Disc and Music Echo
Cilla Black: Cilla on Marriage
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, April 1966
'THE QUEEN HASN'T DONE TOO BADLY – BUT IT'S NOT YET FOR ME!' ...
Cat Stevens: Cat: What A Drag It Is Being Young
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, January 1967
THE LYRICS IN Cat Stevens’ songs would imply that he was a simple person involved with the simple things in life. Working for a rotten ...
Manfred Mann: That Mobbing Scene Is Over
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, April 1967
MICHAEL D'ABO burst into song, sitting in the sun outside a London pub, and signed two autograph books proffered by two slightly embarassed fans. ...
Pink Floyd: They're all in the PINK!
Profile and Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, April 1967
THE PINK Floyd burst on to the London club scene in a kaleidoscope of colours some months ago. Literally, because colour, shapes and light gave ...
Report and Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, April 1967
HALFWAY through their Continental tour last week the Rolling Stones were experiencing scenes of fantastic fan fervour, riots and galloping policemen. ...
Beatles, The: Down in Deepest Beatle-land, All John Gets is Love
Report by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, August 1967
DOWN IN the prosperous community of St. George's. Hill, Weybridge, in Surrey, something stirred. It wasn't a bird – it was a caravan, John Lennon's ...
Tom Jones: The Champagne World of Tom Jones
Profile and Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, August 1967
'The doctor says champagne is good for the throat' ...
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, August 1967
SANDIE SHAW was engaged in something of a friendly battle with an Italian waiter at the Palace Hotel, Viareggio, when I finally caught up with ...
Tim Hardin Talking Of Life's Raw Deal...
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, July 1968
THAT TIM HARDIN actually arrived in London last week to embark on his first concert tour is a history-making event in itself. ...
Jack Good: Blasting British Pop TV
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, October 1968
T.V. whizz-kid Jack Good flies in to make a spectacular and says: "I don't want the masses; they can go watch Coronation Street" ...
Dusty Springfield: Five Great Years of Dusty
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, November 1968
ON NOVEMBER 5, 1968, Dusty Springfield celebrates five years as a solo star. ...
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland (Track)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, November 1968
rock at its sublimest level ...
John Lennon: Fighting The Good Fight With All Of His Might
Comment by Derek Taylor, Disc and Music Echo, November 1968
THIS IS addressed to those who love Lennon, who call him John and who give thanks for his being alive, hard by, at hand, dear ...
Bonzo Dog Band: Urban Spacemen DO Exist! The Mad, Mad Mad World Of The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, November 1968
CAROLINE BOUCHER INSIDE A DOO DAH DEN! ...
Crosby Stills and Nash: It's A Revolution
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, December 1968
IN A SMALL TOP-FLOOR flat off Bayswater, London, a music revolution is taking place. ...
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, January 1969
BLONDE, GRITTY Christine Perfect not only bears the distinction of being lead singer of the famed Chicken Shack blues band, but is also married to ...
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, July 1969
DAVID BOWIE – AMAZING SOUND! ...
David Bowie Says Most Things The Long Way Round!
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, October 1969
ON HEARING a new LP called David Bowie, someone remarked: 'Well it's very nice, but do you think he's a lasting talent?' ...
Profile and Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, November 1969
WHEN CHRISTINE Perfect was 19 and studying to be a sculptress in Birmingham, she was roped into playing bass for a local group that didn't ...
Profile and Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, November 1969
HER VOICE IS dry with a tinge of North Country humour in it; she's not conventionally pretty – but she is pleasant and warm and ...
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, November 1969
DESMOND DEKKER had a pretty nasty experience the other day when fans got hold of his scarf and nearly strangled him. He was unconscious for ...
Stephen Stills keeps fighting — against violence in pop music
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 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 ...
Profile and Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, April 1970
GINGER BAKER is 31 years old and you DON’T ignore him. You can’t. He has accumulated a monstrous reputation over the past 10 years that ...
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, August 1970
THE MC5 are a very good, very determined rock band. In the old days when people weren't too bothered about listening to them, they used ...
Clarence Carter: Am I A Bit Of A Fraud?
Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, October 1970
CLARENCE CARTER is beginning to think perhaps he's a bit of a fraud! So many people are rushing out to buy his first British hit ...
Elton John: The Record Rise Of A Superstar Called Reg
Essay by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 1971
IN APRIL 1970 an album was released that was to whisk Reg Dwight of Pinner into Elton John. It was, quite simply, titled Elton John, ...
Neil Diamond: A Boy Who Outgrew His Hits
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, March 1971
IT TOOK a long while but the U.K. public woke up one day and discovered Neil Diamond. And with 'Sweet Caroline' providing a quick follow-up ...
Marmalade: Marmalade May Become Even Tastier
Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, March 1971
HUGHIE NICHOLSON is fairly small, very handsome, likeable, unassuming, smart and – so they tell me – a more-than-adequate guitarist, singer and writer. ...
Ronnie Spector: Ronnie Tries It Solo
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, May 1971
THE SUCCESS of Motown's Supremes somewhat overshadowed most of the other girlie-groups in America back in the mid-sixties. But one trio who managed to hold ...
King Crimson Take To The Road!
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, May 1971
IT'S HARDLY surprising that King Crimson are scared stiff at the prospect of their first British gig, for it will be the first time they've ...
Dave and Ansell Collins: Ansell Plays It Cool While Dave Searches For His Mum...!
Profile and Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, May 1971
DAVE BARKER is a well-built Jamaican who talks fast and enthusiastically and punctuates his sentences with finger-clicking and hearty slaps of his right thigh. Ansell ...
Byrds, The: The Byrds: Byrds From The Egg
Memoir by Derek Taylor, Disc and Music Echo, May 1971
They're back! The American group who soared to success her in 1965 with 'Mr. Tambourine Man', then quickly 'disappeared'. Here Disc traces the Byrds' flight ...
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, May 1971
IT'S NOT been all peaches and cream for Freda Payne since she had a worldwide hit with 'Band Of Gold'. As she says: "Until recently ...
Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, May 1971
OSIBISA – the name is now on the lips of everyone just as we prophesied. The criss-cross rhythms are exploding with happiness right across the ...
Band, The: The Band – Or When The Booing Ended
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, May 1971
NOBODY SEEMS to know much about the Band. That they're a living legend is a fact, a household name, true, but few people could enlighten ...
Profile and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, May 1971
AT A SESSION last week for Bobby Keyes' album, Jim Gordon, Dave Mason, pianist Nicky Hopkins, Felix Pappalardi on bass and Leslie West on guitar ...
Elgins, The: The Elgins: Down Tools, Folks, It's A Lucky Strike
Report and Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, May 1971
The dispirited Elgins quit in 1967 and took up humdrum jobs in industrial Detroit. And then it all happened... ...
Tami Lynn: Tami Worked Hard For Overnight Success!
Profile and Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, June 1971
"IT'S LIKE a Cinderella or Alice in Wonderland story. Just when you think it's all over it starts to happen." ...
R. Dean Taylor: The Great White Hope
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, June 1971
In our March 13th issue we called R. Dean Taylor the great white hope. He didn't have a hit then but he has now and ...
Funkadelic: When The Circus Hit Town
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, June 1971
FUNKADELIC man George Clinton casually made the understatement of the year. There they were, the five front men of the year's most outrageous band, dressed ...
Rick Wakeman, Strawbs, The: Rick Wakeman: The Down To Earth Star
Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, June 1971
RICK WAKEMAN has been described as the saviour of the Strawbs, a musical genius, the great white wonder of progressive music and numerous other pretentious ...
Neil Diamond: The Jekyll and Hyde of Pop
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, June 1971
NEIL DIAMOND is a latter day Jekyll and Hyde. The quiet, hesitant, sensitive man you meet in a plush London hotel suite is nothing like ...
Marvin Gaye: A Study of Marvin Gaye's Liberation
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, June 1971
MARVIN GAYE is a mystery man. Most people know him as the singer who made the biggest-selling Motown record ever – 'I Heard It Through ...
Andy Fraser: The Tea-Boy And The Van Driver Join Andy's Group!
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, August 1971
ANDY FRASER is, as they say, getting things together in the country. He's got a 400 year old cottage and a three week old hand ...
Chi-Lites, The: The Chi-Lites Are Deep But Not Too Deep
Profile and Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, August 1971
WE'RE ALL familiar with the Detroit "sound." Well it seems the next big American industrial city to become famous for its music will be Chicago. ...
Curtis Mayfield, Impressions, The: Curtis Mayfield: Soul Music's Elusive Dynamo
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, December 1971
CURTIS MAYFIELD is a hard man to catch these days. If he's not locked away in a studio all night recording himself, the Impressions, or ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, December 1971
DURING THE NEXT 12 months Nicky Hopkins, the world's best-known anonymous pianist, will be the fourth German on the right no more. After years of ...
Patto's Royal Command Performances
Report and Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, December 1971
MIKE PATTO and his friends like to be known as the last of the raving bands – and they may well be right. Meeting them ...
Man: Violence? Man You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet!
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, January 1972
MAN HAD JUST finished a gig in Hamburg's notorious Top Ten Club and were ambling around town looking for action when someone stuck a two-bore ...
Chi-Lites, The: The Chi-Lites Step Out Of The Shadows
Profile and Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, January 1972
THANK heaven for the Chi-Lites. This four-man Chicago-based outfit has brought back to soul music two elements missing from it for too long – good ...
King Crimson: Reshuffle At The Court Of The King
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, January 1972
"WE'VE ALL gone through our various changes and Peter and I came out at different places." ...
Humble Pie: The New Filling In Humble Pie
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, January 1972
EVERY NOW and again, America latches onto an English band in a big way. Last year it was Elton John, the Faces, and Long John ...
Bloodstone: Diggin' Bloodstone
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, January 1972
IF THE reaction to Bloodstone's first London appearance – at the Rainbow Theatre on a recent Soul concert – is anything to go by, then ...
Sly & The Family Stone: There's A Riot Goin' On (Epic)
Review by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, January 1972
SYLVESTER STEWART and Sly Stone (OK so you know they're one and the same but the sleeve credits insist this album was written, arranged and ...
Review and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, January 1972
THIS IS THE story of how Badfinger won the West. They didn't really have to do much in fact. They just went to America, did ...
Yes: The Squire Of Nottihg Hill Gate
Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, January 1972
...talks to David Hughes ...
Steamhammer's Fight for Survival
Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, January 1972
STEAMHAMMER... ah, yes, they weren't a bad blues band were they? ...
John McLaughlin, Mahavishnu Orchestra: John McLaughlin: Man For All Seasons
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, January 1972
Meet John McLaughlin the jazz giant, man of God, New York hermit and cult leader ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, January 1972
"THE TROUBLE with English and European crowds," said Black Sabbath vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, "is that they listen to you as if you were a jukebox. ...
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, January 1972
IT'S ALWAYS sad when a group splits up amidst much bad feeling. It's even worse when one member leaves amidst equal bad feelings, and then ...
Mungo Jerry: Ray Loses that Happy Habit
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, March 1972
RAY DORSET, it transpires, is a seasonal songwriter. He writes at the end of the summer and just before the spring, but at other times ...
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, March 1972
IT COMES AS something of a shock when the MC5 – long since branded as a revolutionary and rather spine-jarring band – looks deep into ...
Rick Nelson: How Ricky Became Rick
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, March 1972
A YEAR and a half ago and full of enthusiasm for his new band, Rick Nelson set off for Europe and a tour of American ...
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, March 1972
CARLY SIMON has been compared to a lot of people. She admits: "I'm told I sound like Judy Collins and my style of writing is ...
Michael Jackson: The One Who Got Away
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, March 1972
THE MOST amazing thing about little Michael Jackson's solo success is how calmly he's taking it all. "I think it's great," is all he says ...
Manassas, Stephen Stills: Stephen Stills: Angry in Suburbia
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 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, ...
Profile and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, March 1972
ASK GENESIS how their careers are progressing and they'll tell you they're superstars in Aylesbury and Belgium, but little known elsewhere. In fact their fame ...
Harry Nilsson: Nilsson Knees Up
Report by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, March 1972
THE PINNER contingent were no match for the notorious East Enders from Stepney, London, even though they did outnumber them 42 to 12. ...
Ten Years After: Alvin Lee On The Hassles Of Being A Success
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, March 1972
ALVIN LEE is currently suffering from a surfeit of everything. He's had too much touring, too much hype, too much idolatry. Nowadays the band can't ...
Ben E. King Why Ben Stopped Drifting
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, March 1972
KEEPING abreast of the times, says Ben E. King, is one of the most important and difficult jobs for a singer. He's been singing and ...
Judee Sill: A Sill-y Story: Judee Sill
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc and Music Echo, April 1972
JUDEE SILL is quite a remarkable woman. When you consider her past it becomes apparent just how remarkable. She lost both her parents and her ...
Rory Gallagher: Rollicking Rory - Live at Leeds
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, April 1972
YOU SEE THEM EVERYWHERE. Those uniformed peak capped gendarmes with sergeant stripes and an air of placid bewilderment. ...
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc and Music Echo, May 1972
DAVID BOWIE is at last letting the Great British Public catch up with him. With grasshopper alacrity, he has kept ahead of us for years ...
Faces, The: The Faces Under The Big Top
Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, May 1972
AFTER A while you get the feeling you're part of the scenario for one of those colossally far-fetched paperbacks with titles like Rock God (make ...
Emerson Lake And Palmer: Emerson Lake and Palmer: Why Keith Wants To Become Immortal
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, May 1972
KEITH EMERSON would like to be remembered as a twentieth century composer – he thinks about it quite a lot and finds it curious that ...
Joe Cocker: I Almost Forgot What Rock 'N' Roll Was All About
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, May 1972
THE CURRY looked sort of ropey. It had probably been frozen for a lifetime between cardboard. Joe Cocker examined it incredulously, sifting it through his ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, May 1972
"IT'S RIDICULOUS really," said Chicago's composer and keyboard man, Bob Lamm, "Here I am in Hollywood, living in grand style and my parents are still ...
Everly Brothers, The: The Everly Brothers: Back In Favour
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, May 1972
JUST WHEN we were getting used to thinking of the Everly Brothers as a monument to a distant era they come up with Stories We ...
Yes: Yes are Well and Grooving
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, May 1972
IN THE basement of Una Billings School of Dancing, Shepherd's Bush, London, Yes are bouncing ideas off each other for a new album. Jon Anderson, ...
Jo Jo Gunne: The Spirit of Jo Jo Gunne
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, May 1972
SOME say the stench given off by their first album is just too rank to bear. Others are moved to disagree. Strong stuff, it is ...
Spencer Davis Group: Spencer Davis: Waiting For The Next Crack-Up
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, June 1972
SPENCER DAVIS' ailment is that he's hooked on music. It has made him ill, broke, come near to wrecking his marriage and, although he talks ...
Stackridge: The Stackridge Story
Review and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, June 1972
NOW JIM Walters has passed his bricklaying exams he's rejoined his old band Stackridge. If things don't work out, you see, he'll have something to ...
Rolling Stones, The: Rolling Stones: Long Beach Arena, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by John Mendelsohn, Disc and Music Echo, June 1972
VIRTUALLY nowhere during the past week could a Hollywood hipster fail to encounter signs proclaiming the purchasability (mostly at prices reminiscent of a prince's ransom) ...
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, June 1972
THE SANCTIFIED Sisters, four beautiful black ladies Joe Cocker collected in the US for his British homecoming, are more than visual relief from all those ...
Caravan: Missing Out On Hysteria
Report by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, June 1972
YOU CAN almost see the sky through the hazy plastic roof. Richard Sinclair hands around huge pastries stuffed with stringy macro weeds. Guzzling Cokes and ...
Gladys Knight: Gladys and Her British Problem
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, June 1972
"UNDERRATED" is a fond word of Press agents and record companies to explain away lack of success for their artists. So when someone uses the ...
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas: Martha Reeves Goes Solo
Report and Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, July 1972
MARTHA REEVES is going solo. After 10 years fronting one of Motown's most successful groups, Martha and the Vandellas, Miss Reeves is stepping out alone. ...
J. Geils Band: J Geils Band: Rude Noises
Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, July 1972
J. GEILS make the sort of rude music Jagger and his band specialised in before they started showering regularly and holidaying in the South of ...
Average White Band: Above Average White Band
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, July 1972
THIS PIECE, unless I serve a personal restraining order and keep my legs firmly crossed, is likely to develop into a hysterical citation of the ...
Stooges, The, Iggy Pop: Iggy & The Stooges: Kingsound (King's Cross Cinema), London
Live Review by Rosalind Russell, Disc and Music Echo, July 1972
IGGY AND the Stooges made their first performance in over a year on Saturday night, Sunday morning. Despite the event happening in the dead of ...
Little Richard: The Georgia Peach
Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, August 1972
OOOWEE, Lawd knows it was a bad night's work. According to the divine plan, the Wembley crowd should have been blowing kisses at the Georgia ...
Bobby Vee: Bye Bye Bobby – Meet Mr Villene
Profile and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, August 1972
A CLAIM to fame you don't often associate with Bobby Vee is that he once sacked Bob Dylan from his band. Over here having just ...
Bill Withers: Leanin' On Bill Withers
Profile and Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, August 1972
THAT OLD saying "never too late" is certainly true in the case of Bill Withers. Withers is just about the hottest male singer in America ...
Joe's Lights: Many Hands Make Lights Work
Profile and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, September 1972
A look at the people behind the glitter. Caroline Boucher meets JOE'S LIGHTS, one of the best creative light shows around today ...
Lou Reed: The Black Sheep of New York
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc and Music Echo, October 1972
THE INTERVIEW is to take place in a pub just off London's Curzon Street at around lunch-time. Lou Reed arrives late, looking papery. He's not ...
Gary Glitter: A Raven in Rich Plumage
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, November 1972
"YOU WILL bear in mind that he's got dreadful 'flu, won't you," says Gary Glitter's publicity agent when we fixed up the interview. And sure ...
Dennis Coffey: The White Soul Guitar
Profile by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, November 1972
DENNIS COFFEY is a white man who plays soul music. Ask any soul fan. Regular pop fans might not be acquainted with his name but ...
Jackson 5, The: The Jackson Five: The Talk of the Town, London
Live Review by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, November 1972
TWO DAYS after they arrived, the Jackson Five had the unenviable task of doing a 45-minute spot to the British press at a champagne party ...
Roxy Music: Central Hall, Chatham
Live Review by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, November 1972
"COR," SAID the bloke behind me after Roxy Music had finished their first number, "I like the way they take the micky out of themselves." ...
Nazareth, Argent: Argent, Nazareth: Sundown, Mile End, London
Live Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, November 1972
SUPPOSE A Rock-n-Roll band gave a concert and no one came – a thought that might have flashed through Rod Argent's mind as he scanned ...
Bill Withers: Lots of Sunshine for Bill Withers
Profile and Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, November 1972
MOST SONGWRITERS dream of one day writing a standard. Singers dream of establishing one. Bill Withers does both – frequently. You only have to look ...
Jackson 5, The: The Jackson 5: Caroline Boucher Meets The Father Of A Phenomena
Report and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, November 1972
THE TWO rival fan factions swarm round the Churchill Hotel, Osmond Brothers fans to the left waving up to those windows, Jackson Five ones massed ...
Lindisfarne: On and Off the Wagon
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, November 1972
THERE HAVE BEEN more dazzling, more debauched rock'n'roll roadshows. Some of the more spectacular have been known to cushion the strain of touring with sultry ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, November 1972
ROCK OF AGES: Andrew Tyler meets rock recluse JIMMY PAGE, ex-Yardbird, on the completion of Led Zeppelin's fifth album. ...
Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc and Music Echo, December 1972
THOSE OF you kind enough to read the idiocies I write to introduce the live gigs will know that, as far as I'm concerned, Lou ...
T. Rex, Marc Bolan: The Boogie Merchants: Marc Bolan
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, December 1972
CAROLINE BOUCHER takes a bleary, cross-eyed view of Marc Bolan who started life as a Tooting Mod, progressed to a flower child, bopped as an ...
T. Rex, Ringo Starr: Ringo Starr on Born to Boogie
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, December 1972
"BOLAN STRUTS, man, and I like that about him a lot. A lot of people, when they first meet him, can be put off because ...
Jethro Tull, Kim Fowley, Alice Cooper: The Government and Alice Cooper’s Panties
Report by John Mendelsohn, Disc and Music Echo, Summer 1972
WOTTA week it’s been here in Hollywood, guys and gals, what with each and every day virtually splitting its trousers with grand and glamorous events, ...
Steely Dan: Can't Buy A Thrill (Probe SPB 1062, £2.25)
Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, January 1973
THIS ONE'S already speeding up the Billboard and Cashbox charts – currently around the 30 mark and likely to jump about 20 places by next ...
Crazy Horse: Crazy Horse At Crooked Lake (Epic £2.29) **
Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, January 1973
LIKE THOSE unfortunates who happen to be the son, daughter, sister or brother of a famous personage, Crazy Horse seemed to be lumbered with the ...
Claudia Lennear: Brown Sugar Lady
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, January 1973
A CLUSTER of fly-bursting, brown-skinned ladies has become pretty much standard roadshow equipment for plenty of white rock bands these past few years. The lead ...
Report and Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc and Music Echo, February 1973
Sweet's Andy Scott Talks To Ray Fox-Cumming ...
Colin Blunstone: Hard Work But Still No Miracles
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc and Music Echo, February 1973
SLIMMING IS a soul-destroying business. While I'm drinking a mug of sugarless tea, Colin Blunstone is sitting opposite me, blithely assuring me that he is ...
Fairport Convention: Town Hall, Watford
Live Review by Rosalind Russell, Disc and Music Echo, February 1973
Fairport Below Par ...
Olivia Newton John: Nights in White Satin
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc and Music Echo, February 1973
SOME INTERVIEWEES need only to be given their head with a single question before sounding off about their whole life history and psyche, while the ...
John Peel: Peel And The Pig — An Everyday Story Of Country Folk
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, February 1973
JOHN PEEL is a sensitive figure with a sturdy patch on the crotch of his jeans and a tendency towards schoolgirls and sensible underwear. A ...
Eddie Kendricks: When Temptation Got The Best Of Eddie Kendricks
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, March 1973
IT'S A big decision quitting a world-famous group, especially when they're on top, and look like sitting pretty for a long while. So it was ...
Osmonds, The: The Osmonds: The Business Of Being An Osmond
Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, March 1973
EDD LEFFLER knows just how to take care of his boys. He knows all about double and triple entendres and how reporters sometimes like to ...
Osmonds, The: Golden Age Of The Osmonds
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, March 1973
THE OSMONDS have been around for years and Alan has known success with earlier line-ups, but it is with Donny that the brothers have discovered ...
Procol Harum: Six Years In The Harum
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, March 1973
'GARY'S GOT GOUT,' Keith Reid explains without so much as a trace of nonsense in his eyes, 'so he couldn't make it today.' ...
David Cassidy: Empire Pool, Wembley, London
Live Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc and Music Echo, March 1973
Nice one David! ...
Roxy Music: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, April 1973
SIX OR SEVEN months ago, a Roxy performance was such a cool business you got the impression the band would be just as satisfied if ...
Cherry Vanilla, David Bowie: Cherry Vanilla: Cherry Sauce
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, April 1973
...Or hot gossip from a former skin-flick queen who's been hired to handle David Bowie's publicity machine. ...
Report and Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc and Music Echo, May 1973
RAY FOX-CUMMING WATCHES THAT MAN STUN THE SCOTS IN ABERDEEN ...
David Bowie: Aladdin Scotland (part 2)
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc and Music Echo, June 1973
Part two of Ray Fox-Cumining's report on David Bowie in the North ...
Live Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, June 1973
I REMEMBER THE TIME when you could hum along to a Jethro Tull tune. I even remember the time you could hum along to a ...
Al Kooper, Lynyrd Skynyrd: Who The Hell Are Lynyrd Skynyrd?
Profile and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, February 1974
LYNYRD SKYNYRD is, in fact, a used-car salesman somewhere in Florida. At least, he doesn't spell his name quite like that – the band had ...
David Bowie: O'Keefe Auditorium, Toronto
Live Review by Lenny Kaye, Disc and Music Echo, June 1974
THE POWER of the image took precedence as David Bowie opened the first leg of his North American tour with a string of Canadian dates. ...
T. Rex, David Bowie: Tony Visconti: Behind Bolan And Bowie
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc and Music Echo, September 1974
THIS IS a story of Marc Bolan and David Bowie – compared and contrasted. Bolan, the complete professional, who lost out through believing himself above ...
Ann Peebles: I Can't Stand The Rain
Interview by Harry Doherty, Disc and Music Echo, October 1974
BRITAIN has been bitten by the Ann Peebles bug and, in a typical reciprocal move, our very own famous bug (commonly known as 'flu) has ...
Ann Peebles: Gulliver's, London
Live Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc and Music Echo, October 1974
CONCERTS at the ultra-trendy Biba's Rainbow Room almost invariably, for some reason or other, turn out to be disappointing and, from the reviews I've read ...
T. Rex: Bolan Coming Up From The Bottom
Report and Interview by Lenny Kaye, Disc and Music Echo, October 1974
AH, YES, the garden state of New Jersey. MARC BOLAN is being raised on a five-pointed star, framed in light bulbs, crucified to the wings ...
Sensational Alex Harvey Band, The: Alex Harvey: The Dream Comes True
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc and Music Echo, October 1974
THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM is coming true. At last, after 20 years in and around the business, Alex Harvey has got himself a hit. Don't worry ...
Status Quo: Would You Live Next Door To Status Quo?
Interview by Harry Doherty, Disc and Music Echo, October 1974
A STATUS QUO recording session is an experience. What with furious neighbours bursting into the studio in the middle of "takes" and morse code messages ...
Bay City Rollers, The: The Bay City Rollers: Rollers On The Run
Interview by Harry Doherty, Disc and Music Echo, November 1974
FAN HYSTERIA is reaching its peak with the Bay City Rollers. It's got to the point now where the Rollers can't even go to the ...
David Essex: The Busy Mr Essex
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc and Music Echo, November 1974
MR ESSEX, I Presume? One could be forgiven for asking the question because, caught unawares in his dressing room for the 45 show, he looks ...
Bay City Rollers, The: Phil Coulter: The Creator
Interview by Harry Doherty, Disc and Music Echo, November 1974
Disc meets the man behind the Rollers and many others ...
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc and Music Echo, November 1974
THESE WERE THE MYSTERIOUS INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO FOX-CUMMING WHEN HE SOUGHT AN INTERVIEW WITH THIS CHAP ...
Cockney Rebel: The Mellowing Of Mr Harley
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc and Music Echo, November 1974
STEVE HARLEY just sits there a-glowering, looking, if one can, defiantly mellow. The suggestion that the arrogant ol' sour puss has softened up a bit ...
Glitter Band, The: The Glitter Band
Interview by Harry Doherty, Disc and Music Echo, November 1974
"GARY IS great. His operation was a success and there are no aftereffects at all. If anything, it has improved his voice." ...
Live Review by Harry Doherty, Disc and Music Echo, November 1974
FOR SOME bizarre reason, HUMBLE PIE have been finding it particularly hard to gain acceptance in England, despite the fact that they are now a ...
Mott The Hoople, Mick Ronson: Mick Ronson: Taking Care Of Business
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc and Music Echo, November 1974
YORKSHIREMEN are renowned for their good business sense and Hull-born Mick Ronson sure ain't going to be the one to let the side down. Already ...
David Bowie: Radio City Music Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Lenny Kaye, Disc and Music Echo, November 1974
THE DAVID Bowie Minstrel Show shuffled into Radio City Music Hall last week for a stay of five days, in what had to be the ...
Rubettes, The: The Rubettes: Rubettes Bring Back Jive
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc and Music Echo, November 1974
IN DANCE-craze circles 'The Bump' is supposed to be all the rage...but is it? ...
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