I’d be in a band with this guy in a second. I really enjoyed his attitude.

McGuinn and the second-generation Byrds were undergoing a bit of a revival as a good live act around then, and I think their 1971 tour was pretty successful in Britain. It's interesting that he seems pretty cognizant of current rock trends as their hit-making days were mostly behind them by that point. One of my favorite bands.

McGuinn is an incredibly astute musician. A Master of the 12-string. Great work on the outro, YP 💖

Yeaaah, give us more Byrds!

This is such a fantastic series. Before I found your channel a year or two ago, I had no idea these musician reviews from the paper even existed, so it's been fascinating to hear the takes on the current sounds by some of the greats of the period.

This guy has endless knowledge, and he didn't slag anything. His own family tree confuses me to bits - The Byrds, Dylan. The Band, CSN&Y... need to consult my Pete Frame books. He admitted being influenced by Dylan, and I like that. Thanks for these fantastic videos! Glad we're getting up to the '70s now, as I became aware of artistes and repertoire around that time (born in '61). Blessings.🙂

May 71 was the end of my first year of university. The air was full of folk music and Carole King and Tapestry, everybody that I knew had excellent stereo systems, there were TAndberb real to reals and TEAC's and all the best equipment. The music sounded phenomenal. I don't know how it can be repeated. The Byrds, Gram Parsons, Flying Burrito Brothers, Bob Dylan, CCR. What else can I say.

What is immediately striking is how much the musical landscape has changed in the early 1970s! Roger McGuin reviewed very well and with humour. "Cowbow sound like a cross between Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young" 😅 And about "Big Queen" by Mick Abrahams: "It didn't get off. I'll give it 69" 😂 I see that in the single and album charts "Brown Sugar" and "Sticky Fingers" did a very great job! As you would expect from the Rolling Stones in their heyday 😛! Thanks also for your mesmerizing "Moonlight Mile" outro!!! Cheers!

I thought this was really interesting in that the discs Roger reviewed and even the Charts barely hint at the amazing music that was around then. 1971 was a brilliant year for albums! Your Moonlight Mile outro is beautiful YP and thank you for another fascinating flashback.

Laura Nyro was the standout here. Her music was more like musical theater tinged with rhythm and blues rather than rock/pop. She's who other artists were listening to rather than someone who was marketable to teenagers.

May 1971, almost halfway through the greatest year in rock history. The charts don't tell the entire story; here's a running list of the incredible music from that year. ☆ ALBUMS RELEASED IN 1971 ☆ ● THE WHO - WHO'S NEXT ● LED ZEPPELIN - LED ZEP IV ● THE ROLLING STONES - STICKY FINGERS ● MARVIN GAYE - WHAT'S GOING ON ● JOHN LENNON - IMAGINE ● PAUL McCARTNEY - RAM ● GEORGE HARRISON - ALL THINGS MUST PASS (Dec 1970) Hit #1 Jan 1971, #1 Selling Album of Year ● GEORGE HARRISON - CONCERT FOR BANGLADESH (1971 Album of the Year) ● RINGO STARR - IT DON'T COME EASY (Ringo's Iconic Hit Single) ● NEIL YOUNG - AFTER THE GOLD RUSH ● THE DOORS - L.A. WOMAN ● CAROLE KING - TAPESTRY ● ROD STEWART - EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY ● TRAFFIC - THE LOW SPARK OF HIGH HEELED BOYS ● JETHO TULL - AQUALUNG ● YES - THE YES ALBUM ● YES - FRAGILE ● ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND - LIVE AT THE FILLMORE EAST ● DAVID BOWIE - HUNKY DORY ● SLY & THE FAMILY STONE - THERE'S A RIOT GOIN' ON ● BLACK SABBATH- MASTER OF REALITY ● CAT STEVENS - TEASER & THE FIRECAT (7 Hit Songs) ● JANIS JOPLIN - PEARL ● T. REX - ELECTRIC WARRIOR ● JONI MITCHELL - BLUE ● DON MCLEAN - AMERICAN PIE ● EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER - TARKUS ● EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER - PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION ● CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG - 4 WAY STREET ● HARRY NILSSON - NILSSON SCHMILSSON (4 Hit Songs) ● THE MOODY BLUES - EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOUR ● ELTON JOHN - MADMAN ACROSS THE WATER ● PINK FLOYD - MEDDLE ● TEN YEARS AFTER - A SPACE IN TIME ● CARLY SIMON - ANTICIPATION ● BADFINGER - STRAIGHT UP (4 Hits) ● VAN MORRISON - TUPELO HONEY ● AMERICA - AMERICA (3 Hits)

Love the use of moonlight Mile. I'm a tour bus driver, it's even lonelier than touring in a band. Super relatable

I was stationed in Scotland at that point in time. The Byrds' Chestnut Mare was very popular over there.

Near the top of the Singles chart was “Indiana wants me” by one of the first white artist to be signed to Motown, R Dean Taylor. The ending of the song has a standoff complete with gunshots and sirens. In the United States they had to release a second version without the gunshots and sirens because people who were listening to the song in their car would all of a sudden turned to the side of the road, terrified, thinking they were being pulled over or shot at!

After scrolling through the comments, it's obvious that YP hit a real chord(pun intended) with the fantastic original arrangement outro of 'Moonlight Mile'.

The top US Albums of May 1971 was filled with classic albums. Even more than May 2023...

Thanks , always love your videos and equally enjoy the accompanying musical soundtrack you create, nice nod to " Winter" , the season we are approaching down here in Oz 😊

May, 71. I was repairing chinooks in s.e.asia. I missed this.

Love McGuinn's humour! Great episode...but then they always are thanks!

This is an episode of Yesterday's Papers that I could enjoy listening to as a radio show, with the songs played all the way through.

KINKS MUSWELL HILLBILLIES 1971 🤩🤩. MASTERWORK!!

I like Siouxsie & The Banshees cover of " Wheels On Fire " seeing her tomorrow & just saw The Cure on Tuesday. It's the 80's again !

Laura Nyro is one of the most original pop artists ever, she continues to influence songwriters across the ages.

The Byrds can do no wrong IMO and Roger is the man. I'm finishing up an article titled Starting a Jamaican Music Collection Part 3b--The Deejays. The Start of Rap? and wrote about how the British kids embraced early reggae much earlier than the American kids did. See Double Barrel in the top 3 on the Brit singles chart. That would never happen in America. And between 1968 and 1971 there were 20 reggae singles on the Brit charts. The skinheads there embraced this wonderful music.

Don't cha just love it

I give the video a 85, better than average with a likable reviewer. This numbering system is a great idea. ✌

That Mick Abrahams album is one of the finest progressive blues-rock albums of all time!! Love to see that!

Fantachannel! Everytime I have a joy with it. Thnx!

As always thakyou for another fascinating. Presentation l love this channel. Xxxlps. The International Times archive is complete and ànd 1970s archaeological goldmine.

Elvis Country album (#17 in the UK album charts) is one of the best country rock albums of all time. Just brutal.

2:48 Unmistakable sound of P-90s there! Also, Marc Benno recorded _L.A. Woman_ with The Doors.

In America the Tamla-Motown trademark was *NOT* used (6:13). Motown had several trademarks operating in 1971, they were: Motown, Soul, Gordy, Tamla, VIP, MoWest(a newly-introduced label to mark the shift from Detroit, Michigan to Los Angeles, California in 1971), C(a label for stuff that didn't really fit on the other labels) & Rare Earth(named for the group).

Love your melotron/tabla outro stones bit. Do you put these together yourself? They're really evocative of the era.

I have been a fan of this awesome channel for quite some time now, and it just keeps getting better, more interesting and more informative with every new video! One thing that has always delighted me is the background music played while showing the different charts. I always have fun trying to guess the song! This video’s version of Moonlight Mile was really beautiful! Could you possibly tell me which version this is? If it is made, specifically for this channel, could you share the whole song?

I wouldn’t say that Cowboy is a copy of Neil Young or CSN. That genre of folk/country/rock would have had similarities with other performers because of the style and structure of the music. If anything, they were more like the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Anyway, I was delighted to hear that clip from Cowboy. Plus, Laura Nyro! Love her!

I'd like to find out where they get the backing music they use while showing the single and album charts. That's a cool version of Moonlight Mile.

Just another moonlight mile …. Wow, you outdid yourself with this version …

Great to hear from Roger! I wonder if the great Gene Clark ever did a blind date? Probably not.

Mick Abrahams was an original member of Jethro Tull. This must be a solo project between gigs with Blodwyn pig

Again, love the music for the outro

In May of 1971 Jim Morrison was still alive in France. One of the lists here had Love Her Madly by The Doors at #7 and another list had their album LA Woman at #19. Morrison's death on July 3, 1971 had a positive long-term effect on the ongoing legacy of The Doors.

Ah yes, “moonlight mile” at the end. A great track from their greatest album (in my opinion). Can I ask what software you use to make music? I’m slowly getting into this.

What an odd batch of songs they threw at McGuinn. Some of it new to me. Like Cowboy. I'll have to check them out. & Roger was spot on comparing then to Stills & Young. It sounded like Steven Stills impersonating Neil Young. . . Another great episode!

Laura Nyro broke all the songwriting rules and had more ideas in one song than others would have on a whole album, which is partly why dhe was so influential. Her art pop 1968 LP, the revolutionary Eli and the Thirteenth Confession is arguably the first progressive album for its complexity, virtuosity, innovation and concept. She was still a teenager. David Geffen saw her genius and snapped her up as his first artist under management and by 1969 she made him a millionaire. She was supposed to be the first Asylum artist, but she stayed with Columbia since they had been so good to her. Geffen cried for days. Nyro features heavily in the documentary Inventing David Geffen. She passed in 1997 from ovarian cancer.

Wow, those singles on the Top 30. I haven't heard any of them.

Wow, what a nondescript bunch of records. I'm surprised they didn't dump Bobby Goldsboro or Anne Murray on him, too. Roger must be a patient listener.

I never heard of Cowboy but I need to check them out.

Interesting review icymi today Roger is a born again Christian and plays the oldies circuit

5:18 Wow. Elton released it as 17-11-70 over there and 11-17-70 over here. You learn something new every day.

Looking at the songs he reviewed and at the songs on the top of the lists in the UK and the US, it's obvious that music was taking a nap after the 60's and before the 70's really took off.

Hah, McGuinn is pretty witty. The Dick Clark bit and him saying "The Bee Gees imitated the Beatles, Cowboy Neil Young and The Byrds Bob Dylan" was funny

Moonlight Mile indeed.

This is great but I'm really waiting for the top singles of May/67.

Marc Benno had not long finished guesting on the Doors L.A.Woman album

Rogs knows how to use a MOOG synthersiser in clever and delicate way

It was around this time, early 1971, that the British top 30 and the American top 30 only had a few songs in common. It seems like in the 60s it was about half and half. I don't recognize any of the songs they had Roger listen to, except for "Wheel's On Fire".

Does anyone know if the band Cowboy mentioned here is the same band that recorded the beautiful “Please Be With Me” in 1971? The song was penned by founding Cowboy member Scott Boyer and a particularly lovely version featured Duane Allman (accompanying Cowboy) playing slide on a Dobro. The song was also covered by Eric Clapton on his 461 Ocean Boulevard album and EC’s is perhaps the version most listeners are familiar with. What about you YP, any idea? Thanks in advance.

What’s that track at the end? It’s nice.

You pick such great songs but sometimes I wish the soundbites were just a little bit longer - the last song for example.

What's the cover you did while showing the top singles of the week at the end? So familiar yet I can't put my finger on it

Whats the tune in the end?

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is outro music moonlight mile?

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Rather listen to your music at the end than any of those 👍 Heard If Not For You by ONJ on the radio this week, must be first time in well over 30 maybe 40 years & there it is again in the charts 😂

What's the end music on this? Sounds something like Moonlight Mile.

Roger was fair with his assessments, always came across as a thoughtful, nice guy. Still like Julie Discroll's version of This Wheels on Fire better though....

3:58 Moonlight Mile! :0)

How did. he know who Mark Benno is? Who is he?

May 1971 not the best month for new releases. This was a year that gave us T Rex, Slade, Rod Stewart as well as Benny Hill, Clive Dunn and Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep, so a bit of a mixed bag with glam thrown into the mix

laura nyro ! my fav!

Jesus Christ Superstar. It had to be the original with Ian Gillan on that one in '71.

Say what you will about the Band and the Byrds, but the true knockout version of This Wheel's On Fire was by Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity.

Mick Abraham's? After he left Tull he started Blodwin Pig I still have the first lp 's verry heavy jazz rock stuff ! Thanks YP CHEERS !The groundhogs Split lp? Extraordinary ! TS Mc phee was the real deal !

I got silence on my radio - let the airwaves flow.

Holy smokes except for Laura Nyro I've never heard of a single one of these bands!! (Marc Benno might be a vaguely familiar name, search me!) I assume Dee Dee Warwick is a sister? Wow I'm going to have to explore!!

Why was there never a band called The Three Rogers? McGuinn (gtr/v), Waters (b/v) & Taylor (d/v)? 😂

All the represented songs that was judged by Roger ..."Tanked."

Interesting the last track was by Christian rock artist Mylon LeFevre, then Roger McGuinn also became a Christian

The late Laura Nyro was so beautiful. Someone I would have married in a second without hesitation. Not that I would have had a chance of course.

Roger is not my favorite Byrd - that being said, Roger is amazing and he is an incredible musician - far better than Crosby was. Roger, if you’re reading this - I love you, you are a genius and I wish you all the best .

Pretending Mc Guinn to spot Mick Abrahams was really far out

Were they really the Byrds by 1971? They had like about 30 personnel changes by that point. They would’ve been more appropriately named the Roger McGuinn band

That Top Ten is a bit lame apart from Brown Sugar. Actually the whole Top Thirty has but two good songs. Brown Sugar and Hot Love. That's a pretty good band name right there. Or an early seventies detective duo.

"Soft jangly bit"......too many jokes here.

They really shortchanged him. Odd selection of songs and I am not even sure representative of this great year of rock music. Arguably, Mick Abrahams was the best entry.

I mean, I love The Band but they absolutely butchered "This Wheel's On Fire". They turned a mysterious, menacing masterpiece into a goofy-sounding awkwardly-jaunty filler. This is all extra baffling given that Rick Danko is the one who composed it in the first place.

Loving the Indian moonlight mile

Nice Indian Moonlight Mile

That was not McGuinn and The Byrds that was the Rodger McGuinn and Clarence White project and he had no business at this point criticizing anyone else's music when Chestnut mare is the only thing he put out that was worth a damn really with those guys some of the live stuff was okay

Mc GUINN IS NOT THE BYRDS .. GENE CLARK IS THE SOUND OF THE BYRDS...