"We'll Cut Out Raving"

 

I think they are referring to the 'rave-up', an excitingly frenzied feature of their song performances. The feature says are they going to tone down their act for America - I wonder why? 

Earlier post on the 1960s Brit use of the words 'rave', 'raver', 'raving'

The Ravers

 

I love this whole other meaning the word "raver" had in the 1960s - basically a sexually wild 'n 'free young woman

The solicitous, condescending tones of the interviewer in this Man Alive report are something else 

Simon Dupree and the Big Sound was the pop-psch band of Ray Shulman (A.R. Kane producer / mentor ) and his brothers  - which then turned into the ultra-prog outfit Gentle Giant

This was SD & the BS's big hit

The Associates, under an alias - 39 Lyon Street -  covered it