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1960 |
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| 9th April |
Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent & The Wild Cats,
Vince Eager |
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Wildcats were Big Jim Sullivan (guitar),
Tony Belcher (guitar), Brian Locking (bass), Brian Bennett (drums) |
| Less then two weeks later Eddie Cochran would
die in a car crash outside Chippenham, Wiltshire following a concert in
Bristol. Gene Vincent who was also in the car survived. |
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| 1st October |
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Miles Davis |
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| 18th October |
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Jimmy Jones, Mark Wynter, Michael Cox &
The Hunters, Brook Brothers, Dean |
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Rogers & The Maruaders, Janet Richmond, Kenny
Lynch, Johnny Wiltshire & The Trebletones, Tony Marsh |
| 30th October |
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Connie Francis, Cyril Stapleton Showband |
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| 1961 |
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| 12th January |
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Dave Brubeck Quartet, The Joe
Harriett Quintet |
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| 19th February |
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June Christie |
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| 7th- 12th April |
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The Percy Duff Show |
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with Pan Yue Jen, Bill Pertwee, Teddy Johnson
& Pearl Carr, Arthur Haynes, Marguerite Pattern, Ballet Montparnasse |
| 21st May |
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Gene Vincent, Adam Faith, The Echos, Peter Gordeno,
Dave Reid, Chance Gordon and The Roulettes |
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| 5th October |
Adam Faith, John Barry Seven, Dave Allen, David
Macbeth, Desmond Lane, Johnny LeRoy |
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| November |
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Temperance Seven, The Mudlarks, Joan Small,
Michael Cox, Bert Weedon, and Tommy Sanderson & The Sandmen |
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| 1962 |
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| 1st March |
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Count Basie & His Orchestra, Lambert, Hendricks &
Ross |
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| 17th March |
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Gerry Mulligan Quartet, The Four Freshmen, Kenny Baker,
Matt Munro, Jeri Southern and Danny Williams
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| 14th April |
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Nina & Frederick, The Twotones, Joe Church, The Harmonicords,
Daisey May & Seveen, Malcolm Mitchell & His Trio |
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| 5th May |
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Louis Armstrong & His All
Stars, Gerry Brown's |
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Jazzmen |
| 1st June |
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Frank Sinatra, Shirley Bassey, Nelson Riddle Orchestra |
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| 9th June |
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Errol Garner |
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| 7th October |
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George Shearing, Joe Williams, Sarah Vaughan |
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| 24th November |
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Johnny Mathis |
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| 2nd December |
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Dave Brubeck Quartet |
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| 1963 |
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| 12th January |
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The Duke Ellington Orchestra |
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This concert ran until almost
Midnight!! |
| 23rd February |
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“Jazz at The Philharmonic”
with Ella Fitzgerald,
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Oscar Peterson Trio, Roy Eldridge Quartet |
| 30th March |
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Cliff Richard & The Shadows, Alan Randell, The Vernons
Girls,
Patsy Ann Noble, Frank Berry (Compere), The Trebletones
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| 4th May |
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Gerry Mulligan, Dankworth Orchestra |
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| 12th May |
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Ray Charles & his Orchestra |
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| 24th May |
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The Commonwealth Day Concert |
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| 13th May |
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Nat King Cole, Ted Heath & His Music |
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| 28th September |
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Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie & his Orchestra |
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| 2nd October |
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Erroll Garner |
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| 4th October |
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Scott Walker, The Paper Dolls,
Love Affair, The Gunn,Ronnie Scott Orchestra, Tommy James & The Shondells |
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| 18th October |
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Jimmy Jones |
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| 19th October |
Lesley Gore, Brook Benton, Dion & The
Belmonts, Timi Yuro, |
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Trini Lopez, Ken Thorne Orchestra, Jerry Stevens |
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Billed as “The
Greatest Record Show of 1963” |
| 30th October |
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Connie Francis |
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| 17th November |
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Stan Kenton & his Orchestra |
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24th Dec- |
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The Beatles Christmas Show |
| 11th January |
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With Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas, Rolf Harris,
The Fourmost, Barron Knights, Tommy Quickly, Cilla Black |
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John Lennon had his Gibson J160F guitar stolen
during these shows a 1962 GibsonJ-160E acoustic/electric, sunburst finish.
Lennon and Harrison each bought one of these "jumbo" models (price:
£161) in Rushworth's Music House in Liverpool on 10th September 1962
(shown below with guitar/amp department manager Bob Hobbs).
Mersey Beat, in the caption from its photo commemorating the event, noted
the guitars were "the only ones of their type in the country -- which
were specially flown to England by jet from America." This was probably
untrue, as they'd taken two months to arrive after being special-ordered.(Additionally,
these photos may have been taken a few days after the sale, for they already
sport straps and smudges.)
These Gibsons may have been used on the 11th September recordings of "Love
Me Do" but those tracks sound nearly identical to the earlier takes
of those songs, on which they weren't used. Lennon's J-160 E was used through
the Please, Please Me sessions, then stolen during the '63 Christmas show
at the Finsbury Park Astoria Theatre, London. (Pity poor Malcolm Evans,
who had to break the news to Lennon.) By this time, however, Lennon and
Harrison had gotten their identical guitars mixed up, so it was the one
registered to Harrison that disappeared.
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| 1964 |
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| 18th January |
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The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra with
Frank Sinatra Junor, Hellen Forest, The Pied Pipers |
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| 17th February |
Joe Brown & his Bruvers,
Heinz & The Saints, The Crystals,
Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, Daryl Quest, Mike Preston, Al Paige, Kevin
Kirk, Manfred Mann
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Billed as "Your Lucky Stars
Show" |
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| 21st March |
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Ella Fitzgerald |
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| 30th March |
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Cliff Richard & The Shadows,
Dailey & Wayne, Bob Millar & The Millermen |
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| 12th April |
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Shirley Bassey |
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| 2nd May |
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Dave Clark Five, Mark Wynter,
The Hollies, The Kinks,
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The Mojos, The Trebletones, Frank
Berry |
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| 9th/10th May |
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Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, King
Size Taylor & The Dominos, The Animals,
The Nashville Teens, The Swinging Blue Jeans, Karl Denver, Larry Burns,
Burn Elliott & The Fennmen, The Other Two
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The Rolling Stones are at this
concert to see their rock'n'roll hero Chuck Berry play . They manage to
get backstage for a chat but Chuck is not interested. As a result, the Stones
arrive late making their way down to their own gig in Catford and have trouble
getting into the venue as it's by now surrounded by hordes of fans.
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| 16th June |
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Cannonball Aderley |
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First UK Tour |
| 18th July |
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Ray Charles & His Orchestra
with The Raelets |
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| 15th September |
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The Rolling Stones, Charlie & Inez Foxx,
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Mike Berry, The Mojos, Billie
Davis, Simon Scott,
The LeRoys, The Innocents
Rolling Stones kick off their 4th British Tour |
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| 26th September |
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Bill Haley & The Comets, Manfred Mann, The Rockin' Berries, The Untamed
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Four, Bobby Patrick Big Six, Bob
Bain, The Nashville Teens |
| 17th October |
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The Honeycombs, Millie, Lulu &
The Luvers,
The Puppetts, The Applejacks, The Beat Merchants,
Daryl Quist, The Shouts, Gene Vincent
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Big Beat Scene" |
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| 31st October |
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Errol Garner |
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| 1st November |
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The Beatles, Mary Wells, The Rustiks,
Michael Haslam, Sounds Incorporated, The Remo Four and Tommy Quickly. The
compare for the tour was Bob Bain. |
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| 14th November |
Brenda Lee, John Barry Seven, Manfred
Mann, Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders,
Heinz, Marty Wilde, Bern Elliot & The Fenmen, The Flee-Rekkers |
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| 1965 |
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| 19th January |
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Chuck Berry, Kingsize Taylor
& The Dominos, The Moody Blues,
The Five Dimensions, Winston G, The Graham Bond Organization.
Long John Baldry, Mike Patto (compere)
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| 20th February |
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Roy Orbison, The Rockin’
Berries, Marianne Faithful,
The Three Quarters, Frank Berry, The Untamed,
Cliff Bennet & The Rebel Rousers
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| 21st February |
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The Duke Ellington Orchestra |
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| 1st March |
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“The PJ Proby Show”
with Brian Poole & The Tremeloes,
The Fourmost
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| 6th March |
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Art Blakey and Jimmy Guiffre |
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| 20th March |
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“The Tamla Mowtown Show”
with The Supremes,
Martha and the Vandellas, The Earl Van Dyke Six,
George Fame & The Blue Flames, Stevie Wonder,
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Temptations
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| 5th May |
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Beach Boys, Helen Shapiro, Terry
Reid, Simon Dupree & The Big Sound |
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| 14th August |
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The Byrds, Donovan, Elkie Brooks,
Kenny Lynch, Them,Johnny B Great, Charles Dickens, Ray Cameron
The NME slam The Byrds' performance |
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| 24th September |
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The Rolling Stones, The Spencer
Davis Group, Unit Four + Two, |
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Charles Dickens & The Habits,
The Checkmates, The End, Ray Cameron |
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| 9th October |
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Star Scene 65 The
Everly Brothers, Cilla Black, Billy J Kramer &
The Dakotas, Lionel Blair & His Kick Dancers, Klaus & Gibson
Paddy, The Alan Elsdon Band, The Marionettes, Compere - Pete Brady
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| 22nd October |
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Gene Pitney, Peter &
Gordon, Lulu & The Luvers, The Rockin’ Berries, Mike Cotton Sound,
The Quiet Five, The Quiet Five, Syd & Eddie (Little & Large)
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| 11th December |
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The Beatles Christmas Show with
Moody Blues, The Koobas,
Beryl Marsden, Steve Aldo
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Paul Gurvitz (Baker Gurvitz
Army)played his first professional live gig as a member of The Knack, at
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| 1966 |
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| 4th February |
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The Who, The Merseybeats, Graham
Bond Organisation Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages, The Fortunes |
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| 17th February |
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Gene Pitney, The Troggs, The Loot,
Sounds Incorporated,
Davis Grant & The Vision, Norman Rowe & The Playboys
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| 25th March |
Roy Orbison, The Walker Brothers,
Lulu & the Luvers,
The Marionettes, Kim D, The Quotations
Ray Cameron (compere) |
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| 13th August |
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Radio England’s "Swingin’
66" Tour with
The Small Faces, Dave Berry, The Koobas
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| 26th August |
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Sonny & Cher, Les Fleur de
Lys, VIPs, Sharon Tandy |
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| 13th September |
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The Small Faces, Millie, The Honeycombs,
Lulu & The Luvers
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| 27th September |
Dusty Springfield with The Echoes,
Dave Berry, Episode Six, The Settlers,
Dave Berry & The Mindbenders, Boz & his Group, The Alan Price Set,
Jeffery Lenner (compere)
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| September |
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The Yardbirds, Marmalade |
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| 20th October |
Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Chris
Farlowe & The Thunderbirds, Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band,
Eric Burden & The New Animals, The Georgie Fame Band, Eyes of Blue
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A Radio London promoted Concert |
| 6th November |
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The Beach Boys, Lulu & The Luvers,
David & Jonathon, Sounds Incorporated, The Golden Brass, Jerry Stevens
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| 13th November |
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“ The Star Scene Tour”
with The Walker Brothers, The Troggs, Dave Dee,Dozy, |
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Beaky, Mick & Tich, The Creation |
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| 17th February |
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Gene Pitney, Badfinger, The Troggs,
Sounds Incorporated, David Garrick,The Loot, Normie Rowe & The Playboys |
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| 3rd March |
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Roy Orbison, The Small Faces, The
Jeff Beck Group, The Settlers |
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Paul & Barry Ryan, PP Arnold,
Robb Storme Group |
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John Gray states on Smiler
– Rod Stewart web site:
The opening night at the Finsbury Park Astoria was a disaster; mainly
thanks to a power failure, which Rod swears to this day was instigated
by Ian McLagan who was fearful the Beck group would steel the show! A
furious Jeff Beck stormed off the stage, immediately sacked Rod Coons
the drummer and announced that he was pulling the group out of the tour!
Months of silence followed.
The tour also got off to a distressing start for The Settlers when
a sneak thief got into their dressing room and stole their money. Cindy
Kent said: "The thing is, we didn't have much money and the cash
that was stolen was meant to pay for our digs and tour expenses. I can't
remember how much it was, but it was a lot to us. Backstage at the Astoria
was like a rabbit warren, with numerous stairways. As soon as Steve Marriott
heard what had happened, he organised a collection from the other performers.
It was very sweet of him and it saved the day for us."
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| 17th March |
“The Stax Review”
Otis Reading, Sam & Dave, Booker T & The MG’s, Eddie Floyd,
Carla Thomas, Arthur Conley, The Mar-keys, Emperor Rosko |
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| 23rd March |
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The Hollies, The Spencer Davis Group,
Paul Jones, The Tremeloes, Richard Kent Style, The Young Idea, Dave Butler
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| 31st March |
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The Walker Brothers, Englebert
Humperdink, Cat Stevens,
Jimi Hendrix Experience, Californians, Quotations, Nick Jones
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Cat Stevens remembers…
"Engelbert (Humperdinck), then someone, Sounds Incorporated I think,
then Jimi Hendrix, then me - a prelude to The Walker Brothers, for the teenyboppers,
sort of, winding them up. An amazing mixture of personalities.No one knew
who Jimi Hendrix was at that time really. You’d hear, hey, there’s
a fire onstage! And we came rushing down and there was this guy kneeling
down burning his guitar. I was incredibly petrified, so petrified I couldn’t
wear my new Arnello & David high-heeled shoes. I had to put on my plimsolls
to actually move. All these people, the black arena… I remember an
awesome concoction which Engelbert turned me onto, port and brandy. And
that really did me more damage than anything else I was about to encounter
six months down the line! On the other side you’d got Hendrix and
his gang who were often puffing away, so it was quite a wild tour
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This show is also
famous for Hendrix burning his guitar for the first time, he later repeated
this at The Monterey Festival in California. At the end of his (five song
set!), as he performed the song 'Fire' Hendrix set fire to his Fender Stratocaster
– as the astonished audience looked on and petrified venue staff ushered
the performer off. Hendrix injured himself and had to be taken to hospital
with minor burns on his hands. This guitar was later found in a garage and
auctioned at The Idea Generation Gallery in London on 4th September 2009.
It fetched a remarkable £280,000, bought by a collector, Daniel Boucher
of Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
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| 5th May |
The Beach Boys, Helen Shapiro, Simon
Dupree & The Big Sound, The Nite People, Terry Reid with Peter Jay &
The Jaywalkers
The Marionettes, Alan Field |
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| 4th October |
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The Young Rascals |
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| 14th October |
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“The Soul Explosion Tour”
with Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Percy Sledge, Arthur Conley, Eddie Floyd,
Carla Thomas, Booker T & The MG’s |
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| 4th November |
Tom Jones, Kathy Kirby, Ted Heath
Orchestra |
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| 26th April |
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Gene Pitney, Status Quo, Simon Dupree
and the Big Sound, Amen Corner, Don Partridge, Lucus and
The Mike Cotton Sound
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| 27th April |
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Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames,
Status Quo |
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| 4th October |
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The Love Affair, Scott Walker,
Casuals, Tommy James & The Shondells & The Paper Dolls
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| 8th December |
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The Beach Boys, Vanity Fare,
Eclection, Roger "Twiggy" Day, Barry Ryan, Bruce Channel |
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| 15th December |
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Chuck Berry |
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| 21st February |
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Gene Pitney, The Iveys,
Mike Quinn, Joe Cocker & The Grease Band, Marmalade, Lucus & The
Mike Cotton Sound
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| 11th May |
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Aretha Franklin |
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| 12th September |
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The Beach Boys |
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| 4th October |
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The Walker Brothers, The Love
Affair, The Paper Dolls |
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| 9th December |
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The Beach Boys, Paul Ravere and
The Raiders |
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Amen Corner |
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