Various Artists - Magic In The Air Three; 1965-1971 The Birth Of Cool Britannia - 3CD Box

From the original authors behind the landmark Piccadilly Sunshine series and other evolutionary concepts!... Magic In The Air attempts to capture a wider perspective of the cultural revolution unfolding in Britain during the 1960s, while embracing the adolescent mindset at work at the dawn of an unprecedented era in modern culture. With the advent of the fab four the future of pop was inevitable but not predictable, as mono evolved into stereo and television went technicolour. In some ways, this is a recorded history of that evolution, a rapid process that saw matching suits, the twist and Tory party scandals swept away by a younger, more progressive element when the essentials were long hair, kaftans, Commer vans and police corruption. 

Magic In The Air Three charts the fascinating progress of (a kind of) popular music that has never really gone away. Housed in an intimate clam-shell box, a 3 CD set with analytical liners, discographies and timeline photographs inside a whopping 66 page perfect bound book, alongside a wealth of exceedingly good songs - 67 in all!

Tracks: Disc 1: 1. World Of Oz - Peter's Birthday (Black and White Rainbows) / 2. The Herd - Something Strange / 3. The Fox - Mr Blank / 4. The Five Day Week Straw People - Five Day Week Straw People / 5. Fleur De Lys - One Girl City / 6. The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Humanoid Boogie / 7. Velvett Fogg - Wizard Of Gobsolod / 8. Woody Kern - Gramophone Man / 9. Fat Mattress - Walking Through A Garden / 10. Harsh Reality - Girl Of My Dreams / 11. The Shame - Don't Go Away Little Girl / 12. Jimmy Campbell - Michaelangelo / 13. Peter Collins - The Sad Story Of Bad Red Rory / 14. Chris Britton - Maybe Time Will Change You / 15. World Of Oz - Like A Tear / 16. Flaming Youth - Changes / 17. Aardvark - Once Upon A Hill / 18. The Gun - Drown Yourself In The River / 19. The Liverpool Scene - Son / 20. Black Widow - An Afterthought / 21. Raw Material - Destruction Of America / 22. Ancient Grease - Time To Die / 23. Ora - Seashore. Disc 2: 1. Fire - Magic Shoes / 2. The Gun - Rat Race / 3. The Creation - For All That I Am / 4. Now - Marcia / 5. Magic Mixture - New Man / 6. Rainbow Ffolly - Sun Sing / 7. The Scaffold - Buttons Of Your Mind / 8. Eire Apparent - Someone Is Sure To (Want You) / 9. The Kinetic - Time Of Season / 10. Sun Dragon - I Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star / 11. Plastic Penny - Give Me Money / 12. The Plague - Looking For The Sun / 13. The Scaffold - Please Sorry / 14. Rainbow Ffolly - The Sighing Game / 15. Pandamonium - Season Of The Witch / 16. Ayshea - Flowers Are Mine / 17. Velvett Fogg - Lady Caroline / 18. Samson - Saturn / 19. Blossom Toes - Postcard / 20. Love Affair - So Sorry / 21. Sun Dragon - Love Minus Zero / 22. Eyes Of Blue - Yesterday / 23. Peter Collins - The Party. Disc 3: 1. Pesky Gee! - Peace Of Mind / 2. Savoy Brown - I'm Tired / 3. The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - What Do You Do / 4. Orange Bicycle - Want To B-side / 5. Affinity - I Am The Walrus / 6. Fortes Mentum - Mr. Partridge Passed Away Today / 7. The Strawbs - That Which Once Was Mine / 8. Ram John Holder - Ladbroke Grove Blues / 9. Ashkan - Take This Chain / 10. Sam Gopal - Grass / 11. Jasper - Cuttin' Out / 12. Fat Mattress - Little Girl In White / 13. Love Sculpture - Why (How Now) / 14. Love Affair - Could I Be Dreaming / 15. The Web - Harold Dubbleyew / 16. Sunforest - Where Are You / 17. Methuselah - High In The Tower of Coombe / 18. Bulldog Breed - Eileen's Haberdashery Store / 19. The Elastic Band - Crabtree Farm / 20. Pussy - Everybody's Song / 21. Synanthesia - Fates