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Billy Swan

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Billy Swan: Swan Song

Profile and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 7 December 1974

When Billy Swan cut a solo single, things started to happen — and they kept on happening until he reached the American No 1 spot... ...

Billy Swan: I Can Help (Monument)

Review by Fred Dellar, New Musical Express, 18 January 1975

CRUNCH. THAT'S my pick-up going down for the hundredth time on 'Don't Be Cruel', unbelievably placed second track in on side two — a killer ...

Billy Swan: I Can Help (Monument KZ 33279)

Review by Tom Nolan, Rolling Stone, 13 February 1975

THE RISE to the top of pop and country charts by the title single of this debut album seems to have been as much a ...

Eddy Mitchell/Billy Swan/The Jordanaires: Olympia, Paris

Report and Interview by Bob Woffinden, New Musical Express, 14 June 1975

Vegas on 8 cheeseburgers a day...or a bitch-in with Nashville's men of steel in Gay Paree. Which would you prefer? ...

Billy Swan: Rock 'n' Roll Moon

Review by John Morthland, Creem, January 1976

BILLY SWAN is one of those strange Seventies mutations, a product of a time when musical boundaries are breaking down at an accelerating rate. ...

Billy Swan, Willie Nelson: New Victoria Theatre, London

Live Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 1 May 1976

The majesty of Nelson's column ...

Willie Nelson, Billy Swan: New Victoria Theatre, London

Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 1 May 1976

Good and bad ol' boys ...

Billy Swan: Billy Swan (Monument PZ-34183)

Review by Nick Tosches, Rolling Stone, 17 June 1976

BILLY SWAN'S music is a baptism of rhythm. Two years ago, when America heaved morbidly beneath the weight of Watergate and encroaching poverty, Swan's 'I ...

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