Dictators, The

The Dictators: Back From The Bronx

Report by Gary Sperrazza!, New York Rocker, February 1981

NEW YORK– "You know how Teddy Pendergrass only lets women into his concerts? Next time we play here, we're only gonna allow 300 Ib. men ...

The Dictators: Go Girl Crazy

Review by Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, April 1975

LIVING IN NEW YORK has never been easy for the older generation, but it's even tougher for their offspring. ...

The Dictators - The Dictators Go Girl Crazy

Review by Max Bell, NME, April 1975

PSSST. WANNA BUY a dirty record? ...

The Dictators: The Handsomest Man In Rock And Roll

Interview by Max Bell, NME, October 1976

You may have been ready for Patti 'n' the Pistols 'n' the Ramones, but are you as ready as MAX BELL for The DICTATORS and... ...

The Dictators: Manifest Destiny

Review by Gene Sculatti, Crawdaddy!, August 1977

IT WOULDN'T BE hard. One could assemble a tidy list of contemporary Major Acts whose initial fate it was to be cast as "critics' favorites": ...

The Dictators

Report and Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, December 1977

GROSS. LOUD. Fun. Funny. Fast. Flash. All words which can he applied to the Dictators, the New York City bad boys who toured here last ...

Dictators Debunk New York Chic

Interview by Paul Rambali, NME, December 1977

SO WHY IS DICK Manitoba nicknamed Handsome? ...

The Dictators Look For The Perfect Wave

Interview by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, June 1978

The Record Plant, one of New York's top pro recording studios, is located in a fairly anonymous office building just west of Eighth Avenue in ...

The Dictators: The Starwood, Los Angeles

Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, August 1978

FOR A START, L.A. is about as distant from the Bronx as Tunbridge Wells, and not just geographically, here they are very serious about punk/rock/whatever, ...

Rock'n'Roll Made Me A Mensch: The Dictators Reach Maturity

Profile and Interview by Roy Trakin, New York Rocker, September 1978

The IntroductionWHEN THE Dictators proudly declared themselves the "next big thing" on their rock ‘n’ roll-icking debut album Go Girl Crazy!, they were not, as ...

The Dictators: Go Girl Crazy

Review by Jeremy Gluck, MOJO, 2001

THESE OLD-SCHOOL rockers put punk on the musical map, opening the way, for better or worse, for two decades of divergent tunes and dissonant noise. ...

The Dictators: live at El Sol, Madrid 24th November

Live Review by Lindsay Hutton, Rock's Backpages, December 2001

HEY ANDY SHERNOFF! You tell us that your generation ain't the salvation of this R'n'R beastie but I beg to differ. ...