Love

While finding only modest success on the music charts, Love would come to be praised by critics as one of the finest and most important American rock groups of their era. Their third album Forever Changes (1967) is generally regarded as their masterpiece....(read more at Wikipedia)
 * Love was an American rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were led by singer/songwriter Arthur Lee and lead guitarist Johnny Echols. One of the first racially diverse American pop bands, their music reflected different influences, combining elements of rock and roll, garage rock, folk and psychedelia.

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Love's early singles and first LP were issued in 1966 and although they did not reach high chart positions on the U.S. national charts, the band became very popular in Southern California. They played the clubs in Los Angeles's Sunset Strip, which Peel frequented, and he played their records on KMEN - and later related on one Perfumed Garden how he had obtained his copy of the "Da Capo" LP, by surreptitiously removing it from a pile of new records which he and a fellow KMEN DJ had obtained for the station by doing the rounds of the Los Angeles record companies. Love's singles, "My Little Red Book" and "Seven and Seven Is", also received airplay on the pirate radio stations Radio London and Radio Caroline and this, along with advertising from the newly-opened London office of Elektra Records, helped establish the band's reputation in the UK. They were always more highly regarded in Britain than in the US (where their erratic behaviour won them few friends) and although Peel was responsible for much of this, he was not the only DJ to play their records. As he points out on the final Perfumed Garden, it was Kenny Everett who first played "The Castle" on Radio London; it became Peel's favourite track from the "Da Capo" LP and was eventually issued in the UK as a single.

Love's cult status was based on their first three albums, but Peel continued to play new releases by the band and by their leader Arthur Lee during the 1970s.

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