Bette Midler

Bette Midler: Just A Working Class Girl Living Out Her Fantasies

Interview by Nick Kent, NME, February 1973

BETTE MIDLER, the Divine Miss Bette Midler, is a star. Ahmet Ertegun, man of wealth and taste, and head of Atlantic Records, believes it; Aaron ...

Bette Midler: Trying To Be Free

Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, February 1973

THE DIVINE MISS M. sparkles and shines like a great glossy cake trimmed up with rich icing. On stage, word has it, she is superbly ...

Bette Midler: Bette Midler (Atlantic); Yoko Ono: Feeling The Space (Apple)

Review by Loraine Alterman, New York Times, November 1973

No Torches for Bette and Yoko ...

Pipeline

Column by Mark Shipper, Phonograph Record, December 1973

WELL, 1973 IS gone and a new year is upon us. The only reason I mention that is because some of you are so dunced-out ...

Bette Midler: Bette Midler (Atlantic)

Review by Tom Nolan, Creem, April 1974

ALL THIS diverse material – old Broadway show tunes, a Phil Spector classic, a Wardell Gray jazz novelty, soul songs, Dylan – you can almost ...

Bette Midler

Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, September 1978

LOOKING AFTER Bette Midler's career, says her manager and former lover Aaron Russo, is like being the navigator of a plane en route for California. ...

Bette Midler

Interview by Paul Rambali, NME, February 1981

Saturday night ended at seven o'clock on Sunday morning with one last bottle of Veuve Cliquot and Sunday began at four in the afternoon with ...

Bette Midler: No Frills

Review by Leyla Sanai, NME, September 1983

OK, FORGET the drip through the roof. Forget the mortgage and the DHSS snoop halfway through the letterbox. Imagine a night out on the town ...

Bette Midler: No Frills (Atlantic)

Review by Leyla Sanai, NME, September 1983

OK, FORGET the drip through the roof. Forget the mortgage and the DHSS snoop halfway through the letterbox. Imagine a night out on the town ...