Top Of The Box

Living in the Past reached number three in the UK charts in 1969, despite being at odds with everything that was being played on mainstream ‘Pop’ radio at the time. It was incredibly weird to me as 13 year old, to witness an old man playing a flute in a rock band.
I was wrong of [...]

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San Francisco by Scott McKenzie led the hippies to California during the Summer Of Love in 1967. This clip is from the Monterey Pop Festival in June of 1967, including great footage from a fantastic era of music and Love In’s.
It may appear naive now, but they really thought that they could change the world [...]

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Marmalade were formed in the mid sixties, but became a household name through their cover of The Beatles Obla di Obla da in 1969. The single reached number one in the UK, making Marmalade the first all Scottish band to ever top the UK singles charts.
Marmalade celebrated the success by appearing on Top of the [...]

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Waterloo Sunset was released in 1967, taken from the album Something Else by The Kinks, the single reached number two in the UK charts. A beautiful track written by Ray Davies Waterloo Sunset typifies the quintessentially English sound that was to become associated with The Kinks.
It is somehow at odds with their earlier R&B driven [...]

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Humble Pie were formed by two of the sixties greatest white R&B voices Steve Marriott and Peter Frampton in 1968. Marriott and Frampton were joined by other high profile musicians, bass player Greg Ridley from Spooky Tooth and drummer Jerry Shirley from Apostolic Intervention, to form what is considered to be the first ’supergroup.’
Incredibly, Marriott [...]

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