Sylvester
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Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 28 October 1972
Bowie Band Fails To Arouse Crowd ...
It's a Beautiful Day, Sylvester & the Hot Band: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 30 March 1973
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY GOES ON A TIME TRIP ...
Sylvester: Stardom as Lifestyle
Profile by Richard Cromelin, Music World, April 1973
Of course, there's nothing more ancient or honorable than the old shamanistic transvestite that we see running up and down Greenwich Avenue. There's something very ...
Sylvester & the Hot Band: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 1973
Hot Band Sizzles for Fourth ...
Sylvester and the Hot Band: Bazaar (Blue Thumb)
Review by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, December 1973
WHEN SYLVESTER'S first album came out, his supporters' only defense was to say, "Well, he's a great live act." Now, in his second one, he's ...
Sylvester: Old Waldorf, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 21 July 1977
Sylvester: A turn in the right direction ...
How an ex-Cockette named Ruby Blue became Sylvester...
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 6 December 1977
How an ex-Cockette named Ruby Blue became Sylvester... ...
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 15 August 1978
The man himself talks to John Abbey about his second Fantasy album, his attitudes, and his aims for the future. Another B&S exclusive... ...
Interview by Davitt Sigerson, Sounds, 26 August 1978
WEBSTER’S gives "Excessive, extravagant; Fanciful, fantastic; violent, unrestrained" as definitions of "outrageous". ...
Interview by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 7 October 1978
I THOUGHT I TAW A PUDDYTAT A creepin' up on me. I DID! I TAW A PUDDYTAT As plain as he can be. ...
Sylvester: Step II (Fantasy FT549)
Review by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 7 October 1978
I'LL BET Sylvester loves being called outrageous, but that description fits his appearance far better than his music. Not that his album is unremarkable; it ...
Sylvester: Step II (Fantasy F549)
Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 10 October 1978
SYLVESTER HAS carved a niche for himself in the disco world and his second Fantasy album will certainly consolidate his following around the nation's dancefloors. ...
Sylvester: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Davitt Sigerson, Melody Maker, 16 December 1978
SYLVESTER, DISCO'S hermaphrodite darling, delivered one of the best shows in world history last weekend. ...
Sylvester: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 16 December 1978
WHAT A DRAG ...
Sylvester: Roxy, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 December 1978
Sylvester: Disco, Soul at the Roxy ...
Profile by Cliff White, Smash Hits, January 1979
THE READER who wrote to us last month asking whether Sylvester is male or female may be forgiven for his or her confusion. One of ...
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 13 March 1979
The man triumphed in both Disco sections of the annual B&S Poll but, surprisingly, tells us that his next album might actually be his last ...
Sylvester: War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 13 March 1979
Disco at the Opera House ...
Sylvester: Stars (Fantasy, U.S. import)
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 28 April 1979
AS A POP 45, Sylvester's symphonic recasting of 'I (Who Have Nothing)' has been a slow starter. Even coming off the massive crossover success of ...
Sylvester: Mighty Real (Fantasy)
Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 16 June 1979
Dead Duck? ...
Sylvester: No Business Like Show Business
Essay by Simon Frith, Melody Maker, 7 July 1979
ON HIS RECORD sleeves, Sylvester is definitely svelte. A pink shirt and a red rose. Spectacles and a cool look, like Arthur Ashe. My favourite ...
Sylvester: The Living Proof Of Disco's Heat
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 20 November 1979
'MIGHTY REAL' was, of course, one of Sylvester's biggest hits – his biggest in Europe, in fact. However, it is more than just the title ...
Sylvester: Too Hot To Sleep (Fantasy/Honey import)
Review by Lloyd Bradley, New Musical Express, 10 October 1981
I COULD never really take Sylvester seriously, I had him filed away as an instantly disposable product of the confusion of the late Seventies. Now, ...
Sylvester: Woofers And Tweeters
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 25 September 1982
HAD I BEEN expecting some shimmering trans-sexual diva to sweep into the room like a hostess into her salon, the rotund, maternal figure who welcomed ...
Chic: Tongue In Chic (Atlantic); Sylvester: All I Need (Megatone)
Review by Laura Fissinger, Creem, April 1983
(IN ORDER to take the following two extension courses, students must have successfully completed Disco 101, centered around this basic precept put forth by Chic ...
Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 13 October 1983
Sixteen years after the Summer of Love, the bands that made the Fillmore famous are as mainstream as Tony Bennett. Meanwhile, a new generation of ...
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 1 December 1984
NOT EVEN the New York cool that infests a group like The Force MD's can prevent the obvious excitement that sweeps through them as Sylvester ...
Sylvester: Mutual Admiration Time
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 3 February 1987
For his new Mutual Attraction album, Sylvester has cut his version of Stevie Wonder's 'Living For The City', which he first heard at a club ...
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