FLY Records

31/07/2024

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July 31st 1971
Melody Maker Chart
‘Get It On’ at the No.1 position on the U.K. singles chart

28/06/2024

A cool Friday read about the debut album from Chris Roberts

Read,
https://www.loudersound.com/features/procol-harum-debut-album
listen
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mVy6i6E1h1MAdpnN6EFx_D6_oNOJ1uh4g
https://open.spotify.com/album/2oYHNN9e20gHiSDpPg6ntb?si=LMw_Rr2WQiy1hVwVPCHgYA
etc ….
https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/procol-harum-procol-harum/nk4fzp5xxomtc

Bucks Music Group Fly Guy Louder

07/12/2023

15:00 GMT today...

Radio Free Marseille broadcasting from Marseille, France

02/11/2023

16/05/2023

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001lrys

Around 2’20” into the BBC Radio 6 Music show DJ Deb Grant declares her liking for ’s ‘Bird Lives’ taken from his 1969 debut album, produced by Tony Visconti. And probably its' first-ever play on the BBC. .

Album: "Ten Songs by Tucker Zimmerman"
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw-LcP9s2Pvk_2NuVA3zsEA
(and all digital services)

‘Bird Lives’ was recorded on the Monday the 9th December, 1968, at Olympic Sound Studios and has a sobering narrative whilst playfully echoing a resonant nod to the heady gutteral classic ‘Surfin’ Bird’. Published by Onward Music

Bucks Music Group Fly Guy

12/05/2023

Bucks Music Group
#1967

29/03/2023

https://open.spotify.com/track/0KQDGdLGDfhBEueknueXfS?si=a317580df3e946c2

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp5un0v8o_6sczFjPpYDFrw/playlists

(the band)

Bucks Music Group

SPRING WERE PART OF VELVET UNDERGROUND BRITISH TOUR AND JOINED THE AMERICAN BAND AT FOUR GIGS. THEY WERE: 8 OCTOBER 1971, BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY. 14 OCTOBER 1971, LONDON COLLEGE OF PRINTING. 30 OCTOBER 1971, LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY. 5 NOVEMBER 1971, SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES/LONDON UNIVERSITY. THE BRITISH TOUR PUBLISHED IN MELODY MAKER 3 JULY 1971. THANK YOU TO THE OWNERS OF MELODY MAKER.

20/02/2023

has made a surprise appearance at the Baftas, performing alongside Little Simz. Armatrading, 72, has continued to release albums since her 1972 debut, Whatever’s For Us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHPrVO2PtrY&list=OLAK5uy_m4D4eja-ZbP2-AMGRRBajxm6PyD6oc1Ns

Dressed in black, she accompanied Little Simz performing her hit Heart On Fire,

23/01/2023

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THIS IS A REPLICA POSTER SUPPLIED BY A COMPANY IN CANADA. THE GIG IS VELVET UNDERGROUND SUPPORTED BY SPRING AT THE LONDON COLLEGE OF PRINTING. THE GIG TOOK PLACE ON THURSDAY 14 OCTOBER 1971.

15/12/2022

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/home-remastered-edition/

A Christmas Cracker! Less than a fiver.... phworrrr...😎

Bucks Music Group

        Esoteric Recordings are proud to announce the release of a newly re-mastered and expanded edition of the classic 1970 album HOME...

10/11/2022

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Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Meet Joan Armatrading - Sauchiehall St, Glasgow today.

07/10/2022

Tomorrow, Saturday the 8th of October, the BBC celebrates Joan Armatrading on BBC2

Tune in. or catch up on the BBCiPlayer HD

Whilst you're grabbing a beverage before the screening enjoy her 1973 debut single here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w23w0Wbca5w
https://open.spotify.com/album/3Iy5G8kfQHDQeJ1Fne7zlX?si=ayZKwkIfQV-khhddiQ2OpA

Recorded on the 22nd April 1973.

1973 , if you weren’t there, was the year the Opec embargo increased the price of crude oil fourfold. The hike in energy prices pushed up business costs and reduced disposable incomes of those not in the wealth business. Sounding familiar? This was simultaneously inflationary and deflationary, which brought us all a new word, Stagflation. Who needs a time machine eh?

Bucks Music Group Cara Sly

09/09/2022

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19/07/2022

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13/07/2022

Worth a listen if you are near a radio....
featuring
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001945f

Bucks Music Group

Singer Jamelia begins a two-part exploration of music made in her native West Midlands

12/07/2022

Check out go-go girl free version of 'Hey Sandy'
https://open.spotify.com/track/3IiubJ81A0PngKmagCiha2?si=bcb9acaabc124ad1

12/07/2022

1972

Charm 49 is finally published, part one of a 1972 special... All subscribers' copies were sent out today.

eBay to follow later in the week... Or buy now from PayPal with the links below.

If you want a copy £5.50 UK inc P&P via Paypal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/atmfc

Overseas £7.99 including shipping
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/atmfc

11/07/2022

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Mark Paytress on Word In Your Ear talking with Mark Ellen and David Hepworth about Glam!

Glorious camp, delicious irony and why Rock could have only happened in Britain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WKnZF0ZxHI

29/06/2022

Happy Birthday me! Fly Guy aka Fly Records (UK)! 52 eh…

Today’s date, 52 years ago, twas a Monday. The 25-year-old Malcolm Jones started his first day in the Fly Records office on its own inaugural day, located in the office space in Essex Music’s HQ on Oxford Street in the heart of London’s West End.

Anyway back to Malcolm. To label him a music enthusiast is to minimise his obsession and passion for the music he loved, which drove his life as he followed his music muse. At EMI his love for the English underground music scene had led to a close friendship with Syd Barrett and Malcolm cajoled (or rather wore down) EMI suits to allow him to establish the influential Harvest Records, probably the main seed of the art of packaging music/records which is now de-rigour. Once he faced budgetary restrictions the jump to help Platz launch Fly was timely.

Today is a good day to remember Malcolm. His close friend John Beecher at Rollercoaster Records knew him better than most. John ran the British Buddy Holly Fan Club and had a close connection with the Coral label (a subsidiary of Decca Records) releasing Buddy’s records in Britain. Malcolm was a hardcore Buddy-head and on joining the BHFC began communicating with John with a brim-full of ideas.
Tony Hall ran Coral label back then and was a recipient of one (unsuccessful) job application from Malcolm. Anyone reading this post who knows a bit about our history will be mentally joining dots between those names by now. Tony set up the Deram label at Decca and signed Essex Music’s production outfit New Breed, headed by David Platz and Denny Cordell.

Anyway back to Malcolm. To label him a music enthusiast is to minimise his obsession and passion for music he loved. At EMI his love for the English underground music scene had led to a close friendship with Syd Barrett and Malcolm cajoled (or rather wore down) EMI suits to allow him to establish the influential Harvest Records, probably the main seed of the art of packaging music/records which is now de-rigour. Once he faced budgetary restrictions the jump to help Platz launch Fly was timely.

Malcolm stayed at Fly for two years, leaving when the label was switched to Cube Records. Here’s Malcolm’s CV where he can tell you more… in his own words (thanks to John Beecher who still has the CV filed in his Aladdin’s Cave).

Malcolm joined Polydor after leaving us working directly with… The Osmonds (who actually recorded several songs Malcolm had pitched to them), James Brown, Gloria Gaynor, Jimmy Ruffin, Millie Jackson as well as The Hollies and The New Seekers. His love for back catalogue was fulfilled organising re-issues of Phil Spector (repackaging his entire output), and compilations on Stax, King and other labels.

One of his proudest moments was when he compiled “The Complete Buddy Holly” for MCA which attracted a review that stated “the standard by which all future compilations will be judged”.

In 1981 he took a sabbatical to set up a collectors shop in Wimbledon. Never without multiple ideas concurrently on the go Malcolm worked on various projects documenting his vast musical knowledge but illness brought an early demise in February 1990.

You can find info about Malcolm on various sites dedicated to Syd Barrett or Harvest Records compilation reissues, but one little-known aspect of his musical life was that he was briefly in a band himself. Pictured here with a Stratocaster. Quelle surpris!

https://www.southportvisiter.co.uk/news/southport-west-lancs/can-you-help-1960s-southport-12586877

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7GwLYomekQlF6HZUavY2FZ?si=f6fd140ff46d4f5e

28/06/2022

If you like the album follow Sissy and Spring for updates about a forthcoming special book ...

Who is SPRING?
https://open.spotify.com/track/744wpsaV7uWhQ9yVyBKLtv?si=9bc587ed450448f1

https://youtu.be/2oPKDiXdDIw

Bucks Music Group Fly Guy

A SECOND PAGE OF CONTENTS FOR THE BOOK ABOUT SPRING, SISSY, POW, AND SLEEPY JOHN'S OPUS. "1967. PSYCHEDELIA AND FLOWER POWER", IMPORTANT PART OF THE HISTORY OF THE BAND, IN THIS SECTION WILL BE SOME PUBLISHED COMMENTS ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE OF SISSY. "THE MELLOTRON", A SHORT TIME AGO I HAD ACQUIRED A BOOK ABOUT THIS INSTRUMENT. BARRY STEVENS HAD RECALLED PAT SHOWING HIM THE MELLOTRON AT THE MERE ROAD HOUSE, I ALSO RECALL THIS INSTRUMENT BEING THERE IN MY HOME. THE MELLOTRON MAY HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE FOR DEMONSTRATION BEFORE PURCHASE, SPRING BOUGHT THE INSTRUMENT IN 1969. "VENUES AVAILABLE FOR PRACTICE AND REHEARSALS", A BRIEF MENTION OF LOCATIONS. " THE EXTRAORDINARY MEETING BETWEEN KINGSLEY WARD OF ROCKFIELD STUDIOS AND SPRING", A TURNING POINT FOR THE BAND. "THE 1969 FREE CONCERT AT THE RECREATION GROUND WELFORD ROAD LEICESTER", AN AMAZING EVENT. "SOME OF THE GIGS PLAYED BY SPRING", A SHORT SCRIPT. "THE CHANGES IN THE BAND". "PREPARATION FOR THE DEBUT ALBUM AND SUBSEQUENT MATERIAL". "THE COMPOSITIONS AND ARRANGEMENTS OF THE LYRICS OF SOME OF THE SONGS BY MEMBERS OF SPRING", FOR THIS PART THERE WILL BE HANDWRITTEN NOTES BY PAT. "THE RECORDING TIMETABLE", WHEN GOING THROUGH PAT'S DIARIES IT IS SOMETIMES EASY TO MISS THE RELEVANT INFORMATION. "THE DEBUT ALBUM BY SPRING. RELEASED FRIDAY 21 MAY 1971". SOME OF THE MATERIAL OF THESE TWO CONTENTS PAGES MAY BE CHANGED OR DELETED.

22/06/2022

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Never seen image of TERRY STAMP of THIRD WORLD WAR at The Marquee Club, London circa ‘71-‘72.