New Moon'S In The Sky: British Progressive Pop New Moon'S In The Sky: British Progressive Pop CD

UK three CD set. Having documented the British psychedelic scene with anthologies devoted to the years 1967, 1968 and 1969, Grapefruit's ongoing series fearlessly confronts the dawn of the Seventies with a slight rebrand. New Moon's In The Sky: The British Progressive Pop Sounds Of 1970 features (appropriately enough) seventy tracks from the first year of the new decade as the British pop scene adjusted to life without The Beatles. This set concentrates on the more song-based recordings to emanate from British studios during 1970, whether from a pure-pop-for-then-people perspective or the more concise, melodic end of the burgeoning progressive rock spectrum. We acknowledge the end of the road for some bands who'd achieved a modicum of late Sixties success (Honeybus, Love Sculpture, Plastic Penny) while also charting the arrival of various acts like Curved Air, Atomic Rooster (about to score two major hit singles in the space of six months), Stray, future heavy metal major leaguers UFO, Affinity and Cressida, all of whom were able to combine underground rock credibility with an appreciation of the three-minute pop song. We also feature a number of successful late Sixties acts attempting to stay relevant in the new decade and adapt to a changing musical landscape (The Hollies, The Move, Status Quo, Procol Harum, The Tremeloes etc). But as always, we also shed light on the lost and buried: the studio-only creations, the Beatles disciples, the psychedelic folk adventurers, the one-shot-and-you're-out releases, the pseudonymous pranksters and the backroom duckers and divers that littered the industry at the turn of the decade. Housed in a clamshell box containing a 52-page booklet that's crammed to bursting point with group bios and obscure photos/memorabilia, New Moon's In The Sky is a fascinating document of a febrile period. It's also yet another essential Grapefruit package.

1. Piggy Pig Pig - Procol Harum 2. Good Love Child - Barclay James Harvest 3. Good Year - Five Day Rain 4. Hurry on Sundown - Hawkwind 5. Around the World in Eighty Days - Stray 6. All the Best People Do It - the Humblebums 7. Give Me No Goodbye - Magna Carta 8. Winter Is Coming Again - Cressida 9. Tiny Goddess - Tim Andrews 10. Jennifer - Angel Pavement 11. I've Seen to Dream - Harmony Grass 12. The Two of Us - Penny Arcade 13. California Here I Come - River 14. My Mind's Eye - Canticle 15. Celebrity Ball - Plastic Penny 16. Time to Die - Patto 17. Mr. McGallagher - the Sweet 18. I Will Be There - the Seychelles 19. Call Me Lightning - the Good Vibrations 20. Me and My Life - the Tremeloes 21. Singing a Song in the Morning - Kevin Ayers ; the Whole Wide World 22. The Flying Machine - the Flying Machine 23. In the Land of the Few (Single Edit) - Love Sculpture 24. Climb That Tree - She Trinity 25. Kaleidoscope - the Marmalade 26. Under the Silent Tree - Honeybus 27. What's It All About - Putney Bridge 28. Across the Universe - Jawbone 29. Devil's Answer (Demo Version) - Atomic Rooster 30. Lovely Day - the Fox 31. Castles in the Sky - Blonde on Blonde 32. Blind Man - Curved Air 33. Rowena - Meic Stevens 34. Bridge- Lifeblud 35. Goodbye - Rusty Harness 36. Time to Die - Ancient Grease 37. Treacle People - U.F.O 38. Playing with Magic - the Smoke 39. Mr. Dieingly Sad - the Others 40. In the City - David ; David 41. Levinia - Steamhammer 42. Sam and Sadie - Fickle Pickle 43. Mr. And Mrs. Franklin - the Regime 44. Mad Professor Blyth - the Hollies 45. Anna Laura Lee- Yellow Taxi 46. Mother, Mother, Mother - Paper Bubble 47. Step This Way - Andromeda 48. Have You Heard the Word - the Fut 49. St. Louis - Warhorse 50. An Appointment with the Master - Bachdenkel 51. Shy Fly - Status Quo 52. Tarot - Andrew Bown 53. Thief - Octopus 54. United States of Mind - Affinity 55. Umbopo - Doctor Father 56. Together in the Night - This Side Up 57. He's Growing - the Gods 58. Through a Window - Hard Meat 59. Ned Kelly - the Iron Maiden 60. What? - the Move 61. Lightning Never Strikes - Sheridan ; Price 62. Hard Selling Woman - Flashman 63. Alias Oliver Dream - Airbus 64. Soon There Will Be Everything - Killing Floor 65. Rock and Roll Woman - Love Street 66. Your Mother Thinks I'm a Hoodlum - Savwinkle ; Turnerhopper 67. Flies Like a Bird - Fire 68. Colour of the Sunset - Danny McCulloch 69. Indian Maid - the Ghost 70. On Ilkla' Moor Baht'at - Bill Oddie