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Quicksilver Messenger Service, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, Jesse Colin Young: Woodstock Remembered: KGB stages a rock festival

Report by Steven Rosen, LA Free Press, November 1972

SUNDAY’S KGB "Charity Ball" was important for one reason: the concert proved that people in large numbers can still come together for an event and ...

Hollies, The: The Hollies’ Cloud

Report and Interview by Steven Rosen, LA Free Press, February 1973

FOR THE PAST five years it seems that the Hollies have been laboring under a Sisyphean curse. Every time they latched on to a silver ...

Bobby Womack: Understanding Bobby Womack

Interview by Steven Rosen, LA Free Press, February 1973

TWELVE YEARS AGO Bobby Womack migrated to California, looking for the riches that he thought were there. "I came out here like the pioneers searching ...

Hurricane Smith, Beatles, The: Hurricane Smith: The Sixth Beatle

Profile and Interview by Steven Rosen, LA Free Press, March 1973

HURRICANE SMITH is not your ordinary pop star. At 49, he hardly exudes the virility and youthfulness of a Rod Stewart. His music is neither ...

Status Quo In The U.S.: 'Matchstick Men' Make Good

Interview by Anne Moore, LA Free Press, May 1973

STATUS QUO arrived from England early this summer week for the first part of their American tour. They settled in quietly at their hotel, sensibly ...

Jesse Ed Davis: Rock And Roll’s First Indian Superstar: Jesse ‘Ed’ Davis

Interview by Steven Rosen, LA Free Press, June 1973

JESSE "ED" DAVIS is a "musician’s musician." For all those hard-nosed cynics who grimace at the overworked phrase, one glance at his list of credentials ...

Colin Blunstone, Zombies, The: Whatever Happened To The Zombies?

Report and Interview by Steven Rosen, LA Free Press, June 1973

REMEMBER THOSE wispy vocals that adorned those Zombies’ classics like 'She’s Not There', 'Tell Her No', and 'Time Of the Season'? The voice drifted from ...

Steely Dan: Counting Down to Headline Status: Steely Dan

Interview by Steven Rosen, LA Free Press, August 1973

ON SEPT. 2, Steely Dan perform their first concert as headliners, that status which lifts the working-class band from the ranks of the bourgeois and ...

New York Dolls: N.Y. Dolls Real Teen-Age Rock And Roll Band

Interview by Anne Moore, LA Free Press, September 1973

THE NEW YORK Dolls finally arrived in Los Angeles. Aside from an abundance of street talk, little is know of them except that they are ...

Robin Trower: Twice Removed From Procol: Robin Trower

Report and Interview by Steven Rosen, LA Free Press, November 1973

IT TAKES A LOT of gumption to leave a baseball team right after you’ve clinched the pennant, or to walk off the playing field dur-ing ...

Steeleye Span: Pleased To See The Span: Steeleye Stateside

Report and Interview by Steven Rosen, LA Free Press, November 1973

THE EXPLOSIVE SUCCESS of Steeleye Span during the past year is in direct relationship to the in-herent malleability of its music. Fresh out of the ...

Slade

Profile and Interview by Anne Moore, LA Free Press, November 1973

AS STREET TALK goes, Slade doesn't have the greatest reputations. It is admitted they are one of the better non-Bowieish-type rock groups to come out ...

Jeff Beck, Yardbirds, The: Jeff Beck…In Retrospect

Retrospective and Interview by Steven Rosen, LA Free Press, December 1973

JEFF BECK IS one of those characters who is so brilliantly erratic that he is constantly set-ting the music (and journalistic) world on its ear. ...

Brownsville Station

Interview by Anne Moore, LA Free Press, May 1974

'Smokin' In the Boys Room' is the first hit for an audacious group by the name of Brownsville Station. Thankfully, Brownsville isn't just another commercial, ...

Gentle Giant: Santa Monica Civic, Los Angeles

Live Review by Anne Moore, LA Free Press, February 1975

AFTER SIX ALBUMS and three national tours, Gentle Giant has finally made it to headline concert status. Sure, they played the Whisky to sell-out crowds ...

Leo Sayer: Very Much Myself

Interview by Anne Moore, LA Free Press, May 1975

Leo Sayer, to some, is just a hit songwriter – and if that isn't enough, – sometime singer of his own songs. Leo Sayer is ...