Balancing immediacy with the new trappings could succeed that April. Viz: The Move’s “I Can Hear the Grass Grow” and The Hollies’ gently wonky “On a Carousel”. If the mainstream was to be penetrated, ...
The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s “Purple Haze” was in running too then, as were Pink Floyd’s “Arnold Layne” and The Beatles’ “Penny Lane” / “Strawberry Fields Forever”. But other chart entries like ...