| No. 1068 | 1 July 1967 | |
| cover | If I Stay Too Long- The Creation | 1 |
| Keith Altham | Micky Dolenz: Worried about Git-Bit! | 2 |
| Engelbert Humperdinck | Engelbert Writes about My First U.S. Trip | 2 |
| Keith Altham | Peter Tork | 3 |
| Andy Gray | Beatles Use Three Satellites to Plug Next Single! | 4 |
| Alan Smith | I Knew Procol Would Be a Success [Keith Reid Talks about Procol] | 5 |
| Peter Bagshaw | Singles Review John Walker, “Annabella” / “You Don’t Understand Me” (Philips) Dionne Warwick, “Alfie” / “The Beginning of Loneliness” (Pye-International) Sam the Sham, “Black Sheep” / “My Day’s Gonna Come” (MGM) Swinging Blue Jeans, “Tramblin’” (Capitol) Matt Monro, “What to Do” / “These Years” (Capitol) Bachelors, “My World (II Mondo)” / “Marta” (Decca) Human Instinct, “I Can’t Live without You” / “Go-Go” (Mercury) Steve Rowland, “So Sad” / “I See Red” (Fontana) Trini Lopez, “The Bramble Bush” / “The Ballad of the Dirty Dozen” (Reprise) Sandy Nelson, “Hey Joe” / “Come On Let’s Go” (Liberty) Roy Orbison, “Cry Softly Lonely One” / “Pistolero” (London) |
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| NME | Top Thirty 1. “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” Procol Harum (Deram) 2. “There Goes My Everything,” Engelbert Humperdinck (Decca) 3. “Carrie Anne,” Hollies (Parlophone) 4. “Paper Sun,” Traffic (Island) 5. “Okay!,” Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mitch and Tich (Fontana) |
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| NME | Britan’s Top 15 LP’s 1. The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Parlophone) 2. Soundtrack, Sound of Music (RCA) 3. Jimi Hendrix, Are You Experienced (Track) 4. The Monkees, More of the Monkees (RCA) 5. Topol and London Cast, Fiddler on the Roof (CBS) |
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| n.a. | Lulu, Vince, Herman, Hump, Ryan, Matt, TV Conley, Otis, Sledge, Pickett, Paul Jones, Mamas; Jet Back Tony Hall Quits Job at Decca Sack for P. Harum’s Manager [Jonathan Weston] Beatles World TV Single [“All You Need is Love”] Troggs in Page One Split Row[The Trogga leave Larry Page] Supreme West End Date, Mathis Trip Herman: U.S. After Film [Herman’s Hermit’s complete work on “Mrs. Brown”] Sunday Shadows, Cabaret Booking No More Lovin’? [Lead guitarist Zal Yanovsky leaves the Lovin’ Spoonful] |
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| n.a. | Bassey West End Cabaret Goes On Dusty’s Epifocal [Dusty Springfield’s backing band the Echoes changes their name to the Epifocal] Might Pop Line-Up On the Light Tom Jones Big Band Tour Plan, Scot Variety, No U.S. Monkees Pipped by Humperdinck! Arthur Conley, Sledge Package; Wonder Tour Monkees May Split Up- All Around Britan |
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| Derek Johnson | More Single Reviews The Merseys, “The Cat” / Change of Heart” (Fontana) Robb and Dean Douglas, “I Can Make It with You” (Deram) Honeybus, “Delighted to See You” (Deram) Jon Gunn, “I Just Made Up My Mind” (Deram) Pinkerton’s Colours, “Mum and Dad” / “On A Street Car” (Pye) |
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| Allen Evans | EP Reviews Julie Felix (Fontana) Ray Conniff (CBS) Frank & Nancy Sinatra (Reprise) Tom Paxton (Elektra) Simon & Garfunkel (CBS) |
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| n.a. | Geno Gives Out Backed by Brass | 10 |
| Allen Evans | LP’s Review Two Faces of Fame: Georgie Fame (CBS) Dubliners: Drop of the Hard Stuff (Major Minor, MMLP3) Bobby Bare: Streets Calypso in Brass (RCA Vector) Mamas and Papas Deliver (RCA Vector) Royal Guardsmen: Snoopy v. Red Baron (State-side) |
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| Norrie Drummond | Nothing Nasty Behind Our Light and Colour Effects [Roger Waters from Pink Floyd] | 11 |
| Keith Altham | NME at a Monkee Recording Session and a Straight Talk with Mike Nesmith | 12 |
| Norrie Drummond | Vaudeville Band Play at Weird Party- In a Film | 12 |
| n.a. | Young Rascals Think Out Loud for You | 13 |
| n.a. | Who, Jimi Win High Praise [The Who and Jimi Hendrix at the Monterey show] | 13 |
| n.a. | Zal Quits Spoonful! [Zal Yanovsky quits the Lovin’ Spoonful] | 13 |
| Alley Cat | Tail-Pieces | 14 |
| Aaron Sheer, Spring 2008 | ||
| No. 1069 | 5 July 1967 | |
| Cover Page | John Walker “Annabella” Spotlight on Davy Jones The Jagger Storm Monkees in London Beach Boys-Mamas and Papas |
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| Keith Altham | Monkees in London: NME Spends three days with them | 2 |
| Advertisement | Anita Harris “Just Loving You” (CBS) | 2 |
| Alan Smith | When Davy used to cry himself to sleep | 3 |
| Advertisement | Johnny Ross “Too Much Love” (Columbia) Rupert’s People (Columbia) Dorian Gray “Behind the Tear” (Parlophone) The Legends “Under the Sky” (Parlophone) Jimmy Young “It’s Such a Pretty World Today”(Columbia) |
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| Keith Altham | Monkees in London Cont’d. | 4 |
| Alan Smith | Review of the Final Concert Seen (but hardly heard) | 4 |
| Advertisement | Julie Felix New EP “Songs from ‘The Frost Report’- Part Two” (Fontana) | 4 |
| Advertisement | The Beatles “All You Need Is Love” –Single (Parlophone) | 5 |
| Derek Johnson | Singles Review Beatles, “All You Need Is Love” (Parlophone) Sam and Bill, “I Feel Like Cryin’” (Brunswick) Royal Guardsmen, “Airplane Song” (Stateside) Sandie, “Tonight in Tokyo” (PYE) Mel Torme, “Lover’s Roulette” (CBS) Percy Sledge, “Baby Help Me” (Atlantic) Jose Feliciano, “My Foolish Heart” (RCA) Arthur Conley, “Shake Rattle and Roll” (Atlantic) Mike Sammes Singers, “A Man and a Woman” (HMV) Sound Orchestral, “A Man and a Woman” (Picaadilly) James Brown and Famous Flames, “Let Yourself Go” (PYE-International) Otis Redding and Carla Thomas, “Tramp” (Stax) Dave Davies, “Death of a Clown” (PYE) |
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| Advertisement | P.P. Arnold, “The Time Has Come” (Immediate) Herb Alpert, Artiste of the Month |
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| NME | Top Thirty 1. “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” Procol Harum (Deram) 2. “There Goes My Everything,” Engelbert Humerdink (Decca) 3. “Alternate Title,” Monkees (RCA) 4. “She’d Rather Be with Me,” Turtles (London) 5. “Carrie Anne,” Hollies (Parlophone) |
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| NME | Britain’s Top 15 LP’s 1. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles (Parlophone) 2. Sound of Music, Soundtrack (RCA) 3. The Monkees! Headquarters, the Monkees (RCA) 4. Are You Experienced, the Jimi Hendrix Experience (Track) 5. More of the Monkee’s, the Monkees (RCA) |
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| Advertisement | Sandie Shaw “Tonight in Tokyo” The Monkee’s Third Album (RCA) |
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| NA | Bee Gees Starring Role in Africa-Based Picture Ryan twins signed in £100,000 film deal Reeves Stockpile-More LP’s, Singles Who disc salute to Jagger and Richard Stones Two-Week Crash Recordings Schedule |
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| NA | Star Packed Summer, Autumn TV Oxygen Aid for Nesmith Hollies August U.S. Tour with Turtles |
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| NA | Trems-Rascals Tour Pink Concert Tour, Movie, Album Soon Oldham takes over Faces management |
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| Advertisement | Decca – Procol Harum, Engelbert Humperdink, The Monkees, The Turtles | |
| Andy Gray | Jegger-Richards Sentences Cause Press Storm | 10 |
| Derek Johnson | More singles reviews: Bee Gees, “To Love Somebody” (Polydor) The Who, “The Last Time” (Reaction) Wilson Pickett, “Billy the Kid” (London) Lou Rawls, “Show Business” (Capitol) |
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| Advertisement | Herman’s Hermits, “Museum” (Columbia) | 10 |
| Keith Altham | Papa John and Mama Michelle Have Feud on Their Hands | 11 |
| Advertisement | Musicassettes “Golden Sounds” Offer (Phillips) | 11 |
| Advertisement | “Groovin’: The Young Rascals, Arthur Conley” (Atlantic) | 12 |
| Keith Altham | Beach Boys Bruce and Mike Show Los Angeles | 13 |
| Tracy Thomas | Monterey: Loved or Hated! | 13 |
| Advertisement | KB Supertune, tunes out the background yackety-yak! | 13 |
| Derek Johnson | Engelbert Pips Monkees Stimulus Top Girls Stones Drop Hollies, Cliff 90 Names |
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| Advertisement | Dave Davies, “Death of a Clown” | 14 |
| NA | Classified Advertisements | 15 |
| Advertisement | Joe Loss (Limited) The Troggs (London The Mouse Gin House (Galaxy) Swinging London |
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| The Alley Cat | Tailpieces: Bassey Triumph | 16 |
| Norrie Drummond | Can Knokke contest produce another star? | 16 |
| Advertisement | The Troggs “Hi Hi Hazel” Mickey and Samantha Jeff Beck “Tallyman” (Columbia) Geno Washington “She Shot a Hole in my Soul” Sandie Shaw “Tonight in Tokyo” (Pye) |
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| Mark Sicilian, Spring 2008 | ||
| No. 1070 | 15 July 1967 | |
| Cover | Out Today Their Best Ever! The Troggs “Hi Hi Hazel” | 1 |
| John Reed | John Walker Gets Jitters on Radio | 2 |
| Keith Altham | Dave Davies Wants ‘Clown’ | 2 |
| Alan Smith | How Micky Met Samantha | 3 |
| Derek Johnson | Top Singles Reviewed Eddie Floyd, “Things Get Better” / “Good Love Bad Love” (Stax) Dean Martin, “In the Chapel in the Moonlight” / “Welcome to My World,” (Reprise) Adge Cutler and The Wurzels, “I Wish I Was Back on the Farm” / “Easton-In-Gordano” (Columbia) Frank Ifield, “Up-Up and Away” (Columbia) Statler Brothers, “Ruthless” / “Do You Love Me Tonight” (CBS) Jim Reeves, “Trying to Forget” / “The Storm” (RCA) |
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| NME | Top Thirty 1. “All You Need Is Love,” Beatles (Parlophone) 2. “Alternate Title,” The Monkees (RCA) 3. “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” Procol Harum (Deram) 4. “She’d Rather Be With Me,” Turtles (London) 5. “There Goes My Everything,” Engelbert Humperdinck (Decca) |
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| NME | Britain’s Top 15 LP’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Beatles (Parlophone) The Monkees! Headquarters (RCA) Sound of Music, Soundtrack (RCA) Are You Experienced, Jimi Hendrix (Track) Fiddler on the Roof, Topol and London Cast (CBS) |
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| Tony Bromley | 21 years at Radio Luxembourg; Special Four Page Supplement, Tribute to Geoffrey Everitt | 7 |
| n.a. | Some of the Top DJ’s Who Got Their Breaks Here | 8-9 |
| n.a. | Question Time with Mr. Commercial Radio [Geoffrey Everitt] | 8-9 |
| Geoffrey Everitt | 21 Wonderful and Happy Years [The Last Words by Geoffrey Everitt] | 10 |
| n.a. | More Big Pop Names Set for BBC
Radio Monkees Series Goes Dramatic; New Policy of Special Adventure Shows Fame Quits U.S. Tour Anita Royal Date, Film Songs; Vegas, TV Series? |
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| n.a. | British Visits Set For
Turtles, Vikki, Mama’s And Papa’s, Spoonful, Rascals Eddy Ben E. King Returning Here |
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| n.a. | No Procol Till Autumn Europe
Trip; Label Switch Rumour (Spelled Wrong in Paper) Beach ‘Villains’ Single Date, Bruce Visit Spence Cellos, Violas Disc; T.V. Film, U.S. Tour |
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| John Reed | Question Time with Cream and Eric Clapton | 12 |
| n.a. | Mann-Made Sound | 12 |
| Advertisement | No. 1 USA Charts Now Frankie Valli, “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” (Phillips) | 13 |
| Keith Altham | Rats Drove Traffic into the Open | 14 |
| John Reed | Paul and Barry Ryan See Healthy Future in Music and Films | 14 |
| Toby Spector, Spring 2008 | ||
| No. 1071 | 22 July 1967 | |
| N.A. | Beatles v. Monkeys | 1 |
| Altham, Keith | New (Sort of) to the Chart: (Carla and Otis, Dave Davies) | 2 |
| Reed, John | Pop Means a Lot to Class-Singer Vikki | 2 |
| Gray, Andy | Paul McCartney Talks about Love | 3 |
| Smith, Alan | And Lulu Tells Us about the Monkees | 3 |
| Johnson, Derek | Singles Review Tom Jones, “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” / “Things I Wanna Do” (Decca) Jayne Mansfield, “As the Clouds Drift by” / “Suey” (London) The Brincos, “Nobody Wants You Know” / “The Train” (Page One) The Ivy League, “Suddenly Things” / “Tomorrow Is Another Day” (Piccadilly) Mia Lewis, “A Women’s Love” / “You Won’t Get Away” (Parlophone) The Mamas and Papas, “Creeque Alley” / “No Salt On Her Tail” (RCA) Julie Rogers, “Bless You” / “Go on Home” (Mercury) Richard Kerr, “Happy Birthday Blues” / “Mother’s Blue-Eyed Angel” (Deram) Vince Hill, “When the World Is Ready” / “When You Go” (Colombia) Rockin’ Berries, “ Smile” / “Breakfast at Sam’s” (Piccadilly) Andy Williams, “More and More” / “I Want to Be Free” (CBS) Amen Corner, “Gin House Blues” / “I Know” (Deram) |
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| Johnson, Derek | Songs from Films (Instrumentals) | 4 |
| NME | Top Thirty 1. “All You Need Is Love,” The Beatles (Parlophone) 2. “Alternate Title,” The Monkees (RCA) 3. “It Must Be Him,” Vikki Carr (Liberty) 4. “She’d Rather Be with Me,” The Turtles (London) 5. “A Winter Shade of Pale,” Procol Harum (Deram) |
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| NME | Best Selling LP’s in Britain 1. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles (Parlophone) 2. The Monkees! Headquarters, The Monkees (RCA) 3. Sound Of Music, Soundtrack (RCA) 4. Are You Experienced, Jimi Hendrix (Track) 5. Fiddler on the Roof, Topol and London Cast (CBS) |
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| NME courtesy of Billboard | Best Selling Pop Records in U.S. 1. “Windy,” The Association 2. “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You,” Frankie Valli 3. “Light My Fire,” The Doors 4. “San Francisco,” Scott McKenzie 5. “Little Bit of Soul,” Musical Explosion |
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| N.A. | Hump, Hill, Lulu, Shadows, John, Scott, Tom, Trems TV JBJ Shock – Switch to Midweek, ‘Dee Time’ Moves Over to Saturday Peak-Time Spot Beach Boys Own Label in America Pop-Liners (Tour Info) Pop Pop Elvis Windsor Pops Names Shads in Glasgow Bee Gees – Sweden, Norway, Germany More Big Names for Radio |
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| N.A. | Procol October Tour and Dispute Cream Two Months in U.S. Vintage Elvis Setback Tom Paxton Tour Move Leave Yardmouth, Winter Sports Date |
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| N.A. | The Hollies (photo) After Knokke Contest - Europe TV Offers for Triumphant U.K. Stars Zoot Suit Band Split Easybeats Drummer Pips British Plans Dave’s Discotheque Vaud Band Panto, Single; Klein Op. Geno to Scandinavia, World-Wide TV Show Faces, P.P. Launch German Color TV Anita Round the World Flowerman Scott: Postpones Visit Ryans Recording Deal: Vintage Beatles, Elvis, Cat, Eric, Price, Move Singles |
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| Smith, Alan | With-It Dresser, Graham Nash So Different to Other Hollies | 8 |
| Evans, Allen | LP Reviews Paul Jones, Love Me Love My Friends (BMV) The Bee Gees, The Bee Gees’ 1st (Polydor) Pretty Things, Emotions (Fontana) The Shadows, Jigsaw (Colombia) |
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| Evans, Allen | Quick Reviews: Ella Fitzgerald, (Capitol) Chapter Three, (CBS) Nino and April, (London) John Boulter (RCA) Country Music Hall of Fame (HAB) Robert Goulet (CBS) Danny Williams (Music for the Pleasure) Susan Maughan (Phillips) Bret Stoller (Coronet) |
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| Russell, Napier | All at Sea With Dave Dee: Plus Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich | 9 |
| Drummond, Norrie | Victory Plunge for Britain’s Top-at-Knokke Song Team! | 10 |
| Harris, June | America Calling: Beatles Versus Monkees in U.S. Too! | 10 |
| Thomas, Tracy | Hollywood: Eric Burdon Change | 10 |
| N.A. | Personals | 11 |
| Alley Cat | Tailpieces | 12 |
| N.A. | Who’s Where | 12 |
| Edited by Bromley, Tony | From You to Us | 12 |
| Gray, Andy | Paul and Love Continued… | 12 |
| Shannon Thompson, Spring 2008 | ||
| No. 1072 | 29 July 1967 | |
| cover | Monkee Davy Romance? | 1 |
| N.A. | Sandie Shaw’s Tonight in Tokyo | 1 |
| N.A. | (photo) Beatles: “All You Need Is Love” (photo) Scott McKenzie: “San Francisco” (photo) Vicki Carr: “It Must Be Him” (photo) Monkees: “Alternate Title” (photo) Turtles: “She’d Rather Be With Me” |
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| Allen Evans | LPs Small Faces, From the Beginning (Decca) Arthur Conley, Sweet Soul Music (Atlantic) Bachelors, Golden All Time Hits (Decca) Marvelettes (Tamla-Motown) Frank Ifield, You Came Along (Columbia) Turtles, Happy Together (London) Temptations, Live! (Tamla-Motown) New Vaudeville Band, Finchley Central (Fontana) |
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| Neil Smith | (cartoon) Cliff’s New Image | 2 |
| Tony Bromley (ed) | From You to Us | 2 |
| N.A. | Who’s Where | 2 |
| Advertisement | The Tremeloes: “Even the Bad Times Are Good” (CBS) | 2 |
| N.A. | Is This Davy’s New Girlfriend? | 3 |
| N.A. | Jimi Hendrix Quits Monkee Tour | 3 |
| Advertisement | Top Ten: Focus on the Fantastic (EMI) | 3 |
| Derek Johnson | Singles Review The Tremeloes, “Even the Bad Times Are Good” (CBS) Spencer Davis, “Time Seller” (Fontana) New Vaudeville Band, “Green Street Green” (Fontana) Alan Price, “The House that Jack Built” (Decca) Van Morrison, “Brown Eyed Girl” (London) Cat Stevens, “A Bad Night” (Deram) |
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| N.A. | Potted Pops Strawberry Children, “Love Years Coming” (Liberty) Daddy’s Act, “Eight Days a Week” (Columbia) Winston’s Fumbs, “Real Crazy Apartment” (RCA) Keith West, “Excerpt from ‘A Teenage Opera’” (RCA) The Quik, “King of the World” (Deram) Country Charlie Pride, “Just Between You and Me” (RCA) Steve Tracey, “Now I Know” (Parlophone) Jack Jones, “Now I Know” (London) |
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| Advertisement | Where the Hit Action Is… On (CBS) | 4 |
| NME | Top Thirty 1. “All You Need Is Love,” Beatles (Parlophone) 2. “San Francisco,” Scott McKenzie (CBS) 3. “It Must Be Him,” Vikki Carr (Liberty) 4. “Alternate Title,” Monkees (RCA) 5. “She’d Rather Be with Me,” Turtles (London) |
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| Advertisement | Now! Engelbert Humperdinck First LP (Decca) | 5 |
| NME | Britain’s Top 15 LPs 1. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Beatles (Parlophone) 2. The Monkees! Headquarters, (RCA) 3. Sound of Music, Soundtrack (RCA) 4. Are You Experienced, Jimi Hendrix (Track) 5. Fiddler on the Roof, Topol and London Cast (CBS) |
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| N.A. | Sammy Davis ‘Talk of Town’ BBC-TV Spec; Dee Names Procol to France, U.S.; Next Single September? Tremeloes: U.S., Hawaii, S. America; Moby Too? Cliff, Ken, Boys Date, Faces, Rascals, Prunes Move: Deram Breakaway Shock Cream U.S. Details (photo) Vince Hill |
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| N.A. | Hollies – No More Pop Tours, Big Plan for Own Concerts Hendrix – Did He Quit or Was He Pushed? Traffic – Rascals Autumn Tour Pink Floyd Will Play at 1968 Mexico Olympic Games Dave Has Three Songs on Next Kinks Album Price, Pink, Cat, Lulu, Wayne, Bee Gees Radio |
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| Keith Altham | Scott Keeps One Jump Ahead | 8 |
| N.A. | Life-Lines of Anita Harris | 8 |
| N.A. | (photo) Anita Harris | 8 |
| Advertisement | Out Now: Georgie Fame – a Frank and Fabulous Interview; Jonathan King – an Open Letter to Non-Addictive Junkies | 8 |
| N.A. | Young Idea Right One | 9 |
| N.A. | Tony Goes from Decca to Dekker | 9 |
| Tracy Thomas | America Calling: Andy Williams’ Magic | 9 |
| N.A. | Love Set! | 9 |
| N.A. | Pop Flashes from Round the World | 9 |
| (Advertisement) | Elvis in Double Trouble (MGM) | 9 |
| (Advertisement) | This Saturday!! Love in Festival | 9 |
| Alan Smith | Trems Make U.S. Blow Cool! | 10 |
| Ann McKenzie | Stax of Family Spirit! | 10 |
| Otis Redding | About Arthur Conley | 10 |
| (Advertisement) | The Red Squares New Release, August 4th: “True Love Story” (Columbia) | 10 |
| McKenzie Youngblood, Spring 2008 | ||
| grtedit, 16-Apr-2008 |