The Gap Band
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Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 10 August 1982
HOW MANY labels can you think of that can boast that their first single and first album releases both went straight to No. 1 in ...
The Gap Band: Gap Band VI (Total Experience FL89476)
Review by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 23 March 1985
CONTAINING, SORRY to report, about the same degree of inspiration that they used for the album title. Ask the Wilson Brothers about this album and ...
The Gap Band: Rap with the Gap
Profile and Interview by Lloyd Bradley, Blues & Soul, 8 April 1980
What we got here, folks, is speech from the breach, as Lloyd Bradley traces the rise and rise of the Gap Band from the main ...
The Gap Band: Zibble Zibble Drivel
Interview by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 10 January 1987
THE GAP BAND'S music-by-numerals approach to the dancefloor has brought them steady success in Britain, most recently with the single 'Big Fun'. SIMON WITTER probes ...
The Gap Band: Aerobic Ancestors
Interview by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 10 January 1987
THE GAP BAND have been doing it since the year dot. Paul Mathur seeks the secret of eternal success ...
Singles Reviewed by MARK COOPER
Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 22 January 1983
THE GAP BAND 'Outstanding' (Polygram) Yet another soul concerto from The Gap Band with a monstrously hard-hitting handclap from the engine room and a vocal ...
Sex, Drugs and the Devil: The Gap Band Fights for Success
Profile and Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 1 March 1984
HOLLYWOOD — The bodyguard was not smiling. "Could you wait out here until Mr. Simmons has completed his call?" he asked, gesturing to the hallway ...
Gap Band: Gap Band VI (Total Experience Records) ****
Review by Davitt Sigerson, Rolling Stone, 28 March 1985
LEON RUSSELL took the three Wilson brothers out of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and L.A. entrepreneur Lonnie Simmons made them funk stars as the Gap Band. Beginning ...
The Gap Band: Gap Band IV (Total Experience) ***
Review by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 30 September 1982
WITH ITS synthesized percussion explosions, syncopated handclaps and ominous melody, 'Early in the Morning', the Gap Band's recent hit single, is the sonic equivalent of ...
The Gap Band: Rap With The Gap
Interview by Robin Katz, Soundmaker, 19 March 1983
ROBIN KATZ GETS THE TOTAL EXPERIENCE OF THE GAP BAND ...
Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 6 August 1977
SO I PICKED through the albums lying in Master Barton's dusty drawer and there, amongst the dross, was a name I recognised. The Gap Band. ...
The Gap Band: Star Spangled & Starry-Eyed
Interview by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 5 February 1983
Gavin Martin meets The Gap Band, three of America's fortunate sons who just want to party and make people happy. ...
The Gap Band/Yarbrough and Peoples: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, 17 February 1983
Intrepid fans shuffle past a regiment of niggly security men and into the Hammersmith Odeon. On stage a whole troupe of compères bounce on and ...
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