[Up-Tight] The BBC throws open its music vaults to EMI

[Jill Strobridge]

Yes - I take your point - Maida Vale may be a more likely candidate.  And 
having searched through my bookcase I even appear to have kept my notes 
<yes, it worries me as well!>     On a piece of paper dated Friday 20th 
November 1998 I have scrawled the following:

Bee Gees
1971 Aug 7 - Bee Gees reform and release ballad "How Can You Mend a Broken 
Heart"
1972 Feb - Appear on ITV "The Golden Shot"
       Feb - "My World" success in US (and UK from 29 Jan 1972 was in the 
charts for 9 weeks)
        July/Aug - "Run To Me" reaches UK #9 (in charts from 22 July for 10 
weeks)
        Sept - March 1973 Chart successes in US
1973 June 24 - performance at London Palladium
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Hawkwind
1972 Feb - Greasy Truckers Party
        <July 23 - gig at London Rainbow>
        July/Aug - Silver Machine rising in the charts  (in charts from 1st 
July for 15 weeks)
        Dec - Doremi reaches #14
                Space Ritual tour
--------------------------------------------
Mary Wells
1972 July 8 - "My Guy" reissue starts a 10 week chart run reaching #14
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Mary Kelly - no reference found
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The Pretty Things
1971 Nov - Group reformed after a split in June
1972 - ???
1973 - toured US
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Wings
1972 Feb - Band tours colleges
1972 June - "Mary Had a Little Lamb" reaches #9
        July 9 - formal debut at Chateauvillon, France
(late) July ?22 - Arrested in Sweden during tour and again (Sept) in 
Scotland
1973 Jan - "Hi Hi Hi" banned by BBC
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I assume all the above feature on the record and, if so, a re-reading 
suggests that Dunstable 7th July 1972 is actually much too early. 
Apparently the Brian Matthews recording has frozen a snapshot of these 
artists at a moment of particular significance in their careers and that 
moment appears to be right at the end of July when all of them* would have 
been (just for that short time) headlines in the music world.  And if you 
check Starfarers excellent gig list you will discover Hawkwind played at the 
Rainbow in London on 23rd July - a Beeb executive may well have seen them 
there and decided to get them recorded.   So recording a show at Maida Vale 
on 2nd August would make excellent sense.  In fact the gig list suggests 
Hawkwind came back from Hastings to do the show and then returned to 
Hastings the following night.  Hectic!

 *though I've no idea what The Pretty Things were doing at that date!
jill

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Jill Strobridge <jill.strobridge at blueyonder.co.uk>
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> Steve Youles writes:
>
>> Lots more - they're listed at:
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>> http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/_hwrelease/hwbbc.html
>
> Hmmmm, how definite is the 2/8/72 Silver Machine/Brainstorm one? That's
> the Brian Matthews disc (and I suspect where the footage for the TotP
> Silver Machine came from).
>
> Jill and I did some detective work around what else was on the Brian
> Matthews transcription disc and came up with 7/7/72 at Dunstable.
> However, 2/8 may be close enough and obviously the BBC tended to be at
> Maida Vale.
>
> I seem to recall it hinged on when Mary Hopkin was in the charts and
> when Wings had been arrested for dope posession in Holland, but 2/8
> would fit too as we thought the broadcast date was some time in
> September.
>
> Jill: am I misremembering?
>
> FoFP
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