Pops Staples
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Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 27 February 2015
THE LAST RECORDED testament of Roebuck "Pops" Staples, Don't Lose This remained a private family secret until his daughter Mavis remembered her father's instruction, one ...
It's All Over Now: A Farewell to Pops
Obituary by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 22 December 2000
Roebuck Pops Staples, patriarch of gospel-soul family group the Staple Singers, died on Tuesday, December 19. Possessor of a light, understated harmony voice and distinctive ...
The Staple Singers: God's Greatest Hitmakers
Retrospective and Interview by Bill Carpenter, Goldmine, 30 August 1996
THERE'S NO question about it. Forget the Winans or the Hawkins Family, the Staple Singers are the most widely known, best-selling gospel group of all ...
Interview by David Burke, R2/Rock'n'Reel, May 2008
David Burke talks to the indefatigable Mavis Staples ...
Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Oxford American, July 1998
THE STAPLE Singers didn't get started until ten years after the family patriarch, Roebuck "Pops" Staples, moved the clan from Winona, Mississippi, to Chicago in ...
MM Staple Singers special: Top of the Pops!
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 2 February 1974
THE STAPLE SINGERS, who gave one charging show in London on Friday, are one of America's most justly famed gospel groups. They have come a ...
Review by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, 26 May 1979
Steve Cropper/Pop Staples/Albert King: Jammed Together (Stax 3009) Booker T & The MGs: Time Is Tight — The Best Of… (Stax STX 3007) The Emotions: ...
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Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, November 1969
CROSBY STILLS & NASH is an exquisite collection of words from this triumvirate. Steve Stills, the moody ex-Buffalo, seems to be the anchor here, as ...
see also Staple Singers, The
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