When a very young Peter Frampton joined The Herd, the group with whom he made his name, they had just been dropped by Parlophone, but simultaneously brought in composers Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley, who had written a barrowload of hits for Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich and signed up to Fontana. The songs concocted for the Herd were of a different order to those hits though. Elements of psychedelia and glimmerings of prog rock are here.

The Herd: From the Underworld

The Easybeats had a few more singles after Friday On My Mind but didn’t trouble the British charts overmuch.

The Music Goes Round My Head wasn’t a big hit (if it was a hit at all.)

It did however bear a resemblance to a slightly later hit by the group which launched Peter Frampton (the Face of 1968 as I recall) into the world, The Herd.

The Easybeats: The Music Goes Round My Head

The Herd: I Don’t Want Our Loving To Die