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George Thorogood & The Destroyers

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George Thorogood and the Destroyers: George Thorogood and the Destroyers

Review by Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone, 23 March 1978

WHEN I FIRST heard this record some months ago, I was appalled. "One bourbon, one Scotch and one beee-ah," George Thorogoood was mush-mouthing over the ...

George Thorogood & The Destroyers: Ain't Nuthin' But The Blues Band

Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 29 June 1978

LOOKED AT MY watch and it was almost one, and George Thorogood And The Destroyers are just sloping on stage for their third set of ...

George Thorogood & The Destroyers: Keystone, Berkeley

Live Review by j. poet, Creem, November 1978

AS THE FRIDAY nite police cars go drooling thru the streets the air inside Keystone, Berkeley is thick enough to cut with a chain-saw. The ...

George Thorogood & The Destroyers: Move It On Over

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 11 November 1978

THE BOTTLENECK that ate Delaware returns to your hearts and turntables: no steps forward, no steps back. Move it On Over is this or any ...

Thoroughly Bluesy George

Live Review by Bill Millar, Melody Maker, 24 March 1979

George Thorogood, Albert Collins: Electric Ballroom, London ...

George Thorogood: The Delaware Destroyer!

Profile and Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, April 1979

IF RECENT REPORTS are to be believed, Beserkley Records may be in some kind of difficulties, at least as far as their English office is ...

George Thorogood & The Destroyers

Interview by Jim Sullivan, Trouser Press, February 1981

GEORGE THOROGOOD sits in a hotel room in western Massachusetts, watching television. It's a bitter cold November night; in a couple of hours he will ...

George Thorogood Cuts Through The USA

Interview by Dave Zimmer, Creem, February 1982

YOU COULD see it coming. About a hundred yards off, an old Checker Marathon cab was roaring along the asphalt, eating up the broken white ...

Visitors: George Thorogood

Interview by Bill Bentley, L.A. Weekly, 14 October 1982

IF GEORGE Thorogood didn't exist, a true-blue rock & roll fan would be tempted to invent him. The guy obviously believes Chuck Berry created the ...

Thorogood's Blues-Rock Has Made Big Leagues

Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 17 December 1982

IN 1980, GEORGE Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers, were really gathering momentum with their traditional brand of blues-based rock. Their second album, Move It On ...

George Thorogood & The Destroyers: Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 4 March 1986

GEORGE THOROGOOD & the Destroyers have added a few wrinkles, but the quartet hasn't changed much since Thorogood first danced on local tabletops seven years ...

George Thorogood & the Destroyers: Raiders of the Lost Axe

Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, September 2004

Bluesman George Thorogood is celebrating 30 years of 12-bar brilliance with a new Best Of… and a global tour. He talks to Terry Staunton. ...

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