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Stephen Stills: Behind The Malicious Rumours
Interview by Barbara Charone, New Musical Express, 27 October 1973
EVER SINCE he wrote 'For What It's Worth' Stephen Stills has had his share of criticism. And oddly enough it's often been more personal than ...
Stephen Stills: Crazy After All These Years
Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 9 July 1983
MR STILLS and I are watching a video of some playing by Crosby, Stills And Nash. The composer leans back in his chair, a whisky ...
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CSNY's Stephen Stills and Neil Young (1999)
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages audio, 18 October 1999
Together again to promote the new CSNY album Looking Forward, Messrs. Stills and Young enthuse about making the record, putting a band together to tour, the state of Crosby, and their relationship then and now. They also look back at their time together in Buffalo Springfield, spinning yarns and tall tales.
File format: mp3; file size: 37.9mb, interview length: 39' 29" sound quality: ****
Interview by Dave Zimmer, Rock's Backpages audio, 20 February 1979
Stills discusses his current road band and what material he’ll be playing on tour; his current solo album Thoroughfare Gap; his musical background; moving to New York from the south, then moving to the Los Angeles and forming Buffalo Springfield; Crosby, Stills & Nash and learning how to produce; Neil Young joining the trio to make CSNY; the hit that was ‘For What It’s Worth’ and its politics; moving to England and buying Ringo Starr’s house; the crazy times and the drinking; his unhappiness with the Stills-Young tour and album; his film and acting ambitions; and the music he currently likes (the Knack) and dislikes (punk rock).
File format: mp3; file size: 98.5mb, interview length: 1h 42' 34" sound quality: ***
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Stephen Stills: Angry in Suburbia
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 18 March 1972
"HEY, THERE'S a tape recorder going. Hey, there's a tape going here," Steve Stills tosses a dice in the direction of the chatter and chuckles, ...
Stills Young: Long May You Run
Review by Andy Childs, ZigZag, November 1976
IF THE music on this album had in any way matched up to the exceptionally heavy vibes surrounding its making then we would surely have ...
Stephen Stills: A Sympathetic Self-Portrait
Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, Crawdaddy!, October 1975
"I'M DRUNK," Stephen Stills is screaming at his manager, Michael John Bowen, standing on the second floor balcony of a seedy Holiday Inn motel, high ...
CSN&Y: Euphoric Acoustic Good Guys Hit The Dylan Trail
Interview by Barbara Charone, New Musical Express, 16 March 1974
"WELCOME AMERICAN Dairymen" read the hotel display-board and beneath it, in smaller letters, "Welcome Stephen Stills Group". Upstairs, overlooking Chicago in just another hotel room, ...
Stephen Stills: Illegal Stills
Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 15 May 1976
THERE'S NOTHING dishonest about Illegal Stills. This is the album guaranteed to enhance Stephen Stills' artistic reputation and regain the sophisticated rock 'n' roll credibility ...
Stephen Stills: An American in Paris
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 12 October 1974
CROSBY, STILLS, NASH AND YOUNG had only ended their reunion tour three weeks back, and already Stephen Stills was working again. The locale had ...
Stills – From Fish Bowl To Pleasure Dome
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 16 August 1975
THE KANSAS City Holiday Inn is not the kind of place you would want to call home. Situated right off an interstate highway, the rooms ...
Four Way Street Revisited... CSNY Revisited
Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 22 May 1976
How Steve Stills learned to stop worrying about his own solo career and appreciate Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. A case of deja vu for ...
Live Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 19 July 1975
Stephen Stills: Lennox, Massachusetts ...
CSNY: Love The Ones You're With
Profile by Barney Hoskyns, GQ, April 2000
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - the ultimate rock supergroup - have been through the wars since first teaming up in 1969. Now the Woodstock ...
Bloomfield/Kooper/Stills: Rock's First Supergroup?
Retrospective by Bill Wasserzieher, ICE, January 2003
MIKE BLOOMFIELD, Al Kooper and Stephen Stills were between gigs at the time they recorded Super Session for Columbia Records in 1968, with Bloomfield having ...
Stephen Stills,Graham Nash and David Crosby Albums
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 25 May 1972
Stephen Stills: ManassasGraham Nash/David Crosby: Graham Nash/David Crosby ...
Steven Stills, Roger McGuinn & Band Albums
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 28 August 1975
Roger McGuinn: Roger McGuinn & Band (Columbia)Stephen Stills: Stills (Columbia) ...
Review by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 19 July 1975
I'M SATISFIED with this album, but I wish I could be more enthusiastic as Stephen Stills has both created and had a hand in creating ...
Stephen Stills: Carnegie Hall, New York City
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 23 February 1974
NEW YORK: There's really no substitute for experience in rock music and there are few musicians around with as much experience as Steve Stills who ...
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 6 November 1976
Steve Stills tells Chris Charlesworth in New York why he's touring solo after all these years... ...
Stephen Stills & Neil Young: Nassau Coliseum, New York NY
Live Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 26 August 1976
Flaws and Applause — Young's Hot, Stills's Not ...
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 6 April 1979
LOS ANGELES – Ambitious, blunt but expressive, forceful, aggressive when the occasion requires it, capable of manic dedication and drive towards work and life goals...a ...
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Cannon, Melody Maker, 28 November 1970
A portrait of a rock giant... at work on his solo LP and at home in his English country house ...
Stephen Stills, Maria Muldaur: Carnegie Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 11 February 1974
Stephen Stills Gets Himself Together ...
Hurricane II: Thunder in the Heart of Texas
Report by Joe Nick Patoski, Rolling Stone, 26 February 1976
Carter Benefit at Astrodome ...
Stephen Stills: Stephen Stills 2
Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 19 August 1971
WHAT WE HAVE HERE, friends, is a fifth-rate album by a solid second-rate artist who so many lower-middlebrows insist on believing is actually first-rate, even ...
Stills-Young Band: Long May You Run
Review by John Morthland, Creem, February 1977
WHAT A CURIOUS "COLLABORATION" this turns out to be. Neil Young, whose career is at a new critical peak and isn't hurting commercially either, lends ...
Stephen Stills: Stephen Stills 2
Review by Jon Tiven, Phonograph Record, September 1971
DO YOU REALIZE that in the past eight months there have been two solo albums by Steve Stills, in addition to 4 Way Street (which ...
Stephen Stills: The Reformation Of a "Jive" Artist
Interview by Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 27 September 1973
LOS ANGELES — It's difficult to name a rock & roll star who's been put down, chopped up, dismissed and generally hated as much as ...
Stephen Stills, The Impressions, The Staple Singers, Tom Rush albums
Review by Loraine Alterman, The New York Times, 10 September 1972
Stephen Stills: Manassas (Atlantic); The Impressions: Times Have Changed (Curtom); The Staple Singers: Be Altitude: Respect Yourself (Stax); Tom Rush: Merrimack County (Columbia) ...
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 11 March 1972
Step aside, open wide. It's the loner. ...
Review by Mick Houghton, Record Collector, April 2013
CAN SOMEBODY be just too talented? If so, Stephen Stills is a perfect case study, and this new four-disc set offers up a myriad examples ...
Stephen Stills: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 1 August 1971
Stephen Stills Plays at Garden In His First Solo Concert Here ...
Stephen Stills keeps fighting — against violence in pop music
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 28 February 1970
STEPHEN STILLS is possibly the most underrated musician and musical force of our time. But he’s no demi-god. It is one of those strange ironies ...
Stephen Stills' Manassas: Manassas (Atlantic K60021)
Review by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 29 April 1972
OF ALL the members of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young it's been Stephen that seems to have had the roughest passage going it alone. Critics ...
Genius, Hard Work and Steve Stills
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 28 February 1970
GENIUS, SAYS the old adage, is an infinite capacity for taking pains. If that's so, then Stephen Stills must be pretty close to it. ...
Stephen Stills: An Interview in England - Part 1
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Circus, August 1970
THE HOUSE now occupied by Stephen Stills is 350 years old and it really looks it. It has thick old oak beams, leadened bay windows, ...
Stephen Stills: An Interview in England - Part 2
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Circus, September 1970
This is the second part of an interview made in Stephen Stills' English country home in early 1970. ...
Interview by Rob Hughes, Record Collector, March 2010
Stephen Stills looks back on a rollercoaster career that has seen him survive superstardom, booze, drugs and cancer to enjoy his current renaissance. ...
Stephen Stills: Just Roll Tape – April 26th 1968
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, September 2007
Post-Springfield, Pre-CSN Stills in Magisterial Solo Mood ...
This is David Geffen, by Gentlemen's Agreement Manager to the Superstars
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 22 July 1972
Will CSN&Y ever re-unite and find true happiness? ...
Stephen Stills: Thoroughfare Gap
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 11 November 1978
IN THE end all will be disco, or so it would seem, so the best you can hope for is that your chosen hero exercises ...
see also Buffalo Springfield
see also Crosby Stills and Nash
see also Crosby Stills Nash & Young
see also Chris Hillman
see also Manassas
see also Dallas Taylor
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