This was the first single The Spencer Davis Group released after Steve Winwood left.

The heavy cello prefigures early Electric Light Orchestra (their eponymous first album featured the cello a lot, as well as brass) but does anyone else hear in the introduction pre-echoes of Oasis? (“Free to be whatever I – “)

The Spencer Davis Group: Time Seller

This was the song that announced Traffic to the world. It’s always been one of my favourites from the sixties.

I remember one of my schoolmates raving about it. Then he discovered Traffic was the new group got together by Steve Winwood (on whom he had a bit of a downer) and went off it.

It was only with the later release of Hole In My Shoe that it actually became evident that Traffic wasn’t just Steve Winwood and a mellotron.

This is what would later be called a video – except in the sixties they were promotional films.

Traffic: Paper Sun