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The 50 Funkiest Records Ever Made!!</a></p> <p>Guide by Various Writers, <i>Rock&#39;s Backpages</i>, June 2001</p> <p class="excerpt">ONCE UPON a time there was Funk. THE Funk. The Rhythm of the One. Now it's all four-on-the-floor hard-house and techy trance, dance-muzik devoid of ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <p><a href="/Library/Article/hunter-thompson-pays-a-visit-to-babylon">Hunter Thompson Pays a Visit to Babylon</a></p> <p>Retrospective by Bill Wasserzieher, <i>Rock&#39;s Backpages</i>, 2015</p> <p class="excerpt">HUNTER THOMPSON'S SUICIDE ten years ago this month should not have come as a surprise. His dark tales about riding with a biker gang, Mace-spraying ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <p><a href="/Library/Article/is-acids-mr-big-really-all-bad">Is Acid's Mr Big Really All Bad? </a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Simon Witter, <i>Sky</i>, November 1989</p> <p class="excerpt">Twenty-three-year-old gambler and whiz-kid entrepreneur Tony Colston-Hayter has been called Acid's Mr Big, Acid's Mr Fixit and The Acid King by the tabloid press because ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <p><a href="/Library/Article/music-in-lockdown">Music in lockdown</a></p> <p>Report by Rob Hughes, <i>Uncut</i>, January 2021</p> <p class="excerpt">WHILE IT'S been a highly challenging year for the music industry &ndash; particularly in terms of cancelled tours, venue closures and a disrupted retail market ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-ipod-rise-of-the-machines">The iPod: Rise of the Machines</a></p> <p>Report by Edward Helmore, <i>Q</i>, March 2005</p> <p class="excerpt">This is the untold story of Apple's iPod &mdash; the gadget that ate the world and saved the music industry. We're all pod people now. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <p><a href="/Library/Article/woodstock-peace-mecca">Woodstock: Peace Mecca</a></p> <p>Report by Danny Goldberg, <i>Billboard</i>, 30 August 1969</p> <p class="excerpt">BETHEL, N.Y. &ndash; About 400,000 rock fans gave peace a chance Aug. 15-18, and it worked. For them and the overwhelmed residents of this Catskills ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="A"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/abba-oompah">Abba: Oompah?</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Mick Farren, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 24 April 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">What&#146;s squeaky-clean, exquisitely produced, Scandinavian and goes OOMPAH? The answer to the riddle is ABBA ...and here&#146;s MICK FARREN to ask it. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="A"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/abc-romancing-tongue-in-chic">ABC: Romancing Tongue In Chic</a></p> <p>Interview by Gavin Martin, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 6 March 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">FOLLOWING IN the footsteps of Barbara Windsor, The Professionals' Martin Shaw and Crossroads' Benny Hawkins ABC are tonight making a Public Appearance at Sheffield's Top ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="A"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/acdc">AC/DC</a></p> <p>Interview by Martin Aston, <i>Auckland Star</i>, 1990</p> <p class="excerpt">"Just what are the East Germans who flock across the crumbled Berlin Wall spending their money on? While champagne and fresh fruit were once hot ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="A"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/acdc-marquee-london">AC/DC: Marquee, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Harry Doherty, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 21 August 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">THOSE PUZZLED by the Status Quo phenomenon should beware. AC/DC, from the same rock family, could wreak similar havoc, but they will only realise their ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="A"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/ace-strong-on-how-long">Ace Strong on ‘How Long’</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, <i>Rolling Stone</i>, 5 June 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">THOUGH IT SOUNDS like a song about a stale love affair, &#145;How Long&#146; is the story of an English band struggling to stay together. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="A"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/adele-and-duffy-are-products-of-the-age-of-ix-factori">Adele, Duffy: Adele and Duffy are products of the age of <i>X Factor</i></a></p> <p>Comment by John Aizlewood, <i>The Guardian</i>, 4 January 2008</p> <p class="excerpt">You can thank Simon Cowell for the results of the BBC's The Sound of 2008 poll. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="A"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/aerosmith-pump">Aerosmith: <i>Pump</i></a></p> <p>Review by Robert Sandall, <i>Q</i>, October 1989</p> <p class="excerpt">NOW ON to their tenth album and with sales of the previous nine topping 25 million in the States, Aerosmith are still just about unknown ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="A"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/aerosmith-rocks">Aerosmith: <i>Rocks</i></a></p> <p>Review by Max Bell, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 3 July 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">AEROSMITH HAVE GOT the whole situation psyched. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="A"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/aerosmith-this-way-to-insanity">Aerosmith: This Way to Insanity</a></p> <p>Retrospective and Interview by Ian Fortnam, <i>Kerrang!</i>, October 1998</p> <p class="excerpt">"WHEN THE moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore." A rich and fruity baritone croons impressively from room 523 of the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="A"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/allman-brothers-reform-for-lp-tour">Allman Brothers Band: Allman Brothers Reform For LP, Tour</a></p> <p>Report by Richard Wootton, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 9 September 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">THE FOUR SURVIVING members of the original Allman Brothers Band – Gregg Allman, Dickie Betts, Butch Trucks and Jai Johanny Johanson – have reformed for ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="A"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/animal-tracks---newcastles-brand-of-powerhouse-blues">The Animals: Animal Tracks - Newcastle's Brand Of Powerhouse Blues</a></p> <p>Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, <i>The History of Rock</i>, 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">In 1963, the northern beat boom was being answered further south by a trend, centred on London, towards a more aggressive R&B: the sort of ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="A"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/animals-sure-were-really-animals">The Animals: Animals: Sure, We're Really Animals!</a></p> <p>Interview by Keith Altham, <i>New Musical Express Summer Special</i>, Summer 1966</p> <p class="excerpt">THE TITLE 'ANIMALS' was given to the group by Radio Caroline chief Ronan O'Reilly, who felt it summed up the group's wild attitude to rhythm-and-blues ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="A"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/adam-ant-metamorphosis-of-a-narc">Adam & The Ants: Adam Ant: Metamorphosis of a Narc</a></p> <p>Interview by Mat Snow, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 13 July 1985</p> <p class="excerpt">"I DON'T THINK I'm an intelligent person. But I think I have a common sense that allows me to have an instinct about what people ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="A"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/whip-in-my-valise-adam-and-the-ants">Adam & The Ants: Whip In My Valise: Adam and the Ants</a></p> <p>Comment by Vivien Goldman, <i>Sounds</i>, 10 December 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">The angel Gabriel sent me to give you a little bit of sympathy...('Plastic Surgery') ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="A"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/argent-first-get-yourself-on-the-telly">Argent: First Get Yourself On The Telly!</a></p> <p>Interview by Steve Turner, <i>Cream</i>, June 1972</p> <p class="excerpt">WHATEVER GETS SAID about hit singles and Top Of The Pops, there's no denying that they still form the most powerful tonic that a British ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="A"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/joan-armatrading-ijoan-armatradingi-am">Joan Armatrading: <I>Joan Armatrading</I> (A&M)*****</a></p> <p>Review by Phil Sutcliffe, <i>Sounds</i>, 31 July 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">THE RECORD deck grunts and clicks, the turntable sidles to a halt and polysyllabic analysis should be flowing from the critic's pen but I'd just ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="A"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/joan-armatrading-front-door-woman">Joan Armatrading: Front Door Woman</a></p> <p>Interview by Richard Cook, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 9 April 1983</p> <p class="excerpt">DO YOU believe in romance? ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="A"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-associates-the-affectionate-punch">The Associates: <i>The Affectionate Punch</i></a></p> <p>Review by Paul Morley, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 16 August 1980</p> <p class="excerpt">RUMOURS have been dripping down from Scotland about a diverse horde of determined post Skids/S. Minds/Scars groups all ready to shift our attention. Positive Noise, ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="A"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/average-white-band-2">Average White Band</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 8 March 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">AIN'T IT just like the February sunshine to play tricks with the mind? Here I am, sat aboard the Long Island Railroad Express, rattling out ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-b-52s-time-capsule-songs-for-a-future-generation">The B-52s: <i>Time Capsule: Songs For A Future Generation</i></a></p> <p>Review by David Stubbs, <i>Uncut</i>, August 1998</p> <p class="excerpt">HISTORY OF Athens perfect popsters with two new tracks. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/bad-company--bad-company">Bad Company: <i> Bad Company</i></a></p> <p>Review by Bud Scoppa, <i>Rolling Stone</i>, 29 August 1974</p> <p class="excerpt">ON ITS FIRST album, Bad Company – led by former Free singer Paul Rodgers and original Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs – resembles Free ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/bad-company-desolation-angels-have-gastric-juices-too-">Bad Company: Desolation Angels Have Gastric Juices, Too </a></p> <p>Interview by Penny Valentine, <i>Creem</i>, June 1979</p> <p class="excerpt">Bad Company flee Screaming From Reality ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/joan-baez---diamonds-and-rust">Joan Baez - <i>Diamonds and Rust</i></a></p> <p>Review by Bob Woffinden, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 28 June 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">THIS ALBUM REPRESENTS Joan Baez's volte-face; after the years of diatribe and tireless dissemination of political views by every available channel, her records included, she's ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/ginger-baker">Cream, Ginger Baker: Ginger Baker</a></p> <p>Retrospective by Chris Welch, <i>The History of Rock</i>, 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">PETER 'GINGER' BAKER had an enormous and profound effect on the course of rock drumming when his playing and personality first began to make an ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-band-a-melody-maker-band-breakdown">The Band: A <i>Melody Maker</i> Band Breakdown</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Richard Williams, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 29 May 1971</p> <p class="excerpt">FEW ROCK AND ROLL concerts can have been so eagerly awaited as those which The Band are due to play at London's Royal Albert Hall ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/inside-the-bay-city-rollers-camp">The Bay City Rollers: Inside the Bay City Rollers' Camp</a></p> <p>Interview by Caroline Coon, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 13 September 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">"WHEN ANYONE slates us, you can bet they&#146;ve never heard our own stuff – Derek is a brilliant drummer" ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-beach-boys-i-wanna-be-where-the-boys-are">The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson: The Beach Boys: I Wanna Be Where The Boys Are</a></p> <p>Interview by Vivien Goldman, <i>Sounds</i>, 13 August 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">"SOME KAHLUA, we need a coupla pitchers of milk..." "Send up a bottle of milk. O.K., cartons. Four cartons. And some honey. And a coffee. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-beatles-isgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-bandi">The Beatles: <I>Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band</I></a></p> <p>Review by Charles Shaar Murray, <i>Q</i>, July 1987</p> <p class="excerpt">AND ONCE THE tumult and the shouting have died, and life returns to something resembling normality... Sgt. Pepper remains a central pillar of the mythology ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/what-causes-beatlemania">The Beatles: What Causes Beatlemania?</a></p> <p>Report by Eden, <i>KRLA Beat</i>, 9 October 1965</p> <p class="excerpt">YOU'VE SEEN it hundreds of times before &mdash; in mob scenes at airports, in screaming crowds of fans at concerts, even in one's and two's ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/beck-im-trying-to-get-to-this-place-where-you-can-stand-outside-the-parameters-of-whats-possible">Beck: “I’m trying to get to this place where you can stand outside the parameters of what’s possible.”</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Paul Moody, <i>Dazed &amp; Confused</i>, 1996</p> <p class="excerpt">BECK&#146;S OFFBEAT HUMOUR and devil-may-care demeanour usually leaves journalists baffled, and interviews that reveal very little. But this time Beck is unafraid to drop his ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/jeff-beck-ijeff-beck-groupi">Jeff Beck: <I>Jeff Beck Group</I></a></p> <p>Review by Charles Shaar Murray, <i>Oz</i>, July 1972</p> <p class="excerpt">SINCE HIS LAST album, Beck has brought in an outside producer, Steve Cropper, no less. Unlike Rough and Ready, this one features some real songs, ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-bees-gees-from-down-under-to-disco">The Bee Gees: The Bees Gees: From Down Under To Disco</a></p> <p>Profile by Steve Turner, <i>The History of Rock</i>, 1984</p> <p class="excerpt">SINCE ENTERING POP MUSIC in the Fifties, the Bees Gees have had three careers on three continents, each more successful than its predecessor. The first ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/chuck-berry-cant-be-followed">Chuck Berry Can't Be Followed</a></p> <p>Profile by Charlie Gillett, <i>The Alternative</i>, 1 October 1970</p> <p class="excerpt">AT THE TIME of his greatest popularity, 1955-59, there were several other singers who had more hits, were more often copied, and commanded higher fees ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/big-brother-and-the-holding-company-cheap-thrills-cbs-kcs-9700">Big Brother & The Holding Company, Janis Joplin: Big Brother And The Holding Company: <i>Cheap Thrills</i> (CBS KCS 9700)</a></p> <p>Review by Simon Frith, <i>Let It Rock</i>, April 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">JANIS JOPLIN was an awkward Texan girl with a rough voice who became one of the major idols of the sixties 'counter culture'. Why? ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/big-star-ithe-best-of-big-stari">Big Star: <I>The Best of Big Star</I></a></p> <p>Review by Paul Lester, <i>Uncut</i>, January 2000</p> <p class="excerpt">Fourteen cuts from troubled pop-rack demigods' first two LPs, remastered, at mid-price ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-big-star-story-take-4">Big Star: The Big Star Story, Take 4</a></p> <p>Retrospective by Max Bell, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 15 July 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">THE BIG STAR story seems to have taken up a considerable part of my writing life. This is the fourth time in three years that ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/40-years-of-ardent">Big Star, Booker T & The MGs, Alex Chilton, Jim Dickinson, Isaac Hayes, The Raconteurs, The Replacements, The Staple Singers, ZZ Top: 40 Years of Ardent</a></p> <p>Retrospective and Interview by Andria Lisle, <i>Memphis Flyer</i>, 26 October 2006</p> <p class="excerpt">The little recording studio on Madison has played a big part in Memphis music history. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-birthday-partythe-virgin-prunes-ace-cinema-brixton">The Birthday Party, The Virgin Prunes: The Birthday Party/The Virgin Prunes: Ace Cinema, Brixton</a></p> <p>Live Review by Mat Snow, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 4 December 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">WITH CHANNEL 4's cameras peering over their shoulders, both sets of Wild Men of Pop felt a little inhibited. Mindful of television's cold, reducing stare, ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/bjrk-">Björk </a></p> <p>Interview by Ben Thompson, <i>ES</i>, September 2000</p> <p class="excerpt">THE VIEW FROM the roof garden of Bj&ouml;rk's penthouse suite at New York's elegant Soho Grand hotel is almost too much to take in at ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-black-crowes-amorica">The Black Crowes: <i>Amorica</i></a></p> <p>Review by Ben Thompson, <i>MOJO</i>, December 1994</p> <p class="excerpt">FORBIDDEN PLEASURES ARE GETTING harder to find. What price true rebel music when disco, metal, mid-'70s pop and all the grizzled outlaws of yesteryear are ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/jimmy-page-and-the-black-crowes-live-at-the-greek-spv">The Black Crowes, Jimmy Page: Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes: <i>Live At The Greek </i>(SPV)</a></p> <p>Review by Mat Snow, <i>MOJO</i>, September 2000</p> <p class="excerpt">Recorded live in October&#146;99, a scorching blues-rock hit-packed double album like they used to make &#145;em. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/black-flag-imy-wari">Black Flag: <I>My War</I></a></p> <p>Review by Roy Trakin, <i>Creem</i>, July 1984</p> <p class="excerpt">WHAT HAPPENS to hardcore bands when they get old? They turn into Hawkwinds, that's what. Redondo Beach's finest have let their skinheads grow out and ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/black-sabbath-its-all-word-of-foot">Black Sabbath: It's All Word Of Foot</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Rob Partridge, <i>Record Mirror</i>, 3 October 1970</p> <p class="excerpt">THE BLACK SABBATH album Paranoid, slipped into your record shops a couple of weeks ago. No ballyhoo. The release was as quiet as it was ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/black-sabbathgirlschool--hammersmith-odeon-london">Black Sabbath, Girlschool: Black Sabbath/Girlschool: Hammersmith Odeon, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Pete Makowski, <i>Sounds</i>, 24 May 1980</p> <p class="excerpt">THE SABS are back. And after a series of false starts to their British tour due to drummer Bill Ward contracting viral pneumonia they are ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/ozzfest-97">Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne: Ozzfest ‘97</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Edward Helmore, <i>unpublished</i>, 1997</p> <p class="excerpt">THE UNEARTHLY NOISE that barrels over the pines and down Alpine Valley in rural Wisconsin last summer was a clear signal that the natural order ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/two-steps-from-the-blues-the-gospel-according-to-bobby-blue-bland">Bobby "Blue" Bland: Two Steps from the Blues: The Gospel According to Bobby 'Blue' Bland</a></p> <p>Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, <i>From a Whisper to a Scream (Fontana Books)</i>, 1991</p> <p class="excerpt">WHEN HOWLIN' WOLF left Memphis for Chicago in late 1952, Sun Records' Sam Phillips was left with a crop of younger blues singers who in ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-blasters-i-non-fictioni-slash">The Blasters: <I> Non-Fiction</I> (Slash)</a></p> <p>Review by Cynthia Rose, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 16 July 1983</p> <p class="excerpt">OVER THE past three years, white American music&#146;s been getting a real recharge from several California couples: John Doe and Exene Cervenka of X, Chip ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/blondie-all-aboard-for-funtime">Blondie: All Aboard For Funtime!</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Kris Needs, <i>ZigZag</i>, August 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">FUN! IT'S A word which keeps coming back when you try and describe Blondie – live or on record. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/debbie-harry-a-chat-with-the-punk-pop-queen">Blondie, Debbie Harry: Debbie Harry: A Chat with the Punk Pop Queen!</a></p> <p>Interview by Barney Hoskyns, <i>Daily Express</i>, 2000</p> <p class="excerpt">WHAT A difference a year makes. The last time I spoke with Debbie Harry she was gearing up for the release of the first Blondie ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/paul-buchanan-phones-home">The Blue Nile: Paul Buchanan Phones Home</a></p> <p>Interview by Barney Hoskyns, <i>MOJO</i>, March 1995</p> <p class="excerpt">WE'VE BEEN IN ALL sorts of places for a couple of years, just meandering around the world on a fairly frugal basis &#150; America, Italy, ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/blue-oyster-cult-some-enchanted-evening">Blue Oyster Cult: <i>Some Enchanted Evening</i></a></p> <p>Review by Sandy Robertson, <i>Sounds</i>, 30 September 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">IT COULD be just my fevered imagination running away with me, but right now it seems that Sandy Pearlman (wily old fox and Cult behind-the-scenes ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/blue-oyster-cult-ityranny-and-mutationi">Blue Oyster Cult: <I>Tyranny and Mutation</I></a></p> <p>Review by Metal Mike Saunders, <i>Phonograph Record</i>, April 1973</p> <p class="excerpt">YOU MIGHT remember my brief mention of Blue Oyster Cult's new album in the heavy metal piece. That was after only one listen, however, and ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/blue-oyster-cult-night-of-the-locusts">Blue Oyster Cult: Night Of The Locusts</a></p> <p>Interview by Max Bell, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 13 September 1980</p> <p class="excerpt">THE GOLDEN AGE of hotrod and dragster racing is over but the USA is still littered with its mythology. One such relic is Lebanon Valley ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/blur-oasis-battle-of-the-bands--old-turf-new-combatants">Blur, Oasis: Battle of the Bands — Old Turf, New Combatants</a></p> <p>Overview by Simon Reynolds, <i>The New York Times</i>, 22 October 1995</p> <p class="excerpt">RIGHT NOW, the British music scene is convulsed with patriotic fervor. For the first time in over a decade, young British guitar bands are penetrating ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/marc-bolan-top-of-the-guitar-parade">Marc Bolan, T. Rex: Marc Bolan: Top of the Guitar Parade</a></p> <p>Guide by Steve Turner, <i>Beat Instrumental</i>, June 1972</p> <p class="excerpt">BEHIND EVERY success story there&#146;s a team of guitars. Marc Bolan decided to give his chosen few a taste of the publicity he&#146;s been getting ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-cosmic-dancer-the-short-brilliant-ride-of-marc-bolan-">Marc Bolan, T. Rex: The Cosmic Dancer: The Short, Brilliant Ride of Marc Bolan </a></p> <p>Retrospective by Nicky Parade, <i>Rock&#39;s Backpages</i>, September 2001</p> <p class="excerpt">IT IS LONDON, JANUARY 1970. A new pop decade has begun, and two of its budding stars are huddled together at the Trident recording studio, ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/ithe-boomtown-ratsi-ensign-">Boomtown Rats: <I>The Boomtown Rats</I> (Ensign) </a></p> <p>Review by Harry Doherty, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 27 August 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">OH CHRIST, what will we label them? Rock 'n' Roll, Rhythm & Blues, Pop/New Wave? All tags apply. But no one alone totally fits the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/david-bowie-ilodgeri">David Bowie: <I>Lodger</I></a></p> <p>Review by Jon Savage, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 26 May 1979</p> <p class="excerpt">ANOTHER YEAR, another record. Like Burroughs, David Jones, rootless, looks for unconventional commitment: Burroughs found it in junk, control-systems and predatory homosexuality; Jones found it ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/david-bowie-aladdin-scotland">David Bowie: Aladdin Scotland</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, <i>Disc</i>, 26 May 1973</p> <p class="excerpt">RAY FOX-CUMMING WATCHES THAT MAN STUN THE SCOTS IN ABERDEEN ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/fifty-ways-to-love-your-bowie-half-a-ton-of-fave-daves">David Bowie: Fifty Ways To Love Your Bowie: Half a Ton of Fave Daves</a></p> <p>Guide by William Higham, <i>Rock&#39;s Backpages</i>, October 2002</p> <p class="excerpt">WITH THE Bard of Beckenham on a critical high right now (and yes, new album Heathen IS his best in years), it seems an opportune ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/how-david-bowie-brian-eno-revolutionized-rock-on-ilowi">David Bowie: How David Bowie, Brian Eno Revolutionized Rock on <i>Low</i></a></p> <p>Retrospective by Will Hermes, <i>Rolling Stone Online</i>, 13 January 2017</p> <p class="excerpt">Singer-songwriter, producer devised 'a new musical language' in Berlin with help from Tony Visconti ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/boy-george-the-boy-who-fell-from-grace">Boy George: The Boy Who Fell From Grace</a></p> <p>Interview by Tom Hibbert, <i>Q</i>, September 1987</p> <p class="excerpt">THE PRESS OFFICER has pleaded, in the nicest possible way. "You're not going to ask him about drugs, are you?" Maybe. Maybe not. In the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/culture-club-and-george">Boy George, Culture Club: Culture Club and George</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Dave Rimmer, <i>Smash Hits</i>, 23 December 1983</p> <p class="excerpt">A TYPICAL SUNDAY afternoon in New York's Central Park. Horse drawn carriages sweep by full of tourists. Armies of joggers with headphones stream down every ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/billy-braggs-brave-new-england">Billy Bragg's Brave New England</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Mark Sinker, <i>The Observer</i>, 27 November 1988</p> <p class="excerpt">2005 comment: Neil Spencer didn&#146;t rate me or want to use me, according to Jon Savage – who told him (Sav told me) not to ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/james-brown-valentines-park-ilford">James Brown, Valentines Park, Ilford</a></p> <p>Live Review by Andy Gill, <i>MOJO</i>, August 1994</p> <p class="excerpt">TEN MINUTES BEFORE JAMES BROWN IS DUE TO APPEAR ON AN English stage for the first time since his release from prison, there is an ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-classic-soul-of-james-brown">James Brown: The Classic Soul of James Brown</a></p> <p>Guide by Cliff White, <i>Let It Rock</i>, August 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">It's White on Black. Cliff White examines the output of the sex machine inch by inch. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/jackson-browne-iim-alivei">Jackson Browne: <I>I'm Alive</I></a></p> <p>Review by Mick Houghton, <i>MOJO</i>, December 1993</p> <p class="excerpt">HAS TIME STOOD STILL? Fifteen years on and Jackson Browne's running on empty again. He's out of love yet surviving, holding himself together but now ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/jacksons-song-for-everyman">Jackson Browne: Jackson's Song For Everyman</a></p> <p>Interview by Chris Charlesworth, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 17 November 1973</p> <p class="excerpt">JACKSON Browne arrived half an hour late. He'd been figuring out how to repair the plumbing at his house, and had finally succeeded in getting ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/laura-nyro-lauras-london-triumph">Jackson Browne, Laura Nyro: Laura Nyro: Laura's London Triumph</a></p> <p>Live Review by Richard Williams, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 13 February 1971</p> <p class="excerpt">Laura Nyro/Jackson Browne: Royal Festival Hall, London ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/jack-bruce-tales-of-a-brave-ulysses">Jack Bruce: Tales Of A Brave Ulysses</a></p> <p>Interview by Barbara Charone, <i>Sounds</i>, 26 February 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">"Jack's always been involved with these terrible bloody all-star bands. But now he's in an ideal position. He's older now and can surround himself with ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/jeff-buckley-igrace-legacy-editioni-columbia">Jeff Buckley: <I>Grace (Legacy Edition)</I> (Columbia)</a></p> <p>Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, <i>Uncut</i>, October 2004</p> <p class="excerpt">Remastered version of the original 1994 album with second CD of outtakes/rarities and DVD of Grace vids and footage of Buckley in Bearsville, New York. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/tim-buckley-live-at-the-troubadour-1969">Tim Buckley: <i>Live At The Troubadour 1969</i></a></p> <p>Review by Mark Cooper, <i>MOJO</i>, April 1994</p> <p class="excerpt">HE WAS, ABOVE all, a beautiful boy. Sure, the album sleeves show those impossible good looks steadily thickening into manhood and by 1974's Look At ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/johnny-burnette-already-dead-keen-to-come-back">Johnny Burnette: Already Dead Keen to Come Back</a></p> <p>Interview by June Harris, <i>Disc</i>, 21 April 1962</p> <p class="excerpt">JOHNNY BURNETTE arrived in Britain at the end of last week for his tour with U.S. Bonds and Gene McDaniels, which opens in Glasgow on ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/burning-spear-idry-and-heavyi">Burning Spear: <I>Dry And Heavy</I></a></p> <p>Review by Vivien Goldman, <i>Sounds</i>, 6 August 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">IT ALL DEPENDS whether you're a sucker for the Burning Spear Sound. It hasn't changed too much through all their Island albums, and certain key ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/kate-bush-ithe-sensual-world-iemi-">Kate Bush: <I>The Sensual World </I>(EMI) </a></p> <p>Review by Chris Roberts, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 14 October 1989</p> <p class="excerpt">"WHEN LAUREN WAS a small girl, she would stand in the field and call the cats. One by one they would come to her through ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/kate-bush-the-whole-story">Kate Bush: <i>The Whole Story</i></a></p> <p>Review by John McCready, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 22 November 1986</p> <p class="excerpt">IT WAS Mark Smith of top pop group The Fall who, in a typical broadcast of dedicated anti-trendiness, announced that vegetarianism helped one leave the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/kate-bush-fire-in-the-bush">Kate Bush: Fire In The Bush</a></p> <p>Interview by Kris Needs, <i>ZigZag</i>, August 1980</p> <p class="excerpt">WHAT'S KATE BUSH doing in ZigZag? It's a fair chance that's the thought flitting through your noggin as you espy our rather tasteful cover. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/buzzcocks-looking-back">Buzzcocks: Looking Back</a></p> <p>Retrospective by Richard Cook, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 26 June 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">Proto-punk, pure pop and other bites and scratches. Richard Cook assesses the career and impact of "the world&#146;s first modern pop group". 1 April ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/buzzcocksx-ray-spexwire-etc-running-with-the-ratpack">Buzzcocks, Johnny Moped, Wire, X-Ray Spex: Buzzcocks/X-Ray Spex/Wire etc.: Running with the Ratpack</a></p> <p>Live Review by Jon Savage, <i>Sounds</i>, 16 April 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">ROXY RATPACK, Saturday nite. Find a friend and stick close: sink or swim. Tony and Julie were right: a club full of 'Wild Boys' outtakes ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/byrds-eye-view">The Byrds: Byrds Eye View</a></p> <p>Profile by Steve Turner, <i>Beat Instrumental</i>, June 1971</p> <p class="excerpt">But I was so much older then,I&#146;m younger than that now. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/going-up-the-country-the-byrds-and-sweetheart-of-the-rodeo">The Byrds, Gram Parsons: Going Up the Country: The Byrds and <i>Sweetheart of the Rodeo</i></a></p> <p>Retrospective by Bill Wasserzieher, <i>ICE</i>, August 2003</p> <p class="excerpt">THOUGH OPINIONS differ on who recorded the first country-rock album, there is no question that the Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo was the first one ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="B"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/david-byrne-leicester-de-montfort-hall-7th-july">David Byrne: Leicester De Montfort Hall, 7th July</a></p> <p>Live Review by Andy Farquarson, <i>Rock&#39;s Backpages</i>, July 2002</p> <p class="excerpt">AN INCONGRUOUSLY large stage dominates the tiny park which is the setting for a one-day festival at Leicester's De Montfort Hall. As two risers are ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/jjcale-travel-log">J.J. Cale: J.J.Cale: <i>Travel Log</i></a></p> <p>Review by Andy Gill, <i>Q</i>, December 1989</p> <p class="excerpt">SOME ARTISTS set a style so distinctively their own they become immediately generic; as with The Ramones or Led Zeppelin, J.J. Cale's first album Naturally ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/john-cale">John Cale</a></p> <p>Interview by William Higham, <i>What&#39;s On</i>, 14 November 1990</p> <p class="excerpt">Musical bogeyman John Cale has a new album out with Brian Eno. He talks to William Higham about the new LP and when the chickens ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/john-cale-caged-heat">John Cale: Caged Heat</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Mick Gold, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 27 July 1974</p> <p class="excerpt">JOHN CALE is sitting in a preview theatre, cowering in the shadow of the London Hilton to see a screening of this movie hes scored ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/can-iunlimited-editioni">Can: <I>Unlimited Edition</I></a></p> <p>Review by Kris Needs, <i>ZigZag</i>, July 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">THIS IS ONE for hardened Can-atics, being basically a collection of snippets which haven't made it onto past Can albums. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/captain-beefheart-iclear-spoti">Captain Beefheart: <I>Clear Spot</I></a></p> <p>Review by David Rensin, <i>Phonograph Record</i>, November 1972</p> <p class="excerpt">THERE ARE TYPICALLY three schools of thought surrounding Captain Beefheart. The first love him and feel he can do no wrong. The second find him ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-carpenters-ihorizoni">The Carpenters: <I>Horizon</I></a></p> <p>Review by Ken Barnes, <i>Phonograph Record</i>, July 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">IT'S CERTAINLY LESS than revolutionary to admit you like the Carpenters these days (in &#145;rock&#146; circles, if you recall, it formerly bordered on heresy). Everybody ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/johnny-cash">Johnny Cash</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Paul Gorman, <i>Music Week</i>, 1995</p> <p class="excerpt">HE&#146;S BACK IN BLACK...again. And, as ever, he means business. Johnny Cash, the original rock'n'roll spectre lets loose the leashes with new album Unchained, covering ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/johnny-cash-pillsnthrills-and-bellyaches">Johnny Cash: Pills'n'Thrills And Bellyaches</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Mark Cooper, <i>Q</i>, June 1991</p> <p class="excerpt">HITCHING UP HIS blue jeans to give his hands something to do, country music's Greatest Living Legend smothers a cough before the familiar voice offers ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/rage-has-not-withered-him">Nick Cave: Rage Has Not Withered Him</a></p> <p>Interview by Sean O&#39;Hagan, <i>The Observer</i>, 18 March 2001</p> <p class="excerpt">Nick Cave never thought he'd get past 40, but heroin and self-hate are behind him now. Married and "reborn", he writes nine to five in ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-charlatans-now-for-the-big-time">Charlatans, The (UK): The Charlatans: Now for the Big Time</a></p> <p>Interview by John Robb, <i>Sounds</i>, 10 November 1990</p> <p class="excerpt">Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and the Inspirals have all been tipped to break the States, but THE CHARLATANS may have the best chance of all. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/cheap-trick-at-budokan">Cheap Trick: <i>At Budokan</i></a></p> <p>Review by Sandy Robertson, <i>Sounds</i>, 2 December 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">THE TRICK experience, but hardly cheap at £8.50 a shot. Even so, it's worth it, as is evidenced by the fact that Flyover in Hammersmith ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/neneh-cherry-my-top-tunes">Neneh Cherry: My Top Tunes</a></p> <p>Interview by Bill Brewster, <i>Mixmag</i>, October 1992</p> <p class="excerpt">What's Goin' On &mdash; Marvin Gaye ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/chicago-ichicago-viiii-2">Chicago: <I>Chicago VIII</I></a></p> <p>Review by John Mendelsohn, <i>Rolling Stone</i>, 19 June 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">WHILE IT'S DIFFICULT to picture anyone failing to be amused by the intentional ludicrousness of, say, dedicating an album to the revolution or making the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/alex-chilton-19-years--a-collection-of-alex-chilton-rhino">Alex Chilton: <i>19 Years: A Collection of Alex Chilton</i> (Rhino)</a></p> <p>Review by Tom Graves, <i>Rock &amp; Roll Disc</i>, April 1991</p> <p class="excerpt">IF ANY ONE PERSON is emblematic of the musical malaise of rock's cutting edge during the 1980s, it would have to be cult factotum Alex ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/man-maximum-darkness">John Cipollina, Man: Man: <i>Maximum Darkness</i></a></p> <p>Review by Andy Childs, <i>ZigZag</i>, January 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">ONE OF THE undoubted highlights so far this year for all ZigZaggers has been the long-overdue visit of John Cipollina to these shores, and if ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/danish-blues-power-eric-clapton">Eric Clapton: Danish Blues Power: Eric Clapton</a></p> <p>Review and Interview by Chris Welch, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 29 June 1974</p> <p class="excerpt">"WE WANT Buddy Holly!... I AM Buddy Holly!" ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/eric-clapton-24-nights">Eric Clapton: <i>24 Nights</i></a></p> <p>Review by Tom Graves, <i>Rock &amp; Roll Disc</i>, January 1992</p> <p class="excerpt">CORRECTION. Eric Clapton was God. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/clash-ithe-clash-give-em-enough-rope-london-calling-sandinista-combat-rock-cut-the-crapi">The Clash: Clash: <I>The Clash; Give 'Em Enough Rope; London Calling; Sandinista!; Combat Rock; Cut The Crap</I></a></p> <p>Review by Mat Snow, <i>Q</i>, June 1989</p> <p class="excerpt">UNLIKE THE Sex Pistols, the other great London punk-rock group had ambitions beyond delivering the short, sharp shock to the system suggested by the sudden ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/joe-strummer-definitely-not-admitting-defeat-yet">The Clash, Joe Strummer: Joe Strummer: Definitely Not Admitting Defeat Yet</a></p> <p>Interview by Caroline Sullivan, <i>The Guardian</i>, 24 September 1999</p> <p class="excerpt">"I THINK GOOD manners will come back. In America, kids saw punk rock as a licence to be as rude as possible. I didn't like ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-clash-institute-of-contemporary-arts-london">The Clash: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Miles, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 6 November 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">A ROW OF PARKED Vivas, Consuls and Zephyrs indicated that the ICA had an audience a little different to the usual. It was "A Night ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/george-clinton-some-of-my-best-jokes-are-friends-capitol-">George Clinton: <i>Some Of My Best Jokes Are Friends</i> (Capitol) </a></p> <p>Review by Charles Shaar Murray, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 1985</p> <p class="excerpt"> IF THERE'S nothing more pathetic than an ageing crazy person, then why is George Clinton still able to make music as passionate, ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/george-clinton-taking-funk-over-the-hump">George Clinton: Taking Funk Over The Hump</a></p> <p>Profile by Simon Witter, <i>i-D</i>, May 1988</p> <p class="excerpt">EXCUSE ME if I gush here, but this is a subject very close to my heart. In these days of political defeatism, sexual paranoia and ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/joe-cocker-the-am-years-1968-1976">Joe Cocker: The A&M Years 1968-1976</a></p> <p>Overview by Bud Scoppa, <i>unpublished</i>, 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">BETWEEN THE YEARS 1968 and 1976, Joe Cocker recorded his first seven albums (all released on A&amp;M). These recordings were composed of a wonderfully diverse ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/cocteau-twins-imilk-and-kisses-ifontana">Cocteau Twins: <I>Milk And Kisses </I>(Fontana)</a></p> <p>Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, <i>MOJO</i>, May 1996</p> <p class="excerpt">AN UNFORGIVABLE THING happened in 1994. The Cocteau Twins released arguably their finest album to date, Four Calendar Cafe, only to have it roundly ignored ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/leonard-cohen-the-future">Leonard Cohen: <i>The Future</i></a></p> <p>Review by Cliff Jones, <i>Rock CD</i>, December 1992</p> <p class="excerpt">THE CRITICAL REHABILITATION of the man they used to call Captain Mandrax is one of rock's more unexpected twists in recent years. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/leonard-cohen-cohens-new-skin">Leonard Cohen: Cohen's New Skin</a></p> <p>Interview by Harvey Kubernik, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 1 March 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">LOS ANGELES: "For a while, I didn't think there was going to be another album. I pretty well felt that I was washed up as ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/coldplay-xy">Coldplay: <i>X&Y</i></a></p> <p>Review by Jim Irvin, <i>The Word</i>, June 2005</p> <p class="excerpt">AS A STAUNCH advocate of pop music that's actually popular, that revels in its ability to make human connections, I can't begrudge Coldplay their unquestionable ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/natalie-cole-the-unforgettable-ms-cole">Natalie Cole: The Unforgettable Ms Cole</a></p> <p>Interview by Lucy O&#39;Brien, <i>The Guardian</i>, 26 September 2008</p> <p class="excerpt">Natalie Cole is the superstar's daughter who became a Black Panther, a cocaine addict &ndash; and a huge success in her own right. As she ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/phil-collins-genesis-of-a-solo-career">Genesis, Phil Collins: Phil Collins: Genesis Of A Solo Career</a></p> <p>Interview by Chris Salewicz, <i>Creem</i>, January 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">SET IN THE STOCKBROKER belt 30 miles to the southwest of London, the Genesis studio complex is exactly what you might expect: several thatched, suitably ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/ry-cooder-ichicken-skin-musici">Ry Cooder: <I>Chicken Skin Music</I></a></p> <p>Review by Andy Childs, <i>ZigZag</i>, November 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">I'VE BEEN LOOKING forward to this one for ages, same as I do every Ry Cooder album. Apart from the obvious quality of his music, ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/alice-cooper-all-right-son---wheres-my-big-boy-with-extra-sauce-">Alice Cooper: All Right, Son . . .Where's My Big Boy With Extra Sauce? </a></p> <p>Interview by Barbara Charone, <i>Creem</i>, August 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">ALICE COOPER is waiting for the man. He's even got a Coca-Cola in his hand. But where's the burgers? Alice Cooper is waiting. He's waiting ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/alice-cooper-schools-out-">Alice Cooper:<i> School's Out </i></a></p> <p>Review by Metal Mike Saunders, <i>Phonograph Record</i>, August 1972</p> <p class="excerpt">IF YOU DON'T THINK Alice Cooper are the Rolling Stones of 1972, think again. In innumerable aspects – from the foremost importance of image to ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/elvis-costello-re-releases">Elvis Costello Re-releases</a></p> <p>Review by Mat Snow, <i>MOJO</i>, December 2002</p> <p class="excerpt">Elvis Costello And The Attractions: Armed Forces; Imperial BedroomElvis Costello: Mighty Like A Rose ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/elvis-costello-this-years-model-2">Elvis Costello: <i>This Year’s Model</i></a></p> <p>Review by Jon Savage, <i>Sounds</i>, 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">THE INSULT that made a man out of Mac(manus). As runs the hype: get sand kicked in your face (or whatever), keep on punching your ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/country-joe-mcdonald-incredible-live-country-joe-vanguard">Country Joe & The Fish: Country Joe McDonald: <i>Incredible! Live! Country Joe!</i> (Vanguard)</a></p> <p>Review by Charles Shaar Murray, <i>Cream</i>, June 1972</p> <p class="excerpt">I like the coffee and I like tea,I like the sweetness that you give to me, Hey woman set your mind at rest,Home cookin' still ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-cramps-ia-date-with-elvisi">The Cramps: <I>A Date With Elvis</I></a></p> <p>Review by Gavin Martin, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 22 February 1986</p> <p class="excerpt">THE CRAMPS' rampant gurning and soft-focus sleaze has been shaped into an institution of sorts. Transcending and fusing tribal instincts – goth's dumb brooding and ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/nobody-can-replace-cream--ginger-baker">Cream: "Nobody can replace Cream" — Ginger Baker</a></p> <p>Interview by Steve Turner, <i>Beat Instrumental</i>, April 1972</p> <p class="excerpt">It seems that it&rsquo;s not only the record-buying public that consider Ginger Baker to be the world&rsquo;s top drummer. "I haven&rsquo;t ever heard anybody who&rsquo;d ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/10-questions-for-siouxsie-sioux">The Creatures, Siouxsie & the Banshees: 10 Questions for Siouxsie Sioux</a></p> <p>Interview by Martin Aston, <i>MOJO</i>, September 1998</p> <p class="excerpt">Is it true that you split the Banshees because the Sex Pistols reformed? ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/creedence-clearwater-revival-cosmos-factory-">Creedence Clearwater Revival: <i>Cosmo's Factory</i> </a></p> <p>Review by Greg Shaw, <i>Who Put The Bomp!</i>, October 1970</p> <p class="excerpt">WELL, THEY'VE finally done it. Creedence Clearwater has produced an entire album without a single poor song. And what's more, they don't all sound alike. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/creedence-clearwater-revival-icreedence-clearwater-revivali">Creedence Clearwater Revival: <I>Creedence Clearwater Revival</I></a></p> <p>Review by Jon Savage, <i>MOJO</i>, December 2001</p> <p class="excerpt">FOR A FEW SEASONS as the '60s turned into the '70s, Creedence Clearwater Revival were the biggest band in the world, with their incredible US ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/crosby-stills--nash-crosby-stills--nashdaylight-again">Crosby Stills and Nash: Crosby, Stills & Nash: <i>Crosby, Stills & Nash/Daylight Again</i></a></p> <p>Review by Barney Hoskyns, <i>Uncut</i>, March 2006</p> <p class="excerpt">CSN WAS BORN of dissolution, the fruit of fragmenting times. They kicked off a second wave of post-Sunset Strip/British Invasion music, loose affiliations of longhairs ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/crosby-stills-nash--young-american-dream">Crosby Stills Nash & Young: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: <i>American Dream</i></a></p> <p>Review by Tom Hibbert, <i>Q</i>, December 1988</p> <p class="excerpt">It has been suggested that this LP is the result of the compassion of Graham Nash, Stephen Stills and Neil Young–a bid to keep their ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/crosby-stills-nash-and-young-auburn-washington-july-27th-2006">Crosby Stills Nash & Young: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Auburn, Washington, July 27th 2006</a></p> <p>Live Review by Charles Bermant, <i>Rock&#39;s Backpages</i>, 15 August 2006</p> <p class="excerpt">"Do you think there are any Republicans here?" We are on the queue for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's Freedom of Speech show, and the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/sheryl-crow-a-star-is-born">Sheryl Crow: A Star is Born</a></p> <p>Interview by Mat Snow, <i>MOJO</i>, October 1996</p> <p class="excerpt">EVERY FEW YEARS AN ALBUM IS MADE IN LOS Angeles of such wistful sunniness that it sets up shop on the radio for months on ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="C"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-cure-in-search-of-el-dorado">The Cure: In Search Of El Dorado</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Johnny Black, <i>Q</i>, July 1987</p> <p class="excerpt">EARLY IN THE evening of 27 March 1987 in Rio de Janeiro, Robert Smith is sipping tea in the air-conditioned cool of The Cure's luxury ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-damned-imusic-for-pleasurei">The Damned: <I>Music For Pleasure</I></a></p> <p>Review by Peter Silverton, <i>Sounds</i>, 26 November 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">CATCHING SIGHT of the title in a news column, I wondered. 'Music For Pleasure'? Have the dervish-like Damned decided to junk all this credibility rubbish, ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/ray-davies-2">The Kinks, Ray Davies: Ray Davies</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Keith Altham, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 4 November 1967</p> <p class="excerpt">THERE is something of the smoking volcano about Ray Davies. Six foot of suppressed quietly spoken, quietly smiling and quietly watching! It is what some ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/miles-davis-london-hammersmith-odeon--">Miles Davis: London, Hammersmith Odeon </a></p> <p>Live Review by Richard Cook, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 7 May 1983</p> <p class="excerpt">MILES RUNS the voodoo down down down ... and here I am, somewhere way up in the high heights of the Odeon (gee I hate ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/breakfast-of-champions-deep-purples-machine-head-">Deep Purple: Breakfast of Champions: Deep Purple's <i>Machine Head</i> </a></p> <p>Review by Metal Mike Saunders, <i>Circular</i>, 29 May 1972</p> <p class="excerpt">IF YOU'RE OVER 20, you needn&#146;t read on. Unless, of course, you want to hear why Deep Purple are a good group – just like ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/deep-purple-empire-pool-wembley-2">Deep Purple: Empire Pool, Wembley</a></p> <p>Live Review by Chris Welch, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 20 March 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">THIS REVIEW SHOULD have been written in the white heat of anger after seeing Deep Purple play at the Empire Pool, Wembley, on Friday night. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/sandy-denny-ilike-an-old-fashioned-waltzi">Sandy Denny: <I>Like an Old-Fashioned Waltz</I></a></p> <p>Review by Barney Hoskyns, <i>Rock&#39;s Backpages</i>, March 2005</p> <p class="excerpt">BEGUN IN LA and finished in London, Like an Old-Fashioned Waltz may be Denny's finest hour. Kicking off with 'Solo', one of her trademark piano ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/depeche-mode-construction-time-again-mute">Depeche Mode: <i>Construction Time Again</i> (Mute)</a></p> <p>Review by Mat Snow, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 27 August 1983</p> <p class="excerpt">"LOTS OF surprises in store/This isn&#146;t a party/It&#146;s a whole lot more," sings Dave Gahan in &#145;More Than A Party&#146;. It&#146;s a song from Construction ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/depeche-mode-hanover-garbsen-stadium-">Depeche Mode: Hanover Garbsen Stadium </a></p> <p>Live Review by Paul Moody, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 19 June 1993</p> <p class="excerpt">IN A marquee in the middle of a German field, Martin Gore is being cross-examined about the quasi-religious imagery of his lyrics by a frizzy-haired ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/dexys-midnight-runners-dont-stand-me-down-mercury">Dexys Midnight Runners: Dexy's Midnight Runners: <i>Don't Stand Me Down </i>(Mercury)</a></p> <p>Review by Sean O&#39;Hagan, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 7 September 1985</p> <p class="excerpt">YOU'D THINK three years silence might have dimmed the man's burning rage, but no, Kevin Rowland is back with a resharpened axe to grind. Chapter ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/bo-diddley---bos-a-lumberjack">Bo Diddley - Bo's a Lumberjack!</a></p> <p>Essay by Charles Shaar Murray, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 8 February 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">THE WHOLE THING about Bo Diddley was that he was by far the weirdest and craziest musician ever to come out of either blues or ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/dire-straits-on-every-street">Dire Straits: <i>On Every Street</i></a></p> <p>Review by Robert Sandall, <i>Q</i>, October 1991</p> <p class="excerpt">THE REASONS FOR the six-year absence are well known: Brothers In Arms – the 15-million-selling album and 250-date world tour – banished an unassuming bloke ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/i-shall-be-free-the-blacklisting-of-dixie-chicks">The Dixie Chicks: I Shall Be Free: The Blacklisting of Dixie Chicks</a></p> <p>Comment by Dave Marsh, <i>Harp</i>, June 2003</p> <p class="excerpt">IN CHRIS BUHALIS'S 'Talkin' Sounds Just Like Joe McCarthy Blues', John Ashcroft declares questioning him un-American, to which the singer replies, "It's called a democracy. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-sugarhill-gang-freak-of-the-week">DJ Hollywood, The Sugarhill Gang: The Sugarhill Gang: Freak of the Week</a></p> <p>Report by Davitt Sigerson, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 15 December 1979</p> <p class="excerpt">DESPITE A rhythm track that mangles Chic's 'Good Times' (they settled out of court), 'Rapper's Delight' by the Sugarhill Gang has been the season's biggest-selling ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/donovan-hurdy-gurdy-man-rolls-into-town">Donovan: Hurdy Gurdy Man Rolls Into Town</a></p> <p>Live Review by Rick McGrath, <i>The Georgia Straight</i>, October 1971</p> <p class="excerpt">TWO THINGS I found quite interesting at the Donovan Concert last Monday night. First, the Humble Minstrel of psychedelic folk music seems to be running ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-doors-john-densmore">The Doors: John Densmore</a></p> <p>Interview by William Higham, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 1991</p> <p class="excerpt">THE DOORS avalanche begins here! Word Up corners the band's drummer and chronicler JOHN DENSMORE, reviews his book and checks out an investigation into Morrison's ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-doors-the-morrison-legacy">The Doors: The Morrison Legacy</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Max Bell, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 23 December 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">JIM MORRISON'S body may lie a-moulderin' in his grave but his soul goes marching on. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/snoop-doggy-dog-and-dr-dre-every-dogg-has-his-dre">Dr. Dre, Snoop (Doggy) Dogg: Snoop Doggy Dog and Dr Dre: Every Dogg Has His Dre</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Dele Fadele, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 14 May 1994</p> <p class="excerpt">They called him an "evil bastard", said he shouldn't be allowed in the country, that there would be riots outside his hotel and gigs. But ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/nick-drake-five-leaves-left-bryter-layter-pink-moon-and-heaven-is-a-wild-flower">Nick Drake: <i>Five Leaves Left</i>, <i>Bryter Layter</i>, <i>Pink Moon</i> and <i>Heaven Is A Wild Flower</i></a></p> <p>Review by Martin Aston, <i>Q</i>, August 1990</p> <p class="excerpt">RAISED BY UPPER-middle class parents in the Black Country, educated at public school and Cambridge, Nick Drake's life was never as comfortable as his upbringing ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/august-darnell-from-dr-savannah-to-kid-creole-">Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Kid Creole & The Coconuts: August Darnell: From Dr. Savannah to Kid Creole </a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Ian Penman, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 15 November 1980</p> <p class="excerpt">"To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/just-what-the-dr-ordered-a-new-guitarist-to-replace-wilko-in-the-feelgoods">Dr. Feelgood: Just What The Dr. Ordered: A New Guitarist To Replace Wilko In The Feelgoods</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Harry Doherty, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 7 May 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">IT'S BARDOT'S, Canvey Island, formerly Cloud Nine, former weekly haunt of Dr. Feelgood. It's Thursday, almost midnight, and Wilko Johnson has well and truly joined ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/dr-john-at-the-london-forum">Dr. John at the London Forum</a></p> <p>Live Review by Andy Gill, <i>MOJO</i>, September 1997</p> <p class="excerpt">COMPARED TO his tremendous gigs at Ronnie Scott's a year or two ago, when Dr John was accompanied by a horn section that included Alvin ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/dr-john-igumboi">Dr. John: <I>Gumbo</I></a></p> <p>Review by Charlie Gillett, <i>Rolling Stone</i>, 8 June 1972</p> <p class="excerpt">WIPE YOUR MIND clean of all you have ever heard and read about Dr. John the Night Tripper. If you knew that once he was ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/duran-duran-were-big-boys-now">Duran Duran: We’re Big Boys Now</a></p> <p>Interview by Steve Turner, <i>Company</i>, 1988</p> <p class="excerpt">Simon Le Bon doesn&#146;t look like a teen idol on this particular day. A T-shirt flaps around the top of loose black trousers, his hair ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/ian-dury-body-language-">Ian Dury: Body Language </a></p> <p>Interview by Mike Stand, <i>Smash Hits</i>, 3 September 1981</p> <p class="excerpt">"HAVEN'T YOU heard? I'm a Fifth Columnist for the Year Of Disabled People. They've bribed me massively." ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/ian-dury-its-fairly-whassname">Ian Dury: It's Fairly Whassname…</a></p> <p>Interview by Sandy Robertson, <i>Sounds</i>, 25 February 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">"WHICH WOULD you rather see; Kenny Rogers or Randy Edelman?" ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/bob-dylan-enter-good-time-bob">Bob Dylan: Enter Good-Time Bob</a></p> <p>Live Review by Nick Hasted, <i>The Independent</i>, 3 October 1997</p> <p class="excerpt">Bob Dylan: Bournemouth ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="D"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/dylans-itarantulai">Bob Dylan: Dylan’s <I>Tarantula</I></a></p> <p>Review by David G. Walley, <i>Zygote</i>, 1971</p> <p class="excerpt">TARANTULA: twenty-five year-old visions of reality/letters to himself and posterity, now here in some other form from miracle xerox. Tarantula--visions of Aretha, soul singer in ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="E"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-eagles-irvine-meadows-amphitheatre-california">The Eagles: Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, California</a></p> <p>Live Review by Dave DiMartino, <i>MOJO</i>, August 1994</p> <p class="excerpt">THE BEST – AND CERTAINLY MOST SUCCINCT – REVIEW OF this, the opening night of the reunited Eagles' concert tour, came midway through guitarist Joe ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="E"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-eaglesi-desperadoi">The Eagles:<I> Desperado</I></a></p> <p>Review by David Rensin, <i>Phonograph Record</i>, June 1973</p> <p class="excerpt">THE BACK COVER photo may depict the Eagles as dead losers, but with DESPERADO it is clear that nothing is further from the truth. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="E"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/steve-earle-and-the-del-mccoury-band-the-mountain-2">Steve Earle, The Del McCoury Band: Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band: <i>The Mountain</i></a></p> <p>Review by Fred Dellar, <i>Hi-Fi News &amp; Record Review</i>, May 1999</p> <p class="excerpt">PREDICTABLY FOR the unpredictable Earle, his tribute to bluegrass mainman Bill Monroe contains no material actually penned by Monroe. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="E"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/earth-wind--fire-gratitude">Earth Wind and Fire: Earth Wind & Fire: <i>Gratitude</i></a></p> <p>Review by Cliff White, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 7 February 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">PROOF AT LAST that EWF deserve all the acclaim that's been heaped on them in the last couple of years. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="E"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/earth-wind-and-fire-ithe-ultimate-collectiongratitudeall-n-allthats-the-way-of-the-worldi-columbia">Earth Wind And Fire: <I>The Ultimate Collection/Gratitude/All ‘N’ All/That’s The Way Of The World</I> (Columbia)</a></p> <p>Review and Interview by Kit Aiken, <i>Uncut</i>, September 1999</p> <p class="excerpt">THE SNAZZIEST, JAZZIEST dance crew of the period. Their &#145;one world&#146; spirituality, sunny mysticism and conspicuous musicality makes them a real genre one-off. Never as ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="E"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/echo--the-bunnymen-iporcupinei-korova">Echo & The Bunnymen: <I>Porcupine</I> (Korova)</a></p> <p>Review by Barney Hoskyns, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 22 January 1983</p> <p class="excerpt">PERHAPS IT WAS inevitable, even decreed in some heaven up "there". Maybe it&#146;s just the third time unlucky. But if Porcupine isn&#146;t good it isn&#146;t ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="E"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/eddie-and-the-hot-rods-woolwich-polytechnic-london">Eddie & The Hot Rods: Eddie And The Hot Rods: Woolwich Polytechnic, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Chas de Whalley, <i>Sounds</i>, 20 November 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">EDDIE and the Hot Rods are turning into Heroes under our very eyes. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="E"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/dave-edmunds-subtle-as-a-flying-mallet">Dave Edmunds: <i>Subtle as a Flying Mallet</i></a></p> <p>Review by Greg Shaw, <i>Phonograph Record</i>, December 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">Perhaps you&#146;re thinking it&#146;s either premature or entirely unwarranted that a relative unknown whose sole claim to fame is a 1970 updating of Smiley Lewis&#146; ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="E"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/elbow-leaders-of-the-free-world-v2">Elbow: <i>Leaders of the Free World</i> (V2)</a></p> <p>Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, <i>Uncut</i>, October 2005</p> <p class="excerpt">Third album from Mancunian quintet, self-produced at the city's Blueprint studio. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="E"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/electric-light-orchestra-ilight-yearsi">Electric Light Orchestra: <I>Light Years</I></a></p> <p>Review by Jim Irvin, <i>MOJO</i>, February 1998</p> <p class="excerpt">Mid-priced, 2-CD, 38-track collection of all their singles. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="E"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/elo-live-in-philadelphia">Electric Light Orchestra: ELO: Live in Philadelphia</a></p> <p>Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 5 January 1974</p> <p class="excerpt">WE ARE gathered together, ladies and gentlemen, for a recital by that promising septet of young British musicians who call themselves the Electric Light Orchestra. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="E"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/greg-lake-rock-will-go-back-to-its-roots">Emerson Lake And Palmer: Greg Lake: Rock Will Go Back To Its Roots</a></p> <p>Interview by Chris Welch, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 3 August 1974</p> <p class="excerpt">GREG LAKE'S London home is a rare and impressive sight. A light glows outside a town house in a quiet street that takes you back ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="E"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/brian-enos-discreet-music">Brian Eno's Discreet Music</a></p> <p>Review by Miles, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 3 January 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">EXPERIMENTAL AND AVANT-GARDE music, by its very nature, exists mainly in the fringe area of private pressings, such as the Musica or George Avakian productions ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="E"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/another-glam-world-brian-enos-adventures-in-roxy-music">Brian Eno, Roxy Music: Another Glam World: Brian Eno’s Adventures in Roxy Music</a></p> <p>Interview by Djuna Parnes, <i>Rock&#39;s Backpages</i>, June 2001</p> <p class="excerpt">DP: What does the phrase "Glam Rock" mean to you? ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="E"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/eurythmics-ibe-yourself-tonighti-rca">Eurythmics: <I>Be Yourself Tonight</I> (RCA)</a></p> <p>Review by Adam Sweeting, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 4 May 1985</p> <p class="excerpt">AMONG their assimilations, borrowings and treatments, Eurythmics remain outsiders. "I'm a looker, a viewer of things," said Annie Lennox. Their Sweet Dreams album nailed the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="E"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-everly-brothers-songs-our-daddy-taught-us">The Everly Brothers: <i>Songs Our Daddy Taught Us</i></a></p> <p>Review by Mick Farren, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 6 March 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">IN A QUIET sort of way, 1975 saw an Everly Brothers revival of sorts. Warner Brothers released their magnificent Walk Right Back With The Everlys, ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-faces">The Faces</a></p> <p>Interview by Jonh Ingham, <i>Phonograph Record</i>, 1 January 1972</p> <p class="excerpt">AS FAR AS AMERICA is concerned, the Small Faces were notable for one single, 'Itchycoo Park', and one album, Ogden's Nut Gone Flake; the former ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-faces-ithe-best-of-the-facesi-riva">The Faces: <I>The Best Of The Faces</I> (Riva)****</a></p> <p>Review by Chas de Whalley, <i>Sounds</i>, 30 April 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">"AAALRIGHT: HERE'S one you may well know, you may not know it; and if you don't know it, I really don't know where you bin." ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/donald-fagen-kamakiriad-2">Donald Fagen: <i>Kamakiriad</i></a></p> <p>Review by Geoffrey Himes, <i>The Washington Post</i>, March 1993</p> <p class="excerpt">DONALD FAGEN'S first album in 11 years, Kamakiriad, can be judged from two different perspectives. On the one hand, it marries tartly ironic lyrics with ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/fairport-convention-ibabbacombe-leei">Fairport Convention: <I>Babbacombe Lee</I></a></p> <p>Review by Ken Barnes, <i>Phonograph Record</i>, April 1972</p> <p class="excerpt">FOR THEIR SEVENTH album, Fairport Convention has presented us with a "concept" or "unified theme" LP (avoiding the oppro-briously-connotated term "rock opera"). ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/marianne-faithfull-2">Marianne Faithfull</a></p> <p>Interview by Barney Hoskyns, <i>Request</i>, February 1999</p> <p class="excerpt">AS MICK Jagger&#146;s girlfriend she was among the great - and most tragic - consorts of rock&#146;s decadent heyday. But then this Sister Morphine forced ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/marianne-faithfull-marianne-never-does-what-a-pop-star-should">Marianne Faithfull: Marianne Never Does What A Pop Star Should</a></p> <p>Interview by Keith Altham, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 9 April 1965</p> <p class="excerpt">SHE HAS a pert, child-like face which darts out at you from a cascade of fine, fair hair. The face seems to be concentrated into ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/mark-e-smith-not-falling-soaring">The Fall: Mark E Smith: Not Falling, Soaring</a></p> <p>Interview by Stephen Dalton, <i>Vox</i>, June 1991</p> <p class="excerpt">MARK E SMITH'S REPUTATION precedes him like massed stormtroopers on the horizon. Fourteen years on, the Fall frontman still sets everyone on edge, either in ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-fall-totally-wired--the-rough-trade-anthologythe-rough-trade-singles-box-sanctuary-">The Fall: <i>Totally Wired — The Rough Trade Anthology/The Rough Trade Singles Box</i> (Sanctuary) ***</a></p> <p>Review by Gavin Martin, <i>Uncut</i>, October 2002</p> <p class="excerpt">Northern white crap that talks back meets west London liberals: early-Eighties Fall on Rough Trade ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-wit-and-wisdom-of-mark-smith">The Fall: The Wit And Wisdom Of Mark Smith</a></p> <p>Interview by Andy Gill, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 10 January 1981</p> <p class="excerpt">DID YOU KNOW?That Andy Gill discovered all these pearls of wisdom – and more – while talking to The Fall. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/family-are-a-mans-band">Family Are A MAN'S Band</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Keith Altham, <i>Record Mirror</i>, 16 October 1971</p> <p class="excerpt">THEIR MUSIC is both uncompromising and aggressive but like most musical hard men they have their other side and their latest album Fearless is likely ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/faust-return-of-a-legend-munic--elsewhere-">Faust: <i>Return of a Legend: Munic & Elsewhere</i> </a></p> <p>Review by Biba Kopf, <i>New Musical Express</i>, January 1987</p> <p class="excerpt">MEPHISTO CALLING. Good news – Faust are back. Released from a devil's pact with silence, they're noisily celebrating the repossession of their souls. A new ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/bryan-ferry-the-bride-stripped-bare">Bryan Ferry: <i>The Bride Stripped Bare</i></a></p> <p>Review by Vivien Goldman, <i>Sounds</i>, 16 September 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">I MUST confess myself horrified to recall, just as I was about to start this review, that my first ever album review was of Bryan ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-flamin-groovies-sneakers">The Flamin' Groovies: <i>Sneakers</i></a></p> <p>Review by Andy Childs, <i>ZigZag</i>, October 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">BACK IN the heady days of the late sixties when it seemed that for several precious months San Francisco became the rock music centre of ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/fleetwood-mac-ifleetwood-maci">Fleetwood Mac: <I>Fleetwood Mac</I></a></p> <p>Review by Bud Scoppa, <i>Circus</i>, November 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">FROM LISTENING to Fleetwood Mac, you'd think this once-definitive British blues band was a Southern California pop group &#150; and you'd be right. The three ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/fleetwood-mac-wembley-arena-london">Fleetwood Mac: Wembley Arena, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Sandy Robertson, <i>Sounds</i>, 28 June 1980</p> <p class="excerpt">CROWDS, HOWEVER passive, make me unhappy. As Eli Wallach said on TV (The Magnificent Seven) last Sunday afternoon, "If God didn't want them to be ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/stevie-nicks-confessions-of-a-rock-chick">Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks: Stevie Nicks: Confessions Of A Rock Chick</a></p> <p>Interview by Gavin Martin, <i>Daily Mirror</i>, 21 November 2003</p> <p class="excerpt">CURLED UP on the sofa at Fleetwood Mac's Los Angeles rehearsal studios, Stevie Nicks looks every inch the ageing rock chick survivor. At her feet ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/john-fogerty-icenterfieldi">John Fogerty: <I>Centerfield</I></a></p> <p>Review by Mitchell Cohen, <i>Creem</i>, April 1985</p> <p class="excerpt">I have a better title, except Malamud already claimed it: The Natural. John Fogerty's sound could never be pinned down to time or ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/kim-fowley-iinternational-heroesi">Kim Fowley: <I>International Heroes</I></a></p> <p>Review by Sandy Robertson, <i>Sounds</i>, 30 July 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">I REALISE it's getting to be an obsession, but what can I do? Even Viv Goldman, between bouts of trying to convince me to do ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/peter-frampton-iframpton-comes-alivei">Peter Frampton: <I>Frampton Comes Alive</I></a></p> <p>Review by Andy Childs, <i>ZigZag</i>, April 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">I MUST CONFESS before I go any further that I'm not very familiar with too many of Frampton's previous solo albums (I've only got one ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/peter-framptons-camel-a-galloping-success-in-the-states">Peter Frampton's Camel: A Galloping Success In The States</a></p> <p>Interview by Chris Welch, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 7 July 1973</p> <p class="excerpt">PETER FRAMPTON made a flying visit to London last week. But the boss of Frampton's Camel couldn't stay long – too much excitement is happening ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/frankie-goes-to-hollywood-hammersmith-odeon-london---">Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Hammersmith Odeon, London </a></p> <p>Live Review by Mat Snow, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 13 April 1985</p> <p class="excerpt">"HALLO HAHMMERSMITH...we are U2!" Holly say. Some say, ha ha, very funny; I say, many a true word spoken in jest. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/aretha-franklin">Aretha Franklin</a></p> <p>Essay by Amy Linden, <i>The Source</i>, 1998</p> <p class="excerpt">THE SUBJECT is female singers, and we&#146;re gonna make it easy on ya. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/aretha-franklin-ihey-now-heyi-atlantic">Aretha Franklin: <I>Hey Now Hey</I> (Atlantic)</a></p> <p>Review by Bob Fisher, <i>Cream</i>, September 1973</p> <p class="excerpt">IT'S BEEN HIP for mainstream rock critics to knock Miss Franklin for some time now, in much the same way the current vogue is to ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/franz-ferdinand-franz-ferdinand">Franz Ferdinand: <i>Franz Ferdinand</i></a></p> <p>Review by Wayne Robins, <i>The Boston Phoenix</i>, 21 May 2004</p> <p class="excerpt">I&#146;M THUMBING through the March issue of Uncut, the comprehensive and entertaining British music monthly, when I hit the front of the review section and ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/free-chronicles">Free: <i>Chronicles</i></a></p> <p>Review by Terry Staunton, <i>Record Collector</i>, May 2005</p> <p class="excerpt">CURRENTLY ATTEMPTING the almost impossible task of filling Freddie Mercury's shoes in a new-look Queen, it's hard to imagine Paul Rodgers landing any further from ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/a-chat-with-mr-fripp">King Crimson, Robert Fripp: A Chat with Mr. Fripp</a></p> <p>Interview by Cynthia Rose, <i>Viz</i>, 1980</p> <p class="excerpt">ROBERT FRIPP is a musician, theoretician, theologian and, as his colleague David Bowie (referred by Fripp as "Mr. B") points out, "probably the man with ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="F"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/parliament-ilive-the-p-funk-earth-touri">Funkadelic, Parliament: Parliament: <I>Live: The P-Funk Earth Tour</I></a></p> <p>Review by Vivien Goldman, <i>Sounds</i>, 11 June 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">"THEY SAY the bigger the headache the bigger the pill!" Dr. Funkenstein shouts. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="G"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/peter-gabriel-ipeter-gabrieli-charisma-">Peter Gabriel: <I>Peter Gabriel</I> (Charisma) *****</a></p> <p>Review by Barbara Charone, <i>Sounds</i>, 19 February 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">DEAR PETER, Hangin' round Times Square just the other day when some strange sounds caught my ear. Bundled up my leather jacket, tucked a can ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="G"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/rhythm-of-the-pete">Genesis, Peter Gabriel: Rhythm Of The Pete</a></p> <p>Interview by Richard Cook, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 2 October 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">After the ambitious WOMAD Festival, the bailiffs cometh and PETER GABRIEL has decided to get himself out of hock &#150; even if it means a ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="G"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/rory-gallagher-against-the-grain">Rory Gallagher: <i>Against The Grain</i></a></p> <p>Review by Chas de Whalley, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 22 November 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">DO YOU realise that Against The Grain is Rory Gallagher's seventh album since he split Taste? ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="G"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/rory-gallagher-hammersmith-odeon-lindon">Rory Gallagher: Hammersmith Odeon, Lindon</a></p> <p>Live Review by Mick Brown, <i>Sounds</i>, 29 January 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">NOBODY PLAYS the blues anymore – not unless they're black and old. The blues tradition among young blacks has all but vanished in the mad ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="G"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/gang-of-four-entertainment-emi">Gang of Four: <i>Entertainment</i> (EMI)</a></p> <p>Review by Jon Savage, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 6 October 1979</p> <p class="excerpt">THE Four are ambitious; and so they accept the process. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="G"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/garbage-version-20-2">Garbage: <i>Version 2.0</i></a></p> <p>Review by David Stubbs, <i>Uncut</i>, June 1998</p> <p class="excerpt">THERE ARE surprisingly few bands like Garbage, bands operating in that shadowy, uncertain zone between the flesh of rock and the metal of techno. They're ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="G"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/divided-soul-the-life-of-marvin-gaye--by-david-ritz">Marvin Gaye: <i>Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye </i> by David Ritz</a></p> <p>Review by Chris Salewicz, <i>Time Out</i>, 8 July 1985</p> <p class="excerpt">The anguished life of Marvin Gaye ended on April 1, 1984, at the home in Los Angeles he had bought for his parents, when a ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="G"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/marvin-gaye-i-want-you">Marvin Gaye: <i>I Want You</i></a></p> <p>Review by Cliff White, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 8 May 1976</p> <p class="excerpt"> A COUPLE of weeks ago our very own Mr. Murray suffered a bitter anti-climax after waiting nigh on two years to hear the latest ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="G"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-j-geils-band-bloodshot">J. Geils Band: The J. Geils Band: <i>Bloodshot</i></a></p> <p>Review by Mick Gold, <i>Let It Rock</i>, July 1973</p> <p class="excerpt">EVER SINCE the first Butterfield Blues Band album I&#146;ve been waiting and hoping for a group that could combine gut mangling excitement with instrumental virtuosity ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="G"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-j-geils-band-ithe-j-geils-bandi">J. Geils Band: The J. Geils Band: <I>The J. Geils Band</I></a></p> <p>Review by Tom Graves, <i>Rock &amp; Roll Disc</i>, November 1989</p> <p class="excerpt">WHILE I DON'T think there is a single instance of great, enduring songwriting on this disc -- don't look for any Hall of Fame nominations ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="G"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/generation-x-the-marquee-london-2">Generation X: The Marquee, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Peter Silverton, <i>Sounds</i>, 8 October 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">ROCK ON Indeed.I've finally figured out, after all this time, why, despite the fact that lots of people whose opinions I respect hate them, I ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="G"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/go-betweens-aim-to-strike-public-chord">The Go-Betweens: Go-Betweens Aim To Strike Public Chord</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Dave DiMartino, <i>Billboard</i>, 14 January 1989</p> <p class="excerpt">AT THE END of the day, what do good reviews really mean? In the case of the Go-Betweens, whose debut Capitol album 16 Lovers Lane ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="G"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/grateful-dead-live-dead">Grateful Dead: <i>Live Dead</i></a></p> <p>Review by Lenny Kaye, <i>Rolling Stone</i>, 7 February 1970</p> <p class="excerpt">Live Dead explains why the Dead are one of the best performing bands in America, why their music touches on ground that most other groups ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="G"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/grateful-dead-dawn-of-the-deadheads">Grateful Dead: Dawn of the Deadheads</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by David Gans, <i>Headliner</i>, August 1983</p> <p class="excerpt">THE PSYCHEDELIC era is ancient history, and LSD is so far out of fashion that it probably doesn't even need to be illegal any more. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="G"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/take-me-to-the-river-al-green-with-davin-seay-">Al Green: <i>Take Me to the River</i>: Al Green with Davin Seay </a></p> <p>Review by Barney Hoskyns, <i>Rock&#39;s Backpages</i>, November 2000</p> <p class="excerpt">"Gen&#146;lmen, we just havin&#146; church here." Six words which - directed at me and a fellow soul buff at the Full Gospel Tabernacle church by ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="G"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/peter-green-ronnie-scotts-club-london">Peter Green: Ronnie Scott's Club, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Keith Altham, <i>MOJO</i>, June 1998</p> <p class="excerpt">THE FIRST time I ever reviewed Peter Green in concert, he was with Fleetwood Mac at the Albert Hall in the '60s; a lean, bearded ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="G"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/al-green-love-happiness-and-convictions">Al Green: Love, Happiness And Convictions</a></p> <p>Interview by David Nathan, <i>Blues &amp; Soul</i>, 29 April 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">2008 introduction: Known as the "Prince Of Soul," Al Green had built up a strong audience thanks to a string of hit singles and best-selling ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="G"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-gun-club-miami">The Gun Club: <i>Miami</i></a></p> <p>Review by j. poet, <i>Creem</i>, February 1983</p> <p class="excerpt">THE GUN CLUB plays for keeps. Their songs crackle like dry corpse skin turning to parchment under the caress of a rattlesnake belly. Jeffrey Lee ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="G"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/guns-n-roses-danger-lurks-beyond-the-doors">Guns N' Roses: Guns N’ Roses: Danger Lurks Beyond The Doors</a></p> <p>Profile by Simon Reynolds, <i>The Observer</i>, 25 August 1991</p> <p class="excerpt">No other rock band today provokes such polarised opinions as Guns N' Roses. For some, they are 'the most dangerous band in the world', heirs ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="G"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/izzy-stradlin">Guns N' Roses, Izzy Stradlin: Izzy Stradlin</a></p> <p>Interview by Ian Fortnam, <i>bol.com</i>, March 2001</p> <p class="excerpt">SHAKING THE notoriety gained following six years on the road with Guns N' Roses was never going to be the easiest of tasks. But Izzy ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="H"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/hall--oates-hsub2subo-rca">Daryl Hall & John Oates: Hall & Oates: <i>H<sub>2</sub>O</i> (RCA)</a></p> <p>Review by Leyla Sanai, <i>New Musical Express</i>, September 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">DARYL HALL and John Oates are potentially a formidable partnership. 'I Can't Go For That' was the slickest snappiest ditty the wrong side of the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="H"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/emmylou-harris-iluxury-lineri">Emmylou Harris: <I>Luxury Liner</I></a></p> <p>Review by John Tobler, <i>ZigZag</i>, February 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">A CLASSICALLY CONCEIVED album for one such as myself – two songs by Parsons, one by the Louvin Brothers, a Rodney Crowell, a Mr. Guy ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="H"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/emmylou-harris-pieces-of-the-sky">Emmylou Harris: <i>Pieces of the Sky</i></a></p> <p>Review by Bob Woffinden, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 3 May 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">THIS IS AN album that has been quite eagerly anticipated, mainly because of the reputation Emmylou Harris built for herself with her participation as co-vocalist ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="H"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/my-walk-on-in-the-life-of-george">George Harrison: My Walk-On in the Life of George</a></p> <p>Memoir by David Dalton, <i>Gadfly</i>, 12 March 2002</p> <p class="excerpt">"FIRST OF ALL," my friend Richard said, "he was a Beatle, how could he die?" They were immortal, weren't they? Gods, even if flawed. A ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="H"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/debbie-harry-its-about-time-isnt-it">Debbie Harry: It's About Time, Isn't It?</a></p> <p>Interview by Dave Rimmer, <i>Q</i>, December 1986</p> <p class="excerpt">SO WHY, WE must ask, is Debbie Harry back right now, exactly? Has she brought out her brand new single, 'French Kissing In The USA', ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="H"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/pj-harvey-an-interview">PJ Harvey: An Interview</a></p> <p>Interview by Barney Hoskyns, <i>Rock&#39;s Backpages</i>, Summer 2004</p> <p class="excerpt">RBP: Not to suggest that Uh Huh Her must be entirely autobiographical – or "confessional" – but you don&#146;t sound terribly happy in these songs. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="H"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/screamin-jay-hawkins-4">Screamin' Jay Hawkins</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by John Abbey, <i>Blues &amp; Soul</i>, 12 May 1972</p> <p class="excerpt">THOUGH SOMEWHAT quiet on the recording scene of late, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, the original wildman of our music, is still attracting large audiences in the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="H"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/hawkwind-iin-search-of-spacei">Hawkwind: <I>In Search Of Space</I></a></p> <p>Review by Jeff Walker, <i>Phonograph Record</i>, May 1972</p> <p class="excerpt">IT'S BEEN an eternity since I've writhed to a record on a physical level, but I still recall fondly those stoned hours spent engrossed in ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="H"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/hawkwind-lock-edmonton">Hawkwind: Lock, Edmonton</a></p> <p>Live Review by Chas de Whalley, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 17 January 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">IT'S ALL A far cry from Alfred Jarry. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="H"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/isaac-hayes-ichronicleiifor-the-sake-of-lovei">Isaac Hayes: <I>Chronicle</I>/<I>For The Sake Of Love</I></a></p> <p>Review by Pete Wingfield, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 18 November 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">IT'S MY CONTENTION that, whatever bizarre circumstances caused the flurry of lawsuits circulating round Isaac Hayes prior to the demise of Stax Records, and the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="H"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/richard-hell-the-return-of-the-bug-eyed-monster">Richard Hell: The Return Of The Bug-Eyed Monster</a></p> <p>Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, <i>Sounds</i>, 13 January 1979</p> <p class="excerpt">RICHARD HELL AND GIOVANNI DADOMO VISIT THE BOAT SHOW ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="H"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/jimi-hendrix-blues-mca">Jimi Hendrix: <i>Blues</i> (MCA)</a></p> <p>Review by Charles Shaar Murray, <i>Guitar World</i>, 1998</p> <p class="excerpt">Let&#146;s get the paradoxes out of the way right up front: the blues was a musical space to which Jimi Hendrix would always return in ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="H"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/jimi-hendrix-the-music">Jimi Hendrix: The Music</a></p> <p>Essay by Richard Williams, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 26 September 1970</p> <p class="excerpt">THE IMPORTANCE of Jimi Hendrix as a musician was sometimes forgotten behind the man's sexuality and the flamboyance of his act and appearance. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="H"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/john-hiatt-bottom-line-new-york">John Hiatt: Bottom Line, New York</a></p> <p>Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, <i>The Times</i>, August 1990</p> <p class="excerpt">A SKINNY troubadour with a throaty, abrasive growl of a voice, John Hiatt slides in to the American rock dream somewhere between Ry Cooder at ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="H"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/steve-hillage-motivation-radio">Steve Hillage: <i>Motivation Radio</i></a></p> <p>Review by Phil Sutcliffe, <i>Sounds</i>, 1 October 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">When a guy sings to you "we've all been born together in this special place and time to raise the world," where does your humble ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="H"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-hollies-cloud">The Hollies’ Cloud</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Steven Rosen, <i>Los Angeles Free Press</i>, February 1973</p> <p class="excerpt">FOR THE PAST five years it seems that the Hollies have been laboring under a Sisyphean curse. Every time they latched on to a silver ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="H"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/why-buddy-holly-will-never-fade-away">Buddy Holly: Why Buddy Holly will never fade away</a></p> <p>Retrospective by Philip Norman, <i>Daily Telegraph</i>, 30 January 2009</p> <p class="excerpt">ON A BASIS OF simply counting heads, rock music surpasses even film as the 20th century's most influential art form. By that reckoning, there is ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="H"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/alan-hull-1945-1995">Alan Hull, Lindisfarne: Alan Hull 1945-1995</a></p> <p>Obituary by Chris Ingham, <i>MOJO</i>, January 1996</p> <p class="excerpt">WHEN I WAS 15 – AND FIVE YEARS AN EX-PAT GEORDIE – MY contemporaries idolised Strummer and Weller. I wanted to be like Alan Hull. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="H"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-league-unlimited-orchestra-ilove-and-dance-ivirgin">The Human League, The League Unlimited Orchestra: The League Unlimited Orchestra: <I>Love And Dance </I>(Virgin)</a></p> <p>Review by Paul Morley, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 3 July 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">LOVE'S THEME, YOUR MAGIC SPELL IS EVERYWHERE ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="H"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/humble-pie-thunderbox">Humble Pie: <i>Thunderbox</i></a></p> <p>Review by Chris Welch, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 16 March 1974</p> <p class="excerpt">STEVE MARRIOTT – hair flying, jaw set at an aggressive angle, knees akimbo and arms flailing over his jutting guitar – is one of the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="H"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/ian-hunter-through-the-glasses-darkly">Ian Hunter, Mott The Hoople: Ian Hunter: Through the Glasses Darkly</a></p> <p>Interview by Jonh Ingham, <i>Creem</i>, August 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">THOSE SHADES! Oceans of mid-Atlantic green plastic bounded by translucent brown frames, black electrical tape wound in large balls around the tips to protect the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="H"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/hsker-di-flip-your-wigi">Hüsker Dü:<I> Flip Your Wig</I></a></p> <p>Review by Richard Cook, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 26 October 1985</p> <p class="excerpt">I'VE GIVEN THIS some thought. Let's suppose – and it's not a weak notion – that four groups bond together the one significant play in ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="I"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/incredible-string-band">The Incredible String Band: Incredible String Band</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, <i>Beat Instrumental</i>, March 1971</p> <p class="excerpt">"The Beatles are British I suppose," said Bob Dylan in the first of his two post-accident interviews, "but you can&#146;t say they&#146;ve carried on with ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="I"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/iron-maiden-tattoo-america">Iron Maiden Tattoo America</a></p> <p>Interview by Sylvie Simmons, <i>Creem</i>, October 1983</p> <p class="excerpt">A DREAM. I'm lounging on the balcony of a Beverly Hills hotel staring out over the pool when there's a knock on the door. In ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="I"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/chris-isaak-3">Chris Isaak</a></p> <p>Interview by Robert Sandall, <i>Q</i>, September 1991</p> <p class="excerpt">"We're playing the same halls as before, we just get to go on a few hours later." ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="I"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-isley-brothers-igo-for-your-gunsi-epic">The Isley Brothers: <I>Go For Your Guns</I> (Epic)</a></p> <p>Review by Cliff White, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 9 July 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">"YOU GET some writers saying, 'Why don't you do something like you did before?' They think they really want it but at the same time ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/michael-jackson--blood-on-the-dance-floor">Michael Jackson: <i>Blood On The Dance Floor</i></a></p> <p>Review by Chris Roberts, <i>Uncut</i>, July 1997</p> <p class="excerpt">HISTORY IS written by the victors. Or, in our times, is remixed by the fashionable. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/out-of-his-life-michael-jackson">Michael Jackson: Out of His Life: Michael Jackson</a></p> <p>Report by Barney Hoskyns, <i>New Statesman</i>, 17 August 1984</p> <p class="excerpt">BY NOW, of course, you&#146;ve been told more than you could possibly want to know about Michael Jackson. Such has been the media saturation of ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/millie-jackson-odeons-birmingham-and-hammersmth">Millie Jackson: Odeons Birmingham And Hammersmth</a></p> <p>Live Review by Cliff White, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 4 February 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">Millie's preoccupations, said The Guardian, are sex, sex and more sex; can't argue with that. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/gil-scott-heronbrian-jackson-winter-in-america-charly">Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron: Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson: <i>Winter in America</i> (Charly)</a></p> <p>Review by Barney Hoskyns, <i>Uncut</i>, August 2005</p> <p class="excerpt">A MASTERWORK of ghetto melancholia and stark political gravitas, Winter in America showcases Scott-Heron and Jackson at their most witheringly unsentimental but also their most ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/diana-ross-idianai-bbc-2">The Jackson 5, Diana Ross: Diana Ross: <i>Diana!</i> (BBC 2)</a></p> <p>Film/DVD/TV Review by David Nathan, <i>Blues &amp; Soul</i>, 8 October 1971</p> <p class="excerpt">MOTOWN'S MUCH-heralded first independent production centred on Diana Ross, proved to be all it was cracked out to be &ndash; and more! Screened on B.B.C. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/coming-under-the-thumb-mick-jagger">Mick Jagger: Coming Under The Thumb: Mick Jagger</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, <i>You</i>, 20 September 1987</p> <p class="excerpt">"You have to set an example," says the middle-aged father of four. But can this really be the drug-taking, rebellious, orgiastic Mick Jagger speaking? It ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/mick-jagger--wandering-spirit">Mick Jagger: <i> Wandering Spirit</i></a></p> <p>Review by Deborah Frost, <i>The Village Voice</i>, 2 March 1993</p> <p class="excerpt">HE MAY BE a wandering spirit, but Mick Jagger sure doesn't travel light. This simple fact of life informs both the major tragedies and minor ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-jam-idirection-reaction-creationi">The Jam: <I>Direction Reaction Creation</I></a></p> <p>Review by Keith Cameron, <i>New Musical Express</i>, May 1997</p> <p class="excerpt">IF WE ACCEPT pop as the religion of youth in the last quarter of the 20th century, then there can be no more striking example ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-jam-london-hammersmith-odeon">The Jam: London Hammersmith Odeon</a></p> <p>Live Review by Jon Savage, <i>Sounds</i>, 31 December 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">FRAGMENTATION STRIKES DEEP... as punk "culture" is guided firmly into several easily categorizable (and therefore easier controlled)/marketable segments(divided we consume), it's clean teen night. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/etta-james-empress-in-exile">Etta James: Empress In Exile</a></p> <p>Interview by Barney Hoskyns, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 14 April 1984</p> <p class="excerpt"> MOST EVERY year now Ms Jamesetta Hawkins – Etta to you – will at the behest of Dingwalls Boss (Goodman, that is) fly over ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/janes-addiction-bill-graham-civic-auditorium-san-francisco">Jane's Addiction: Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco</a></p> <p>Live Review by Jaan Uhelszki, <i>MOJO</i>, January 1998</p> <p class="excerpt">Set list: Ocean Size/Ain't No Right/Then She Did/Stop/Three Days/Mountain Song/Summertime Rolls/Jane Says/Classic Girl/Chip Away/Ted,Just Admit it/I Would For You. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/jefferson-airplane-after-bathing-at-baxters">Jefferson Airplane: <i>After Bathing At Baxter’s</i></a></p> <p>Review and Interview by Michael Lydon, <i>Rolling Stone</i>, 23 November 1967</p> <p class="excerpt">Jefferson Airplane finally finished their third LP Halloween week after two months of off-and-on recording in Los Angeles. It&#146;s called After Bathing at Baxter&#146;s, has ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/up-the-revolution-fk-the-revolution">Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship: Up The Revolution? F**k The Revolution!</a></p> <p>Review and Interview by Tom Hibbert, <i>MOJO</i>, October 1994</p> <p class="excerpt">PLANEBRANES. THAT'S WHAT obsessive aficionados of Jefferson Airplane and all that venerable group's offshoots – Jefferson Starship, Starship (two different enterprises, confusingly enough), Mickey Thomas's ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/jefferson-starship-central-park-nyc">Jefferson Starship: Central Park, NYC</a></p> <p>Live Review by Mitchell Cohen, <i>Phonograph Record</i>, June 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">THEY MAY HAVE changed their surname, but Jefferson Starship have arrived at a conciliatory relationship with their past, and with mixed results. With Marty Balin ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-jesus-and-mary-chaini-stoned-and-dethroned-iblanco-y-negro-">The Jesus & Mary Chain: The Jesus And Mary Chain:<I> Stoned and Dethroned </I>(Blanco y Negro) </a></p> <p>Review by David Quantick, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 13 August 1994</p> <p class="excerpt">WHEN YOU ARE the Jesus and Mary Chain and your life is willingly bounded by certain influences – let's rise once more from our orthopaedic ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/jethro-tull-on-the-road">Jethro Tull On The Road</a></p> <p>Interview by Ira Robbins, <i>Circus</i>, 20 January 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">"JETHRO RETIRE HURT!" blared the headline in a major British magazine just over two years ago, when a spokesman for the group announced an "indefinite" ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/jethro-tull-thick-as-a-brick">Jethro Tull: <i>Thick As A Brick</i></a></p> <p>Review by Dave Marsh, <i>Creem</i>, August 1972</p> <p class="excerpt">JETHRO TULL's admirers are wont to believe that the lads are an inventive, entertaining, eminently witty, oft profound rock group, with a propensity for satire ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/joan-jett-ii-love-rock-n-roll-iboardwalk">Joan Jett: <I>I Love Rock 'N' Roll </I>(Boardwalk)</a></p> <p>Review by Mitchell Cohen, <i>Creem</i>, March 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">IF ANY OF rock's male marauders (say Triumph, or Rush) opened up an LP with a stop 'n' start thumper about spotting a 17-year-old number ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/elton-john-jump-up-geffen">Elton John: <i>Jump Up!</i> (Geffen)</a></p> <p>Review by Gene Sculatti, <i>Creem</i>, August 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">REMEMBER THE 70's? Not much of a decade, you say. Yeah, well. Fella here used to be a mover and a shaker back in the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/elton-john-dont-shoot-me-im-only-the-piano-player">Elton John: Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only The Piano Player</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, <i>Beat Instrumental</i>, January 1973</p> <p class="excerpt">Elton John is a fast worker. He just about has to be because he allows himself only ten days to write and rehearse all the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/elton-john-i-want-to-chug-not-race">Elton John: I Want To Chug, Not Race</a></p> <p>Interview by Caroline Coon, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 21 June 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">IN AMSTERDAM LAST WEEK, while canals evaporated in the heat wave, eight musicians and three singers were stirring the sluggish air with an electric sound ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/an-outsiders-songs-of-pain-and-longing-daniel-johnston">Daniel Johnston: An Outsider's Songs of Pain and Longing: Daniel Johnston</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Chris Campion, <i>Daily Telegraph</i>, 3 July 2003</p> <p class="excerpt">LOCKED ON his own in an Xfm recording booth, Daniel Johnston casually flips through the weathered ring binder that holds his songbook and begins to ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/rickie-lee-jones-hammersmith-odeon-london">Rickie Lee Jones: Hammersmith Odeon, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Chris Bohn, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 12 February 1983</p> <p class="excerpt">IT'S ALREADY well known how the great Casting Director in the sky limited women to a few suffocating roles in American popular culture: the mother ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/joy-division-university-of-london-london">Joy Division: University Of London, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Paul Morley, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 16 February 1980</p> <p class="excerpt">I DIDN'T KNOW which way to turn. In every corner of the second floor of the anonymous university building there seemed to be some group ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="J"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/judas-priest-ikilling-machinei">Judas Priest: <I>Killing Machine</I></a></p> <p>Review by Jon Savage, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 9 December 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">THE LEAD SINGER sweats redly, tuffness of the strategic stud decorations unable to blind the look of uncertainty in his eye for the camera as ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="K"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/coconut-kid-as-cruise-caruso-kid-creole">Kid Creole & The Coconuts: Coconut Kid as Cruise Caruso: Kid Creole</a></p> <p>Interview by Paul Rambali, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 23 May 1981</p> <p class="excerpt">KID CREOLE And The Coconuts release their second long player, title Fresh Fruit In Foreign Places, in a couple of weeks' time. A 12-song 'concept ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="K"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-kinks-one-for-the-road-arista-2">The Kinks: <i>One For The Road</i> (Arista)</a></p> <p>Review by Nick Kent, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 26 July 1980</p> <p class="excerpt">WITH ITS predecessor Low Budget having finally catapulted The Kinks into the American Top Ten after what seems a lifetime of cult status, what could ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="K"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-kinks--remembrance-of-kinks-past">The Kinks : Remembrance Of Kinks Past</a></p> <p>Retrospective and Interview by David Dalton, <i>Gadfly</i>, March 1999</p> <p class="excerpt">TAKE A LOOK at that face, the face of Ray Davies, it's the classic Dickensian mug, the face of a silent movie comedian, a vaudevillian, ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="K"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/kiss-destroyer-casablanca">Kiss: <i>Destroyer</i> (Casablanca)</a></p> <p>Review by Harry Doherty, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 17 April 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN that the total eccentricity of approach, the gross make-up and the blanket heavy metal music would have eventually ensured that Kiss ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="K"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/kiss-inside-kastle-kiss">Kiss: Inside Kastle Kiss</a></p> <p>Interview by Pete Makowski, <i>Sounds</i>, 13 February 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">"What Alice Cooper was to dead babies and corpses, Kiss became to fire breathing and sadomasochism. With Kabuki-whitened faces, they leap on stage puking blood, ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="K"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/if-i-were-your-woman-is-the-long-awaited-follow-up-to-grapevine-says-gladys-knight">Gladys Knight and the Pips: "'If I Were Your Woman' is the long awaited follow up to 'Grapevine'" says Gladys Knight</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by John Abbey, <i>Blues &amp; Soul</i>, 5 February 1971</p> <p class="excerpt">THE NEW Year is only a month old yet already something of great note has occurred in the chart stakes in the States. Gladys Knight ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="K"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/kraftwerk-ralf-htter--hes-more-aaaaaah">Kraftwerk: Ralf Hütter – He's More 'Aaaaaah'</a></p> <p>Interview by Simon Witter, <i>Dummy</i>, Spring 2006</p> <p class="excerpt">2008 Note: When I met Ralf H&uuml;tter in London in early 2006, it was ostensibly to hear about the release plans Kraftwerk had for that ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="K"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/ralf-htter-i-got-a-new-head-and-im-fine">Kraftwerk: Ralf Hütter: "I got a new head, and I'm fine"</a></p> <p>Interview by John Harris, <i>The Guardian</i>, 19 June 2009</p> <p class="excerpt">The bikes ... the robots ... the dream of man and machine in perfect harmony. How is the Kraftwerk vision of the future shaping up? ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="K"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/lenny-kravitz-come-in-sit-down-skin-up">Lenny Kravitz: Come in, sit down, skin up…</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, <i>Q</i>, March 1993</p> <p class="excerpt">Enter, why don't you, Lenny Kravitz's psychedelically appointed freak pad, where herbular smells prevail, outdoor footwear is outlawed and co-habitees number willowy blondes and cantankerous ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/labelle-iphoenixi">LaBelle: <I>Phoenix</I></a></p> <p>Review by Wayne Robins, <i>Creem</i>, December 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">SOME KEY ITEMS – a barrier breaking (&#145;first blacks&#146;) performance at the Metropolitan Opera; the anthemization of &#145;Lady Marmalade&#146;; Nona Hendryx's proud lesbianism – have ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/lambchop-aw-cmonno-you-cmon-">Lambchop: <i>Aw C'mon/No You C'mon</i> </a></p> <p>Review by Ben Thompson, <i>Observer Music Monthly</i>, 1 February 2004</p> <p class="excerpt">LIKE OUTKAST'S Speakerboxx/ The Love Below, the eighth album by Nashville's premier artisan country/ soul collective is a double-disc set designed to prompt endless speculation ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/led-zeppelin-are-not-prefabricated">Led Zeppelin Are Not Prefabricated</a></p> <p>Interview by Keith Altham, <i>Top Pops</i>, 13 September 1969</p> <p class="excerpt">WHEN is a hit single unnecessary? Apparently when it is a group like Led Zeppelin who have never released a single but have reached super ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/led-zeppelin-icodai">Led Zeppelin: <I>Coda</I></a></p> <p>Review by Richard Cook, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 11 December 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">THAT THERE is no appreciable difference between 'We're Gonna Groove' from 1969 and 'Wearing And Tearing' from 1978 – the opening and closing tracks in ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/terry-manning-on-led-zeppelin-an-interview">Led Zeppelin: Terry Manning on Led Zeppelin: An Interview</a></p> <p>Interview by Barney Hoskyns, <i>unpublished</i>, February 2011</p> <p class="excerpt">NOTE: This is a transcript of a phone interview I did with the legendary Ardent/Compass Point engineer for Trampled Under Foot, my 2012 oral history ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/arthur-lee-ive-been-black-all-the-time-admits-controversial-star">Arthur Lee, Love: Arthur Lee: 'I've been black all the time,' admits controversial star</a></p> <p>Interview by Max Bell, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 17 May 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">He also admits to a severe case of baldness. Otherwise it's still ARTHUR LEE, back in Britain with a new Love ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/jerry-leiber-and-mike-stoller-by-royal-appointment-2">Elvis Presley, Leiber and Stoller: Jerry Leiber And Mike Stoller: By Royal Appointment</a></p> <p>Interview by Harvey Kubernik, <i>MOJO</i>, March 1995</p> <p class="excerpt">Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, the greatest rock 'n' roll songwriting team of all time, have their songs celebrated in the musical Smokey Joe's Cafe ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/lemonheads-shepherds-bush-empire-london">The Lemonheads: Lemonheads: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Dele Fadele, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 19 June 1994</p> <p class="excerpt">HOW HAS EVAN Dando managed to survive the Russian roulette games and hoop-jumping required of a heart-throb by the shark-infested music industry? How does he ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/john-lennon-please-your-majesty-can-our-john-have-a-free-pardon">John Lennon: Please, Your Majesty, Can Our John Have A Free Pardon?</a></p> <p>Interview by Andrew Tyler, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 19 January 1974</p> <p class="excerpt">Heavy breathing over the phone as ANDREW TYLER gets the lowdown from LENNON in L.A. Genius is police harassment, says the Walrus ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/john-lennon-iplastic-ono-band-iapple-yoko-ono-iplastic-ono-band-i-apple">John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Plastic Ono Band: John Lennon: <I>Plastic Ono Band </I>(Apple)/ Yoko Ono: <I>Plastic Ono Band </I> (Apple)</a></p> <p>Review by Dave Marsh, <i>Creem</i>, March 1971</p> <p class="excerpt">BOTH OF THESE records are remarkable in some aspect, a sort of East-West five years after Butterfield and Allan Watts. Certainly, until this point, John ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/level-42-squeeze-crystal-palace-london">Level 42, Squeeze: Level 42; Squeeze: Crystal Palace, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, <i>Q</i>, October 1991</p> <p class="excerpt">THE MICRO-economic indicators at Crystal Palace Bowl are contradictory: the touts are offering tickets at "less than box office price" but with the opening act ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/jerry-lee-lewis-ilive-at-the-star-club-ibear-family">Jerry Lee Lewis: <I>Live At the Star Club </I>(Bear Family)</a></p> <p>Review by Tom Graves, <i>Rock &amp; Roll Disc</i>, November 1989</p> <p class="excerpt">WHAT IS IT about Jerry Lee Lewis that so fascinates us and makes us love a character so inherently unlovable? He only had a handful ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-staple-singerslinda-lewis-royal-festival-hall-london">Linda Lewis, The Staple Singers: The Staple Singers/Linda Lewis: Royal Festival Hall, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by David Nathan, <i>Blues &amp; Soul</i>, 12 February 1974</p> <p class="excerpt">IF ANYONE ever asked for a definition of soul, the best advice you could give them would be to go to a concert by the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/lindisfarne-tell-all-">Lindisfarne Tell All </a></p> <p>Interview by Keith Altham, <i>Record Mirror</i>, 11 March 1972</p> <p class="excerpt">DEFINING Lindisfarne's success is rather like pulling the wings off a butterfly at present but there seems little doubt after having seen them on stage ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/little-feat-albums">Little Feat Albums</a></p> <p>Overview by Mick Houghton, <i>Let It Rock</i>, March 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">Sailin' Shoes (Warner Bros K46156)Dixie Chicken (Warner Bros K46200)Feats Don't Fail Me Now (Warner Bros K56030) ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/little-feat-forum-london-">Little Feat: Forum, London </a></p> <p>Live Review by Paul Lester, <i>The Guardian</i>, 13 September 2000</p> <p class="excerpt">THERE WERE THREE groups who vividly chronicled life in post-Woodstock America. The Band sought refuge from the psychedelic intensity of the period in the country's ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/little-richard-lewisham-odeon-london">Little Richard: Lewisham Odeon, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Mick Farren, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 12 July 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">THE DEBUT DATE of Little Richard's UK tour at the half empty Lewisham Odeon was little short of a disaster. Possibly the person least to ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/nils-lofgren-i-nils-lofgreni-am">Nils Lofgren: <I> Nils Lofgren</I> (A&M)</a></p> <p>Review by Ken Barnes, <i>Phonograph Record</i>, February 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">WELL, THIS IS more like it. Nils Lofgren, in his first solo attempt, has come up with a smashing album that restores him to the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/nils-lofgren-i-came-to-dance">Nils Lofgren: <i>I Came To Dance</i></a></p> <p>Review by Mitchell Cohen, <i>Creem</i>, June 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">MAYBE NILS LOFGREN always was sort of a dummy. But his heart was in the right place (on his sleeve), he was capable of inventing ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/love-forever-changes">Love: <i>Forever Changes</i></a></p> <p>Sleeve notes by Ben Edmonds, <i>Elektra Traditions</i>, 2001</p> <p class="excerpt">June 1967. Peace and love wasn't all it was cracked up to be, and nowhere was this seen more clearly than under the smog-orange skies ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/love-the-great-west-coast-enigma">Love: The Great West Coast Enigma</a></p> <p>Interview by uncredited writer, <i>Beat Instrumental</i>, April 1970</p> <p class="excerpt">IN 1967, a record called Da Capo by a practically unheard-of Los Angeles group called Love appeared on the Elektra label. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/nick-lowe-jesus-of-cool">Nick Lowe: <i>Jesus Of Cool</i></a></p> <p>Review by Peter Silverton, <i>Sounds</i>, 25 February 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">YOU KNOW how it is. You hear one word and you're tantalised into eavesdropping on the rest. Bars at receptions are a good place for ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/lynyrd-skynyrd-gimme-back-my-bullets--mca-2744-">Lynyrd Skynyrd: <i>Gimme Back My Bullets </i> (MCA 2744) </a></p> <p>Review by Harry Doherty, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 31 January 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">FOR SUCH A great continent, America has given the outside world very few real rock and roll bands. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="L"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/memories-of-lynyrd-skynyrd-and-peter-rudge">Lynyrd Skynyrd: Memories Of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Peter Rudge</a></p> <p>Retrospective by Chris Charlesworth, <i>Rock&#39;s Backpages</i>, 2001</p> <p class="excerpt">LYNYRD SKYNYRD WAS MANAGED BY my friend Peter Rudge from late 1973. Rudge&#146;s main pre-occupation at this time was The Who, for whom he&#146;d worked ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/madness-the-italian-nutty-brigade">Madness: The Italian Nutty Brigade</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Paolo Hewitt, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 25 October 1980</p> <p class="excerpt">All aboard the trans-Europe express as Madness go from Rome to Amsterdam, by Paolo Hewitt ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/madonna-the-missus">Madonna the Missus</a></p> <p>Essay by Ben Thompson, <i>The Independent</i>, May 2001</p> <p class="excerpt">IN HENRY JAMES' 1873 short story &#145;The Madonna of the Future&#146;, the American protagonist visits the city of Florence, where he encounters a strange and ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/madonna-itrue-bluei">Madonna: <I>True Blue</I></a></p> <p>Review by Davitt Sigerson, <i>Rolling Stone</i>, 17 July 1986</p> <p class="excerpt">OF ALL CURRENT superstars, none has manipulated the apparatus of fame more astutely than Madonna. Like Prince, she recognized the virtue of a one-word name ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/magazine-article">Magazine Article!</a></p> <p>Interview by Jon Savage, <i>New York Rocker</i>, April 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">"Well I say what I mean/I say what comes to my mind" &ndash; 'Boredom' "Whatever makes me tick/It takes away my concentration" &ndash; 'Breakdown' ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/magazine-imaybe-its-right-to-be-nervous-now-ivirgin-3cds-">Magazine: <I>Maybe It's Right to Be Nervous Now </I>(Virgin, 3CDs) ****</a></p> <p>Review by Keith Cameron, <i>The Guardian</i>, 22 September 2000</p> <p class="excerpt">FOLLOWING AN initial period of liberation, punk, like all revolutionary forces, soon substituted new orthodoxies for those it had blown apart. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/manic-street-preachers-this-is-my-truth-tell-me-yours">Manic Street Preachers: <i>This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours</i></a></p> <p>Review and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, <i>MOJO</i>, October 1998</p> <p class="excerpt">FOLLOW-UP TO 1996's chart-topping Everything Must Go. Named after a line in a speech by miner's son and NHS founder Aneurin Bevan. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/bob-marley--the-wailers">Bob Marley & The Wailers</a></p> <p>Review by Lloyd Bradley, <i>Q</i>, October 1990</p> <p class="excerpt">Confrontational classics from Bob Marley ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/bob-marley--the-wailers-irastaman-vibrationi-island">Bob Marley & The Wailers: <I>Rastaman Vibration</I> (Island)</a></p> <p>Review by Vivien Goldman, <i>Sounds</i>, 1 May 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">"Chase them crazy bald heads out of town" ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/bob-marley-the-first-genius-of-reggae">Bob Marley & the Wailers: Bob Marley: The First Genius of Reggae?</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Richard Williams, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 24 February 1973</p> <p class="excerpt">BOB MARLEY, slightly-built and quiet to the point of diffidence, is a leader. He's the master of Reggae, the man who's about to give it ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/burnin-bob-marley-and-the-wailers-take-britain">Bob Marley & the Wailers: Burnin': Bob Marley and the Wailers take Britain</a></p> <p>Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, <i>MOJO</i>, March 1995</p> <p class="excerpt">Babylon is freezing. The Wailers arrive on a mission to ignite below-zero Britain. Thus begins the demise of the original band and the rise of ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/john-martyn-imad-dog-daysi">John Martyn: <I>Mad Dog Days</I></a></p> <p>Review by Barney Hoskyns, <i>Uncut</i>, September 2004</p> <p class="excerpt">Two-CD set of mainly live jazz-folk genius from the early &#145;70s to the mid-&#145;90s, with bonus DVD interview from last year. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/up-to-date-with-john-martyn">John Martyn: Up To Date With John Martyn</a></p> <p>Interview by Andy Childs, <i>ZigZag</i>, March 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">ONLY SIX WEEKS or so gone, and already it looks as if 1977 is going to be a cracker of a year for rock music! ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/john-mayall-the-turning-point">John Mayall: <i>The Turning Point</i></a></p> <p>Review by Loyd Grossman, <i>Fusion</i>, 17 October 1969</p> <p class="excerpt">A TURNING POINT in British blues music may have been reached last May when Mick Taylor and Colin Allen left John Mayall's band. Following their ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/curtis-mayfield-i-people-get-readyi">Curtis Mayfield: <I> People Get Ready!</I></a></p> <p>Review by Lloyd Bradley, <i>MOJO</i>, March 1996</p> <p class="excerpt">THE LAST FIVE YEARS HAVE SEEN THE BOX-setting of James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Bob Marley and a fair few other giants of black ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/curtis-mayfield-where-hes-been-and-where-hes-going">Curtis Mayfield: Where He's Been And Where He's Going</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Roger St. Pierre, <i>Let It Rock</i>, October 1972</p> <p class="excerpt">AFTER SUCH COMMITTED, socially conscious compositions as 'This Is My Country', 'Mighty Mighty, Spade and Whitey' and 'Choice Of Colours' Curtis Mayfield believes the time ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/imc5---a-true-testimonali-futurenow-films">MC5: <I>MC5 - A True Testimonal</I> (Future/Now Films)</a></p> <p>Review by Lindsay Hutton, <i>Rock&#39;s Backpages</i>, November 2002</p> <p class="excerpt">SEVEN YEARS in the making, this is a multi-dimensional boot up the jacksy to the increasing legion of lazy tosspots that compares anything with a ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-mc5-ihigh-timei">MC5: The MC5: <I>High Time</I></a></p> <p>Review by Greg Shaw, <i>Phonograph Record</i>, September 1971</p> <p class="excerpt">WHENEVER I USED to say I liked the MC5, I would always preface the statement with some remark like "sure, I know they're a bunch ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/paul-mccartney-unplugged-the-official-bootleg">Paul McCartney: <i>Unplugged (The Official Bootleg)</i></a></p> <p>Review by Tom Graves, <i>Rock &amp; Roll Disc</i>, July 1991</p> <p class="excerpt">I HAVE A MENTAL image of Paul McCartney that I carry in my heart like a mother's locket. It's one of those moody black ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/kate-and-anna-mcgarrigle-kate-and-anna-mcgarrigle-warner-brothers--">Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Kate and Anna McGarrigle: <i>Kate and Anna McGarrigle</i> (Warner Brothers) </a></p> <p>Review by Miles, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 6 March 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">"THERE&#146;S A song of Kate McGarrigle&#146;s, which Maria Muldaur sang on her first LP, called &#145;Work Song&#146;, which is about all the old songs that ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/roger-mcguinn-byrds-man-waits-his-turn-turn-turn">Roger McGuinn: Byrds Man Waits His Turn Turn Turn</a></p> <p>Interview by Debbie Kruger, <i>The Courier Mail</i>, 9 April 1998</p> <p class="excerpt">HEROES AREN'T ALWAYS hard to find. Roger McGuinn, founding member of seminal '60s group The Byrds, seems to make a career these days of being ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/roger-mcguinn-roger-and-out">Roger McGuinn: Roger And Out</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 4 May 1974</p> <p class="excerpt">"JEEZ, I HOPE the sound guy is straight tonight." said Al. "The guy who did it last night didn't have a clue. Might wind up ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/mozart-puccini-bizet-and-mclaren">Malcolm McLaren: Mozart, Puccini, Bizet, and McLaren</a></p> <p>Interview by Glenn O&#39;Brien, <i>Artforum</i>, December 1984</p> <p class="excerpt">MALCOLM McLAREN is a new sort of artist, your Barbarian Renaissance Man, the missing link between Leonardo and Conan. 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That's because most good men are bound to come up ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/mercury-revs-dark-dream">Mercury Rev’s Dark Dream</a></p> <p>Interview by Barney Hoskyns, <i>The Guardian</i>, August 2001</p> <p class="excerpt">ON MAY 28, 1998, Jonathan Donahue and Sean "Grasshopper" of Mercury Rev sat rather dejectedly in a diner in Woodstock, New York, and talked about ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/george-michael-listen-without-prejudice-vol-1">George Michael: <i>Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1</i></a></p> <p>Review by Mat Snow, <i>Q</i>, October 1990</p> <p class="excerpt">SOME THREE YEARS and 14 million copies later, George Michael follows up his solo debut Faith with an album that should prove to any lingering ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/steve-miller-band-recall-the-beginning">Steve Miller Band: <i>Recall The Beginning…</i></a></p> <p>Review by Bud Scoppa, <i>Rolling Stone</i>, 27 April 1972</p> <p class="excerpt">WAY BACK in the Sixties, three bands in particular were responsible for recharging my rock fanaticism – Procol Harum, the Byrds, and the Steve Miller ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/just-another-toughntender-street-poet-outta-new-yawk">Mink DeVille: Just Another Tough'n'Tender Street Poet Outta New Yawk</a></p> <p>Interview by Miles, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 13 August 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">Now Spanish music plays in my hallway And the wind blows through my door And my mind is out on the corner And my eyes ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/joni-mitchell-starring-at-troubadour-">Joni Mitchell Starring at Troubadour </a></p> <p>Live Review by Stephen M H Braitman, <i>Van Nuys Valley News</i>, 24 January 1969</p> <p class="excerpt">THE CROWD was larger, more expectant this time, as they waited for Joni Mitchell to mount the Troubadour stage Tuesday night and begin her return ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/joni-mitchell-the-renaissance-woman">Joni Mitchell: The Renaissance Woman</a></p> <p>Interview by Robin Eggar, <i>The Sunday Times</i>, 11 February 2007</p> <p class="excerpt">At last the times have caught up with Joni Mitchell – musician, artist and now inspiration for a ballet ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/organ-blinder--keyboard-money-mark-imarks-keyboard-repairi-mowax-mw034-20-tks39-minsfp">Money Mark: Organ Blinder — Keyboard Money Mark: <i>Mark's Keyboard Repair</i> (Mo'Wax MW034 20 tks/39 mins/FP)</a></p> <p>Review by Everett True, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 2 September 1995</p> <p class="excerpt">You may not know it, but you've already chilled to Money Mark's Starsky'n'Hutch keyboard grooves on the last Beastie Boys record. Now he's kickin' it ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/instant-replay-does-anyone-dare-remember-the-monkees">The Monkees: Instant Replay: Does Anyone Dare Remember The Monkees?</a></p> <p>Interview by Harold Bronson, <i>Coast</i>, 1 September 1971</p> <p class="excerpt">Here we come, Walkin' down the street.We get the funniest looksFrom everyone we meet. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/moody-blues-saints-or-sinners">The Moody Blues: Moody Blues: Saints Or Sinners?</a></p> <p>Interview by Keith Altham, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 20 October 1973</p> <p class="excerpt">SO THE Moody Blues have just finished then cathedral-rock tour of Europe and Britain – their first British dates for over a year. As usual ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/keith-moon-moon-beams">Keith Moon: Moon Beams</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 8 March 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">LOS ANGELES: In the last six months, he's jammed with Ray Manzarek at the Whiskey, played with John Sebastian at the Troubadour and recently, at ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/van-morrison-gonna-rock-your-gypsy-soul">Van Morrison: Gonna Rock Your Gypsy Soul</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Richard Williams, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 28 July 1973</p> <p class="excerpt">"IT'S SHOWTIME, ladies and gentlemen! And here's the one you've been waiting for – the Caledonia Soul Orchestra with ... VAN MORRISON!" ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-year-of-the-smiths-">Morrissey, The Smiths: The Year Of The Smiths </a></p> <p>Comment by Barney Hoskyns, <i>The Virgin Yearbook</i>, 1984</p> <p class="excerpt">GAY MEN PAVED pop&rsquo;s way this year. With Boy George&rsquo;s wardrobe fully open, all the closet cases came spilling forth: Burns and The Bronskis, Frankie ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/morrissey-kill-uncle-sire">Morrissey: <i>Kill</i> <i>Uncle </i>(Sire)</a></p> <p>Review by Simon Reynolds, <i>The Village Voice</i>, 2 April 1991</p> <p class="excerpt">"OH MANCHESTER, so much to answer for..." Contradiction has always been at the heart of Morrissey's mythologization of his hometown: this was nostalgia for a ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/motorhead-guitarist-is-running-on-all-cylinders">Motorhead Guitarist Is Running On All Cylinders</a></p> <p>Interview by Don Snowden, <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, 10 October 1986</p> <p class="excerpt">WURZEL BURSTON'S road to Motorhead qualifies as one of rock's more implausible success stories. Originally a drummer, Burston switched to guitar at the advanced age ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/motorhead-friars-aylesbury">Motorhead: Friars, Aylesbury</a></p> <p>Live Review by Kris Needs, <i>ZigZag</i>, April 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">JUST GONE 7.30 and the punter queue is already half in. About a thousand punks, bikers, 'Awkwind 'Eadbangers and 48 hour fun-makers have turned up ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/mott-the-hoople-iwildlfei">Mott the Hoople: <I>Wildlfe</I></a></p> <p>Review by Ben Edmonds, <i>Rolling Stone</i>, 10 June 1971</p> <p class="excerpt">THE OUTCOME of the battle has yet to be conclusively determined, but my scorecard gives the race for "The Most Beloved Rock And Roll Band ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-move-the-best-of-the-move">The Move: <i>The Best Of The Move</i></a></p> <p>Review by Greg Shaw, <i>Phonograph Record</i>, May 1974</p> <p class="excerpt">IF THER IS one band whose legendary attributes and entangled history need no longer be catalogued, that band is the Move. True, of all the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/maria-muldaur-isweet-harmonyi-reprise-">Maria Muldaur: <I>Sweet Harmony</I> (Reprise) *****</a></p> <p>Review by Barbara Charone, <i>Sounds</i>, 28 February 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">SALVATION HAS come down from the heaven's in the shape of Maria Muldaur's third album which finds the artist growing in leaps and bounds, moving ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="M"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/my-bloody-valentine-loveless-2">My Bloody Valentine: <i>Loveless</i></a></p> <p>Review by Martin Aston, <i>Q</i>, January 1992</p> <p class="excerpt">FACED WITH MY Bloody Valentine's formative fumblings, few would have predicted that this garage lurch could metamorphosise into the swooning melody crush that constituted 1988's ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="N"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/willie-nelson-iwillie-nelson-livei-rca-">Willie Nelson: <I>Willie Nelson Live</I> (RCA)** </a></p> <p>Review by Chas de Whalley, <i>Sounds</i>, 9 October 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">WILLIE NELSON has been in country music for the better part of twenty years as a songwriter and performer, while, arm in arm with Waylon ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="N"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/willie-nelson-shepherds-bush-empire-london-">Willie Nelson: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London </a></p> <p>Live Review by Andrew Mueller, <i>The Independent</i>, 5 April 2005</p> <p class="excerpt">AT THIS LATE stage, attending a Willie Nelson concert is more a gesture of pilgrimage than anything else. Nelson, now 71, with a ponytail that ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="N"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/nerd-ifly-or-die-ivirgin">N.E.R.D.: N*E*R*D: <I>Fly or Die </I>(Virgin)****</a></p> <p>Review by Ben Thompson, <i>Observer Music Monthly</i>, 21 March 2004</p> <p class="excerpt">IF ITS ILLUSTRIOUS predecessor – 2001's visionary soft-porn psychedelic soul masterpiece In Search of... – was anything to go by, the release of a new ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="N"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/michael-nesmith-ex-beat-group-crazy-in-weirdo-film-project">Michael Nesmith: Ex-Beat Group Crazy In Weirdo Film Project</a></p> <p>Interview by Mick Houghton, <i>Sounds</i>, 16 April 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">MIKE NESMITH's career has taken a surprising number of twists and turns over the years, from writing songs for Linda Rondstadt in the early Sixties, ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="N"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-devil-made-him-do-it-randy-newman">Randy Newman: The Devil Made Him Do It: Randy Newman</a></p> <p>Interview by Roy Trakin, <i>Addicted To Noise</i>, 31 October 1995</p> <p class="excerpt">"IT'S HARD TO keep a good man down" goes the refrain to one of the songs on Randy Newman's musical version of the Goethe tale, ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="N"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/new-order-ithe-best-of-new-orderi-london">New Order: <I>The Best of New Order</I> (London)</a></p> <p>Review by Andy Gill, <i>MOJO</i>, December 1994</p> <p class="excerpt">LESS A SUCCESSOR TO THE SUBSTANCE compilation than an update, The Best Of New Order takes a very short-term view of the group's career, reprising ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="N"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/new-order-brixton-ace-london-">New Order: Brixton Ace, London </a></p> <p>Live Review by Lynden Barber, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 26 March 1983</p> <p class="excerpt">THE OMENS WERE poor. Judging from the new single, 'Blue Monday', you could be forgiven for supposing that New Order are simply the latest Factory ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="N"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/up-and-down-in-paris-and-london-the-new-york-dolls-trash-europe">New York Dolls: Up and Down in Paris and London: The New York Dolls trash Europe</a></p> <p>Book Excerpt by Nina Antonia, <i>Omnibus Books</i>, 1998</p> <p class="excerpt">An extract from Too Much Too Soon: The New York Dolls by Nina Antonia, first published by Omnibus Press in 1998. (208pp, currently available in ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="N"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/nico-idrama-of-exilei-aura">Nico: <I>Drama Of Exile</I> (Aura)*****</a></p> <p>Review by Sandy Robertson, <i>Sounds</i>, 4 July 1981</p> <p class="excerpt">TANGLED UP in myth, perspective gets shot all to hell. Even the official biographical sheet accompanying this album repeats the old chestnut that John Cale ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="N"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/harry-nilsson-ison-of-schmilssoni">Harry Nilsson: <I>Son Of Schmilsson</I></a></p> <p>Review by David Rensin, <i>Phonograph Record</i>, September 1972</p> <p class="excerpt">WELL, WELL. Harry Nilsson has sure thrown a big pebble into the music puddle. There's not much to say about the things you hear in ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="N"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/nirvana-with-the-lights-out-geffen">Nirvana: <i>With The Lights Out</i> (Geffen)</a></p> <p>Review by Stevie Chick, <i>The Stranger</i>, 18 November 2004</p> <p class="excerpt">POSTHUMOUS RELEASES FROM from departed artists often flail to do the impossible – to provide the music so violently and abruptly silenced by, say, Jeff ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="N"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/nirvana-take-the-money-and-run">Nirvana: Take The Money and Run</a></p> <p>Interview by Keith Cameron, <i>Sounds</i>, 27 October 1990</p> <p class="excerpt">If any of the US underground bands are likely to break through into the mainstream, then it's got to be NIRVANA. Currently being courted by ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="N"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/divorce-ted-nugent-style">Ted Nugent: Divorce, Ted Nugent Style</a></p> <p>Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, <i>Sounds</i>, 19 May 1979</p> <p class="excerpt">TED NUGENT (Hammersmith Odeon, second house): "There can come a time when you baby turns to you and says 'I'm splittin'' and you're so sad ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="N"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/ted-nugent-hammersmith-odeon-london">Ted Nugent: Hammersmith Odeon, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Mick Farren, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 12 March 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">WE'VE HEARD a great deal lately about how Ted Nugent abjures drugs and alcohol. Perhaps that's his mistake. The occasional soul searching high might have ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="N"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-principal-pleasure-of-being-gary-numan">Gary Numan: The Principal Pleasure Of Being Gary Numan</a></p> <p>Interview by Dave DiMartino, <i>Creem</i>, June 1980</p> <p class="excerpt">GARY NUMAN is a nice guy. Seriously. And what I want to know – and what he wants to know, too, though he's probably too ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="N"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/laura-nyro-union-chapel-islington-london">Laura Nyro: Union Chapel, Islington, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Rob Steen, <i>MOJO</i>, February 1995</p> <p class="excerpt">WHEN LAURA PLAYED MONTEREY, nerves and rushed rehearsals saw her flounder as the hairies waited for Hendrix. Tonight there are enough baldies in the pews ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="O"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/oasis-live-jones-beach-ny">Oasis live: Jones Beach, NY</a></p> <p>Live Review by Edward Helmore, <i>sonicnet.com</i>, 7 September 1996</p> <p class="excerpt">Fresh from their MTV award performance, during which singer Liam Gallagher spat, swore and threw beer at the audience, Oasis came to this seaside stage ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="O"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/sinead-oconnor-i-do-not-want-what-i-have-not-got">Sinead O'Connor: <i>I Do Not Want What I Have Not Got</i></a></p> <p>Review by Robert Sandall, <i>Q</i>, April 1990</p> <p class="excerpt">ON THE FACE of it, Sinead O'Connor is an unlikely person to be setting such a cracking pace into the new decade. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="O"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-mike-oldfield-finds-out-that-success-has-its-problems">Mike Oldfield: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Mike Oldfield Finds Out That Success Has Its Problems</a></p> <p>Interview by Fred Dellar, <i>Smash Hits</i>, 10 January 1980</p> <p class="excerpt">MIKE OLDFIELD strokes the tabby cat that sits on his lap. Though in the comfort of his own home, he's uneasy, unsure. It's a bad ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="O"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-prince-of-darkness">Will Oldham: The Prince Of Darkness</a></p> <p>Interview by Sean O&#39;Hagan, <i>The Observer</i>, 12 March 2001</p> <p class="excerpt">"I created Billy and let him take care of the performing. It's not me, Will Oldham, who gets up on stage." ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="O"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/orchestral-manoeuvres-in-the-dark-hammersmith-odeon-london">Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: Hammersmith Odeon, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Mat Snow, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 30 April 1983</p> <p class="excerpt">ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES In The Dark are a triumph of packaging over content. The same principle that determines the lavishly striking sleeves by Peter Saville extends ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="O"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-only-ones-even-serpents-shine-cbs">The Only Ones: <i>Even Serpents Shine</i> (CBS)</a></p> <p>Review by Ian Birch, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 1979</p> <p class="excerpt">SINGLES can often be deceptive signposts for forthcoming albums. When &#145;You've Got To Pay&#146; slipped out a few weeks back, it didn't augur well for ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="O"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/yoko-ono-scream-and-scream-again">Yoko Ono: Scream And Scream Again</a></p> <p>Live Review by Jeff Tamarkin, <i>Creem</i>, September 1986</p> <p class="excerpt">Yoko Ono: Beacon Theater, New York, May 22, 1986 ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="O"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/orange-juice-rip-it-up">Orange Juice: <i>Rip It Up</i></a></p> <p>Review by Richard Cook, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 13 November 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">I JUST played Buddy Holly's version of 'Rip It Up' to remind me, although Edwyn Collins gives the impression he is unfamiliar with such iconography. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="O"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/roy-orbison-ithe-complete-sun-sessions-ivarese-sarabande">Roy Orbison: <I>The Complete Sun Sessions </I>(Varese Sarabande)</a></p> <p>Review by Gary Pig Gold, <i>In Music We Trust</i>, January 2004</p> <p class="excerpt">FOR THOSE WHO may be only marginally aware of The Big O's 1950's recordings (ie: via Creedence's credible cover of 'Ooby Dooby' 'way back when), ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="O"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/outkast-live-in-london">OutKast: Live in London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Gavin Martin, <i>Uncut</i>, April 2001</p> <p class="excerpt">THE LAUREL And Hardy of phuture rap ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/robert-palmer-some-people-like-what-i-do">Robert Palmer: Some People Like What I Do</a></p> <p>Interview by Vivien Goldman, <i>Sounds</i>, 6 November 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">BRIGHT LIGHTS, big city...it's a reception in honour of the Staple Singers and the Meters at a club down in Greenwich Village, prior to their ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/graham-parker-and-the-rumour-hammersmith-odeon-london----">Graham Parker And The Rumour: Hammersmith Odeon, London </a></p> <p>Live Review by Paul Morley, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 14 April 1979</p> <p class="excerpt">WHILE NO ONE was looking, Graham Parker has nimbly and single-mindedly stepped through his inner tangles and finally balanced purpose with expression and also brought ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/graham-parker-journey-to-the-centre-of-your-spine">Graham Parker: Journey To The Centre Of Your Spine</a></p> <p>Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 3 March 1979</p> <p class="excerpt">A CONCRETE BARN with a stage at one end: cables, cases, dust. A hyper-active dog in the grip of irresistible sexual forces is scooting around ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/jah-wobble--evan-parker-ipassage-to-hadesi-30-hertz-">Evan Parker, Jah Wobble: Jah Wobble & Evan Parker: <I>Passage To Hades</I> (30 HERTZ) </a></p> <p>Review by David Toop, <i>The Wire</i>, February 2001</p> <p class="excerpt">PERHAPS THIS IS a disingenuous flash of hindsight on my part, but I'm convinced that when I heard Public Image Limited's first album, back in ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/van-dyke-parks-iclang-of-the-yankee-reaperi-warner-bros">Van Dyke Parks: <I>Clang Of The Yankee Reaper</I> (Warner Bros.)</a></p> <p>Review by Penny Valentine, <i>Street Life</i>, 15 November 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">ONE DAY I got this strange note from America. It said: "Thanks for the review of my single. It is the first good review I've ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/van-dyke-parks-the-greatest-collaborator">Van Dyke Parks: The Greatest Collaborator</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Nick Hasted, <i>The Independent</i>, July 1999</p> <p class="excerpt">VAN DYKE PARKS knows people who know. He always has. He has the CV of Woody Allen's Zelig, is in the corner of the picture ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/gram-parsons-ianother-side-of-this-lifei-sundazed">Gram Parsons: <I>Another Side of This Life</I> (Sundazed)</a></p> <p>Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, <i>MOJO</i>, February 2001</p> <p class="excerpt">Unheard mid-&#146;60s folk recordings taped in Florida by Gram&#146;s pal Jim Carlton. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/mojo-rising-pavement">Pavement: Mojo Rising: Pavement</a></p> <p>Interview by Barney Hoskyns, <i>MOJO</i>, June 1995</p> <p class="excerpt">WE SHOULD HAVE seen it coming, really. While other leading practitioners of lo-fi American rock – Beck, Sebadoh, Royal Trux, The Grifters, Guided By Voices ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/pearl-jam-you-my-son-are-weird">Pearl Jam: 'You, My Son, Are Weird!'</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, <i>Q</i>, November 1993</p> <p class="excerpt">They&#146;ve a singer, Eddie Vedder, who makes Lou Reed look like a happy-go-lucky bloke; they&#146;re vilified in the press and manically suspicious of The Biz. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/an-audience-with-john-peel">John Peel: An Audience With John Peel</a></p> <p>Interview by Nick Doherty, <i>Jockey Slut</i>, 2002</p> <p class="excerpt">Celeb 1: Howie B: With this playlist culture, when do you decide what's going to be played on your radio show? ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/penetration-imoving-targetsi-virgin">Penetration: <I>Moving Targets</I> (Virgin)****</a></p> <p>Review by Jon Savage, <i>Sounds</i>, 14 October 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">WE'RE NOT the same, you're not the same, they're not the same. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/pere-ubu-the-modern-dance-">Pere Ubu: <i>The Modern Dance </i></a></p> <p>Review by Paul Rambali, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 11 March 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">WRECKLESS UBU: Waiting For The End ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-art-of-pere-ubu">Pere Ubu: The Art Of Pere Ubu</a></p> <p>Interview by Adam Sweeting, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 1981</p> <p class="excerpt">IT'S AN IRONIC twist of fate that Pere Ubu's latest visit to the UK should be prefaced by Rough Trade's reissue of the band's debut ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/carl-perkins-blue-suede-shoes">Carl Perkins: 'Blue Suede Shoes'</a></p> <p>Profile by Colin Escott, <i>The History of Rock</i>, 1981</p> <p class="excerpt">One song rocketed Carl Perkins to stardom ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-pet-shop-boys-pop-aganda-">Pet Shop Boys: The Pet Shop Boys: Pop-aganda </a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Stephen Dalton, <i>The Times</i>, 3 September 2004</p> <p class="excerpt">Potemkin and the sound of a Pet Shop Boy ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/10-questions-for-tom-petty">Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: 10 Questions for Tom Petty</a></p> <p>Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, <i>MOJO</i>, May 1999</p> <p class="excerpt">What's your fascination with San Francisco? Two years ago you staged 20 shows at the Fillmore, and now you're here for seven days. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/tom-petty-2">Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Tom Petty</a></p> <p>Interview by Cynthia Rose, <i>City Limits</i>, 3 December 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">With his 1976 debut album, Tom Petty became a rock star. It seemed he was cast in the classic mould – a hip young American ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/rise-of-the-phishheads">Phish: Rise Of The Phishheads</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, <i>MOJO</i>, June 1996</p> <p class="excerpt">ON A STARRY SUMMER NIGHT at Bearsville Studios, New York, the four members of Phish are bracing themselves for the inevitable Grateful Dead question. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/pink-floyd-iechoes--the-best-ofi">Pink Floyd: <I>Echoes – The Best Of</I></a></p> <p>Review by Jim Irvin, <i>MOJO</i>, December 2001</p> <p class="excerpt">GLOOMY BUGGERS, the Floyd. War, death, bitter childhood, alienation, indoctrination, madness, greed, vicious animal husbandry, imprisonment, old age and, inevitably, death. Hi ho, it's off ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-pixies-facing-the-fire-squad-">The Pixies Facing The Fire Squad </a></p> <p>Interview by Ian Gittins, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 3 November 1990</p> <p class="excerpt">The pixies are the best band on the planet. Discuss. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/robert-plant-ipictures-at-eleveni">Robert Plant: <I>Pictures at Eleven</I></a></p> <p>Review by Mick Farren, <i>Trouser Press</i>, October 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">IT'S ALWAYS HARD to know what to do when the drummer drops dead. The Who and the New York Dolls recruited new ones and pressed ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/robert-plants-record-collection">Robert Plant’s Record Collection</a></p> <p>Guide by Mat Snow, <i>Q</i>, May 1990</p> <p class="excerpt">BACK IN the Spring of 1968, things aren't looking too rosy for 19-year-old singer Robert Plant. His promising group The Band Of Joy have just ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/poco-one-of-the-great-mysteries-of-rock">Poco: One Of The Great Mysteries Of Rock</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Jerry Gilbert, <i>Sounds</i>, 29 September 1973</p> <p class="excerpt">Five years and six albums after they formed Poco remain one of the great mysteries of rock and roll &#150; a band who have lurked ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-pogues-the-sweet-smell-of-success">The Pogues: The Sweet Smell Of Success</a></p> <p>Report by Mat Snow, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 28 March 1986</p> <p class="excerpt">TODAY THE WORLD, TOMORROW THE WORLD ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-police-nottingham-city-hall">The Police: Nottingham City Hall</a></p> <p>Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 7 January 1984</p> <p class="excerpt">RICHARD COOK&#146;S extraordinary vision of The Police (NME, 2nd Dec.) prompts one to reconsider the profound difference between The Police – those awful sing-a-long-a-suicides &#145;So ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/iggy-pop-ithe-idioti">Iggy Pop: <I>The Idiot</I></a></p> <p>Review by Kris Needs, <i>ZigZag</i>, April 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">IT'S TWO O'CLOCK in the morning and I'm playing The Idiot for the fifth time running. Can't stop, it's so compelling...but very VERY strange. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/iggy-pop-roseland-new-york-ny">Iggy Pop: Roseland, New York, NY</a></p> <p>Live Review by Carol Cooper, <i>Newsday</i>, 11 April 1996</p> <p class="excerpt">In 1967, when The Doors released their first LP, a young ex-drummer named James Osterberg formed the Psychedelic Stooges to voice the primal urges of ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/pop-will-eat-itself-canoe-dig-it">Pop Will Eat Itself: Canoe Dig It?</a></p> <p>Report by Jack Barron, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 6 October 1990</p> <p class="excerpt">All Hands on Dick as Dave 'Chippolata' Harper of RCA goes canoeing with Pop Will Eat Itself done up in rubber in downtown Staines, home ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/catching-up-with-paddy-mac">Prefab Sprout: Catching Up with Paddy Mac</a></p> <p>Interview by Chris Ingham, <i>unpublished</i>, November 1999</p> <p class="excerpt">This is an unpublished interview with Paddy McAloon on the release of 38 Carat Gold: The Best Of Prefab Sprout. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-enchanter-paddy-mcaloon">Prefab Sprout: The Enchanter: Paddy McAloon</a></p> <p>Interview by Barney Hoskyns, <i>Vogue</i>, 1988</p> <p class="excerpt">PADDY McALOON is an anomalous figure in the British Pop climate of the late '80s. One of our precious few songwriters of any worth, he ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/he-made-old-mens-blues-sound-young-remembering-elvis">Elvis Presley: He Made Old Men's Blues Sound Young: Remembering Elvis</a></p> <p>Comment by Michael Gray, <i>Daily Telegraph</i>, 10 August 2002</p> <p class="excerpt">WE REMEMBER his ignominious end, and the cavalcade of white Cadillacs driving through Memphis for his funeral 25 years ago this month, but mostly the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-pretenders-packed">The Pretenders: <i>Packed</i></a></p> <p>Review by Charles Shaar Murray, <i>Q</i>, June 1990</p> <p class="excerpt">CHRISSIE HYNDE CAN certainly never be accused of flooding the market: barring a Best Of, Packed is only The Pretenders' fifth album in 12 years. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-pretenders-sheffield-university">The Pretenders: Sheffield University</a></p> <p>Live Review by Andy Gill, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 21 July 1979</p> <p class="excerpt">Duty Now For The Past? ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/pretty-things-isilk-torpedoi">The Pretty Things: Pretty Things: <I>Silk Torpedo</I></a></p> <p>Review by Alan Betrock, <i>Phonograph Record</i>, January 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">THE PRETTY THINGS are back, and this time, with a new label and expected tour, can realistically be expected to enter the American top-40 album ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/primal-scream-2">Primal Scream</a></p> <p>Interview by Simon Reynolds, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 1 June 1991</p> <p class="excerpt">BOBBY GILLESPIE reckons that his new single, 'Higher Than The Sun', will revolutionise pop in the Nineties in the same way as the Pistols' 'Anarchy ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/prince-the-best-of-the-patchy-years">Prince: The Best of the Patchy Years</a></p> <p>Guide by Sylvie Simmons, <i>MOJO</i>, February 1997</p> <p class="excerpt">IN MANY WAYS the ultimate &lsquo;80s self-made man, Prince spent the decade inventing and reinventing himself. The scope of the man&rsquo;s ambition was mindboggling; the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-wit--wisdom-of-prince-rogers-nelson">Prince: The Wit & Wisdom Of Prince Rogers Nelson</a></p> <p>Comment by Bill Holdship, <i>Creem</i>, July 1985</p> <p class="excerpt">HE'S DEFINITELY AN American superstar – one of the most important of the '80s – and his ascent still appears to be just above ground ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/on-the-road-with-procol-harum">Procol Harum: On The Road with Procol Harum</a></p> <p>Interview by Harold Bronson, <i>UCLA Daily Bruin</i>, 11 November 1971</p> <p class="excerpt">"DIABOLICAL," KEITH REID whispered, resting in a chair at a San Diego nightclub that someone described as looking like a reconverted bowling alley. He was ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/procol-harum-triumph-over-worms">Procol Harum Triumph Over Worms</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Tony Stewart, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 19 February 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">That seems to be the gist of it. Like, if you're attacked by worms, here's some good news from a bunch of lads who've suffered ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/prodigy-the-fat-of-the-land-">The Prodigy: Prodigy: <i>The Fat Of The Land </i></a></p> <p>Review by Barney Hoskyns, <i>Rolling Stone</i>, 7 August 1997</p> <p class="excerpt">RARELY HAS a pop trend been so shamelessly spoon-fed to America as the hold-all genre dubbed "electronica". Rarely, indeed, has the music industry tried so ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/professor-longhair-ronnie-scotts-london">Professor Longhair: Ronnie Scotts, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Cliff White, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 15 April 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">I HAVE immense admiration for Professor Longhair ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/public-enemy-fear-of-a-black-planet--professor-griff-and-the-last-asiatic-disciples-pawns-in-the-game">Professor Griff, Public Enemy: Public Enemy: <i>Fear of a Black Planet </i>; Professor Griff and the Last Asiatic Disciples: <i>Pawns in the Game</i></a></p> <p>Review by Ira Robbins, <i>Request</i>, 15 April 1990</p> <p class="excerpt">IN THE 1960s, youthful poets, inspired by radical politics and Woody Guthrie, took up acoustic guitars to deliver topical commentary in a folk music setting. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/psychedelic-furs-feels-like-the-furs-time">The Psychedelic Furs: Psychedelic Furs: Feels Like The Furs Time</a></p> <p>Interview by John Mendelsohn, <i>Creem</i>, January 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">IN 1977, DURING the so-called Summer of hate, yet another refugee from a London art college got fed up with silk-screening "advertising crap" and resolved ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/public-image-limited-the-flowers-of-romance-virgin">Public Image Ltd: Public Image Limited: <i>The Flowers Of Romance</i> (Virgin)</a></p> <p>Review by Jon Savage, <i>The Face</i>, April 1981</p> <p class="excerpt">A typically caustic, sardonic title: the thorn in the rose. If much of the current chart has much of the grace and flow of 1966 ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/public-image-ltd-the-odd-combo">Public Image Ltd.: The Odd Combo</a></p> <p>Interview by Danny Baker, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 16 June 1979</p> <p class="excerpt">Danny Baker goes on the PiS with PiL ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/pulp-this-is-hardcore-">Pulp: <i>This Is Hardcore</i> </a></p> <p>Review by Barney Hoskyns, <i>unpublished</i>, 1998</p> <p class="excerpt">JARVIS COCKER is that most British of pop creatures, the Nerd-as-Superstar. Like the young Morrissey, he&#146;s the spindly misfit, the scrawny mis-shape who outwitted the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="P"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/pulp-non-stop-erotique-cabaret">Pulp: Non Stop Erotique Cabaret</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Chris Roberts, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 4 June 1994</p> <p class="excerpt">"I WAS WONDERING", says Jarvis Cocker. "There was a baboon in the top floor of a flat behind where we played in Paris last night." ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="Q"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/oh-suzi-q">Suzi Quatro: Oh, Suzi Q!!</a></p> <p>Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, <i>The History of Rock</i>, 1983</p> <p class="excerpt">How Quatrophenia conquered the UK "SUZI QUATRO MADE A WELCOME CHANGE from the wimpy, folksy girls who were rock&#146;s only other female representatives at ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="Q"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/suzi-quatroi-suzi-quatroi">Suzi Quatro:<I> Suzi Quatro</I></a></p> <p>Review by Robot A. Hull, <i>Creem</i>, May 1974</p> <p class="excerpt">SUZI QUATRO is a real cutie, rootie tootie, not sweet hog honey like Linda Ronstadt but a tight roller derby queen with juice and enuf ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="Q"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/queen-jazz-elektra">Queen: <i>Jazz</i> (Elektra)</a></p> <p>Review by Mitchell Cohen, <i>Creem</i>, March 1979</p> <p class="excerpt">FOR A FEW weeks in 1978, an FM radio station in New York City was trying, earnestly and imaginatively, to create rock 'n' roll counter-programming. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="Q"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/queen-isheer-heart-attacki">Queen: <I>Sheer Heart Attack</I></a></p> <p>Review by John Mendelsohn, <i>Phonograph Record</i>, March 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">HAVING BEEN duly, uh, blown away by the opening tracks on their previous two albums, I prepared to savor the first cut on Queen's Sheer ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="Q"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/quicksilver-messenger-service-solid-silver">Quicksilver Messenger Service: <i>Solid Silver</i></a></p> <p>Review by Andy Childs, <i>ZigZag</i>, February 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">WELL, THE GREAT name of Quicksilver Messenger Service is resurrected yet again, this time with perhaps more credibility than on previous occasions. A sticker on ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/on-a-friday-venue-oxford">Radiohead: On A Friday: Venue, Oxford</a></p> <p>Live Review by John Harris, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 22 February 1992</p> <p class="excerpt">TERRIBLE NAME. Apt for beer-gutted pub rockers, perhaps, but ill-suited to the astonishing intensity of this bunch. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/radiohead-subterranean-homesick-alien-and-the-poetry-of-perspective">Radiohead: 'Subterranean Homesick Alien' and the Poetry of Perspective</a></p> <p>Book Excerpt by Tim Footman, <i>Chrome Dreams</i>, 2007</p> <p class="excerpt">Excerpt from Welcome to the Machine: OK Computer and the Death of the Classic Album ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/radioheads-back-pages">Radiohead’s Back Pages</a></p> <p>Retrospective by Ian Fortnam, <i>unpublished</i>, 1997</p> <p class="excerpt">DESPITE THE best efforts of such explosive talents as Suede, Polly Jean Harvey and the Manic Street Preachers, 1992 was not a great year for ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/bonnie-raitt-the-bonnie-raitt-collection">Bonnie Raitt: <i>The Bonnie Raitt Collection</i></a></p> <p>Review by Mark Cooper, <i>Q</i>, September 1990</p> <p class="excerpt">THE RELEASE OF this 20-track retrospective of her nine Warners albums must be sweet revenge for Bonnie Raitt. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/bonnie-raitt-ihome-platei-warner-bros">Bonnie Raitt: <I>Home Plate</I> (Warner Bros.)</a></p> <p>Review by Penny Valentine, <i>Street Life</i>, 1 November 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">BONNIE RAITT is an intriguing talent, firmly rooted in the music of men like Otis Rush and Fred McDowell whom she met and worked with ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-ramones-ramones">The Ramones: <i>Ramones</i></a></p> <p>Review by Gene Sculatti, <i>Creem</i>, August 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">"I don't wanna walk around with youI don't wanna walk around with youI don't wanna walk around with youSo why you wanna walk around with ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-ramones-rocknroll-high-school-sire-import-">The Ramones: <i>Rock'n'Roll High School</i> (Sire Import) ****</a></p> <p>Review by Sandy Robertson, <i>Sounds</i>, 7 July 1979</p> <p class="excerpt">THE ERA of the compilation is upon us, and this soundtrack album of smarties and arties is another rapid fire job, featuring the next best ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/end-of-the-70s-the-ramones-get-spectorized">Phil Spector, The Ramones: End of the ‘70s: the Ramones Get Spectorized</a></p> <p>Book Excerpt by Everett True, <i>Omnibus Books</i>, Fall 2002</p> <p class="excerpt">An extract from Hey Ho Let&#146;s Go – The Story of The Ramones by Everett True, published by Omnibus Press in 2002. (344pp, currently available ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/raspberries-starting-over">Raspberries: <i>Starting Over</i></a></p> <p>Review by Ron Ross, <i>Phonograph Record</i>, September 1974</p> <p class="excerpt">IT'S A TEEN-CLUB midsummer Saturday night at Papa Joe'sParlour-pizza, pinball, pretzels, and pop-available without I.D. Raspberries, with no fewer than three Top Forty hits in ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-raspberries-iraspberriesi">Raspberries: The Raspberries: <I>Raspberries</I></a></p> <p>Review by Metal Mike Saunders, <i>Rolling Stone</i>, 6 July 1972</p> <p class="excerpt">RASPBERRIES opens with the finest burst of lightweight English rock I've heard all year, a raunchy 16-bar guitar intro, and followed by a verse that ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/uncle-sams-revenge-red-hot-chili-peppers-at-londons-dingwalls">The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Uncle Sam's Revenge: Red Hot Chili Peppers at London’s Dingwalls</a></p> <p>Live Review by Simon Witter, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 14 September 1985</p> <p class="excerpt">FROM THAT catastrophe-fraught fusion chamber where funk meets guitar noise comes the world&rsquo;s most crazily perfect punk-funk band, The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Tonight Husker ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/otis-redding">Otis Redding</a></p> <p>Book Excerpt by Lenny Kaye, David Dalton, <i>Rock 100</i>, 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">"I FIRST MET HIM IN 1962," SAYS STEVE Cropper who co-wrote two of Otis's hits, 'Fa, Fa, Fa, Fa, Fa' and 'Dock Of The Bay', ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/freaky-and-stylish-when-the-chili-peppers-met-dr-funkenstein">The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Freaky and Stylish: When the Chili Peppers Met Dr. Funkenstein</a></p> <p>Book Excerpt by Jeff Apter, <i>&#39;Fornication&#39; (Omnibus Press)</i>, 2004</p> <p class="excerpt">By 1985 the Red Hot Chili Peppers were a band in trouble. Their self-titled debut album, released the year before, had been a disaster, and ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/lou-reed--rock-n-roll-animal-">Lou Reed: <i> Rock N Roll Animal </i></a></p> <p>Review by Mick Gold, <i>Let It Rock</i>, May 1974</p> <p class="excerpt">AND IT CAME TO PASS in the 1970's that rock culture began to doubt whether it existed at all, and every time that two or ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/lou-reed-royal-albert-hall-london-2">Lou Reed: Royal Albert Hall, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Ian Fortnam, <i>bol.com</i>, 18 May 2000</p> <p class="excerpt">THE PREMIER PARAGON OF subterranean New York cool&#146;s post-Velvet Underground career has never been anything other than unpredictable. For every Berlin there&#146;s been a Metal ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/rem-automatic-for-the-people">R.E.M.: <i>Automatic For The People</i></a></p> <p>Review by Phil Sutcliffe, <i>Q</i>, November 1992</p> <p class="excerpt">MILLIONS HAVE BEEN waiting on the new R.E.M. album, and almost none of them is barmy. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/rem-rock-reconstruction-getting-there">R.E.M.: Rock Reconstruction Getting There</a></p> <p>Interview by Bill Holdship, <i>Creem</i>, September 1985</p> <p class="excerpt">FABLES OF YEARS spent on the road. Decadent tales of groupies and drugs and arrogance and misspent lives near the top. You won't find any ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/replacements-ipleased-to-meet-mei">The Replacements: Replacements: <I>Pleased To Meet Me</I></a></p> <p>Review by Ira Robbins, <i>Creem</i>, August 1987</p> <p class="excerpt">LIKE SOME STRAY dog you find in an alley, Minneapolis's Replacements are a scruffy mongrel of a band: uncontrollable and ugly, but somehow irresistable. You ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/charlie-rich---the-silver-fox">Charlie Rich - <i>The Silver Fox</i></a></p> <p>Review by Chris Salewicz, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 12 April 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">IN WHICH CHARLIE Rich, understandably exhausted after a twenty year struggle to Make It, manages to record one side of an album and then runs ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/cliff-richard">Cliff Richard</a></p> <p>Profile by Steve Turner, <i>The History of Rock</i>, 1983</p> <p class="excerpt">CLIFF RICHARD HAS DONE MUCH more than merely survive on the British pop scene. He remained a chart act and pin-up in the Eighties, still ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/keith-richards-talk-is-cheap-">Keith Richards: <i>Talk Is Cheap</i> </a></p> <p>Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, <i>MOJO</i>, May 1997</p> <p class="excerpt">KEITH RICHARDS says he&#146;d never thought of making a solo album until Mick Jagger announced that he didn&#146;t want to tour to promote the Rolling ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/jonathan-richman-in-love-with-the-modern-world-">Jonathan Richman: In Love With The Modern World </a></p> <p>Profile by Ian Birch, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 17 September 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">On the eve of Jonathan Richman's first British tour, Ian Birch traces his career ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/jonathan-richman-and-the-modern-lovers-jonathan-sings">Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers: <i>Jonathan Sings</i></a></p> <p>Review by Bill Black, <i>Sounds</i>, 30 June 1984</p> <p class="excerpt">IT'S BEEN a long time since Jonathan Richman's last album, Back In Your Life, and apart from the release of some interesting Kim Fowley produced ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/smokey-robinson-quiet-storm">Smokey Robinson: <i>Quiet Storm</i></a></p> <p>Review by Ian MacDonald, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 3 May 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">HOW MUCH SUGAR do you take? ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/tom-robinson-right-on-mister">Tom Robinson Band: Tom Robinson: Right On, Mister!</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Dave Schulps, <i>Trouser Press</i>, June 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">THE ABILITY TO walk into a room and make someone you've never met feel like they've known you for years is called 'charm.' The ability ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/tom-robinson-staying-true">Tom Robinson Band: Tom Robinson: Staying True</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Simon Frith, <i>The Observer</i>, June 1986</p> <p class="excerpt">THEY MET AGAIN, after all these years, in a hotel corridor in Manchester, John Lydon and Tom Robinson, the yin and yang of punk politics. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-rolling-stones-this-is-a-stone-age">The Rolling Stones: This Is A Stone Age!!</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Keith Altham, <i>New Musical Express Summer Special</i>, Summer 1966</p> <p class="excerpt">THE ROLLING STONES are a five-man revolution in the pop world. When they first appeared on the disc scene in 1962 they proceeded to defy ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/ronnie-wood-new-stone-tries-a-solo-2">The Rolling Stones, Ronnie Wood: Ronnie Wood: New Stone Tries a Solo</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Dave Schulps, <i>Trouser Press</i>, July 1979</p> <p class="excerpt">WHEN TP FIRST interviewed Ron Wood, back in the fall of 1974, the Faces' guitarist and ex-Beckite was more than happy to answer questions about ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/linda-ronstadti-living-in-the-usai">Linda Ronstadt:<I> Living In The U.S.A.</I></a></p> <p>Review by Penny Valentine, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 30 September 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">OVER HER PAST few albums and, curiously, ever since she won a wall full of awards, something has been happening to Linda Ronstadt's "interpretative" powers. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-linda-ronstadt-coverup">Linda Ronstadt: The Linda Ronstadt Coverup!</a></p> <p>Interview by Tom Nolan, <i>Phonograph Record</i>, November 1974</p> <p class="excerpt">IN 1970 DAN Wakefield, who had just published his first novel, Going All the Way (a heartbreakingly hilarious chronicle of America's dismal sex life in ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/roxy-music-the-sound-of-surprise">Roxy Music: The Sound Of Surprise</a></p> <p>Interview by Richard Williams, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 1 July 1972</p> <p class="excerpt">PAUL THOMPSON's tom-toms ground slowly to a shuddering halt as Eno's synthesiser simulated the sound of Firestone Wide Ovals being pushed past their limit around ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-runaways">The Runaways</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Sandy Robertson, <i>Sounds</i>, 12 November 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">THE HOUR OF MY VINDICATION is at hand. I'm sitting in the lobby of a London hotel waiting for the Runaways to descend from their ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-runawaysi-the-runawaysi">The Runaways:<I> The Runaways</I></a></p> <p>Review by Kris Needs, <i>ZigZag</i>, September 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">OOWHEE!! This platter boasts one of the most fetching sleeves I've had the pleasure to mas...ogle at. On the front the glitteringly attired Cherie casts ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/isomethinganythingi-30-years-on">Todd Rundgren: <I>Something/Anything?</I>: 30 Years On</a></p> <p>Interview by Rob Steen, <i>unpublished</i>, December 2001</p> <p class="excerpt">I RANG TODD in his Maui studio in December 2001, while he was remixing Something/Anything? for 5.1 Surroundsound. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/todd-rundgren-ia-wizard-a-true-stari-bearsville">Todd Rundgren: <I>A Wizard, A True Star</I> (Bearsville)</a></p> <p>Review by Jerry Gilbert, <i>Sounds</i>, 14 April 1973</p> <p class="excerpt">A MAZE. A truly amazing album. That might well have been the subtitle of this latest excursion into the land of magic from henna-haired hero ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="R"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/rush-breaking-into-america-canadas-answer-to-the-new-york-dolls">Rush: Breaking Into America… Canada's Answer To The New York Dolls?</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Michael Gross, <i>Circus Raves</i>, November 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">DETROIT'S MICHIGAN PALACE was full to the brim. Though the rock 'n' roll style of the early '70s has faded into a rebirth of hippiedom ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-saints-iim-strandedi">The Saints: <I>I'm Stranded</I></a></p> <p>Review by Kris Needs, <i>ZigZag</i>, May 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">HEY! THIS IS a nice surprise! Almost out of nowhere comes this rip-snorter of an album when all we'd had from The Saints before was ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/santana-at-the-tabernacle-london">Santana at The Tabernacle, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Andy Gill, <i>MOJO</i>, March 2000</p> <p class="excerpt">WHEN THE ENTRANCE to the gig is bathed in the harsh glare of high wattage floodlights like the Academy Awards walkway, and you have to ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/santanai-moonfloweri">Santana:<I> Moonflower</I></a></p> <p>Review by Mick Brown, <i>Sounds</i>, 15 October 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">THIS IS THE album that should have been called 'A Period of Transition'. Not that it has anything to do with Van Morrison, but it ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/leo-sayer-iendless-flighti-chrysalis">Leo Sayer: <I>Endless Flight</I> (Chrysalis)*****</a></p> <p>Review by Barbara Charone, <i>Sounds</i>, 30 October 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">I WAS prepared to hate this album. The diminitive song and dance man had begun losing his inimitable glow. Another Year needed stronger polishing while ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/boz-scaggs-silk-degrees">Boz Scaggs: <i>Silk Degrees</i></a></p> <p>Review by Max Bell, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 19 June 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">THIS BOY certainly eats up producers. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/mike-scott">Mike Scott, The Waterboys: Mike Scott</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Graeme Thomson, <i>The Word</i>, June 2006</p> <p class="excerpt">OF ALL THE PLACES to establish a spiritual community, one mile from a RAF base seems a trifle ill-conceived: transcendence must require every ounce of ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/scritti-politti-everythings-gone-green">Scritti Politti: Everything's Gone Green</a></p> <p>Retrospective by David Stubbs, <i>Uncut</i>, December 2001</p> <p class="excerpt">David Stubbs on Scritti Politti's subversive pop-soul masterpiece, Songs To Remember ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/bob-seger-iback-in-72-ipalladium--warners">Bob Seger: <I>Back in '72 </I>(Palladium / Warners)</a></p> <p>Review by Dave Marsh, <i>Creem</i>, May 1973</p> <p class="excerpt">BOB SEGER'S 'Rosalie' is so strong it could break you in half. But it is the only song here that is close to what I ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/bob-seger-ithe-distancei">Bob Seger: <I>The Distance</I></a></p> <p>Review by Mitchell Cohen, <i>Creem</i>, April 1983</p> <p class="excerpt">THERE'S A NEW furrowed-brow earnestness now emerging in American rock 'n' roll, a grainy neo-realism that depicts workaday lives in ways that were once the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-sex-pistols">The Sex Pistols</a></p> <p>Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, <i>&#39;1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion&#39;</i>, 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">THE RECORD INDUSTRY is waking up. In October there were rumours about huge deals on the horizon, and Polydor look set to be the first ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-sex-pistols-kiss-this">The Sex Pistols: <i>Kiss This</i></a></p> <p>Review by Mat Snow, <i>Q</i>, November 1992</p> <p class="excerpt">NEARLY 15 YEARS after John Lydon quit the Sex Pistols, effectively ending them bar a few final pranks, his subsequent band, PiL, find themselves no ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/sham-69-tell-us-the-truth">Sham 69: <i>Tell Us The Truth</i></a></p> <p>Review by Peter Silverton, <i>Sounds</i>, 11 February 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">"ELLO MUSH...this one's all about getting' yer 'ead kicked in." ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/paul-simon-there-goes-rhymin-simon">Paul Simon: <i>There Goes Rhymin’ Simon</i></a></p> <p>Review by Charlie Gillett, <i>Let It Rock</i>, August 1973</p> <p class="excerpt">Paul: middle class rock, O.K.? ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/simon-and-garfunkeli-live-from-new-york-city-1967i">Simon & Garfunkel: Simon And Garfunkel:<I> Live From New York City, 1967</I></a></p> <p>Review by Chris Ingham, <i>MOJO</i>, September 2002</p> <p class="excerpt">NEITHER AS gritty as Dylan or as political as Ochs or Baez, Simon And Garfunkel's folk-rock style had a cool, preppy awareness and an alluring ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/nina-simone-theatre-royal-drury-lane-london">Nina Simone, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Cliff White, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 10 December 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">YOU CAN'T keep tabs on everybody all the time. It wasn't until this concert was announced that I realised there hasn't been much heard from, ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/nina-simonei-to-love-somebodyhere-comes-the-sunemergency-wardblack-goldit-is-finishedi">Nina Simone:<I> To Love Somebody/Here Comes The Sun/Emergency Ward/Black Gold/It Is Finished</I></a></p> <p>Review by Jim Irvin, <i>MOJO</i>, June 2002</p> <p class="excerpt">EUNICE WAYMON never intended to be a pop singer. Her ambition was to be the first great black female classical pianist. She took up playing ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/simple-minds-inew-gold-dream-81-82-83-84i">Simple Minds: <I>New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)</I></a></p> <p>Review by Paul Morley, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 18 September 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">ONETHIS RECORD is something of a glow. Whatever your preference you will find it memorable and instructive. Find its qualities and fix your place. Be ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/simply-red-hammersmith-odeon">Simply Red: Hammersmith Odeon</a></p> <p>Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 1984</p> <p class="excerpt">IT HAS to be said that this plumpish, carrot-mopped bloke stomping around like a kid in a playpen hardly looks the part of STAR. And ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/frank-sinatra-the-capitol-years-capitol">Frank Sinatra: <i>The Capitol Years</i> (Capitol)</a></p> <p>Review by Kit Aiken, <i>Uncut</i>, January 1999</p> <p class="excerpt">Box set featuring all twenty Capitol albums 1953-61 plus rarities disc ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/siouxsie-and-the-banshees-the-unacceptable-face-of-78">Siouxsie & the Banshees: Siouxsie And The Banshees: The Unacceptable Face Of '78</a></p> <p>Interview by Jon Savage, <i>Sounds</i>, 24 June 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">'Overground – from abnormalityOverboard – for identityOverground – for normalityOverboard – on identity'– 'Overground' ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/slade-slade-in-flame-polydor">Slade: <i>Slade In Flame </i>(Polydor)</a></p> <p>Review by Simon Frith, <i>Let It Rock</i>, February 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">Some things I'm sure of: Noddy Holder is a great rock singer, up there with the best of British, with John Lennon, even. And Slade ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/slade-slade-alive">Slade<i>: Slade Alive!</i></a></p> <p>Review by Jon Tiven, <i>Rolling Stone</i>, 12 October 1972</p> <p class="excerpt">DESPITE WHAT you may have heard of "skinhead rock" or "Seventies teddies", Slade is exactly the opposite of a gimmick band. You&#146;ll not find synthesizers, ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/percy-sledge-the-best-of-percy-sledge">Percy Sledge: <i>The Best Of Percy Sledge</i></a></p> <p>Interview by Charlie Gillett, <i>Record Mirror</i>, 13 December 1969</p> <p class="excerpt">PERCY SLEDGE is here for a three-week tour, and to coincide with it Atlantic have released a single, 'True Love Travels On A Gravel Road', ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-slits-holland-park-school-london">The Slits: Holland Park School, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Kris Needs, <i>ZigZag</i>, January 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">I BURBLED MY feelings about The Slits for four pages in ZZ75 last July, and happily that resulted in crazed Radio One producer and Zigzag ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/sly-and-the-family-stone-bournemouth-opera-house">Sly & the Family Stone: Sly and the Family Stone: Bournemouth Opera House</a></p> <p>Live Review by Jim Irvin, <i>MOJO</i>, August 2007</p> <p class="excerpt">YOU'RE A LIFE-LONG fan of a band that fell apart long before you were old enough to see them play. Suddenly, you hear that the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/sly-stone-ismall-talki">Sly & the Family Stone: Sly Stone: <I>Small Talk</I></a></p> <p>Review by Pete Wingfield, <i>Let It Rock</i>, November 1974</p> <p class="excerpt">BY SLY'S SLUGGISH standards, it's not that long since the last album, Fresh; maybe married life has given him a creative surge. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/small-faces-thought-sunday-too-much-of-a-joke">The Small Faces: Small Faces Thought ‘Sunday’ Too Much Of A Joke</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Keith Altham, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 4 May 1968</p> <p class="excerpt">ONCE more unto the magic cave &#150; better described as Andrew Oldham&#146;s emporium from whence all things Immediate happen &#150; and the office where I ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-small-faces-itchycoo-park">The Small Faces: 'Itchycoo Park'</a></p> <p>Retrospective and Interview by John Pidgeon, <i>Record Hunter</i>, March 1991</p> <p class="excerpt">The first Small Faces single written by Marriott and Lane, 'I Got Mine', flopped on release as the follow-up to 'Whatcha Gonna Do About It' ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/smashing-pumpkins-adore-">Smashing Pumpkins: <i>Adore</i> </a></p> <p>Review by Barney Hoskyns, <i>MOJO</i>, June 1998</p> <p class="excerpt">BILLY CORGAN certainly had his work cut out for him after 1995&rsquo;s Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/patti-smith-at-last-the-lower-manhattan-show">Patti Smith: At Last, The Lower Manhattan Show</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Miles, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 22 May 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">Patti Smith at the Roundhouse, facing fans, friends, fungoids and straightforward weirdos &ndash; Britain's first live chance of checking out the 'legend'. MILES went as ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/patti-smith-patti-noises-off">Patti Smith: Patti noises off</a></p> <p>Interview by Gavin Martin, <i>Vox</i>, January 1998</p> <p class="excerpt">PATTI SMITH, the cultural dynamo who claims to have "several decades left in me yet" is never one to court convention. With no plans to ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-smiths-fox-theater-detroit">The Smiths: Fox Theater, Detroit</a></p> <p>Live Review by Bill Holdship, <i>Creem</i>, December 1986</p> <p class="excerpt">IT ALL BOILS down to the collapse and decay of the British Empire. You could blame it on Margaret Thatcher. Or on Joy Division. Or ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/soft-cell-soft-see-cell-warfare">Soft Cell: Soft See Cell Warfare</a></p> <p>Interview by Lynden Barber, <i>Melody Maker</i>, January 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">The Soft White Underbelly of Soft Cell ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/soft-cell-sweet-cell-music">Soft Cell: Sweet Cell Music</a></p> <p>Interview by Betty Page, <i>Sounds</i>, 21 March 1981</p> <p class="excerpt">MARC ALMOND has never quite been able to live down our scathing pic caption which accompanied the review of the landmark Some Bizzare Album. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-soft-machine-hammersmith-palais-london">Soft Machine: The Soft Machine: Hammersmith Palais, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Miles, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 3 July 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">IT WAS a surprise to see so many people in the heat and the gloom of the Hamersmith Palais to see Soft Machine, because in ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/kim-gordon">Sonic Youth: Kim Gordon</a></p> <p>Interview by Stephen Dalton, <i>The Times</i>, September 2005</p> <p class="excerpt">BACKSTAGE AT V Festival, the queen mother of punk rock shelters from the punishing sun. With her dirty-blonde hair and boho-bag-lady chic, Kim Gordon cuts ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/sonic-youth-young-at-art">Sonic Youth: Young At Art</a></p> <p>Interview by John Robb, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 24 August 1991</p> <p class="excerpt">As they prepare for their appearance at this weekend's Reading Festival, Veteran art rock terrorists talk to Johnny Robb ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/last-dance-of-the-new-romance-spandau-ballets-idiamond">Spandau Ballet: Last Dance Of The New Romance: Spandau Ballet’s <I>Diamond</i></a></p> <p>Review by Richard Cook, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 20 March 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">IT SEEMS like Spandau Ballet are having trouble, and they're not sure how to face up to it. 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Suddenly – you're beautiful! ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/spinal-tap-ireduxi">Spinal Tap <i>Redux</i></a></p> <p>Interview by Jim Sullivan, <i>Rock&#39;s Backpages</i>, December 2013</p> <p class="excerpt">I LISTENED to some of it in my youth, but spent most of my post-teenage years trying to avoid this crap: pandering, patronizing, mono-dimensional, unimaginative ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/spiritualized-ladies-and-gentlemen-we-are-floating-in-space---">Spiritualized: <i>Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space</i> </a></p> <p>Review by Jim Irvin, <i>MOJO</i>, June 1997</p> <p class="excerpt">THE CULMINATION OF A SEVEN YEAR mission to empty his crowded mind onto tape, Ladies And Gentlemen...is Jason Pierce's clamorous meisterwerk. A record that's splendidly ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/bruce-springsteen-7">Bruce Springsteen</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Jerry Gilbert, <i>Sounds</i>, 16 March 1974</p> <p class="excerpt">BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN was confined to the boardwalk life on New Jersey. He lived over a drug store "in all the craziness of downtown", prayed for ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/bruce-springsteen-talking-to-the-boss">Bruce Springsteen: Talking To The Boss</a></p> <p>Interview by Adam Sweeting, <i>Vox</i>, September 1992</p> <p class="excerpt">FOLKLORE TELLS us there was a time, about 25 years ago, when meeting the stars was a simple matter. You just had to hang out ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/squeeze-the-albany-deptford">Squeeze: The Albany, Deptford</a></p> <p>Live Review by Paul Rambali, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 6 August 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">THE ALBANY is one of those places &#150; and there aren't many &#150; that can get packed to the rafters, sweaty and messy, and still ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/ringo-starr-blast-from-your-past-capitol">Ringo Starr: <i>Blast From Your Past </i>(Capitol)</a></p> <p>Review by Gene Sculatti, <i>Creem</i>, March 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">IT'S HARD TO figure our just what constitutes the biggest detriment to a healthy music scene these days; the dearth of flesh & blood artists ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/status-quo-were-not-musicians--were-players">Status Quo: 'We're Not Musicians — We're Players!'</a></p> <p>Interview by Caroline Coon, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 10 January 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">STRIDING into his road-manager's sitting room, Francis Rossi quips, "no comment " and then spins on his heel as if a fast retreat is on ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/steeleye-span-making-sense-of-original-sin-">Steeleye Span: Making Sense Of Original Sin... </a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Bob Woffinden, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 20 December 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">IN BRITAIN we voted to stay in. In Eire and Denmark they voted to go in. In Norway the public answered the call to European ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/steeleye-span-so-who-are-these-limeys-playing-folk-music">Steeleye Span: So Who ARE These Limeys Playing Folk Music?</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 26 May 1973</p> <p class="excerpt">IT TAKES approximately 11 hours to fly from London to Los Angeles. You get off the 'plane, and the heat fills your lungs like a ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/steely-dan--pretzel-logic">Steely Dan: <i> Pretzel Logic</i></a></p> <p>Review by Bud Scoppa, <i>Rolling Stone</i>, 23 May 1974</p> <p class="excerpt">STEELY DAN is the most improbable hit-singles band to emerge in ages. On its three albums, the group has developed an impressionistic approach to rock ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/steely-dan-wembley-arena-london">Steely Dan: Wembley Arena, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Chris Ingham, <i>MOJO</i>, November 1996</p> <p class="excerpt">THEY QUIT TOURING IN '74; broke up in '80. Now the arch hipster auteurs of literate, cynical, smart-ass rock jazz – the creators of some ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/cat-stevens-in-the-talk-in">Cat Stevens in the Talk-In</a></p> <p>Interview by Penny Valentine, <i>Sounds</i>, 22 May 1971</p> <p class="excerpt">You're very rare in music today in that you managed to virtually disappear for two years when you were ill and then came back ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/cat-stevens-ibuddha-and-the-chocolate-boxi">Cat Stevens: <I>Buddha And The Chocolate Box</I></a></p> <p>Review by Tom Nolan, <i>Phonograph Record</i>, May 1974</p> <p class="excerpt">ON THE COVER of Cat Stevens' new album is a Japanese buddha of the Heian Period. On the back is a koan or parable depicted ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/rod-stewart-3">Rod Stewart</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Barbara Charone, <i>Sounds</i>, 21 August 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">ROD STEWART has never been predictable. As a songwriter he thrives on controversial topics. 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And oddly enough it's often been more personal than ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/stephen-stills-crazy-after-all-these-years">Stephen Stills: Crazy After All These Years</a></p> <p>Interview by Richard Cook, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 9 July 1983</p> <p class="excerpt">MR STILLS and I are watching a video of some playing by Crosby, Stills And Nash. The composer leans back in his chair, a whisky ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/i-ask-the-questions-by-sylvie-simmons-sting">Sting: I Ask The Questions by Sylvie Simmons: Sting</a></p> <p>Interview by Sylvie Simmons, <i>Mail On Sunday</i>, 1996</p> <p class="excerpt">STING – pop star, actor, philisopher , father, Rover car salesman and generally all-round bit of a god – is trying to steal my job. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/stingi-nothing-like-the-suni">Sting:<I> Nothing Like The Sun</I></a></p> <p>Review by Dave Rimmer, <i>Q</i>, November 1987</p> <p class="excerpt">"WITHOUT FREEDOM FROM the past," sings a typically philosophical Sting on one track called 'History Will Teach Us Nothing', "things will only get worse." ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/island-of-lost-soul-the-stone-roses-at-spike-island">The Stone Roses: Island of Lost Soul: The Stone Roses at Spike Island</a></p> <p>Live Review by John Robb, <i>Sounds</i>, 1990</p> <p class="excerpt">Sun, sea water and cement factories. Not your idea of Ibiza perhaps, but according to our resident mad Manc John Robb, this is the start ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-stranglers-6">The Stranglers</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Kris Needs, <i>ZigZag</i>, November 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">AMONG THE hordes of bands currently playing London's pub and club circuit, the Stranglers are leading contenders to break out and hit unsuspecting mass audiences ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-stranglers-ila-foliei">The Stranglers: <I>La Folie</I></a></p> <p>Review by Ira Robbins, <i>Trouser Press</i>, March 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">WANT TO FEEL prematurely old? This, if you can believe it, is the Stranglers' seventh British album. 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WHAT HAVE WE GOT HERE?!" asks Brett Anderson rhetorically, staring at the fluff he has just removed from his ear. 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Gruff Rhys Speaks</a></p> <p>Interview by Barney Hoskyns, <i>Rock&#39;s Backpages</i>, July 2003</p> <p class="excerpt">Welsh wunderkinder the Super Furry Animals return this week with the fabulous Phantom Power. Cardiff&#146;s furriest bard talks to Barney Hoskyns about love, war and ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/supergrass-iin-it-for-the-moneyi-parlophone">Supergrass: <I>In It For The Money</I> (Parlophone)</a></p> <p>Review and Interview by Max Bell, <i>MOJO</i>, May 1997</p> <p class="excerpt">IT SEEMS UNLIKELY THAT SUPERGRASS will ever scale the wails of hype built around those British bands whose media inflated self-importance exceeds their artistic merit. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/supertramp-on-a-bum-trip">Supertramp On a Bum Trip</a></p> <p>Interview by Steven Rosen, <i>Sounds</i>, 15 May 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">SUPERTRAMP HORNMAN and funnyman John Helliwell gazed longingly out the A&M Records publicity office window at the burgundy Dino Ferrari. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/sweet-idesolation-boulevardi">Sweet: <I>Desolation Boulevard</I></a></p> <p>Review by Gary Sperrazza!, <i>Phonograph Record</i>, February 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">FOR A BAND prophesied to be one of the major forces in pop in the Seventies, the Sweet still remain the most misunderstood band of ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/sweet-isoundsi-girl-in-sweet-nude-bathing-horror">Sweet: <I>Sounds</I> Girl In Sweet Nude Bathing Horror</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Vivien Goldman, <i>Sounds</i>, 19 June 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">THE ERSATZ raunch, bump and grind of 'The Stripper' blares out over the Sportshalle in Cologne. Thousands of minute German teenyboppers are creaming in excitement ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="S"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/matthew-sweet--in-reverse">Matthew Sweet: <i> In Reverse</i></a></p> <p>Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, <i>MOJO</i>, December 1999</p> <p class="excerpt">AFICIONADOS OF clean, clever, honed American pop have had to make do with meagre rations of late. Thank God that 1999 has at least produced ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/talking-heads-still-making-sense">Talking Heads: Still Making Sense?</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, <i>Q</i>, April 1988</p> <p class="excerpt">Talking Heads were once unconventional art-school types looking for an audience on the underground rock circuit. Now they&#146;re unconventional multi-media types who convene annually for ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/talking-heads-the-rock-garden-london">Talking Heads: The Rock Garden, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Chas de Whalley, <i>Sounds</i>, 21 May 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">WHY NOT somewhere that can handle crowds properly, like the Nashville? Why on earth were Talking Heads put on at the Rock Garden? Do answer ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/tangerine-dream-royal-albert-hall-london">Tangerine Dream: Royal Albert Hall, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Miles, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 26 June 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">T-DREAM HAVE BEEN described as everything from 'the most advanced development of progressive rock' to 'electronic muzak'. The band generates controversy probably because people are ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/james-taylor-universal-amphitheatre-la">James Taylor: Universal Amphitheatre, LA</a></p> <p>Live Review by Harvey Kubernik, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 16 August 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">JAMES TAYLOR'S UNIVERSAL Amphitheatre gig, though predictable at times, established new beginnings for the folkster as he returned to the Southland for the first time ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/teenage-fanclub-the-forum-london">Teenage Fanclub: The Forum, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, <i>MOJO</i>, February 1996</p> <p class="excerpt">ONE HESITATES TO USE the word "heartwarming" about the endurance of the unassuming Scotsmen who go by the name of Teenage Fanclub, but at a ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/prime-time-television">Television: Prime Time: Television</a></p> <p>Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, <i>The History of Rock</i>, 1983</p> <p class="excerpt">THE RULES OF punk/new-wave music laid down in 1976-77 stated that bands should avoid displays of technical virtuosity, should profess a loathing for rock&#146;s history ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/televisioni-the-blow-up-iroir">Television:<I> The Blow Up </I>(ROIR)</a></p> <p>Review by Cynthia Rose, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 11 December 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">BACK IN the mid-'70s then-rock journalist Patti Smith penned the following valentine to Tom Verlaine's Television: "Boycott rock and roll on TV – who wants ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/alvin-lee-on-the-hassles-of-being-a-success">Ten Years After: Alvin Lee On The Hassles Of Being A Success</a></p> <p>Interview by Caroline Boucher, <i>Disc and Music Echo</i>, 25 March 1972</p> <p class="excerpt">ALVIN LEE is currently suffering from a surfeit of everything. He's had too much touring, too much hype, too much idolatry. Nowadays the band can't ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/thin-lizzy">Thin Lizzy</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">CHANCES ARE GOOD that this time last year you had never heard of Thin Lizzy, let along heard them. Young veterans of the British music ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/richard-thompson">Richard Thompson</a></p> <p>Interview by Joe Matera, <i>Australian Musician</i>, Spring 2003</p> <p class="excerpt">HE'S ALREADY ACHIEVED more as a songwriter and instrumentalist than most musicians could do in a lifetime. His sound is familiar, with ties to practically ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/richard-thompson-hand-of-kindness">Richard Thompson: <i>Hand Of Kindness</i></a></p> <p>Review by Richard Cook, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 30 July 1983</p> <p class="excerpt">From a maker of acclaimed albums, something that is more of the same, as dependable as any itching in the heart, toothache, telephone bill: it ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/richard--linda-thompson-ihokey-pokeyi">Richard and Linda Thompson: Richard & Linda Thompson: <I>Hokey Pokey</I></a></p> <p>Review by Jerry Gilbert, <i>ZigZag</i>, September 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">THE SINGULAR most remarkable aspect of this album is its manifestation of Richard Thompson's capacity to absorb. And if that sounds a long winded way ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/throbbing-gristle-the-factory-manchester">Throbbing Gristle: The Factory, Manchester</a></p> <p>Live Review by Mick Middles, <i>Sounds</i>, 2 June 1979</p> <p class="excerpt">WHEN I WAS watching Throbbing Gristle where were you? ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/johnny-thunders--the-heartbreakers-lamf">Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers: <i>L.A.M.F.</i></a></p> <p>Review by Nina Antonia, <i>MOJO</i>, July 1994</p> <p class="excerpt">THIS IS NOT PUNK: THIS IS EDDIE COCHRAN and Gene Vincent dragged screaming into 1977. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-heartbreakers-lamf">Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers: The Heartbreakers: <i>L.A.M.F.</i></a></p> <p>Review by Jon Savage, <i>Sounds</i>, 1 October 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">'Living in the jungle, it ain't so hard/But livin' in the city, it can eat out, eat out your heart...' ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/allen-toussaint-the-jazz-caf-london">Allen Toussaint: The Jazz Café, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Simon Witter, <i>Daily Telegraph</i>, 9 November 2006</p> <p class="excerpt">THOUGH HE IS the greatest living exponent of the extraordinary New Orleans piano tradition that produced Professor Longhair, Fats Domino, Huey Smith, James Booker, Dr ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/pete-townshend-the-lifehouse-chronicles">Pete Townshend: <i>The Lifehouse Chronicles</i></a></p> <p>Review and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, <i>MOJO</i>, December 1999</p> <p class="excerpt">Some day all music will be made this way. In 1970 it seemed so barking mad the band asked him to drop it. Now, Pete&#146;s ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/pete-townshend-genius-of-the-simple">Pete Townshend: Genius of the Simple</a></p> <p>Interview by Steve Turner, <i>Beat Instrumental</i>, December 1971</p> <p class="excerpt">Pete Townshend is a little worried about the advancement that is being made with musical equipment and recording studios. "The technology is beginning to overtake ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/traffic-lightens-up-for-american-tour">Traffic Lightens Up for American Tour</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by David Rensin, <i>Rolling Stone</i>, 24 October 1974</p> <p class="excerpt">NEW YORK – Looking only slightly recovered from a two-day-old case of jet lag, Traffic drummer Jim Capaldi strutted into the Providence Civic Center dressing ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/traffic-traffic-without-dave">Traffic: Traffic Without Dave</a></p> <p>Interview by Keith Altham, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 13 January 1968</p> <p class="excerpt">TRAFFIC is now on the move again but as a trio. So it was that I scaled the eight flights to drummer Jim Capaldi's Earl's ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/t-rex-the-unobtainable-trex">T. Rex: <i>The Unobtainable T.Rex</i></a></p> <p>Review by Danny Baker, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 20 September 1980</p> <p class="excerpt">AND SO, it appears, we are on the brink of a new T.Rex faith. Well, as one who defended the Bolanian right at school in ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-triffids">The Triffids</a></p> <p>Interview by Mat Snow, <i>Q</i>, December 1987</p> <p class="excerpt">The Triffids, authors of the greatest Australian country and western album, address the darker undercurrents beneath the sparkling antipodean surf. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/tina-turner-peels-potatoes-as-she-raves-over-river-deep">Ike & Tina Turner: Tina Turner Peels Potatoes as She Raves Over 'River Deep'</a></p> <p>Interview by Tracy Thomas, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 15 July 1966</p> <p class="excerpt">"I WAS knocked out by 'River Deep' the first time I heard it," exclaimed Tina Turner, peeling potatoes over the sink of her Los Angeles ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/ike-turner-ronnie-scotts-london">Ike Turner: Ronnie Scott's, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, <i>The Guardian</i>, 13 February 2002</p> <p class="excerpt">IF YOU didn't know Ike Turner was 70 before this show, you certainly did within minutes of his swaggering entrance. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/ike--tina-turner-her-man-his-woman">Ike & Tina Turner: <i>Her Man, His Woman</i></a></p> <p>Review by Cliff White, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 17 April 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">RECORDED AND FIRST released as the Get It, Get It L.P. on the L.A. Cenco label circa 1965, this album was snapped up by Capitol ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="T"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/tina-turner-london-wembley-stadium-">Tina Turner: London, Wembley Stadium </a></p> <p>Live Review by Ian Fortnam, <i>bol.com</i>, July 2000</p> <p class="excerpt">NESTLED BETWIXT the iconic twin towers of Wembley Stadium lies a sumptuous banqueting hall that&#146;s completely rammed to its very rafters with the affluent and ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="U"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/u2-iboyi">U2: <I>Boy</I></a></p> <p>Review by Paul Morley, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 25 October 1980</p> <p class="excerpt">I LOVE U2. I worry about U2. Hearing their debut single 'Out Of Control' and seeing them play in Ireland, I fell for their undismayed ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="U"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/u2-a-perspective">U2: A Perspective</a></p> <p>Essay by Mark Cooper, <i>Q</i>, 1991</p> <p class="excerpt">WHEN U2's recent Number 1 single 'The Fly' first came on the radio, it sounded like a confused mess, an irritating jangle of throbbing guitars ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="U"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/ub40-i1980-83i">UB40: <I>1980-83</I></a></p> <p>Review by John Morthland, <i>Creem</i>, December 1983</p> <p class="excerpt">UB40, A MULTIRACIAL reggae group whose name derives from the code on British unemployment cards, emerged from Birmingham in 1980, right around the time the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="U"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/ultravox-3">Ultravox</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Jim Green, <i>Trouser Press</i>, January 1981</p> <p class="excerpt">HEY BUNKY, are ya feelin' low because the whirlwind East Coast tour you were promised turned out to be two weeks at Vinnie's Peppermint Lounge ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="U"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/ultravox-new-music-from-a-dolls-house">Ultravox! New Music From A Doll's House</a></p> <p>Interview by Peter Silverton, <i>Sounds</i>, 19 March 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">CONTRARY to what Stranglers' bassist, Jean Jacques Brunel, is reputed to think, Ultravox! are not "a bunch of session musicians put together by Island records." ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="U"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-undertones-the-famous-five-go-to-finland">The Undertones: the Famous Five go to Finland</a></p> <p>Profile by Johnny Black, <i>Smash Hits</i>, 6 August 1981</p> <p class="excerpt">IN JULY in Helsinki, Finland, the only darkness you can find is inside buildings with no windows. Buildings like the "Travastia Klubi" where the Undertones ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="U"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/uriah-heep">Uriah Heep</a></p> <p>Interview by Tony Stewart, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 8 September 1973</p> <p class="excerpt">THIS INTERVIEW had the most ordinary of beginnings. David Byron and Uriah Heep's Press Miss and myself left the other four members of the band ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="V"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/luther-vandrossi-forever-for-always-for-love-iepic">Luther Vandross:<I> Forever, For Always, For Love </I>(Epic)</a></p> <p>Review by Sean O&#39;Hagan, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 27 June 1987</p> <p class="excerpt">ON THE soft focus cover shot, the transformation is complete: Luther the beige mannequin with compulsory wet look is a world away from the roly ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="V"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/van-halen-fair-warning">Van Halen: <i>Fair Warning</i></a></p> <p>Review by Cynthia Rose, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 20 June 1981</p> <p class="excerpt">The worst thing about labels is their sticky side. But the next worst thing about them is that they attract flies, and that can put ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="V"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/suzanne-vega-new-waif-music">Suzanne Vega: New Waif Music</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, <i>Sunday Express Magazine</i>, 1 November 1987</p> <p class="excerpt">Suzanne Vega is, on her own admission, a most unlikely rock star. On stage at Sydney&#146;s Town Hall, rooted to the spot and hung with ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="V"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/1969--the-velvet-underground-live">Velvet Underground: <i>1969 — The Velvet Underground Live</i></a></p> <p>Review by Ken Barnes, <i>Phonograph Record</i>, May 1974</p> <p class="excerpt">THE LAST YEAR has seen sufficient scholarly exegeses on the subject of Lou Reed to see us through the decade; and the release of 1969, ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="V"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-velvet-underground-loaded">The Velvet Underground: <i>Loaded</i></a></p> <p>Review by Lenny Kaye, <i>Rolling Stone</i>, 24 December 1970</p> <p class="excerpt">LOU REED HAS always steadfastly maintained that the Velvet Underground were just another Long Island rock 'n' roll band. 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And the ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="V"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-vibrators-ipure-maniai">The Vibrators: <I>Pure Mania</I></a></p> <p>Review by Jon Savage, <i>Sounds</i>, 11 June 1977</p> <p class="excerpt">MMM. PSYCHO daisies. Hid her wid de axe/you better relax. More zoop bop cartoon funnies – this time the movie's speeded up. 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But as far as popular music is concerned, Rick's composition ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="W"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/scott-walker-scott-scott2-scott3-scott4-boy-child-fontanamercury">Scott Walker: <i>Scott; Scott2; Scott3; Scott4; Boy Child </i>(Fontana/Mercury)</a></p> <p>Review by Rob Chapman, <i>MOJO</i>, August 2000</p> <p class="excerpt">Scott&#146;s first four post-Walker Brothers solo outings plus a revamped &#145;best of&#146;. Originally issued between 1967 and 1969. They got better but sold less and ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="W"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-walker-brothers-harmony-and-rivalry-from-the-walkers">The Walker Brothers: Harmony and rivalry from the Walkers</a></p> <p>Retrospective by Fred Dellar, <i>The History of Rock</i>, 1982</p> <p class="excerpt">In the mid sixties, just as every worthwhile group in Britain seemed to be setting up tours in the States, Scott Noel Engel, John Joseph ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="W"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/joe-walsh-iso-whati">Joe Walsh: <I>So What</I></a></p> <p>Review by John Mendelsohn, <i>Phonograph Record</i>, March 1975</p> <p class="excerpt">WHAT A DISTRESSINGLY large percentage of the perfect strangers with whom I happen to chat while waiting in line for ball games, premieres of motion ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="W"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/war-delivering-the-ghetto">War: Delivering the Ghetto</a></p> <p>Review and Interview by Lloyd Bradley, <i>MOJO</i>, November 1995</p> <p class="excerpt">GIVEN THE CHOICE that exists in the Golden Earring department, it's scandalous that we've been forced to wait this long to hear War on CD. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="W"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/was-not-was-born-to-laugh-at-tornadoes-geffen">Was (Not Was): Was Not Was:<i> Born To Laugh At Tornadoes </i>(Geffen)</a></p> <p>Review by Richard Cook, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 6 November 1983</p> <p class="excerpt">AMERICA HAS been dressed by improper minds. Corralling the year's important American records – Swordfishtrombones, Girl At Her Volcano, Burlap And Satin and Born To ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="W"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/something-about-the-waterboys">The Waterboys: Something About The Waterboys</a></p> <p>Interview by Dave DiMartino, <i>Creem</i>, April 1986</p> <p class="excerpt">SUPPOSE FOR JUST a moment there was a fellow who named his band the Waterboys because "a Waterboy was something fluid and ever-changing" and also ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="W"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-waterboys-scott-yet-another-god-like-genius">The Waterboys: Scott Yet Another God Like Genius</a></p> <p>Interview by Richard Cook, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 11 August 1984</p> <p class="excerpt">"I SOMETIMES thought that in the old days the young men of the tribe would want to grow up to be great warriors. In our ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="W"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/muddy-waters-iim-ready-iblue-sky">Muddy Waters: <I>I'm Ready </I>(Blue Sky)</a></p> <p>Review by Mitchell Cohen, <i>Creem</i>, May 1978</p> <p class="excerpt">IT ISN'T JUST the natural process of attribution and the creative stagnation afflicting his competitors that have made Muddy Waters the premier master of his ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="W"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/weather-report-the-true-us-art-form">Weather Report: The True US Art Form</a></p> <p>Interview by Harvey Kubernik, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 31 July 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">"PEOPLE ARE beautiful everywhere," says Josef Zawinul. "I think a real open person, I don't care what music he is playing, is going to be ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="W"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/jimmy-webb-pizza-on-the-park-london-">Jimmy Webb: Pizza on the Park, London ***</a></p> <p>Live Review by Keith Cameron, <i>The Guardian</i>, 28 October 1999</p> <p class="excerpt">WHEN THE Boo Radleys wrote a song called 'Jimmy Webb is God' they presumably weren't gripped by a vision of the Lord playing a gig ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="W"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/paul-weller-iwild-woodi-go-discs">Paul Weller: <I>Wild Wood</I> (Go! Discs)</a></p> <p>Review by Paul Moody, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 1994</p> <p class="excerpt">SOMETHING TO mull over. Paul Weller has been having hit records for 16 years. 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The sleeve of Homemade Ice Cream has photographs of him "up at Turkey Creek" and titles ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="W"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-white-stripes-astoria-theatre-london-21st-november">The White Stripes: Astoria Theatre, London, 21st November</a></p> <p>Live Review by The Rev. Al Friston, <i>Rock&#39;s Backpages</i>, 24 November 2001</p> <p class="excerpt">THE MOTOR CITY IS BURNING – on London's Charing Cross Road. An hilariously heraldic "City Of Detroit" flag – with a Latin inscription translating as ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="W"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/white-stripes-or-shite-hype-">The White Stripes: White Stripes Or Shite Hype? </a></p> <p>Comment by Stephen Dalton, <i>The Times</i>, August 2003</p> <p class="excerpt">NEXT WEEK the White Stripes release their latest single, a highly distinctive reading of the Burt Bacharach standard 'I Just Don't Know What To Do ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="W"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-who-30-years-of-maximum-rb">The Who: <i>30 Years Of Maximum R&B</i></a></p> <p>Review by Jon Savage, <i>MOJO</i>, July 1994</p> <p class="excerpt">APART FROM THE BARRON KNIGHTS AT BERTRAM MILLS Circus, the first group I ever saw live was The Who: It could have been Spooky Tooth, ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="W"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-who-my-generation-deluxe-edition-polydor-">The Who: <i>My Generation Deluxe Edition</i> (Polydor) ****</a></p> <p>Review by Ian MacDonald, <i>Uncut</i>, October 2002</p> <p class="excerpt">BEFORE NEW, larger sound systems ushered in rock in 1966-7, there was beat music, a tighter, more driving sound based on pushing club-scale amplification to ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="W"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/the-who-tommy">The Who: <i>Tommy</i></a></p> <p>Review by Chris Welch, <i>Melody Maker</i>, May 1969</p> <p class="excerpt">A DOUBLE ALBUM can often prove a boring disappointment these days, with the gimmick presentation becoming more important than the quality of the music. Pete ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="W"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/lucinda-williams-shepherds-bush-empire-london-2">Lucinda Williams: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London</a></p> <p>Live Review by Martin Colyer, <i>Rock&#39;s Backpages</i>, May 2003</p> <p class="excerpt">I LAST SAW Lucinda Williams live about ten years ago when she supported Mary Chapin Carpenter in London – not an auspicious show. She seemed ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="W"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/wings-over-america">Wings Over America</a></p> <p>Report by Michael Gross, <i>Blast</i>, August 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">SEVENTH AVENUE looked like a refugee camp for the great unwashed. 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After all, it may have taken two albums and several tours, but ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="W"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/steve-winwood-im-gonna-do-an-album-a-week">Steve Winwood: 'I'm Gonna Do an Album a Week!'</a></p> <p>Report and Interview by Chris Welch, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 17 May 1973</p> <p class="excerpt">IT'S BEEN MANY a long year since Steve Winwood has made impact as an individual on the English rock scene. ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="W"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/wishbone-ash-ashs-new-leaf">Wishbone Ash: Ash's New Leaf</a></p> <p>Interview by Chris Charlesworth, <i>Melody Maker</i>, 21 February 1976</p> <p class="excerpt">IT IS NOW ten months since Wishbone Ash packed up their troubles and settled in the USA, choosing a spot in Westport, Connecticut, that is ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="W"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/bobby-womack-gettin-to-it">Bobby Womack: Gettin' To It</a></p> <p>Profile and Interview by Steven Rosen, <i>Music World</i>, April 1973</p> <p class="excerpt">BOBBY WOMACK HAS been making music for twenty long years, an odyssey that carried him from the working quarters of Cleveland to the rocking corners ...</p> </div> <div class="article-listing"> <a name="W"></a> <p><a href="/Library/Article/bobby-womack-live-at-the-dallas-arcadia">Bobby Womack: Live at the Dallas Arcadia</a></p> <p>Live Review by Cynthia Rose, <i>New Musical Express</i>, 21 September 1985</p> <p class="excerpt">"BLACK MUSIC is being broken down. 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