Fill Your Head with Rock (1970) was the third release in the successful CBS Records Rock Machine UK budget sampler album series.
It broke new ground, by extending the format to a double album, and also featured more UK artists than previous samplers.
Compiler David Howell stated that while the earlier samplers were merely aimed at promoting specific full-price releases, this record was part of a major push to establish the label as "the top label in contemporary music" in the UK, and also to establish the market for double albums. (Wiki)
I bought this double album in 1970 aged 16...I was already into Santana, Johnny Winter, Chicago and Mike Bloomfield (from his Paul Butterfield days) But most of the others I was unfamiliar with...I didn't like it all...But it was a memorable, diverse example of the music we called 'Rock' at the time. It shows the move away from commercial pop to a more serious and adventurous mix that would eventually burn out with the coming of punk/new wave, yet remain influential.
I lost my vinyl copy, somehow, but it stayed in my memory...and I wanted it back !
Years later an internet buddy, grumpy, let me know he had the original double album, ripped it and supplied me with this perfect copy along with cover scans. He was also at the Royal Albert Hall as I was, at some concerts that promoted this CBS records era...Seeing Jerry Goodman on electric violin with Flock was different and exciting (he's the cover guy). I got to see him twice more with The Mahavishnu Orchestra later and it was awesome !
Anyway...thank you grumpy ...I just played it again and it still stands as a classic of its time - Gus
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