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Brian Auger's Trinity

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(This page covers Peel session bands Brian Auger’s Trinity and Brian Auger's Oblivion Express. See also Julie Driscoll.)
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Brian Auger and the Trinity were a British band led by keyboardist Brian Auger. His duet with Julie Driscoll, the Bob Dylan-penned ‘This Wheel's on Fire’, was a number 5 hit on the 1968 UK Singles Chart. Their joint album, ‘Open’, billed as Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity, reached number 12 in the UK Albums Chart the same year.[1]

In 1970, Auger formed the jazz fusion ensemble Brian Auger's Oblivion Express shortly after abandoning the abortive "Wassenaar Arrangement" jazz rock commune in a small suburb of The Hague.

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Before Trinity, Auger and Driscoll had performed together in Steampacket, with Long John Baldry, Rod Stewart and others. When the Trinity became famous, it was the photogenic Driscoll, dubbed "the face of 1968", who attracted most media attention, although Auger's keyboard skills made him a Melody Maker favourite, being interviewed regularly in the paper and featuring in its musical instrument supplements. In a couple of MM interviews, Auger praised Peel as the only DJ willing to play records by his group, and by similar bands on the UK scene.

After Julie Driscoll left, Brian Auger was able to continue with the Trinity and Peel introduced them on a 1970 concert programme. The DJ also had Auger's later band, Oblivion Express, in session in 1972 after introducing them on a Radio 1 concert show in the previous year. .

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Brian Auger's Trinity
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Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger - BBC Sessions 1968

Three sessions only, all with Julie Driscoll. No known commercial release. Driscoll also one session with Working Week (1984).

1. Recorded 1967-11-10 (as Brian Auger with Julie Driscoll and the Trinity). First broadcast 19 November 1967.

  • A Kind Of Love-in / Save Me / Shadows Of You / Isola Na Tale / Goodbye Jungle Telegraph

2. Recorded 1968-04-08. First broadcast 14 April 1968.

  • Why (Am I Treated So Bad?) / A Day In The Life / This Wheel’s On Fire / Inside Of Him / Calze Rosse

3. Recorded 1968-10-07. First broadcast 27 October 1968.

  • Old Jim Crow / I'm Not Talkin' / Road to Cairo / Lonesome Hobo
Brian Auger's Oblivion Express

1. Recorded 1972-05-16. First broadcast 09 June 1972.

  • Somebody Help Us / Blind Man / Just Me Just You

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Brian Auger's Trinity
  1. Tropic of Capricorn
  2. Finally Found You Out
  3. Maiden Voyage
  4. I Want To Take You Higher
  5. Just You Just Me
  6. Listen Here
Brian Auger's Oblivion Express
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