Monday 31 May 2010

Thanks to queenconcerts.com for this list of Smile concerts

Smile was the band Roger formed with Brian May in London. They knew Freddie at this time but he was in a different band...

summer 1968 Smile PJ's Club Truro UK
summer 1968 Smile Flamingo Ballroom Redruth UK
summer 1968 Smile Imperial College London UK
26.10.1968 Smile Imperial College London UK
31.01.1969 Smile Imperial College London UK
27.02.1969 Smile Royal Albert Hall London UK
28.02.1969 Smile Athletic Club Richmond UK
15.03.1969 Smile Imperial College London UK
28.03.1969 Smile PJ's Club Truro UK
29.03.1969 Smile PJ's Club Truro UK
18.04.1969 Smile PJ's Club Truro UK
19.04.1969 Smile Revolution Club London UK
31.05.1969 Smile Whisky A Go Go London UK
19.07.1969 Smile PJ's Club Truro UK
13.09.1969 Smile PJ's Club Truro UK
14.09.1969 Smile PJ's Club Truro UK
18.10.1969 Smile College Union Watford UK
01.11.1969 Smile Imperial College London UK
06.12.1969 Smile Imperial College London UK
13.12.1969 Smile The Marquee Club London UK
31.01.1970 Smile Imperial College London UK
24.04.1970 Smile Eel Pie Island Twickenham UK
09.05.1970 Smile Imperial College London UK

Whats interesting about this list is that it seems Smile played their first listed gig in Truro and then went on to play PJs a total of ten times - as well as the Flamingo in Redruth...

So Queen, with Freddie Mercury played 13 times in Cornwall and Smile, with Tim Staffell, also played 13 or 14 times...BUT strangely this fact is not celebrated in any public space and we're talking here about the second highest selling UK act after the Beatles...

UPDATE: 3/6/10 Will need to check accuracy of those Summer 1968 performances...Roger was playing with Reaction in the Summer of 1968 - did Brian May and Tim Staffell also come down that Summer??? Not according to the biogs which all say that the first Smile gig was at Imperial College supporting Pink Floyd.

UPDATE: 5/6/10 There is an advert in the West Briton for two gigs on the 17th and 18th of April 1970 that are not in this list...

UPDATE: 12/6/10 Just had some correspondence with Mark Blake who is working on what sounds will be an excellent book due out in October. Apparently Richard Thompson who was part of the Smile entourage remembers watching the moon landings in Roger's house on 21st July in 1969.

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