningthe
partywinning thegeneral
generalelection.
election.But Buthow
howlong
longcancanititgogoon?
on? Does
Does he he reunited.
fact, reunited.

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 ROY ORBISON
ROY ORBISON

And IIfound
foundthis
thistype
type of
ofmaterial
materialparticularly well suited
particularlywell suited
to Roy’s
Roy's voice.”
voice."
is The Jordanaires
The Jordanaires backed backedRoy Roy atat the
the session,
session,for for which
which the the
musical
musical director
director was was Bob Moore and and the session pianist pianist waswas
Floyd Cramer.
Cramer. Two of ofthe
thesongs
songsRoy Roycut cutthat
thatevening
evening were were
ballads
ballads -– "Whirlwind"
“Whirlwind”and and"River".
“River”. The other other was the the film’s
film's title
title
song, described
described byM by Mal al as being
being “a "a very
verycatchy
catchyuptempo
uptempo piece,piece,
with an
with an earthy
earthygut gut-bucket quality and
-bucket quality and12 12-string
-string guitar”.
guitar".
Whetheror
Whether or not
not any
any of these titles will be issued
these titles issued as singles
remains
remains to tobebeseen.
seen.TheyTheycould couldwell wellbe bekept
keptfor for a film
-wow soundtrack
soundtrack LP. LP. For, as Mal revealed,revealed, Roy and and Bill wrotewrote moremore
.:-.041t1Mow songs than than were necessary
necessary for the the picture
picture-–so, so, quite
quite probably,
probably,
this extra
this extra material
material will will be used used separately
separately for for singles.
After thethe session,
session, Roy Royand andMal Malclimbed
climbedinto intothetheformer’s
former's
Stingray
Stingray and drove out
and drove out to to Bill Dee’s
Dee'shome,home, where where theythey enjoyed
enjoyed
steak barbeque
a steak barbeque and and reminisced
reminiscedabout aboutold oldtimes.
times.Roy Roy said how how
much he was
much was looking
lookingforwardforwardto tostarting
starting the the actual
actual shooting
shooting of
the film. He’s He's moving
moving temporarily
temporarily to HollywoodHollywood at the the
beginning of next
beginning next month.
month.
ga.
ThroughMal,
Through Mal,Roy Roy sents enthis hisbest
best wishes
wishes to to all
allhis
hisBritish
British friends
friends
and
and fans
fans-–as aswell
well as his deep appreciation
appreciation of of all
all the
the many letters
many letters
hiswifeClaudette,
With his wife Claudette, condolence which he has
of condolence has received
received from from this this country.
country.
who died
who died on
on June
June 6, 1966
6,1966
when her motorbike
hermotorbike
In view of
In ofthethe brave
brave faceface which
which Roy Royisisputting
putting on on through
through his his
collided with a truck in
collidedwith a truck adversity, IIpersonally
personally find find it’s
it'srather
rather aapity pitythatthat his
hislatest
latestchart
chart
Gallatin,
Gallatin, Tennessee entry,
entry, “Too
"Too Soon Soon To ToKnow”,
Know",should shouldhave havebeenbeen showered
showered with with
brickbats by many
brickbats many critics.
critics. ThisThisall allstems
stemsfrom fromJukeBoxJury
Juke Box Jury
Claudette
Claudette flew to London London duringduring Roy's Roy’s recent
recent British
British tourtour with
with TheThe a fortnight
fortnight ago, when when it was was branded
branded byD by Davidavid Jacobs and and Anthony
Anthony Booth Booth
Walker Brothers
Brothers afterafter she heard
heard news of his hisfoot
footinjury riding a motor-
injuryriding motor- being in
as being in bad
bad taste
taste andand subsequently
subsequently others others havehave taken
taken up up the
the outcry
outcry
cycle at at Hawkstone
Hawkstone Park, Park, near
near Birmingham.
Birmingham. She She remained
remainedfor forthe
therest
restofof The allegation
allegation is that that thethe lyric has has tootoo strong
strong aabearing
bearing on on Roy’s
Roy'spersonal
personal
the tour
the tour andand watched
watchedhis his every performance
performance from fromthe theback
back of thethe theatre.
theatre. loss, and
and therefore
therefore the disc should should not not have
have been
been issued
issued at atthat
that time.
time.
She dieddied exactly
exactlyfourfour weeks after after their
their return
return to America. Frankly, I’m I'm at
at aaloss
losstotounderstand
understand what what all the the fuss is about.about. I would
would
Roy,
Roy,Claudette
Claudette and and I have
havebeen
been goodgood friends
friends for foralmost
almost three years.
three years. accept thatyou
accept that you could
couldmake makeout outaa valid
valid case
case against,
against,say, say, the
the Napoleon
NapoleonXIV XIV
On the last day
the last day of their
their British tour,
tour, as Roy journeyedto
Royjourneyed toCoventry,
Coventry,IIwas was disc.
disc. But IIfail
failtotosee
seethatthatthethe“bad
"bad taste”
taste" stigma appliesto
stigma applies toRoy's
Roy’s new new
drivingher
driving herback
backto to their
theirLondon
Londonhotel hotelafter
afterthe theNewNewMusical
MusicalExpress
ExpressPoll Poll-- record.
record. And for these these reasons:
reasons: the thesong
songwas wasnot notone
oneof of Roy’s
Roy's
Winners
Winners ConcertConcert when when she expressed anxiety
she expressed anxiety aboutaboutRoy overworking.
Roy overworking. compositions.
compositions. ItIt was was written
written by Don Gibson. Thus Thus ititcannot
cannot possibly
possibly have have
She said she looked looked forward
forward to theirtheir having
having a few weeks holiday
fewweeks holiday at at home
home any associationwith
anyassociation withthe thetragedy.
tragedy.In Inany
any case,
case, it waswasrecorded
recorded three three
in Hendersonville
Hendersonville and and riding roundround the the local countryside
countryside on their their motor-
motor- months prior
months prior to Claudette's death.
to Claudette’s death.Although
Although the the lyric opensopens by saying sayingthat that
cycles. Only
cycles. Only last
last Friday
Friday I received
received a cable cable fromfrom Roy in which which he he said
said hehe had
had the
the singer’s heartis
singer's heart is broken,
broken,and andthat thatit'sit’stoo
toosoon
soonto toknow
knowif if he cancan forget
been working
been working more more thanthanwas wasgood
good for him. him. her, it goes
goeson ontotomake
make ititclear
clearthatthat thethe subject
subject is aa shattered
shattered love love affair.
affair. In
ishorribly
It is horriblyironic
ironic that
thaton onone
oneof of thethe first days of the
first days the holiday
holiday Claudette
Claudette this respect,ititisis typical
this respect, typicalof ofmany
manyof ofRoy's
Roy’s discs,
discs, such
suchas as"It's
“It’s Over".
Over”.
had been planning
had been planningfor for so long, tragedy
tragedy should should have have overtaken
overtaken them.them. The argument has also been
The argument been put put forward
forward that that the
the record
record company
companyis is
funeralwas
funeral was in Hendersonville
Hendersonville on on Wednesday. There are are three
three sons, primarily
primarily to to blame
blamefor for “cashing
"cashing in in on events”
events" by byis issuing
suing the the disc
disc atat this
this
Michael,Roy
Michael, Roy Duane
Duane and andWesley.
Wesley.ChrisHutchins
Chris Hutchins time.
time. However, this this is completely
completely unfair, becauseRoy
unfair, because Roy himself
himselfgives gives
clearance
clearance to to all releases, so the the onus
onus was wassolely upon his
solelyupon his own
ownshoulders.
shoulders.
In fact,
fact, over
overin America, though
inAmerica, though it isn’t isn't proving
proving so so successful
successful as as in
inthis
this
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he recently undertookaastring stringof of radio
radio andandTV dates to
TV dates to promote
promote
AFTER
FTER THE THERECENTRECENTtragedy tragedyofofhis hiswife’s
wife'sdeath,
death,anyone
anyonecould could the disc. Which
the disc. Which showsshows that thatRoyRoy has has absolutely
absolutely no no qualms
qualms about aboutit. it.And,
And,

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isn't
isn’t made
have forgiven Roy
refusing to
refusing
made like that.
RoyOrbison
Orbisonfor
to work –- at any rate, for the
that. He believes that
forwithdrawing

that the
the best
withdrawing into
the time
time being.
best way to overcome
into his
his shell
shelland
being. But the big O
overcome his heart-
and
0
heart-
after all, why should
after
broken romances
broken
reference
should he? He
romances and andthis
reference to, or implication
Heisisaasinger
thissimply
singerwho
simply follows his
implication of, death
whospecialises

death on the lyric

specialisesin
his usual
usual pattern.
insad
sadsongs
pattern. There
lyric-– it is merely
songsabout
There is no
merely aaplaintive
about
no
plaintive
break
break is through
through sheersheerhard hardwork,
work,and andby by not
not running
runningaway awayfrom
fromreality.
reality. song. IImust
love song. mustconfess
confess that, that, when
when I reviewed
reviewed the the record
record two two weeks
“It’s
"It's been hell,” Roy confesses.
been hell," confe ss es.“And "Andit’s it'ssomething
something IIshall shallnever
never quite
quite be ago, IIdid
didnotnotgive
giveaathought
thoughtto toaapossible
possible“hidden"hidden meaning”.
meaning". I simply simply
able to put
able put out
out of my my mind.
mind. But IIfigurefigurethat that the
the sensible
sensible thingthingisistoto face
face upup described
described ititas asRoy at his his best,
best, andand tipped
tipped itit for
for a hit.
hit. The
The question
question of of it
to it, instead
instead of goinggoing to topieces.
pieces.So SoI’m I'mtrying
tryingto toabsorb
absorbmyself
myselfcompletely
completely controversial would
being controversial would not not have enteredentered my head, head, but but forforJukeBoxJwy.
Juke Box Jury.
in my
mywork,work, andand I find
findthat
that helps
helpstremendously.
tremendously. Of
Ofcourse,
course, we wehad hadaasimilar
similaroutburst
outburst soon soon after
after Jim
JimReeves’
Reeves'death, death, when
when
“Several
"Several friends have suggested
friends have suggestedthat thatIIshould
shouldmove moveaway awayfromfrommy my home
home his record companyissued
record company issuedsuch suchdiscsdiscsas as"I“IWon't
Won’t Forget
Forget You" You” and and “With
"With
in Hendersonville
Hendersonville because becauseititmight
mighthold holdtoo toomany
manymemorie
memories for me.But
s forme. But God On My MySide”.
Side".Whether
Whetheror ornotnotyou youregard
regardthem them as as being
being in bad bad taste
taste
no, I’m
no, I'm going to stick stick ititout.
out.MyMyparents
parents have have comecome over from from Houston
Houston depends entirely
depends connotation you
entirely on the connotation you place upon upon them. If Ifyou
you
and
and moved in with with me me-they're
– they’regoing
goingto to run
runthe the house
house and and help raise
help raise deliberately
deliberately set out to to look
lookfor fordouble
doublemeanings
meanings–-reading reading between
between the the
my three boys.”
three boys." lines, as ititwere
were–-you you can can find
find them
them in practically
practically every song. For For
attitude which
This attitude whichRoy Roy hashas adopted
adopted was reported reported to to me
me by Mal instance,
instance, manymanyof of today's
today’spop popsongs
songs couldcould be be highly
highly suggestive,
suggestive, if you you
Thompson,of
Thompson, of the
theBritish
Britishbranch
branchofAcuff-Rose,
of Acuff-Rose,who whohas hasjust
justspent
spentaafew few purposely
purposely set set out to interpret
interpret them them that thatway.
way.
days with
days with thethesinger
singerin inhis
hishome
hometerritory.
territory.Mal MalsayssaysthatthatRoyRoylooks
looks As they
they say, it’s
it's all
allininthethe mind.
mind. And And for the the life of ofme,me,IIcan’t
can't see
see why
why either
either
extremelywell;
extremely well;though thoughhe hehas
haslost
lostaa little
little more
more weight
weight Roy
Royor orhis
hisrecord
recordcompany
company should should be criticised
criticised for
-– something
something he hecancanillill afford
afford to do. pursuing
pursuing aa professional
professional practicepractice with with which
which he has has
BILL ORCHARD/REX SHUTTERSTOCK

“I
"I went
went along
along to to one
one of ofRoy’s
Roy'srecording
recording sessions sessions at the the been associated
been associated with with for many manyyears.years. Incidentally,
Incidentally,
RCA-Victor
RCA -Victorstudios
studios in in Nashville,”
Nashville," Mal told me. me. “Roy
"Roy Mal Thompson
Thompson assures assures me me that
thatthere
thereis is no
no sign of of
was cutting
cutting three
threeof nine nine numbers
numbers- –all allofofwhich
whichhe he any such controversy
controversy in the States, where where the the disc
disc
wrote with
wrote with his usual
usual partner,
partner, Bill Dees Dees–-to to be featured
featured is simply
simply regarded
regarded as as aatypical
typical Orbison
Orbison release.
release.
in his
in his film
film The Fastest Guitar Alive.
GuitarAlive. Says Mal,
Mal,“Roy would be
"Roywould behorrified,
horrified, even even stunned,
stunned,
“They’re
"They're all slightly different different from what what we we usually
usually TOO by thesuggestion
bythe suggestionthat thathe he was
was professionally
expectfrom
expect fromRoy.
Roy. They
They havehave aa Western
Western flavour, flavour, and and SOON benefiting
benefiting from from this this personal
personaltragedy.tragedy.He's He’s just
just
a strong
strong atmosphere
atmosphere of of the wide open open spaces.
spaces. TO not
not that kindof
that kind of guy."
guy.” DerekJohnson
Derek Johnson •
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if they
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from front
front-row
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recently, and and people
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financial
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with “Making Time”,
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number of people,
people, including
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of Luton,
Luton,head
headof ofthe
theIndependent
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Television Authority,
Authority,have haveclaimed
claimedthatthat the
the
&BsingerChrisFarlowe,who
R&B singer Chris Farlowe, who
name
name is blasphemous.
blasphemous. asbeen
has cutting discssince
been cutting discs since
OU1 OF TIME
In
Inaa letter
letter to
to the group’s manager,
the group's manager,TonyTony 1961
961 but
but “relying
"relying aa bit
bit too much
too much telka,lh I
Stratton-Smith,
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inclined to to onn my own preferences”
myown preferences" CHRIS SAROWE
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veryreal
religious connection
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people. I suspect
people.
for a great
suspect its use would
a great number
number of of people."
people.”
great number
number of
would upset
upset and
and offend
offend
"A hit
“A hit record
record is the
the
Stratton-Smith
Stratton -Smith told
nameand
name
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most pop
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thinkitit is irreligious.
the
irreligious. Unlike
writtenaa religious
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religious
which received
from a number
received
number of bishops.”
bishops."
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MM JULY
JULY1616Former
Formercarpenter
carpenterChris
ihris Farlowe
Farlowe finally
finally gatecrashes
gatecrashes
asking their opinion
asking their opinion on on the
the group's
group’s name.
name. the
the UK
UK Top
Top1010with
withthe
theMick
MickJagger-produced
Jagger -produced“Out"Out Of
OfTime”
Time"
Monseigneur David Norris,
Monseigneur Norris,private
privatesecretary
secretary
to Cardinal
Cardinal Heeman,
Heeman, wrote: “I "Ican’t
can't think
think that
that HRIS FARLOWE’S BLUES-BASED Thunderbirds can give
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to call aa group
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voice finally made
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onrecord
record after
after do the
the number
number on on stage.
stage. I’ve
I've always wanted wanted to to
be thought
thought of as as blasphemous.
blasphemous. Nowadays the innumerable singles over the past five
innumerable singles sing with
with a big band behind behind me. me. I can can see the
seethe
word hashas many
many meanings.”
meanings:' years. Chris’s
Chris'sreaction
reaction –- relief
relief and pleasure.
pleasure. day in thethe future when I might
future when might be be able to to
Others who supported
Others supported this included the
this view included the “It’s
"It's an answer atat last
lastto
toall
allthe
thepeople
people who’ve
who've augment
augment The Thunderbirds
Thunderbirds into into a bigger
bigger unit.”
unit."
Rev John Andrews, Chaplain
RevJohnAndrews, Chaplainto to the
the Archbishop told
told me to go back
back to tobeing
being aacarpenter
carpenter over
over Did this mean
mean thenthen that
that dropping
dropping The The
Of Canterbury, CanonCollins,
Canterbury, Canon Collins,MP
MP Norman
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years," said
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Of Time”
Time" does Thunderbirds
Thunderbirds for for recording
recording purposes
John Stevas and
John and the Rev John Lang, Assistant
RevJohn Assistant one of those four-minute
four -minute miles into the the Top 10,
Top10, didn’t meanhe
didn't mean he was aiming for foraasolosolo career?
career?
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Head of Religious Broadcasting
Religious Broadcast' atthe
ng at theI3BC.
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this week
week for
for reflection
reflection onon his “Not
"Not at atall.lcan't
all. I can’tseeseemyself
myselfas asaasolosolo singer.
singer.
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hope thatthat eight yearsas
eight years as a singer and five
singer and fiveyears
yearsas as a IIrespect
respect The Thunderbirds
Thunderbirds as as musicians,
Lordairsviewwill
Lord Hill’s view willnot notaffect
affect our recording
recording artist artist -all
– allwithout
withoutaamajor
major hit.hit. I’m
I'm happy
happysinging
singing withwith them.
them. It’sIt's groovy
groovy whenwhen
future with
future with ITV. “In the early
"In the early days, I was wasrecording
recording the the wrong
wrong we work
work together.
together.Why Whywould
would !wantI wantto to get
get rid
rid
At the end of
Atthe the month
ofthe month we sort
sort of of material. I’ve been
material. I've of them?”
them?"
have pencilled
havepencil led bookings
bookings for cutting discssince
cutting discs since1961,
1961, but
but He
He also
also made
made the the point
point
ATV’s Action,
ATV's Action,Rediffusion’s
Five O’Clock
Re diffusion's
O'Clock Club
Ch.&and and
I was
wasrelying
on my
relying a bit
my own
bit too
ownpreferences,
too much
preferences,
much “The music we
"The music we that
that as a solo
have toto go
solosinger
go on
singer he’d
on with
he'd
with some of of
Ready,Steady
Ready Steady,Go!."
Go!.” I think.
think. When
When someone
someone were playing was
were playing was the pony backing backing groups groups
brought
brought aa commercial
commercial that crucify arrangements
No 11to tome,
me,I wouldn’t
!wouldn't too far advanced
too far advanced up and
and down
down the the country.
country.
September

hit
hit single
2, 1966: The
September 2,1966:
Creation perform
perform their
single"“Making
their
Time”on
Making Time" on
consider it. That’s
thereason
the reason why
That's partly
why I’ve
partly
I've never
for the kids”
for kids" “I
"I couldn’t
couldn't stand that.
couldn’t
couldn't go go on on with
that.'I just
with some of
TV show Ready,
Ready, Steady,
Steady,Go!
Go! made itit before.
before. the rubbish that’sthat's around,”
around,"
“Even
"Even when IIfirst first heard
heard ‘Out
'Out OfOf Time’,
Time, he said. ButBut five years is aalong
five years long timetime to stay out out
I was
wasdoubtful
doubtful about
about it. It wasn’t
wasn't until
until I went
went in the
the cold
cold in thethe pop music business.
pop music business. Why Why
along to the the studio
studio andand heard
heard the the way didn’t Farlowecatch
didn't Farlowe catchon oninin the
theearly
earlydays days ofof the
the
Mick Jagger
Jagger had arranged
arranged the the number
number beat
beat renaissance? “Four "Four years ago, before before we
thatititknocked
that knockedme me out.
out. But
But even after I’d
after I'd started
started at at the
the Flamingo,
Flamingo, wherewhere we we made our
recorded
recorded itit II wasn’t
wasn't convinced
convinced itit would
would be reputation,
reputation, the thesort
sortofofmusic
musicwe we were
were playing
playing
such aamover,
mover,eveneventhough
though IIthought
thought itit was was tootoo far
far advanced
advanced for for the
the kids.
kids.TheyThey
commercial
commercial enough enough to to sell."
sell.” thought
thought we wewere
were playing
playingmodern
modernjazz. jazz. That’s
That's
Chris
Chris and The Thunderbirds
Thunderbirds have have built
builtup
up the main reason.
the main
quite
quite a reputation
reputation with withthe
theinin-crowd
-crowd overover “I
"I was sosoknocked
knockedout outabout
about the the record
record
the past
the past three
three years. The Thunderbirds
Thunderbirds are moving
moving so quickly, though, because
though, because
a four-piece
four -piecewho whomanage
manageto to sound
sound likelikeaa moneywise
moneywise a hit record record is still thethe most
most
14-piece
14 -piece ononstage,
stage, which
which is essential
essential for for important
important thing thingininpoppopbusiness.
business.
reproducing
reproducing the the record
recordsound.
sound. For Chrisused
ForChris used “Before
"Before thisthis hit,
hit, after paying all the
after paying
10 violas, five cellos, six
five cellos, six brass
brass and a rhythm
rhythm expenses,
expenses, I was making making just
just about
about the the same
sectionon
section on the
the session for for “Out
"Out Of OfTime".
Time”. as IIcould
could asasaacarpenter.
carpenter.A A hit
hit record
record is the the jam
“I
"I record withaa big
record with big orchestra
orchestraas as a matter
matter on the bread.
bread. I’veI've realised
realised that since the
that since the
of policy,”
policy," said Chris.
Chris. “But
"But I find
find that The
that The record
record hit hit the charts.”
charts."

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“There
"There comes
comes a a time
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when you
you ³ Paul Samwell-
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Page.
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group on on Monday
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roughed out
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the head
headof of one of the the songwriting
songwriting Beatles,
Beatles, becauseII thought
because thought itit sounded
soundedawful. awful.SinceSinceI'veI’ve bought
boughtall all discs with
with manager
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scribbled on anything
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sheet of toilet
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the the taping and
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equipment, I can add things things and do Simon
Simon Napier-Bell.
Napier -Bell.
back of aaPeter
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lotmore.
more. So Sowhat
whatseemed
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Samwell-Smith and and
Keith
Keith Relf
Relf were
were bothboth
laboriously put put together
together on on aabattered
battered machine
machine to to be
be a waste of oftime
time sounds
sounds
ill last Sunday with
with
battery portable
battery portabletape
Beatles' approach
Beatles’
taperecorder.
recorder.For
approach to songwriting
songwriting is
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“One of us usually
"One of us usually and perhaps possible when when mixed
perhaps dubbed.”
mixed and
dubbed."
and re-recorded
re-recorded food
were
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food poisoning
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and

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perhaps be
haphazard. Which could
faintly haphazard.
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hardest part
hardest
aboutthe thelyrics?
partforme.
lyrics? "This
for me.IIwrite
“This is the
writethem themslowly,
slowly,
appear
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Hassocks,
Sussex, on Sunday
Sunday
spontaneous success.
spontaneous success.The TheMM MM asked musical phrase
musical phrase a word
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The Beatles recently just how how theythey them
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untilII get what I want want-– or as
approached the
approached the problem producing
problem of producing or part
partof
of aa tune
tune near
near to to it as
as IIcan.
can. When
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thing is the
the week
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14
14newnew songs
"The
songs for for aanew
thing that
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newalbum.
album.
that happened
happened with with in our heads”
in our heads" finished I’m
parts
I'm usually
parts of ititand
usuallyhappywith
andunhappy
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others. So
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the new album,”
album," said John Lennon, Lennon, “was "was then
then I show it to to John
John and
and Paul,
Paul, whose
whose
that Paul and
that Paul and I decided
decidedwe'd we’dhave have toto get opinion
opinion I respect.
respect. They usuallyusually like the the
together. We’d been
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othersocially,
socially, but
but we
we partII don’t
part don't like, but think
think thetheother
otherpart partisisall
allwrong."
wrong.”
decided
decided we'dwe’d have
have to get down down to to some
some serious
serious work. Getting
Getting allthree
But all three Beatles
Beatles agree
agree that
that there
there comes
comes a stage stage when
when
together is the
together the first
first step
step –-and
and it's
it’s not always the the easiest.
easiest. you have
have to tostop
stopchanging
changing thingsthings about
about andand settle
settle for the
the
“Then when
"Then whenwe've we’ve got together
together at at my
my place
place or Paul’s
Paul's house,
house, song as it stands.
song stands. John Lennon
Lennon said:said: "There
“Therecomescomesaa timetime
we start
start thinking
thinking about aboutthe thesongs.
songs.One One of us us usually
usually thinks
thinks when you've
when you’ve got to stopstop fiddling
fiddling about
about withwith thethesong.
song. If you
of aamusical
musicalphrasephrase or or part
part of ofaatune
tunein inour
ourheads
heads–-like
like Paul
Paul didn’t,you'd
didn't, you’dnever
neverget get a record out at all. Later
record out Later youyouthink
think ofof
will be featured
featured
did with ‘Paperback
`Paperback Writer’.
Writer'. He Hethought
thought that that out in the
the car
car thingsyou
things you could
couldhave
havedonedonewithwithit, it, but
but unless
unlessyou youcall
call aa halt
halt
with
with the
the group
group at
wayto
on the way to my house.”
house." you’d spend
you'd spend aa whole year doing just one track. track. John also said Ashton-Under-Lyne
The Beatles approached
approached the the problem
problem of their new album album that to
that to ignore commerciality
commercialitywas wasfatal.
fatal."I“I write
write things
things that
thatII today
today (Thursday).
-titled
– titledRevolver-
Revolver – bywriting
by writingand andrecording
recordingthe thesongs
songsover a like. But you
youhave
haveto toconsider
considerthe the commercial
commercial aspect. aspect.It's
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no The group’s
group's hit
hit
period
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weeks.John Johnand andPaul
Paulkicked
kickedideas,
ideas,musical
musical good writing stuff
good writing that no-one
stuff that no-onewants wantsto tolisten
listento."to.” “Over
"Over Under
bits and
and words around untilthey
around until theyhadhadthethebasis
basisofof a song, Well,
Well,that’s
that's one
one thing
thing thethe Beatles
Beatles won’t
won't have
have to toworry
worryabout
about Sideways Down”
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then they took
then they took it into the the studio
studio to to work on it with with George
George for a long
long time
time yet.
yet. moved
moved up up to No
No88 in
in
and Ringo. The
and Ringo. The 14 tracks
tracks on on the new LP were
the new the Pop 50 this
the Pop
created
created in in this
thisway, and and in fact the the last track week.
week. MMMMJUNE
JUNE 26
26
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recorded in the
recorded the studios.
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Paul that’s
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New York
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last Friday
Friday
responsible
responsible for for most
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for business talks
lks
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with her American
contributed some numbers
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in the agent
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Allen Klein.
past, but it’s
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onlycomparatively
comparatively recently recently She was due due to
that he’s
that he's expanded
expanded his his songwriting
songwriting talents talents return
return to to Britain
Britain
anything approaching
into anything approachingaa regular regularflow. over
over the
the weekend,
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seems,with withthree
three tracks
tracks on on the
the new
new but stayed on for
but stayed for
further talks.The
further talks. The
album bearing
album bearing his name, he's
his name, emerging
he’s also emerging
talks are expected
expected
as aasongwriting
songwriting force within within The Beatles’
Beatles' to leadto
to lead toanan
coterie. But not not without
without a lot lotofofpainstaking
painstaking American tour tour
effort on hishis part.
part. later in the
later in theyear.
year.
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"I've b een writing
writing songs all the the time,”
time," Tomorrow (Friday),
Tomorrow (Friday),
George told
toldMM.MM. “But"But when
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you're Marianne
Marianne starsstars in
competing
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Lennon and
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then goes for TV
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NME
NME gets
gets in
in the Rolls
the Rolls
with ANDREW OLDHAM
with ANDREW OLDHAM
(“I’m flyingtotoNew
("I'm flying New York
York
and
and chartering
chartering aa plane
plane

“I’m
to Hollywood”)
Hollywood") to hear
about successes old
about successes old
and
and new.
new. The
The Rolling
Rolling
Stones. Twice As
Stones. Twice As Much.
Much.
And
And Nico?
Nico? “She’s

glad
"She's
working
working for
for aa group
group
called
called the
the Underground
Underground
Movement…”
Movement..."

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right…”
— NMEAUGUST
- NME AUGUST 5 5—-
OLLING STONES STONESMANAGER Andrew Loog Loog Oldham is

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ROLLING MANAGERAndrew Oldham is
the move,
on the move, and
and asasusual
usualwith
withhis hisubiquitous
ubiquitouspersonality
personality
("The Beach Boys’
(“The Boys' new
new single
single isisnot
notdedicated
dedicated to me”),
me"), in
directions at
several directions at once-
once –mostly
mostly"up"!
“up”!Last
Last Thursday
Thursday I found
agitated Andrew bouncing
an agitated bouncing about
about among
among the the packing
packing cases
his outer
of his outer office
office in
in Baker
BakerStreet,
Street,which
which together
together with
with his
his
record
record company,
company, Immediate,
Immediate,were were in transit
transit to their more spacious
to their spacious premises
premises
in
in Oxford
Oxford Street.
Street.
A successful
A successful move
move which
which isisemphasised
emphasised by the the fact
factthat
that the
the label
label has
has just
justbeen
been two
two
weeks at
weeks at No 1 ininthe
the NME
NMEChart,
Chart, courtesy
courtesy of “Out"Out Of OfTime”
Time"and and Chris
Chris Farlowe.
Farlowe. “That
"That
man
manis is so humble,”
humble," said Andrew. “It’s "It's refreshing
refreshing to find someone
someone who retains an
who retains anair
airof
humility
humilityafter
afterbeing
beinghelped."
helped.”
The Loog was,
The was, inin fact,
fact, in
inmid-flight
mid-flight while
while I was
was talking
talking to him
him and hadto
and had toleave
leave for
New York
New Yorkin in15
15minutes,
minutes,so soIIwas
wasinvited
invitedto tocontinue
continue ourour talk
talk in the
the Rolls ononthe
the way
way
CAMERAPRESS

to the
to airport."I'm
the airport. “I’mlate,
late,ofof course,"
course,” said
said Andrew,
Andrew, heaping togetheraapile
heaping together pileof
of legal
documents appertainingtotothe
documents appertaining theaction
actionhe heis
is taking
taking against
against Radio Caroline and and Queen
magazine
magazinefor for including
including Mick JaggerJaggerin inan
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advertisement aboutabout thethe pirate
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Likeablealmostin
spiteofhimselb
spite of himself:
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manager, producer,
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publicist and publisher
Andrew Loog Oldham
aAtntdreeawLe000f Oldham
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ALO meets
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Twice Much (David
(David
Skinner, left,
left, and
Andrew Rose),whom
Andrew Rose), whom
he foresees having
heforesees
“thesamekind
"the same kindof ofmass
appeal as Cliff Richard"
asCliff Richard”

Andrew's
Andrew’snextnextmove
move was
was to into
to back into Records
Records in in the
the US andand we also
also have
have to
to discuss plansfor
discuss plans for The
The Rolling
one of the
one the tea
tea chests
chests in the
the office and
and rip Stones’ film. Most of the
Stones' film. the shooting
shooting will bebe done
done on
on location
location –-II hope
hopein in
his going-away
his going -away suit.
suit. Britain but it depends
Britain but depends on onthe
theweather.
weather.YouYou won’t
won't get meme out
out ififit’s
it'sraining.
raining.
"They shouldn’t
“They shouldn't leave these
these packing
packing There
There is nono question
question of aa screen
screen test.
test. The
The film
film we
weshot
shotin inIreland
Ireland waswastheir
their
cases about,”
cases about," snarled
snarled Andrew and made made screen
screen test – thatshowed
test-that showedhow howthey
theyshap
shaped upin
ed up infront
frontof camera
camera and and it has
his personal
his personal bid
bidfor
for World Cup glory by by been selected
been selected as an entry for the the Mannheim
Mannheim Film Festival in in Germany
Germany in in
putting the
putting theoffending
offendingbox
boxout
outofof the
theoffice.
office. a few
few weeks’
weeks' time.”
time."
prettytelephonist
His pretty whitened under the
telephonist whitened Is there any chance
there any chancethatthatany
anyofofthe
theStones'
Stones’girls
girlswill
will appear
appearin inthe
thefilm?
film?
accompa nyi ng oaths
accompanying oath sbut
butstood
stood firm
firm until
unti IAndrew’s
Andrew'spartner
partner Tony
TonyCalder
Calder "None," laughed
“None,” laughed Andrew.
Andrew. “I’ve
"I've been
been through
through all that." He
all that.” He added,
added,"I'm“I’m
and
and chauffeur
chauffeurEddy
Eddyarrived
arrivedtototake
takehim
himaway.
away.InInthe
theRolls,
Rolls, Andrew
Andrew making anotherfilm
making another filmfor
forthem
themcalled
calledTheBeverley
The BeverleySisters
Sisters Story featuring
featuring
became
became more
more businesslike. Chrissie
Chris sieShrimpton, Linda Keith and
Shrimpton, Linda and Anita.”
Anita."
"I'm going to
“I’m to New
NewYork
Yorkand
andthen
thenchartering
chartering aaprivate
private plane
plane to The
The Stones go into into the
the recording
recording studio
studio this
this Sunday
Sunday to cut about
to cut about 20
Hollywood.
Hollywood. Allen and IIare
Allen Klein and arenegotiating
negotiating anan outlet
outlet for Immediate
Immediate numbers.
numbers.IsIsthere
thereanyanypos sibility that
possibility that the
the next willbe
next single will beanything
anything but
but
a Keith
Keith Richards-Mick
Richards -Mick
Jagger composition?
composition?
NEW MUSICAL: EXPRESS “We
"We have
have tracks
tracks like ‘My
'My
Girl’
Girl' and
and ‘I’ve
'I've Been Loving
You Too Long’
Long' already
alre ady in
thecan,
the can,butbutwhat
whatpoint
pointis
is

HAS: MUNI
therein
there in releasing
releasing thesethese
whenMick
when Mick and Keith write
and Keith write
more suitable
more suitable material
materialfor
thegroup?
the group?
“There are
"There are just
just no
no
composers who can
composers

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writefor
write for the Stones now
the Stones now
in their
in theirstyle.
style. Even
Evengood
good

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“Very nicely,”agreed
agreedMr
Mr Calder.
happened to Nico, another
Whatever happened another female
female
discoveryinAndrew's
discovery in Andrew’sagency?
agency?
“Ah,
"Ah, yes,
yes,I’m
I'mglad
glad IIwas
wasright
right about
about Nico,”
Nico," said
said
Andrew. "She's“She’s working
working for aa group group called
called the
Underground
Underground Movement Movementfor forabout
about£11,000
£11,000 for
eight days in
eight days in clubs
clubs like Hollywood’s
Hollywood's Trip." Trip.”
Having
Having pressed
pressed aa button
buttonto totalk
talktoto Eddy
Eddy to
logsilt1) RSErRII to,
inform
inform him himto to take
take the
the torn
tornsuitsuit to
to Lord John
John
for anan invisible
invisible repair,
repair, Andrew
Andrew took up a copy copy
of NME.
ofNME.
“I
"I think
think the cover with
the cover with BillyFury
Billy Furyon onisis divine,"
divine,”
CO. LTD. he said, “and
"and I love
lovethe thebit
bitabout
about Mike
MikeLeander’s
Leander's
backing. Billy wasaa raver before anyone
backing. Billywas anyone knew
knew
45 RPM what the word meant. meant. The The adverts
adverts for Jonathan
forJonathan
King’s
King's discdisc are
are very
very clever,”
clever,"he hecommented.
commented.
LES FLEUR II OZoio
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like his
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DE LYS
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Like AWoman"].
A Woman”]. JonathanJonathan andand
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I get onvery
verywell together –-II think
well together think it must
must be
because
because we we bbothoth went to public
public school
school or
something.
something. I'm I’mnotnotgoing
goingtotoseesee him
himnow.now. Scott
MOONOREAMS
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man]
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pop
pop world,”
world," declared
declared Andrew, noting noting their
their new
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chart position."He's
chart position. “He’sgotgotthis
thisdrama
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him that
that he must
these reports
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must get aafilm
fromthetheUS
filmcontract.
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contract.
about the
composers
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Murray can’tcan't Stones only
Stones only playing
playingto to11,000
11,000 in in New
NewYork York are
seem
seem to hit hit our
ourstyle
with one the other
with
– he came
style-he
other day about
came up up
about ‘chuff
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ridiculous -anyone
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– anyonewould
date was aa weekend
wouldthink
weekend booking
thinkthat
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thatwas
with
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playing in Piccadilly
and11,000 for
and
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for that
that isn’t
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bank holiday,

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Andrew
insulting,
Oldham is egotistical, talented,
insulting, outrageous
outrageous and
in spite of himself.
himself. He manages
manages the
talented,
and likeable almost
world’s
the world's
into
into a mansion
mansion built
Cromwell's brother.
Cromwell’s
builtby byOliver
brother. There
Oliver
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the Stones
for the number
number-two
company,
-two group,
company, produces
group, owns
producesdiscs,
owns his
discs,writes
own record
his own
writes songs,
record
songs,
number of interesting
a number
in his present
room,
room, on
interesting features
present home. In
on aa high
features
In the
shelf, are
high shelf,
the living
are a bevy of
their style"
in their style” sleevenotes
sleevenotes and
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in Oldham’s
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success when she incredulously
incredulously repeated
repeatedto to me
me over and and over againagain
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walls areare brown,
brown, the the sofa
sofa yellow
yellowand andthe
thesettee
setteeorange.
orange. during
during aa recent
recentinterview.
interview."And
“And he'she’s only 20 –- can can you
you imagine
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thepotential
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his recording duo. duo. Does
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triumphedAndrew. Andrew.
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other interests?
interests? Were the the recording
recording plans
plans for The Who Who
going ahead?
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negotiated," said said Andrew.
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involved and and itit depends
depends
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you see
see what
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Marianne still a prospective
prospective interest
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management?
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said
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to take
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GOOD DAYSUNSHINE: outstanding
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the
the best
the best of of the
the album. The Beatles’
Beatles' answer to to fry will frantically set is smothered.
smothered.
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almost spent.spent. Revolver
Revolver is
fine Lennon
fine Lennon lead.
lead. More like the
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confirmation of of this.
this.
usual Beatles.
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Ringo
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when the the time
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counterpoint with withthe
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reminded me me of thethe
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Chris Britton,
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80 HISTORY OF ROCK 1966

"Unbelievable. THE TROGGS have No is in the UK and
America. NME joins them promoting their
wares and in the studio to record the
follow-up. "It's a bit saucy, isn't it," says
Reg Presley. "But I don't think there's
any question of it being banned..."

NMEAUG6.
LAST WEEK THE Troggs were in the enviable position of
being No 1 in England with "With A Girl Like You" and No 1
in America with "Wild Thing"! Their success is all the more
remarkable if you consider the competition they have had to
beat off for the top. "Wild Thing" fought a neck -and -neck
battle in the NME Chart with The Rolling Stones' "Paint It,
Black" and they only just lost out to the world's No 2 group. In America they
have opposed the Stones' highly commercial "Mother's Little Helper" and
this time the honours have gone to The Troggs!
"WithA Girl Like You" was released at the same time as The Walker Brothers'
much -heralded follow-up to their No 1 "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore"
- chart positions speak for themselves as to what happened in that battle. This
week the group have had to withstand the mighty challenge of The Beatles.
The Troggs have had what a lot of people consider to be "instant success", but
it's well worth remembering that they have had to overcome stiff competition
on the way.
I found the four slightly frayed fringes that are at present The Troggs down
at Ready, Steady, Go!last Friday, still reeling from travels up and down the
country. They have just completed an Irish tour, a string of dates up North,
TV, radio and personal appearances in endless succession and had flown
down from Manchester for the show that morning. After the show they had
to flyback again.
"We're dead! But dead happy!" cried bass player Pete Staples when I met
him in the studio. "We've been working so hard that there has been no time
to stop and think ofwhat we have achieved. Every now and again it hits
you that we've made the top, but to me it seems like a dream-like it was
happening to someone else."
RSG last week seemed to revolve around the Troggs, like a Disney
fantasy. There was Chris Farlowe in his capacity as amateur photographer
extraordinaire- clicking his newly acquired camera at anything that moved,

HISTORY OF ROCK 1966 Si

 J U L Y – S E P T EM B E R

hopping
hopping about aboutlike likeaa locust
locuston onaa live wire as he he did
did so.so.KimKimFowley
Fowleywas was
rehearsing "They're
rehearsing “They’reComing ComingTo To Take Me Away, Away,Ha-Haaa!”
Ha-Haaa!"(the (thecomposer
composer
must
must have known known about him) rolling
about him) rolling over and and over on on the
the floor
floor ininhis
his
Superman T-shirt which
Superman which exposed
exposed his hisabdomen
abdomen for forgeneral
generalinspection.
inspection.
There was
There was also
also aalithesome
lithesome young young dancer
dancer wearing
wearing a mini mini T-shirt
emblazoned with
emblazoned with"Jesus
“Jesus Saves"
Saves” (John(John Lennon
Lennon protects
protects us)!
We made made for forthe
thecanteen.
canteen. “We "We mademade our our first
first plane
plane flight last week,” week,"saidsaid
Pete. “Reg
Pete. "Regwas wasfrightened
frightenedto todeath
deathand andRonnie
Ronniewas wasgripping
grippingthe therail
railon
onthethe
airport bus
airport busso so hard
hardthat thatthethewhites
whitesof ofhis
hisknuckles
knucklesshowed. showed.But Butwe we got to
Ireland
Ireland OK! OK! We Weplayed
playedone onedate
datein inBelfast
Belfastwhichwhichwas wasunbelievable.
unbelievable. Reg Regwaswas
struggling with about
struggling about threethree birds
birds whowho looked as as ififthey
theywere tryingto
were trying topush
push
the
the hand-mic
hand-mic up up his
his nose!
nose! Then
Then somesome Irish navvy came came on and and picked up
Chris
Chris under
under his armpits
armpits while while he he was playing, and and threw
threw him him off stage
stage into
into
the audience!
the audience! Meanwhile
Meanwhile another another guy guylooned
looned on on andand tried
tried to shake
shake hands
hands
with Ronnie.
with Ronnie.Ab Aboutout three
three bouncers
bouncers got got hold
hold of him him and and propelled
propelled him him off
stage
stage through
through the the air like aahumanhuman torpedo.
torpedo. The crowd crowd parted
parted as he hecame
came
down and
down and he hit hit the
thefloor
floorwith
with an an almighty
almightywhack. whack.He's He’s in hospital
hospital now.”
now."
As aabachelor
bachelor guy, guy, Pete
Pete had
had aa few
fewwarm
warm wordswords to say
about the cordiality
about cordiality of NorthernNorthern girls. “It’s "It'strue
truewhat
what
they say
they say about
about girls up up North
North being more more friendly,”
friendly,"
said Pete.
said Pete. “They
"Theyseem seemto tohave
haveaanatural,
natural,moremorerelaxed
relaxed
manner.
manner. That's That’swhy whyIIgo go for girls like Cilla
Cilla Black.
Black.She’s She's
so natural.
so natural. That's
That’s someone
someoneI'd I’d really
really like to to meet.”
meet."
Pete is isthe
themostmostunderestimated
underestimated Trogg Trogg in the the group.
group.
Apart
Apart fromfrom being
being a good vocalist
vocalist himself,
himself, his his heavy,
heavy,
uncompromising
uncompromising bass patterns are
bass patterns distinguishing
are a distinguishing
feature
featureof Troggs' sound.
of The Troggs’ sound. "The bass I use
“The bass use is isabout
about
four years old,"
four years admits. "I
old,” he admits. bought itit for £98 and
“I bought and
only finished
only finished paying
paying for it about about a month
month ago. The
other boys have been
other been on on at me to to change
change it now, now,but but
let’s face
let's face it:
it: it gets the soundwe
the sound wewant.
want.I'llI’llget
getaasixsix--
string when
string when I can can grow
growanother
another two fingers!”
fingers!"
Atthis
At thispoint
point we wewerewerejoined
joinedby byReg
Reg and andmanager
manager
Larry
Larry Page. I asked asked Reg Regififhe hehad
hadthethenext
nextsingle
singlein inmind
mind and and he revealed
revealed “They
"They haven’t
haven't realised
realised yet that
that millions
millions of people
people are
are watching
watching them
them
to me the the first
first two
two lines
lines of a newnew opusopus he he has
has penned
penned about aboutaagirl girlin
inlow
low-- whentheyget
when they getininfront
frontofofthe
thecamera,"
camera,”said
saidLarry.
Larry."You
“Youcan't
can’tever
everforget
forgetit,
it,
slung hipsters. It should
slung hipsters. should get them them banned
bannedwith withno notrouble
troubleatatall! all! and even ifyou
and even if you are
are tired,
tired,you
you daren't
daren’tlook
lookit."
it.”
"Bitnear
“Bit near the
the knuckle,
knuckle, isn’tisn't it,”
it," said
said Reg,
Reg,grinning
grinning like likeaaschoolboy
schoolboywho who Prior to
Prior to RSG there was general
RSGthere pep talk
general pep talk all
all round andbefore
round and beforegoing
goingout
out
has
has just
just been
beenpresented
presentedwith withLady
LadyChatterley's
Chatterley’sLover Loveras asthe
theend -of -term
end-of-term Larry
Larry picked hold of Reg
picked hold Regby byhis
hisjacket
jacketlapels
lapelsandandsaid
saidpleasantly,
pleasantly, “Right,
"Right,
prize. Drummer Ronnie
prize. Drummer RonnieBond Bond pulled
pulled up up a chair and and regaled
regaled us with with you basket
you – nowgo
basket-now goout
outthere
thereand
andififyou
you don’t
don't give aagood
goodperformance
performance
a story
story of ofhow
howhe herang
rangLarry
LarryPage
Page at athome
homefrom fromOldham
Oldhamat at1am
lam inin the
the I'll murder
I’ll murderyou."
you.”
morning.
morning.Apparently
Apparentlyitit was was anan exercise
exercise in brevity because because RonnieRonnie had had Reg looked
looked up up at
at his
hisburly
burlymanager,
manager, fixed him him with a beautiful smile,
beautiful smile,
only got threethree thruppenny
thruppennybits bitsandandthethecall
callwaswasSTD.STD. Larry stumbled stumbled to to said
said simply, “Noice
"Noice toto’ave
'aveyou
youback,
back,Larree!”
Larree!"andandambled
ambled off
offhappily to
happilyto
the phone in the darkness
the phone darkness of his hishall
hall-he
– hehas has just bought aanew
just bought new house
house and and give his best.KeithAltham
his best. Keith Altham
could
could not not locate
locate thethelight
light switch.A
switch. Abreathle
breathless ss Ronnie
Ronniegabbled:gabbled:"Larry,
“Larry,
don't
don’t say anything.
anything. I've I’ve only got gotthreepenny…”
threepenny..." and and the the pips
pips went. The
phone
phonerang rangagainagainand andRonnie
Ronniegot gotasas far as “Quick,
"Quick,write writethisthis number
number -— NMESEPTEMBER
NME SEPTEMBER 9 9—-
down"
down” and and thethe pips went again. HOSE ASTONISHING TROGGS TROGGShave havedone
done itit again!
again! AtAtthethe little

T
HOSE little
"Get the
“Get the picture?”
picture?" asked Larry. Larry.“It’s
"It's1amlam in inthe
themorning,
morning, in in aapitch-dark
pitch-dark Olympic Studios,
Studios, concealed
concealed in inaa small
smallmews
mewsoff off Baker Street,
Street,
hall and there's
hall and there’saa maniac
maniacon onthetheline
lineasking
askingme me to to write number down.
write a number down. during an
during an incredible
incrediblesession,
session, Larry
Larry Page and his happy happy band band of
Finally, of course,
course, we wegotgotthethecharges
charges reversed
reversed but there there was hysterical
was a hysterical Andoverians
Andoverians produced
producedaa single which can’t can't be anything
anything but a red-hotred-hot
scene
scene for a momentmoment with with me me screaming,
screaming,'Who ‘Whoisisit? it?’' And
And Ronnie
Ronnie shouting,
shouting, certainty for the
certainty for theNMETop
NME Top 10 –- and and a potential
potential No No 1. This
This new
new piece
piece of of
`Don't
‘Don’t say aaword.’”word.- “Trogglodynamite”isis titled
"Trogglodynamite" titled"I“I Can't
Can’t Control
Control
incidentally, was
The call, incidentally, order to get
was in order Myself"
Myself” andand composed
composed by that that master
master of the the
permission
permissionfor
carnival
carnival in
It's more noticeable
It’s more
for the
the group

noticeable with
group to appear
Oldham. Permission
in Oldham.
with this
appear at
Permission was granted.
this group
group than
charity
at a charity
granted.
than any any
"Every now
“Every jungle-jangle
jungle -jangle-–Trogg
openswith
opens
from Reg
withaa nerve
Regand
TroggRegRegPresley.
nerve-shattering
and explodes
Presley. The
-shattering cry
explodes into
cryof
intoaagreat
The single
of "Oh
single
“Oh no!”
greatthumping
thumping
no!"

other
other that
their
that they
their manager
theyhave
managerand
have complete
andnever
complete confidence
nevermake
confidence in
makeaa move without without
and
and again
again it beat, accompanied
accompanied by thundering
He winds up sounding
winds up soundinglike
thundering percussion.
likeStevie
percussion.
Stevie Winwood!
Winwood!
consulting
consultingthe
Larry has produced
their
theirhit hitLP
theoffice.

LPFrom
office. When you consider
produced their
FromNowhere
their last
NowhereThe TheTroggs
consider that
last two singles and
Troggs (No 6 this
that
and
this
hits you that "Troggmaker"
“Troggmaker” Larry Page (manager,
producer, agent
producer,
flip-sides)
flip
agent and
-sides) could
and composer
could not
not have
(manager, record
composerof
record
of prolific
wishedfor
have wished for a more
more
week
week in
faith
in the
the NMELP
faith well founded.
NME LP Chart), Chart), it would
founded. Their manager
would appear
manager was
appear
was notnot over-
we've made
we’ve sensationalmissile
sensational
newly formed
missilewith
withwhich
whichto to launch
launchhis
label, Page One Records, which
formed label,
his

enthusiastic
enthusiasticabout about his group's performance
his group’s performance on issues the
issues the disc
disc on
on September
September 30, 30, but how does does
Top Of OfThe ThePopsPopsthatthatThursday
Thursdayand and they
theywerewere the
the top"
top” he feel about
he about a clash
clash with The Walker Brothers Brothers
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genuinelybrought
genuinely brought down. down. or The Rolling Stones single? "I've
Stones single? “I’ve stopped
stopped
worrying,”Larry
worrying," Larrydeclares.
declares."Now“NowIIlet let
them worry
them worry about
aboutus!"
us!”
HE ASTONISHING TROGGS Reg Presley
Presleyisis proud
proudof of his
his latest
latest opus
opus
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mars at Dakar
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instrument
instrumentcases,
cases,screens
screens and
and assorted
assorted musical stands. Chris
musical stands.
was reading
was reading aa fan
fan letter
letter with
with a cigarette droopingfrom
cigarette drooping fromhishislips.
lips.
Ronnie sat
Ronnie sat in
in splendid isolationssome
splendid isolation ome yards
yard saway with huge
awaywith huge
earphones clamped
earphones clampedoveroverhis
hishead,
head,making
makinghim himlook
looklike
like a
grounded
groundedpilot.
pilot.Pete plonkin' discontentedly
Pete was plonkin’ discontentedly at at a double
bass and
bass and Keith sawed enthusiastically
enthusiastically atataa guitar withaabow,
guitarwith bow,
producing
producingaa sound
soundlike
like Mrs Miller in
interrible
terriblepain.
pain. Road
Roadmanager
manager
Hal Carter,
Hal Carter, who had
had been pullingfaces
been pulling faces at
at Reg from
from the
the control
control
room,was
room, was removed
removedfrom fromthethewindow
windowby byaafew
few well-chosen
well-chosenPage Page
words, and
and then,
then, switching
switching through
throughto to the
the studio,
studio, Larry spoke:
“Right,
"Right, Pete,
Pete, when
when you’ve
you've finished
finishe d your
your solo
solowe’ll
we'llbegin
beginagain.”
again."
In a small
small coffee
coffee bar
bar after
after the
the session,
session, Reg Regtoldtoldmemethatthatthey had
theyhad
completed the
completed the single
single in under two
in just under two hours.
hours. They had had fully
intendedto
intended todevote
devotethe thewhole
whole six hours
hours to the the one
one record
record but but
thingshad
things hadgone
goneso sowell
well that
thatanother
anothertrack,
track,"You“YouCan't
Can’tBeatBeatIt",
It”,
was also made.
made. The The group
group hadhad just
justreturned
returned from their their first
first
trip abroad
trip abroadand andwere
werefullfullof
of tales aboutGermany.
tales about Germany.Reg Reg was
particularly
particularlyimpressed
impressedbythe by theGerman
GermanTVproducer
TV producer who had
come out to to meet
meet their
their plane
plane at thethe airport.
airport. "The plane was three
“The plane three
hourslate
hours lateand
andhe hewas
wasstill
stillthere
thereto tomeet
meetus," us,”said
saidReg.
Reg. "Now
“Now that’s
that's
something
something we really appreciated.”
appreciated."
Reg apparently
apparently covered
covered himself
himselfin in glory by mimingmiming most most of
his wants
his wants ("the
(“theonlyword
only wordin inGerman
GermanIIknow knowis is gracias!”)
gracias!") and and
his mime
his mime of aachicken
chickenin inaaHamburg
Hamburgrestaurant
restaurant should
should win an
Oscar. “Breast
"Breast or or leg,
leg,matey?”
matey?"asked askedthe the waiter,
waiter, who
whohad had been
been
five years
years inin the
the British
British merchant
merchant navy.
Ronnie was
Ronnie was full
full of aa story
story about
about a little
little old
old lady who kept
ladywho kept
beatinghim
beating himto toajukeb
a jukebox in aa German
ox in German club. club."Every
“Every timetime I went
went
Troggsperform
The Troggs perform up and
up andshoved
shovedaaD Deutschmark
euts chmark in in the
the boxbox she’d elbow her
she'd elbow her way
on Top
Top Of
Of The
The Pops
Pops in
in
1966, when the
1966,when the show
past me
past me and shoved down
and shoved down the the tab
tab –-sosoinstead
insteadof of The
The Beatles
was still being
wasstill being filmed
filmed in I got ‘Lilli
`LilliMarlene’!”
Marlene'!"
Rusholme, Manchester
Manchester We got
gotback
backto tothe
thestudios
studios just in time
time to to see Keith GrantGrant
ejecting
ejecting two tramps
tramps from from thethe garage at the the side
side
“We spent
"We spent threethree days
days at an an old
old house
house just
just outside
outside of
ofthe
thestudio.
studio. One
OneSteptoe-like
Steptoe-like individual
individual was
Andover to
into the studio.
torehearse
rehearse the
studio. ItItsounded
the number
number before coming
soundedpromising
promisingthen
coming
then-but
– but "People tend
“People tend pushingaa pram
pushing
even
even aasettee
prampiled
setteeand
piled high
andmumbling
high with
with chairs,
chairs, rugs
mumbling protestingly:
rugs and
protestingly: “I’m
and
"I'm
it sounds
sounds betterbetternow. now.II got
got the basisfor
the basis for the
the lyric
lyric going back to toRussia
Russia-that's
– that’swhat
whatI'mI’mdoing."
doing.”
aboutthree
about threeweeks
from there. It’s
weeksago:
It's aabit
ago:Larry
bitsaucy
Larryand andIIworked
– but I don’t
saucy-but
workeditit up
don'tthink
think
up to overlook The Troggs
with
with him
Troggsstopped
him over the
stopped and and had a long
the appalling
appalling political
longdiscussion
discussion
political situation
situation
there's
there’s any
The Troggs in
unbelievableas
unbelievable
question of
any question
insession
asThe
session are
TheTroggs
being banned!”
of it being
are almost
Troggs out
banned!"
almost as
out of session.
session. Larry
that there are
that -nice
– niceboys!Apostscript
later
boys! A postscriptto
later in the evening
Reg saying
evening Larry
saying that
that several
tothis
this episode
Larryreceived
several items
episode is that
receivedaacall
items of clothing
clothing had
that
call from
from
had
Page conducts
informal
conducts the
informal atmosphere
thewhole
atmospherewith
wholeshow showin in aa friendly,
with just the right
friendly,
right amount
amount
three
only three been stolen
been stolen from
preferred the
preferred
from their
the theory
theirvan
theorythat
van inin Piccadilly. Larry
thatitit might
might have
have been
been
of discipline.
discipline. During
a tambourine
tambourine against
cameto
came
During a take, with Reg
againsthis
to aa full stop.
stop.
his thigh,
Regthrashing
thrashing
thigh, they suddenly
suddenly instruments"
instruments” the
had
man on
the man
had a good
at
at the
on the run
good laugh
the papers
run –-Harry
laugh about
papers the
HarryRoberts.
about this
the following
Roberts.Everyone
this until
followingmorning
until they
theylooked
morning and
looked
and saw
“What’s
"What's wrong, wrong, Reg,”Reg,"asked
askedLarry
Larryviavia thethe that
that Roberts
Roberts had had been
been seenseen in the vicinity of
in the
intercom
intercomin inthe
thecontrol
controlbox.box. "I'm
“I’m in terrible
terrible pain
pain here,"
here,” moaned
moanedReg. "I've
Reg. “I’ve that same
Piccadilly that same night.
night. The police
police have
have investigated
investigated the the matter.
matter.
been
been bouncing
bouncingthis thistambourine
tambourineon onmy mythigh
thighevery
everynight
nightfor
forthe
thepast
pastweek
week KeithAltham
Keith Altham
and it's aamass
and it’s mass of ofbruises."
bruises.”
“Well,
"Well,find findan anunbruised
unbruised bit," bit,” advised
advised Larry and and sang
sang a few
fewconciliatory
conciliatory
bars of “They’re
bars "They're ComingComing To Take TakeMe Away, Ha-Haaa”,
MeAway, Ha-Haaa",underunderhis
hisbreath.
breath.
— MELODYMAKER
- MELODY MAKER OCTOBER
OCTOBER 1515—-
Perhaps
Perhaps the the most
most incredible aspectof
incredible aspect of “Troggophony”
"Troggophony" is that that the
the sound
sound HETROGGS
TROGGSSINGLESINGLE"I “ICan't
Can’tControl
Control Myself” – currently
currentlyNo No88in

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THE MyseMyself"- in
is produced
produced by byonly
onlythree
threeinstruments
instruments–-guitar, guitar,bass
bassandanddrums
drums-and
– and the MMPop
the MM Pop 50 –- has been been totally
totally banned
bannedin inAustralia.
Australia.AA spokes-
spokes-
comes out
comes out sounding
soundinglike likeaamultiple
multipleof of 100 massed beatbands.
massed beat bands.At At one
one man for the
man the group
group told
told the
the MM on on Monday:
Monday: “The "The banban has
has been
been
point during
point duringthe thetaketakeon onthe
thesingle,
single,Larry
Larry and andKeith
Keith were forcing so somuch
much imposed by
imposed the Broadcasting
by the BroadcastingControl
ControlBoardBoard inin Australia
Australia and and applies
applies toto
energy through
through a compressor
compressor connected
connected to to Ronnie Bond's drum
Ronnie Bond’s drum thatthat it both sales
both sales and
and all the radio
all the radio stations
stationsthere.
there.The
Theofficial
official reason
reason for the the
went up
went up in smoke
smoke and and electricians
electricians had hadto to be
be called
called toto replace
replace it. ban is Reg Presley’s
ban Presley's lyrics.
lyrics. Reg
Regisisupset
upsetthat
thatthey
they should
should take
take the
the lyrics
lyrics
“People
"People tend tend to to overlook
overlookthere thereare areonly
onlythree
threeinstruments
instruments in in the
the the wrong way.
the way.WeWeare areparticularly
particularlydisappointed
disappointed because
because the the record
group,” Chris
group," Britton told
Chris Britton told me.
me. “That’s
"That's oneone reason
reasonwhy why our
our music
musicis is so most of the
was in most the charts
charts before
before the
the ban."
ban.” The
The group
group signed
signedfor three-
for a three-
uncomplicated,of
uncomplicated, ofcourse.
course.You You can’t
can't do a lot lotof
oftechnical
technicalvariations
variations with tour of
week tour ofAustralia
Australia and
andNew
New Zealand
Zealandand andthe
theFarFarEast
Eastlast
lastFriday.
Friday.
just the
just the three
three of us.” us." Meanwhile,
Meanwhile, in the the studio
studio we werewere The tour, which will take take the
the group
group to Australia
Australia for
being treated
treated to anotheranother dialogue between sound two weeks, will take take place
place in in February.
February.
engineerKeith
engineer KeithGrantGrantand andReg.Reg. Ifno
If reason for
no official reason forthe
thebanbancan
can bebeobtained
obtained
Keith: What are are you
youdoing
doingwith withthethetambourine?
tambourine? from Australia
Australia through AustraliaHouse
throughAustralia House in in London,
Reg: I’mI'm doing
doing me Phil Spector,Spector, aren’t
aren't I? manager LarryPage,
manager Larry Page, at
at present
presentin inAmerica,
America,will will fly
Keith:
Keith: Well, don’t don't dodo it soso near
near the mic; itit kills it.
the mic; on to Sydney to to try
try and
and get the
the ban lifted. There
ban lifted. Therewill
will
Reg: (slapping
(slapping the tambourine
tambourine on onhis
his shin)
shin) Right,
Right, probably
probablynot notbebeanother
anotherTroggs
Troggssingle
single this
this year
year but
I’ll kill itit down
I'll down here.here. the group
the group are
are hoping
hoping to release a new album
to release album at
There
There was aa few fewminutes
minutes breakbreak between
b etween numbers
numbers Christmas.
Christmas. Reg Reg Presley is isspending
spending timetime on the
and I looked down
and down from the viewing window window into into present tourwith
present tour withTheThe Walker Brothers writing writing
the
the vast recording
recording studio studiobelow, piled high with material for the
material the LP.
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can't
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that’
trouble.”
trouble."
THE BEATLES
THE BEATLEPflyflytotoAmerica,
America,and
andinto
intothe
the“bigger
"bigger
than Jesus"
than Jesus”controversy.
controversy.MELODY
MELODYMAKER
MAKER has
has aa man
man
on
on the
the ground,
ground, and
and one
one (pirate DJ Kenny
(pirate DJ Kenny Everett)
Everett)
phoning
phoning from inside the
from inside the band’s
band's camp.
camp. Brian Epstein
Brian Epstein
holds
holds aa strong line, while
strong line, while John
John Lennon
Lennon isis apologetic
apologetic
but
but bemused:
bemused:“The"Thewhole
wholething
thinggets
getstwisted…”
twisted..."

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explained late
way, The

late on
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Beatles refuse
summoned press conference,
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conference,
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to 25,000
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was right
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right in
in the
the middle
about halfway through
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stadium, which rather like the
middle with grass all round
through the the concert
concert they
the Shea Stadium.
round for about
they went
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about 400
into “Day
went into "Day
Lennon's quotes regarding
Lennon’s quotes regarding Christianity
Christianityand andthe thefact
fact that
thatThe
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trailer behind
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the the stage as 2,000
the 2,000fans fansbroke
brokethrough
through andand headed
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towards them.them.
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magazineDate DateBook.
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thebus
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radiostation
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hesaid
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the fans to go back and and stop actingsilly
stop acting silly or
or The Beatles
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would go back to
had OK'dby
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telephoneon onFriday
Fridayafternoon,
afternoon,EpsteinEpsteinasserted
asserted that
that Lennon
Lennon their hotel and
their and finish
finish the
the concert
concert there
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andthen.
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fans went
went back and and
was “very
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the American
American public’s
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misunderstanding of of it was
was quiet
quiet until
until the
the end when The
end when The Beatles'
Beatles’ car
car was
was onon the
the way out.
remarks
remarks made made"three
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monthsago" ago”totoreporter
reporterMaureen
MaureenCleave,
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Hundreds them broke
of them broke out again and and dashed
dashed for the car. The Thepolicemen
policemen
writing a series of articles
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forthe
theLondon
LondonEvening Standard.
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themselves on car-it
on the car – itlooked
lookedjust
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The quotes
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attributed to toLennon,
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his Kennedy assassination
assassination all all over again.
again.
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after the
the rush
rush for
had declined
had declinedso so much
much in in England”.
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continued, "is “is the stage the kids wouldn’t
the wouldn't do ititagainagainduring
during thethe show.
show.Incidentally
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deeply concerned about aboutthe thepublication
publicationofofhis hisremarks
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duty at
atthe
thestadium
stadium were were volunteers,
volunteers, so sothey
they
America and and regrets
regrets any people with
any offence to people with certain
certain religious beliefs”.
beliefs". must have been
must have beenBe Beatle
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thecriticism,
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southern Boston, which is supposed
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screaming fansfans at the airport
airport as as there
there is
in influence.
influence. Radio stations stations in twotwo cities
cities–-Birmingham,
Birmingham, Alabama Alabama and and anywhere else.
anywhere else.
Memphis, Tennessee
Tennessee-were – werecredited
creditedwith with having started
started the so-called Another
Another place that sticks
place that sticks in
anti-Beatlemovement.At
anti-Beatle movement. Atthe thelatest
latestcount,
count,on onFriday,
Friday,aatotal
totalof
of 22 radio
radio the
the memory
memory is is Chicago.
Chicago. It'sIt’s just
stations,
stations,in in a nation
nation where there are
where there are about
about4,000 operating
operating stations,
stations,were
were got to
to be
be the
the largest
largest city in in the
the
known to
known to have thrown
thrown in in their
their lot with the anti-Beatle
anti-Beatle forces. world.
world. When
When you you fly in, itit seems
seems
One facet
facet ofofthe
thedevelopments
developments which which escaped
escaped the the attention
attention of most of of to stretch
stretch from horizon
horizon to
the press
the press waswas the
the fact that when The
that when The Beatles had planned planned aasecret
secretvisit
visit to horizon. There
horizon. capacity
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Memphisearlier
Memphis earlierthisthisyear
yearto to record
recordthere,
there,aa radio
radiostation
stationgot
gotwind
windof of the
the crowds
crowds at the the shows there,
there, but
plan and
plan and exposed
exposeditit to the the public.
public. So
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franticwaswasthe thefurore
furorecreated
createdby the
bythe no
no incidents.
incidents. KennyEverett
Kenny Everett
news reports
news thatEpstein
reports that Epsteincancelled
cancelledthe thevisit
visitand
andtook
tookaadimdimview
viewof thethe
station’saction
station's actionas aswell.
well. Some observers
observers believe
believe thisthis was one way Memphis
Memphis ASHINGTON, DC,

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WASHINGTON,
radio took to obtain
radio obtain revenge againstagainst thethe Beatles establishment.
establishment. In Inhis
his TUESDAY. The The
statement
statementto to the
the press,
press, Epstein said that, that, in
in his
hiswide-ranging
wide-ranging telephone
telephone group
group onon stage
calls to Beatles’
Beatles'concert
concert promoters,
promoters, nonenone seemed
seemed anxious
anxious to cancel
cancel thethe before The Beatles was Cyrkle
before
dates. He added:
dates. added: "If “If any promoterwants
anypromoter wantsto tocancel,
cancel,IIwould
wouldnot not stand
standin inhis
his –- Brian Epstein’s
Epstein's American
American
way."
way.” He Headded
addedthat thatthe
theMemphis
Memphis concert
concert promoters
promoters experienced
experienced aa bigger group that
group that had
had the
the big hit with
surge of ticket
surge ticket sales
sales yesterday,
yesterday,afterafter news
newsof ofthethequotes
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onanyany "Red Rubber
“Red Rubber Ball”.
Ball". Somebody
Somebody
other day
other day since
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the tickets first went
went on sale. The The initial
initial date
date on
on the
the tour
tour in
in must have
must the kids
have given all the
Chicagoon
Chicago onFriday
Fridayisisalready
alreadysold
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out.Ren
RenGrevatt
Grevatt rubber balls
rubber publicity stunt
balls as a publicity stunt

HISTORY OF
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ROCK 1966
1966
1965
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August 23, 1966: The Beatles

23,1966:The Beatles
leave the
the Warwick
Warwick H Hotel
otel on
W 54th Street, NewYork
W54thStreet,New Yorkand
and
head to Shea Stadium; (below)
toSheaStadium; (below)
manager Brian
BrianEpstein
Epsteintries to
triesto
defuse the controversy atNYC's
defusethecontroversyat NYC’s
Americana
Americana Hotel on August
Hotel on August 6

-– but
but they
they saved
saved themthemfor forThe
The Beatles. When the
Beatles. When the boys came on stagestage having
having lunch when Paul
lunch when Paul wandered
wanderedby. by. I waved
waved aagreeting with aa knife and
greetingwith and
theywere
they were showered
showered with with all these
these small redred rubber
rubber balls
balls –-the
the sort that
sort that sat down
he sat down beside
beside me.
me.The TheWashington
Washingtonconcert
concert took
tookplace
placein
inanother
another
are supposed to
are supposed to bounce
bounceas ashigh
highasas aa house-
house –asaswell
wellas
as jelly babies.
babies. huge stadium before about
stadium before about 30,000 fansfans and
and ititseemed
seemedalmost
almost asasmany
many
Lennon's much-publicised
John Lennon’s much -publicisedremarksremarkshaven’t
haven'tcaused
caused anyanyincidents
incidents policemen. The
policemen. The Beatles separated from
Beatles were separated fromthe thecrescent
crescentofoffans
fansbyby a
so far. When
When wewegot gotto toChicago
Chicagothere
therewaswasaapress
pressconference
conference with
with large expanse
expanse of field
fieldpatrolled
patrolled by vigilant police.
byvigilant police. So the
the expected riots
expected riots
everybodyfrom
everybody fromthe theradio
radiostations
stationsand
andnewspapers
newspapersthere.
there.John
Johnisisvery
verysad
sad happened.
never happened.
about
about the thing and
the whole thing and he explained
explained what
what hehemeant
meant and
and everybody
everybody Only oneone make
make fan
fan made
made ititthrough
through the police cordon.
cordon. He was
was dressed
dressed
seemed
seemedsatisfied.
satisfied.He He is certainly
certainly not
not anti -religion or anything
anti-religion anything like that.
like that. in a suit
suit and
and had
had long hair
hair and
and the cops mistook
the cops mistookhim himfor
for a member
member of of a
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One effect allisisthat
thatwe
wehave
haveseen
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posters and
and placards
placards saying:
saying:"We“We supporting group.As
supporting group. As far
far as
as we can
can see the
the much publicised"Ban
much publicised “BanTheThe
Love John
John Lennon
LennonAnd AndGod!"
God!” movement" has
Beatles movement” hasfizzled
fizzled out.
out. There
There have been no
have been incidents close
no incidents close to
to
Another unexpected thing-people
Another unexpected thing – peopleoutside
outsidethe
theshows
showsselling
selling badges The Beatles,
Beatles, although
although the the Ku Klux
KluxKlan
Klanapparently
apparentlyheldheldaademonstration
demonstration
with"I
with “I Love Paul”,
Paul", “I"I Love
LoveRingo”,
Ringo",“I "ILove
LoveGeorge”
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LoveJohn”
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saythe
the in another state.It
another state. It seems thatthe
seems that thekids
kids are
are saying:
saying: "So,
“So, John
John Lennon
Lennon said
said
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onesareareoutselling
outsellingthe theothers
others 10
10to toone.
one.Another surprising
Another surprising it, so
so what?”
what?" As
Asfar
farasasI Ican
cansee,
see,The
TheBeatles
Beatlesstill
stillhave
haveasasmany American
manyAmerican
incident
incidenthappened
happenedafter afterthe
theDetroit
Detroitshows.As
shows. Assoon
soonas aswewegot from
got away from fans
fans asas before
before-if
– ifnot
notmore.
more.KennyEverett
Kenny Everett
the
the stadium
stadiumwe wepulled
pulledup upatataa little Beatles just
little cafe. The Beatles just stood
stood about
about on the
the
side ofofthe
theroad
roadeating
eatinghamburgers
hamburgers while while everybody
everybodywalked
walked pastpast without
without WASHINGTON,
ASHINGTON, TUESDAY: TUESDAY: THE
THE Beatles'entourage
Beatles’ entouragearrived
arrived
recognising
recognising them.
had
had suddenly
feelsorry
I feel
them. I couldn’t
suddenlyrealised
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couldn't help
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help wondering
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insome
wondering what
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were just standing
someways.
ways.They
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happen if they
would happen
standing right there.
right there.
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trapped in their
they

their hotels
hotels
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an
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in Cleveland which some
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in the
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following

east side.
and
and can't
can’tgo out. We
go out. Weget getinto
intothethehotel
hotelusually
usuallyaround
around 3am3am andand from thenthen Performing for an
Performing an audience
audience of of 25,000 in in the
the giant
giant 30,000-seat
30,000 -seatstadium
stadium
until
until the
the concert
concertat at 5pm the next afternoon
5pm the afternoon they
theyhave
have to stay indoors.
indoors. shores of Lake
on the shores LakeErie,
Erie,the
thegroup
groupbarely
barelygotgotinto
intoits
itsthird
thirdnumber
number
Every hotel
hotel has
has been
been completely
completely surrounded
surrounde d by fansfans with
with radio
radio sets,
sets, when
whenfans
fansrushed
rushedthe thestage.
stage.More
Morethan
than1,000 pushed and shoved
1,000 fans pushed
banners
bannersand andallallthat
thatjazz.
jazz.Theyjust
They justscream
screamallallday.
day.Even
Even if The Beatles
Beatles their
their way toward
toward the the five
five-foot-high
-foot -highstage
stageandandthe
theconcert
concert waswashalted,
halted,
wanted
wantedto, theywould
to, they wouldnot notbebe allowed
allowed out the security
out by the security men. They Theyjust
just with The
with The Beatles racing to aa nearby nearby trailer
trailer for protection.
protection.
have to sit sitaround
around inside
inside all the
the time. Following 33 -minutedelay,
Following a 33-minute delay,the
theconcert
concertwaswascontinued,
continued, with the
"Tell Lyndon
“Tell Lyndon we’ll
we'll be
belate
latefor
fortea.”
tea."That
Thatwas
wasJohn
JohnLennon’s
Lennon's laconic
laconic number drowned
closing number drownedout outinin the
the bedlam
bedlamof another rush
of another rushon onstage.
stage.
comment
commentmade madeas as the
the whole Beatles
Beatlesparty
partywere hanging around
were kept hanging around In the
In the ensuing
ensuingexcitement
excitementthe thechauffeur
chauffeurofofoneoneofofthe
theCadillac
Cadillac
waiting
waiting for a planeplane inin Washington
Washington at Cleveland
Cleveland airport
airport yesterday.
yesterday. There
There limousines
limousinesawaiting
awaitingthe thegroup
groupsmashed
smashedthe theside
sideof
ofthe
thecar
car against
against
was little to do but sit and
was little and wait.
wait. a wall.
wall. ItItwas
wasaafranctic
francticscene
scenehighlighted
highlighted by bygeneral
generalconfusion
confusion andand
On thethe planes
planes from
from date
date to date everything
everything is informal. The
is informal. The Beatles
Beatles security
security forces that that were woefully
woefully inadequate.
inadequate. Finally the group
don't
don’tlikelike flying
flying but
but they
theyhave
haveto,to, so they do
so they with good grace.
do it with grace. The
The flight
flight managed
managedto toget
getout
outof the stadium
stadium area
areaand
andback
backtototheir
theirhotels,
hotels,where
where
from Cleveland
from Clevelandto toWashington
Washingtonwas wasspent
spentrelAY
relaxinging and
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night playing Bob Dylan’s
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brand-new
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album, Blonde On Blonde.
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Chicago thethe group
group played to two two sell-out
sell-out houses
houses
at the giant
giant international
international amphitheatre
amphitheatre indoor
indoor stadium.
stadium. The
Windy City visit produced
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SURELYJOHN LENNONwas was
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firm minds.”
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topping the
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religious saviour. This ban
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Beatle that
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Richard what
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purpose. Anyway, the way
way it
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length
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DaveBerry:
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"Lennonprobably
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LENNIE London
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hypocrites."
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what John possibly true.
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Donovan: “John
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popularity. But But when
when created
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impossible situation.
situation. Whatever the ulterior
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beautiful character
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Beatles' popularity.”
popularity." democratic nation.
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I'll be
be first
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in." B YOUNG, Lancing,Sussex
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THE BEATLES
THE BEATLES

Cincinnati
Cincinnati last last Saturday, a storm storm burst
burst about
about anan
hour beforeThe
hour before TheBeatles
Beatleswere weredue dueto togo
go on
on and
and it
went on long after after the
the concert
concert was due due toto finish.
finish.
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wasimpossible
impossibleto tostart
startthe
theshow
show-so – soit was
cancelled.
cancelled. But Butthethefans
fansstill
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saw TheThe Beatles
Beatles thethe
next day when the
daywhen the showwent
show wenton on on
on Sunday.
Hours
Hours late,late, but with as
but with as much fervouras
much fervour as ever.
ever. The
August 22,
22,1966:
1966: The
The Beatles say they are
s aythey areenjoying
enjoyingthe thetour
toureven
eventhough
though
Beatles host two
Beatleshost press
twopress it’s
it's impossible
impossible for them them to get out. out. Naturally
Naturally they
they
conferences
conferencesatat the
Warwick Hotel
Hotel–-onefor
one for hope
hope to get out out aabit – they’vejust
bit-they've justgot
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to get
journalistsand
journalists and another through
through the thecordon
cordonof of fans
fans who’ve
who've beenbeen outside
outside
for
for 150
150(mostly female)
(mostlyfemale)
competitionwinners
competition winners PLUS ALL ST the Warwick Hotel all night.
the Warwick night. When
When we arrived
arrived inin
New
NewYork York on on Monday
MondayThe The Beatles
Beatles hadhadaa press
press
conference which was
conference was probably
probablytheir happiest so
their happiest
SHEA STADIUM far. ItItwas
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TUESCAUG. 23 50 million

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million homes
Being with
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that George Harrison
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The Saturday-night
Saturday -night concert
concert at the Olympia Stadium Detroit was
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no serious incidents occurred there. It’s It's understood
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ago and
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The Beatles’
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plane arrivals
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previous tours. since
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inBirmingham,
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the weakest
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sitar, Harrison pursuing his questioning commenced.
questioning commenced.
study of the
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violinistYehudi Menuhin.
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dates this
this week include probably
prob ably go higher”.
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group arrives
arrives During theearlier
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John Lennon,
Lennon, backed
backed by by a chorus
chorus of
in New York next
NewYork next Monday
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appears at at Shea
Shea Stadium
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Tuesday night.
night. agreement from
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cities. A Saturday-evening
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in which
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concert in Cincinnati
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Epstein
Said Paul
Paul later:
later: “I
"Idon’t
don'tunderstand
understand it- it –it's
it’sso
sosilly."
silly.” Apart from thethe stationery specially
stationery specially printed
printedandandtyped
typedup upaaphoney
phoneyletter
letterfrom
fromEpstein
Epstein
jumpingthreats,
jumping threats,the
thetour
tourhas
hasbeen
beenaalotlotquieter
quieterthisthisyear.
year.And
And it's
it’s not
not supposedly authorising
supposedly authorisingAmerican
Americanfanclub
fanclubmember
memberLynn Lynn Hargreaves
because
becauseThe The Beatles
Beatles have become less
have become popular. II believe the fans are
less popular. and/or her
and/or her three
threetoptop assistants
assistantstoto have personal meeting
have a personal meeting with the
aware of the
aware the more
more intricate partsof
intricate parts of Be
Beatle
atlemusic
musicandandare
arelistening
listening more.
more. backstage in their dressing
group, backstage dressing room.
room.
The boys
boys are still doing
are still doingbig big rockers
rockerslike
like "RockAnd
“Rock AndRoll Roll Music",
Music”, butbut Press chief Barrow
Barrow spotted
spotted it as aa phoney
phoney but The BeatlesBeatles were
were soso
there's
there’s not
not so much screaming
screaming and andmore
morelistening.
listening.Despite
Despitereports
reportsof of this
this impressed with
impressed with thethe inventiveness
inventivenessof of the
the fraud
fraud they had the
they had the girls brought
brought
tour not
tour not being
being the
the success
success that
thatprevious
previousBe Beatle
atle tours
tours were, Brian
Brian Epstein
Epstein in anyway. Meanwhile
Meanwhile the theShea
Shea Stadium
Stadiumconcert
concertininNew NewYorkYork seems
seems to
tells me gate receipts
receipts so far have
have been
been bigger than thelast
than the last tour.
tour. We've
We’ve be a profit-making
profit -makingventureventure for
forpromoter
promoter Sid SidBernstein.
Bernstein. Bernstein
Bernstein told
told me
me
been
been fighting
fighting the
theweather
weatheraalot, instance, at a concert
lot, however; for instance, concert at he'd passed
he’d passed thethe break-even
break-evenpoint pointof44,000
of 44,000seats
seatssoldsold today.
today. RenGrevatt
Ren Grevatt •

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“It’
"It'ss not
not
friendhip.
friendship.
It’
It'ss a mutual
need”
need" SCOTT
SCOTT WALKER

He
WALKER is
man of contradictions.
Jontradictions.
He insists
integrity
insists on
ofhis
is a

on the
the
his band,
band,
a

""
integrity of
but
but rarely sees them.
rarely sees them. — MELODY MAKER
- MELODY JUNE 2525—-
MAKI JUNE

He’s
He's aa man
man about
about town,
AKEAASUCCESSFUL
AKE SUCCESSFULpop popstory
storyand
and you
you

T
town, can take
can take a bet that
that within
within a very shortshort
but dreamsof
but dreams of escape.
escape. space of time
space time aa dedicated
knockers will be
knockers
dedicated band
be ininthere,
band of
there,attempting
attempting to
tear the
the story apart. It happened to to The
And while
And while on
on top
top of
of the
the
tear story apart.
until knockers
Beatles, until
It happened
knockers realised
realiseditit was
was
swiping the the Rock Of OfGibraltar
Gibraltar with
with aa cricket
cricket stump.
stump.
world, he’s coping
world, he's coping with
with
like swiping
Within days of the
Within the Spencer
Spencer Davis
DavisGroup
Groupchart chart success,
success,
“aa personal
personal problem”,
problem ,
theywere
they weresaying
sayingSteve
group. Rumour-mongers
group.
Steve Winwood was leaving
Rumour -mongers can't can’twait
waitfor
leaving the
for Paul
the
Paul Jones to
the Manfred
Manfred Mann Mann group.
group. But
But the
the biggest
biggestcurrent
current
on
on the
the brink
brink of
of tragedy.
tragedy.
leave the
preoccupation behind
preoccupation behindthe thescenes
scenesof ofshowbiz
showbizis is to drive
wedge in in the
the solidarity
solidarity of TheThe Walker
WalkerBrothers.
Brothers.
“The
"The other guys are
other guys are
a wedge
Not aa week
weekgoesgoesby bywithout somebody having
without somebody havingdigsdigs at
at

tryingto
trying tohelp
help me.”
me."
wildlysuccessfulAmerican
the wildly
with “My
with "MyShip
successful Americantrio
Ship IsIsComing
ComingIn” In"and
triowho
and“The
whohave
"TheSun
have hit the top
SunAin't Gonna
Ain’t Gonna
top

ShineAnymore"
Shine Anymore”and andlook
look set for even
evengreater
greater things
things
with “(Baby) You Don’t
with "(Baby) Don't Have
Have To TellTellMe”,
Me",their
theirnext
next
July8.
single out on July 8.
"Scott doesn't need
“Scott doesn’t need Gary
GaryorJohn,"
or John,” is thetheharsh
harsh clamour
clamour
artists. "Whydoesn't
from rival artists. “Why doesn’tScott Scottgo solo?”
solo?" demand
demand
cynical newsmen.
cynical newsmen. So the Walkers have
So far the have suffered
suffered in in
silence, but this
silence, but thisweek
week Scott
Scott Walker,
Walker, owner
owner of thethe voice
that launches
that launches a thousand
thousand screams,
screams,decided
decidedto to break
break hishis
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Scott Walker:
“I’m
"I'm going to
to
makerecordings
make recordings
likepaintings"
like paintings”

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Scott
Scott crouched
crouched on aa bed bed at athis
hislatest
latestLondon
Londonflat, flat,hidhidbehind
behinddark dark achieved
achieved double
double status status as as thethe most
most screamed
screamedat atpop
popstar,
star,and andone oneof of
glasses and
glasses and quietly
quietlyand and calmly
calmlyrebuked
rebuked those those who want him to plan plan his
his the finest
the finest singers
singers in in British popularpopular music. music.An image has
An image has grown
grown up up
future
future for him. him. “It’s
"It's aathing
thingthatthat bothers
bothers me,” me," he he explained,
explained, “this "this vicious around Scott
around Scott of being being aapermanently
permanently depressed depressed introvert,introvert, prone prone to
outbreak
outbreak against
against the the other
other two two guys in the the group.
group. IIcan’t
can'tsay too much
saytoo much self-doubt,
self-doubt, and and minusminusthe thelife-giving
life-givingsafety safetyvalve valve of of a sense
sense of humour.
humour.
about
about how Gary feels, but
Garyfeels, but John
John is a very talentedguy
verytalented guyand andaavery very good
good True, Scott can can be nervous
nervous and andworries
worriesaalot, lot,but
butas ashehesays:
says: "When
“WhenII read read
singer.
singer. Although
Although IIappreciate
appreciate what what people
people say about about me me needing
needing to go go about myself, sometimes
about myself, sometimesIIfeel feel like
like Greta
Greta Garbo!"
Garbo!”
solo,
solo, it’s
it'sunfair
unfair toto slam
slam thethe other
other guys and and it’s
it's been
be envery veryupsetting.
upsetting. The When I met met ScottScott at atLondon’s
London's Scotch Scotch Of OfStStJamesJamesclub clubfor a quiet
fora quietdrink
drink
point
point is people
people think
think I am trying trying to to hog the the whole thing,thing, but but I'm
I’m not.
not. The
The and
and a chat
chat this week, he was cheerful,
this week, cheerful, often often very very funny,
funny, and and filled
filled with
with
others
others can have the the whole
whole bloody
bloodything!”
thing!"said saidScott,
Scott,suddenly
suddenlygetting getting more enthusiasm
enthusiasm for for his
his career
career than than90 90 per cent of ofartists
artists who
whospend spend their
their
heated.
heated. It'sIt’s all so stupid
stupid andandgetting
gettingout outof ofhand,
hand,so soI'dI’dtry
tryand
andre rectify it.”
ctify it." time
time groaning,
groaning, gripinggriping and and grumbling.
grumbling. Scott arrived arrived around
around 10.30pm
How did did Scott
Scott think anti-Walker
think anti -Walker feeling
feeling got in in their
their way? wearing
wearing blue jeans, jeans, aadark darkschoolboy
schoolboyblazer blazer and and dark glasses. He settled
darkglasses. settled
“It’s
"It's kinda
kinda sad sad and
and IIdon’t
don'treally want to
reallywant toattach
attach my name into
myname into all this
this in the only quietquiet corner
corner of the the discotheque
discotheque with withaa Scotch
Scotch and and Coke, and and
becauseII don't
because don’twant
wantto tolower
lowermyself.
myself.JohnJohnis is hurt
hurt byby it, but
but he willwill be
bedoing
doing we talked
talked for two two hours.
hours.
more solo recordings
more recordings on on the
the next albumalbum like Ray RayCharles’
Charles"JustA ‘Just A Thrill’,
Thrill', Outsiders
Outsiders often often feel Scott’s
Scott's trouble
trouble is is he lacks aa sense sense of ofhumour.
humour. How
which evens things
which things out. true was this?
true was
“Yes,
"Yes,I Ireally hope to
reallyhope tobalance
balancethings things outout even
eventhough
though there there is friction
friction “It’s
"It's aastrange
strange thing.thing. Things that that makemake some some people people laugh,
laugh, I don’tdon't laugh
laugh
betweenus.
between us. Gary
Gary does
does belong and and he’s
he's happy to make make things
things right
right for him
him at at all. I go
goto toaamovie
movieand and everybody
everyb ody is is howling
howling away away and and II just sit there.
just sit there.
and
and carry
carryon onrecording
recordinghis hisrock'n'roll
rock’n’rollrecords.
records.Say, Say,Gary
Garyke keeps
ep sturning
turning it I laugh
laugh ififI’m
I'msitting
sittingtalking
talking to to aafriend
friendand and playing
playing aaStan StanTracey
Traceyalbum. album.
on
on that
that we’ll
we'll never
never split
splitup,up,doesn’t
doesn't he? he?IIthink
thinkhe’she'shaving
havinghallucinations;
hallucinations; We’ll
We'll hear
hear some
some funny little thing
funny little thingonAlice
on Alice In Jazzland
Jazzland and I’ll be rolling on
and I'll
I never
never see the the cat! the
the floor. I laugh
laugh at atsilly things. I laugh
sillythings. laugh at at the
the whole
whole situation
situation and andII laugh
laugh at
“I
"I really
reallyneedneedthe theothers,”
others,"said saidScott,
Scott,answering
answeringthe theinevitable
inevitablequestion
question myself, butbut it’s
it's only funnyfunny to to me.”
me."
steadily.
steadily. “We "Westarted
started out out together
together and and could
could never have made made it without
without What was
What was Scott's
Scott’spresent
presentframe frameofofmind? mind?"I'd “I’dlike
liketotoclear
clearaalot lot of things
things
each
each other. That’svery
other. That's very easy
easy to to check.
check. JustJust go to to up. I’m
up. I'm sure a lot lotof ofpeople
peoplethinkthinkstrange
strange things
things
the fan
the fan club and and find
find out from them them how our aboutme.
about me.WhenWhenII read readaboutaboutmyself
myselfIIfeel feel like
fans are
fans are spread
would hurt
would
spreadout.
hurtus
out.YouYou could
usif we split
could see
split up.
up.It’s
see then
It'snot
thenhow howitit
notfriendship
friendship "You should
“You should Greta Garb
Greta
I just
Garbo!
just mind
mind my own
o!But
Butit’s it'snot
notaaquestion
own business.
question of
business. I’m
ofthat
I'm interested
that-–
interested in in
-its
– its mutual
mutual need."
need.” music and
music and I just don’t don't want to be be bothered
bothered with with
Scott has
Is this
has often
often said
this still true?
true?
said he lonelyand
he is lonely and friendless.
friendless. have seen it at anythingelse.
anything
things,and
things,
else.I've
andII trynot
I’velearnt
try notto
learnttotoget
tolet
letthem
getover
themget
overaalot
geton
lot of
ontoptopof of me.
me.
“I
"I go

coming
godown

coming in
downto
pedestrians,
pedestrians,where
in and
tothe
the‘in-clubs’
wherethey
'in -clubs'and
theyall
say: 'Look
and say:
alllook
and watch
lookto
‘Look at his new hair
watch the
to see
the
who's
see who’s
hair style.’
style.
the flat after I’ve been
I've been seeing
seeing the
tranquilisers.IIget
tranquilisers.
they are
they are trying
trying to
the right
right doctor,
get very excited
to calm
calm me
doctor, and
excited about
me down.
and taking
taking
about things
down. The other
things and
other guys
But I don’t
don't mind
Actually, I have
mind as as long as they
have acquired
they leave me
acquired aa lot of friends
me alone.
alone.
friends recently.
recently.
the incident. It
the are trying
are trying to
especiallyon
especially
to help
help me. John is
onstage
stagedoing doingthings
isvery
veryhelpful
thingsIIworry
helpful-–
worryab about,
out,
Jonathan
JonathanKing
character,
character,and
artists
artistsin
King I find

in the
find aavery
andII can’t
the business.
business.I'm
veryinteresting
can't stand
standmost
interesting
mostof the other
I’m a very difficult
other
difficult person
person
was horrible"
was horrible” like showing
showing the
beingtaken
being
What
takenoff
What caused
the band
offmy
causedthe
band what
mybback.”
what to
ack."
theincident
incidentthat
to do. That’s

thatlead
That's all

leadto to you
you
to live with
with because
because I can can change
change my mymood
moodso so being taken taken to hospital
hospital unconscious?
unconscious?
much.
much. People say saylI amam being rude, which I probably probablyam, am,but butJonathan
Jonathan “That
"That was it –-aa lot of ofpressures
pressures and and a personal
personal problem. problem.II think thinkititwokewoke
King is is quite
quite aa gas.
gas.IIlike
liketototake
takehim himtotothe the‘in'inclubs’
clubs'and and he he completely
completely a lot
lot of
ofpeople
peopleup, up,including
including myself. I’m I'm still under under aa lot of tension,
tension, but but
changes
changeshis hispersonality.
personality.With Withme mehe heisisvery
very quiet,
quiet, then
thenwhen whenwe wego go in a I’m
I'm feeling
feeling aa big relief. And somebody s omeb odygot gotme meaacar carsosoIIcancangetgetabout
about more.
more.
club he goesgoesintointoaabigbigroutine
routine-– ‘Hi 'Hithere’,
there',‘Hello
'Hellothere!’
there!'–-and and starts
startsbeing
being I went
went totoaapark
parkthe theother
other day dayand and ititwaswasgreat.
great.IfIfanything
anything happens
happens I had
rude.
rude. But he doesn’t
doesn't have to do do that,
that, because
because he’s he's got so somuch
much moremore than
than the
the car nearbyand
car nearby andII could
couldjump jumpinto intoit.it.I've
I’ve hadhad to to move my flat flat again.
again.
these
these other
other morons."
morons.” Don’t even mention
Don't even mentionwhere whereititis. is.You
You should
should have have seenseenitit at the
the flat
flat after the
after the
decided to
Scott decided to relax by playing
playing at at deafening
deafening volume volume aa track track from
from TheThe incident.
incident. ItIt was
was horrible.
horrible.II didn'tdidn’tget getaa wink
winkof sleep sleep for aa week,
week,and and people
people
Walker Brothers’
Brothers' next next album,
album,aa beautiful
beautifulsong songcalled
called"AllAlone
“All AloneIn InMy
My were pounding on
were pounding onthethedoor
door all the time.
all the time.
Room".
Room”. When When ScottScott is isalone
alonein inhishisroom
roomhe hespends
spends his his time
time listening
listening to to “Straight after the
"Straight after theincident
incidentthe thefans fanswere
weregreat. great.TheyTheyssent ent loads
loads of
tracks
tracks from
from avast
a vastcollection
collectionof ofjazz
jazzLPs. It's Scott’s
LPs. It’s Scott's sanctuary,
sanctuary, away awayfromfrom letters, gifts and
letters, gifts flowers. I had
and flowers. had a few fewletters
lettersfrom fromsome some nutsnuts saying
saying ‘how'how
the screaming fans
the screaming fans andand sniping
sniping critics. dare you,
dare you’, but
but most
most of them them were marvellous marvellous and andsympathetic.
sympathetic.I Ihave haveaalot lot
At my
“At my last place things
last place things got got really
really bad," said Scott.
bad,” said Scott. “Kids
"Kids were were waiting
waiting more respectfor
more respect formy my fans
fans than
thanIIdid didbefore.
before.Some Someletters
letterssaid:
said:'We ‘Welove
love The
The
outside
outside all the time, crying in the the street.
street. IIreally
reallythought
thought they theywere
were going Walker Brothers,
Brothers, but but if there
there is isthat
that much
much pressure
pressure -you – youshould
shouldgive giveitit up.’
up.'
to burn themselves
to burn themselveslike likeBuddhist
Buddhist monks."
monks.” Chris
ChrisWelch
Welch But thethe pressure
pressure wasn’t wasn't the the onlyonlyreason.
reason. Nobody has has the
the right
rightreasons
reasons
and
and I’mI'm not telling
telling anyone
anyone the the right
right reasons.”
reasons."
Suddenly
Suddenly a huge huge smilesmile lit up up Scott’s
Scott's face,face,“I"Idon’t don'tremember
remember a thing, thing,
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COTT WALKER WAStaken
takentotohospital
hospitalon onMonday
Mondaynightnight after
after There’s
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found unconscious
being found unconsciousin
London apartment.
apartment.On
The Walker
WalkerBrothers
inaagas
OnTuesday
Brothers-was
-filled room
gas-filled
Tuesdaymorning,
room at his
morning,Scott,
his Marble
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Scott,2121-year-old
stated by publicist
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Arch,
-year -old lead
publicist Brian
Brian
box with 'Use
boxwith ‘Use electricity
one, but leave ititin
for the
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– it’sfunny.
in-it's funny.One
wasamazing
cleaner’on
Oneof
amazing the
onthe
of The
thecover.
cover.Actually,
Actually,II didn’t
The Hollies offered Gary aa shilling
the way people were really concerned
waypeople
didn't get
shilling
concerned
Sommerville
Sommervilleto to be:
be: "Perfectly mind and
“Perfectly all right in mind and body."
body.” for me. Even when
for when IIwalkedwalked into into Ronnie
Ronnie Scott’sScott's Club Club on onSaturday
Saturday night night
found by
Scott was found bythe
the group’s
group's road
road manager,
manager, Bobby Hamilton,
Hamilton, who peoplewere
people weresaying:
saying:'How ‘Howare areyou?'
you?’I didn’t realiseitit hit
didn't realise hit people
peoplelike like that.
that.
saw him lying unconscious
unconscious onon the
thefloor. still unconscious
floor. Scott was still unconscious It’s weird.
It's weird.After
After staying
stayingon onat atthetheold oldflat
flatforfor aa week
week I moved
moved into thenew
into the new
when arrived at St
when he arrived StMary’s
Mary'sHospital,
Hospital,Paddington
Paddington but but recovered
recovered place,and
place, andasasit'sit’snot
notthetheusual
usualhovel hovelI'm I’musedusedto, to,IIfeel
feel out
out of place.”
place."
after
after treatment.
treatment.Said
SaidSommerville:
Sommerville:"He “Heisisperfectly
perfectlyOKOKnownow except
except The conversation then steered
for aaheadache
headache andand he
he doesn’t
doesn't remember
remember about aboutlast
last night."
night.” away fromfrom thethe past
past andand on on to to

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the dressing
dressing room
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for
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(inset)with
(inset) Walker
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-type things.
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Odeontheatre
theatre
using an
using an enormous
enormouspipe pipeorgan!
organ!I'm I’mworkingwith
working withReg Reg
Guest and
Guest and Johnny Franz.Reg
lohnnyFranz. Regis obviously brilliant,
brilliant, and
and
one of the
one the most
most underrated arrangersininthe
underrated arrangers thecountry.
country.IIff
only I could
only could write
write music
music like
likethat – heknows
that-he knowsexactly
exactly
ionlight Sinatra, wh ich
1111.1..like
likethat,
that,but
buthehe did The Moonlight Sinatra, whichwas
was a marvellous
marvellous what
what I’m I'm thinking. It’s the
th inking.It's the fault of so many
ofso many arrangers
arrangers today today who
who profess
profess to
album – didyou
album-did youhear
hearthat?
that?But
Butthings
thingslike
like'Downtown'
‘Downtown’- –ififit's
it’smeant
meantto
tobe
be hate what they
hate what theyarearedoing
doingin inpop.
pop.But But he
he believes
believes in in what he’s doing.”
what he's doing."
kiddingits
kidding its not
not very funny.
funny. It’s
It's sorta
sorta sordid.”
sordid." Would Scott ever record record solely
solelywithwithaa jazz
jazz backing
backing group?group?
What were Scott’sScott'stastes
tastes in vocalists?
invocalists? “John
"John and and I are
are thinking
thinking of of doing
doingEPs EPs soon,
soon, andandwe we might
mightbe beable
ableto to do
do
"I'm wild
“I’m wild about
about Astrud
Astrud Gilberto,
Gilberto,but butIIhate
hateBarbara
BarbaraStreisand
Streisandscreaming
screaming something in
something in that
thatorder.
order. The things things you'll hear in the
you’ll hear the future
future will shock
shock
and shouting
and shoutingand anddoing
doingaatypical
typicalWalker
Walker Brothers
Brothers scene.
scene. People
People watch
watch you. There
There areare a lot ofoftrade
trade secrets
secrets involved.”
involved."
her wave her herarms
arms andand think
think everything’s really workedout.
everything's reallyworked out.ButBut Astrud
Astrud Scott ordered
ordered another
another roundroundof of drinks, and winced
drinks, and wincedslightly
slightly at some
Gilberto
Gilberto is the the epitomy
epitomy of ofsubtlety
subtlety and and warmth.
warmth. Blossom Dearie sent
Blossom Dearie sent me
me the discotheque
of the discotheque records
records gradually
graduallygrowing
growing in suggested
in volume. I suggested
a very nice
nice letter.
letter. She wants
wants me to comecome across andsing
across and singwith
withher.her.She's
She’s perhaps
perhaps the thegroup's
group’s backings
backingswere were rather
rather over
over-orchestrated.
-orchestrated. Will they they try
try
such aa send-up!
such send-up!II was was going
going toto do
do a boat tripat
boat trip at one
onetime.
time.ItItwas
wasaa to swing a bit bitmore
more in inthe
the future?
future?
Caribbean
Caribbeancruise -type scene
cruise-type scenewithwithRonnie
RonnieScott
Scottand
andStanStanTracey.
Tracey. I would “Swinging
"Swinging in in aajazz
jazzsense
senseor orrock'n'roll
rock’n’rollssense?
ense? We We swing
swing in a subtle
subtle
love to
to have
have gone,
gone, but
but IIcouldn’t
couldn't do it anyway.
anyway. It Itwould
would havehave been
been a way. We’ll
We'llgetgetaround
aroundto toitit– -in
in aajazz
jazz sense.
sense. IIthink we’ll have to
thinkwe'll to be
bemore
more
vacationand
vacation anddoing
doingaabit bit of singing
singing as well. The Thewhole
wholethingthing would
would havehave orientated
orientated in inwhat
whatwe wearearegoing
going to to be, and what we are going to
and what to do
do first.
first.
been
been ajazz
a jazzholiday. But probably probably the the only
onlyreason
reason they
they called
called me was At the
the moment
moment we we are
are excited
excited aboutaboutthe thenew
newthings.
things.You You know, Portrait
Portraitisis
becausethey
because theycouldn't
couldn’tget getMMark
ark Murphy.
Murphy. IIremember
remember him him from the the States, old fashioned
fashioned in in comparis
comparison withwhat
on with whatwe're
we’redoing
doingnow. now. I can’t listen to
can't listen to
and I love him
and him because
because I can can appreciate
appreciate his hismind.
mind.IIknow
knowwhat whathe'she’s it. IIdon’t
don't listen
listen to
tomyself
myselfsinging
singing anyway.
anyway. IIthought
thought John’sJohn's tracks
tracks were
were
thinking
thinkingwhen whenhe's he’s singing and and phrasing.”
phrasing." excellent,
excellent, and it’s given John a lot
and it's lotmore
moreconfidence
confidence and shows people
and shows peoplehe he
Scott demonstrated
demonstrated by bysinging
singingaafew few bars
bars from “On"On Green
Green Dolphin
Dolphin doesn’t
doesn't needneedany anycrutches.
crutches.His Hisvoice
voice has
has a very light,
light,ethereal
ethereal quality.”
quality."
Street” àa la
Street" laMurphy
Murphy-in – instrange
strangecontrast
contrasttotothethedindinof
ofTamla
Tamla Motown
Motown When Scott
When Scott first came
came to England,
England, did he have have preconceived
preconceived ideas ideas
piped
piped from speakers above
from speakers our ears.
above our which way his
which his musical
musical policy
policywouldwould develop?
“I
"I pride
pride myself
myselfon onstandards,”
standards," said Scott, stretching
stretching his his legs andand “I
"I always
always had had these
these ideas
ideas in in my mind
mind andandnownowI've I’ve got
got some moneyII can
some money can
refusing a cigarette.
refusing cigarette. I knowknow the
the whole
whole bookbookandand lots
lotsofofnumbers
numbers nobodynobody these things.
do these things. I'mI’m going to make make recordings
recordings like paintings.
paintings. If you you notice
notice
knows like ‘Old
knows 'Old Folks’.
Folks'.There
Thereare aresosomany
manybeautiful
b eautifulstandards
standards to to draw
draw on ourour big
bigproduction-type
production -typerecords, records,there
thereisn’t
isn'toneoneindividual
individualinstrument
instrument
from. I go
from. go to
toJohnny
Johnny Franz’s
Franz's house
house andandhe heplays
playspiano
pianofor formemewhile
whileII sing.
sing. coming
coming through.
through. We We try
tryto to make
make the the whole thing,
thing, voices and and instruments,
instruments,
He’s aa marvellous
He's marvellous musician
musician-we – wedo doaaduo!
duo!Yeah,
Yeah, I know
know millions
millions of of an entity, and
an and make each record record sound
sound like aaperformance.
performance. When you’re you're
standards.It's
standards. It’saalot
lot of fun. WeWedo domy favourite song, ‘Once
myfavourite 'Once Upon
UponAA doing a painting,
painting, you don’t don't concentrate
concentrate on onone
oneeye;eye; youyou bring
bring in the whole
Summertime',
Summertime’,and andgetget very stoned
stoned and and complement
complement each other.” other." face. We’ll
We'llhavehavelyrics
lyricsthatthatwill
willbebeasasstrange
strangeasas the arrangements
the arrangements-very – very
We
Wetalked
talkedaboutabout thethe Walkers’
Walkers'latest
latestalbum
albumPortrait,
Portrait,which
whichincludes
includes Thomas and
Dylan Thomas and Kafka.
Kafka.The Thesongs
songsmay maybe autobiographies-lyrics
be autobiographies – lyrics
GETTY, ITV/REX SHUTTERSTOCK

some
some of thethe finest
finest songs
songs Scott
Scott has
has recorded,
recorded, including
including his tender
his tender about
about my apartment, becauseI Inever
apartment, because nevergetgetout
out of my room, room, andand about
about
treatmentofof"Old
treatment “OldFolks".
Folks”. scandals and
scandals and rumour -mongers.
rumour-mongers.
“I
"I wish
wish the
the things
things we are doingdoing now could could have
have been includedon
been included onthe
theLP,"
LP,” “I’ve
"I've been
been commissioned
commissioned to to write
write songs
songs for aa film
filmcalled
calledDeadlier
DeadlierThan Than
said Scott.
said Scott. "However,
“However, we have have toto do
dothings
things in aa certain spanof
certain span of time andas
time and as The MaleMale with
with Johnny
Johnny Franz,Franz, and and I’m
I'm having
having trouble
trouble coming
coming backback to
time goes on
time on our
our ideas
ideasget getbetter
betterandandbetter,
better,or worse and
orworse andworse
worsedepending
depending those typesof ‘Moon
those types 'Moon June’
June' lyrics. IInever nevercould
couldwritewritethrowaway
throwawaylyrics,lyrics,
on your
on your point
point of view. And Andthethethings
things we we are
are doing
doing now
now are are the
the most
most and
and now now I’m
I'm really having trouble.But
having trouble. But I want
want to get getthethe third
third album
album
differentyou
different youcould couldimagine.
imagine.I'm I’m writing
writing surrealist
surrealistsongs
songsand andusing
using finished beforeII start
finished before gettingthat
start getting thatdepressed
depressedfeeling
feelingagain."
again.”Chris
ChrisWelch
Welch •

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SE P T EPER
U LYy – SEP

“Everybody
"Everybody do
the paranoia!”
the paranoia!" While
While fans
fans camp
camp
outside
outside the
the door
door of
of
— NMESEPTEMBER
- NME SEPTEMBER 99 — the SMALL FACES'
the SMALL FACES’ Pimlico
Pimlico
HOULDSTEVE
sHOULD STEVE MARRIOTT ever everchance
chance to meet royalty,
meet royalty, pad, NME profiles Steve,

S it would bebe safe

safe to
toassume
assume thatthat within
within five minutes
minutes he
pad, NME profiles Steve,
would
would bebe calling
calling them
based Small Face
based
them"luv"
Facewith
“luv” and
withthe
and"mate"
“mate”-–for
theturnip-shaped
for this
turnip -shaped topknot
thisPimlico
Pimlico--
topknot has
has
Plonk,
Plonk, Mac
Mac andand Kenny,
Kenny, and
and
more chirp
more chirp than
thanaa cockney
cockney sparrow.
Confidence is something
Confidence something that
sparrow.
thatradiates
radiatesfrom
fromevery
every inch
inch of
discovers
discovers tales of arson,
tales of arson,
Steve’s
Steve's five-foot
five-footframe,
a conversation
frame, whether
whether he is
with aa perfect
conversation with
isbouncing
bouncing about
stranger.And
perfect stranger. And he
about on stage or opening
he tempers
tempers his
opening
his "cockiness"
“cockiness”
scrumping, showjumping
scrumping, showjumping
with
with a genuine interestin
genuine interest
recently,
recently, he approached
inpeople.
people.Down
approached aalady
Downin
lady cashier
inthe
theReady,
who does
cashier who
Ready, Steady, Go!
does not
not take
Go!canteen
take kindly
canteen
kindly to sauce
and
and permanent colds.
permanent colds.
from long-haired
long-haired pop stars. On this
inone
vessel in oneeye
eyegave
gaveher
this particular
particular afternoon
hera particularly
a particularlyferocious
afternoon aa burst
burst blood
aspectwhich
ferocious aspect deterred
which deterred
Later in the
Later in year,
the year,
most casual conversationalists.
Steve peered
conversationalists.
peered sympathetically
sympathetically into
into the
the fiery orb andand exclaimed
exclaimed in tones
tones
MELODY
MELODYMAKERMAKERspends
spends
loud
loud enough
eye,
enough for
eye, luv?”
luv?"
for the whole canteen
the whole tohear,
canteen to hear,"What
“What'ave’aveyou
you done
donetoto your
your
aa night
night in
in the
the studio
studio
but the
but
one moment
For one moment I thought
the lady melted
thought he
melted under
he was
was going to be
under his genuine
genuine concern
be boiled
boiled along
concern and,
along with
and, while
while the
with his egg,
the queue
egg,
queue piled
piled
with the
the increasingly
up
up behind, gave him
behind, gave
in a most
the full
him the
mostunderstanding
full medical
understanding manner.
history, whichwas
medical history,
manner."Such
which wasreceived
“Such a nice friendly
receivedby
friendlylad,"
bySteve
the lady
lad,” the lady
Steve
ambitious young band.
ambitious young band.
breezed
breezed at atme,
me,"he“hehas
hasaa good
good word
wordforfor everyone.”
everyone."
That seems
seems to be the
the general
general opinion,
opinion, for itittook
tookmemeseveral
severalminutes
minutes
to prise him
him away fromSonny&
awayfrom Sonny & Cher, who have have formed
formed a mutual
mutual
admiration societywith
admiration society withthetheSmall
SmallFaces,
Faces, and
and a further
further few minutes
minutes to
remove
remove himhim from the attentions of the makeup
attentions of makeup girl, who banteringly
banteringly
enquired
enquire d if she
she might
might have
have a lock of
ofhis
hishair.
hair.“Ah
"Ahshaddup,”
shaddup,"retorted
retorted Steve
embarrassed grin,
with an embarrassed and the slanging match
grin, and match between
between the the two
two
continued affably forsome
continued affablyfor sometime
timebefore
beforeII managed
managed to to remove
remove him.him.
PICTORIAL PRESS/ALAMY

hero's early
Our hero’s earlyeducation
education waswassomewhat
somewhatcurtailed
curtailed when
when he heburnt
burnt
down SandringhamSecondary
down Sandringham SecondaryModern
ModernSchoolSchoolatatthe
thetender
tenderageageofof13,
13, for
which
which he was expelled.
expelled.
“We
"Weusedused to
to smoke
smoke ininthe
the woodwork
woodwork classclass [he
[henow gets through
nowgets through 60 60
cigarettes
cigarettes aa day]
day] and shove the
and shove the butts
buttsdown
downaaknot
knot-hole in the
-hole in the floor,”
floor,"
grinned Steve."Well,
grinned Steve. “Well, IIkicked
kickedmine
mine down
down and
and it must
must have caught
caught a gas »

Steve Marriott: Everyone's `luv'

SHOULD Steve Marriott ever
royalty it would be safe to
chance to meet
and 'ma
ye minutes he would be calling them that within
assume :neat." .aid Steve.
manT strait:la AiYoli don't plot
mate "-for this Pirntico-baseel "luv " and od
buten...a him m to
le turnip-shape/I top knot has Small Face with When I mu Mein
Long Johr. Ba:drr." MY idol
'ockuey sparrow. more chirp than a I mod to atm zincj attottitcd Stew
Co his lih
of ihtLair
and whtn I did o taw du
Steve Marriott: a former
bit-part actor who “never
really wanted to do anything
but sing in a group”

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main,because
main, becauseaatwo two-foot
-foot flameflameshot shotup upit.
it.II was
was February 17, 1966: Small Faces
February17,1966:Small
quite
quite a celebrity
celebrityin in the
the local papers. They called
local papers. on the
on setofofTop
theset TopOf
OfThe
ThePops
Pops to to
perform theirUUK
perform their No33 hit
K No “Sha-
hit "Sha-
the incident
the incident 'Little
‘Little Chicago'
Chicago’ and and I was washeralded
heralded La-La-La-Lee”,
La-La-La-Lee", featuring
featuring new
as a kind
as kind ofof teenage
te enage Al Capone.” Capone." keys player Ian McLagan
keysplayer McLagan (far(far left)
left)
onlyinterest
The only interestSteve Steve showedshowedat at school
school was
in drama
in drama ("I (“Iplayed
playedTouchstone
TouchstoneinAs in AsYou YouLikeLike It
– I really
-I really dug Shakespeare”).
Shakespeare"). He continued continued his
scholastic
scholasticcareer
careerat atthetheItalia
ItaliaConti
Conti School
School Of
Acting, which
which he he paid
paid for forfrom
fromthe theamounts
amounts he
earnedas
earned asaachild
childactor.
actor.As As a youngster,
youngster, Steve Steve ran ran
awaywith
away with increasing
increasingregularity, regularity,but but generally
generally
only made
made the cemetery wallatatthe
the cemeterywall theback
backof of his
his
house before
house before returning.
returning.However, However,at at1515 he mademade
the long
the long haul
haul to Finsbury
Finsbury Park, Park, where
wherehe he set
set up
up
home in
home in a “mud
"mud ’ut”. 'ut".
“When
"When I say sayitit was a ‘mud 'mud 'ut',’ut’, I mean
mean it was a
dump,” said
dump," said Steve. “I "Ihardly
hardly ever everhad hadany money
anymoney
to pay thethe rent
rent and and when
when the the landlord
landlord came
roundII used
round used to to stir
stir my dog up up aabitbitandandmakemake him him
growl fiercely."
growl fiercely.”
All this
this was prior his success success as as an
an actor,
actor, for for
Steve soon
soon found
found partsparts coming cominghis hisway
wayon on TV
series like
series like Dixon
Dixon Of Dock DockGreen Greenand andlanded
landed
featureroles
feature rolesin intwotwopop popfilms, films,Live LiveIt It Up andand Be
My Guest,
Guest,in inaddition
addition to the stage role
the stage role of thethe
Artful Dodger
Artful Dodgerin inOliver.
Oliver.
“It
"It was
wasacting
acting whichwhich gave gaveme methe theconfidence
confidence
in myself
in myself in frontfront of the the cameras
cameras which whichisisso so SMALL FACES

useful
useful to to menow"
me now”said saidSteve.
Steve."But “But I never
never really
really ha -la -la -La -Lee
wantedto
wanted todo
do anything
anythingbut butsing
singininaagroup,group,so soII
formed
formed one called the
one called the Moonlighters
Moonlighters and, and, later, Grow Your Own
another
anothercalledcalledSteve Marriott MarriottAnd And The
Moments.”
Moments."
Among
Among the the early influences
influences on on his
his career,
career,
Steve remembers
remembers Andrew Oldham’s Oldham's partner, partner,
Tony Calder,
Ca lder,whom whom he hemet met at at Ilford
Ilford Palais
Palais whenwhen
he went twisting,
twisting, and andlater later Tony became became his his
agent. Steve recorded
agent. recorded aa few songs songs for Andrew
forAndrew
which were
which were never
neverreleased
releasedand andaaSonny SonnyBBoy oy
Williamson
Williamson number numberfor for Troggs manager manager Larry
Page.
Page.
“Larry
"Larry gave me me aalot lotofofencouragement,”
encouragement," said said Saturday.On
Saturday. On the
theFriday
Fridaynight,
night,we wewere
wereinvolved
involvedin inaa brawl;
brawl;
Steve. “You
"Youdon’tdon'tmeet meetmany many as as straight
straight as him him in thisthis business.
business. When WhenII I got
gotaabottle
bottle in
inmymyface
faceandandPlonk
Plonkgot gotananiron
ironbar
baracross
across hishis nut.
nut. We
Weturned
turned
was 15 my
was my idol
idolwas wasLongLongJohn JohnBaldry,”
Baldry,"admitted
admitted Steve.Steve. "I “I used
used to to style
style up
up for thethe audition withstitches
audition with stitchesall allover
over our
our boat
boatraces.
races.We We must have
must have
myself on
myself on his
his kind
kind of singing
singing and and whenwhenII did did a few dates dates at the
the London
London terrible, but
looked terrible, but Don liked what what hehe heard
heard andand we’ve
we've been
been with him him
Flamingo
FlamingoClub Club peoplepeople used usedto to come
come and andlaugh
laughat at the
the little
little guy trying
trying to ever since
since -– that
thatwas
wasthe thebeginning
beginning forus."
for us.”KeithAltham
Keith Altham
sing like BigBigJohn.John.That Thatused usedto tobring
bringme medowndown-once– onceIIgavegave upup singing
singing for
a couple of months
months because becauseof of it.
-— NM NME SEPTEMBER 1616—-
E SEPTEMBER
“It’s
"It's funny
funny how how things
thingschange. change.When When`Sha-La-La-La-Lee'
‘Sha-La-La-La-Lee’went wenttotoNo No11
here [it reached
here reached No No 3], I went went down
down to to the
the Scotch
Scotch Of St StJames
Jamesone onenight
nightand
and RONNIE
ONNIE PLONK PLONKLANE, LANE,bass bassguitarist
guitaristand and grand
grand old man man of
Baldry wasthere.
Baldrywas
singer-
there.He
singer –sha-la-la-la-lee!'
He yelled out,
sha-la-la-la-lee!’Later
Steve never
never went went in infor forsteady
out, ‘Look

steadyjobs
– here’s Steve Marriott
`Look-here's
apologised –-but
Later he apologised
jobs in inhis
hisearly
Marriott the
but it hurt.”
earlydays,
hurt."
days,although
althoughhe
the soul
soul

hecounts
counts
R anything or
anything
the Small Faces
the Small
“Mystery”
oranybody
Faces at the
"Mystery" is Plonk’s
anybodywho whois
the age
Plonk'smost
age of 20,

is futuristic,
20,isisthe
most overworked
futuristic,exciting
thegroup’s
overworked word
group's “mystery

excitingor
word to
"mystery man”.
todescribe
orexotic.
exotic.
describe
man".

himselflucky
himself lucky to have taken taken the the oneone in in a London
London music music shopshop where
wherehe he met
met Plonk has has one
one face
face for
forhis
hisinterviewers
interviewers and and another
another for for his
his friends.
friends.He He
"Plonk"
“Plonk” Lane, the the Faces’
Faces' other other frontman.
frontman. conversation concerning
finds conversation concerning abstract
abstractideas
ideasdifficult,
difficult, butbut struggles
struggles
“Once,
"Once, Plonk and and I tried dishwashingininJoe
tried dishwashing JoeLyons,
Lyons,but butwe we went
went off our our determinedly
determinedly to toexpress
expresshis hisfeelings.
feelings.Amongst
Amongst the thecrosses
crosseshe he has
has to
to bear
bear
heads there
heads thereafter
after24 24 hours.”
hours." are being
being born on April Fools’
born on Fools'Day Dayandandbeing
beingconstantly
constantly reminded
reminded that thathe
he
It was
was with
with Plonk
Plonkthat that SteveSteveformed
formed the the nucleus
nucleus of the the group
group which
which hashas small. He
is small. Hecombats
combats thesethese with a rarerare sense
sense ofofthe
theridiculous
ridiculous and and that
that
becomethe
become theSmall
SmallFaces Facestoday. today. "We “We used used to go goto tothis
thisgirl Annabelle’s
girlAnnabelle's commendable
commendable ability abilityto tobe
beable
ableto to laugh
laugh at himself.
himself.
flat in
flat in London
London for for 'a
‘a loon-up’.”
loon -up'." Said Said Steve.
Steve. “It "Itwas
wasshe shewho
whosuggested
suggested we He is isatatpresent
presentgoing
goingthrough
throughaadisturbing
disturbing emotional
emotional period when he
call ourselves
ourselves the the Small Faces. To Tobegin
beginwithwith the the name
name was was anan that his whole
feels that whole character
character is altering
altering through
through aa new new outlook
outlook on on life.
embarrassment!IImean,
embarrassment! mean,Small SmallFaces Faces -it's– it’sajoke,
a joke,isn't
isn’tit?"
it?” Steve Marriott
Marriott describes
describes him himas as having
having "more
“more talent
talentin inhis
his little
little finger
finger
After Plonk
Plonk had had given
givenhim himsome someinstruction
instruction on the guitar, an agent who than
than II have in my whole body”.
mywhole body".
knew Steve from his acting
knew acting days days phoned
phoned to tofind
findoutoutwhat
whathe hewas
wasdoing.
doing. Plonk-Face
Plonk -Faceisisreserved
reservedoveroverthisthis compliment.
compliment. "Steve “Stevesayssays aa lot of
ofthings
things
“I
"I told
told him
him IIwas wasplaying
playingguitar guitar and and he he laughed
laughed for about about half an hour. hour. like that,”
that," he told
told me
me modestly.
modestly. “Sure
"Sure I’ve
I'veaafew
fewmusical
musical‘mysteries’
'mysteries' that
that
Then
Then he asked what what the the group’s
group's name name was and and IItold
toldhimhim-he– he laughed
laughedfor for I’m
I'm working
working on, on,butbutnothing
nothing revolutionary.”
revolutionary."
anotherhalf
another halfhour.
hour.He He got us aa one-night
one-night stand stand in in Leicester
Leicester Square Cavern
Square Cavern Plonk was was born
born inin Plaistow,
Plaistow,although
although he he was
wasbrought
brought up up in
in the
the Notting
Notting
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Club, which
which was was our our first
first booking.
booking. After Afterthe thefirst
firstnight
nightthe themanager
manager Hill Gate
Gate area.
area. As
Asaafour-year-old
four -year -oldhehemade madehis hisprofessional
professionaldebut debutoutside
outside
offered us
offered us a five
fiveweeks’
weeks'residencyresidency and and we laughed
laughed for half half anan hour!”
hour!" the
the bus terminus, playing aa baby pink ukulele
terminus, playing ukulele and singing cowboy cowboysongssongs
A few weeks later,
fewweeks later,Steve’s
Steve'smother motherphoned phoned him him to inform
inform him him that agent
that agent to the
the men
men of London Transportfor
London Transport forpennies.
pennies.As Asthe
theleader
leaderof ofaathree
three- -
Don Ardenhad
DonArden hadbeen beenon on thethe phone
phoneto to her
her trying
trying to contact
contact thethe group.
group. strong gang he cased
strong cased thethe local
local orchard
orchard wearing
wearing blue jeans jeans and and sloppy-
sloppy-
“I
"I was
was knocked
knocked out,” out," recalls
recalls Steve. “We "Weall allwere
were–-a a big
bigname
nameshowing
showing joes bulging
joes bulging withwith Pippins
Pippins and and was regularly pursued pursued by the irate propertyproperty
an interest
an interestin inaa newnew group.
group. We phoned phoned in in and
and gotgot anan audition
audition for for the
the owner. Plonk’s
owner. Plonk's simple philosophy
philosophy of life lifewas,
was,“If"Ifsomeone
someonehad hadmore
morethanthan

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he needed,
he needed, I figured
figured he ought ought to spreadspread it Lee Lewis
Lewisnumber
number which wound wound up with him
up with him
about
about aa bit.”
bit." smashing
smashing the piano.
the piano.
Unfortunately, this this philanthropic
philanthropic attitude attitude The publican
publican not not onlyrefused
only refusedtotoallow allowSteve
Steve to
to
was not shared
shared by Plonk’s new
byPlonk's new form master master playwith
play with thethe group
group anymore
any morebut butalso
also banned
bannedSteve
Steve
when
when he arrived
arrived at secondary
secondary school. school. He from the pub, but the the group
group were so soimpressed
impressed withwith
turned
turnedout outto to be the man man who owned owned Steve
Steve that
that they
they allall left.
the orchard.
the orchard."I “Iwas
was not not very
very happy
happy at at Early days
days were
were not
not happy days for the Small
happy days
school,”
school," Plonk
intoaa lot
into
Plonk added
lot of fights
becauseII was
because
fights and
was small.
and got
reflectively. "I
added reflectively.
got picked
small. I didn’t
pickedon
didn't like
“I got
onaalot lot "We turned
“We turned Faces, and
Faces,
the
andPlonk

"Let's put
“Let’s
Plonkfelt
business resented
the business
put ititthis
felt that

thisway
thataalot
resented the
lot of people
newgroup.
the new
way-nobody
– nobody did
people in
group.
did us any
in

lessons
lessons much
sport.
sport. When
much and and was
When we had games
interested in
was not interested
games I did did the
the
in
up for the favours,” said
favours," said Plonk. “We
who did, like Johnnie
who
"Weremember
Johnnie Hamp,
remember the
Hamp, but people
the few
people like
odd jobs like likeoiling
oilingthe the tennis
tennis posts.”
posts." David Jacobs
Jacobsmade madesome someunnecessary
unnecessaryremarks
remarks
During the
During
work at the
the vacations,
vacations, Plonk
the Battersea
Plonkwent
Battersea Fun Fair with
went to
with
with
audition with about
about us.”
I put
us."
put the
the pad
pad away on on which
which IIhadhadbeen
been
another friend who
another friend
unhappy
unhappynickname
Nutter”.Plonk
Nutter".
who rejoiced in the
nicknameofof"Rodders
Plonktook tookover
“RoddersThe
overthe the
the

“Roll-A-
"Roll
The
-A -
stitches all taking
taking notes
swishing
notes and
swishing his
he expressed
and a new
his glass
new Plonk

expressed aa wish to talk

Plonkemerged
glass of lager about
emerged-–
about in
talk about
in the tall glass,
the tall
about telepathy,
telepathy,
glass,

Penny” stall
Penny"
joined
joined the
stall andandon on leaving
the staff full-time.
leaving school
full-time.
school
over our astral travelling and
astral
“In
"In the last six
and general
sixmonths
general philosophy.
months I’ve
philosophy.
I'vecompletely
completely
“My
was
last task
"Mylast
was removing
task at
removing the
Dipper’sgirders
Dipper's girders-I
at the
the end
thebulbs
end of the
bulbsfrom
– Inearly
the season
fromthe
nearlyfell
season
theBig
felloff
off the
Big
the top
top
boat races”
races" changed
changed my

ambition
ambition of
my attitude
suddenly realised
suddenly
attitude to
realised that
of playing
tolife,"

playing in a big
life,” he said.

biggroup
said. “I
that I had achieved my
group and
"I

and life
lifemust
must
of
ofthat
that aafew
fewtimes.
times.The Thetrouble
troublewith with hold something
hold something more. more.II meanmeanwe'rewe’renotnot just
just
thatjob
that jobwas was thatthatthe theseason
seasonused usedto to finish September.Y'know,
finish in September. Y’know, this," he indicated
this,” indicated his skin. “There
"There are
are other
other things
things I’mI'm finding
finding outout about
about
a fair
fair when
when it’s it's closed
closed is isthe
the saddest
saddest sight sight in in the world.”
the world." –- they’re as old as
they're as as time.
time. It’s
It'sjust
justthat
that I’m
I'mbeginning
beginning to see see them
them more
From working at the the fairground,
fairground, Plonk Plonk proceeded
proceeded to toaa gent's
gent’s clearly.”
clearly." KeithAltham
Keith Altham
outfitters, where
outfitters, where old gentlemen gentlemen tottered tottered in and requested
in and requestedsock sock--
suspenders.
suspenders. "I “I didn’t
didn't dig dig that,” said Plonk.
that," said
What
What Plonk
Plonkwas was digging
digging at at that
that timetimewas was a group
group he had just
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- NME SEPTEMBER 2323—-
formed
formed called
calledThe The Outcasts
Outcastswho, who, influenced
influencedby byearly
earlyShadows,
Shadows, C' AC-FACE
-FACE(IAN (IANMcLAGAN)
McLAGAN)says sayshow
howhe hewas
wasborn
born in

“M
AC in
were cleaning
were cleaning up upquite
quitenicely
nicelyat ataa pubpub in in Stepney
Stepney called
calledThe The “Hobbs-Low-On-Mud”
"Hobbs -Low -On -Mud"on onMayMay12, 1946, of
12,1946, ofananIrish
Irish
British Prince.
British Prince."We “We were not not very good,” recalled
verygood," Plonk, "but
recalled Plonk, “butyouyou mother and
mother andaa Scottish
Scottish father,
father, andand he
he and
and his
his cold joined
just played
just played'em ’em`ShakingAll
‘Shaking AllOver' Over’and andyou youwerewerewell
wellaway.
away. We the
the noted Small Faces on November
noted Small November 1 last last year,
year,when
whenorganist
organist Jimmy
Jimmy
were earning
were earning about about£20 £20aa week."
week.” Winston left.
Winston
About that that time,
time, Plonk’s
Plonk's careercareer as a shop shop assistant
assistant waswas Since joining
joining the the Small
Small Faces,
Faces,Ian Ianandandhishiscold
coldhave
havebecome
becomequite
quite
curtailed after a disagreement
curtailed disagreement with the the third
third salesman
salesman which which he he inseparable,
inseparable, and andatatthe
thegroup's
group’sresidence
residenceininPimlico
Pimlicohe hetold
toldme
mewhy.
why.
resolved by the simple expedient
resolved expedient of hitting hitting his his adversary
adversary over over “I’m
"I'm just getting
getting nice and healthy
nice and healthyand andwe weplay
playaa ballroom
ballroomin inaa hot,
hot, sticky
sticky
the head
the headwithwithaa window
windowpole. pole. "He“He was the the third salesand
third sales andII was
was atmosphere and
atmosphere andthenthenchange
changein inaa draughty
draughty dressing
dressing room,"
room,” he saidsaid
the
the fourth,"
fourth,”said said Plonk
Plonk by byway explanation of his
way of explanation his dismissal.
dismissal. nasally. “I’ve
"I've got
gotpermanent
permanent flu!" flu!”
Plonk’s
Plonk's next positionposition was delivering
delivering false teeth teeth for aadentist
dentist onon However, Mac Macbears
bearshishissickly
sicklycondition
conditionwith withfortitude,
fortitude, forforthe
theday
day
a scooter – whichwould
scooter-which wouldhave havebeen beenfine finehadhadhe hebeen
beenableableto to drive
drive thethe before
before he joined
joined the groupfrom
the group fromthe theBozBoz People he was seriouslyseriously
scooter."I
scooter. “I kept
kept falling
fallingoff off all over London,”
London," said said Plonk.
Plonk."So,“So, after
after 48 hours,
hours, considering giving
considering altogether. “My
giving up playing altogether. "Mywage packet got
wage packet gotsmaller
smaller
I gave
gave it up.”
up." and smallereach
and smaller eachweekweekand andII waswas sick of ofcareering
careering up up andand down
down thethe
Nothing daunted,Plonk
Nothing daunted, Plonkbbecame ecame aa pipe pipe fitter’s
fitter's mate mate for aa firm
firm which
which country humpingmy
country humping mygear
gearabout,"
about,”said saidMac.
Mac. "We “We broke
broke downdown onon the
the road
road
installed central heating.
installed central Scotland that
back from Scotland that night
night and andII promised
promised myselfmyself that
thatwas
was the
thelast
last
“Have
"Have you
youevereverbeenbeenunderunder floor?”
floor?"enquired
enquired Plonk. straw-then
straw – thenI Igotgotaacall
call from
from Don DonArden.
Arden.
“Never,”
"Never," I replied.
replied. “When
"When I met met the
the other Faces it was like looking
other Faces looking at aa mirror
mirror of myself
mys elf- –
“You’ve
"You'veno noidea,”
idea,"saidsaidPlonk,
Plonk,“You’d "You'dfind findanything
anythingunder under those
those couldn't believe it. We
I couldn’t Weall alllooked
lookedalike alike-Plonk
– Plonk and and Steve
Stevemightmight have
havebeen
been
floorboards-I
floorboards – Ihad hadtotoget getright
rightunderneath.
underneath.Dead Deadcats, cats,spiders,
spiders,the thelot.
lot. my brothers.ItItwas
mybrothers. was about
aboutthe thefirst
firsttime
timethat
thatI've
I’veever
ever counted
countedmyself
myselflucky
lucky
The spiders
spiders were the the worst –-I've I’ve only
onlyjustjustgotgot over them.” them." to be
be small,
small, because
because apart
apart from needingneeding a new organist,
organist, IIfitted
fittedthe
thegroup
group
Plonk’s
Plonk's first musical
musical job job was working for Selmers, Selmers, as as an
an amplifier
amplifier image
image of being
being little.”
little."
assembler."Later
assembler. “LaterI got promoted
promoted to to amp
amptester,"
tester,”said saidPlonk.
Plonk. "That
“That was was Early skiffle
skifflewas wasMac’s
Mac'sfirst
firstmusical
musicalinfluence,
influence, and and at school
school in
when I got
when gotinterested
interestedin inthethebassbassguitar
guitar-I'd– I’d been
been playing lead guitar guitar up up Isleworth
I sleworth he he played
played rhythm guitarin
rhythm guitar inaa group
groupcalled
calledTheTheBlue
Blue Men,
till then. Strangething,
then. Strange thing,but butIItried
triedto toget
get them
themto tolet let me
me have
have some
some geargear specialised in such
who specialised such traditional
traditional arias arias as “Wabash
"Wabash Cannonball”
Cannonball" and
cheap when
cheap whenwe we were first first starting
starting and andtheythey didn't
didn’twant wantto toknow.
know. Now “Nobody
"NobodyLoves Loves Like An AnIrish
IrishMan”
Man"–-newwords
new words and andmusic
musicby by Lonnie
Lonnie
they’retrying
they're tryingtotogivegiveititto toususfor
for free."
free.” Donegan,
Donegan, of course!course! “Funnily
"Funnily enough,
enough, our our publicist
publicistTonyTony Brainsby and and I
A chance
chance meeting
meeting in in a musical
musical shop shop brought
brought about aboutthe thecollision
collisionof of Steve were in thethe same
same class,”
class," said Mac. “We "Wewerewerealways
alwaysflogging
floggingthings
things–-
Marriott and
Marriott andPlonk
Plonk and,and, on returning
returning to tothe
theshopshop aa few weeks later, he
fewweeks he anything
anything from fromDinkyToys
Dinky Toysto todesks."
desks.”
invited
invited Steve to sit sitin
inononpiano
piano with
with There followed a brief briefsojourn
sojourn in in art
art school,
school, where
where Mac studied
studied
the
the group.
group. Steve arrived arrived at at The commercial design,
commercial design, but but this
this burst
burstout out of aesthetic
aesthetic application
applicationwas was
British PrincePrince that that night
night complete
complete curtailed when
curtailed whenhe he bought
boughtan anelectric
electricpiano
pianowithwithhishis school
school grant.
grant. Mac
harmonica and
with harmonica andas finale
as a finale took piano lessons, under
piano lessons, underduressduressatatfirst,
first,with
withaalady
ladyteteacher
acher who
who lived
treated the
treated the audience
audienceto to aa raving Jerry near London Airport. His
near Hismoremorediscordant
discordant scales
scaleswere
weredrowned
drownedby bythe
the
whineof
whine of jets overhead.
overhead.
Apparently, Mac decided
Apparently, decided that his interests
that his interestsin inRay Charles
Charles
MYSTERY MAN 'PLONK:. LANE and Chuck Berry conflicted
and conflicted with with those
those of his teacher,
teacher, and
and
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he began
began taking
taking lessons in billiardsbilliards and snooker when he
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should have been at the the piano. “After that
piano. "After that IIbegan
began picking
picking
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up things
things off off record
records s by Chuck Berry,”
Berry," said
said Mac.
Mac. “You
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relate
So
Sofrom
quiteaa lot of his
relate quite
frominfant
his guitar
guitar playing
infant interpretations
playing to
interpretations of
to organ
of"London
“LondonBridge"
work.”
organ work."
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to
to playing
playing ‘rock’n’groove’
`rock'n'groove' with with aa local
localgroup
groupcalled
called
The Muleskinners.
The Muleskinners.
“Hung
"Hung up” up" areare Mac’s
Mac'stwo twomostmostused usedwordswordsto todescribe
describe
anything
anything that thatsomeone
someoneis is obsessed
obsessedor or absorbed
absorbedby, by, and
and he says
that “music
that "music has always been been my hang-up.hang-up. Before IIjoined joinedthethe
Faces
Faces IIwas wasjust justdrifting
driftingthrough
through life. life.IIcouldn’t
couldn'tbecome
become too too
involved
involved with with my work because
mywork because there there was alwaysalwaysthe theproblem
problem
ofbread
of breadand andcarrying
carryingthe thegeargear-all kinds of
– all kinds ofencumbrances
encumbrances that that
are now
are nowhandled
handled for forme.
me. IIwas wasalways
alwaysrowingrowing-perhaps
– perhaps you’dyou'd
better
better say ‘excitable
'excitablearguments’
arguments' –-with withthe thegroups
groups I was with, with,
but now
but now I'mI’m rereally
ally happy.”
happy."
For “laughs”,
"laughs", Mac Maclikeslikeslistening
listening to to the
the more
more sardonic wits
sardonic wits
of
ofcomedians
comedians like Woody WoodyAllen Allen and and mentions
mentions What's What’s New
Pussycat ashis
Pussycatas hiskind
kindof of film.
film. He prefersprefers to work workon onaaHammond
Hammond
organ
organ-–"the “thebest"
best”-and – andnow nowenjoys
enjoysthe theworkworkof ofBooker
Booker T and and
Alan Price.
Apart from his cold, the the only
only other
other irritation
irritation in inhis
hislife
life is
the bullyboys
the bullyboys who try to to throw
throw theirtheir weight
weightaroundaround in the the
dancehalls
dancehalls when when the the Faces
Faces are playing.
“I
"I get
getthethetypes
types who wholeanleanon onthetheHammond
Hammond and just stare
and just at you
stare at
in the
the face. One type type last week did did nothing
nothing but but sort
sort of mockingly
mockingly
polish the
polish the top
top with his handkerchief
handkerchief-it – itwas
wasall allIIcould
could dodo to keep
my handsoff
myhands offhim.
him.Finallyl
Finally Igot gotoffoffafter
afterthe thesetsetand
andIIwaswas so
so mad
mad
I smashed
smashed my myhand handthrough
through aadoor door-I – I had to to hit
hitsomething
something-– and and
couldn’t
couldn't play play for two two days.”
days."
Mac admires
admires Steve'sSteve’s methods
methods of dealing dealing with with thethe toughs.
toughs."He “He
just out ‘fronts’ them,” says Mac,
'fronts' them," Mac,“You "Youknow – bluffs his
know-bluffs hisway
wayoutout-–
or
or should
should I say sayhe hecalls
callstheir
their bluff?”
bluff?"
We
Wefinished
finished up up when
when Tony TonyBrainsby
Brainsbyreturnedreturned to the the room,
room,
and
and a selection
selection of ofschoolboy recollections hit the
schoolboyrecollections the air all about
about
when
when Tonywas
Tony was in Drake House and and Mac in in Rodney
RodneyHouse.House.
“Own
"Own up,” up," declared
declared Mac, “Rodney "Rodneywas was the the best
best for sport
sport and
and The Small Faces
TheSmall pose with
Facesposewith
a Ford
FordMustang, though
Mustang,though
I was
wascross-country
cross-country champion.”champion." Kenny
KennyJones (right) says
Jones(right)says
Asthe
As thedispute
dispute rent rent the
the air,
air, from
from upstairs
upstairs could
could be heardheard Steve he’s planning to
he'splanning buy a
tobuya
Marriott
Marriott practising
practising on on his newly acquired acquired Chinese
Chinese banjobanjo and
and second-hand TriumphTR4
second-hand Triumph TR4
Plonk doing
doing some some extraordinary
extraordinary things thingswith withan anamplifier.
amplifier.While
While
I sympathise
sympathise with with thethe Faces facing eviction eviction fromfrom their
their Pimlico
Pimlico
pad,
pad, I do do have
haveaacertaincertain amount
amount of sympathy
sympathy for the the residents.
residents.
"Anyway,moving
“Anyway, movinginto intoseparate
separateapartments
apartments will allow our our individual
individual and did manoeuvres
and manoeuvres at Southend.
Southend. He Hebecame
becameCorporal
CorporalJones ones and
talents
talents to come out,”
to come out," says
saysIan. Ian.“Unfortunately
"Unfortunatelywe we can't
can’t seem
seem to to find the remembers being
remembers beingchased
chasedby by a poisonous
poisonous snake.snake.
rightarea."
right area.”KeithAltham
Keith Altham “Some
"Some of ofthe
thefellas
fellaschased
chasedme meallallround
roundthe thecamp
camp with
with an an adder
adder on on
a stick,”
stick,"said
saidKenny.
Kenny.“Finally
"Finallywe we putput ititin
inthe
theLieutenant’s
Lieutenant's bath.” The
bath." The
morning aagreatly
following morning greatlygrieved subaltern had
grieved subaltern had all the the “snake
"snake
—- NME NMESEPTEMBER
SEPTEMBER 30— 30-
charmers" on
charmers” on parade.
parade.He He was not amused.
amused.
KENNYJONES
ENNY JONES IS ISthethelost
lostFace.
Face.Like Likeaagreatgreatmany
manygroupgroup Kenny’s service
Kenny's service career
careercame
cameto toan
anendendwhen
whenhe hemet
metfellow
fellowSmall
SmallFace
Face

K "When the
“When
drummers,
drummers,he
to remain
remain there.
the interviews
he has

interviews begin
has been
been placed
placed in the background and

beginII just sit down down

and prefers Plonk Lane in aaStepney
pub
pub "just
Stepney pub.
“just for laughs”,
laughs", and
pub. Kenny
Kennyhad
and Plonk’s
Plonk's brother
behindthe
behind
had joined

thebar,
joined in in aagroup
Stanley, who
brother Stanley,
bar, told
told him
groupplaying
who was
playing at
was working
that his
him that
working
his kid brother
atthe

brother
the

and
and keep
keep quiet,"
quiet,” admitted
admittedKenny. Kenny."It “Ithas
hasits its was looking for aadrummer. drummer.
advantages.
advantages.For
three
threewho
que
who have
stions.Anyway,
questions.
For example,
example,it's
have to answer
Anyway, I'm
answer the
I’m a born
it’s always
always the
the same
sameold
born listener.
the other
old
other

listener. I prefer
"When I met
“When “I
"I joined
joined The Outcasts,”
week weearned
weekwe
andblew
and blewthe
Outcasts," said
earned£40.1
thelot."
lot.”
£40. Itook
said Kenny.
tookall allmy
Kenny. “In
my mate
"In one
matess out
one

to sit back
backand
At school,
school, in
Kenny had
andthink

had few
think about
in Stepney
about conversations.”
Stepneywhere
fewinterests.
wherehe
interests. Metal
conversations."
hewas
Metal and
was born,
born,
and woodwork,
the Faces it was
the In the
have
the early days Kenny’s
have his own drumkit,
Kenny's greatest
drumkit, but buthis
wish was
greatest wish
hisfather,
father,aa more
was to
more
practical
practical man, man, wanted
wanted his son’s son's advancements
advancements
yes, but few others.
others. An endless
coffee tables, ashtrays
ashtrays and
endless conveyor
andfoot
conveyor belt
foot stools
stools rolled
belt of like looking in other
in
“I
"I needed
fields.
other fields.
needed £10 £10 for the
the kit, so
so IIhad
hadto toborrow
borrow
back into the
less enthusiasm
“I’d
"I'd park
the Jones house,
enthusiasm for academic
house, but Kenny showed
academic subjects.
park my bike at aa friend’s
subjects.
friend's house,
house, go
showed

go to
to
mirror
at a mirror it off my
“That was
"That
mymum

reckonedon
reckoned
mum in
was just
on was
in secret,”
secret," Kenny
just for the
was that
Kenny recalls.
the deposit.
deposit. What
Dad had
that Dad had to
recalls.
What I hadn’t
hadn't
to sign the
the hire-
hire-
school to register
admitted
admittedKenny.
register my
Kenny."I
mymark,
mark, then
used to pedal
“I used
then play truant,”
pedal up
truant,"
up to thethe
of myself”
myself" purchase
purchasepapers."
a generous
generous man!
papers.”Fortunately,
man!
Fortunately,Dad Dadwas was also
also

West End
all the
End andand stare
the drumkits.”
drumkits."
stare in in the
the shopshop windows
windows at small faceS
MY MIND'S Kenny that
On his first
that there
first meeting
therewas
meeting with
was something
with Plonk
somethingfamiliar
Plonk it struck
struck
familiar about
about him.
him.
pocket money
For pocket money Kenny Kennyus useded to wash down down EYE E LA
“ThenII remembered.
"Then remembered. IIfirst first met
met him
him on on the
the wrong
wrong
cars,
cars, and
andafter
afterthe theday's
day’swork work he he and
andaa few friends
friends endof
end of the rifle,” Kenny
the rifle," Kennytoldtold me.
me. "Plonk
“Plonk had also been
had also been
would
would go back back to to his
his house
house and and play skiffle
skiffle music
music in the
in theArmy
Army Cadets,
Cadets, in in another unit.”Now
another unit." NowKenny
Kenny
on an assortment
assortment ofwashboards
of washboardsand andtea tea chests.
chests. spends mostmostofhisleisuretimeinEppingForestwith
of his leisure time in Epping Forest with
Kennywas
Kenny was lead biscuit biscuit tin!tin!HisHisearlyearlyinfluence
influence PedroJones.
Pedro Jones.
was
was Tony Meehan Meehan of The The Shadows.
Shadows. “I bought
"I bought him himfor for £240 a month
month ago.ago. He's
He’s the
the
Another
Another of Kenny’sKenny's spare-time
spare -timeoccupations
occupations mostbeautiful
most beautifulshowjumper.
showjumper. We’re
We're a all keen riding
I I keen riding
ALAMY

was thethe Army Cadets.Cadets. He enlisted enlisted in the the “Green

"Green enthusiastsininthe
enthusiasts thegroup
groupand andIIkeep
keep mymy horse down down
Jackets",
Jackets”, who who specialised
specialised in in the
the use
use of the rifle, in the
in theEpping
EppingForeststables.
Forest stables.Now Nowall allI've
I’vegot
gottotododois
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grooving along
grooving along with with the the record,
record, listening
listening hard hard andanddigging.
digging.
Downstairs,
Downstairs, faint faint shuffling, step treading treading and and thethe occasional
occasional
"eeeeek" came
“eeeeek” came floating
floatingunder underthe thefront
frontdoor.
door."They“They mustmustbe be
soaking
soaking wet by now, now,they’ve
they'vebeen been out out there
there for forhours,”
hours,"thought
thought
Stevie of ofthethehandful
handful of fans fans clustered
clustered at at the front porch.
the front porch.
“They’ll all
"They'll all have
have the neighboursout
the neighbours outsoon,"
soon,”said saidMac,
Mac,
visualising
visualising angrynext-doors
angry next-doorschasing chasingthe thebedraggled
bedraggledgirls girls
down the street.
The Small Faces’
The Faces' recording session wasn’tbooked
recording sessionwasn't bookeduntil until111pm.1pm.
“The
"The girlsgirlshavehaveusually
usuallygone gone by byabout
about nine nine o’clock,”
o'clock,"continued
continued
Mac. “That
Mac. meansit's
"That means it’saa free
free passage
passage to to the
the awaiting
awaitingmini mini-cab,”
-cab,"
he laughed.
he laughed.Talk Talk of the the sessions
sessions prompted
prompted the the boys
boys to tumble
tumble
slowly downstairs.
downstairs. Via Via thethe kitchen
kitchen for bread bread and and jamjam first.
first.
The dining
dining tabletable stood majestically inthe
stood majesticallyin themiddle
middleof ofchaos.
chaos.
Tape recorders,
recorders, miles miles of tape tape all over the the place,
place, guitars,
guitars,
speakers
speakers and andthe theold old piano
pianoin in the
the corner.
corner.On On to a tapetape recorder
recorder
whirled
whirled a rough rough backing
backingtrack track-just
– just drums,
drums,bass, bass, piano
piano and and
guitar-–of
guitar of the
the Faces' composition.
Faces’ newest composition.
“We based
"We based it on aa dream dream Mick had. had. He saw this this geezer, a nice nice
bloke actually,
actually, walking
walking about about with this this green
green auraaura round
round
him,” explained
him," explainedSteve. Steve."By “By thethe time
time we’ve
we've addedadded all all the
the

Kenny keeps quiet

soundsit'll
sounds it’llbebeaa gas. We’reWe're not not sure
sure yetyet ififRon
Ron- – oh,
oh,that’s
that's Plonk
Plonk
-– or
or me
me is going to do do the
the lead vocal.”
vocal."
as "It's aagas,”
“It’s gas,"breathed
breatheddreamer dreamer Mick. Mick.The Theboys boysconcentrated
concentrated
Kerry's rerriCe earner emem
cad when be Mel fellare-thentil Fan on “Green
on "Green Circles”,
Circles", addingadding little
little bits. Ideas were flowing flowing
Plena 1.aa up a Memel. pub. teeny
Croup pts)taa as the freely and and Steve was wasdancing
dancing excitedly
excitedlyby the time
had 3ol000. In by the time he'd
he’d
pub tpatt eat linch*"
Picaga's
Mather StaalsI. told who area sencidna thought
thoughtof of all the the sounds
sounds that that could
could be beincorporated.
incorporated.
Manta tae tat atm that ttla kid
soother was losktag rat a drummer Elevenpm
Eleven pm-right
– right on the dot. dot. Clutching
Clutchingbrandy brandy-Napoleon,
– Napoleon,
jami4 the hateasta. - ear
Reamer. "Ss INV acre%
AO I gash an ma mated eat mod
of course
course-guitar
– guitarcases casesand andother
otheroddments
oddmentsof ofmystery
mystery and and
Nee dis ler* imagination,
imagination, four
four small,
small, happy
happy faces bounded
bounded into
into the
la the early dare ersaara greatest
,sa W11 tO had his 0" d"21 "
mere practical MD.
recording
recording studio. studio.
teat
Itantett Mefather. t zassneement ha Othel “I
"I love
lovethisthisplace,”
place,"sighed
sighedSteve,Steve,rushing
rushing up up to
tothe
the control
control
rested 11 tor ' hitin{tiaitgestin" room, saying
room, saying hellohello to John John thethe engineer,
engineer, getting some
getting some
term, n. ort nu Main n me,
rcc4ale ..Thtwin,t t Or the watt`,
Makc.c4
.31.2
drummingfrom
drumming fromKennyto
Kenny tobalancebalanceup, up,switching
switchingthe thelights
lights
%Ina I t g,sm
0,,,s hoe to it the WPM" off andand generally
generallygroovinggrooving about. about."We've“We’ve forgotten the tape
"Vrtin*Lair Dati .10ash1"1"" for John,” John," criedcried Plonk. Disaster.Dis aster.How Howcould couldthey they describe
describe to to
Boa tot azot OK4t4l with Mt"
Unica Keene that theta was Mellatkini
Johnwhat
John whatkind kindof sound theywanted
of sound they wantedon on"Green
“GreenCircles".
Circles”.
KENNY JONES
(maw shoat Wm Marriott went
Marriott wentinto intoaction.
action."A “A nice big bigjangle
jangleon on Mac's
Mac’s piano;piano;
rock'n'roll bass
rock’n’roll bass sound;
sound; and and a deep, dry crisp crisp drumdrum sound.”
sound."
learn
learn how to to ride
rideas aswell
wellasashe hejumps! I keep landing
jumps!Ikeep landing on on meme neck.neck. When
When the the bass
bass drumdru m"boom"“boom” was satisfactory and Plonk’s Plonk's bass bass speaker
speaker
Very painful!”
Very painful!" eliminated, the
crackle was eliminated, thefirst
first backing
backingtrack trackwas was laid down.
laid down.
“Why
"Why do you you call
call him
him Pedro?”
Pedro?" I asked.
asked. Recording
Recording was wasunderway.
underway."Strictly “StrictlyNo NoEntry
EntryWhen WhenThe TheRed RedLight
LightIs Is
“He’s
"He's of Welsh
Welshextraction,”
extraction," explained Kenny.
explained Kenny. On.”
On." “Circles
"Circles of ofgreeeen",
greeeen”, hummed hummed Steve over over engineer
engineer John’s John's shoulder.
shoulder.
needs time
It needs time to that one
to work that one out
out-–about
about10 10years!
years! Kenny's
Kenny’s drums drums exploded
explodedfrom from the the battery
batteryof speakers in the
of huge speakers the control
control
Cars
Cars are
are the otherbig
the other big interest
interestin inKenny's
Kenny’slife, life,and
andhe heplans
planstotobuy buyaaTR4, TR4, room.
room. Plonk sang out out the
the melodically
melodically eerie eerie bassline.
bassline.
second-hand.
second-hand. There Thereis is another interestand
another interest andshe shealsoalsolives
lives in Epping
Epping No moremore “Everybody
"Everybody do do thethe paranoia”.
paranoia". No more more neighbours.
neighbours. No more
No more
Forest, but Kenny
Forest, but Kennywillwill give no no further
further details.
details. "Sha-La-La-La-Lee". No
“Sha-La-La-La-Lee”. Nomore more “My "MyMind's
Mind’s Eye".Eye”. The Thepastpast isisblocked
blocked out out
Friends
Friends in in showbusiness
showbusiness are arefew,
few,butbutKenny
Kenny gets gets onon well with with Stevie
Stevie completely for forthethemoment.
moment.There’s There'sonly onlyone oneway way-forward.
– forward. Each Eachrecord record
Winwoodand
Winwood andKeith
KeithMoon,
Moon,of ofThe
TheWho.Who."I “I like
like the kindof
the kind of work they they areare is that
that bit better.
better. EveryEveryrecordrecordbecomesbecomes that that bitbit more
more fascinating.
fascinating.
doing," Kenny
doing,” Kennywent "Keith Moon
went on. “Keith Moon–-now nowthere’s
there'saadrummer
drummer who "Our outlook
“Our outlook is one one of ofhappiness
happiness and and well-being,"
well-being,”said saidStevie,
Stevie, “and"and thisthis
doesn’t believein
doesn't believe in my
my policy
policy of taking
taking a back seat! IIlove lovetheir
theirnew newrecordrecord must
must come come through
throughwith withyour yourmusic.
music.We We areare living and and we want want our our
-– ‘I’m A Boy’. Great!"
TmABoy'. Great!” music
music to too. Superficially,
Superficially, aanumber number like ‘Green 'Green Circles’
Circles' sounds
sounds sinister,
sinister,
Kennydislikes
Things Kenny dislikesarearecruelty
crueltyto animals, miserable
to animals, miserable people people and and but
but we want want people
people to listen.listen. If Ifthey
theylisten,
listen,and andtheytheycan can think,
think, they’ll
they'll get
doing
doing interviews.
interviews. On On Friday, September
September 6, Kenny Kennywas was 18, and and when
when he he a kick
kick out of it.”
out of it."
arrived
arrived back at his his hotel
hotel room
room there
there was
was aapresent
present on on his
hisbedbedfrom fromthe the Lunacybroke
Lunacy brokethrough
throughagain. again."Orlright,
“Orlright,was wasit?" beamed Plonk.
it?” beamed Plonk. "Can't
“Can’t
other Small Faces.
other Faces. He Hewaswasanxious
anxiousto toterminate
terminate our interview
interview and and go and and I take
take thethe bottom
bottom off this this piano,”
piano," laughed
laughed Mac. Kenny Kennysat satquietly
quietlyin in the
try it out
try out-– down
downin in the
the Forest.
Forest. corner and
corner and watched.
watched.The The boys listened to
boys listened to the
the playback.
playback. Discussed
Discussedit. it.
“The
"The greatest
greatest saddle you’ve ever seen!”
saddle you've seen!" he he enthused.
enthused. WhenWhen last seen seen he More ideas.ideas.Adding,
Adding, subtracting,
subtracting,louder, louder,softer,
softer,harder,
harder,longer.
longer.Brandy.
Brandy.
was galloping
was galloping intointothe
thedistance
distanceshouting
shouting "Hi“Hi-ho, Don Arden!”
-ho, DonArden!" KeithAltham
Keith Altham Back into into the
the studio,
studio, shouting,
shouting, joking,joking, falling about. about. Red light. light. Another
Another
layer of bass
layer b assguitar
guitar from
from Plonk, 12-string12 -string guitar
guitar fromfromSteve.
Steve. More
More jangle
jangle
from Mac Mac–-now now withwith a stripped-down
stripped -down piano. piano. The sound sound beganbeganto to grow
grow
— MELODYMAKER
- MELODY MAKER DECEMBERDECEMBER 1717 —- different sounds
as different sounds went went on. Another track.
on. Another track. Another
Another idea."Green
idea.“Green Circles" Circles”
CC VERYBODYDO
VERYBODY DO THE THEparanoia!”
paranoia!"hissed hissed Steve
Steve Marriott
Marriott as as was getting
getting better.
better.

“E
mimicking the
mimicking
sloped across the
he sloped

thegreat
greatWilson,
the room
1 Resembling an unlikely gang of
Wilson,Kepp
room of the

Keppel
the Small

el &&Betty,
Small Faces’
ofunderwater
Faces' Pimlico
underwater karate
Betty,the theremaining
Pimlico pad.
karate experts,
remaining Faces
pad.
experts,
Faces
Stevie was
Stevie was back
b ackininthe
chimes. In with the bells. In
chimes.
further forward.
further
thestudio
studiofalling
In with
fallingabout
with the
about with
the conga
conga drums.
with a loadload of
drums. More depth
ofenormous
enormous
depth and andaa bit

followed about
followed about the the room in slow motion. motion. Three am.
Three am. The backing
backing track track is “mixed”.
"mixed". AAmass mass of ofmachines,
machines, and and a
squeamish may
The squeamish mayfind
findthe
theSmall
Small Faces'
Faces’ latest
latest warcry
warcry a little cruel mass of electricity.
mass electricity. They They triedtried thethe vocals. First Plonk, Plonk, thenthen Steve doing doing
-– Napoleon
NapoleonXIV XIV didn’t
didn't stay unbanned
unb anned -– but but then
thenthe theFaces
Faceslive live in
in a the lead. “The "The old old voicebox
voiceboxbegins beginsto to crack
crack at this time,"
at this time,” saidsaid Mac. “No, "No,
compact, happy, airtight
compact, happy, airtightlittle
littleworld
world of life,
life,thought,
thought, ideas
ideas and and music. it's not
it’s not right.”
right."
Steve,
Steve,Mac,
Mac,Plonk
Plonkandandmate
mate Mick
Mick-– a kind
kind of hidden Small Face
hidden Small Face you "I'm tired,”
“I’m tired," volunteered
volunteered the the engineer.
engineer."Right" “Right” answered
answeredSteve. Steve. Too
never
never hear
hear about
about –-lounged
loungedaboutaboutininfront
frontof ofthe
theTV.TV. Drummer-boy
Drummer -b oyKenny Kenny tired. “Home!”
tired. "Home!" came came the the cry.
was outout underneath
underneath his his Mini. Someone stealthily moved to to the
the record
record Snoring road
Snoring road manager
manager is is awoken.
awoken. Red light off. off.And
And the greengreen circles
circles
player
player andand put
put onon a sound. After about
sound. After about aa third
thirdof of aa bar,
bar, the Faces were
the Faces were all grew and and they all lived lived happily
happily ever ever after.
after. Nick
NickJones
Jones •

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Ike & Tina Turner and
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“He
"He keeps
keeps
0

me hard
at work”
work" AA miss
miss inin the
theUS,
US,IKE
IKE&&TINA
TINATURNER
TURNER’s
“River Deep Mountain
"River Deep Mountain High”
High" becomes
becomes a a
monster hitininBritain.
monster hit Britain.Guests
GuestsofofThe
The Rolling
Rolling
Stones,
Stones, they
they bring
bring their show to
their show to London:
London:
“The
"The atmosphere
atmosphere will will be
be tremendous...”
tremendous..."

— MELODY MAKER
- MELODY MAKER JULY
JULY9 —
9-
ST LOUISISISknown
T LOUIS knownfor forits
itsbreweries,
breweries,itsitshot
hotweather,
weather, andand the
the

S
in Colorado,
had his
had his band
St Louis
LouisCardinals
Berry
Berry and
exponents
He is still
barely

band playing
intermissions. IIfinally
intermissions.
me try
let me trywhile
while he
Cardinals baseball
andIke
exponentsever

he played
IkeTurner.

still very
barely 17,"
Colorado, "Ike
“Ike was
very big
baseball team,
Turner.Ike
evertoto come
big there.
TinaTurner
17,” Tina
large. I was
was very large.
playingat ataa club
finallygot
club in
got to
played the
to meet
team,the
Ikeisisone
come out
oneof
out of the
there. “And
Turner related
was young

meet him
the organ
organfor
young and
Louis, and
in St Louis,
him and
andtold
for me.
theMississippi
of the
MississippiRiver,
the biggest
biggest jazz
the so-called
"And when
related this
so-called “Mound”
when I first
first met
this week from
and I wanted
and he
toldhim
wanted to
he would
would play
himII wanted
That kind
me. That
River, Chuck
jazz and
andR&B
"Mound" city.
met Ike,

to sing.

wantedto
kind of settled
sing. He
playorgan
organ at
R&B

when II was
Ike, when
from aa hotel
hotel room
room

at the
to sing
the
sing and
settled it right
and he
right then
he
then
and there
and thereand
andIIwent
wentto to work
work for Ike and and his Kings of ofRhythm
Rhythm as as the
the girl
girl
CHRIS WALTER

called me Little
singer. They called Little Ann
Ann ininthose
those days.”
days."
In veryshort
In very shortorder,
order,Ike Turner married
Ike Turner marriedhis hisnewest
newestemployee,
employee,and andnow,
now, four
four
children, five
children, five labels, aadozen
dozenor or so hits andand something
something like like nine -and -a -half »»
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Rolling Stones/Ike &
Tina Turner tour (that's
years later, the
years
still turning
turning out
the Turners are
records,
out records,
Tina above) has been
making
making fans
three months
three
fans happy
months lthey
happy on their
hey take
their
takeoff of to
hailed as the wildest
be with their
their home
their
their boys and
homein inthe
and enjoy
theView
View Park tour ever to hit Britain.
sectionof
section
“When
"When IIwas
of Los
Los Angeles.
was almost
almost19, 19, Ike
Ike Alan Walsh is with it
recordedme
recorded medoingdoing aa song
calledAFool
called ‘A FoolIn InLove',"
Love’,” Tina
continued.
continued."He “He sent
sent it around
around to to lots ofofrecord
recordcompanies
companies and and nobody
wantedit.
wanted it.Finally,
Finally, aa disc disc jockey in St Louis, Louis,Dave DaveDixon,
Dixon,told toldmemeabout
about
a new record company,Sue
record company, SueRecords,
Records,that thatwere
werestarting
startingupupininNew NewYork.
York.
The man’s
man's name namethere therewas wasJuggyJuggy Murray and and Ike sent sent him
him a master.
master.
He put
put it out right right away
away and and itit was
was a hit. My Myveryvery first
first record
recordwaswasaahit,hit,
and I was
and was thrilled.
thrilled.
There
There were were quitequite aa few other other hits on the
hits on the Sue
Sue label,
label, things like "Poor
things like “Poor
Fool”, “It’s
Fool", "It's Gonna
Gonna Work Out Out Fine”,
Fine", “I "IIdolize
IdolizeYou” You"and andaagreat
greatalbum
album called
called
The
The Soul
SoulOf OfIke Ike&&Tina TinaTurner,
Turner,which whichstillstillsells
sellstoday.
today.ButButwhen
whensingles
singles
sales began
sales beganto to lag, thethe couple
couple (Tina (Tina does
does mostmostall all the
the singing
singingwhile
whileIkeIke
leads the
leads band)moved
the band) movedon on to to Warner
Warner Brothers,
Brothers, to Modern Modern Records and and
six months
months ago ago to Phil Spector’s
Spector's Philles
Philles label.
“Phil
"Phil is isvery
veryinteresting
interesting to to work with,” Tina
workwith," Tina continued.
continued. "He “He works you you
hard
hard andand there's
there’s no no such thing thing as aafinished
finished arrangement.
arrangement. He changes changes
that
thateverytwo
every twominutes. minutes.He Hewrote
wroteour ourfirst
firstsong
songfor forhis
hislabel,
label,"River
“River
Deep…”, and
Deep...", andhe's he’saa verygoo
very good writer.
d writer.
Before we we signed
signed with with Phil, we we did
did anan album
album for Ray Charles’ Charles' own
own
Tangerinelabel.
Tangerine label.It'sIt’scalle
called Anything You Can
dAnythingYou Can Do Without, and it’s out
and it's out
of sight
sight really.
really. There’s
There's aa single
single out out on
on that
that too, and and the song, well, it sounds
the song, sounds
a little
little like Ray Charles Charles ‘What’d
'What'd II Say'.Say’. The song does, andmaybe
does, and maybeIIdo dotoo,
too,
I don’t
don't know.
know.
“I’ve
"I've always
always been been around
around male malesingers,
singers,and andIIlikelike Ray's
Ray’s records,
records,
especiallyhis
especially hisold oldones.
ones.And And Sam Sam CookeCooke was was justjust about
abouttoo toomuch.
much.You You
couldn't
couldn’t top top that
that man's
man’s voice and and hishis performance.”
performance." rehearsing
rehearsing aalotlot of the
the time.
time. But sometimes
sometimes I get aa chance
chance to skate
skate and
and
The Turners
Turners today are aa business. business. They Theyhave have a whole show show including
including bowl, andand once
once in a while
while the
the whole
whole family will forget work and
familywill and go out
out
their own
their own nine nine-piece
-piece band,
band, the thefamed
famedthree three-girl group, the
-girl group, the Ikettes,
Ikettes, on
on a bike.
and aa young
and young boy b oysinger,
singer,PrincePrinceAlbert.
Albert.“There’s
"There'sanotheranother group thatcalls
group that calls “It’s
"It's aa good
good life
lifeand
and we
we love
loveour
ourhome.”
home." Ren Grevatt
Grevatt
themselves
themselvesthe theIkettes
Iketteswhen when they're
they’rein in England,"
England,” said said Tina, “but"but ours
ours
are the
are the originals.
originals. Ike records records them them andand will probably
probably cut cut some
some Prince
Prince
sides soon.
sides soon.
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would love loveto tohave
haveaabusiness
businesswith withrecord
recordartists,
artists,cutting
cutting them
them ARRYING A
CARRYING secretaries, the
VALET, two secretaries,
AVALET, the Ikettes
Ikettes –- their
their three
three girl
and booking
and bookingthem.
ambition
ambitiononly
had a hit here
had
onlyand
here for
them.And

forthree
And that's
andthat's
that’sto
three years.
that’sgoing
toget
years. Hits
goingto
getback
back on
Hitshelp
to come.
come. But right
the hit
on the
helpyour
hit trail
yourbookings
right now

bookings and
nowwe
trail inAmerica.
we have one
in America.We haven't
We haven’t
and everything.
everything.
C
road
Albert, plus
Albert,
road managers
singers-two
backing singers
plus the
managers- –the
– twomale
malesingers
the Kings Of Rhythm
theIke
Ike&&Tina
singers Jimmy Thomas and
Rhythm Band
Tina Turner
Turner Revue
Band and,
Revue swept
and, of course,
swept into
and Prince
Prince
course, a few
into London's
London’s fair fair
Not that
that we have haveanything
anything to complain complain about.about. We’veWe'vebeen been busy with
busywith city
city last week.All
last week. All 19 of
ofthem.
them.
dates all
dates all the
the time.
time.And And the crowds love us.
the crowds But, you
you cancan bebe assured,
assured, this this isn't
isn’t going
going to
In fact, they
they all tell us us weweshould
should do do great
great be the
be James Brown
the James Brown Show Show all over again. The
again. The
in England.
England.
“We’ve
"We've had had calls to come come over there there for moremore
"We have one
“We husband-and-wife
husband
show and
-and -wife team
and their
their own
team with
own brand
brandof
with their
their wailing
of blues
wailing
blues will be out
thantwo
than
our
work out
twoyears,
our whole
out the
years, but
whole show, and
the details.
but we've
we’ve always wanted
and we’ve
we've never been
details. I hopehope itithappens
wanted to
been able
happens soon,
to take
able to
take
ambition –- to generating
generatingaa different
will centre
Exposing an
Exposing
different kind
roundTina
centre round
kind of excitement
Tina Turner.
an exquisite
Turner.
exquisite row of
excitement which

ofteeth
teeth and
and
which

becausewe
because
The final
we would
wouldgive
final decision
decisionon
give them
them aa terrific
ontouring
terrific show."
touringabroad
show.”
abroadactually
actually get back on shimmering in
shimmering
her calf
her calf-length
-length boots
green dress,
in a green
boots and
dress, Tina
andsaid,
Tinastudied
said,"We're
studied
“We’regoing
goingto to
rests right
rests right in

songwriterand
songwriter
in Ike's
other jobs as music
other
Ike’s lap, since

andnow nowsinger
since in
music director,
in addition

singer("He'll
addition to
director, arranger,
arranger,
(“He’ll be
to his

be singing
singing
the hit trail in be doing roughly
be doing
we do in the
Britain?Well
Britain?
roughly the
the US.
US.Am
Well no,
the same
same show
AmI Inervous
no, it’s
it's just
nervousabout
England as
show in England
about touring
anotherjob.
just another
touring
job.IIfeel
feelII
on a lot
on
his
lot more
his own small
more records,”

his own artists.

artists.
records," says
small booking
says Tina)
booking agency
Tina)he heoperates
agency representing
operates
repres enting America"
America” want to
want
and
to work here because
and nobody
nobody has
shaking
shaking her
hasseen
because it's
seenus
her long hair.hair.
uslive
it’s aa new country,
live yet,”
yet," she
country,
she added,
added,

“We
"We have haveaahousekeeper
housekeeper at home home to take care care Was TinaTinanervous
nervous about about the Albert Hall Hall
of ourboys,
ofour boys, tv. twinsins Ike Jr and Craig
Jrancl Craigwho who are arc eight;
eight; Michael,
Michael, concert they had
concert they had toto play that
that evening alongside Fhe
evening alongside The
seven;
seven; and and Ronnie,
Ronnie,six, when when we’rewe're notnot home,”
home," Tina Tina IKE L TINA TURNER Rolling Stones?
Rolling Stones?
i..1-1.,
continued."And
continued. “And Ike has two secretaries, secretaries, Ann Ann Kane :11110.1
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"No. I don’t
don't get tootoo nervous
nervous nowadays.
nowadays. I think think tthis
his
and Rhonda
and Rhonda Graham, Graham,who who handle
handlethe theagency.
agency. hall
hall is big, so we’re aalittle
sowe're little worried
worried about the sound
Rhonda,
Rhonda, who who is white,white, goesgoeson onourournorthern
northern dates dates –-but
buttheatmospherewill
the atmosphere willbe betremendous,
tremendous, I think.”think."
with
with us, and andAnn Anngoes south on
goes south our dates
on our dates there.”
there." rdvwL The man
man of the the family, Ike IkeTurner,
Turner,strode
strode into
into
111.1t
Ike, whowho is isoriginally
originally from from the the Deep
Deep South
South of of the
the hotel lounge with a guitar.lHe
with aguitar. stroked his
le stroked his
ue Tik
Mississippi,is
Mississippi, is now
now in his third third homehomecity cityof of Los natty littlebeard,
natty little beard,creased
creased his his vividly
vividly striped
striped
Angeles, where where he he likes the the life best.
best. “He
"He likes
likes to to trousers downinto
trousers down intohis
hisseatseat and
and started
started toto play
write and work workwith with his tape machine machine when when we’rewe're “River
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work
home,” Tina
home," Tina noted.
noted. "And “And he keeps keeps me me hard
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opening
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night last Friday at at London’s
London's Royal Albert Hallof
Albert Hall ofThe
The Rolling
Rolling
Stones’
Stones' tour, 1966. John
tour,1966. John Entwistle
Entwistle and and Keith
Keith Moon,
Moon, of of The
The Who,
Who,
Jonathan
Jonathan King Kingand andex-Yardbird
ex-YardbirdPaul PaulSamwel
Samwell-Smith were among
I -Smith were among
the
the names in the the audience.
audience.
As soon
soonas asthethegroup
groupappeared
appeared on onstage,
stage,hundreds
hundreds of of screaming
screaming
teenagers
teenagers surged surged to the front, elbowed their
front, elbowed theirway
way past the security
security
men and climbedclimbed on to to the
the platform. Keith Richard
platform. Keith Richard was knocked
knocked to to
the ground,Mick
the ground, Mickwas was almost
almost strangled,
strangled,while whileBrian
BrianJones
Jonesand andBill
Bill
Wyman took took to theirtheir heels,
followed closelyby
followed closely by dozens of of
determined
determined fans! Charlie Charlie “Tina Turner
"Tina Turner
Watts
Watts sat quietly behindhis
quietly behind his
drums
drums watching
watching the the scene. appeared in
appeared in aa
Manager Andrew
rushed
rushed on
Andrew Oldham
on stage,
stage, fol
Oldham
followed
lowed by fluffy, figure
fluffy, figure--
the
the group’s
group's agent
and their
agent Tito
their publicist
publicist Les
Tito Burns
Burns
Les Perrin,
Perrin,
hugging
hugging dress”
dress"
to
to help thethe bouncers.
bouncers. Even Even
Troggs manager Larry Larry Page and and DJDJChris
ChrisDenning,
Denning,who whowere
weresitting
sitting
In LA’s Gold Star Studios in
LA'sGoldStarStudiosin
1966withPhilSpector(left),
1966 with Phil Spector (left), near me in in the
the front
front rowrow atat the back of the
the back the stage, ran forward
forward to tohelp.
help.
described asas"interesting to
“interesting to The group
group disappeared
disappeared and and itit was announced
announced that unless
that unless
work with” byTina
workwith"by Tina Turner
and"unpredictable"bylke
and “unpredictable” by Ike everyone returnedto
everyone returned totheir
theirseats
seatsthe theshow
showwouldwouldbe be cancelled.
cancelled. TheThe
stage
stage was cleared,
cleared, fans fans drifted back to
drifted back to their
theirseats
seatsandand the
the Stones
Stones
reappeared.
reappeared. Mick Mick-–dressed
dressed in orange shirt, shirt, white
white bell-bottomed
bell-bottomed
Steady, Go!”Go!"smiled
smiledIke, Ike,andandimmediately
immediately Tina Tinasparked
sparked intointo action,
action, trousers
trousers and black, black, sequinned,
sequinned,Chinese-style
Chinese-style jacket jacket-– ran forward
forward
throwingher
throwing herhead
headbackbackand andyelling
yellingoutoutthethewords
wordsof of"River
“River Deep…”.
Deep...". and started
started withwith “Paint
"Paint It, It, Black”.
Black".
Even withwith just
just Ike
Ikeon onguitar,
guitar, the
the two
two ofofthem
them werewerealready
already blowing
blowing up up Then camecame“Under "UnderMy MyThumb”
Thumb"and and “Get"Get Off Of My
Off Of My Cloud”.
Cloud".
a storm,
storm, andand Tina’s
Tina's fantastic personalityglowed
fantastic personality glowedlike likeaa luminous
luminousclock. clock. Charlie
Charlie thenthen walked to the front front ofof the
the stage, announced
announced “Lady "Lady
It was,
was, ininfact,
fact,Tina
TinaTurner
Turnerwho whofirst
firstturned
turned ace producer
producer PhilPhil Spector
Spector on on Jane”
Jane" and returned
returned to his drum drum kit.kit.For
For“Lady Jane”, Brian,
"LadyJane", Brian,looking
looking
to the idea of recording
the idea re cording the the Turner
Turner team.
team. "We“We wentwent out
out to do a moviemovie showshow elegant
elegant in in grey
grey trousers, purplevelvet
trousers, purple velvetjacket,
jacket,redredsilk
silk shirt
shirt and
and white
white
that
thatPhil
Phil was
was producing
producingcalled calledTNT,"
TNT,” said Ike, “and "and hehe was
was sosoimpressed
impressed cravat, sat down down to to play
playan aninstrument
instrument resembling
resembling an electric
electric zither.
by Tina’s
Tina's work
work on onstage
stagehe hejust
justcame
came up upto tomemeand andsaid
saidhe’dhe'dlike
liketo toproduce
produce “Not FadeAway",
"Not Fade Away”, "The “The Last
Last Time",
Time”, “Have
"Have You Seen Your YourMother,
Mother,
a record
record by by us.
us. He said
said he’d makeus
he'd make usaa Number
Number1.1.So So that
thatwaswasit.it. We gotgot Baby, Standing
Standing In The The Shadow”
Shadow" before before they closed with
they closed with
together
together and anddid did a recording.
recording. “Satisfaction”.
"Satisfaction".
“You
"Yousee, see,we weweren’t
weren'twithwith aacompany
company at the the time,
time, soso it was
was quite
quite For the
the most
most part part The Yardbirds’
Yardbirds' act which which preceded
preceded the the Stones’
Stones'
straightforwardto
straightforward tosign
signtoto Spector's
Spector’s company,
company, PhillesPhilles Records,”
Records," added added was an anoutrageous
outrageous cacophonycacophony which which completely
completely drowned
drowned KeithKeith
Ike. “We
"Wewere wereinterested
interested in in getting
gettingaa big hit record,”
record," TinaTina explained.
explained."We “We Relf’s
Relf's voice. The only numbers numbers I could could distinguish
distinguish werewere “Shape
"Shape Of Of
had a bit of
had ofdifficulty with our
difficultywith our numbers
numbers on onthe
thenational
nationalcharts.
charts.We Wefelt
felt Things”
Things" and and “Over
"Over UnderUnderSideways
SidewaysDown" Down”and andeven
even these
these sounded
sounded
somebody withSpector's
somebodywith Spector’sexperience
experiencewould wouldbe beable
ableto tododo something
somethingfor for like records
records they’d forgottentotoput
they'd forgotten putaavoice
voiceon. on.[...]
[…]
us, but unfortunately
unfortunately things thingswent wentwrong
wrongin in the
the States,
States, although
although'River ‘River However, the Ike & & Tina
TinaTurner
Turner act act which
which tooktook upup almost
almost thethe
Deep…’was
Deep...' wasaa big hit in in England.”
England." entire firsthalf
entire first halfcouldn't
couldn’thave havebeenbeenbetter.
better.The TheIkeIkeTurner
TurnerBandBand -–
“The
"The trouble
trouble is,"is,” continued
continued Ike, Ike, "in
“in the
the States
States nownow they
they play a disc disc eight
eight musicians with with IkeIkeononguitar
guitar–-opens
opens their their spot.
spot.TheThe band's
band’s
because
because of the the money
money that’sthat's been
been handed
handed out. It doesn’t
doesn't matter
matter anyanymore
more singer
singer appeared
appeared and and blasted
blasted off with"I“ICan't
off with Can’tTurnTurnYouYou Loose”,
Loose", then
then
what the
what the record
record sounds
soundslike. like. It hurt Phil’s ego when
hurt Phil's when ‘River
'RiverDeep…’
Deep...' didn’t
didn't came “Hold"Hold On On I’m I'mComing”
Coming"before beforethe theIkettes – threedolly
Ikettes-three dolly-looking
-looking
go. He
Hehashas quite
quite aafewfewdifficulties
difficultiesin inthe
theStates
Statesnowadays.
nowadays. PeoplePeople thinkthink coloured
coloured girls-girls –danced
dancedonstage.
onstage.Tina Tina Turner then appeared,
he's nut,and
he’s a nut, andthatthat he’s
he'sstrange.
strange.TheyTheydon’tdon'tunderstand
understand him him andand therefore
therefore dressed in aafluffy, fluffy, royal
royalblue, figure-huggingdress.
blue,figure-hugging dress. SheShe opened
opened
think
thinktwice
twice about
aboutpromoting
promotinghis hisrecords.
records.Spector
Spectoris is a very unpredictable
unpredictable with “Shake” backed
with "Shake" backed by the Ikettes, Ikettes, then
then Ike joined her at the the mic
mic for
for
characterand
character andthisthisworries
worriesaalot lot of guys. OneOne minute
minute he’she's producing
producing a “It’s
"It's Gonna Work Out Fine”. Fine". Their
Theirhithit“River
"RiverDeepDeep-– Mountain
Mountain High”
High"
record
record andand thethe next minute he
next minute he wants
wants to stand for president
to stand president or something.
something. naturally
naturally won wongreat
greatapplause.
applause.NorrieDrummond
Norrie Drummond
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I must
must admit
admit we'rewe’re having
havingaa bit of trouble
trouble with him,” him," said Ike, “because
"because
just when
just when we were were supposed
supposed to be doing doing ourour follow-up
follow-uphe hedisappeared.
disappeared.
We signed
signed to to him
him for
fortwotwoyears,
years,so soheheshould
shouldbe bemaking
making our our records
records for ASIONISHING iaauus
two years. But he’s
two
something.So
something.
he'svanished
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msuieThe
i neCromwellian,
Cromwellian,pop’s
pop'snewest
newest hangout.
hangout.
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to members. Steak and
members. Steak and chips,12s
chips, 12s 6d
6d
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talking to agents, promoters
promoters and recordingrecording

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HAVE wondered
what showbusiness managers
managersat at the club.Among
the club. Among the names names in
personalities
personalities do do when their this field
this field who go therethere are Brian EpsteinEpstein
night’swork
night's workisisover?
over? How (Beatles),
(Beatles), Robert
Robert Stigwood
Stigwood (Who’s
(Who's agent),
agent),
they escape
do they escape from
from the the Rik Gunnell
Gunnell (Georgie Fame’s Fame's manager),
manager), Kit Kit
pointing fingers, stares
pointing stares andand autograph
autograph Lambert (Who's
Lambert (Who’s manager)
manager) and andSimonSimon
hunters? In
hunters? In London anyway, the the answer
answer Napier-Bell
Napier -Bell(Yardbirds
(Yardbirds manager).
manager).
they go to
is they tothe
the Cromwellian
Cromwellian club. The supposing this
Now supposing this imaginary
imaginary group
"Crom" first opened
“Crom” opened its oak-beamed
oak -beamed doors was given a contract
was contract by one of these these astute
astute
two years ago and and the
the pop
pop world swept in. gentlemen,
gentlemen,they theycould
couldthenthengo goonon to talk
to talk
The club is is aathree-storey
three -storeyGeorgian
Georgianhouse house to TV
TVproducers
producers such as Johnnie Stewart,
Johnnie Stewart,
in Cromwell
Cromwell Road.Road. Johnnie
Johnnie H Hamp,
amp, etc, who
discotheque is
The discotheque have
have also
also visited.
visited. They
downstairs, Harry’s
downstairs,
famous bar
famous
Harry's
bar is on the the
When pop stars
When pop stars could then
could
many
many disc
then chat
chat up
disc jockeys
up the
jockeys who
the
who
ground floor and
ground return toLondon
return to London before bending
go, before bending the the
the gambling rooms ears
ears of pop
p opjournalists
journalists
upstairs.
are upstairs. the chances are
the chances are such
such as as NME editor
editor
"Crom" –- apart
The “Crom”
from being
being a club
apart
club –-isis also it’s the first
it's the place
first place Andy
Andy Gray.
Stories about
about the the
a meeting place, aa place
meeting place,
business discussions
for business
place
discussions
they head
they head for
for “Crom”
"Crom" abound.
abound. There
was the evening the
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and to some people

and people aawayway “Bend
"Bend Competition”
Competition" was was
of life.
life.When
Whenpop popstars
starsreturn
return to
to London
London the the held. One
held. One young
young lady dancing
dancing in inaa dress
dress
chances are
chances are it's the first place
it’s the place they
theyheadheadfor made
made of plastic
plastic triangles
triangles chained
chained together
together
meet friends and catch up on the
to meet the latest
latest apparently
apparently bbent ent too
too much
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ROCK 1966
1966
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than I've seen on
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last night,
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musicians would
musicians would be tired tired after
after playing lovely
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people and and I’m
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for me.”
me."

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and makes
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that
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very angry
angrywith
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withhishisequipment.
equipment.AAlot
because he isn’t
is because isn't happy
lot of
happy
records,
records, so
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and
and in
so obviously he answers
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more concerned
in what
concerned with
what I'm
I’m playing.
answers that
with our
playing. I think
that one.
sound on
our sound
think they
they call
one.
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call me
me the
the
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with the

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sound he's
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probably knows
getting at the time.
he’s getting
knows more
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anyone. Sometimes
moreabout
about me
veryyoung
methan
young –-very
than
very
silent one because
silent one
I don’t
don't move
because on
move about
on the
about much
the surface
surfaceitit seems
much on stage because
seems I am.
because I be four people slapstick-but
slapstick – butsometimes
adult and
adult
sometimeshe's
serious. Keith loves
and serious. loveslooning
opposite-–
he’s the opposite
boning about
about
think
thinkthe
thegroup
groupwould
wouldfly flyoff they didn’t
off if they didn't have and taking
and takingthe
themick.
mick.He's He’sjust
justaa Wembley
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The Who are
person to
one solid person to keep
keep it all together.
are individualists
individualists and
together. Basically
andsoloists,
soloists,so so
doing solos"
doing solos” yobbo,” laughed
yobbo," laughed John. “Mooney
loudest drummer
loudest drummerin
"Mooney must
inEngland.
England.He's
must be the
He’saa great
great show
without
without aa backbone
backbone the the sound
soundwould would be be four drummer
drummerfor forThe
TheWho,Who, and and very driving.
driving.
people
people each
eachdoing
doingsolos."
solos.” Technically he’s
he's stumped
stumped -but – buthe heswings
swingsin inhishis own
own way. Rather
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get
people have said
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that TheThe WhoWhohave havedone
donejustjustabout
abouteverything
everything a good,
good,quick
quickflash
flashphrase
phrase in insometimes,
sometimes, he’ll
he'lljust just hit
hit the
the drum
drum thatthatwill
will
with feedback and
with feedback and sounds,
sounds,and andthat
thatthere
thereisisnothing
nothingleft leftto to do.
do. Where does sound loudest
sound the time.
loudest at the time. Roger
RogerDaltrey
Daltreyisisananeasy easyperson
person totounderstand
understand-–
John think the
John think thegroup
groupis is going? “We’re
"We're definitely
definitelygoing
going forward
forwardall all the
the time.
time. but often he’s
he's misleading
misleading and and he’s
he's not thinking
thinking what what you think
think he is.
Now we weuse
usemore
morevocal
vocalharmonies
harmonies and andthings,
things,as asinin The
The Everly Brothers’
Brothers' Roger worries
worries quite
quite a bit.
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‘Man With The TheMoney’,
Money',and and thethe Dion
Dionnumbers
numbers we do. do. TheThegroup’s
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the whole
wholegroup
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inaagood
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always cheers
cheers Roger
over choosing
choosing material
material and andmusical
musicalpolicypolicy hashas almost
almostdied dieddown
downnow,"now,” up as
up as well. On stage
stage he’s
he's ungainly
ungainly and always drops
and always dropsthings
thingsor ortrips
tripsover.
over.
said John over his
said John his lemon
lemon tea. tea. “We
"Weagreeagreeon onourourstage
stagenumbers
numbers almost
almost A very impulsive
Avery person,”said
impulsive person," saidJohn.
John."If
“If you give him him three days to do
three days
immediately.
immediately. In our minds
In fact, our minds are are working
workingin insuch
suchharmony
harmonywe often
we often something he'll
something changing his
he’ll keep changing hismind
mind until
untilthe thevery
verylast minute-– so
last minute
all come up with the the same
same suggestions
suggestionsfor for a new number
number to to learn."
learn.” thatalthough
that althoughhe's
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daystotothink
think it itover,
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minuteimpulse
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feelthat
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that a lot
lotof
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this‘hate
'hate each
each other’ bit
other' bit a fascinating wayof looking
fascinating way looking into cameras,so
into cameras, sothat
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he’s
is very
veryplayed
played up. IIget geton onwith
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separately-but other
– but the other miles
miles away and going into the
away and the future!”
future!"
three
threeare
are inclined
inclinedto to clash.
clash. I understand
understand Pete Pete-what
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aboutto todo.
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moody person.
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dayyou'll say
you’ll say
something
somethingand andhe'll
he’ll jump
jump down down your throat throat and
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thoughtfully: "Yes, I'm very
whoever he's with.
whoever he’s with. IIrespect
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making a record,
record, working
working on
on it,
it,planning
planning it
0 knock
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and polishingit."
it.”

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certainly
I last Thursday, which boasts
"hilarious waiter
“hilarious waiterand
Sunday", there
Sunday”,
boasts on the menu,
andspaghetti
spaghettialle
there was baby
baby octopus
menu,
allevongole
vongole on
octopus to eat andand
weren’t rearing
weren't rearing their theirugly
ugly heads
heads and the boys
and the the
the entertaining
entertainingconversation
conversationof ofThe
The Who's
Who’s
just loped about
about from the studio studio floor to to control
control frenetic
frenetic percussionist
percussionistKeith
Keith Moon
Moon to be had.
boxtotallyinvolved
box totally involved in
making. The
making. The processes
the record they
in the
processes involved
theywere
involved included
included
were “We’ve
"We've "Our next
“Our
material
next album
materialwhich
album has
has the
which should
the kind
kind of progressive
shouldenable
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ustoto break
break into
into
numerous
numerousplaybacks,
tracking,
playbacks, attentive
tracking, editing,
editing, re-recording,
attentive listenings,
re-recording,and andmost
most of rehearsed America within
Keith. “At
within the
"Atpresent
the next
present our
next six months,”
our records
months," said
records only seemseem to
all, hard
hard work. The Who Who took took the
the whole
whole thing
thing sell
sell in
in places
places where
where there
there are race riots.
are race riots. We're
We’re
in their
their stride.
stride.
Said drummer
drummer Keith Keith Moon:
Moon: “What"What do you
carefully and very big in Trapper
which
Trapper Falls,
being issued
which is being
Falls, mind
issued next
mindyou!
next month,
you!This
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month, is much
much
LP,

think of that
think that one? Everything’s
better, isn't
better, isn’t it?"
Everything's sounding
it?” Guitarist
into the control room,
Guitarist Townshend
room, looned
sounding much
Townshend lollop
boned about,
about, then
much
lolloped
then
ed are singing in more of a group
more
surprises.
plays ‘double
group effort and
surprises. I play zither
'double tracked
and includes

tracked tuba’,
includes aa few
zither on one
one track
track and
tuba, French
and John
French horn,
horn, bass
bass
discussedhis
discussed
producerand
producer
hissolo, and
andco
and the
co-manager
the ending,
-manager Kit
ending, with
Kit Lambert,
with record
Lambert, who
record
who
unison now"
unison now” and nose flute on
and
"John has
“John
on another.”
has written
another."
written two numbers
numbers titled
titled 'Boris
‘Boris
sat concentrating
concentrating behind behindall all the knobs and and The Spider’
Spider' and
and ‘Whiskey
'Whiskey Man’ and I have
Man' and
switches."This
switches. “Thisis is the
thethird
thirdnumber
numberwe've we’vedonedonefor forthe
thenext
nextLP,"
LP,”said
saidKit.
Kit. written
written twotwocalled
called'Cobweb
‘CobwebStrange' Strange’ and
and ‘I Need
'I Nee d YouYou(Like
(LikeAA Hole
Hole In The
“Only started
"Only yesterday. Have you heard
started yesterday. heard ‘Heatwave’?
'Heatwave'? It's It’s an
an oldie to Head)’.”
Head) '."Sandie
Sandie Shaw’s
Shaw's manager
manager Eve Taylor Taylorwillwillnonodoubt
doubt bebefascinated
fascinated by by
remindour
remind ourfans
fansof of the
theearly
early Marquee
MarqueeClub Clubdays."
days.” the
the latter
latter as itithappens
happens to be beherherfavourite
favouritephrase.
phrase. Keith
Keithanticipated
anticipated somesome
were spun
Tapes were spun and and “Heatwave”
"Heatwave" churned churned out outofof the
the five huge
huge speakers
speakers difficulties
difficulties in reproducing
reproducing the thetracks
trackson on stage
stage but
but suggested
suggested the the problem
problem
in the box. And Andaapleasing
pleasingmass massofofharmonies
harmoniesand andundercurrents
undercurrents it could
could bebe easily resolved
res olve dby John playing
byJohn playingFrenchFrenchhornhorn and
and bass
bass at
at the
the same
same
turnedout
turned outto tobe.be. It's
It’s this
this sort
sort of treatment
treatment that thatwill
will be
be marking
markingaa major major time while he attached
time while stringsto
attached strings tohis
hisownown armarmwhich
whichwould
wouldplay play the
the
breakthrough
breakthroughininThe TheWho's
Who’s musical
musical world. zither! “Or"Or failing
failing that
that we couldcould go goononstage
stageand andmime
mime to to backing
backing tracks
tracks
There
There will be be little
little chance
chance for their their critics
critics to say, “What
"What aaghastly noise,”
ghastlynoise," while we wesmashed
smashed things,”
things," he he said
said enthusiastically.
enthusiastically.
or “That
"That feedback
fee db ackjust just covers
covers up up the
the fact that
that hehe can’t play guitar."
can't play guitar.” In spite
spite ofofthe
thefact
factthat
that according
according to Keith the the new
new WhoWho have
have“swallowed
"swallowed
Townshendis
Townshend is rapidly
rapidly goinggoing to to prove thatthat he he is one
one of
ofthe
the most
most advanced,
advanced, the oldold‘pop-art-Carnaby-gear-we-all-hate-one-another’
'pop-art-Carnaby-gear-we-all-hate-one-another' image", image”, they
intelligent,
intelligent, progressive writers and and musicians
musicians in this this country.
country. are still having
having a “smashing”
"smashing" time time on on stage,
stage, and quite rightly
and quite rightly inin my
Pete Townshend,
Townshend, the tall, lean
the tall, lean mind behindmost
mind behind mostof of The
The Who's
Who’s musical
musical opinion,
opinion, he he believes
believes their their lack of ofsuccess
success in America is because
inAmerica because not
madness,
madness,has hasbeen beenabsorbing
absorbing"sounds"“sounds”for foraalong
longwhile.
while. They range from
They range from enough people
enough people havehave seenseen this
this visual presentation.
presentation. ItIt mustmust be seen to be
be seen be
Dylan, Debussy,
Dylan, Debussy,D Dolphy
olphy and and Diddley. The deciding factoris
deciding factor is that
that atat last
last believed.
believed. "I “I don’t
don't know why whywe we do it,”it," admitted Keith. “We
admitted Keith. "We enjoy
enjoyitit–-the
the
he’s got beyond
he's beyond absorption.
absorption. Not Not only
only does
does he dig the the music,
music, he hecompletely
completely fans
fans enjoy it. it.IIsuppose
supposeit’s it'sjust
justanimal
animal instinct.”
instinct."
understandsititall
understands allas aswell.
well.This This has
hasmeant
meantprogress
progressfor forThe
TheWho Whoin inleaps
leaps group's last major disaster
The group’s disaster areaareawas wasat at the
theWindsor
WindsorJazz Jazz Festival,
Festival,
and bounds, resulting
and bounds, resulting in much more more harmonious
harmonious and and constructive
constructive where they theywound
woundup up amongst
amongstsmoke smoke bombs,
bombs, fireworks and and crumbling
crumbling
musical fusion. Almost more
musical moreimportant
important than than all this is, is,the
theundercurrent
undercurrent amplifiers. “When we finished,
amplifiers. "When finished, the road managers managers came came on on in little white
white
of originality
originality that thatstill
still lines
lineseacheachof of their records.
their re cords. Very few people
Veryfew people playplay coats and
coats and shovelled the equipment equipment into intobuckets,"
buckets,” saidsaid Keith. “The"The
drumslike
drums likeKeith
KeithMoon, Moon,bass basslike
likeJohn
JohnEntwistle,
Entwistle,sing singlike
likeDaltrey,
Daltrey,or orplay
play audience had
audience had smashed
smashedup upallall their
theirseats
seatsand andthethewhole
whole place
place looked like like
guitar like Townshend.
guitar Townshend. Attila The Hun
Attila Hun had ridden throughit."
ridden through it.”
"Basically there
“Basically there are four soloists soloists in inthis
this group,”
group,"saidsaidTownshend,
Townshend, “on "onour
our Toremedy
To remedytheir their “heard
"heard but not seen” seen" situation
situation in the States, The Who
in the Who
own we'd
own we’d all fly flyoffoffatattangents,
tangents,but butnownowwe’ve
we'verehearsed
rehearsed carefully, we are are are
are making
making aa number
numberof ofshort
shortfilmsfilmsforfor the
theTV circuits,
circuits, to bebe shown
shown on
singing in
singing in harmony
harmony and andunison,
unison,and andthere
thereisiskind
kindof oforderly
orderlydisorder."
disorder.” major
major shows,
shows, where
where they they areare inin full action.
action. We tackled
tackled thethe delicate
delicate
Kit Lambert
Lambert played played back the the Who powerhouse
powerhouse version versionof of "Man
“Man WithWith situation of hostilities
situation hostilities from both both thethe press and and the
the adult
adult world in in general
general
Money",
Money”, an an Everly
EverlyBrothers
Brothersnumber numberwhich whichdramatically
dramatically dealsdeals with
with which,
which, like the the early Stones, The The WhoWho seemseem to to provoke
provoke deliberately.
deliberately. OnlyOnly
breakinginto
breaking intoaa store
store andand robbing
robbingthe theman
manwith withall
allthe
themoney.
money.It's It’s just
just a few
fewweeks
weeksearlier
earlier IIhad had made
made the the mistake
mistake of of offering
offering mymy hand
handto toPete
Pete
right the new
right for the new Who.Who.NicelyNicelyarranged
arranged harmonies
harmonies mingle minglewith withMoon's
Moon’s Townshend in
Townshend in the
the Ready, Steady,Steady,Go! Go!canteen
canteen and and he
hehadhadreciprocated
reciprocated by
astronomical
astronomicaldrumming, drumming,Entwistle's Entwistle’sweaving
weaving bass and Townshend’s
bass and Townshend's throwing
throwing aa piece
piece of sandwich
sandwich in my face, explaining
myface, explaininghe hehad
haddone
doneso so
guitar snaking
guitar snakingout, out, occasionally
occasionallylike like lightning.
lightning. With With thethe climactic
climactic middlemiddle because
because I seemed
seemed the the most
most unimportant
unimportant charactercharacteratatthe thetable.
table.This
This kind
kind
break, Townshend and
break, Townshend and MoonMoon beginbegin to build up some some intricate
intricate beats,
beats, of attitude did not
attitude did not exactly
exactly cement
cementgood goodrelations,
relations,IIfeltfelt -why
– whydiddidhehedodo it?
playing over the
playing the basic
basic backing
backing track trackthey’ve
they've already
already recorded.
recorded. Pete Pete never
never “Perhaps
"Perhaps he thought
thoughtyou youwerewerehungry,"
hungry,” suggested
suggestedKeith.Keith. “They
"They barge
barge into
into
has to waste valuable
has valuable bars bars withwith screeching
screechingfeedbackfeedbackwhile whilehe helooks
looks for a dressing
dressing room backstage
backstage or while while we weareareeating
eatingandanddemand
demand an an interview
interview
the
the particular
particular"noise"“noise”he hewants.
wants.Just Just turns
turnsitit on, bending,
bending, striking,
striking, –-NOW
NOW.Naturallywe're
Naturally we’rerude ruderight
rightback.
back.ThisThis'angry
‘angryatatthe
theadult
adultworld'
world’bitbit is
cutting,
cutting, fluttering,
fluttering,scraping,
scraping,shuddering,
shuddering,bombing, bombing,then thenoff off again!
again! not all of us.
not all us. It’s
It'snot
not meme and
and
“Pete
"Pete uses
uses these soundssensibly
these sounds sensiblynow,"now,”explained
explainedKit KitLambert.
Lambert."He “Heisis it’s
it's not
not John.
John. It’s
It'sonly half
onlyhalf
more aware of their
more aware their position
position in in the
the number
number and and plays themthem in sympathy
sympathy Roger, butbut it is Pete.”
Pete."
of the
the lyric,
lyric, rhythm
rhythm and andmelody."
melody.” I ventured
ventured to to suggest
suggest that that
The result
result is good. good.“Roger
"Rogerdidn’tdidn'tparticularly
particularly like the the finished
finished tape,tape, but
but if perhaps
perhaps if theythey pandered
pandered
one
one goes to to perfectionist
perfectionist lengths lengthsyou'dyou’dstill
still be studio this
be in the studio this time
timenextnext to aa more
more adult
adult mind
mind
year.” There
year." There isn’t isn'tanyanydoubt,
doubt,though,
though, that that The
The WhoWhoknowknowjustjust what
what they’re
they're occasionallyitit might
occasionally might help
doing,so
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“Maybe,”
"Maybe," smiled Keith. “But
smiled Keith. "But it wouldn’t
wouldn't be be us,
us, would
would it?
The Troggs are
The are four genuinely
genuinely nice nicelads ladswho
whodeserve
deserveto togo
go
a long
longwaywayand andclean
cleanup family entertainment
up family entertainment for for one
one and
and
all. Amen. Now you you can can see
see why
why everyone
everyone hates me.”
hates me."
It has
has already
already been
b een suggested
suggested that that oneone of thethe most
most
fascinating
fascinating thingsthingsabout
aboutThe The Who are are their
their imaginative
imaginative
managerKit
manager Kit Lambert
Lambert and and his partner
partner Chris ChrisStamp.
Stamp.
Having asked
Having asked for a character referencefor
character reference for these
thesetwo,
two,II got
a brilliant
brilliant impersonation
impersonation of ofKit Lambert smoking
Kit Lambert smoking his
perennial
perennialcigarette
cigarette in flamboyant manner
in typically flamboyant manner and and
monologues on
monologues on the art of ofmanagement
management in Lambert’s Lambert's
cultured
culturedmannermannerand andChris
ChrisStamp's
Stamp’s"cockney"
“cockney”tones.tones.
“Kit
"Kit is
isaasincere,
sincere,intelligent
intelligent nervo,”
nervo," said Keith. “He’d "He'd
never produce anothergroup
produce another grouplike like usus because
because he'd he’d never
never
go through
through whatwhat we've
we’ve put put him throughagain.
him through again.We We could
could
never have achieved
never achieved what what we have have with with anyone
anyone else –-
no-oneelse
no-one else could
could have
have heldheld us, and he possessespossesses one one
important
importantqualitywe
quality weall allseem
seemto to lack-
lack –diplomacy."
diplomacy.”
Of Chris
Chris Stamp,
Stamp, Keith obligedobliged with with a moremore terse
terse
characterreading:
character reading:"He's“He’s Hampton
Hampton Court Court
Maze on
Maze on two
two legs,"
legs,” he said.
said. We talked
talked of The The
Who’s new
Who's new ideas
ideas ininpresentation,
presentation, which are
colourfully described by their
colourfully described their manager
manager
as the group’s"Theatre
the group's “TheatreOf OfThe
TheAbsurd",
Absurd”,
and Keith
and Keith posed
posed ananoriginal
originalidea ideaof of his
his
own.
own. "I suppose we could
“I suppose could paint
paint Roger
Roger red red
and
and have him him pulsate
pulsate-then – thenwe wecould
couldall all
just dance
dance round
round him."
him.”
Moon's sense
Mr Moon’s sense of ofhumour
humour is isprobably
probably
his greatest
his asset.He
greatest asset. He insisted
insistedthat thatwe wegive
giveaa
October 14, 1966:
October14,1966:
plug to Frankie
Frankie Howerd, whom he greatly greatly Townshend
Townshend and
admires,and
admires, andMaxMaxWall,
Wall, whowho hashas just
just Moon stage
Moon on stage at at the
the
finished
finished compering
compering"our “our extensive two-day Queen’s Hall
Queen's H all in
inLeeds
Leeds

tour of Britain”.
tour Britain". Keith’s
Keith'sparticular
particular hero herois is
Vincent Price,
Vincent
horrormovies
horror
subject in
subject
Price, whom
moviesfor
in record
whomhe hegoes
for a laugh. We
time, which
record time,
goes to

which was
to see
Wecovered
see in

was the
in all the
covered one
the Stones'
the
one other
Stones’
other "Kit Lambert
“Kit Lambert Messrs Moon, Daltrey,
with co
with co-manager
excluding
Daltrey, Entwistle,
-manager Kit Lambert
excluding Townshend,
Townshend, who
Entwistle, complete
Lambert and
who missed
complete
and myself (but
missed the
(but
the plane),
plane),
openingnight
opening
I asked
nightatatthe
asked Keith,
Keith, who
theRoyal
whohad
RoyalAlb
had been
Albertert Hall, and
been present,
present, what
and
what hehe possesses one
possesses had
had arrived
arrivedthe
group's
theprevious
previousday
fourth Scandinavian
group’s fourth
dayat
Scandinaviantour.
at the
the start
tour.Our
startof
Our first
the
of the
first stop
thoughtof
thought of the
the show. was at a jeweller’s,
was jeweller's, wherewhere Keith
Keithhadhad decided
decided to to
"Amanagerial
“A
sat back
sat
managerialtriumph,”
back greatly
triumph," he
pleasedwith
greatly pleased
heexpostulated,
withhis
expostulated, and
hisreview.
review.As As we
and quality we buy a watch.
buy watch. “It
to the unsuspecting
"It isisfor
formy
unsuspecting jeweller.
mother,” he
mymother," heexplained
jeweller. Fifty minutes
explained
minutes and and
got up to leave
cloakroom
waitress asked
waitress
leave IIdiscovered
cloakroomticket
askedme
discovered that
ticketfor
for my raincoat.
me to to describe
that I had

describe the
had lost my
raincoat. Acharming
thecoat.
charming
coat."It's
“It’s the
the
all lack –- as
as many watcheslater,
manywatches
would
would be better
and
and let her
better if he
her buy
buy her
later, he said he
he gave
her own.
gavehis
own. ItItwas
he thought
hismother
wasabout
thought it
motherthe
aboutthe
the money
thesame
money
same
one with cheese
one
obliged
cheese sandwich
obliged Keith, grinning
sandwich stains stainson
grinning hugely, and
on thethe collar,"
and strolled
collar,”
strolled
diplomacy"
diplomacy” time that
time that the
older-–decided
older
the jeweller-looking
decidedhe
jeweller – lookingseveral
hewould
wouldbe
severalyears
be better
betteroff
years
off at home
nonchalantlyout
nonchalantly outto tohishiswaiting
waitingwhite white-and--and - and
and closed the shop!
maroonBentley.
maroon Bentley.Which
Whichonly onlygoe goes s totoprove
proveWHO WHOlaughs
laughslast.
last.KeithAltham
Keith Altham Back atatthe
the hotel
hotel wewegotgotready
readyto togo
gooutoutand
andsee seethe
thetown.
town. My Mycollar
collarand and
not suit
tie did not suit the
the Who
Whoimage,
image,they theythought,
thought,so so I was persuaded
persuaded to to put
put onon
one
one of Keith’s
Keith'sfamous
famous gold goldsilk
silkshirts
shirtswith
withbolero
bolero sleeves.
sleeves.Somebody
Somebody had had
— NMEOCTOBER
- NME OCTOBER 2828—- to stand in for Townshend,
stand in Townshend, I was was told!
told!Townshend,
Townshend, however,however, was was not not far
far
COPENHAGEN.
OPENHAGEN. KEITH KEITHMOON MOONisisbrooding
broodingoveroveraabeer
beerabout
about behind and
behind three unsuccessful
and after three unsuccessful attemptsattempts-–during duringwhich
which he joined

C
Townshend
something that
something
is enough
Townshend is operating
thatmight
mightnever
enough to worry Keith);
operating at
never happen
Keith);the
best and
at its best
happen(but

and anyone
(butthe
theswitchblade
thefact
switchblade mind
anyone who dares
fact that
thatitit could
mind of Pete
Pete
dares venture
venture
the crew in their
the crew
aircraft
aircraft landed
their cabin
landedat
And so in aa bar
And
cabin to

bar in
to offer some words
at Copenhagen
CopenhagenAirport
in the
the centre
centre of the
words of comfort
Airportand andhe
the city, IIhad
comfort and
hewas
hadmy
was soon
myfirst
and advice
soon in
advice (!) –-his
in our midst.
firstopportunity
opportunity to
midst.
to
his

an inane remark
an inane remark is promptly
promptly smitten
smitten by his razor-sharp
razor-sharp tongue.
tongue. take
take a look
look atatone
oneof ofthe
themost
mostrevolutionary
revolutionary of our ourgroups.
groups. ItItwas wasquite
quite
This is the
the lull
lullbetween
between storms.
storms. By the the time
time you read
read this
this The Who will will an
an experience.
experience. They must must surely
surelybe be one
one of the the most
most mixed
mixed bunch
bunch of of
be home and and Scandinavia
Scandinavia will will be recovering from an an invasion
invasion that
that pays personalities who
personalities who have ever managed managed to to stay
staytogether.
together.Undoubtedly
Undoubtedly
the
the Vikings back;
back;an aninvasion
invasionfrom fromthethezaniest
zaniest–-but certainly one
but certainly one of the
the Roger Daltrey
Daltrey is isthe
the most
most basic
basic andand isis therefore
therefore able to to see
see the
the others’
others'
most popular
popular-British
– Britishgroups
groupsever evertoto disturb
disturbthese
these placid
placid people. problems
problems in in the
theclearest
clearestlight.
light."Pete's
“Pete’sgot got aa bit of aachip
chipbecause
because MooneyMooney
Let me
me give
giveyou
yousome
someidea
ideaofofwhat
what hashas happened
happened in in the
the36 hours since
hours since and
and I used
used to getget all
allthe
the birds
birds whereas
whereas he, as as the
the writer,
writer, was
was thethe most
most
we arrived:
arrived: aajeweller
jeweller hashas closed
closed hishis shop
shop and gone home
and gone home to his wife;
wife; an an creative
creative and
and probably
probably thought
thought he he should
should have have hadhad most
most of the the attention,”
attention,"
Americanis
American is thinking
thinking he hetried
triedtotojump
jumpoffoffthe
thesixth
sixth-floor balconyof
-floor balcony of his
his Roger explained.
explained.
hotel...
hotel…and andThe
The Who have also also (incidentally)
(incidentally) given
givenaapublic
publicperformance
performance "Mooney's got this
“Mooney’s this persecution
persecution complex,"
complex,” Townshend
Townshenddeclared.
declared."If “Ifhe
he
-– during
during which
which a new hall hall was
wassomewhat
somewhat damaged!
damaged! sees two of ofusustalking
talkingand and can’t
can't hear
hear what we’re we're saying,
saying, hehe assumes
assumes we are are
Just now
now wewearearesitting
sitting in
in the
the attic
attic homes
homes of some
some foreign
foreign students who
students who plotting
plotting toto get rid of him!him!It’s
It'snonsense,
nonsense, of course.”course." While
While MoonMoonimparts:
imparts:
are switched on
are switched on as that set can
as only that can be. One
One just
just asked
asked John
JohnEntwistle
Entwistle “I
"I have
have ambitions outsidethe
ambitions outside thegroup.
group.Of Of course
courseII havehave and it’s true
and it's I’ve
true I've
what he
what he would
would like,
like, and facedwith
and faced withthethereply
reply"A“A Coke”,
Coke",exclaimed,
exclaimed, “Say"Say listened
listened totooffers.
offers. But
But I’m
I'm not
not tempted
tempted to toquit
quitnownowlike
likeII was
was when
when we we were
were
man, that's
man, that’scool,
cool, real
real cool,”
cool," obviously
obviouslyconvinced
convinced that
that John
John had
had made
made having
having our
our internal troubles.I'd
internal troubles. I’dbe be mad
madto, to, wouldn't
wouldn’tI?" I?” It seems
seems more more of of
GETTY

0 some suggestion
some suggestionfor foraa new
new kind
kindof of drug.
drug. question than
a question than a statement.
statement.

112 |I HISTORY
HISTORY OF ROCK 1966
OF ROCK 1966
1965
 THE WHO
THE WHO

Miraculously,
Miraculously, however, they do work worktogether
together was, in fact, their
was, versionof
theirversion ofaavery
very old
old rock
and it is aateam
and
replacements.As
replacements.
team which

one of us was to leave

one
which could
AsD Daltrey
could stand

leave ititwould
stand no
put it: “I
altrey put
would be
no
"I think
be the
think if any
the end
any
end of the the
"We're always
“We’re sound,
sound, echoed
have recorded
have
echoed about about the
recorded "RockAround
show, but a change change of plan
the room.
“Rock AroundThe
room. Theywere

plan was
They were to
TheClock"
Clock”for
was evident.
evident.
for the
the

group. Dunno
build up
build
Dunno what
up another.
what I’d
another. I started
I'd do
dothen
then-I – Isuppose
this one
started this
supposeI'd
one sixyears
I’d
six years ago ago
beaten
beaten to the Manager
Manager Kit Lambert
Francis
Lambert got RSG
Hitchens on the phone
Francis Hitchens
producer
RSGproducer
phone after explaining
explaining
andII reckon
and reckon II could
strive for
They strive
to succeed
succeed in
could do

in America
America at
do it again.”
forperfection
again."
perfectionand and are
at all costs.
aredetermined
determined top by the to a secretary
Francis
secretary that
Francis for the
which was sufficient
which
that he he just
just wanted
wanted aa word with
the “teeniest-weeniest”
"teeniest -weeniest" minute,
sufficient time to persuade
minute,
persuade Francis
Francis
They are
(“We
("Welook
are currently
lookupon
currently completing
upon ititas asour
completing their
our first”)
first") and
their second
and it will
secondLP
will dead or the he ought
he ought to
“Rock AroundThe
"RockAround
to have
have “Please
"Please Don’t
TheClock".
Don't Touch”
Clock”. Which
Touch" and
Whichwas was just
and not
just as
not
as
probably
prob ably prove
prove as asbigbigaabreakthrough
breakthrough as as “I’m
"I'm well, seeing
seeing they theyhadhadjustjustrecorded
recordedit! it! The boys
A Boy”,
A B oy",which
I said
said IIhoped
whichmade
hopedtheir
madeThe
theirefforts
TheWho Whosound
effortsdirected
soundmusical.
directed at
musical.
atAmerica
America
half-dead"
half-dead” trooped
troopedback back into
proved informative
proved
into the
informativeover
the control
control room,
overthe
room, and
theorigins
originsof
and Pete
Pete
of “Happy
"Happy
would pay
would pay off. TheyThey deserve
deserve to. Much of their their Jack,who
Jack, wholived
lived in in sand
sandon onthetheIsle
Isle Of Man”.
Man".
considerable earnings
considerable earningsare areploughed
ploughedback back into
into “My
"My father
father usedused to to play saxophone
s axophone in in a band
band for the the
improving
improving their theirstatus
statusand andfewfew groups
groups havehave as hard-hard- season
season on onthe theIsle
IsleOfOf M Man an when
when I was was aa kid,”
kid,"said
said Pete.
Pete.
working a manager
working manager as asKit Lambert.
Lambert. The The following
following “There
"There was no character character calledcalled`HappyJack',
‘Happy Jack’,but butII
evening I watched
evening watched them them workwork at the the new and and large played on the
played the beach
beach aa lot, and and it’s
it's just
just my
mymemories
memories
hall the Copenhagen
hall in the Copenhagen suburbs. suburbs.Backstage,
Backstage, as they
as they of some
some of the the weirdos
weirdos who who live out out onon the
the sand.”
sand."
prepared
prepared for the the performance,
performance, Lambert told them them At this
this point
point someone
someone announced
announced that thatthere
therewas was
to listen to the
listen to compere:"Your
the compere: “Your cuecueis is ‘The Who’,” he
'The Who'," policeman in
a policeman in the
thereception
reception complaining
complaining about about
announced.
announced.Pete Petesaidsaidhe hefelt
felt on form and and thought
thought he someone's car
someone’s car being
being an an obstruction,
obstruction, so soPete
Pete strolled
strolled
wouldgo
would go on
on solo. “You "Youthreethree might
might as as well
well go home,”
home," out and
and was not seen again. again. Which left me me with
with that
that
he gagged. Keith looked lookedhurt hurt but
but said
saidnothing.
nothing. Then Then well-known pantomime pantomime team teamof of Moon and and
they wereon
theywere onstage
stageand andwellwell over 2,000
2,000Danish
Danish fans fans Entwistle.
Entwistle. What What were they doing over Christmas? Christmas?
screamed
screamed and and yelled as asthey
theywent through numbers
went through numbers “I
"I shall buy aa copy
shall buy copy of ‘Mary’s
`Mary's B BoyoyChild’,
Child', stay
stay home
home
like “Heat
"Heat Wave”,
Wave",“Barbara"BarbaraAnn" Ann” and and “Substitute”.
"Substitute". and pick nuts
and nuts out of ofme mecavities,”
cavities,"mournedmourned John. John.
At this
this point
point Pete spottedspotted aa few empty chairsin
empty chairs in the
the “I
"I shall
shall watch
watch Walt Disney and and buybuy aa new
new copycopy of
centre of the
centre the auditorium
auditorium and andsuggested
suggestedpeople peoplefrom fromthe theback
back came
came ‘The
`The Hallelujah
Hallelujah Chorus’,”
Chorus'," breezed
breezed Mr Mr Moon.
Moon.
forwardto
forward to fill them.
them. ChaosChaos followed
followed as more more than 1,000 fought
than 1,000 fought for those
those “My
"Mycopy’s
copy'saabit bitscratched,”
scratched,"nodded nodded John.
few seats.
seats. Order was never never restored
restored and andno-one
no-onesat satdown
downagain!
again!ItItwas
waslike
like the two
Did the twojolly
jollyartists
artistsconsider
considerChristmas
Christmas too toocommercial
commercial now? now?
The Beatles all all over
overagainagainas asthe
thestage
stagefilled
filledwithwithburly
burlyprotectors
protectorsejecting
ejecting “I
"Iagree
agree with
with whatever
whatever Paul Paul Jones
Jonessaid,”said,"announced
announced John.
fans right and
fans left, right and centre.
centre. The The four
fourtook
tookno nonotice
noticebut butstormed
stormedthrough
through “I
"I suppose
suppose I shall
shall have
have to togo gooutoutcarol
carolsinging
singingagain,”
again,"moaned
moaned Keith.
“Legal Matter”
"Legal Matter" and and"I'm “I’mA A Boy”.
Boy".Finally
Finallytheytheyreached
reached “My "My Generation”
Generation" Were they angry thatthis
angry that thiswaswasthe thelast
lastChristmas
ChristmasRSG? RSG?
and Townshend
and Townshend tried tried hard
hard to smash
smash his new new guitar
guitar through
through an amplifier. “No,
"No, ititwas
wasgetting
gettingaadrag,
drag,and andanyway
anyway Cathy Cathy McGowan
McGowan can can always
always do do
prevailed even after they had
Hysteria prevailed had returned
returned to to the
the dressing
dressing room.
room. toothpaste adverts,"
toothpaste adverts,”saidsaidJohn,
John, consolingly.
consolingly.
Back at atthe
the hotel
hoteltheytheysipped
sipped thethe champagne
champagne Keith Keith had boughton
had bought on the
the “Vicky
"VickyWickham
Wickham can can gogointo
intomassmass production,”
production," added addedKeith.Keith.
plane. The
plane. The shattering
shattering events eventsof of an
an hour
hourbefore
beforewere were forgotten.After
forgotten. Afterall,all, it “Francis
"Francis Hitchens
Hitchens can canjoin
join thethe Beach
Beach Boys,”
Boys,"cappedcapped John. John.
happensevery
happens everynight
nightfor forThe
TheWho.Who. Atipsy,tipsy,middle-aged
middle-aged American
American What changes
What changeswouldwouldthe theNewNewYear Year bring
bring for The The Who?
Who?And And werewere theythey
knockedon
knocked on the
thedoor
doorof of the room ("I
the room (“I love thethe English”)
English") and and was shown
shown out concerned
concerned over overthe
thepossibility
possibilityThe TheBeatles
Beatles might
mightbreakup?
break up?"Not “Notas aslong
long
on the
the balcony, from which the manager manager later later rescued
rescuedhim. him.The
TheWhoWho had
had as there
there are
are people
people like
likeus us–-with
with imagination,
imagination, drive and and vigour
vigour-– to carry carry
managed
managedto to convince
convinceboth boththat
thatthethemanmanwas wastrying
tryingto tojump
jumpover
over when
when on,”
on," John
John replied.
replied.
their
their timely
timely call to the the manager
manager was made. made. “We’re
"We'replanning
planning some shock shock publicity picturesof
publicitypictures of the
the group,”
group," confided
confided
The intruder returnedto
intruder returned tohis
hisroom
roomgrateful
gratefulthat thathishislife
life had
had been
been saved! Keith, “to
"to combat
combat those neatpix
those neat pix of The TheBeatles,
Beatles,and and the
the Stones
Stones photos
photos in
In an adjoining
adjoining room room an an attractive
attractive youngyoung blonde
blonde psychiatrist
psychiatrist(for
(for real)
real) drag.
drag. We’ve
We've gotgotaabig
bigclose-up
close-upofofPete Petehaving
havinghis hisfingernail
fingernailbent bentbackwards,
backwards,
was telling
telling Roger DaltreyDaltrey she she would
would dearly
dearly loveloveto topsychoanalyse
psychoanalyse him himor or and one of a one-eared
and one one -eared Roger standing standing next nextto to aa self-portrait
self-portrait of ofVan
Van Gogh.”
Gogh."
something.Life
something. LifeforforTheTheWho Whowas wasplodding
ploddingon onasasever...
ever…KeithAltham
Keith Altham There waswas aashort
shortdeparture
departure from the script when Kit KitLambert
Lambert
announced that
announced thathehewanted
wantedall allthetheboys
boysto todraw
draw portraits
portraitsof of each
each other
otherfor
a Top
TopOf OfThe
ThePops
Popsfilm
filmto tobe
bedirected
directed by by Michael
Michael Lynds Lyndsay-Hogg.
ay -Hogg. “Isn’t"Isn't hehe
— NMEDECEMBER
- NME DECEMBER 2424—- an
an American?”
American?" said saidKeith,
Keith, suspiciously…
suspiciously... "And “And who who am am I drawing?”
drawing?"
WHO'S
HO’S FOR FORA merryChristmas,
A merry Christmas, thenthen-–ifif we are to
we are to judge
judge by “Roger,”
"Roger,"saidsaid Kit.
Kit.“Thanks,”
"Thanks," said said Keith,
Keith,but but looked
looked far farfrom
from festive
festive about
about it.

W
bizarre
bizarrepen
their seasonal
their
with
penof
seasonalbounce
with "Happy
“Happy Jack",
of Pete Townshend.
bounceup
Jack”, the
Townshend. Looking
upinto
thenewest
intothe
theNME
NMETop
newest composition
Looking slightly the
this week
Top 20 this
composition from the
the worse for wear
week
the
wear
“Who
"Who am am I doing?”
doing?" asked
Keith-– for no
from Keith
Chinese meal
Chinese
asked John.
no apparent
John. There
apparent reason
meal in a Cologne
There followed
reason-–about
Colognerestaurant
followed aarather
abouthow
restaurant recentlywhile
howhe
recently whileco
rather puzzling
heandandJohn
puzzling story
Johnsat
story
sat eating
eating aa
-manager Chris
co-manager Chris
due
due to having
having been
been fullfull of festive
festive spirit
spirit the
the previous
previous night at London’s
London's Stamp
Stamp andand Pete
Pete got beaten
beaten up. up. “Every
"Everytime timetheytheyfell down down to the the floor they they
new in-club,
in -club,the
the Bag
BagO’ 0'Nails,
Nails,John
JohnEntwistle
Entwistlewas wasnotnotoptimistic
optimistic aboutabout could see us
could see us ignoring
ignoring itit all
all and eatingour
and eating ourmeal
mealaatabletableaway,"
away,”said saidKeith
Keith
their
their prospects
prospectsof ofaaNoNo 1 hit when
when I located
located thethe group
group atat Ryemuse
Ryemuse delightedly. Why werethey
delightedly. Whywere theyattacke
attacked? d?
recording
recording studios
studioslast last Friday. “I
"Ithink
think ititwas
wasbecause
because we’rewe're justjustsuch
suchgood-looking
good-looking boys boysand and they were
theywere
“No
"No chance with The
chance with The Seekers’
Seekers' new single,”
single," expostulated
expostulated John.John."We're
“We’re jealous,"
jealous,” said
said Keith innocently.
innocently.
always beaten
always beaten to to the
thetoptop bythe
by thedead
deador orthe
thehalf-dead.
half-dead.Good GoodoldoldJim
JimReeves
Reeves Finally John observed:
FinallyJohn observed:"You “You know,know,some somepeople
peoplehave havesaid saidthat
thatthey prefer
theyprefer
did it on
did us last
onus last time, andbefore
time, and beforethat
thatitit was
was the singing pimple,
the singing pimple,Ken Ken Dodd!”
Dodd!" the
the flipside
flipside of the
the new
new single.
single. Oh, Oh,sorry,
sorry,thatthatjust
justslipped
slippedout!”out!"ItIttranspired
transpired
Mr Entwistle
Entwistle waswasnot,
not,apparently,
apparently, convinced
convinced that that this is the
the season
season ofof that John wrote
that John wrote the
the flipside,
flipside, "I've
“I’ve Been
BeenAway",Away”, whichwhich is is“a"awaltz
waltzinspired
inspiredby by
goodwill toward
goodwill towardall all men!
men! "I've
“I’ve got aalist
listofofpeople
peopletotoinsult
insultwritten
writtendowndown onon Victor Silvester”,
Victor Silvester", hehe says.
says.AsAs IIleft,
left,Keith
Keithattempted
attempted to to glue
glueaasandwich
sandwich to my my
me sock,”
me sock," obliged
obliged the bug-eyedKeith
the bug-eyed KeithMoon,
Moon,rolling
rollingupuphis
histrouser
trouser-leg to
-leg to overcoat withaa tube
overcoat with tubeof of super-glue.
super -glue. But But omitted
omitted to take take the top off the
the top the tube:
tube:
select a likely candidate.
select candidate. He was forestalled
forestalled by being recalled to the
recalled to the studio
studio Moon
Moon is aamust must for
forthe
theChristmas
Christmas party party thisthisyear.
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from Keith
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control room,
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as he counted
counted thethe group
group to start
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C T O B E R –-DECEMBER

“We’ve
"We've built
built an
intellectual
following…”
followin For
For BRIAN
BRIAN JONES,
JONES,1966;966is
isabout
about change:
change:
exotic instruments,different
exolk......euments, differentkinds
kindsofofpeople.
people.
For
For The
TheRolling
RollingStones
Stonesititmeans
meansinteresting
interesting
sounds
sounds and
and work
work inin unfamiliar media, like
unfamiliar media, like
electronic music and
electronic music and film.
film."Do
“DoIIsound
sound excited?
excited?
II should,” he tells
should," he tells MM.
MM. “For
"For II am
am excited.”
excited."

— NMEMARCH
- NME MARCH 2525—-
BRIAN JONESRETURNED
RIAN JONES RETURNED last
last week
week fromhis
from hisAustralian-
Australian-

B one for
in one fordays
for it to
On arrival
American
American exploits with innumerable
Shankar (an
Shankar
kangaroo
(an Indian
kangaroo coat.
after the
days after
clubs in New
dayswith
to close!
close!
arrival at
his keys
withan
the other
NewYork
aninsane

at his
keyssomewhere
somewhere between
York open
insaneWelsh
innumerable albums
Indian sitarist)
sitarist) and
coat. He explained
other Stones,
Stones, as
open 24
Welshharpist
and wearing

being due
as being
24hours
hours aaday
harpistcalled
albumsby

dayand
and he
called“Hari

Court mews house, Brian

his Earls Court
between Sydney
Sydneyand
"HadHari”

Brian found
and NewYork
by Ravi
wearing his full-length
explained his late
late arrival,
full-length
arrival, some
some four

hehad
four
due to the fact that
that
had been
been
Harr waiting

found he had misplaced

New York and andopened
misplaced
opened thethe happy
happy
home by bythe
the simple expedient of putting
simple expedient putting his through the
his fist through the first
first floor
floor
window! WhenII called
window!When called some
some two
two hours later, I found
hours later, found the
the front
front room
room had had
been
been officiallydeclared
officially declared"a “a major
major disaster
disasterarea",
area”, largelydue
largely dueto
to the
the
"Welcome Home
“Welcome Home Brian
Brian Jones
JonesCommittee”.
Committee". This
Thiscomprised
comprised Spencer
Spencer Davis,
seated beneath
seated beneath aa standard
standard lamp
lamp(switched
(switchedon, course) wearing
on, of course) wearing Brian’s
Brian's
newlyacquired
newly acquiredrose -tinted spectacles
rose-tinted spectaclesand
andStevie
StevieWinwood green
Winwood in green
Stetson, listening
Stetson, listening toto an
an LP bybyThe Freedom Highways Singers,
The Freedom Singers, Recorded
Recorded
Livein
Live inChicago’s
Chicago'sNazareth
NazarethChurch,
Church,beating
beatingtime
timeon onan
anIndian
Indiandrum.
drum.AlsoAlso
present were
present "Dave",the
were “Dave”, theSpencer’s
Spencer'sroad
roadmanager,
manager, making
making himself
himself quietly
quietly
on aamixture
ill on mixture of ofbrandyand
brandy andbeer,
beer,and
andTom
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114I |HISTORY
114 OF ROCK
ROCK 1966
1966
 "Itopensupnewfields
“It opens up new fields
foragroupinharmonics":
for a group in harmonics”:
Brian Jones
Brian playingaa sitar
Jonesplaying sitar
duringarenditionof"Paint
during a rendition of “Paint
It,Black"onReady,Steady,
It, Black” on Ready, Steady,
Go!,October7,1966
Go!, October 7, 1966

HISTORY
HISTORY OF
OF ROCK
ROCK1966
1966|1115
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1966 C T O B E R – D ECEMBER
OOCTOBER-DECEMBER

“Man,
"Man, thisthis is the
the kind
kind of welcome
welcome home homeII like,"
like,” the
the clubs over
overthere
there-it– itmust
mustappeal
appealto to the
the older,
said Brian,
said
delight.
Brian,surveying
delight. “Let
IIbrought
surveying the
"Let me
brought back
me show
back from
show you
from the
the festivities
festivitieswith
you one
one of
the States,”
States," he
ofthe
with
thethings
things
he added.
added.
"Police were
“Police wider market.
at
at what
market. IIcan
what Ken
At this
KenDodd’s
this point
point there
canunderstand

there was
understand ititin
Dodd's ‘Tears’
'Tears' did over here.”
was a slight pause
inaaway-look
way – look
here."
pause whilewhile
Awooden zither -likeinstrument
A wooden zither-like
which proved to to be
instrument was
beaadulcitar,
dulcitar,an
wasproduced
aninstrument
produced
instrument
searching Stevie
Stevietook
and
and after
tookdown
after a few
downaahunting
hunting horn
few“budgie-like”
"budgie -like"noises
horn fromfrom the
noisesproduced
the wall
produced
wall

you may
that
tracks
maybe
that it had
tracks they
be hearing
had been
hearingmore
been included
they recorded
moreof
included on
re corded in in LA.
of as
as Brian revealed
revealed
several of the
on several
LA.Brian
Brianhas
the
haslacerated
lacerated
everyone on an
an excruciatingly
The
only
excruciatinglypainful
The Cookhouse
Cookhouse Door
only person
pers onwho whocan
painfulversion
DoorBoys".
can play
versionofof"Come
Boys”."Alan
play that,”
“Alan Price
that," said
“ComeTo
Price is
said Brian
Brian
To
is the
the

his
his fingers
fingers playing
although my
although
playing the
mydictionary
the strings
strings with his fingers,
dictionarystates statesthe
fingers,
theinstrument
instrument was
sight. It was admonishingly,
admonishingly, but took the
to “dial-a-meal”
"dial -a -meal"by byordering
thehint
hint and
ordering lunches
and proceeded
lunches from
proceeded
from a
should
should be played
“America
said
said Brian.
played with
"America is aa great
Brian. “We’ve
with hammers!
great scene
"We'venever
hammers!
scene for us at present,”
neverbeenbeen so
present,"
sopowerful
powerful
frightening"
frightening” nearby
nearby mobile restaurant
“What
"What do
Spencer
Spencer asked,
restaurant over
do you think
think of
asked,suddenly
suddenlyte
of our
over the
our new
tearing
the phone.
new single?"
aring hims
phone.
single?”
himself elf from
from
there. I think
there. we’vereached
thinkwe've reachedaa peak peak in in Britain
Britain some picturesof
some pictures of ShirleyAnn
Shirley AnnField Fieldin in Playboy
but things
but thingsare arestill
stillopening
openingup upfor
forususinin the
theStates.
States.We We overtook The magazine.
magazine. BrianBriansaid
saiditit was
was very good and and should
should makemakeNo No 1.
Beatles' Nowhere Man'
Beatles’ ‘Nowhere Man’ in the charts
in the charts with '19th Nervous Breakdown’,
with ‘19th Breakdown, Spence picked up few fewof ofthe
theRavi
RaviShankar
Shankaralbumsalbumswhich whichwere werescattered
scattered
and
and although
although I've I’ve no delusions
delusions about about being bigger than than The
The Beatles
Beatles–- about the floor. “In
about the "In the
the south
south of India
India they
theyplayplay sitars,"
sitars,” said Spence,
‘Nowhere
'Nowhere Man’ Man' isn’t
isn't really
reallyaasingle – it’s something
single-it's something of ofananachievement.”
achievement." informatively. “But "But ininthe
thenorth
north they
they play veenas.”
playveenas."
The possibility
possibility of The TheRolling
RollingStonesStonesbecoming
becomingaabigger
biggerattraction
attraction than
than Brian produced
produced a monstrous
monstrous great red mahoganymahogany sitar from from the the corner
corner
The Beatles in America is intriguing
inAmerica intriguing and andII asked
asked Brian
Brian how he saw sawthe
the of the
the room,
room, stood
stood it on on one
one end
end and
and appeared
appeared to tobe
be going
going to to climb
climb it. He
shape
shape of things
things to to come.
come. was, inin fact,
fact,tuning
tuning thethe instrument.
instrument. "I “I met
met this
this fantastic
fantastic Welsh harp harp
"Youmust
“You mustunderstand
understand The Beatles Beatles are are aaphenomenon,”
phenomenon," smiledsmiled Brian.
Brian. player
player in New York,”York,"he hesaid,
said,apparently
apparently reminded
reminde d of the the incident
incident by the the
“We’ve
"We'veprobably
probablyovertaken
overtakentheir their record
record in inthe
thecharts
charts because
because we’re
we're doing
doing Indian version. "He's
Indian version. “He’s about
about 60, completely
completely bald b aldandandmarvellously
marvellously
more
more personal
personalexposure
exposureout outthere
thereatatpresent.
present.You Youcan't
can’tbe
beasas big as The
The insane.” Just to prove that
insane." Just “Hari Hari"
that "Hari Hari” was
was notnot a figment
figment of his his
Beatles untiluntil you’ve
you'vedone donesomething
something like likeSheaSheaStadium
Stadium-and
– andI doubt imagination
imagination he hegot
got out an AmericanLP
anAmerican LP and
and played a selection
selection of ofharp
harp
whethereven
whether even they
they could
could do that that so successfully
successfully again.again. There’s
There's one
one improvisations
improvisations by the the Welshman
Welshmanteamed teamed with withmodern
modernjazz jazz manmanVic Vic
interesting
interestingdevelopment
developmentininthe theUS USwhich
whichdoes doesnot
notexist
exist for us here
here any
any Feldman.
Feldman. "It's“It’s going
going to be the big thing
thing this
this year,”
year," affirmed
affirmed Brian.Brian. "The“The
more. That
more. That is, we’ve
we've built
built upup aa type
type of ofintellectual
intellectual South
South Wales style styleisiscoming
cominginin-as – as opposed
opposed
following among among the the 'hippies'.
‘hippies’.The The Greenwich
GreenwichVillageVillage to the
the North Wales style,
North Wales style, that is.”
that is."
crowd all
crowd alldig
digus us-there
– therewas was a terrible
terrible scene out there there just Spence affirmed
affirmed the the supposition
supposition and and
before I left.
before
everyone
left.The
everyone on sight
Thepolice
policewere
sight-– looking
werestopping
stoppingand
looking for drugs,
andsearching
drugs, I suppose,
searching
suppose, but it was was
WKBW Presents
IN ASSOCIATION WITH DON SAIEDMAN
helped himself to another
helped himself
obligingly
obligingly offered
another lager. Brian
offered to show us some some
frightening-worse
frightening – worsethan thanaapolice
policestate."
state.” Australianmoney.
Australian money. "It's“It’s got kangaroos
kangaroos and and
With The Rolling Stones Stones and and The Beatles
Beatles all but boomerangs
boomerangs all allover
overit."
it.”But
But we were to be be
dominating
dominatingthe theUS USpoppopbusiness,
business,II askedaskedBrian Brian howit
how itwaswas denied this. The glazier arrived
denied this. arrived to replace
replace
possible
possible to reconcile
reconcile this this British
British attitude
attitudewhen whenaadisc
disclike
like STONES the window and
the and thethe man
man from from the the
"The Ballad Of The
“The Ballad The Green
Green Berets”
Berets" had had just mademade thethetop
topinin PLUS A-L STAR SHOW restaurant also
restaurant appeared with three
also appeared three beef
America.
America. “I "I can’t
can't believe
believe thatthat Stones and and Beatles fans fans buy
buy TINE mans curries and
curries and three
threeveal veal escalopes.
escalopes.The The rest
rest
thatkind
that kindof of rubbish,"
rubbish,”said saidBrian.
Brian."That
“Thattype typeofoftthing
h ing must
must YIN STAIIDOLLS theafternoon
of the afternoon was spent spent exchanging
exchanging
be commissioned
commissioned by bythe
theUS government. It's
US government. It’s not
not played
played in comments with
comments with thethe glazier regarding
regarding the the
ALsa
relative merits
relative merits of Earls EarlsCourt
Court and and the
the track
track
Jonesmeetsig-year-
Jones meets 19-year- Ti WEB111/ YIPS on
on a Bob
Bob Dylan
Dylan LP LPwhere
where he he breaks
breaks into into
actressAnita
old actress Anita
Pallenberg at Heathrow er hysterical laughter and
hysterical laughter and hashas toto begin
begin again.
again.
Pallenberg Heathrow
Airport amid rumours
Airport rumoursof of Two lagers
lagers and
and aa veal
vealescalope
escalope later, I took took
impending marriage
an impending marriage TUESDAY, JUNE .281b -S:00 P.M. my leave, bidding
bidding Mr Mr Jones
Jones a good good day at the the
BUFFALO MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM door
door of thethe house.
house.
ALL SEATS RESERVED ss.oa, 5/ .00, S140 "Yes,"agreed
“Yes,” agreedBrian,Brian,blinking
blinkingbemusedly
bemusedly
TCAITs how Th sm
at the
the slate-grey
slate -grey sky. “Tell
"Tell me,”
me," hehe asked
asked
ALIMOIUAL AUDITORIUM
SAAAPLS STORIS curiously, “whatday
curiously, "what dayisisit?"
it?”KeithAltham
Keith Altham
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— MELODYMAKER
- MELODY MAKER OCTOBER
OCTOBER 8—
8-
C' E SEEM
SEEM TO
TO have
have been
been

ourselves it has
ourselves has been
“W
been aa topic
topic of much
talking about
talking
a film for
about making
foryears
much discussion
discussion for
making
years–-amongst
amongst
for aa long
time.
time. And of course
course we wehave
haveknown
knownthatthat negotiations
negotiations have
been
beeninin an
an advanced
advancedstage.stage.But
But now that
that it has been
been finalised
finalised
we are
we moreexcited
are more excitedthanthanever!
ever!Obviously
Obviouslyititisisaa big step
step
forward
forward in the group’s
in the group's career
career –- perhaps
perhaps the the biggest yetyet-– and
and
of course
course thethe attendant
attendantpublicity
publicityisisgreat.
great.But
Butnow
nowwe we have
have to
prove
prove ourselves
ourselves -– and and this
this is the
the challenge! And don’t don't accuse
accuse
me
me of being
being big -headed when
big-headed when I say that
that we have
have every
every
confidence
confidencein inour
ourability
abilityand
andIIdon't
don’tthink
thinkititwill
willprove
prove
difficult
difficulttoto direct
directus.us.
"I don't think
“I don’t think that
thatan anattempt
attemptwill
willbe
bemade
madeto toproject
projectTheThe
Rolling Stones
Rolling Stones as as the fansknow
the fans knowus.us.I feel that
that this couldbe
this could be fatal.
fatal.
But we all
But all have
have our
our individual
individual abilities, andifif they
abilities, and workon
theywork on
those
thoseabilities
abilitiesII am
am sure
sure that
thatthe
theStones'
Stones’image
imagewillwill come
come
through.For
through. Forlet's
let’sface
faceit,
it,the
thegroup
groupisisaa welding
weldingof of our
our five
individualcharacters.
individual characters.We Weare
arereally
reallylooking
lookingforward
forwardto tothethefilm.
film.
We have
have watched
watched the the development
development of the script
script through
through its its

116 | HISTORY OF ROCK 1966

“Toast?
"Toast? It’s about what
It's about what
you put
you put on
on it…”
it..."
MELODY
MELODYMAKER
MAKERApril
April23
23Brian
ArianJones
Jonesoccupies
occupies
the week’s
the weeK 5Pop
ropThink-In slot. Up
i finK-in slot. Up for
for discussion:
discussion:
birthcontrol,
birth control,Barbra
BarbraStreisand
Streisandand
and bread
bread
Cheltenham AAplace
Cheltenham place of
of many
many Batman And AndRobinRobinOh,Oh,IIlove love
memories. But
memories. Butit's
it’sa drag. comics, anyway. Great. Great.
Andrew Oldham
Andrew OldhamFantastic
Fantasticcreative
creative Superman’s my favourite
Superman's favourite -–
guy –II admire
guy- admire him for for that.
that. I don’t
don't and Atom
and Atom Man. Man.
like
like the
the new LP LP cover
cover he
he did,
did, but
but Sitar I love
lovethe the instrument
instrument -–
II don’t
don't think
think itit was really
really his
his fault.
fault. it gives a newnew range
range if you
Guitar My
Guitar My bread
bread and and butter.
butter. use ananinstrument
instrument like like that.
that.
Mini-Mokes
Mini -MakesOstentatious.
Ostentatious. IIbought
bought It has
hascompletely
completelydifferent different
one once for foraa giggle,
giggle, but
but I felt
felt principles from from thethe guitar
guitar
daftdriving
daft drivingititaround,
around,so so I got
got rid
rid and opens up new fields
and fields for
for
of it
of it to
to someone else. else.'I believe
believe a group
group in in harmonics
harmonics and and
George Harrison bought it off
George off everything.
this other
this guy. But
other guy. But he's
he’s got
got rid of
rid of Birth control I’m I'm all
all for
for it. Jones and Jagger:
Jones Jagger:
“WithoutMick,
"Without Mick,The
itit too.
too. I’m
I'm all
allfor
for legalised
legalised abortion
abortion Rolling Stones would
RollingStoneswould
Paul Jones
Paul JonesWe
Weused
used to
to have
have ideas
ideas as well.
well. have been nothing”
havebeen nothing"
for forming
for formingaa band
band a long
long time
time Barbara Streisand
StreisandIt’s It's the
the
ago when
ago when I was
wasin
inCheltenham
Cheltenham Jewish showbusiness
Jewish showbusiness
and he was
wasatatOxford.
Oxford. WeWe actually
actually tradition.II don't
tradition. don’tlikelike that
thatbig
big So I’m I'm pleased
pleased he’s he'sgotgot this
this hit.
hit. Pop newspapers
Pap newspapersSome
Someare
areall
allright.
right.
made some
made some blues
blues tapes and sent
tapes and sent showbizscene.
showbiz scene. She's
She’s very It’s
It's a great
great record.
record. One of
One of them
them started
startedaa sort
sort of
of pop
pop
them to
them to Alexis
Alexis Korner.
Korner. But I don’t
don't talented, soIIhear.All
talented,so hear. AllIIknow know Mick Jagger
JaggerHe’s He'sthethebest
best pop pop “Confidential”some
"Confidential" sometimetimeago.
ago.The
The
think he
think he ever got
got them.
them. abouther
about heris is that “Second Hand
that "Second Hand performer
performer Britain's Britain’sever everhad. had. pop papers should write
pop write about
Marriage I’m
Marriage I'mnot
notready
ready for
for it yet. Rose”
Rose" thing
thing –-and andthat
thatwas was crap. A great
great inspiration
inspiration to tothe
theStones.
Stones. music, not
music, not bebe fan
fan magazines.
magazines. The
It’s
It's such aapermanent
permanent thing. It’san
thing. It's an She’s supposed
She's supposed to to bebe a very He made the group, group, really. MM’sall
MM's all right becauseititgives
right because gives
anachronism really
anachronism really-–or
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