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Sparks, Sweet: Sparks vs. Sweet: The Battle for Britain

Review by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, August 1974

The Sweet: Sweet Fanny AdamsSparks: Kimono My House ...

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, August 1974

MGM RECORDS wasn't necessarily misguided in its big Bosstown hustle of 1968, they just flubbed up and signed the wrong bands. Why would you want ...

Bachman Turner Overdrive: Bachman-Turner Overdrive - And this isn't all they do

Profile and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 17 May 1975

"WHEN I'M TRYING to do a solo, I'll try and play what Jeff Beck would play, or I'll try and play what Eric Clapton would ...

Aerosmith: Fly With Aerosmith

Profile by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 28 June 1975

AMERICAN BANDS USUALLY fall into one of two categories. They are either denim-clad cowpokes, bearded, laidback to the point of collapse, drinking corn liquor from ...

Aerosmith: Toys In The Attic (CBS 80773)

Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 12 July 1975

AEROSMITH BRING hope from America. They're not a new Steely Dan, or even yet another variation on the Doobie Brothers. Yet they are most people's ...

Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic

Review by Max Bell, NME, 26 July 1975

TOYS IN THE Attic, is Aerosmith's third record. No one here knows that much about Aerosmith, except that they're a straight-ahead Eastern seaboard band with ...

Aerosmith, ZZ Top: Z.Z. Top, Aerosmith: Los Angeles Forum

Live Review by Todd Everett, Rolling Stone, 31 July 1975

Something Borrowed, Something Blues, Y'All ...

Aerosmith: Toys In The Attic (CBS) (36:59).

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 2 August 1975

AS AEROSMITH race through 'Toys In The Attic', first track on the platter, all raging guitars, quaint lyrics about 'leaving the things that are real ...

Aerosmith: No Fear Of Flying Aero Smith

Interview by Wayne Robins, Creem, September 1975

A SIGN OF SUCCESS: Steven Tyler is eating escargot and oysters rockefeller at a downtown Detroit seafood restaurant. ...

Artful Dodger: Artful Dodger

Comment by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, December 1975

PLAYING straight uncomplicated hard rock, without a unified theme or specific image, without fantastic flights of lyrical invention or instrumental improvisation, and without pandering to ...

Morrissey, New York Dolls: Dolly Mixture Wasn't Right

Readers' Letters by uncredited writer, Sounds, 27 December 1975

THE BRITISH public are very wary of new bands. Anything that aims to change the day-to-day routine of the rock world is carefully observed before ...

Crosby and Nash, Crosby Stills Nash & Young: Crosby and Nash: Rocky & Bullwinkle In Marin County

Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, February 1976

Ring! Brring! Ring! ...

Iggy Pop, Runaways, The, Hollywood Stars, The, New Order (US), The: The L.A. Rock Explosion

Overview by Phast Phreddie Patterson, New York Rocker, February 1976

IN THE BEGINNING... ...

Status Quo: Blow By Blow

Interview by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 28 February 1976

BY THE time you read this, Status Quo's new album and single should be riding high in the charts. You don't have to be an ...

Sweet: The Sweet: Give Us A Wink (Capitol)

Review by Ben Edmonds, Phonograph Record, March 1976

The question with The Sweet has always been one of validity. In England, it was the struggle to become something more than the string of ...

Kansas: City Stars

Interview by Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, March 1976

KANSAS CITY — The way Kansas see it, their main problem these days is that of their image. Which has to do with their having ...

Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers, Patti Smith, The Ramones, Richard Hell, Television: New York: Plug in to the Nerve-ends of the Naked City

Report by Nick Kent, NME, 27 March 1976

In downtown Manhattan the rock 'n' roll war rages on as potential crown princes of Punkdom battle for recognition.. NICK KENT interprets the action ...

Aerosmith: "We're the Hottest Band in America"

Profile by Mitchell Cohen, Phonograph Record, April 1976

NEW YORK — Photo sessions are a pain in the ass. 8 x 10 glossies are made, not born; press kits aren't built in a ...

Quick, The (U.S.), Runaways, The: The Sound of the Cities, 1976: Los Angeles

Overview by Kim Fowley, Phonograph Record, May 1976

LOS ANGELES — Local talent is never taken seriously in England; a yesteryear example is the phenomena of Love being worshiped in London and Savoy ...

Aerosmith Flies, After a Long Takeoff

Profile by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 2 May 1976

IN JANUARY, 1973, Columbia Records released the first album by Aerosmith, a Boston-based hard rock band. Six months later, that album, Aerosmith, had sold a ...