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Black Sabbath/Girlschool: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 24 May 1980

THE SABS are back. And after a series of false starts to their British tour due to drummer Bill Ward contracting viral pneumonia they are ...

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Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's … Girlschool

Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 3 November 1979

I MET GIRLSCHOOL in a pub called the Leather Bottle, which was appropriate because leather is what they wear and bottle is what they've got ...

Women in Rock: Cute, Cute, Cutesy Goodbye

Interview by Deanne Pearson, New Musical Express, 29 March 1980

Exploited for the last two decades as dumb but pretty decorations in rock, some girls now demand and deserve musical respect — but some girls ...

Girlschool: Girls At Their Best

Report by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 7 June 1980

THESE SCHOOL-TYPES WILL MAKE THE ORCHIDS WILT, SEZ PETE MAKOWSKI ...

Girlschool: Back to Schooldays

Interview by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 9 August 1980

Pete Makowski deciphers the scrawl in his exercise book. Mike Laye makes with the paints, crayons and Box Brownie ...

Girlschool

Interview by Peter Silverton, Smash Hits, 30 April 1981

Pete Silverton takes a short course in Metalwork. ...

Girlschool: Black Leather at St Trinians

Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 2 May 1981

GIRLSCHOOL FRENZY GRIPS THE COUNTRY AS ADOLESCENT BOYS DISCOVER THEIR VERY OWN ROCK'N'ROLL SEX SYMBOLS. PAUL MORLEY TAKES A MANLY LOOK AT THIS CRAZY PHENOMENON. ...

Girlschool: Hit and Miss? Yeah, right...

Report and Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 16 May 1981

GARRY "Mr. Nasty" BUSHELL has a few reservations about Girlschool ...

Girlschool: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 22 May 1982

THE SPECTACLE is always the same – blinding flashes and smokebombs, loud guitar and pounding drums. The band dedicate the songs to the crowd, the ...

A Girlschool For Headbangers!

Interview by Chris Salewicz, Creem, July 1982

IN A REHEARSAL room on the southwest London suburb of Putney, Girlschool lead guitar players Kelly Johnson and rhythm guitarist Kim McAuliffe are swigging from ...

Girlschool: Hit And Run (Stiff America)

Review by Laura Fissinger, Creem, July 1982

SCREW HOME EC; WE'RE MAJORING IN SHOP ...

Girlschool: Coast to Coast, Baltimore MD

Live Review by J.D. Considine, Musician, August 1982

FROM A DISTANCE, Girlschool looks pretty much like any other heavy rock group — long hair, Marshall stacks, denim and leathers. But it doesn't take ...

Girlschool: Country Club, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 23 December 1983

GIRLSCHOOL'S BRITISH CLASS ...

Staying After Girlschool

Report and Interview by Richard Riegel, Creem, May 1984

GIRLSCHOOL MEMBERS Kim McAuliffe and Gil Weston flash me quick smiles as we're introduced in their road manager's hotel room, and I'm relieved to note ...

Girlschool: Nightmare At Maple Cross (GWR)

Review by Neil Taylor, New Musical Express, 25 October 1986

WHEN THE metal messiah Lemmy recently stated on the radio that Heavy Metal was all about tunes, and that vocals, lyrics, and accessories were unimportant, ...

Girlschool: Hear No Evil

Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 30 October 1986

The new GIRLSCHOOL album, Nightmare At Maple Cross, may have a tongue-in-cheek terror title, but the record itself, according to HOWARD JOHNSON, is anything but ...

Girlschool: Nightmare at Maple Cross (GWR)

Review by Deborah Frost, The Village Voice, 17 November 1987

MOST ALL-GIRL BANDS are pretty stupid And not always for the same reasons most all-guy bands are – too much attitude, too little attitude, too ...

NWOBHM: Never Mind The Bollocks

Retrospective by Paul Elliott, MOJO, February 2007

Threatened by punk, Led Zep, Sabbath and Purple came under fire in 1977. A year later Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Saxon led a New ...

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