Mastermind — “Turn of the Head”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — April 15, 2026

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD

1,945) Mastermind — “Turn of the Head”

This gritty, riveting and absolutely brilliant psych exercise in apathy-shaming is “[s]till a full-blown mystery 20 years after it appeared on a U-SPACES disc. No info on location, personnel or date or label.” (U-Spaces Archives, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m63H8Afds) The single was the only release on the Mastermind label.(https://www.discogs.com/label/2673320-Mastermind-6)

“No one knows what happened here, happened here, happened here” — proclaimed four times in a row by a Greek chorus. “How many people do you think have wound up dead because the others have turned away their heads?” Could this song be about the notorious and era-defining 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese in New York City? Martin Gansberg wrote in his famous March 27, 1964 article in the New York Times that “For more than half an hour, 38 respectable, law-abiding citizens in Queens watched a killer stalk and stab a woman in three separate attacks in Kew Gardens. . . . Not one person telephoned the police during the assault . . . .” (https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1964/03/27/97175042.html?pageNumber=1)

Someone needs to solve this cold case. Who was the mastermind behind Mastermind?

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