| 1 March | No. 1155 | |
| Logan, Nick | Goodbye to the Cream [Jack Bruce, farewell LP] | 2 |
| n/a | Life-Lines of this Week's Chart Topper [Peter Sarstedt] | |
| Logan, Nick | Love of His Life Puts Peter Sarstedt at the Top | 3 |
| n/a | Lyrics to Peter Sarstedt's "Where Do You Go to My Love" | |
| Smith, Alan | Sam and Dave - Soul Brothers on the Stage - but Not off | 4 |
| Turner, John | "Peter Leaving Has Brought Us Much Closer," Says Monkee Trio [The Monkees] | |
| Turner, John | Donovan Helps Them Perform [The Monkees] | |
| Derek Johnson | Top
Singles: Marbles, "The Walls Fell Down" Foundations, "In the Bad, Bad Old Days" The Gun, "Drives You Mad" Tony Blackburn, "It's Only Love" Hollies, "Sorry Suzanne" Gene Pitney, "Maria Elena" Malcolm Roberts, "Stand beside Me" |
6 |
| n/a | NME
Top 30 1. Peter Sarstedt, "Where Do You Go to" 2. Amen Corner, "Half as Nice" 3. Diana Ross, "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" 4. Martha and the Vandellas, "Dancin' in the Street" 5. Move, "Blackberry Way" |
7 |
| n/a | Britain's
Top 15 LP's 1. Diana Ross & The Supremes Join The Temptations 2. The Best of the Seekers 3. The Beatles 4. Yellow Submarine, Beatles 5. Hair, London Cast |
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| n/a | Tom:
Live LP at the Flamingo [Tom Jones] Marv Johnson to Visit Britain: First Bookings Foundations Europe Tour Simone, Stevie Follow-Ups [Nina Simone and Stevie Wonder] More Dates Set For Mac, Wonder, Orbison Two Scaffold Concert Tours Sarstedt & Film Plan; Scotland [Peter Sarstedt] |
8 |
| n/a | Elvis TV Album Set - Snags in Screening Show | 8, 9 |
| n/a | Hump
in Les Reed TV Spec - Des Series Set; Seekers 'Farewell' Again After 60 Days in Existence - Mason, Capaldi, Wood & Frog Split Ringo Starts 11-Week Film Schedule; LP Delay Hollies Two Month Round World Trip |
9 |
| Logan, Nick | Barry's Not a Bit Surprised If You Hate His Guts [Barry Ryan] | 10 |
| Coxhill, Gordon | Seekers Still Earn Mini Fortune for Tom Springfield | |
| Review: Beach Boys - I Can Hear The Music | ||
| Moses, Ann | TV Stops Glen Tour [Glen Campbell] | 11 |
| Harris, June | Nash, Stills, Crosby Work Together | |
| Nisbet, Jan | In London Critics Just Get at Me [Sandie Shaw] | 12 |
| Bromley, Tony | Cass Doesn't Know What's Happening with Mamas & Papas [Mama Cass Elliot] | |
| n/a | LULU by Maurice on First Anniversary | |
| Smith, Alan | Cilla Wonders: Have I Lost the Knack of Picking Hits? [Cilla Black] | 13 |
| n/a | Vikki Wrings Tears [Vikki Carr] | |
| Logan, Nick | Marriage Might End Bee Gees Feuding | 14 |
| n/a | Johnny Nash Wants Out of Pop Rat Race | |
| n/a | Small Faces Talk about Group Split | |
| n/a | Classified Ads | 15 |
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| Scott Butler, 20 February 2004 | ||
| 8 March | No. 1156 | |
| n.a. | Immediate Anthology of Speculation; Steve Marriott-Small Faces Split ‘Within a Month | 1 |
| Welch, Chris | Steve Marriott Is Alive and Well and Living in Essex | 1 |
| n.a. | Peter Frampton Leaving Herd | 1 |
| n.a. | On-off Faces Split | 1 |
| n.a. | No Stevie Merger Say Immediate [Stevie Marriott] | 1 |
| n.a. | Is All Still Well with the Faces? | 1 |
| Green, Richard | “Hit Album Different From Live Shows,” Say Ten Years After | 2 |
| Quinn, Terry | Engelbert Upset by DJ’s Criticism | 2 |
| Green, Richard | Three Sides of Jagger [Mick Jagger] | 3 |
| Green, Richard | Jimmy Miller Says… [Rolling Stones] | 3 |
| Logan, Nick | A Day in the Life of Tom Jones; Working 13 Hours a Day, 6 Days a Week This is…Tom Jones | 4 |
| Logan, Nick | Stars The Fans Loved To Hate [Move] | 5 |
| Johnson, Derek | Top
Singles Reviewed: Wailing Aretha Deserves a Hit [Aretha Franklin]; Bo Up Dates His Song [Bo Diddley]; It’s Happy-Go-Lucky Trems Again [Tremoloes]; Lulu Lifts Euro Song Out of Rut; Third Version Lucky for Peddlers; Bubbling Grapefruit [Grapefruit]; Bell/Clay Not So Strong [William Bell & Judy Clay] [Recommended: Johnny Hackett; FOURMYULA; Trifle; Packers; Lanie Kazan; Jason Crest; Dionne Warwick; Byrds] [More Singles Pg 14] |
6 |
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Nme Top 30 Chart
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7 |
| Britain’s
Top 15 LPs 1. Diana Ross & the Supremes Join the Temptations; 2. The Best of the Seekers; 3. Goodbye [Cream] 4. Engelbert [Engelbert Humperdink]; 5. Post Card [Mary Hopkins] |
7 | |
| n.a. | NME
Penny Up, but You Get More than Pennyworth Extra! Beatles Will Say “No” to Multi-Million Dollar Bait Another John-Yoko LP Planned Desmond Dekker Dates Popliners Affair Booked, So BBC-TV Row Nipped in the Bud Summer Seasons For Frankie and Kathy [Frankie Vaughan, Kathy Kirby] Leapy Plans New Single Seven British Pop Names Combine for U.S. Package Star-Packed Film Foundations to Wax in Detroit Another New Nina Concert Ben E. Joins Gene [Ben E. King, Gene Pitney] Mary’s Single Soon-Penned by Paul [Mary Hopkins, Paul McCartney] Poll Concert |
8 |
| n.a. | Monkees in May-Official / Andy Williams Is Buying British! | 13 |
| n.a. | Sinatra Due on Sunday | 13 |
| n.a. | Amen: New LP, Dates | 13 |
| n.a. | Alan Price Back on Disc | 13 |
| n.a. | Dusty, Alpert BBC-1 Specials; Hopkins with Liberace; “How It Is” Set for Return [Dusty Springfield, Herb Alpert]; [Mary Hopkins] | 13 |
| n.a. | Small Faces Last Single? | 13 |
| n.a. | Dr. Elvis & the Nun [Film] | 13 |
| Evans, Allen | LP Reviews: Andy Williams/Sound of Music; Engelbert; Ohio Express/Chewy Chewy; Barbara Streisand/Happening in Central Park; Bee Gees/Odessa; Procol Harum/Shine on Brightly; Al Stewart/Love Chronicles | 14 |
| Coxhill, Gordon | Chambers Head for the Big Time (Chambers Brothers) | 14 |
| Johnson, Derek | More Single Reviews: Grassroots, "Melody for You"; Buck Owens & The Buckaroos, "Who’s Gonna Mow Your Grass"; Clarence Carter, "Snatchin’ It Back"; Heath Hampstead, "The Happiest Day of My Life"; Anthony Booth, "Till Death Us Do Part"; Les Reed, "Don’t Linger with Your Finger on the Trigger"; World of Oz, "Willows’ Harp" | 14 |
| n.a. | Potted Pops | 14 |
| Clarke, Allan | 4 pg special on the Hollies/After Split: Why We Had to Go On | 9-10 |
| Coxhill, Gordon | Hollies Special: Fans Don’t Want Way-Out Songs – say Tony and Bern [Tony Hicks, Bernie Calvert] | 10 |
| Coxhill, Gordon | Hollies Special: New Boy Terry Discovers Nothing Must Go Wrong | 11 |
| n.a. | Hollies Discography | 11 |
| Coxhill, Gordon | Hollies Special: The Back-room experts | 12 |
| Bobby Elliott | Hollies Special: Belly Dancer Inspired Hit | 12 |
| Moses, Ann | Elvis-By a Girl Who Hated His Hair and Hits | 15 |
| Gray, Adam | Adventure in South America; Argentina Cheers Tremeloes | 16 |
| Moses, Ann | Elvis Signs for Vegas Cabaret | 17 |
| Harris, June | From New York | 17 |
| Green, Richard | New to the Charts; Jamo Puts 5thReissue in the Sellers | 17 |
| Green, Richard | A U.S. Hit 6 Years Ago! | 17 |
| Green, Richard | Noel’s Nice Surprise [Noel Harrison] | 17 |
| Alley Cat | Tail-Pieces; Fleetwood Mac, Judy Garland, George Harrison… | 18 |
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| Ira Friedman — Sun, 16 Jun 2002 22:12:43 | ||
| 15 March | No. 1157 | |
| Richmond, Stuart | Paul’s Wedding Day Pictures | 2 |
| Gray, Andy | The Establishment Must Not Drive the Beatles Out; It Can’t Afford to Lose Them | 3 |
| Logan, Nick | Move Had to Smash This Image: Concluding the Turbulent Story of the Move | 4 |
| Coxhill, Gordon | Music Matters More than the Ratings | 5 |
| Logan, Nick | Bee Gee Colin Happy to Be the Outsider | 6 |
| n.a. | Did You Vote Them Your Supergroup? [Supergroup Poll] | 7 |
| Coxhill, Gordon | New to The Charts: Hit Writer Joe South | 7 |
| Coxhill, Gordon | Cyril’s Consortium [Cyril Stapleton] | 7 |
| Johnson, Derek | Top Singles Reviewed; Monkees Back to Clarksville; Subtle Who [The Who]; Old and New Sounds from the Faces; Head Start for Val Doonican; Stevie-Never So Intense as Here [Stevie Wonder]; New Style for Teens [Nashville Teens] | 8 |
| NME | NME
Top 30 Singles- 1. “Where Do You Go by,” Peter Sarstedt; 2. “Surround Yourself With Sorrow,” Cilla Black; 3. “I Hear it Through the Grapevine,” Marvin Gaye; 4. “Half as Nice,” Amen Corner; 5. “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me,” Dina Ross and the Supremes and the Temptations |
9 |
| NME | Britain’s
Top 15 LPs- 1. Diana Ross & The Supremes Join The Temptations; 2. Goodbye [Cream]; 3. The Best of the Seekers; 4. Engelbert [Engelbert Humperdink]; 5. The World of Val Doonican |
9 |
| n.a. | Beatle LP Tracks [“Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”; “Polythene Pam”; “All I Want Is You”; “Teddy Boy”; “Octopus Garden”] | 10 |
| n.a. | Sinatra Misses out | 10 |
| n.a. | Popliners | 10 |
| n.a. | Foxx Duo Dates (Inez and Charlie Foxx) | 10 |
| n.a. | A Mighty Star Line-up for the NME’s Big Show Feat. Cliff Richards, Peter Sarstedt, Lulu, Barry Ryan, Hank Marvin | 10 |
| n.a. | Marv Joins Vandellas Tour [Marv Johnson, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas] | 10 |
| n.a | Phil Spector Returns | 10 |
| n.a. | Dusty: New York Cabaret, Atlantic LP Release Set [Dusty Springfield] | 10 |
| n.a. | Foundations Big U.S. Plans, Autumn Package Here | 10 |
| n.a. | Matt Pilot in Film | 10 |
| n.a. | Herman. Cass, Herd New Singles-Hank Marvin First Solo Disc [Herman’s Hermits, Mama Cass, Edwin Starr, Wayne Fontana] | 10-11 |
| n.a. | Elvis U.S. Stage Comeback – New Policy of More Live Appearances? | 10-11 |
| n.a. | Mac Label Split [Fleetwood Mac] | 10-11 |
| n.a | Paul Writes Mary Single [McCartney & Hopkins] | 11 |
| n.a. | Beach Boys Concerts Being Fixed for June | 11 |
| n.a. | ATV Books Mireille to Head Its Fourth Big-budget Series [Mireille Mathieu] | 11 |
| n.a. | Tom: U.S. TV Non-Stop All Year [Tom Jones] | 11 |
| n.a | Kink Ray’s Pop Opera for TV [Kinks/Ray Davies] | 11 |
| n.a. | Original Righteous Brothers Together Again-In Britain? | 11 |
| n.a. | Cash Visit Off [Johnny Cash] | 11 |
| n.a. | Amen Corner Live Album | 11 |
| n.a. | Scaffold LP Delay New TV Bookings | 11 |
| n.a. | Pretties on Tamalia [Pretty Things] | 11 |
| n.a. | Sandie Plays Palladium [Sandie Shaw] | 11 |
| Johnson, Derek | More Singles Reviews: Plugs Decide Rascals a Hit or Miss [The Rascals]; Topical Bonzos [Bonzo Dog Band] | 12 |
| n.a. | Potted Pops | 12 |
| Harris June | America Calling: Bob Dylan Records with Johnny Cash | 12 |
| Moses, Ann | America Calling: Andy Williams Rounds Up Teenage Audience | 12 |
| Evans, Allen | LP Reviews: Martha Reeves & Vandellas, Dancing in theStreets; Blood Sweat and Tears; Big Brother and the Holding Company; Lou Rawls, You’re Good For Me; Judy Collins, Who Knows Where The Time Goes; Jimmy Tarbuck; Ray Charles, A Portrait of Ray; Ray Charles, The Great RayCharles; James Brown King of Soul; James Brown, I Can’t Stand Myself; Rowan & Martin at Work; Ella Fitzgerald, Rodgers and Hart Song Book; Sarah Vaughn, Who Is this Girl Called Sassy; Dinah Washington, Tell Love Hello; Bill Medley; Donnie Elbert; Taj Mahal | 13 |
| Grant, John | Hendrix – What next? [Interview with Jimi Hendrix] | 14 |
| Bromley, Tony | From You to Us | 14 |
| Gray, Andy | South American Adventure Part 2: Fun in the Sun for the TREMS, but Coming Home Is Best! [Tremeloes] | 16 |
| Smith, Alan | Hump Hopkin Tour Off to a Flying Start [Engelbert Humperdink, Mary Hopkin]/ “I’m glad I Appeal to Grannies,” He Says/Fragile Mary Wins Through | 17 |
| Alley Cat | Tail-Pieces | 18 |
| Coxhill, Gordon | Screamers in Form for Stevie Wonder | 18 |
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| Ira Friedman — Sun, 16 Jun 2002 22:12:43 | ||
| 22 March | No. 1158 | |
| Green, Richard | Beach Boys Music Bound in a Plane | 1 |
| n.a. | Righteous Brothers Lost That Lovin' Feelin' Sound | 1 |
| n.a. | Country People (Not the Music) Today’s Top Pop Trends, Says Glen Campbell | 3 |
| Moses, Ann | Stigwood Sues Bee Gee Robin [Robin Gibb] | 3 |
| Coxhill, Gordon | Dave Dee Repays Fans' Loyalty | 4 |
| Smith, Alan | It’s the Only Life Stevie Wonder Wants | 4 |
| Johnson, Derek | Top Singles
Reviewed: Jazzy Simone Swings Like Mad [Nina Simone], Chambers Beat Leaves You Limp [Chambers Brothers], Roe Hopeful with U.S. No. 1 [Tommy Roe] |
5 |
| n.a. | NME Top
10 Singles: 1. "Where Do You Go to," P. Sarstedt 2. "I Heard It through the Grapevine," M. Gaye 3. "Surround Yourself with Sorrow," C. Black 4. "The Way It Used to Be," E. Humperdinck 5. "Wichita Lineman," G. Campbell 6. "Gentle on My Mind," D. Martin 7. "Monsieur DuPont," S. Shaw 8. "First of May," Bee Gees 9. "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me," D. Ross et al 10. "Half as Nice," Amen Corner |
7 |
| n.a. | Beatle George on Cream Disk [George Harrison] | 8 |
| n.a. | Dusty’s TV Series Brought Forward – July Screening [Dusty Springfield] | 8 |
| n.a. | McCartney Song for Noel [Noel Harrison] | 9 |
| Green, Richard | Barry Ryan Sings Paul [Barry Ryan, Paul Ryan] | 10 |
| Coxhill, Gordon | Scott Talks about Scott [Scott Walker] | 11 |
| Smith, Alan | Foundations Were Singing Waiters | 12 |
| Green, Richard | The Who Try to Ward Off Trouble | 13 |
| Smith, Alan | Marv Still Works as Tamla Clark (and He Gave Label Its First Ever Hit!) [Marv Johnson] | 13 |
| Coxhill, Gordon | Affair of a Big Head Group [Love Affair] | 14 |
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| Holli Leber — 24 June 2002 | ||
| 29 March | No. 1159 | |
| Smith, Alan | Engelbert Knocks Himself About to Keep Glow Glowing [Engelbert Humperdinck] | 1 |
| Moses, Ann | Doors in Big Trouble | 1 |
| Logan, Nick | In-depth Film Location Interview with Ringo: We're Not Mop Tops Any More | 2 |
| Green, Richard | Don't Remind Noel He Was Once Deb's Delight [Noel Harrison] | 3 |
| n.a. | Billy Cotton Dies at Fight | 5 |
| Green, Richard | Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan: Mind Blowing Duo. NME's Richard Green talks to their producer, Bob Johnston | 6 |
| Coxhill, Gordon | My Continued Success Here Amazes Me, Says Gene [Gene Pitney] | 7 |
| n.a. | NME Top
10 Singles: 1. "I Heard It through the Grapevine," M.Gaye 2. "Where Do You Go to," P. Sarstedt 3. "Gentle on My Mind," D. Martin 4. "Surround Yourself with Sorrow," C. Black 5. "The Way It Used to Be," E. Humperdinck 6. "Sorry Suzanne," Hollies 7. "First of May," Bee Gees 8. "Wichita Lineman," G. Campbell 9. "Monsieur DuPont," S. Shaw 10. "Games People Play," J. South |
9 |
| n.a. | Package Tours Shocks: Monkee Tour Off, Martha Taken Ill [Martha Reeves], Ban Hits Rosko [Emperor Rosko] | 10 |
| n.a. | Bee Gees' Own TV Show – If Robin Issue Is Settled | 10 |
| n.a. | Likely Beatles' Single – Group's Third Movie? | 10 |
| n.a. | Hollies Showcase for BBC-TV; Doonican Easter Special; Bobbie Gentry Series, Andy Williams in Pet Clark's U.S. TV Show | 11 |
| Coxhill, Gordon | Geno – Hits with LPs and Misses on Singles | 12 |
| Nesbit, Jan | Bachelor Pad Gets the Female Touch [Lulu and Maurice] | 14 |
| Green, Richard | Bob and Earl Indentified [Ben E. King and Bobby Darrin] | 14 |
| Green, Richard | Britain's First International C-and-W Festival | 15 |
| Coxhill, Gordon | Cilla's Been Sent to Coventry [Cilla Black] | 17 |
| Logan, Nick | Sarstedt: Am I Taking Myself Too Seriously? [Peter Sarstedt] | 18 |
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