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If you wanted a venue for a rock show, where better than a zoo in Dudley, in the west midlands? This was a fundraiser for the World Wildlife Fund. Edgar Broughton Band, Faces, Jeff Dexter, Quintessence, Sam Apple Pie, and T. Rex played. The compere was Jeff Dexter who had popularised The Twist in the early 60s and was the resident DJ at the Middle Earth club in Covent Garden and compered the first Glastonbury.
T.Rex were still a duo, hippy acoustic outfit. Sam Apple Pie had a big live following as a blues-rock band which had originally featured Malcolm Morely, who went on to form Help Yourself and I think played in Man for a time. But their albums in 1969 and 1972 didn’t sell. The Broughton’s were not unfamiliar with doing a benefit, being part of that Notting Hill hippy scene. As were Quintessence, who were in the charts in 1970 at #22 with their second album.
Weird to throw The Faces into this mix, it might seem so anyway. But these were early days when they were a good time boozy jam band, who seem to have played almost any and every gig.
