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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.
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Episode 1 - Muddy Waters / Colosseum / Fotheringay
Release Date: 1970-11-28Guests: --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
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Episode 2 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer / Move / UFO / Warm Dust
Release Date: 1970-12-31Guests: --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
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Episode 3 - Joe Cocker / Iron Butterfly / Patto / Ashton Gardner & Dyke
Release Date: 1971-01-31Guests: --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
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Episode 4 - T. Rex / Ike & Tina Turner / Golden Earring
Release Date: 1971-02-27Guests: --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
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Episode 5 - Skid Row / Curved Air / Soft Machine
Release Date: 1971-03-27Guests: --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
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Episode 6 - Yes / Santana / Man / Popol Vuh
Release Date: 1971-04-24Guests: --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
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Episode 7 - Byrds / Kraftwerk / Rory Gallagher
Release Date: 1971-05-22Guests: --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
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Episode 8 - Fleetwood Mac / Mountain / Lucifer's Friend
Release Date: 1971-06-24Guests: --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
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Episode 9 - James Gang / Grease Band / Caravan
Release Date: 1971-07-24Guests: --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
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Episode 10 - Weather Report / Beggar's Opera
Release Date: 1971-08-09Guests: --Weather Report - ""Waterfall"" --Beggar's Opera - ""Raymond's Road"" --Can - ""Paperhouse"" --Emergency 60 minutes / Aired 3:45pm - 4:45pm, Monday
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Episode 11 - Canned Heat / Creedence Clearwater Revival / Deep Purple
Release Date: 1971-09-25Guests: --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
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Episode 12 - T. Rex / Alice Cooper / Richie Havens / Jethro Tull
Release Date: 1971-10-30Guests: --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