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Dawn Bell 12872 2 Ar HELLO HELLO I'M BACK AGAIN

Gary Glitter Bell 12993 7 DRIVE-IN SATURDAY

David Bowie RCA 23524 - ),c HELL RAISER

Sweet (RCA 3357)5 5 4 TWEEDLE DEE

Jimmy Osmond MGM 2006 1756 16 X SEE MY BABY JIVE

Wizzard Harvest HAR 50707 6 6 ALL BECAUSE OF YOU

Geordie EM120088 3 GET DOWN

Gilbert O'Sullivan MAM 969 18 ;4/ BROTHER LOUIE Hot Chocolate RAK 149

10 4 6 I'M A CLOWN/SOME KIND OF A SUMMERDavid Cassidy Bell Mabel 4

11 17 A" GIVING IT ALL AWAYRoger Daltrey Track 2094 110

12 9 MY LOVE McCartney's Wings Apple R 598513 21 .)Z NO MORE MR. NICE GUY

Alice Cooper Warner Bros. K 1626214 10 PYJAMARAMA Roxy Music Island WIP 615915 12 8 CRAZY Mud RAK 14616 20 `1 BIG EIGHT Judge Dread Big Shot B 161917 15 4 AMANDA Stuart Gillies Philips 6006 29318 8 8 THE TWELFTH OF NEVER

Donny Osmond MGM 2006 19919 23 4 GOOD GRIEF CHRISTINA

Chicory Tip CBS 125820 25 2 AND I LOVE YOU SO

Perry Como RCA 234621 11 8 NEVER NEVER NEVER

., Shirley Bassey United Artists UP 3549022 22 X GOD GAVE ROCK AND ROLL TO YOU 18 15

Argent Epic 1243 19 1223 19 5< DUELLING BANJOS - Soundtrack 20 14

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24 13 "Yi-. LOVE TRAIN O'Jays CBS 118125 28 41.q WONDERFUL DREAM Ann -Marie David

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new releasesRECORDS released May 11include Ian Matthews - DevilIn Disguise (Vertigo); MaxineBrown - Picked Up, PackedAnd Put Away (Avco); Par-tridge Family - Walking InThe Rain (Bell); Big Wheel -Shake A Tail (Bell); GladysKnight & The Pips - NeitherOf Us (Tamla); SpringfieldRevival - Does AnybodyLove You (Polydor); Sha-Na-Na - Yakety Yak (KamaSutra) ; Elvis Presley - PolkaSalad Annie (RCA); Skin Al-ley - Midnight Hour (Trans-atlantic).

David Cassidy

disc newsWAYNE FONTANA backwith Together (Warner) anddown in Australia it hit the topfive. Released from StephenStills' album Manassas, is SoMany Times (Atlantic).Fighting version of Sweet'sWig Warn Barn on the albumSounds 73 from Les Hum-phries Singers. (Decca).Cuddle, cuddle time with 1973Super plus J'Taime called Pil-low Talk from Sylvia, (LondonAmerican) night fightersshould take on Can The Can bySuzi Quatro, (RAK). Andnearly forgot another namecheck for Jungle Jenny, a discmale readers, from Alex Har-vey (Vertigo). And thisweek's exciting story strungtogether from the week's re-leases: Family Sunday Morn-ing, Give Me Time, BridgesMotorways & Dams, Darling,Tip Of My Tongue, The PowerOf Love, It Was Her, No MoreMr. Nice Guy, Hitch Hike.

cruisin'flashbacks1961 it is and time out for Arnie"Woo Woo" Ginsburg fromChicago station WMEX andthe Night Train programme.It's the year of the Berlin wall,Yuri Gagarin orbits the earthand America severs diplomat-ic relations with Cuba. Musiccomes from Del Shannon andRunaway, Blue Moon from theMarcels, Chuck Berry and Na-dine with Beep Beep via ThePlaymates. More on Cruisin'61 but there's a starter. SAEfor info on where to get Crui-sin' 61.

focus on...Lighthouse: Sunny Days(Mooncrest)11 people make Canadiangroup Lighthouse. Skip Pro-kop and Paul Hoffert formedLighthouse in the late sixties.Their 1971 album One FineDay earned them first of manygold discs. Lighthouse areseen by many as Canada'smost exciting live group.Plenty of style and musicalability in this large group. Fornow they have a seasonal of-fering Sunny Days which isdifferent enough to get itchart -bound!

PARCompiled and edited by TONY JASPER

`Best -ever' Bowie album disc factsshoots to top spot

THE BEST EVER saysRM's Val Mabbs aboutDavid Bowie's ALAD-DIN SANE.

A popular statement ifever there was one! Thou-sands have gone out andbought the album. Theresult is Bowie at NUM-BER ONE in the Album50.

1974 could see Bowietouring Russia and China.For the moment he's tour-ing Britain. May 12 seesthe start.

His album and singlerecord successes have en-sured fantastic demandfor tickets.

15 extra performanceshave been arranged tomeet the public's wish tosee live the guy whoserecords are selling like abomb!

SWEET HIT NUMBERFOUR THE FIRSTWEEK IN. THEY CAN'TGO WRONG CAN THEY?

yesterplaysfrom the rm charts

5 years agoMay 4,1968

1 Wonderful World - LouisArmstrong (Stateside)

2 Simon Says - FruitgumCo. (Pye Int)

3 Lazy Sunday - SmallFaces (Immediate)

4 If I Only Had Time - JohnRowles (MCA)

5 Can't Keep My Eyes OffYou - Andy Williams(CBS)

6 Congratulations - CliffRichard (Columbia)

7 Man Without Love - Eng-elbert Humperdinck ( Dec -ca)

8 Jennifer Eccles - Hollies(Parlophone)

9 I Can't Let Maggie Go -Honey Bus (Deram)

10 Delilah - Tom Jones(Decca )

10 years agoMay 4,1963

1 From Me To You - Beat-les ( P arloph one )

2 How Do You Do It -Gerry & The Pacemakers(Columbia)

3 From A Jack To A King -Ned Miller (London)

4 Nobody's Darling ButMine - Frank Ifield (Co-lumbia)

5 Say I Won't Be There -The Springfields (Philips)

6 Can't Get Used To LosingYou - Andy Williams(CBS)

7 In Dreams - Roy Orbison(London)

8 Rhythm Of The Rain -Cascades (Warner)

9 Brown Eyed HandsomeMan - Buddy Holly (Cor-al)

10 Foot Tapper - Shadows(Columbia).

hamilton's disco picksROLLING STONES: 19th Nervous Breakdown; I Just WannaMake Love To You; Carol; Route 66; Little Queenie; Bye ByeJohnny; Down The Road Apiece; Oh! Baby (We've Got A GoodThing Goin') (LP "Rock 'N' Rolling Stones" Decca SKL 5149)Yes.ROY "C": The Wedding Is Over (UK 27) Pop/R &B.OTIS REDDING & CARLA THOMAS: Tramp; Knock On Wood(Atlantic K 10274) Pop/R&B.SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION: Sabre Dance (Harvest HAR5066) Khachaturian goes Love Sculpture again, but more so.Frantic.NORMAN GRANT AND HIS ORCHESTRA FOR DANCERS:La Antigue; Te He Visto Pasar (EP "For Dancers Only, Vol. 31- Rhumbas Only" Starlite GRK 542) Totally lacking in ballsand for very polite dancers only, but good for a bit of a laugh ifused satirically, viz: "Meanwhile, back at the 'El Morocco Tea -Rooms' . . "

you writeYou wrAteI was disappointed over theRM issue of 28th April. NoEnglish chart. Explanation? Iwon't accept the holiday as anexcuse.Henry Bull

46 Queen's DriveGlasgow

The holiday is the reason,Henry. RM goes to print on aTuesday. The first delivery ofmail with chart returns afterEaster is the TUESDAY notMonday. Hence BMRB wereforced to be a day later thanusual and too late for us.

chart soulJust like the Soul on the Radio1, Dave Simmons, Saturdayshow and on disc plenty ofgoodies from the Contemporecord stables. US chart Fol-low The Wind Parts 1 & 2 fromThe Midnight Movers scoringheavily in UK and other hotfunky sounds include AllGod's Children from TimmyThomas, Everything IOwn/Kentucky Bluebird fromOscar Toney Jr.

US Soul Chart (Singles)1. Pillow Talk - Sylvia; 2.Funky Worm - Ohio Players;3. You Are The Sunshine OfMy Life - Stevie Wonder; 4.Masterpiece - Temptations;5. Cisco Kid - War; 6. Leav-ing Me - Independents; 7.Ain't No Woman - Four Tops;8. I Can Understand It - NewBirth; 9. Neither One Of Us -Gladys Knight & The Pips; 10.Hallelujah Day - Jackson 5.

UP to April 27, 1,380 singlesreleased, that's 44 more thansame period for 1972. 12 al-bums in the 50 with sales over100,000!

Glyn Johns the fine produc-er of Ooh -La -La, the charttopping album from Faces.The Country Side of Mild AndGriff on Pye's Golden Guineabest selling mid -price album.(94p - £1. 98). Topping sheetmusic charts is Get Down(MAM), at two comes PowerTo All Our Friends (Big Se-cret) and three, Twelfth OfNever (Frank). Capitol'sshare price, awake all '0' and'A' level economic students,rose 50 per cent some daysback with rsmours of Beatlescoming together.

chart folk

world charts'SWEDEN: 4. Houses Of OfThe Holy - Led Zeppelin(LP); 6. Billion Dollar Babies- Alice Cooper (LP); 8. Pow-er To All Our Friends - CliffRichard; 10. Dark Side Of TheMoon - Pink Floyd (LP)AUSTRALIA: 1. Killing MeSoftly With His Song - Rob-erta Flack (Atlantic); 2. Fun-

'ny Face - Donna Fargo; 3.Duelling Banjos - EricWeiss; 4. You're So Vain -Carly Simon; 5. Top Of TheWorld - Carpenters. HOL-LAND: 3. Get Down - GilbertO'Sullivan. 4. I'm Just A Sing-er in a rock and roll band -The Moody Blues; 6. Down ByThe Lazy River - The Os-monds; 7. Power To All OurFriends - Cliff Richard. Ja-pan: 8. You're So Vain -Carly Simon; 12. Killing MeSoftly With His Song - Rob-erta Flack. HONG KONG: 1.It Never Rains In SouthernCalifornia - Albert Ham-mond; 2. Aubrey - Bread; 3.Tie A Yellow Ribbon RoundThe Old Oak Tree; 4. You'reSo Vain - Carly Simon.SOUTHERN AFRICA: 2. TheLove In Your Eyes - VickyLeandrous; 4. Woman (Beau-tiful) Woman - Don Gibson;6. You're So Vain - CarlySimon. SPAIN: 1. It NeverRains In Southern California- Albert Hammond; 3. Hi, Hi,Hi - Wings; 6. I'd Love YouTo Want Me - Lobo. MEXI-CA: MEXICO: Killing MeSoftly With His Song - Rob-erta Flack; 7. Why Can't WeLive Together - TimmyThomas.

23 tracks of vintage Joan Baez come with a beautifully packagedThe Joan Baez Ballad Book, RCA - Vanguard and it meanssongs like House Of The Rising Sun, Mary Hamilton, SilverDagger and Fare Thee Well. Nothing dated about this material.Joan, then late teens into early twenties, sparkles. With her onthe latest stuff like Come Out Of The Shadow? Get there from thebeginning with this double and pick up her paperback,Daybreak, at the same time. Very nice.

welcome to the club!Several other pop papers seem to have suddenly gotsuspiciously similiar ideas to our first in pop journalism -Chart Parade. RM takes such action as a compliment.

We will continue to lead. Remember we have the BMRBchart. With it you can follow Radio One, particularly TomBrown's Solid Gold Sixty, Tony Blackburn's Breakfast Showand on TV, Top Of The Pops.

We will continue to give the pulse of a fast moving singlesand album world, print World Charts, list new releases afortnight ahead, run specials on reggae, soul facts folk,Americana; talk and figures, focus on special groups andsingers, run novel competitions and seek your opinions plusyesterplays and MUCH MORE -to happen pretty SOON.

Win the newDawn albumWin the new album from the fabulous chart topping DAWN!25 copies to be won!

Answer the three questions below, send in your answer byfirst post May 14. The address is Dawn Competition, ChartParade, Record Mirror, 7 Carnaby Street, London W. I. AlsoENCLOSE the square box marked D at the bottom of thispage. Any number of entries providing each has the squarebox D.

This competition is open to anyone living in Great Britain.The decision of Chart Parade's editor is final. No correspond-ence can be entered into. The first 25 correct entries drawnout of a box on Monday, May 14 will mean 25 lucky winners!r

Entry FormCut out this entry form or copy thequestions and answers on to a separatesheet and, remember, print clearly andcut out and enclose the D found below.

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live!FatsDominoTHE Date: Saturday, April 28,1973. The place: the rocker -packed Hammersmith Odeon.The occasion: when rock in-itiator Fats Domino and hisbrace of tooters turned backthe clock . . . in one of the bestrock and roll concerts I haveever seen. Fats Domino, whohas been working in cabaretfor the past couple of years, isby now a legendary characterfor launching the Golden Eraof Rock 'n' Roll.

He came out in a whitejacket, pink trousers, andwhite shoes and the eight -piece band wore slick suits. Itwas even better than their firstBritish appearance six yearsago and, like then, the storywas the same - a full andenthusiastic house.

Exuberant whistles and lus-ty cheers greeted every num-ber Fats offered, but hegrabbed most applause for histour de force numbers. Themost noted, of course, were his"Blueberry Hill", "Blue Mon-day," and "Shake Rattle &Roll". He stormed throughjust about every song thedrape -jacket audience want-ed, including "Hello Josephine", "Let The Four WindsBlow," "I'm Walking," and"Ain't That A Shame".

The band's delivery wasstylish, zippy, and completelyexciting. The brass section isfive strong, and very good.The New Orleans -born pianist -singer's cleverly architectedvocal offerings were smackdab on target, his keyboardflights contained driving beat,lots of it, and the knockdownexcitement drove the crowdberserkkkk! - as, frankly, itdid your reporter. One finalcomment: The standing ova-tion at the end of the sixty -minute dingdong was for Rock'n' Roll's favourite son -praise, indeed, for a 44 -year -old veteran.

- WAXIE MAXIE

GlenCampbelland

AnneMurray

The times have indeedchanged. Glen Campbell, thatformer country boy from Ar-kansas, is now firmly en-trenched in the city - com-plete with his three personalmusicians, a thirty piece or-chestra and the Mike SammesSingers. That was the situ-ation at last Saturday's sellout concerts at the Royal Fes-tival Hall and he entertainedhis audiences magnificently.

"I think there's only twokinds of music," he com-mented during the course ofhis programme, "and that'sgood and bad." He concen-trated on the former with abalanced array of materialthat included the inevitablestring of Jim Webb successes.Between the songs he mixedwitty humour and his re-nowned musicianship - in-cluding a brilliant "DuellingBanjos" along with banjoplater Carl Jackson - andconcluded in fine style with"Amazing Grace," a songfrom his rural childhood, bynot only providing the vocalsbut also a bagpipes solo.

Guesting on the show wasCanada's Anne Murray whomCampbell credited as the fi-

Heinz - '62 variety?

HeinzHEINZ was a member of the Tornadoes, the first British groupto dent the US charts with their monster Telstar. He then wentsolo, achieving a fair measure of success in the early sixties. Hisbiggest hit Just Like Eddie brought him a lot of criticism forcashing in on Cochran's death, although Heinz denied deniedthis. Now, many years later, he works only weekends on stage,having another job in London. He's let the blond rinse grow outof his hair and refuses to wear it long to get work.

His two-day stint at a new Liverpool Club, the Back of theMoon, seems to confirm that his admiration for Eddie wasgenuine. He now has no critics to reply to, but his act was solidrock and roll throughout and chock full of Cochran songs.

His young group, the Magic Rock and Roll Band, provided avery solid if over -loud sound and Heinz delivered each song withfrenzied conviction. His voice is much stronger now and hiswhite suit and black shirt didn't seem overdone. SummertimeBlues, C'mon Everybody, Somethin' Else and Hound Dogpounded out as people danced all around him. The crowd likedHeinz and that's what counts.

nest female vocalist he hadever heard. Besides duettingon a couple of numbers, Annehad her own 40 minute setcomplete with her group Rich-ard - called Dick in lessaustere surroundings - andhighlighted her entertainingsegment with a highly enthu-siastic version of John D.Loudermilk's "Break MyMind."

- Tony Byworth

- JIM NEWCOMBE

BrotherlyLove

The gigantic forms of MalKirk and Kevin Conneelyloomed in the doorway. Directfrom the Albert Hall theystrode into Gulliver's whereBrotherly Love were per-forming. Mal and Kevin, twoof our top wrestlers, were ingood company that evening asa host of celebrities were downto watch the trio whose profes-sional polish, natural humourand superb vocal ability weremuch in evidence. One of themost enthusiastic applauderswas little Lynsey De Paul, whowas so impressed with thegroup the first time she sawthem that she penned theirsingle "Tip Of My Tongue. -

Mike, Lee and Ronnie wereschooled in the Northern Clubs- and it shows! Up thereyou've got to entertain to sur-vive and they produced aninfectious atmosphere to theirset which included "My CherieAmour," "Under The Board-walk," "Show Me" and "TipOf My Tongue. " Obviously, alot of people are going to labelthem a British Osmonds. Per-sonally, they're more akin to ayoung version of The WalkerBrothers. Save your money,teenyboppers, I've no doubtthat within months you'll beneeding it to buy posters, Tshirts, loon pants and pillowswith the boys' faces adorningthem.

- James Craig.

Wizzard, ELO,top Mayfestival

A MAMMOTH charity gig with Wizzard, E.L. 0. ,possibly Gary Glitter and Mud, will launch thisyear's festival season at West Wycombe on May 26.Tickets at £1 will make it a 'Cheapo' day -out withsafety and security undertaken by major oilcompanies.

Already fifteen acts havepledged support for the one -day concert which aims toraise £20,000 -plus for the Sa-maritans. The organisers are

OK, Sowhat's

newElvis?

COL. TOM PARKER, theguiding light and oft -calledSvengali behind Elvis Pre-sley, has said there are defi-nitely no plans for Elvis totour England at this mo-ment.

For many months therehad been speculation andrumours about a possiblesplit between the singer andhis manager, and of talesthat Elvis wanted to playEngland, but Col. Parkerwas against such a plan.

There had been rumoursthat Elvis feared flying,which is poppycock, since hisrecent West Coast tour hadhim flying to all engage-ments. And on previoustours he had flown all overthe U.S., including theoceanic flight to Hawaii.

Asked what Elvis' futureplans were, Col. Parkersaid, "Nothing! Absolutelynothing!"

Asked if and when Presleywas going to play England,the former carnival man em-phatically stated, "Thereare no plans. We have noth-ing planned."

The RCA recording star,whose recent TV specialfrom Hawaii may be shownin the United Kingdom laterthis year, recently finished astring of concerts along theU.S. coast - mainly in Cali-fornia, and sold out everydate. From there he went toa lengthy stay at the SaharaTahoe Hotel in Nevada.

After that? "No plans,"snorted Col. Parker, almostindignant that anyone shouldinquire as to Elvis' future.

McPheesolo

projectsTony McPhee of the Ground-

hogs is to embark on a soloproject including his own al-bum and live appearances lat-er this year. He stresses thatthis in no way signals thebreak-up of the group.

McPhee will record the al-bum, The Two Faces of TonyMcPhee, at his own studio inHaverhill, Suffolk. One sidewill be devoted to his bluesguitar playing, the other tokeyboard work. His live ap-pearances, scheduled to coin-cide with the release of hisalbum in the autumn, willfollow the same format.

hoping more stars will offer tomake guest spot appearances.

Confirmed so far are: Wiz-zard, E. L. O. , Neil Sedaka,Nashville Teens, Settlers,John Martyn, Michael Blount,Ian Page, Johnathan Swift,Tim Allen, Southern Ram-blers, Wild Oats, Tomahawk,New Frontier, and Foggy.Plus possibly Gary Glitter,Mud, and Kenny Ball.

Noel Edmunds, J, finnyWalker, and Dave Allen willlead the DJ parade, whileLuxembourg will run a "Sa-maritan Pledge Week" play-ing requests to Samaritan sup-porters only.

Jimmy Savile will promotethe concert, Deke Arlon willproduce, and London's Mar-quee will handle the stagemanagement.

BBC Network director JohnRoss -Barnard is organisingthe event and described theresponse as "fantastic".

The festival, near the fa-mous caves at West Wycombe,Bucks, will start at 11. 00 a.m.and continue until all the actshave appeared.

Ricky'sdebutRicky Wilde will

make his first Brit-ish radio broadcastas Rosko's guest onRadio One's RoundTable record re-view show tomor-row (Friday).Tony Blackburnwill also be on theshow which startsat 5 pm.

GILBERT GETS INAMONG AWARDS

GILBERT O'SULLIVAN and Badfinger vie writersPeter Ham and Tom Evans for the top awards inthis year's Ivor Novello Awards announced thisweek.

Gilbert takes the"British Songwriter ofthe Year" category butgets pushed into secondplace in three more sec-tions.

The song that is re-sponsible is Badfinger's"Without You" whichgains Ham and Evansthe best song and inter-national hit statuettes.In each category "AloneAgain Naturally" takesthe certificate of ho-nour.

In the best ballad sec-tion Clair is knocked

into second place byEwan MacColl's TheFirst Time Ever I SawYour Face.

Mouldy Old Doughpipped Solid Gold EasyAction for the highestsales, and Beg Steal orBorrow was most per-formed work ahead ofMeet Me on the Corner.

Hurricane Smith's OhBabe What Would YouSay was voted best popsong ahead of Long CoolWoman In A BlackDress, the Cooke -G r e e n a w a ycomposition.

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Bowie'sGrand

Tour

GrowsDAVID BOWIE, whose hun-dred -day world tour comes toan end when his train drawsinto London's Victoria Stationtomorrow, will be taking aweek's rest before starting hisBritish tour on May 12. Afterheavy advance ticket sales,several extra dates are beingarranged and are shortly to beannounced.

During his time in JapanBowie was reported to bemuch impressed by tradition-al Japanese theatre and hebought a number of strikingOriental robes which will befeatured in quick -change inhis new act.

Fsmble, who appeared withBowie in the US and Japan,will not, as previously publi-cised, now be supporting himon the British dates, whereBowie and his Spiders will bethe only act on the bill.

His new RCA album, Alad-din Sane, is currently at num-ber one in the charts on thefirst week of release. It is thefirst time this has happened toany artist for several years.

Edmunds'DroopDAVE EDMUNDS will startproduction next week on Bre-wer's Droop's second albumfor RCA at Rockfield studios inMonmouth.

The band's future dates in -dude Northern Counties Col-lege, Newcastle, May 4,Stoneground, Manchester(11th), Walsall Training Col-lege (12th), Concorde Club,Southampton (16th), and Trin-ity College, Dublin (18).

Lynseyon topLYNSEY DE PAUL wasrecently presented with thetop singer -performer award atthe Japanese InternationalSong Festival held in Tokyo.

Lynsey, whose latest MAMsingle All Night was releasedlast Friday, performed Get-ting A Drag, her winning song,at the festival.

ManfilmMAN are to be the subject of anew BBC documentary seriestitled "New Horizons" to betransmitted on BBC TV in thenear future. The band will befilmed from 1 - 4 May duringrehearsals in Gloucestershireand thereafter during studiosessions whilst they arerecording their latest albumfor July release.

KinkstudioTHE KINKS' own recordingstudio in Hornsey is now com-plete and ready for use - butas yet has no recording engi-neer to operate the 16 -trackequipment.

The studio, built inside anold warehouse, can accom-modate 20 musicians and willbe available for other artists tohire as well as for the Kinks'own recordings.

Slade to playEarl's Court

SLADE this week confirmedthat they are set to appear atEarls Court on Sunday, July1. During the concert thegroup's performance will berecorded for possible releaseas a live album - completewith their Never Walk Aloneroutine. The concert begins at6 pm.

Tickets for the event will beavailable from May 19, andare obtainable by writing toSlade Box Office, c/o EarlsCourt Exhibition Hall, Lon-don, S. W. 5. Cost per ticket is£1, a. 50 or £2.00, and shouldbe paid by cheques or postalorders made out to AdvanceReservation Agency Limited.SAE should be enclosed.

Helms'follow-up

JIMMY HELMS will releasethe follow-up to his recentCube hit "Gonna Make You AnOffer You Can't Refuse" onMay 11. Titled "Jack Horner'sHoliday," the record is againwritten and produced by John-ny Worth. Jimmy has beensigned for a guest appearanceon the new "Hey Brian" TVseries on May 19, and is alsoset for several radio datesbefore flying to America for aseries of TV and radio promo-tional gigs in June. Helms isat present completing work onhis first Cube album, sched-uled for mid -summer release.

Allan Clarkesingle,LP, dates

ALLAN CLARKE, ex -leadsinger of the Hollies, hassigned to the group's old labelEMI, who are rush releasing anew single tomorrow (Fri-day).

Sebastianfor UK

JOHN SEBASTIAN, theAmerican singer who wrote allthe Lovin' Spoonful's hits, willbe flying to England for book-ings in late May and earlyJune.

Supported by MCA artistMick Greenwood, he will beappearing at SouthamptonUniversity (May 25), Notting-ham University (26), LondonRainbow (June 2), Green'sPlayhouse, Glasgow (8) andEdinburgh Empire (9).

Argent'stravellingshoesARGENT are to play theirfirst Australian dates in July,and will play some British andEuropean dates during thesame month. This week theyflew to the US to start thesecond leg of their eight -weekconcert series.

The title of the single is Who,written by Allan and his leadguitarist Ray Glynn. An al-bum, Headroom, will be re-leased in early June.

Clarke will be making se-lected live appearances withGlynn and keyboard playerKirk Duncan this summer. Hewas originally booked to dosome dates this month whichhad to be cancelled becauseDuncan suffered a slippeddisc.

They appear with the DoobieBrothers at Carnegie Hall andLos Angeles Forum then con-centrate on the mid -West andthe West Coast. The bandreturn to Britain on June 6, towork on the follow-up to theirIn Deep album, then back toAmerica for a 10 -date tour.

Wings' LP reviewcharmingly simple

PAUL McCARTNEY &WINGS: Red Rose Speedway(PCTC 251). It's pretty diffi-cult to come to terms with PaulMcCartney's work, particu-larly as an immediate thing.There is a certain simplicity,

Written, arranged,produced and accompaniedby Roy Wood.

Harvest HAR 5073

EMI

naivete almost, in what hedoes, and that can be bothenhancing and irritating. Onething is fairly certain, though,none of the material is instant.From the lyrical point of viewit's hard to recall thatMcCartney has been associ-ated with such inventive songsin thepast, when confrontedwith the 12 page full colourlyric booklet attached to thesleeve. But there always is acertain charm in McCartney'svocals. Just as the track MyLove has become a very li-keable number, so will othercompositions included here.But in contrast to the goodinstrumental - notably key-board - feel on Single Pigeon,the badly recorded, When TheNight, takes the edge off themood. Drummer Denny Sei-well puts in good workthroughout and is responsiblefor the lively feel on Loup (1stIndian On The Moon), an in-strumental. There's a lengthymedley of numbers, parts ofwhich are bright - otherswhich shine less. And that isgenerally the initial impres-sion the album gives. Playedmore and more the songs coulddevelop . . . for McCartney'swork seems to have that ten-dency. - V. M.

CARL WAYNE, founder ofThe Move, has recorded a RoyWood song, Hazel Eyes, forrush release in May. He hasalso completed work on a newalbum but no release date hasyet been set.

Wayne has concentrated oncabaret work since splittingwith The Move and appearseach Tuesday on ATV'sLunchtime With Woganseries. He plays selected con-cert dates in the north ofEngland throughout June.

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ANY recording engineers looking for a nice gig? Kinksneed you . . . strong rumours that Dylan thinking ofdoing live dates again hohohoho. "You take yoursingers too seriously," as Surfer Bob once said . . .nice to see Alan Bown back in harness with Jonesy atthe Marquee . . . the Janis Joplin Appreciation Societyagog at new album of unreleased tracks to be thisautumn . . . the Melanie club holding a prehear of hernew album, at Carnegie Hall, on June 9. Write DavidBowlinger, 32 Sutherland Point, Tiger Way, London E5. . . Badfinger's WEA deal for three, count 'em, threemillion dollars . . . apple artists to feature at theHereford Cider Festival from May 25 -June 3 . . . heaveho . . . the excellent Loudon Wainwright III, who usedto live the life obscene, will be worth seeing . . ."Suddenly I have lots of new friends," says Eurovisionvictress Anne Marie David . . . Atlantic signing up allsorts of C and W artists - and Ray Charles had to leavebefore he recorded his C and W albums all those yearsago . . . Uriah Heep's amiable drummer Lee Kerslakegetting married at Epping Registrar's Office on May11th at 2 pm . . . Alice Cooper speaks! To Kid Jensenon May 6 . . . back to 10 inch singles for Victor Brox,now running Music Force in Manchester . . . DelShannon coming to England this month . . . MaryTravers, ex -Peter, Paul and, deserting protest toappear in South Pacific with the St. Louis MunicipalOpera Association . . . Julie Andrews to record SisterMorphine with Kingdom Come backing her . . .Geordie's Brian Johnson in the news yet again - hecollapsed on stage at Torbay, went to hospital and wastreated for food poisoning and exhaustion . . . TerryKnight does write a nice letter . . . to those who wereturned off by his Faith hype, he says, "If the business isdying, then you helped it along by ignoring the Faiths". . . Meep, meep, say we . . .

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JERRY Lee Lewis, whosenewest LP was cut in Londonwith an all-star band, is nowplanning a follow-up LP whichwill be titled Jerry Lee LewisSouthern Session. All the ma-terial will have to do with thesouthern region of the US - beit country, blues or rock. Therecording sessions areplanned for Nashville, Mem-phis and Muscle Shoals, Ala-bama, with name studio musi-cians working on the dates.

The idea is to build a pow-erhouse LP using Americantalent just the way Jerry Leehas just done with Britishsidemen. The pianist -singerseems to have been given amajor shot in the arm with therelease of the new British -made LP.

Chicago, the band which fol-lowed Blood, Sweat and Tears,has been recorded in its pro-ducer's ranch studio in thetown of Nederland, Colorado.The owner of the studio is JimGuercio, a bright chap whoused to work in Los Angelesand moved to the wide openspaces for environmental andcreative reasons. The record-ing work marks the first timeChicago has worked outside ofany major American record-ing centre. The LP, ChicagoVI, should be out in May.

The Osmond Brothers havestarted using their sisterMarie, who is 13 -years -old, in

their act. She made her pro-fessional debut in Las Vegasrecently, singing with Donnyon the tune Where Is TheLove? Actually, Marie madeher show business debut sev-eral nights earlier when sheworked with Donnie at a speci-al dinner show in Washingtonfor government officials andrecording industry figureswho were there.

And speaking of the family,the brothers have been takingkarate lessons, possibly tohelp hold off fans who go crazytrying to get too close to them.The official Osmond familyreason for the karate is thatit's part of a family physicalfitness programme. So watchout if you have a chance to getclose to the brothers andyou're feeling aggressive;they now have the know-howon how to really defend them-selves.

"It's something that fasci-nated some of us for a longtime," Alan the oldest brotheradmits.

The Hollies will be returningto the States for 11 concerts inmid -May. They will be play-ing mainly in the mid -westernpart of the country; a new LP,Romany, will precede them.

Harry Nilsson's next LP fea-tures a 47 -piece orchestra andthe arrangements of GordonJenkins, a man most youngpeople don't know at all. Still,the Gordon Jenkins name wasvery powerful and meaningfulin the 40's and 50's when hewas one of the most active andsuccessful arrangers. So it'snice to hear that Gordon isworking with some "new"people. The LP incidentallywas cut in London with former

Beatles press agent DerekTaylor making his debut asthe producer.

Anne Murray's sixth LP hasjust come out, Danny's Song,which is the title of her newesthit single. Half of the LP wasdone before an audience at theNational Arts Centre in Ot-tawa, Canada.

Having seen how Europeanand Latin nations developsong festivals, a bunch ofsharp Americans havelaunched their own effortwhich is called the First An-nual American Song Festival.

It takes place August 30through September 2 at theSaratoga Performing ArtsCentre in Saratoga Springs inNew York State. There is sup-posed to be fifty thousanddollars worth of prizes for thewinners. The competition isopen to both professionals andamateurs, but there is acautious attitude amon the

professionals about jumpinginto the competition.

Edward Bear has just beenawarded its first gold singlefor Last Song. Its follow-up isClose Your Eyes which waswritten by lead singer LarryEvoy.

If someone goes to test drivea Toyota automobile, they canwalk out with a special albumfeaturing the Guess Who, Jef-ferson Airplane, Jerry Reed,Jose Feliciano, GenerationGap, Dixie, Al Hirt and LouisArmstrong. That's some bagof rock performers!

Robin Trower, former gui-tarist with Procol Harum,wrote eight of the nine tunes inhis debut solo LP, Twice Re-moved From Yesterday,which has just been released.

When Black Sabbath startstouring the U.S. in May, theirguests will be Beast, the newBritish band starring DaveBall on guitar and Cozy Powellon drums.

Donny learns karate from an LA expert

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NOT being one to be leftbehind in any race, Ro-ger Cooke has found ayoung, good looking sing-er who he hopes will wowthe young ladies in a waysimilar to that achievedby Donny and David.

"Here he is," says Ro-ger, holding up a largeblack and white photo-graph. "Good looking,isn't he? I travelledaround the country look-ing for talent to sign up,and this boy was the onlygood thing that I found.His name's John Gaug-han, and he's really verytalented. "

Roger has also signedup a new group calledJelly, and when we methe was working on thenext Miki Anthonysingle. He is still writingas much as ever, but forartists in the music busi-ness rather than for tele-vision commercials.

"The jingle writing hascome to an end," he ad-mitted. "Basically we'veoutgrown it. I don'tmean that in a flashsense because jingleswere good for me, but itbecame very much a la-bour, and the rewards,such as they were, didn'tcompensate for that. Ican't really describe myfeelings about it. Itbrought Roger Green-away and I, Teach TheWorld To Sing in the endwhich sold five million.Well that's great.

"I enjoyed doing onefamous chocolate jingle,a petrol one and the fa-mous soft drink one inthe States, and they weresuccessful jingles. Thatwas fine because thepeople who commis-sioned us let us be Cookeand Greenaway, but atother times they wantyou to do just what theytell you and that's verytough."

Roger Cooke likes tolearn his own lessons, hisown way. And he is hon-est in admitting to someof the lessons he'slearned the hard way.

"Blue Mink have hadno success with albums.The last ore did abouteight thousand but that'sjust a drop in the ocean.Lots of people, heavypeople, dug Melting Pot,and even Peel played it.Then our album cameout, and because of ourinexperience in that fieldat the time, we let a lot ofold tracks go out. Therewere a lot of ego trips onit, semi -jazz things.

"It was all very bad,and anybody who wasseriously into albums atthat time has never both-ered to put our albums onthe turntable since. Youjust don't stand withyour product as it comes,but on what you've donein the past. "

In some ways thatpleases Roger Cooke. Hebelieves that in 10 years'time people will be re-membered for their com-mercial successs - andhe's had at least 40 ofthose already - butwhere the album marketis concerned, BlueMink's problems aremore obvious.

"If you play for agroup for a period of four-years, you either prog-ress musically withinyour heads, or the wholething falls apart. Sincethat bad album, anyonewho's been bothering tobuy our work will havebeen discovering things,

Roger Cookrefugee

rom Rock

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leaning towards betterthings in a musicalsense.

"This new album we'reworking on has still got acommercial element, butit's a more serious at-tempt at making verygood pop music. I thinkwe're managing to cap-ture a mixture of thingsbetween Sly and theFamily Stone and TheWho. Some of the vocalwork is like the Carpen-ters, but tinged with thatfunky humour that Slygets into it. Rememberthat as musicians we digso many other peoplethat we're bound to de-velop like that. "

The new Mink albumfeatures their version ofStevie Wonder's Sun-shine Of My Life, alongwith a lot of Cooke andGreenaway's own songs.A new girl member,Anna Dell, has been in-troduced on keyboards toreplace Roger Coulamwho left "because he'snot too happy with whatthe group is doing. "Anna has come straightfrom college into thebusiness, and is appar-ently a good musical ar-ranger. The New Seek-ers' producer DaveMackay has also beensigned up as the group'sown producer. In thepast they have producedtheir own material.

"We really needed aproducer who could lookat the music from outsidethe group," Roger ad-mits. "And I respect thework that Dave does.That doesn't mean thatwe're going to becomelike the New Seekers,though, because with alldue reverence to thegroup, I think we're moreof a musician's group."With all thesechanges it's been likeanother gig for us," Ro-ger told me. "In the pastwe've been enjoying our-selves, but we've nevergotten serious aboutthings. Now it's workingout in both ways. "

Blue Mink have justsigned a new recordingcontract with MCARecords for America,and they are likely tovisit the country in Au-gust. In fact, contrary to

belief, Blue Mink do workon live appearancesquite regularly - mostoften at cabaret clubs inthe North of England.

"We've suddenly foundthat we're enjoyingworking," Roger toldme. "And we can go outnow for the kind of mon-ey that makes it a worth-while proposition . . .an awful lot of money!I'm also a little moreliberated musically now,and we're all digging somany things.

"When we're workingwe take albums aroundwith us, and they can bethings as different asMarvin Gaye or LouReed. We pick up enoughgood vibes that way toimplement it into our al-bums. I don't know ifanyone will listen to thenext album, though, be-cause we created a bar-rier. But we've grown upa little more musically.

"I think there's awhole new album marketnow. There are thepeople who grew up withme - I'm 32 now - andthey've got kids who are12 or 13. Well, thosepeople can't quite getinto Bowie, though theymay try to. That's awhole area of people whoneed entertaining, whoaren't heavy, but aren'tinto Max Bygraves.

And that, hopes Roger,is where Blue Minkcomes in.

"There's a whole revo-lution going on at themoment," he adds."With Donny Osmond,Jackson Five, DavidCassidy, Slade,Sweet . . . suddenlythere's a whole lot of 15 -year -old kids who aren'tinto acid rock, basicallythey're into people theycan identify with.

"Now it's very difficultfor people like Crosby,Stills and Nash and LedZepplin to get back intothat music. T. Rex have

. . . there's an old stal-wart who came throughin a pop sense.

"That's like EltonJohn and Cat Stevens.Basically he's pop, put-ting two fingers up to theworld. Then there's thisstrange half -being whocomes alive onstage . . . Space Odd-ity pleased me musicallymore than anything he'sdone since, but he's theleader of the revolution.Roxy Music are part ofit, too."

Roger Cooke, as a soloartist, and with BlueMink, doesn't nurtureany false or foolish beliefthat he could become apart of that . . . he justhopes to learn as muchas he can from all musicbusiness happenings,and to fill that gap forrefugees from an era ofrock 'n' roll.

Val Mabbs

TO jet -setters like me,who are used to beltingfrom place to place at 45mph in a Ford Popular(Circa 1962) there is stillsomething novel about atrain journey to the coun-tryside.

So, when Elton John,Bernie Taupin, JohnReid, Gus Dudgeon andSteve Brown sent me areturn ticket to Moreton -in -the -Marsh, I naturallyused it.

The famous five werelaunching their new la-bel, Rocket Records.The idea was born whenthey were all working onDon't Shoot Me, inFrance last year. El -ton's guitarist, DaveyJohnstone, had wanted torecord a solo album andJohn Reid, Elton's man-ager, had been foot-slogging round the vari-ous record companiestrying to get him a gooddeal.

"No-one would offer alarge enough per-centage. We were all dis-cussing it one eveningand were getting quitedrunk because the Chat-eau (as in Honky) makesits own wine. We decidedto form our own recordcompany. In the coldlight of morning we won-dered how serious wehad been. 'Why not?' wesaid. 'It might be a goodidea. ' "

That's Elton's story ofthe formation of RocketRecords. His own con-tract with DJM does notexpire for another twoyears and anyway, he isquite happy there. So,the label is launched withLong Dancer, DaveyJohnstone and Kiki Deewith a few other acts -all relative unknowns -to appear on record lat-er.

The basic idea is to runthe label like Apple, asone big happy familywith artists sharing in allthe business secrets andcreaming off a higherpercentage. But the ladsof Rocket have a soundbusiness sense and don'tintend that the moneyshould flow like the wineat the Chateau.

"I don't think we'regoing to fail. I don't saythat we're going to setthe world on fire, but Idon't think we are goingto fail," says Elton.

And so we come to thelaunch. The Apollo pro-gramme being over, thecompany did the nextbest thing and hired atrain. There were 300 ofus. The artists and labelpersonnel, some peoplefrom Island Recordswhich is handling Rocketdistribution; journalists,broadcasters, Tony Kingfrom Apple, Pete Murrayand some hangers-on.

We all assembled atPaddington Station,yielded up our giant re-turn tickets, the camerasclicked, the guard blewhis whistle and we wereoff. The whole thing as-sumed a fairy-tale likequality as we rushedcomfortably through thebright green fields of aspring evening.

Fast train toMoreton -in-the -Marsh

There are those whowould criticise therecord industry for hav-ing too much to do withmarketing and too littleto do with music. Anyoneon that train on Thurs-day would have realisedthat it is neither of thesethat is uppermost in theminds of music people. Itis drinking.

And so we sat andsupped, and some of ushad a chance to talk toElton as he wanderedthrough the carriages,and some of us were ableto listen to the good vibesover headphones andsome of us wasted thejourney chatting up adelightful German chickwho was a good foot tal-ler than us when we fi-nally arrived in Moreton -in -the -Marsh and shestood up.

Up till then it had beenlike any other press re-ception - apart from thetravelling - on - a - trainaspect. But on arrivalthings started to happenthat made it clear thiswas going to be a do -to -remember. We weregreeted at the station bya brass band.

Here we were requiredto drink more beveragesand supplied with an ex-cellent cold buffet beforethe music started. Firston was Rocket's singer /songwriter Mike Silverwhose set was pleasantthough unremarkable onfirst hearing.

Things had begun toget a bit cloudy by thenand Long Dancer weregreeted with consid-erable enthusiasm al-though I found them atrifle boring. They arejust four guitarists - nodrummer - and theysound a lot like America.There was hot com-petition to be on theRocket label so presum-ably they have talentsthat are not apparent ina short set.

Instead of the expectedDavey Johnstone solo,we were then treated to ajam session that was cer-tainly the high spot of theevening. Elton got ev-eryone on the stage andbetween them they rock-ed through a medley ofChuck Berry and Presleyclassics.

The cries for morewere quietened by thesuggestion that if we didnot march sharply backto the train there wouldbe no train. There wasno hanging about. We allgot back on the train andit went. Down at the rearI found a discothequewagon in which I suc-ceeded, in my elevatedstate of mind, to dancewith my statuesque,blonde, Germanic Mad-chen.

RexAnderson

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/Keeping up with

JAny new wordsfor teenyboppersIT'S been one of those weeks.By letter, telephone and tele-gram, I've been complainedat, argued with and shotdown. And I've learned thatan infuriated David Cassidyfan in full cry can be asfearsome as a charging buf-falo.

Actually I'm not the chapthey really wanted. It was thechap (I'll never reveal hisname) who reviewed the Da-vid Cassidy Song Book forRecord Mirror. This nervelessbut anonymous reviewer saidthat the music wasn't all thatimportant . . the book wasimportant more for layingbare some hard-hitting factsabout David, and for someshots of his unclad torso.

That David is alleged tohave smoked pot is one griev-ous gripe. Seems the lad is onrecord as saying all drugs aredangerous; that his best matekilled himself through addic-tion.

That one writer claimed Da-vid was just about finished asa superstar caused further fanfervour.

But worst of all is the insist-ence of newspapers in callingCassidy fans either teenybop-pers or (much worse) weeny -hoppers that's been the big-gest complaint.

So look . . how about YOUcoming up with a better title toexpress supporters of Cassidy -

mania? Newspapers andmagazines need a terse tellingtitle to fit headlines and so on.If teenies or weenies are out -well, what replaces thesewords?

I'll lash out free albums tofans who come up with worth-while suggestions.

David Bowie mystifiesthe inscrutable JapaneseSEEMS the Japanese are farfrom inscrutable when DavidBowie is around. He's leftaudiences there mystified andalarmed.

The Sunday Observer re-ported: "Bowie and the Spi-ders might really have comefrom Mars. Nobody couldmake head nor tail of hisviolent and erotic narcissism.

"Tokyo's best-known sing-ers, boys as well as girls, aremore cuddly than corrupting.Bowie's programme beganwith his rising on a platform,kneeling like a samaurai in aniridies cent kimono. Not even awhite cloak painted with Zensayings that he wore (briefly )helped to bridge the gap withhis audience.

"They were puzzled, espe-

GIRL-of-the-Week Dept (part two): Bowing to public demand,here's a picture of the now -singing Marie Osmond (13). It showsher making her professional debut with her brothers - sheduetted with Donny on Where Is The Love? in a Las Vegashostelry. She'll be guesting regularly from now on. And myinformation is that she's got a fair old voice.

cially when towards the end ofthe show he made love, wear-ing only a pink jockstrap, tothe guitar of his half -nakedlead guitarist. "

Puzzled? Not half as cleveras they think, those Japanese!

Noddymoveshouse

WHEN Slade went on tour,they used to get manager ChasChandler to book them into thetype of hotel that cost but 25shillings a night, bed andbreakfast. When they had anumber one hit, they felt theyshould perhaps make an at-tempt to live more like popsuperstars.

They went to Chas: "Aboutthese hotels . . . shouldn't westart staying somewhere bet-ter? In future, please book usinto 30 bob a night hotels!"

Now, at long last, NoddyHolder has splashed out on ahome of his own. He will movefrom Wolverhampton councilhouse, where he has been re-siding with his folks, into asuperstar £50,000 mansion -pad.

NOW Elvis Presley's "man"Colonel Parker is looking intothe bootlegging business. He'sasked the Elvis fan -club mem-bers to keep clear of bootlegstuff and says: "We're tryingto make clear the fact thatpersons and clubs that deal inbootleg material are workingagainst the interest of otherElvis fans. "

GIRL -of -the -Week Department This is Katie, of Mac and KatieKissoon - though, for sure, you'd never mistake her for theamiable Mac. This is another of those gravely under -rated duoswho sing with flair, soul and style. One of my favourite on -discteams. They've just come back from TV and club dates inGermany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Holland - and the singleChange It all has hit the charts most everywhere they've sung.K-k-k-katie!

Another lick for Millie?MILLIE Small - come in, please; Your Time's Up! That isroughly the message I've been asked to pass on, by Island bossChris Blackwell, for the girl who had a world smash with My BoyLollipop in 1964.

Millie, who sold four million copies of that single (and was topdisc in Nigeria for TWO YEARS!), appears to have vanished,but Chris is anxious that she resumes her disc career. It wasthought she'd moved to Singapore . . . but so far, no trace.

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Mud: taken to the cleaners!THE FIRST thing I wasasked when I met the"Crazy" team of Mudwas: "Has Peter Jonesreturned from some-where in Antarcticayet?"

I laughed, and replied,that, although Peter wason holiday, he had re-turned from Antarctica!

The reason Peter hadtaken off was to hidefrom the dreaded newTango that the groupsuccessfully launchedinto the charts via aNicky Chinn and MikeChapman song calledCrazy. I asked if thesuccess of this recordhad made any noticeabledifference to the groupwho have been "doingthe rounds" for fiveyears now.

"Yes, we're gettingmore money these days,"laughed lead singer LesGray. "Seriously,though," he explained,"we are getting moremoney now, but it hasalso meant that we'rehaving to lay more mon-ey out. "

Sullivan"You see," said Rob

Davis the group's leadguitarist, "the bookingsare getting better all thetime and we've got theGilbert O'Sullivan tourcoming up so it was de-cided that we needed newPA equipment, a new vanfor the equipment and acar for us to travel in. "

They're all havingbrand new suits made,too. "When we recordedCrazy," said drummerDave Mount, "we de-cided to go with thetheme of the Tango tem-po and have colourfulsuits made, and we alsogot together shirts andties. We're now each get -

Rob Davis

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ting two more outfitsmade in similar style sothat we can changearound.

"Believe me, it's beena case of putting the suitsinto two-hour cleanersmost days. We all get hoton stage, and often we'veneeded the suits the nextmorning for picture ses-sions so our lives havebeen one long round ofvisits to the cleaners!"

"Also," added Mud'sbassist Ray Stiles, "ontour with Gilbert, we'llbe playing dates on theContinent and I can justimagine the problems ofwalking into a Continen-tal cleaners and askingthem to do things quick-ly. Anyway I don't knowhow to say 'Do this in ahurry darlin',' in 14 dif-ferent languages!"

The group have beendoing the rounds of caba-

Ray Stiles

ret and concerts. "Weplayed our first concerts'with Jack Jones," recallsLes, "and I must say he'sthe best singer I've everheard. Just standing inthe wings listening tohim made me want to goaway and hide some-where. He's got thegreatest voice around. "

They're happy aboutappearing with Gilbert,too. "I suppose we're allconfirmed O'Sullivanfans," said Rob, "he isone of the most brillianttalents this country hasproduced. If I couldwrite songs like that I'dbe really pleased. "

N1/4,

Les Gray

Rob is the most seriousand quietly -spoken mem-ber of Mud. He takes his

Dave Mountplaying seriously too,and is currently takingtuition in the classicalguitar. He meditates andstudies Yoga. I must ad-mit that at our meetinghe quite astounded me.

We were all asked if wewould like a drink andthe usual requests foralcohol and cola wereaccompanied by onefrom Rob for a cup ofboiling water please.Into the cup, when it

Irrived, he put whatlooked like a tea bag, butimagine my horror whenthe liquid began to turn

red!"It's rose -hip tea," he

explained. Then the restof the lads delighted intelling me that the othercolours of tea Rob drinksrange from yellow andgreen to blue!

The group haverecently been in therecording studios cuttinga new single. It's anoth-er Nicky Chinn and MikeChapman compositioncalled Hypnosis and theyare all very pleased withthe way it's turned out.

Fans have been mak-ing fun of the grouprecently, ever since anational newspaper car-ried a picture of themwith short hair!

Sideburns"It's true that we had

our hair cut," said Les,"we went to see a guycalled Andy at Vidal Sas-soon's barber shop andhe cut the sides and topof our hair. He alsoasked us to shave off oursideburns for the pic-ture. When the picturewas taken, he pinned -upthe back of our hair andmade it look very shortfrom the front.

"It was fun, but I dowant to assure peoplethat, although we've hadour hair cut, it's not asshort as it looks in thatpicture!"

When I was leavingMud, they asked whenPeter Jones was return-ing. I said that he wasdue back this week."Why?" I asked."Well," they replied,"Our next single is alsoin Tango tempo, and thistime we're really deter-mined to teach him thedance that goes with it. "

Peter, I hope you havea nice trip to Antarcticaagain!!!

The scene is a recordingstudio on the Old KentRoad, not a winkle'sthrow from Bert's res-taurant which does aroaring trade in jelliedeels. This particular stu-dio, Maximum Sound, isa far cry from the usualrun of impersonal 21stCentury West End com-plexes.

From the vast speak-ers somehow stuffed intothe corners of the cram-ped control room comesthe sound of a janglingguitar, bongos and theelegant thud of a tunedtalking drum. ManfredMann and the EarthBand are laying downthe rhythm track for anumber called I'll BeGone.

As a measure of thetime it takes betweenrecording and an albumappearing, Colin Patten -den, the bassist, saysthat it'll probably be re-leased round aboutChristmas.

Manfred, something ofa stickler, satisfied afterat least half -a -dozentakes, and suggestssteak pie and chips at

Rene's Cate over theroad. "The thing is," hetells me, "that an unsa-tisfactory backing trackisn't going to be hiddenby overdubs or vocals. Itjust sounds worse. Some-times you have to keep onand on until you're in ahypnotised condition andyou get so loose that it'sright."

In the meantime theEarth Band, comprisingManfred on keyboards,Colin on bass, Mick Ro-gers on guitar and drum-mer Chris Slade, have anew single out on Vertigocalled Get Your RocksOff. A good stompingrocker, it could well re-establish Manfred as achart name if past ex-perience is anything togo by, for it was writtenby Bob Dylan, who gavethe original Manfredstwo of their biggest hitsin the sixties with If YouGotta Go and The MightyQuinn (which still formsa highspot of the EarthBand's show).

The Earth Band, is stu-diously avoiding the pit-falls that held backChapter Three. Long

solos, for example, aresparingly used. "Usual-ly it's a case of rockmusicians trying toprove that they can playa five-minute solo as wellas a jazz player. Most ofthem bore me and I'msure they bore the au-dience, too. "

The biggest challengefor the band now is tofind places in Englandwhere they can play to areasonable number ofpeople and, with thempresently in Germanyand a second Americantour coming up in thesummer, there's morethan a hint of danger thatgreener pastures maylure them away.

If a few more Britishfans took a listen to GetYour Rocks Off and thelast album, Magnified,Purified, the future of apretty good band wouldlook a lot brighter. Man-fred has still a lot ofmusic to offer.

RickSanders

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JAMES Paul McCartney,to judge from the TV spec-tacular of the same nameto be beamed into homesacross the length andbreadth of the country onMay 10, has finally let itall hang out.

Following in the well-worn path of the tradition-al British rock and roller- see Tommy Steele andCliff Richard for examples- he has emerged fromthe quiet years after theBeatle break-up as a fully-fledged bona -fide all-round entertainer.

James Paul, equally athome with a steamy oldrocker like Long Tall Sallyor a nonsense singalonglike Mary Had A LittleLamb, can tap out a song -and -dance with the best ofthem, shows a delicatetouch of whimsy, andlooks as if he's going tocombine the Jekyll andHyde roles of greasy teen-age rocker with Wings andthat of television person-ality at the same time.

At any rate, theredoesn't seem to be anyneed for him to worryabout what he'll be doingwhen he's 64.

Denny Seiwell, drum-mer in Wings, told RM lastweek that the band's aimwas to appeal to every-body from six to 60. With aleader in Paul, they'll beall right. If ever there wasa man who understoodwhat pop is, it must be him-- nothing ever gets tooheavy, there's always atouch of the mickey-taketo prevent a completetopple over into dreadfulschmaltz.

The show, which is basi-cally light entertainmentand no more, is a show-case for Paul's amazingability to be all things toall men, women and littlelambs.

CavortingMind you, he doesn't

sing Give Ireland Back ToThe Irish. The tone of theshow is set when you seethe lovely Linda, bearingan increasingly strikingresemblance to DavidBowie, cavorting acrossfields on a white horse, inslow motion, followed by aspeeded -up Paul on thesame horse.

Mary Had A Little Lambcomes through on soundwhile everybody rowsacross an ornamental

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Then comes Paul'sbringing it all back homesection, shot in a Liverpoolpub; the beer flows, Paultouches his dad for a fewnotes, Gerry Marsdensmiles hello, Auntie Dilltoo, and everybody singsYou Are My Sunshine, Tip-perary and Pack Up YourTroubles except Linda,who being American,doesn't know the words.Now that should knockthem out in the States --the British Pub in reallife. Almost.

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There's a gently campyproduction dance number,straight out of the BusbyBerkeley / TV Toppersbook, in which Paul wearsslicked down hair, pinktails and golden shoes, anddances pretty well, untilthe picture flashes to Pauland Linda saying thatAmerican popcorn was al-ways better than the Eng-lish variety, and the band,on a studio stage sur-mounted by a threateningemblem, launch into thetheme from Live And LetDie, the new Bond film.On come the film clips ofmotorcycles crashing; Ro-ger Moore in a speedboatthat leaps out of the water,all sorts of fun and games.

"A Beatles Medley"says the fancy lettering onthe screen, and as in aPolo commercial, men andwomen in the street have ago at She Loves You, Yel-low Submarine and oth-ers; they're usuallygrossly out of tune buthaving a good time, andthe dubbed -on backing

track has a bit of funtrying to adjust to theirunusual timing and pitch.

Finally we come, at longlast, to a set of live num-bers from the whole band,of which I'd have pre-ferred a little more and alittle less of the soft -cen-tred variety bandboxcorn.

Wings show themselvesto be a great little band,playing pop in the bestsense of the word. Overtheir two years togetherthey've grown tight andtasty and, as Denny Sei-well said, have learned tokeep it utterly simple. Theonly suspicion of ego-tripcomes from Paul, whoknows how to use his faceto best advantage for thecamera, but after all, agood front man is no easything to come by.

Henry McCullough's

The Mess, a stompingtwelve -bar rocker, is fol-lowed by Paul's MaybeI'm Amazed - the song ofwhich Rod Stewart oncedeclared "If you don'tknow it then I don't knowwhere you bin" - whichleads into the biggest treatof all as far as all of us inthe ATV preview roomwere concerned.

Twitched

Feet of staid -looking TVexecutives started totwitch the minute Wingslaunched themselves intowhat else but Long TallSally, the Little Richardclassic that the Beatles'used to close their act within the early days.

The revelation is thatPaul, unlike many an ex -rocker, can still crank outthat incredible screechinghigh -register voice as heapproaches his middleyears; the old edge hasn'tgone.

Finally the titles rolland we're left with Paul ona stool playing a soloacoustic rendition of Yes-terday to the rest ofWings, who are sitting athis feet. But, having seenwhat the band are capableof, they aren't going tohave to play on nostalgicreminders of former glo-ry.

At a time when good,spirited simplicity is at apremium in pop, you coulddo worse than put yourmoney on Wings to be oneof the biggest successes of'73, and a few years tocome.

Dustya

Since that first recordDusty has of course beenin the charts on manyoccasions. Her fast, up -tempo material has in-cluded hits of the calibreof I Just Don't Know WhatTo Do With Myself (where

bargain with Dionne Warwick), Inshe battled chart honoursThe Middle Of Nowhere,

IT HAS simply got to be Little By Little and thethe bargain of the yearand who doesn't want one?

Tell you the secretstraight away! It's an al-bum called The MagicGarden, or if you prefer analternative title, This IsDusty Springfield Vol. 2.And, believe it, if you can- it sells for £1. 29!

Dusty, the girl who wasborn in West Hampstead,London, on April 16, 1940,really brings back memo-ries of the great stuff sheintroduced to the marketwith this collection. Songslike How Can I Be Sure,Windmills Of Your Mindand her magnificent TheLook Of Love from theCasino Royale film.

Think back for a mo-ment to those early days.1968, no that's wrong!1958. Heaven's above, 15years back! The BBC hada Saturday evening tele-vision slot called 6. 5 Speci-al. Dusty answered atrade press advertisementand became one of theLana Sisters, who madetheir debut on this, theBeeb's first pop televisionprogramme.

Two years later TheSpringfields came intobeing. Dusty had a broth-er Tom who was an A & Rman, guitarist and pia-nist. He had been workingon the idea of forming atrio for some time, andwith agreement from hisfriend Tom FeiM and sis-ter Dusty the venture waslaunched.

The Springfields split in1963 but by then they hadnotched up chart entrieswith Bambino, Island OfDreams and Say I Won'tBe There. And from theashes of a burnt -outdream Dusty emerged asa solo star. She hadachieved a following andthe fans rose numericallyin thousands as she re-leased what must be one ofthe finest pop record de-buts, I Only Want To BeWith You. It was issued onNovember 8. On the sev-enth of December she hitthe Top 20 moving on tocapture the number fourposition. It was a fighting,attacking Dusty.

track from perhaps herfinest album, Dusty InMemphis, the frantic SonOf A Preacher Man.

Dusty is, of course, askilled interpreter of theballad. Among her hits inthis vein have been LosingYou, Some Of Your Lovin',You Don't Have To SayYou Love Me, All I See IsYou, Give Me Time andthe really beautiful CliveWestlake song, I Close MyEyes And Count To Ten.

Albums have appearedconstantly since the firstone, A Girl Called Dusty.Mention has been brieflymade to perhaps her finesthour, Dusty In Memphis.

At the time it was made,the album attracted con-siderable attention andpeople aired extremepoints of view on this newproject. As it was, thosewho said she would reallysparkle in the esteemedrecording studios at Mem-phis were proved right inno uncertain way.

Among the album trackswere Just One Smile, SoMuch Love, Breakfast InBed and In The Land OfMake Believe. Recordcritic Stanley Booth cameout with the com-plimentary comment onthe sleeve notes of DustyIn Memphis: "DustySpringfield's Memphis al-bum, while it is quite dif-ferent, is worthy to becompared with ArethaFranklin's great albums- and that's saying alot."

Somehow in recenttimes we haven't heard somuch from Dusty. Hertemperament has oftencaptured column inchesrelating stories of custardtarts - and somewhatharder objects - beingthrown across restau-rants! But so what? Weneed someone as dynamicas Dusty on our currentscene.

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'No we don't copySlade,' say Geordie

IT'S SOMETHING of ablessing that the musi-cians in Geordie are, astheir name suggests,well built northern lads.

Since their chart hitwith All Because Of. You,the group have com-pleted a hectic tour ofSpain, and after arrivingback in England on Mon-day night the groupspent a full day on Tues-day undertaking inter-views and an appearancefor Top Of The Pops!

"We don't mind that atall," grinned guitaristTom Hill. "We've beenlucky really because wewere never short of workas a local group, and nowwe can cope with thingsmore easily. But afterDon't Do That made thebottom half of the chartslast Christmas every-thing's happened soquickly. It all gets a bitexhausting - but hell,it's better to be workingthan sitting around. "

When Don't Do Thatfailed to reach the upperpart of the 20, Georgiewere naturally dis-appointed, but not entire-ly despondent.

Highest"The fact is it had the

highest sales over Christ-mas," they explain."Unfortunately, though,they freeze the chartsthen, so it didn't do usmuch good. Then as soonas Christmas was overthat was that. But nowwe're pretty chuffed be-cause All Because Of Youis doing so well, and infact it was selling evenbefore we were gettingmuch airplay from theBBC.

"I think the reason forthat is the live gigs whichwe've been doing - andthat's really encour-aging.

"Even in Spain, wherewe expected to come upagainst a real languagebarrier, the audienceswere fantastic, leaping

around and even callingout for tracks from thealbum. "

Hope You Like It is thetitle of the album, and itis particularly amazingin that it was recorded inthe record breaking timeof two days. The in-tention of the group wasto obtain a live feel on therecording, and to in-crease this effect most ofthe numbers were cut inone take.

I wondered if Geordiehad found themselvesbeing greatly comparedto those other merry Ty-nesiders, Lindisfarne, atthis early point in theircareer.

"I think where we andLindisfarne differ, apartfrom our actual musicalstyles, is that Lind-isfarne used the NorthEast as a gimmick,whereas we are theNorth East," commentedlead singer Brian John-stone. But when I point-ed out that the use of thename Geordie rathersuggested that the groupwere capitalising ontheir roots, he added:"Well to be quite honest,the name Geordie wasthought up by the office.

"We didn't like it im-mediately because wethought it was corny,rather like a group fromLondon calling them-selves Cockney. But ev-eryone from the NorthEast seemed to latchonto it - in fact theyseemed to be quite proudthat a group should takethe name.

"Lindisfarne were abit of a stumbling blockfor us at first, becausekids thought we were go-ing to be just like them,but when they listenedthey realised that wewere completely differ-ent. "

Comparisons have alsobeen drawn betweenGeordie and Slade - notonly by the record press,but by readers, too. Iwondered how the group

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felt about this."Aye we've heard

that," Tom Hill replied,smiling pensively. "Itdoesn't annoy us becauseSlade are so big, and,well, they're such niceblokes. It's completelyuntrue though!

"It's just that Sladewere the first band tomove about on stage andinvolve the audience, aswe do, but we've beendoing that since we start-ed, and we're not aboutto stop now. All I can sayis that if people listen toour album they'll realisethat it's completely dif-ferent to anything Sladedo. And on stage we justdo what is natural tous. "

Another aspect of thegroup that is also com-pletely natural is theirbroad Tyneside accent:something which hascaused considerable bel-ly -laughs.

"We were doing Crack-erjack the other weekand this bird who workedin make-up came up to usand said 'You blokesdon't half speak goodGerman' We couldn't be-lieve it! That ended ourchatting up for that day!

"The funny thing is inSpain they seemed ableto understand us. It's notas though we mind, itjust makes for a goodlaugh. We're constantlybeing mistaken as Welsh,Scottish or even Irish. . . but nobody seems tohave heard of a Geordieaccent.

Personalities"It surprised us that

the number that wentdown best with the Span-ish audiences was an oldGeordie folk song calledGeordie's Lost His Liggie- but half our Englishaudience can't under-stand it. I think it musthave been our person-alities on stage that wonthem across. They ob-viously realised that wewere having a good timeand they just followedsuit. It's the best countrywe've been to in Europewithout a doubt. "

Between their hectictours Geordie plan tospend some more time inthe recording studio inMay. But before thatthey embark on somemore dates around Brit-ain, and after across the

Atlantic to the States."Everyone thinks, oh

you lucky things touringall round Europe," saythe group. "But whatthey don't realise is thatthe minute you get off theplane a succession of ra-dio, TV and press inter-views follow, and then wego straight on to the gig.Hell, we love it really .but people have no ideaof the work involved.

"We realise we've beenincredibly lucky, too.Even when we first start-ed we took some roughtapes down to Londonand the record companysigned us up straight-away. But there's lots ofgroups who can plodround with demos formonths without beingsigned - if they getsigned at all!"

Happily for that enter-prising record company,Geordie's luck and theirown - if luck is theprime ingredient - cer-tainly seems to be follow-ing through.

MikeBeatty

BadfirIT'S a long time sinceEngland gave anythingreally good to Badfinger.OK there were some hitsingles and the auraspinning off their con-nection with Apple andthe Beatles, but Amer-ica, and to a certain ex-tent Mr. Harry Nillson,had to take care of therest.

So when the group'sWithout You was namedbest song and inter-national hit of the year inthe Ivor Novello Awards,it was fitting recognitionback here in Blighty.

But it's more than justthat. Right now Badfi-nger are in "limbo".They readily admit it.Looming over them atthe moment is their splitwith Apple which goesthrough in July. Thenthey switch to Warnersand hopefully a new iden-tity.

I caught up with themthis week laying the fin-ishing touches to thefourth album at Olympicstudios in London. Atleast they were supposedto be there but we finallymet -up in the boozer.

When they had gotover the shock of some-body actually coming tointerview them, we soonstarted rapping aboutthe split, and theawards.

"We're really pleasedabout that," says Pete.Tom chimes in: "Does itmean we get to appear ontelevision?" And there'san ironic ring to his ques-tion because really theband have been so suc-cessful in the States yetlack attention over here.Manager Bill Collins puts

IT'S A FACT of life that themore successful a band be-comes, the more spare timeits members have on theirhands.

It's been like that for acouple of years now forBlack Sabbath and the boysfrom Brum know only toowell what over exposure canmean to the band.

Lead guitarist Tony lommihasn't been twiddling his fin-gers when the band havebeen off the road. He's beenbusy helping to build up anagency in the Midlands andis currently in the process oflaunching Necromandus, afour -piece rock band fromCumberland.

"We used to play up thatway quite a lot," Tony toldme, "and we played withNecromandus several times.We became friendly andwhen we set up the agency itseemed an ideal way of help-ing them, so I became theirmanager.

"They've been together forover five years and I've beenmanaging them for the past12 months - in many waysthey are like Sabbath, bothmusically and as far as theirbackground goes. Theywrite and play very techni-cal material and alwayskeep it heavy, even thoughsome of their songs are softrock."

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Eger go out to crack Englandhis finger on it when hesays: "Nobody in Eng-land really knows whereBadfinger are at.

"We are not really acommercial band, yetthere has been com-mercial success. It's allvery confusing for thelisteners. "

So the Ivor NovelloAwards, for a song whichbecame a world-widenumber one hit, only fur-ther underlines thespectrum of talent withinthe band. It reminds ev-eryone that BadfingerARE a' major song -writing talent.

Day After Day was along time back now, thatold tie with Apple andinevitably the "BeatlesFriends" tag, is comingto a close, and possiblethe new deal with Warn-ers will establish asharper identity.

Pete admits things gotconfused when Nillsonsang a song he thoughtwas written by the Beat-les and then the word gotaround it was Badfinger.It was a sort of song-writers Who Do You Dosituation.

Treatment"But he really showed

us what could be donewith a song," says Pete."It's nothing like our owncut on the second album.I mean to us our versionseems real and Us. ButHarry took the song,gave it the treatment,and got it to so manypeople. "

ReMember, more than35 artists recorded it,including Andy Wil-liams.

Tom and Pete, that isTom Evans from Liver-pool and Pete Ham fromSwansea, completely co -wrote Without You, in acollaboration almostequally split by chorusand verses. But as wewandered back to thestudio for reduction workon the tapes Tom ex-plained that everyonewas now doing his ownsongwriting thing.

The subject of thegroup's split from Applecropped up. "We felt wehad to go," said Pete.The company had beenreally good to us andeveryone helped us a lot,but we felt it was time tobecome a separate en-tity. It was an annoyingthing, everyone associ-ating us with the Beat-les. In America we start-ed out as the band theBeatles dug. But we real-ly are grateful for thehelp being involved withthe Beatles gave us.

"It's just that thingabout 'if the Beatles dig'em they must be allright' that bugs. Sure wedid a lot with them.Bangla Desh was reallysomething and playingon George's album."

They played on MySweet Lord too. "Maybebecause of the feel wehad for playing alongaccoustically. Perhapsit's difficult for sessionmen to get into it likethat. But we are notsession men. There arefew people in the busi-ness who know what wehave to offer."

The Americans surelydo. Their last albumcame very close to Goldin the States.

"But we are a littleworried about not gettingto English audiences,"Pete adds. "The problemwith constantly workingin America is that youstart being American.We want to get back to

that Earthy Britishfeel."

He says each memberof the band, half Liver-pool and half Swanseawith Joey Molland( L'Pool) and Mike Gib-bons ( Swansea) makingup the four, will get intoseparate things in fu-ture. Then there's thenew deal with Warners."It's right for us to go.It's a risk for us. Wecould always fall back onthe Apple thing in thepast. Now we are on ourown. Maybe that's whatwe need. "

By now we were sittingin the reduction room atOlympic, Spam sand-wiches were making therounds and SouthernComfort was on the way.

We kept getting flashesfrom the first track onthe newie and you soonsussed what it was allabout. "Now the timehas come to part" and"You are the apple of my

eye but I must leaveyou. "

Mike's sitting theregrinning and digging it."It gets better and bet-ter," he says. Thenthere's Joe whose face,attitude, and voice, seemto sum up all that wasgood in the Liverpoolboom.

Joey wrote a lot of thesongs on the new albumand as we listen through,he nods with approval.There's a big range.From the melodic andsensitively performedwork to driving rock andeven a little countryblues with slide guitar,and some really nicestuff from Pete whoseplaying really is good.

Aside from the album,playing in England isabout the only otherachievement that couldset them alight again.

There could be a singleout, but Joey admits:"I'd hate to be the one tochoose it. "

So could they be goingon the road again in Eng-land? "Probably not un-til Autumn," says Tom."I've been on the road inEngland for 12 years andit's only in the pastcouple of years we'vebeen touring a lot in theStates. But when we playhere we get little re-sponse. It's just play thehits and that's it. Yetbecause our albums areso successful in America,people really want tohear all our songs whenwe tour. "

PeterHarvey

Necromandusa second Sabbath?

to find a band who can playsoft rock with a heavy feelwithout bludgeoning thesongs to death, and fromwhat Tony was saying, itseems that Necromandushave that invaluable quality- musical discretion. Theline-up of the band is BillBranch on vocals, BarryDunnery on lead guitar, Den-

nis McCarten on bass anddrummer Frank Hall.

"There are so many sidesto the music industry that themore you know about theother sides, like producingand managing, the better itis," Tony said. "For memanaging Necromandusgave me the opportunity tosee what life is like on the

other side of the fence. Apartfrom anything else, it was achallenge to pick up an un-known band, and try to getthem off the ground. Onegood thing which has comeout of the operation alreadyis the agency, as after I tookthe band on we built theagency around them.

"It's doing very well at themoment. It isn't makingTHAT much money but it'sgrowing all the time, andwe're even getting into pro-moting in the Midlands now.Necromandus isn't the onlyband on the agency but theyare the only one which Ihandle personally. The guysat the agency do all thedonkey work and I look aftertheir affairs in general.

"I give them advice, andtry to shape their career, andI act as their producer, butthere are a lot of thingswhich I can't do when I'm onthe road, so the agency guystake care of it. "

Being away from the bandwhile he's on the road, canhave its drawbacks for Tony,but it also has its advan-tages. "Wherever we go ontour I always make a point ofpersonally meeting thepromoter and the agent andtry to fix something up forthe band. That way I canpick the right venues forthem."

Necromandus have just

done a series of British dateswith Sabbath and are doing"very nicely" according toMr. Iomtni. "The next thingis America," he said. "We'llget them over there for aboutthree weeks and that'llknock a few edges off. "

Even though Necr-omandus (one group namethat you can't shorten) havethe added advantage overother unknown bands of hav-ing the guiding hand of Tonylommi, I wondered whatqualities the Sabbath guitar-ist thought a band needed to

make it to the top."The band must be well

disciplined, patient, andhave the ability to workhard," he said. "I'm tryingto impress these things onthe band as well as passingon my experience, but it'shard to say what a bandneeds to be successful - ifwe knew we'd all be at it. "

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HE ' s HOME. It's all over.Simon is safe. Hauled, oris it pulled, pushed, kickedinto an orange Volvo, Sim-on is being driven at policespeed away from London'sOxford Street, Harlequinrecord store.

There, left behind indriving rain around fouro'clock last Saturday af-ternoon, are some 200girls, screaming the nameof Britain's answer to Da-vid Cassidy, S . . I . . M . .0 . . N.

Six hours earlier Wat-ford's High Street had wit-nessed a quick but effec-tive visit from the 18 -year -old guy with a double A -sided record, Baby (I Got-ta Go) and I Wanna LoveMy Life Away.

10.30 a. m. is early forsome on a Saturday but afair sprinkling of Turnerfans were about. One wasJenny Tooman, anotherSusan Tranter. "We'resupposed to be workingnow. We had to come. Helooks so great. We've seenhim on telly and film. "

"He's smashin' " wasthe verdict of Michele Fen-ton, Alison Whitfield andGillian Greenwood.

The supreme com-pliment came from PennyBrown, "He's better thanDavid Cassidy and nobodycould be worse than Don-ny Osmond. "

Simon turnsa few heads

It was peaceful untilSimon arrived. Then thenot -too -large gatheringsuddenly swelled with aplentiful supply of pass-ers-by and, hey presto,Simon Turner was in busi-ness and demand.

Here at Watford's Har-lequin, as he did at the twovenues to come,