Dwight Twilley
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Dwight Twilley Band: 'I'm On Fire' (Shelter SR 40380)
Review by Marty Cerf, Phonograph Record, May 1975
FOR THE moment there are but two titles that have any meaning for me. One is 'Tell Her No' by Del Shannon. The other is ...
Interview by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, September 1975
ONCE IN A WHILE a single hits the radio and hooks you immediately. They come out of nowhere, seemingly – happens to me every so ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 9 September 1976
IN AMERICA'S LESS CRISS-crossed midsection, young rockers have the opportunity to incubate their dreams – and their talents – free of pressure. The most romantic ...
Dwight Twilley: Twilley Don’t Mind
Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, August 1977
EVERYBODY KNOWS that people who write record reviews are supposed to complain every so often about what a crummy year it’s been for music, and ...
Dwight Twilley: Twilley Don't Mind
Interview by Radio Pete, Rocky Mountain Musical Express, October 1977
THE DWIGHT Twilley Band is a pretty band. Aside from Dwight on piano and guitar and longtime partner Phil Seymour on drums, the pubes can ...
Dwight Twilley Band: Twilley Don't Mind (Shelter)
Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 8 October 1977
ALL THE OMENS seem up there in the ascendant for Dwight Twilley. All the rock critics love him to death and even the most austere ...
Profile by Susin Shapiro, The Village Voice, 17 October 1977
AWKWARDNESS IS the new vogue. No more smoothies and impeccables to make us feel 10-thumbed; clumsiness is the cornerstone of humanity, or so say the ...
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, November 1977
EVEN ACROSS thousands of miles of trans-Atlantic telephone cable and several time zones Dwight Twilley exudes excited confidence. He's sure the time has come for ...
The Dwight Twilley Band: Just Another Bunch Of Hairdressers' Dummies Out Of Hicksville, USA
Profile and Interview by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 14 January 1978
(AND YES, THEY DO WANT TO BE TEEN IDOLS...) ...
24 Hours From Tulsa: Phil Seymour Speaks... And Twilley Don't Mind
Interview by Gary Sperrazza!, New York Rocker, January 1979
"EVERYTHING WE recorded was part of a definite pop concept with planned goals. The Twilley Band was THE thing." That's Phil Seymour talking about the ...
Up From The Street: The Story Of The L.A. Rock Revival
Overview by Don Waller, L.A. Weekly, 4 June 1981
Rock & roll, being the proud music of America's young, has always had a happy association with the beginning of summer: no school, warm nights ...
Dwight Twilley: Salvation Through Water Sports
Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, August 1982
DWIGHT TWILLEY, his tall, rangy frame barely contained by the walls of EMI Records' conference room, is thinking about one of the only good things ...
38 Special: Strength In Numbers (A&M); Dwight Twilley: Wild Dogs (A&M)
Review by Craig Zeller, Creem, October 1986
AT WORK, we play the radio constantly. A good part of the time it's tuned to the local oldies station. The other day I was ...
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, July 1997
OH, THE injustice. Had the release of Dwight Twilley's brilliant power pop debut not been delayed by a year, it would have beaten the first ...
Dwight Twilley: Magical Mystery Man
Retrospective and Interview by Tom Cox, The Guardian, 21 April 2000
The name Dwight Twilley probably doesn't ring a bell, but to the cognoscenti he's a rock'n'roll legend blessed with pop sensibility and irresistible animal magnetism. ...
Dwight Twilley Band: Live From Agora (Gigatone)
Review by Dave Laing (Australia), Ugly Things, 2010
POWER POP ICONS the Dwight Twilley Band shared a number of attributes with Big Star apart from the obvious '70s power pop connection. Both band's ...
see also Textones, The
see also Phil Seymour
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