roaming on their mush. The Excelsiors would be highly collectable even if their sole 45 was crap (but then, it wouldn't be here!), because it's one of those damn-hard-to-come-by-I'll-pay-a-million-even-without-sleeve-records on the Dr. Scherer-label. (We're desperately searching for a copy of The Lightnings-7", for instance...). There were Scottish, Irish and English bands, making it bigger in Germany than back home. The Image came from Wales after failing to crack the jackpot with 3 singles on Parlophone. Rumor has it, that a young Dave Edmunds swung the axe, but neither their live appearance at "Beat Club", nor the pictures on the sleeves of their 2 German-only singles for Hit-Ton seem to prove it. After a disappointing attempt to beat Dave Dee & Co. on their very own territory, "Creation" was an unexpected move in the right direction and a brilliant fuzzy Freakbeat classic. But the mods with their stinky scooters didn't want to hear about pollution and Greenpeace came more than a decade too late. Right place, wrong time, so much about making it bigger...The Gentlemen are our obligatory (a nod is as good as a wink to a perforated cheese) contribution to save Swiss history from oblivion. Come on, boys. There must be someone who's able to do the job properly in a country where Beat is a common christian name. League 66 and their only claim to fame on APM shoud be familiar (see Vol. 9). Here's the chilling, thrilling, torturing, elegiac flip. Dig the slowness...