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Steve Winwood: 'I'm Gonna Do an Album a Week!'
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, May 1973
IT'S BEEN MANY a long year since Steve Winwood has made impact as an individual on the English rock scene. ...

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AUDIO: Steve Winwood, parts 1-4 (1997)
Interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages Audio, February 1997
Winwood talks about the early days in Birmingham, from his childhood through to the start of the Spencer Davis Group, and thence to the stop-start life ...

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Steve Winwood: Winwood (U.A. Import).
Review by Tony Stewart, NME, January 1973
WHAT A strange world it is. A couple of years ago this same double set was released in America, and swiftly withdrawn following objections – so ...

Stevie Winwood: Not Just A Singer In A Rock And Roll Band
Retrospective by Ben Edmonds, Phonograph Record, April 1973
I MADE INITIAL contact with Stevie Winwood in March of 1966, a weekend rebel still in the high school clutches of suburban Boston. As was my ...

Stevie Winwood: Sixties Soul Survivor
Profile by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, June 1974
"STEVE'S only 25 you know. When people criticise him and say he's not as good as he used to be in the old days, they should ...

Winwood & Yamashta: GO GO GO
Interview by Miles, NME, June 1976
MILES, our resident Grand Master of cosmic funk, unscrews the inscrutable and accompanies STEVIE WINWOOD and STOMU YAMASHTA into the infinite as they discuss, rehearse and ...

Yamashta, Winwood, Shrieve: Go (Island)
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, June 1976
THE THEORY of it could be a blueprint for the grossmost excess of pretentious rock – a fusion of cultures through music yet, Japanese, German, British, ...

Steve Winwood: Goodbye Mr Fantasy, Hello Midland Maniac
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, May 1977
THE SIXTIES are very much alive in Ladbroke Grove these days. Tucked away in the back of Island's Basing Street Studios, swinging London gently reverberates inside ...

Steve Winwood: Steve Winwood (Island)
Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, July 1977
‘I ONCE WAS A-CRYING BUT NOW MY LUCK’S TURNED’ ['Luck’s In']. ...

The Steve Winwood Autodiscography
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, May 1981
Steve Winwood's work defies pigeonholing; his distinctive "blue-eyed soul" vocals grace an impressive blend of rock, soul, jazz and folk. He's responsible for a wealth of ...

Steve Winwood: A Higher Love
Comment by Steven R Rosen, One Shot, Winter 1987
CATCHING PERFORMERS on the oldies circuit can be sad. ...

The Steve Winwood Chronicles
Profile and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Creem, July 1988
HE SEEMS QUITE MONK-LIKE – steady stare, fish-pale complexion and a faraway look that, if I'd brought a compass, I could guarantee went in the direction ...

The Spencer Davis Group: Eight Gigs A Week — The Steve Winwood Years
Review and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Mojo, June 1996
BACK IN THE EARLY '60s, in their Golden Eagle residency days, The Spencer Davis Group played the whole gamut of American R&B from John Lee Hooker ...

Steve Winwood
Interview by Johnny Black, Mojo, May 1997
IT WAS NOT UNTIL 1993, 30 years after he first heard Ray Charles sing, that Steve Winwood met his lifelong idol. Winwood happened to be in ...

The Eye That Sees Aright: Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood, Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Richard English, Rock's Backpages, May 2010
IT'S RARE THAT ONE mixes Aristotle with rock, but it was impossible to ignore a giant eye rolling on the back projection screen during 'Voodoo Chile', ...

see also Spencer Davis Group

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