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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: Rocks (CBS)

Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 10 July 1976

AMERICA HAS until now avoided a head-on confrontation with the big British production or stage bands. ...

Kim Fowley, Runaways, The: The Runaways: Runaway Girls

Profile and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 17 July 1976

RUNAWAYS: the Natalie Woods, Brigitte Bardots and Ann-Margrets of rock. ...

Blue Oyster Cult: We Copped A Lot From Sabbath

Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 24 July 1976

EVEN THE hardest of hearts must soften sometime, and so it is with Blue Oyster Cult, whose fifth album Agents of Fortune offers a degree ...

Aerosmith Rocks — And How

Report by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 24 July 1976

PONTIAC Stadium rises out of the Michigan earth like a four-walled town. ...

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 ...

Ted Nugent: Raw Power

Profile and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 28 August 1976

FEW ARTISTS have quite as much faith in themselves as Ted Nugent, the Midwestern rocker and former leader of the Amboy Dukes. He is getting ...

Jeff Beck: Live Wired Beck

Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 11 September 1976

OF ALL the guitar heroes to emerge from the British blues boom of the mid-Sixties, Jeff Beck has been the most slippery to follow. There ...

Aerosmith: Aero-dynamic

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 16 October 1976

HOWARD BUNKER looked down at his instrument panel and spoke softly into the radio. There was no point in looking through the plexiglass canopy, for ...

Aerosmith: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 23 October 1976

AFTER MANY years studying the phenomenon of the rock concert, I have made a discovery that might well be hailed as a scientific breakthrough in ...

Bob Seger: 31 With A Bullet

Profile and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 23 October 1976

EARLIER this summer, Bob Seger appeared in concert at Pontiac Stadium, a giant indoor arena on the outskirts of Detroit, attracting some 70,000 crazed Michigan ...

Stephen Stills: Be A Brother

Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 6 November 1976

Steve Stills tells Chris Charlesworth in New York why he's touring solo after all these years... ...

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 ...

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 ...

Toto: Losing The Studio Tan

Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 10 March 1979

DAVID PAICH has the grizzly, rough-hewn features of a particularly underhand heavyweight wrestler. The image is blown by a hugely infectious grin that recurs frequently, ...

Beastie Boys, The, LL Cool J: The Beastie Boys, LL Cool J and Def Jam: Escape From New York

Interview by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 8 February 1986

New York's superhip Def Jam label has burst upon the Great British Public via a distribution deal with CBS. Frank Owen, tireless beatbox gumshoe, endured ...

Mantronix: Mantronix: The Album (10)

Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 22 March 1986

NOISE NEVER never never annoys you know. Mantronix go for the paintstripper approach, burning away electro's lesser indulgences and leaving hard core hip hop of ...

Run DMC: Raising Hell (London)

Review by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 19 July 1986

BOYS FROM THE COUNTY HELL ...