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Steeleye Span: So Who ARE These Limeys Playing Folk Music?
Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, May 1973
IT TAKES approximately 11 hours to fly from London to Los Angeles. You get off the 'plane, and the heat fills your lungs like a clammy ...

Steeleye Span: Making Sense Of Original Sin...
Report and Interview by Bob Woffinden, NME, December 1975
IN BRITAIN we voted to stay in. In Eire and Denmark they voted to go in. In Norway the public answered the call to European economic ...

ARTICLES IN LIBRARY

Mr. Fox and Steeleye Span: Electric Folk – The Second Generation
Comment by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, January 1971
NOW WE'VE had a chance to hear Mr. Fox and Steeleye Span properly, it is clear that we are already into the second generation of electric ...

Steeleye Span
Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, January 1973
SINCE THE formation of the first traditional, electric folk supergroup, to lump together every possible stigmatic cliché that was attached to them, Steeleye Span have undergone ...

British Folk Rock: Robin Hood Rides A Chopper
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, January 1973
Plainsong: In Search of Amelia Earhart (Elektra)
Richard Thompson: Henry, the Human Fly (Warner Bros.)
Steeleye Span: Below the Salt (Chrysalis)
Incredible String Band: Earthspan (Reprise)
Pentangle: Solomon's Seal (Reprise)
Lindisfarne: ...

Steeleye Span Versus The Time Warp
Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, March 1973
SOUND TECHNIQUES studios in Chelsea is not exactly the most luxurious of settings for musical activity. Boards, speakers and tape reels are scattered fairly haphazardly around ...

Steeleye Span: Parcel of Rogues (Chrysalis)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, April 1973
IT WOULD be considerably more than a pity if Steeleye Span, that most English of bands, have to become superstars in the States before really hitting ...

The Steeleye Span Talk-In
Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, June 1973
STEELEYE HAVE JUST added a drummer for the first time since the band formed. Can you explain how this came about? ...

Pleased To See The Span: Steeleye Stateside
Report and Interview by Steven Rosen, LA Free Press, November 1973
THE EXPLOSIVE SUCCESS of Steeleye Span during the past year is in direct relationship to the in-herent malleability of its music. Fresh out of the folk ...

Steeleye Span: Maddy Prior in the Talk-In
Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, December 1973
WITHIN THE precincts of Warwick Castle a BBC Outside Broadcast team were attempting to film the second Steeleye TV show in their peregrinations around famous castles ...

Steeleye Span: Ye Olde Rocke & Rolle
Profile by Steve Turner, Rolling Stone, September 1974
CONSIDER STEELEYE SPAN – grounded firmly in traditional English folk music and trying to crack a largely American audience that has no background in, or particular ...

Steeleye Span: How a Goon Came To Play Ukelele
Report and Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, October 1974
IT WAS like the coming of a new Messiah. Everyone sat around nervously awaiting the arrival of HIM, the man who was gonna make this recording ...

Steeleye Span: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Bob Woffinden, NME, December 1974
IT WAS not one of Steeleye's better gigs – perhaps the Rainbow doesn't suit them. ...

Steeleye Span: Commoner's Crown
Review by Bob Woffinden, NME, February 1975
STEELEYE SPAN ALWAYS deliver on time. Commoner's Crown is the fourth offering from the Mk. III line-up in a little over three years, and they've come ...

Steeleye Span at Hammersmith Odeon
Live Review by Bob Woffinden, NME, May 1975
THIS WAS STEELEYE'S loudest gig, a fact which may or may not indicate the shape of things to ...

Man, Steeleye Span and 10cc at Cardiff Castle
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, July 1975
DEKE LEONARD IS getting ...

Steeleye Span: Steeleye Sold Out?
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, November 1975
WHEREFORE art thou, Span? The cry persists: "They've sold out." The denials continue. But Steeleye Span's drift towards "commercialism," especially on the new album, All Around ...

Steeleye Span: The Folk Who Plugged In
Retrospective and Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, December 1975
NOW WE are six was a title conveniently borrowed from A. A. Milne to acknowledge that in 1973 Steeleye Span had finally decided to add a ...

The Universalisation Of Steeleye Span
Report and Interview by Bob Woffinden, NME, November 1976
SALLY JEAN IS DARK, demure and very attractive. Though well-dressed, well-spoken and well-meaning, she is alas also well dull. For over two hours now she has ...

Steeleye Span: Family of Span
Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, December 1976
"HAVE WE ever come close to splitting? My God, HAVE we! It's very incestuous, our band, y'see. We're all interdependent and to work out your problems ...

Steeleye Span
Retrospective and Interview by John Tobler, Sing Out!, 1994
THE TERM "folk-rock" appears to have different meanings in the UK and the US – American folk/rock means The Byrds, The Lovin' Spoonful and The Mamas ...

see also Fairport Convention