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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 - 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 ...

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 ...

Ted Nugent: Ted Nugent

Review by Max Bell, NME, 19 June 1976

ONCE UPON A TIME the idea of liking Ted Nugent and The Amboy Dukes was considered remarkably unhip. Poor old Ted and his boys were ...

Aerosmith: Rocks

Review by Max Bell, NME, 3 July 1976

AEROSMITH HAVE GOT the whole situation psyched. ...

Jefferson Starship: Spitfire

Review by Mick Farren, NME, 17 July 1976

IT WAS FUNNY, though, wasn't it? ...

The Runaways: And I Wonder…I Wah Wah Wah Wah Wonder…

Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 24 July 1976

THE CORRAL lies maybe midway down Topanga Canyon, between Ventura Freeway and Malibu Beach. Maybe it's just the Romantic in me but visually – and ...

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. ...

The Band: ...Mounties, Maple Syrup: The Band at the Greek Theatre, Los Angeles

Live Review by Mick Farren, NME, 25 September 1976

RUMOURS HAD BEEN circulating (the way rumours always do) for some months. They claimed that there was some kind of rift between The Band and ...

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 ...

Patti Smith: Radio Ethiopia

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 23 October 1976

NOW HERE'S what you do for openers. You get someone to blindfold you, put boxing gloves on your hands, tie a maddened rhino to your ...

Abba: Arrival

Review by Bob Woffinden, NME, 20 November 1976

How they made a billion while still in their twentiesWITH THE POP MUSIC OF TODAY ...

Starz: Starz

Review by Max Bell, NME, 15 January 1977

PREDICTABLE BOYS from the Rock Steady stable with Jack Douglas production. ...

Ian Hunter: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 18 June 1977

Mutton dressed as lamb ...

The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger Hits Out At Everything In Sight!

Interview by Nick Kent, NME, 15 October 1977

IF ONLY IT HADN'T all been so damnedly, unrelentingly...uh...amicable. ...

Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band: Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 21 January 1978

AND WELCOME back the Bosstown Sound! That's Boston USA, spelled B-O-S-S-T-O-W-N, home of the J. Geils Band, Aerosmith, The Modern Lovers (sort of) and now…Willie ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aerosmith: Live! Bootleg

Review by Max Bell, NME, 9 December 1978

THE INEVITABLE live double from Aerosmith rolls inexorably into the American "Christmas like a fat Thanksgiving turkey". ...