JOHN'S CHILDREN Go-Go Girl - Orig UK 7" Single - Psych Freakbeat Marc Bolan

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	$		49

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JOHN'S CHILDREN

Go-Go Girl

Original UK 7" Single released on Track Records in 1967.

In 1965, drummer Chris Townson and singer Andy Ellison formed a band called the Clockwork Onions, which later became The Few, and then The Silence. The Silence consisted of Townson and Ellison, with Geoff McClelland on guitar and John Hewlett on bass guitar. While performing in France in mid-1966, Townson met The Yardbirds's manager Simon Napier-Bell and invited him to come and see The Silence. Napier-Bell agreed to manage them. He changed their name to John's Children, dressed them up in white stage outfits and encouraged them to be outrageous to attract the attention of the press. Townson described their live acts as "theatre", "anarchy" and "deconstruction". They fought each other on stage, used fake blood and feathers, and they trashed their instruments. In general the band "whip[ped] the audience into a frenzy". They also often posed naked for the press, with flowers covering their private parts.

Napier-Bell signed John's Children to The Yardbirds's label, Columbia Records, an EMI subsidiary, and they released their first single, "Smashed Blocked/Strange Affair" (released as "The Love I Thought I'd Found/Strange Affair" in the UK) in late-1966. Napier-Bell co-wrote "Smashed Blocked" with Hewlett. Allmusic described the single as a "disorienting piece of musical mayhem", but said it was "one of the first overtly psychedelic singles". To Napier-Bell's surprise "Smashed Blocked/Strange Affair" broke into the bottom of the US Billboard Hot 100 and reached local top ten charts in Florida and California. In early-1967 they released their second single, "Just What You Want – Just What You'll Get/But You're Mine", which also featured session musicians, plus a guitar solo from The Yardbirds's Jeff Beck on the B-side. This one made it to the British Top 40.

The band's third single, "Not the Sort of Girl (You'd Like to Take to Bed)" was rejected outright by their UK label, which prompted the band to switch to Track Records, publishers of artists like The Jimi Hendrix Experience and The Who. In the meantime, their US label, White Whale Records asked for an album, and Napier-Bell and the group obliged, producing Orgasm.

In March 1967 Napier-Bell replaced guitarist McClelland with Marc Bolan, another of his clients. Napier-Bell had Bolan, an acoustic guitarist, play electric guitar, and take on the role of the band's singer/songwriter. Bolan composed and sang on the band's next single, "Desdemona", which was banned by the BBC because of the controversial lyric, "Lift up your skirt and fly". He also featured on several unreleased songs and BBC radio sessions, and contributed to the band's antics by whipping the stage with a chain.

In April 1967 Napier-Bell arranged for John's Children to tour Germany with The Who as the latter's supporting act. John's Children pulled out all the stops and upstaged The Who with performances that included Bolan whipping his guitar with a chain, Townson attacking his drums, Ellison and Hewlett pretending to fight each other, and Ellison ripping open pillows and diving into the audience. In Düsseldorf they caused a riot at the venue, and in Ludwigshafen they nearly prevented The Who from playing. The Who were not happy and John's Children were sent home mid-tour. According to Pete Townshend, they were "too loud and violent".

John's Children played at The 14 Hour Technicolour Dream concert at the Alexandra Palace in April 1967. Bolan left in June, after only four months with the band, following disagreements with the way Napier-Bell was producing the band's next single, "A Midsummer Night's Scene". The single was never released, but in its place the B-side of "Desdemona", "Remember Thomas à Becket" was re-recorded with new lyrics and released as "Come and Play with Me in the Garden".

After Bolan left, Townson switched to guitar and former roadie Chris Colville took over on drums. John's Children recorded another single, "Go Go Girl", a Bolan composition he later recorded with Tyrannosaurus Rex as "Mustang Ford". John's Children also performed Bolan's "Mustang Ford" version of the song. The band released one more single, "It's Been a Long Time" (issued as an Andy Ellison solo single) and then embarked on a "disastrous" tour of Germany. They split up in 1968. Ellison went on to make several solo singles before resurfacing in Jet in 1974, along with drummer Chris Townson.
Jet metamorphosed into Radio Stars in the mid-Seventies.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Go-Go Girl

Side Two

Jagged Time Lapse

Released on 'Track Records' in 1967

Catalogue No. 604010

Disc is in VG condition

Plain Sleeve

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