Ringo Starr on Born to Boogie
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, December 1972
"BOLAN STRUTS, man, and I like that about him a lot. A lot of people, when they first meet him, can be put off because his ...

A Flight of Fantasy: Eno
Interview by Nick Kent, NME, February 1973
ENO'S PLAYBOY bachelor flat in mystical Maida Vale possesses a decor that is God's own gift to a journalist caught for a good opening paragraph. ...

Gary Glitter: Garbage Rock Comes of Age
Essay by Dave Marsh, Creem, April 1973
WHEN THE CURTAIN comes up, the band are all ready there, pumping out a fuzzy, semi-atonal, rhythmically confused version of left-field '50's music. They are swathed ...

Alice and His $1 Million
Report and Interview by Mike Jahn, New York Times, April 1973
"TO BE HONEST, I was a little worried about the guillotine," Alice Cooper says. "The safety doesn't work too well, and, well, there was that blade ...

Ziggy Storms the Marquee: Bowie’s 1980 Floor Show
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, October 1973
DAVID BOWIE in action at The Marquee (where it all began) was just one of the many rare and knee-trembling sights to be enjoyed within the ...

Can You Take Sweet Seriously?
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, November 1973
SO SWEET WANT to be taken seriously! Well, that's what they've been telling everyone over the past few months. ...

Slade
Profile and Interview by Anne Moore, LA Free Press, November 1973
AS STREET TALK goes, Slade doesn't have the greatest reputations. It is admitted they are one of the better non-Bowieish-type rock groups to come out of ...

Elton John: Belle Vue, Manchester
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, December 1973
FOR THE first time since Bill Haley's motion picture triumph Rock Around The Clock, played at the now-demolished Queen's Cinema, Catford, in 1956, the urge to ...

David Bowie: Diamond Dogs
Review by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, July 1974
RUFF-RUFF-BOW-BOW: Bowie's bewitched, bothered, bewildered and back to play – 25 eastern cities in an intense five week tour concluding mid-July with his single biggest gig ...

Bryan Ferry: Another Time, Another Place; Eno: Here Come The Warm Jets
Review by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, August 1974
AS EXPECTED, Eno's first solo album is a sonically innovative and adventurous thing, boldly experimental in its employment of phasing, drones, repetition, shifting of layers, and ...

Jobriath: The Troubadour, Los Angeles
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, September 1974
JERRY BRANDT isn't noted for doing things in a small way, but Jobriath, his latest project, might prove to be merely mildly successful. ...

Slade: Your Public Is Your Judge
Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, October 1974
THEY CAME out of Wolverhampton. Failed skinheads who became the loudest, most aggressive stomping band in the land. A year ago nobody questioned it – Slade ...

Wizzard: Eddie & the Falcons
Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, November 1974
FOR A MUSICIAN of his acknowledged brilliance, Roy Wood has shown an inordinate interest in paying tribute to the past works of others. ...

Marc Bolan
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, November 1974
A MYSTERIOIUS lack of bubble seems to be affecting Master Marc Bolan's latest offering, the Zip Gun Boogie, as it is known to those who avidly ...

Gary Glitter: Ballroom Dancing With The Big G
Interview by Max Bell, NME, December 1974
GARY GLITTER is sensibly ensconced in a very old fashioned smart hotel where the only thing liable to disturb his peace-of mind is a nutty lift ...

Mick Ronson - Play Don't Worry
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, January 1975
DUNNO ABOUT YOU, but from where I'm sitting it seems as though you can't go on saying that someone has potential for too long unless they ...

New York Dolls: Little Hippodrome, NYC
Live Review by Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, April 1975
AFTER EXAGGERATED reports heralding their impending demise, the New York Dolls returned in early March to the Hippodrome in mid-Manhattan. They were supposedly to sport a ...

I Dreamed I Was Onstage With KISS In My Maidenform Bra
Report and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, August 1975
WELL, NOT EXACTLY my idea of the perfect fantasy, but I was curious about life on the other side of the foot-lights. Armed with an abundance ...

T. Rex: Lyceum Ballroom, London
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, NME, February 1976
BORN TO BOOGIE, or born to Waltz? The story of an ageing teendream with the cheek to book himself into London's Lyceum Ballroom, without a support ...

Slade: Ar The Kidz Owt've Site Shock Probe
Report and Interview by Tony Stewart, NME, June 1977
BANDS DON'T readily admit to being yesterday's heroes...so Slade, not long ago one of Britain's most celebrated bands, will only acknowledge that they've been through a ...

The Glitter Era: Teenage Rampage
Overview by Ken Barnes, Bomp, March 1978
JUST THREE YEARS gone and it already seems so quaint. The time was c. 1971-1974, the place England, the sound "glitter," or "Glitter Rock." ...

T. Rex: The Unobtainable T.Rex
Review by Danny Baker, NME, September 1980
AND SO, it appears, we are on the brink of a new T.Rex faith. Well, as one who defended the Bolanian right at school in the ...

David Bowie: The Gender Bender
Comment by Jon Savage, The Face, November 1980
"WHAT DO YOU want to be when you grow up, ...

Chinn and Chapman
Book Excerpt by Stuart Grundy, John Tobler, 'The Record Producers', 1982
THE YEARS BETWEEN 1971 and 1975 were tucked between psychedelia on the one hand and punk rock on the other, and while they featured country rock ...

Teenage Rampage
Essay by John Tobler, The History of Rock, 1983
Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman orchestrated a British bubblegum revolution ...

Slade in St. Louis
Report and Interview by Paul Yamada, Concert News, July 1984
I'VE SEEN SLADE three times; this time makes the fourth. I went out of my way to see them the other times, and each trip I've ...

Gary Glitter
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, January 1990
WEDGING HIMSELF with effort into a most negligible pair of silver spangled trouserlettes, Gary Glitter is struck by the possibilities of a mirth-making ruse. He thrusts ...

Wizzard: Making 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day'
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, January 1996
Mike Burney (sax, Wizzard): I'd been doing really boring big band gigs on the ballroom circuit so when Roy offered me a job in Wizzard I ...

10 Great Glam Rock Albums
Guide by Barney Hoskyns, Harpers & Queen, 1998
TEN GREAT GLAM ROCK ALBUMS you cannot afford to live ...

All The Young Dudes: The Return of Glam Rock
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, September 1998
YOU COULD argue that glam – glamour, from an old Scottish word meaning "a haze in the air" – was always intrinsic to pop music. Elvis ...

Kiss & Make-Up: The Perfect Glam Rock Soundtrack
Guide by Jon Savage, Mojo, November 1998
IN THE OPENING minutes of todd Haynes's Velvet Goldmine, a gaggle of lads hurtle down a drab city street, tottering in their platforms, clad in waisted, ...

Glam Rock: Scary Monsters, Super Freaks #2
Special Feature by Chris Roberts, Uncut, November 1998
TWENTIETH CENTURY BOY ...

Glam’s Great Melancholic: Bryan Ferry
Profile by Barney Hoskyns, The Independent, 2000
BY HIS OWN slightly shamefaced admission, the first thought that raced through Bryan Ferry’s mind as he came within a hair’s breadth of plunging to his ...

LA's Glam Revival And The Glitzy Return of Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco
Report and Interview by Paul Gorman, Mojo, March 2000
Something strange is happening on the streets of Los Angeles. Glam-metal kids, 17 years out of date, are back walking the streets. Ambivalent Bowie-esque sexuality is, ...

Another Glam World: Brian Eno’s Adventures in Roxy Music
Interview by Djuna Parnes, Rock's Backpages, June 2001
DP: What does the phrase "Glam Rock" mean to ...

"Catch A Bright Star And Place It On Your Forehead": The Rise of Marc Bolan
Book Excerpt by Mark Paytress, Omnibus Books, 2002
An extract from Bolan: The Rise And Fall Of A 20th Century Superstar by Mark Paytress, first published by Omnibus Press in 2002. (378pp, currently available ...

Marc Bolan 25 Years On
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Daily Mirror, September 2002
A MONTH before the tragic car crash that killed him on September 16, 1977, a 29-year-old Marc Bolan told fellow pop star Steve Harley: "I'd hate ...

Slade: The Very Best of Slade
Sleevenotes by Chris Charlesworth, Polydor Records, 2005
IT IS JULY 1971 and I'm with Slade in Amsterdam's Vondelpark where they are shortly to perform on a bandstand in the centre of a small ...

Goldfrapp: Supernature (Mute)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2005
GOLDFRAPP took a big chance when they abandoned the swoonsome muzak of 2001's Felt Mountain for the kinky machinery of 2003's glamtastic Black Cherry. Few had ...