Beat-Club Season 7

November. 28,1970

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Beat-Club was a German music program that ran from September 1965 to December 1972. It is notable for being the first German show to be based around popular music, and featured artists such as The Equals, Grateful Dead, Zager and Evans, Cream, Frank Zappa, The Rolling Stones, Gene Pitney, Ten Years After, Rory Gallagher, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Ike & Tina Turner, The Who, Black Sabbath, Harry Nilsson, David Bowie, The Bee Gees, The Beach Boys, Chicago, The Doors, Kraftwerk and Robin Gibb in its seven-year run. In 1972, it was replaced by Musikladen.

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Beat-Club Season 7 Full Episode Guide

Episode 12 - T. Rex / Alice Cooper / Richie Havens / Jethro Tull

First Aired: October. 30,1971

Guests: --T.Rex - ""Electric Warrior,"" ""Jeepster"" & ""Life's A Gas"" --Richie Havens - ""Here Comes the Sun"" --Alice Cooper - ""Under My Wheels"" --Jethro Tull - ""Life Is A Long Song"" --Procol Harum - ""In the Wee Small Hours Of Sixpence"" --Champion Jack Dupree - ""I'm Going To Bremen To Get On The Radio"" --Stoneground - ""An Added Attraction"" --Passport (featuring Klaus Doldinger) - ""Uranus"" 60 minutes / Aired 3:45pm - 4:45pm

Episode 11 - Canned Heat / Creedence Clearwater Revival / Deep Purple

First Aired: September. 25,1971

Guests: --Canned Heat - ""A Long Way From L.A."" & ""Big City Woman"" --If - ""Forgotten Roads"" --Family - ""Holding The Compass"" --Curved Air - ""Back Street Love"" --Deep Purple - ""No, No, No"" --Creedence Clearwater Revival - ""Sweet Hitch Hiker"" --Birth Control - ""The Work Is Done"" Additional guest? --Jefferson Airplane 60 minutes / Aired 3:45pm - 4:45pm

Episode 10 - Weather Report / Beggar's Opera

First Aired: August. 09,1971

Guests: --Weather Report - ""Waterfall"" --Beggar's Opera - ""Raymond's Road"" --Can - ""Paperhouse"" --Emergency 60 minutes / Aired 3:45pm - 4:45pm, Monday

Episode 9 - James Gang / Grease Band / Caravan

First Aired: July. 24,1971

Guests: --James Gang - ""Walk Away"" --Grease Band - ""Let It Be Gone"" --Caravan - ""Golf Girl"" --Mick Abrahams Band - ""Greyhound Bus"" and ""Why Do You Do Me This Way"" --Osibisa - ""Phallus C"" --Etcetera - ""Raga, Lady, Blue, Thursday, Morn., Sunrise"" 60 minutes / Aired 3:45pm - 4:45pm

Episode 8 - Fleetwood Mac / Mountain / Lucifer's Friend

First Aired: June. 24,1971

Guests: --Fleetwood Mac - ""Dragonfly"" --Mountain - ""Don't Look Around"" --Lucifer's Friend - ""Ride the Sky"" --Warhorse - ""Ritual"" --Frumpy (feat. Inga Rumpf) - ""Take Care Of Illusion"" 60 minutes / Aired 3:45pm - 4:45pm, Thursday

Episode 7 - Byrds / Kraftwerk / Rory Gallagher

First Aired: May. 22,1971

Guests: --Kraftwerk - ""RÃ¼ckstoss-Gondoliere"" (aka ""Ruckzuck"") --The Byrds - ""Eight Miles High,"" ""Chestnut Mare"" & ""Black Mountain Rag"" (instrumental) --Rory Gallagher - ""Laundromat"" & ""Sinner Boy"" 60 minutes / Aired 2:30pm - 3:30pm Additional guest(?) --Mountain

Episode 6 - Yes / Santana / Man / Popol Vuh

First Aired: April. 24,1971

Guests: --Yes - ""I've Seen All Good People"" & ""Yours Is No Disgrace"" --Man - ""Will The Christians Wait Five Minutes"" (and 1 other song) --Popol Vuh - ""Bettina"" (all synthesizer piece) --War Horse - ""I Can't Face It No More Without You --Santana 60 minutes / Aired 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Episode 5 - Skid Row / Curved Air / Soft Machine

First Aired: March. 27,1971

Guests: --Skid Row (feat. Gary Moore) - ""An Awful Lot Of Woman"" and ""Unco-op-Showband-Blues""/""Unco-Up Showband Blues"" --Curved Air - ""Vivaldi,"" ""Propositions"" and ""It Happened Today"" --Soft Machine - ""Virtually, Pt. 1,"" ""Virtually, Pt. 2"" and ""Virtually, Pt. 3"" 60 minutes / Aired 3:45pm - 4:45pm

Episode 4 - T. Rex / Ike & Tina Turner / Golden Earring

First Aired: February. 27,1971

Guests: --Ike and Tina Turner - ""I Want To Take You Higher,"" ""River Deep, Mountain High,"" ""Honky Tonk Woman"" & ""Proud Mary"" --Golden Earring - ""Holy, Holy Life"" --Atomic Rooster - ""Tomorrow Night"" --John Mayall U.S.A. Union Band - ""My Pretty Girl"" --T. Rex - ""Ride A White Swan"" and ""Jewel"" --Tom Paxton - ""Vietnam Song"" 60 minutes / Aired 3:45pm - 4:45pm

Episode 3 - Joe Cocker / Iron Butterfly / Patto / Ashton Gardner & Dyke

First Aired: January. 31,1971

Guests: --Ashton, Gardner & Dyke - ""Resurrection Shuffle"" and ""Mister Freko"" --Iron Butterfly - ""Easy Rider (Let The Wind Pay The Way)"" and ""Butterfly Bleu"" --Joe Cocker --Patto - ""San Antone"" 60 minutes / Aired 3:45pm - 4:45pm

Episode 2 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer / Move / UFO / Warm Dust

First Aired: December. 31,1970

Guests: --UFO - ""Boogie"" --The Move (feat. Jeff Lynne) - ""When Alice Comes Back To The Farm"" and/or ""Brontosaurus"" --Emerson, Lake, & Palmer - ""Take A Pebble"" & ""Knife Edge"" --Warm Dust - ""Indian Ropeman"" 60 minutes / Aired 2:25pm - 3:25pm, Thursday

Episode 1 - Muddy Waters / Colosseum / Fotheringay

First Aired: November. 28,1970

Guests: --Muddy Waters - ""Blow Wind Blow"" & ""Honey Bee"" --Colosseum - ""Take Me Back To Doomsday"" --Fotheringay - ""Too Much of Nothing"" (and possibly ""Black Lady"") --Stone the Crows - ""Danger Zone"" and ""Love 74"" 60 minutes / Aired 4:15pm - 5:15pm