Beat-Club — Season 7
The show might be in German, but the music is still great!
About this season
Beat-Club was a German music program that ran from September 1965 to December 1972. It is notable for being the first German show to be based around popular music, and featured artists such as The Equals, Grateful Dead, Zager and Evans, Cream, Frank Zappa, The Rolling Stones, Gene Pitney, Ten Years After, Rory Gallagher, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Ike & Tina Turner, The Who, Black Sabbath, Harry Nilsson, David Bowie, The Bee Gees, The Beach Boys, Chicago, The Doors, Kraftwerk and Robin Gibb in its seven-year run. In 1972, it was replaced by Musikladen.
Episodes (12)
1. Muddy Waters / Colosseum / Fotheringay
Aired 28 November 1970 • 60 min
Guests: --Muddy Waters - ""Blow Wind Blow"" & ""Honey Bee"" --Colosseum - ""Take Me Back To Doomsday"" --Fotheringay - ""Too Much of Nothing"" (and possibly ""Black Lady"") --Stone the Crows - ""Danger Zone"" and ""Love 74"" 60 minutes / Aired 4:15pm - 5:15pm
2. Emerson, Lake & Palmer / Move / UFO / Warm Dust
Aired 31 December 1970 • 60 min
Guests: --UFO - ""Boogie"" --The Move (feat. Jeff Lynne) - ""When Alice Comes Back To The Farm"" and/or ""Brontosaurus"" --Emerson, Lake, & Palmer - ""Take A Pebble"" & ""Knife Edge"" --Warm Dust - ""Indian Ropeman"" 60 minutes / Aired 2:25pm - 3:25pm, Thursday
3. Joe Cocker / Iron Butterfly / Patto / Ashton Gardner & Dyke
Aired 31 January 1971 • 60 min
Guests: --Ashton, Gardner & Dyke - ""Resurrection Shuffle"" and ""Mister Freko"" --Iron Butterfly - ""Easy Rider (Let The Wind Pay The Way)"" and ""Butterfly Bleu"" --Joe Cocker --Patto - ""San Antone"" 60 minutes / Aired 3:45pm - 4:45pm
4. T. Rex / Ike & Tina Turner / Golden Earring
Aired 27 February 1971 • 60 min
Guests: --Ike and Tina Turner - ""I Want To Take You Higher,"" ""River Deep, Mountain High,"" ""Honky Tonk Woman"" & ""Proud Mary"" --Golden Earring - ""Holy, Holy Life"" --Atomic Rooster - ""Tomorrow Night"" --John Mayall U.S.A. Union Band - ""My Pretty Girl"" --T. Rex - ""Ride A White Swan"" and ""Jewel"" --Tom Paxton - ""Vietnam Song"" 60 minutes / Aired 3:45pm - 4:45pm
5. Skid Row / Curved Air / Soft Machine
Aired 27 March 1971 • 60 min
Guests: --Skid Row (feat. Gary Moore) - ""An Awful Lot Of Woman"" and ""Unco-op-Showband-Blues""/""Unco-Up Showband Blues"" --Curved Air - ""Vivaldi,"" ""Propositions"" and ""It Happened Today"" --Soft Machine - ""Virtually, Pt. 1,"" ""Virtually, Pt. 2"" and ""Virtually, Pt. 3"" 60 minutes / Aired 3:45pm - 4:45pm
6. Yes / Santana / Man / Popol Vuh
Aired 24 April 1971 • 60 min
Guests: --Yes - ""I've Seen All Good People"" & ""Yours Is No Disgrace"" --Man - ""Will The Christians Wait Five Minutes"" (and 1 other song) --Popol Vuh - ""Bettina"" (all synthesizer piece) --War Horse - ""I Can't Face It No More Without You --Santana 60 minutes / Aired 2:30pm - 3:30pm
7. Byrds / Kraftwerk / Rory Gallagher
Aired 22 May 1971 • 60 min
Guests: --Kraftwerk - ""Rückstoss-Gondoliere"" (aka ""Ruckzuck"") --The Byrds - ""Eight Miles High,"" ""Chestnut Mare"" & ""Black Mountain Rag"" (instrumental) --Rory Gallagher - ""Laundromat"" & ""Sinner Boy"" 60 minutes / Aired 2:30pm - 3:30pm Additional guest(?) --Mountain
8. Fleetwood Mac / Mountain / Lucifer's Friend
Aired 24 June 1971 • 60 min
Guests: --Fleetwood Mac - ""Dragonfly"" --Mountain - ""Don't Look Around"" --Lucifer's Friend - ""Ride the Sky"" --Warhorse - ""Ritual"" --Frumpy (feat. Inga Rumpf) - ""Take Care Of Illusion"" 60 minutes / Aired 3:45pm - 4:45pm, Thursday
9. James Gang / Grease Band / Caravan
Aired 24 July 1971 • 60 min
Guests: --James Gang - ""Walk Away"" --Grease Band - ""Let It Be Gone"" --Caravan - ""Golf Girl"" --Mick Abrahams Band - ""Greyhound Bus"" and ""Why Do You Do Me This Way"" --Osibisa - ""Phallus C"" --Etcetera - ""Raga, Lady, Blue, Thursday, Morn., Sunrise"" 60 minutes / Aired 3:45pm - 4:45pm
10. Weather Report / Beggar's Opera
Aired 9 August 1971 • 60 min
Guests: --Weather Report - ""Waterfall"" --Beggar's Opera - ""Raymond's Road"" --Can - ""Paperhouse"" --Emergency 60 minutes / Aired 3:45pm - 4:45pm, Monday
11. Canned Heat / Creedence Clearwater Revival / Deep Purple
Aired 25 September 1971 • 60 min
Guests: --Canned Heat - ""A Long Way From L.A."" & ""Big City Woman"" --If - ""Forgotten Roads"" --Family - ""Holding The Compass"" --Curved Air - ""Back Street Love"" --Deep Purple - ""No, No, No"" --Creedence Clearwater Revival - ""Sweet Hitch Hiker"" --Birth Control - ""The Work Is Done"" Additional guest? --Jefferson Airplane 60 minutes / Aired 3:45pm - 4:45pm
12. T. Rex / Alice Cooper / Richie Havens / Jethro Tull
Aired 30 October 1971 • 60 min
Guests: --T.Rex - ""Electric Warrior,"" ""Jeepster"" & ""Life's A Gas"" --Richie Havens - ""Here Comes the Sun"" --Alice Cooper - ""Under My Wheels"" --Jethro Tull - ""Life Is A Long Song"" --Procol Harum - ""In the Wee Small Hours Of Sixpence"" --Champion Jack Dupree - ""I'm Going To Bremen To Get On The Radio"" --Stoneground - ""An Added Attraction"" --Passport (featuring Klaus Doldinger) - ""Uranus"" 60 minutes / Aired 3:45pm - 4:45pm