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Essay by Robert Duncan, Creem, February 1978

Dreams Realized, Generations Defined and KISS ALIVE! ...

Aerosmith, Kansas, Styx: American revolution: Aerosmith, Boston, Kansas and co.

Overview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 25 February 1978

LIKE A FOREST fire, the flames of the new wave roared across the British rock scene, leaving behind a charred and blackened landscape. A few ...

Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band: Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band (MCA — Import from Virgin)

Review by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 25 February 1978

BOSTON (OR should I say Bosstown?) Massachusetts is also undergoing a Modern World Revival. Former inmates like Aerosmith, J. Geils and even the Modern Lovers ...

Aerosmith: Draw The Line (Columbia)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, March 1978

PAINT BY NUMBERS FOR DEAF MUTES ...

Aerosmith: Draw The Line (Columbia JC 34856)

Review by Toby Goldstein, Crawdaddy!, March 1978

SCREAM ON ...

Rush: Is Everybody Feelin' all RIGHT? (Geddit...?)

Interview by Miles, NME, 4 March 1978

The gist of this being that H.M. tourist RUSH are all RIGHT-er than most, as MILES discovers ...

The Viletones

Interview by Gary Pig Gold, The Pig Paper, April 1978

GARY AND JOHNNY PIG IN A PIGSCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH NAZI DOG AND FREDDY POMPEII ...

Jane Aire & The Belvederes, Devo, Pere Ubu, Tin Huey, Waitresses, The: The American Midwest: Akron and Cleveland

Overview by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 1 April 1978

Exploring alternative hives of industry in Akron, City of Rubber, and Cleveland, City of Steel. ...

Aerosmith, Bob Welch, Dave Mason, Foreigner, Heart, Santana, Ted Nugent: The California Jam Festival

Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 8 April 1978

THERE WEREN'T even traffic jams. ...

Cheap Trick

Report and Interview by Max Bell, NME, 8 April 1978

Meet Tricky Ricky and the Denim Deliverers. Ricky Neilson and CHEAP TRICK, to be more precise, who're currently wowing the Heavy Metal Hordes and MAX ...

Rolling Stones, The: Everybody's talking to Lisa Robinson

Profile and Interview by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 4 May 1978

NEW YORK — IT IS conceivable that America's most influential rock byline has never appeared in Rolling Stone. Lisa Robinson's natural turf is self-created and ...

Foreigner’s Road Map: Destination Top Ten

Interview by John Mendelssohn, Rolling Stone, 4 May 1978

IN THE SPRING of 1976, Mick Jones found himself. With a dwindling bank account and dim prospects, even after twelve years of playing guitar and ...

Aerosmith: Santa Monica Civic, Los Angeles

Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 13 May 1978

AEROSMITH ARE in Los Angeles doing a series of small hall back-to-the-people gigs. ...

Blue Öyster Cult, Clash, The: Blue Oyster Cult and Sandy Pearlman

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 13 May 1978

ERIC BLOOM is adamant about the current position and status of the band he sings and plays for, the am-aaa-zing Blue Oyster Cult; they are ...

The Beatles: Beatlemania’s Boys in the Band

Report and Interview by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 18 May 1978

JOE PECORINO, A small, affable young man who earns his living by pretending to be John Lennon in the successful stage production, Beatlemania, denies that ...

Good Rats, The: Good Rats: From Rats To Riches (Passport)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, July 1978

ACCORDING TO the liner notes, the Good Rats recorded this new set in just two weeks last fall. Never mind that this was their first ...

AC/DC Would Really Like To Be As Successful Here As They Are In England, But…

Interview by Anthony O'Grady, RAM, 14 July 1978

IT'S EASY TO find AC/DC in the airport terminal. Just look for a mob of tough looking Scotsmen drinking at the public bar and the ...

David Johansen, New York Dolls: Up from the valley of the Dolls: David Johansen returns

Report and Interview by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 27 July 1978

ONSTAGE IN Philadelphia in late May, David Johansen is dressed in solid white, his hair swept back, looking like the Staten Island greaser saint he ...

Aerosmith, Heart, Waylon Jennings, Mahogany Rush, Willie Nelson, Ted Nugent: Hot times in the heart of Texxas

Report by Joe Nick Patoski, Rolling Stone, 24 August 1978

IF ANYTHING was learned from the 105,000 fans who piled into the Cotton Bowl over the Fourth of July weekend for the two-day Texxas World ...

Kiss: Is This Man A Prat?

Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 26 August 1978

TWENTY-EIGHT year-old Gene Simmons of New York City, New York, is sitting in his hotel-room near Marble Arch. It's four o'clock on a humid Friday ...