Dwight Twilley
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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, 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 its been for music, and ...
Dwight Twilley Band: Twilley Don't Mind (Shelter)
Review by Nick Kent, NME, 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 ...
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, NME, January 1978
(AND YES, THEY DO WANT TO BE TEEN IDOLS...) ...
Power Pop: Flamin' Groovies/ Dwight Twilley/ the Knack
Essay by Tom Hibbert, History of Rock, The, 1984
IN THE MID SIXTIES, within the music of groups like the Kinks, the Byrds and the Who, musical aggression and melodic invention had co-existed. But ...
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 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 ...
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