LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

• Red coloured 180g vinyl, in hand-numbered fold-over sleeve, with insert
• Incredible performances live, in session at the BBC
• Includes the entire BBC radio broadcast
• Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality
• Background liners and rare images
• First time on vinyl
• Hand numbered editions

The Mindbenders, live on air, 22nd March 1966 – 13th August 1968

From their huge success with Wayne Fontana and The Game Of Love in January 1965, Manchester group The Mindbenders were a guaranteed success story. However in 1965, Fontana took a solo route and left the band midway through a live show in 1965. While many groups may have collapsed under the pressure, The Mindbenders suddenly found a new lease of life when they struck gold with A Groovy Kind Of Love, a song that has become synonymous with the ‘Swinging 60s’. It was this, and several other follow-up singles that prompted their numerous BBC sessions from 1966 to 1968.

London Calling very proudly presents The Mindbenders in session for the BBC with host Brian Matthew. Includes a wealth of revealing interviews and exclusive recordings, and charts the group’s journey as pop stars and the developing talent of songwriter Eric Stewart. Professionally re-mastered original broadcasts with background liners and rare archival photographs.

Track Listing:

Side One

22nd March 1966

• Groovy Kind Of Love 1.55
• Love Is Good 1.59
• Don’t Cry No More 2.47

2nd May 1966

• The Way You Do The Things You Do 2.40
• Can’t Live With You, Can’t Live Without You 2.28
• All Night Worker 2.36

22nd August 1966

• Seventh Son 3.31
• Ashes To Ashes 2.20
• Ride Your Pony 2.36

19th December 1966

• Cool Jerk 3.00
• I Want Her She Wants Me 2.23

Side Two

19th December 1966

• Homework 2.47
• The Morning After 1.59

14th March 1967

• We’ll Talk About It Tomorrow 3.12
21st September 1967
• The Letter 2.18
• We Can Work It Out 2.48
• Rock Me Baby 2.29

23rd February 1968

• blessed Are The Lonely 2.57
• Hold On Baby 2.18

13th August 1968

• Omaha 2.14
• Uncle Joe The Ice Cream Man 2.27
• My White Bicycle 2.30