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Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 29 May 1976

Jonh Ingham, on the other hand, is guilty. Six days it took him to get us this piece. SIX DAYS! The Patti-Smith-crazy Sounds staffers were ...

Bad Company: A Bunch of Sissies?

Report and Interview by Nick Kent, Creem, June 1976

You don't have to wear mascara, you know... ...

Mott The Hoople: Motto Grosso

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 26 June 1976

Mott are shouting and the girls are pointing. That's what being on the road is all about. Mott are back and JONH INGHAM was there ...

Elton John: He's Got The Whole World In His Hands

Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 14 August 1976

THE WHOLE FAMILY was there. Mum, dad and three children all waited patiently by the elevators in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency hotel on ...

Aerosmith's Wrench Rock

Report and Interview by Ed McCormack, Rolling Stone, 26 August 1976

Music for the New Stone Age ...

Rick Derringer: This Man Is Aiming To Kill

Report and Interview by Max Bell, NME, 25 September 1976

Excuse the pun – it's Rick Derringer, of course, knockin' 'em down with hardnose rock'n'roll. ...

Runaways, The: The Runaways: Girls! Girls! Girls!

Report and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 2 October 1976

As The Runaways scoot their everlovin' way through Britain and Europe, GIOVANNI DADOMO tries to get his lemon squeezed... Now gasp on... ...

Aerosmith

Report and Interview by Geoff Barton, Toby Goldstein, Sounds, 16 October 1976

Toby Goldstein talked to Mr Tyler and Geoff Barton went to Canada to check out the band. Who's thoughtful then? ...

Aerosmith: Gonna Have Me A Real Wild Time…I'm Going To Harrods

Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 23 October 1976

BRAD WHITFORD wears a grey roll-neck sweater and faded jeans. He looks slightly insecure up there on the stage of the Liverpool Empire. Tom Hamilton ...

Ramones, The, Dictators, The, Television: The Punk Rock Machine

Report and Interview by Lester Bangs, Screw, November 1976

IT'S A WARM New York night in the spring of 1976, and there are a lot of places that the press moguls who publish, edit, ...

Kiss: The Day the Earth Stood KISS

Report and Interview by Robert Duncan, Creem, January 1977

OR THE GENERAL TAKES ON THE BAT LIZARD AND THE PIRATE DOG by Robert Duncan W.L.A.O.R.G.K.* ...

Ted Nugent: The Continuing Adventures Of Loudman Part 3: Ted Tunes Up

Report and Interview by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 15 January 1977

FEATURING GEOFF BARTON AS KID REPORTER, STARRING TED NUGENT AS LOUDMAN ...

Ramones, The, Talking Heads: Ramones & Heads: Punk Art?

Report and Interview by Toby Goldstein, Crawdaddy!, February 1977

NEW YORK — The glittered frenzy of recent years has receded into a brooding severity of black and grays. The punk-rockers, newest manifestations of media ...

Queen, Thin Lizzy: The Year Queen Lizzy Shook America

Report and Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 19 February 1977

THE WINTER of 1977 was fierce on the East Coast of the USA, a thick layer of snow engulfing the territory between Boston and New ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cars, The: The Cars That Ate Aerosmith

Report and Interview by Stephen Demorest, Creem, November 1978

THE SPRINGFIELD Civic Center is one of those snazzy glass-and-concrete exhibition complexes plunked down in the middle of decaying industrial towns to encourage the natives ...

Boomtown Rats: Today: Top Of The Pops, Tomorrow: The World

Report and Interview by Paul Morley, NME, 16 December 1978

The Day After: Top Of The Pops Again ...

Brides of Funkenstein, The, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Funkadelic, Parliament: George Clinton & The Funk Mob

Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Unicorn Times, May 1979

GARY SHIDER and Mike Hampton held the stage at the Capital Centre in the fiercest rock'n'roll guitar duet in any local hall recently. Shider's fingers ...