Monday 2nd March
At a carboot sale recently I bought for £2 a whole pile of mid-nineties ‘Record Collector’ magazines. One features 7” singles that were released in October 1971. This was just one month remember…
Rod Stewart – Maggie Mae. John Lennon – Imagine. Argent – Hold Your Head Up. Barclay James Harvest – Mockingbird. Colin Blunstone – Caroline Goodbye. The Byrds – Glory Glory. Ray Charles – The Long and Winding Road. Tony Christie – Is this the Way to Amarillo. Philip Goodhand-Tait – Every Day. Jimi Hendrix – Gypsy Eyes (posthumously – he had died earlier that year). Benny Hill – Ernie. Carole King – So Far Away. Kris Kristofferson – Loving Her was Easier Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again. Bob Marley – Trench Town. Olivia Newton John – Banks of the Ohio. Jim Reeves – Distant Drums. Diana Ross – Surrender. Buffy Sainte Marie – She Used To Wanna Be A Ballerina. Slade – Coz I Luv You. Thunderclap Newman – Something in the Air. The Who – Let’s See Action.
(And I have only picked out the artists that I like, or that you might have heard of). The article doesn’t list all the Album releases but lists Rod’s ‘Every Picture Tells A Story’ and John’s ‘Imagine’ as No. 1 albums in that month. Music headlines included Gene Vincent dying, Pink Floyd playing ‘Echoes’ live at Pompei, Dylan recording again, CSN and Y recording a live album, Manfred Mann forming his Earth Band among others. Remember this was just one month in 1971. McCartney had released Ram earlier in that year and George Harrison ‘All Things Must Pass, the Stones ‘Exile on Main Street’ and Carole King ‘Tapestry’. The early Seventies – what an amazing time. Stupidly we imagined the great music would carry on at this pace forever…..
At one time I had an ambition to own a copy of all recorded music. Ahem…Maybe I should just concentrate on the early seventies…