Beat Instrumental
Chambers Brothers, The: The Chambers Brothers
Profile by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, May 1969
THE CHAMBERS BROS. may well have taken over Blue Cheer's title of the world's loudest group. ...
Review and Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, May 1969
IN THESE DAYS of controversy about blue men singing the whites (thank you, V. Stanshall) it's amazing just how few black men are signing the ...
Rolling Stones, The: Stones Working Hard — And Mick Goes On Guitar
Report and Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, October 1969
IF YOU’VE STUDIED your record covers, then you’ll probably be familiar with the name of Ian Stewart. Their equipment manager and mate, he has been ...
Blodwyn Pig: Full Ahead for Pig! Blodwyn Pig
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, October 1969
MY FIRST encounter with Blodwyn Pig was hearing their single, 'Dear Jill', when a friend came round to tell me about the wonder group. I ...
Blood Sweat & Tears: Blood, Sweat And Tears
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, October 1969
THE TROUBLE is simply a matter of definition. Blood, Sweat and Tears don’t regard themselves as a specifically commercial group... but their fusion of pop ...
Graham Bond: The Return Of Graham Bond
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, October 1969
GRAHAM BOND is satisfied. After spending the last eighteen months in the States, he returned to England, auditioned 300 musicians and picked himself six. They ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, December 1969
JEFF BECK at the moment seems to be wandering in a musical "no-man's-land". He is faced with the unenviable task of forming a new group ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, December 1969
"INDEPENDENCE" and "freedom" are words much used today to justify any act from dossing down in Piccadilly to running naked through Trafalgar Square, but Soft ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, December 1969
"IF SSSH IS the music of Ten Years After, then thank God it took them two years and three fantastic albums to find it out." ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, December 1969
We need you too Jethro Tull! ...
Hollies, The: The Hollies: Consistent Standards Gain Wider Audiences
Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, December 1969
CONSIDER THE HOLLIES. Consider them carefully. Because they are pretty well unique. In a scene where their attributes of enthusiasm, dignity, courtesy and style are ...
Phil Spector: The Musical Guts Behind Spector
Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, January 1970
PHIL SPECTOR is alive and well and living on Sunset Boulevard in his beloved Los Angeles. He's producing records again, having come out of retirement ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, January 1970
THE PINK FLOYD have been playing together for five years. During all this time there has been but one personnel change, when Syd Barrett was ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, February 1970
"WHERE shall I start?" asked Jethro Tull's singer-man. ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, March 1970
BRITAIN’S art colleges have turned out a disproportionate number of successful musicians – John Lennon, Jimmy Page and Pete Townshend among them. It was while ...
Kenny Rogers and the First Edition: Visual Scene Important For Kenny Rogers: The First Edition
Report and Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, March 1970
‘THEY'RE a bunch of real nice guys,’ said the publicity man, talking about Kenny Rogers and the First Edition. Which is a very standard line ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, April 1970
EXACTLY one year ago Beat Instrumental reported the Small Faces' last gig with Steve Marriot. After the show Ian 'Mac' McLagen said: 'We're going to ...
Love: The Great West Coast Enigma
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, April 1970
IN 1967, a record called Da Capo by a practically unheard-of Los Angeles group called Love appeared on the Elektra label. ...
Fotheringay, Sandy Denny: Concerts, Not Clubs, For Sandy Denny's Fotheringay
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, April 1970
TAKE ONE PART Fairport Convention, two parts Eclection, and two parts Poet and One Man Band, put them in a bag, stir well and allow ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, April 1970
YOUVE HEARD it said millions of times, but here it is again. Isn't it a drag that so many of our groups don't play live ...
T. Rex, Tyrannosaurus Rex: T(yrannosaurus). Rex
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, May 1970
JUST OVER TWO years ago, John Peel introduced the public, as is his wont, to one of the most startlingly unusual groups ever to make ...
John Mayall: Can John Mayall Maintain The Legend?
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, May 1970
THE ADVERTISEMENTS for John Mayall's pre-Christmas tour with his new drumless, acoustic guitar group described him as "the legendary John Mayall". While promoters and Promo ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, May 1970
ONE OF OUR most original groups that has not yet achieved the recognition it deserves is the Strawbs. They stand out instant by being an ...
Christine Perfect/McVie: Christine Perfect
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, May 1970
FIVE years ago, an art student called Christine Perfect met a guitarist called Stan Webb. As a result of that meeting an R and B ...
Four Tops, The: Four Tops Reach Out
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, May 1970
THE BIG QUESTION hanging over the heads of the Four Tops, Tamla Motown's long-running stars, is just how much they are going to miss the ...
John Martyn, John and Beverley Martyn: John And Beverley Martyn
Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, May 1970
JOE BOYD has been responsible for bringing to our attention a number of brilliant musicians. People don't talk much about 'discovering' artists these days, but ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, June 1970
DESPITE having a successful single in 'Yellow River', Geoff Christie (front man of new group Christie) would have been happier had the group just not ...
Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, June 1970
MAKE NO MISTAKE about it. Lord Sutch is back, and in accordance with his own tradition he's there at the right place at the right ...
Moody Blues, The: The Moody Blues
Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, June 1970
THE SUMMER of 1967 will always be remembered by many as the time when a lot of very good things began to happen. Certainly there ...
Incredible String Band, The: The Incredible String Band
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, June 1970
SINCE THEIR first album in 1966, almost immediately acclaimed as the work of an important new talent, the Incredible String Band have released albums at ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, June 1970
'I felt I was doing nothing with my life because there was no challenge' ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, July 1970
HE'S STILL ONLY 21 but Cat Stevens has returned to the music scene and given himself a new lease of life. Naturally he's changed in ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, July 1970
THERE can be few artists who have made such a lasting impact on the contemporary music scene as Tom Paxton. Inspired originally by such hard ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, July 1970
ON THE POPULARITY polls, instrumentalists come and go. Jet Harris, one-time bass player with the Shadows, used to win – especially when he broke away ...
Wilbert Harrison, Creedence Clearwater Revival: Wilbert Harrison & Creedence Clearwater Revival
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, July 1970
WHEN CREEDENCE Clearwater Revival made their first whistle-stop tour of Europe recently, they invited Wilbert Harrison to join them. ...
Savoy Brown Start Another Chapter
Report and Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, July 1970
NOT LONG home from their third exhausting tour of America, the Savoy Brown band were enjoying a necessary break – they have kept their British ...
Report by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, July 1970
JONI MITCHELL is a beautiful lady, one who write and sings songs born from the depths of her experience, a word painter who shows us ...
Crosby Stills Nash and Young: Alive, Well & Together: Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Report and Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, July 1970
LONDON is getting warmer, and the nights longer, and the sound of winter doesn’t even echo anymore. And though it’s not tranquility, it’s an atmosphere ...
Report and Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, October 1970
ONE OF THE more interesting events of last year, away from the resurgence of rock ‘n’ roll in all shapes and sizes, was the first ...
Jimmy Webb: Did Jim Webb Really Need Richard Harris?
Report and Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, October 1970
WORK ON the theory that ‘talent will out’ – and Jim Webb, fantastically consistent young American composer, would have made it anyway. In fact, though, ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, October 1970
TEN YEARS AFTER had just returned from their seventh American tour when we spoke to Leo Lyons in the group’s London office. ...
Deep Purple: An Interview with Jon Lord
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, November 1970
DEEP Purple, since their formation from the debris of the Artwoods, Lord Sutch and others have become increasingly recognized as one of the most progressive ...
Report and Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, November 1970
BLACK SABBATH are very proud of the fact that the making of their latest LP, Paranoid took such a short time. "We did the title ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, December 1970
THE LAST FEW months have seen the emergence of one or two bands whose publicity and stage act seem to be based on – not ...
Electric Light Orchestra, Move, The: The Move/E.L.O.: Move Again
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, December 1970
ON ONE OF HIS rare visits to the Metropolis, Move's Roy Wood consented to have a quick chat with B.I. ...
Marc Bolan, T. Rex: Marc Bolan
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, February 1971
AT THE DAWN of Britain's history Marc Bolan was a bard; in 1956 he served in the 2 I's coffee house to the skiffling rhythms ...
Incredible String Band, The: Incredible String Band
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, March 1971
"The Beatles are British I suppose," said Bob Dylan in the first of his two post-accident interviews, "but you can’t say they’ve carried on with ...
Profile by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, March 1971
‘Another Remarkable Englishman’ ...
Profile by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, June 1971
But I was so much older then,I’m younger than that now. ...
Rory Gallagher: 'I Want To Be Playing When I'm Fifty'
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, June 1971
WITH ALL THE troubles surrounding the break up of Taste far behind him, Rory Gallagher is calmly setting out to build upon the high reputation ...
Stackridge: An Every Day Story Of Country Folk
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, June 1971
NEW BANDS emerging today seem to roughly divide into two categories. ...
Syd Barrett, A Psychedelic Veteran
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, June 1971
In every great revolution heroes are created who in turn are often killed by the very ideals which they fought for. The "psychedelic revolution" of ...
Moody Blues, The: The Moody Blues: Justin Time for the Moodies
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, June 1971
While I was at the Moodies offices, situated in the Surrey stockbroker belt, photographs were being taken of Justin and Graeme with Trevor Taylor of ...
Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, June 1971
MOTT THE HOOPLE are possibly the most exciting live band gigging in Britain today. A lot of that excitement emanates from the gymnastics, guitaristics, vocals, ...
Bonzo Dog Band: Vivian Stanshall
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, July 1971
"I take a hell of a lot of drugs." Says Vivian Stanshall describing how inspiration appears. "Then I go out to a hilltop with an ...
David Bowie: Profile: David Bowie
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, July 1971
David Bowie doesn't give interviews. 'I don't feel that anything I could say would be worth quoting,' he says by way of explanation. However, he ...
Band, The: The Boys in The Band...
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, July 1971
The Band have probably become the most highly respected group among groups since their first album was released three years ago. ...
Procol Harum: The Purpose of Being Procol...
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, August 1971
THE SORT OF article in which Procol Harum are invited to star usually gets titled Procol Still To Make It Here or The Most Underrated ...
Tom Jans, Richard and Mimi Fariña: Jet-Set Folkies: Not Us, Say Tom Jans and Mimi Fariña
Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, October 1971
ON MAY 1, 1966, Richard Fariña, novelist, poet and folk singer was returning from a party celebrating the publication of his novel Been Down So ...
T. Rex, Marc Bolan: Marc Bolan: Hot Rods and Hot Love
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, November 1971
CAMOUFLAGED WELL enough to stand unnoticed in front of a rainbow, Marc Bolan sat crosslegged on his sofa and explained that "too much" had happened ...
Gong: Rude and Banana Guitar Playing with Gong
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, December 1971
Someone once said that if Dylan Thomas was alive now he'd be writing for a rock group. Daevid Christopher Allen is the perfect example of ...
Wishbone Ash: A Surge of Greatness
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, December 1971
Wishbone may seem to have suddenly emerged as this year's brightest hope but as with all overnight success it's been a hard slog. The wrong ...
Pete Townshend: Genius of the Simple
Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, December 1971
Pete Townshend is a little worried about the advancement that is being made with musical equipment and recording studios. "The technology is beginning to overtake ...
Profile and Interview by Roger St. Pierre, Beat Instrumental, December 1971
WITH AL Green's 'Tired Of Being Alone' Decca's subsidiary London label has notched its first chart entry in more than 18 months. It's quite a ...
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, 1972
LOU REED looked out of his seventh floor window down onto six floors of other people’s windows. He asked what the weather was like outside. ...
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, January 1972
Frank Zappa was staying at the London hotel which possesses the actual loo shown on his internationally famous poster. When I arrived at the reception ...
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, January 1972
Pete Sinfield is, of course the Bernie Taupin... the Keith Reid... of King Crimson. Together with Robert Fripp he forms the lowest common denominator of ...
Isaac Hayes: Hot Buttered Hayes
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, January 1972
JAMES BROWN may still be Soul Brother Number One but now Issac Hayes, songwriter/arranger/producer and artist is making a serious challenge. ...
Report and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, January 1972
KID JENSEN IS probably more able to make or break an album than any other radio jockey in the free world. His two-hour show is ...
Elton John: Bernie Taupin: The B-Side of Elton John
Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, February 1972
The offices of DJM records in new Oxford Street give the feeling of being a shrine to the glory of Elton John. Button-size stickers are ...
Randy Newman: Who Is Randy Newman?
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, February 1972
The name of Randy Newman kept cropping up in the interviews I wrote for Beat Instrumental. First of all it was Keith Reid who claimed ...
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, April 1972
Al Stewart earned his fame by singing about Bedsitter Images and closed subway stations. Now he owns a house in Hampstead outside of which he ...
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, April 1972
MC5 decided to conduct their interview with me in one of their cupboard-size hotel bedrooms. On the door was a poster of Chairman Mao, on ...
Cream: ‘Nobody can replace Cream’ — Ginger Baker
Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, April 1972
It seems that it’s not only the record-buying public that consider Ginger Baker to be the world’s top drummer. "I haven’t ever heard anybody who’d ...
Nik Cohn: My Book is Rubbish but it’s the Best
Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, May 1972
"There is only one decent book that has ever been written on pop," said Nik Cohn from beneath his wide brimmed hat, "and that's Awopbopaloobopalopbamboom ...
T. Rex, Marc Bolan: Marc Bolan: Top of the Guitar Parade
Guide by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, June 1972
BEHIND EVERY success story there’s a team of guitars. Marc Bolan decided to give his chosen few a taste of the publicity he’s been getting ...
Grateful Dead: The Legend Of The Dead
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, June 1972
ALTHOUGH THE GRATEFUL DEAD are a rock band, they've almost been turned into an institution, a way of life over, the years since they came ...
David Bowie: The Rise and Rise of David Bowie
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, August 1972
Ch-ch-ch-ch-ChangesCh-ch-ch-ch-ChangesLook out you Rock 'n Rollers.(Changes). ...
Joe Cocker: Cocker Power: Are The Mains Being Turned Off?
Report and Interview by Derek Grant, Beat Instrumental, September 1972
MANY UNCOMPLIMENTARY words have been written in the music press recently about the return of Joe Cocker to the rock and roll fold after a ...
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, October 1972
Peace Rock, Acid Rock, Hard Rock, Country Rock, Psycho Rock, Fag Rock & Glam Rock, NOW WE’VE GOT SCI-FI ROCK BY: ROXY MUSIC. ...
T. Rex, Marc Bolan: Marc’s Music, Film & Future
Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, October 1972
The following interview with Marc Bolan took place in a restaurant near Little Venice in London. Originally the meeting was to have taken place at ...
Kris Kristofferson: White Man’s Soul Singer
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, November 1972
Kris Kristofferson, I'd heard it said before, manages to combine the seemingly opposing qualities of little boy lost and man of the world. Indeed, it's ...
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, November 1972
There are some parts of New York City that nice people just don't walk around. The East Village, for instance, is one of them. It's ...
Sha Na Na: Moving History with Sha Na Na
Report by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, November 1972
Back-stage areas are hardly ever glamorous and form a stark contrast with the dazzle of lights and adulation that lurk beyond. Here, even the most ...
Genesis: A Hit LP in the Making
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, December 1972
Some people are too embarrassed to ask Peter Gabriel about his spot of artificial 'premature' baldness. He's seriously thinking of making a public statement saying ...
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, January 1973
Elton John is a fast worker. He just about has to be because he allows himself only ten days to write and rehearse all the ...
Isaac Hayes: A Man Of The People
Interview by Roger St. Pierre, Beat Instrumental, April 1973
ISAAC HAYES certainly lives up to his 'Super-star' title. During his recent British visit the Black Moses spent £38,000 on jewellery and another £30,000 on ...
Pretty Things, The: The Pretty Things’ Phil May
Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, May 1973
PHIL MAY, vocalist with the Pretty Things, is one British rock musician who really has seen it all. ...
Junior Walker & The Allstars: Junior Walker: Out Front At Last
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, May 1973
AS IS AMPLY evidenced by the success of his recent British tour and the high chart placings gained by his last three singles, Junior Walker ...
Roxy Music: Bryan Ferry On The Swift Rise Of Roxy
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, May 1973
BRYAN FERRY has got a very substantial ego. And it's a good thing for British and American music fans that he has because without it ...
Interview by Derek Grant, Beat Instrumental, May 1973
PETER FRAMPTON'S talent has been undisputed for some time now, although the final musical proof of it has always been something forecasted for the ...
James Brown: The Legendary James Brown
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, May 1973
JUDGED SOLELY on sales figures, James Brown has to be one of the half-dozen most important performers in popular music since the War. ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, May 1973
Sonja Kristina On Air's New Runway To Success ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, August 1973
AVERAGE WHITE BAND is rubbish!!! – they should be called Extraordinary White Band.Why? ...
Sweet: Can You Take Sweet Seriously?
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, November 1973
SO SWEET WANT to be taken seriously! Well, that's what they've been telling everyone over the past few months. ...
John Entwistle, Who, The: John Entwistle: Quadrophenia Another Great Who Opera?
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, November 1973
JOHN ENTWISTLE is a happy man! He enjoys a reputation as one of the world's best electric bass players, he's had a decade of success ...
Mott The Hoople: Mottamorphosis
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, July 1975
Changed line-up brings more commercial sound ...
Wings Take Off With New Member
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, July 1975
WINGS IS A VERY apt name for a group with so much jet mileage behind them. Concert appearances will take a band of this stature ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, July 1975
WHEN Free finally fell apart at the seams after staggering around in various forms, there was a lot of damage done to the members. Despite ...
Bay City Rollers, The: The Bay City Rollers
Comment by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, July 1975
Are Eric Faulkner & Stuart 'Woody' Wood The 'Lennon & McCartney' Of The Rollers? ...
Rory Gallagher: Gallagher: The Rory Details
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Beat Instrumental, March 1979
I LOST COUNT of the number of times men in check shirts spilt beer down me. Elderly blues and rock and roll music thundered over ...
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