Various Artists - Peephole In My Brain ~ The British Progressive Pop Sounds Of 1971 (3CD) [CD]

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• 1971 stands as an odd, rather surreal year in British pop history: while American soft-rockers and singer-songwriters were dominating the album charts, the year in which the country ch-ch-changed over to decimal currency saw the homegrown pop/rock scene becoming increasingly eccentric.

• Marc Bolan invented glam rock, David Bowie wore a dress on the front cover of his latest album, The Kinks provided the soundtrack for a film about a penis transplant, DJ Tony Blackburn chose a single by The Edgar Broughton Band as his Record of the Week, and Jonathan King was backed on Top of the Pops by Fairport Convention.

• Peephole In My Brain documents the progressive-pop sounds of the year as the underground rock scene crossed over to the mainstream. Our 71 tracks from ’71 include major hits for the likes of Curved Air, Atomic Rooster and John Kongos as well as a selection of key album cuts from Procol Harum, ELP, Magna Carta, Barclay James Harvest, Cressida, Help Yourself, Legend and many others.

• We also include tracks that were first issued in 1971 but which would only make a mark later on: Status Quo would have to wait a while for ‘Mean Girl’ to hit the charts, Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs would find success twelve months later when ‘Sea Side Shuffle’ was reissued, and the Curtiss Maldoon album track ‘Sepheryn’ would be discovered more than twenty years later by Madonna, who used it as the basis for ‘Ray Of Light’.

• We disinter bona fide classic 45s from Kevin Ayers, Medicine Head, Wishful Thinking and The Move along with the song that Bowie wrote for his old friend Dana Gillespie, a clutch of righteously obscure but fascinating singles, a handful of essential singer/songwriter cuts and a raft of unissued-at-the-time nuggets from bands who existed outside of the major label pop bubble.

• Featuring a 40-page booklet crammed with rare illustrations and the stories behind the songs, Peephole In My Brain is an essential addition to Grapefruit’s acclaimed year-by-year series of late Sixties/early Seventies British rock and pop.

Andy Warhol (Original 1971 Demo Album Version) - Dana Gillespie

Sugar Sugar - Sakkarin

Mean Girl (Early Mix) - Status Quo

Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes - Kevin Ayers

Backstreet Luv - Curved Air

Devilu2019s Answer (Single Version) - Atomic Rooster

Hey Willy - The Hollies

Memorial Drive - Procol Harum

Rocku2019nu2019roll Wedding - Sweeny Bean

Mr. Middletonu2019s Lament - Corn & Seed Merchants

Oh Carol Iu2019m So Sad - Rockinu2019 Horse

(And The) Pictures In The Sky - Medicine Head

Dearest Eloise - Stray

To Each And Everyone - Gerry Rafferty

Godu2019s Children - The Kinks

Deborah - Help Yourself

Caroline Goodbye - Colin Blunstone

This Time Tomorrow - Airbus

Dora, The Female Explorer - Stackridge

Maisie Jones - Nimbo

Summer - Octopus

Ursula (The Swansea Song) - Barclay James Harvest

Hanginu2019 On An Eyelid - Second Hand

Sepheryn - Curtiss Maldoon

More Rain - Samurai

I Was Fooling - Zior

I Donu2019t Care - Blonde On Blonde

Goodbye Post Office Tower Goodbye - Cressida

Mrs. Speed - Fusion Farm

Sunlight Gate - Pete Atkin

Tonight - The Move

Waterwheel - Open Road

Dangling In The Cool - Montage

Down Smokey Lane - Fickle Pickle

Anniversary - Ray Fenwick

Tokoloshe Man (Single Edit) - John Kongos

Woman - Shape Of The Rain

Mister Westwood - Pluto

Strange Locomotion - Siren

Going Back Home - Unicorn

Frightened - Bear Foot

Mister Ten Per Cent - The Red Sox

Castle On The Hill - The Factory

Weather Or Not - Bronx Cheer

Where I Belong - Knocker Jungle

Time For The Leaving - Magna Carta

Talking To The Flowers - Rick Price

It Donu2019t Come Easy - Wil Malone

I Feel Like Sleeping - Legend

Ferris Street - Beau

Eternal Messenger (Single Version) - Kingdom Come

Indian Queens - Michael Chapman

Southbound Lane - Brett Marvin & The Thunderbolts

Encounter - Edwards Hand

Hotel Room - Edgar Broughton Band

The Flying Machines - Don Crown & His Busking Budgies

So Be It - Lifeblud

Safari - Peter Cowap

Billyu2019s Gotta Run - The Doggs

Grandfather - Dear Mr. Time

Jennifer - Cliff Wade

Loveu2019s A Way - Bill Nelson

Hobo - Bullet

Old Peopleu2019s Home - Deep Feeling

While The Sun Still Shines - Fields

Turning Green (Album Version) - Jackie Mcauley

Hiroshima - Wishful Thinking

The Saddest Day Of My Life - Nirvana

Sea Side Shuffle - Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs

Are You Ready Eddy? - Emerson Lake & Palmer

Bill Bailey - Phase 3

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