Arthur Lee
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Arthur Lee: 'I've been black all the time,' admits controversial star
Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 17 May 1975
He also admits to a severe case of baldness. Otherwise it's still ARTHUR LEE, back in Britain with a new Love ...
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Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 24 June 1993
The sometime Love leader talks about growing up in Memphis and South-Central L.A. and recalls his dreams of being a musician. He also describes a gay near-miss with Jimi Hendrix, rants about hip-hop, and spouts a lot of New Age gibberish.
File format: mp3 File size: 91mb Interview length: 1h 34 minutes 45 seconds Sound quality: **
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Obituary by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 7 August 2006
Flower-power myth maker who captured the dark side of the summer of love ...
Report and Interview by Andria Lisle, Memphis Flyer, 17 August 2006
Psychedelic-rock legend ARTHUR LEE began and ended his life in Memphis. In between was quite a journey. ...
Report and Interview by Andria Lisle, MOJO, May 2006
He missed a European tour last summer and it seemed the end had come. Now, Arthur Lee convenes a new band in Memphis. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Andria Lisle, MOJO, October 2006
Egomaniac, original, troubled genius: Arthur Lee — who died last month — was all of these and more, his band, the legendary Love, kicked viscerally ...
Arthur Lee: The Singing Cowboy
Retrospective and Interview by Chris Campion, Dazed & Confused, August 2002
ARTHUR LEE IS rock's almost-ran, never-was but could have been. A musical chameleon whose mythical personae have imprinted themselves on music history. He was the ...
On The Horizon: Love Springs Eternal For Arthur Lee
Profile and Interview by Dan Nooger, Circus, March 1975
ARTHUR LEE sits by the picture window of his mid-Manhattan hotel room, staring at the hotel across the bustling street below. "I just couldn't see," ...
Interview by Danny Holloway, New Musical Express, 5 August 1972
IT WAS easy to see that the sands of time had shaken this poor boy pretty hard. Twenty-seven-year-old Arthur Lee strolled into A&M's Hollywood offices ...
Love: Through The Ages (Of Prophets, Seers and Sages)
Retrospective and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, April 1981
ARTHUR LEE'S LEGEND LINGERS ...
Arthur Lee & Love: Club Lingerie, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 25 November 1994
Hendrix Birthday Love-In Skips a Beat at Club Lingerie ...
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, ZigZag, July 1974
ARTHUR'S NOTHING like you'd expect him to be. No trace of the leather jacketed refugee from Blackboard Jungle high school punkery who lurks under that peculiar edifice ...
Love With Arthur Lee: Reel To Real (RSO SO4804)
Review by Idris Walters, Let It Rock, April 1975
LOVE'S LAST British tour left a confusion of critical comment in its wake. It seemed to me he was better than ever. But then there ...
Love: A Good Day at Black Rock
Essay by Idris Walters, Let It Rock, August 1975
Starring: Arthur Lee; Script by: Idris Walters ...
Love Leftovers: 64 Questions With Arthur Lee
Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, December 1974
Who was your first manager then, Herb Cohen? ...
Arthur Lee: Yes Folks, Yet Another Arthur Lee Article
Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, March 1975
Oh God, please, no!! I thought old Tobler had just about run out of material on Arthur Lee, but it seems he must have a ...
Love's Arthur Lee (1980) [transcript]
Audio transcript of interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 1980
This is a transcript of John's interview with Arthur Lee. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Interview by John Tobler, Melody Maker, 29 December 1973
REMEMBER Arthur Lee and Love? Love was the first rock band to sign with Elektra Records, which they did in late 1965. In approximately their ...
Comment by Kandia Crazy Horse, San Francisco Bay Guardian, 19 March 2008
In memoriam: Ike Turner, Buddy Miles, Teo Macero, and Arthur Lee ...
Love with Arthur Lee: House of Blues, Los Angeles
Live Review by Kandia Crazy Horse, PopMatters, 19 August 2003
SOMETHING STARDUST and sunshine had characterized those days of flowers and civil unrest in the western canyons of America's other neverland of dreams, Los Angeles. ...
Arthur Lee: Vindicator (A&M AMLS 64356)
Review by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 9 September 1972
There's a lot of mileage in Arthur yet ...
Arthur Lee: The Daily Planet Revisited
Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 8 August 1981
ARTHUR LEE, THE PSYCHO OF '60s PSYCHEDELIA AND FORMER LEADER OF LOVE, BREAKS HIS SILENCE TO KEEP A RARE APPOINTMENT ON PLANET EARTH ...
Retrospective by Mike Barnes, MOJO, February 2003
"I THINK Jimi Hendrix was the best guitar player all round and one of the best musicians, creators and innovators I ever heard in my ...
Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, August 2002
Every month we play a musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of what ...
Report and Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 21 May 2002
Arthur Lee was once bigger than Hendrix or Jim Morrison. Back on the road after six years in jail, Love's frontman talks to Paul Lester. ...
Arthur Lee: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Rob Chapman, MOJO, March 2003
AS ICONIC gestures go, Arthur Lee raising a tambourine above his head, arms angled like he's cradling an invisible water pitcher, is up there with ...
Arthur Lee: We Have Ways Of Making You Talk
Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, August 2001
ONCE DESCRIBED by fellow band-member Brian MacLean as 'the baddest guy on the West Side of LA, the Cassius Clay of the streets' – Arthur ...
Retrospective and Interview by Sara Scribner, L.A. Weekly, 25 March 1999
SOMETHING ABOUT Arthur Lee invites myth. Lee – the cantankerous, charismatic singer and guitarist of the groundbreaking yet largely forgotten band Love – inspires tales ...
Retrospective and Interview by Simon Price, Independent on Sunday, 26 May 2002
He discovered the Doors, nurtured Jimi Hendrix and fronted legendary '60s band Love. Now, after six years in prison, Lee is back on the road ...
Love, Arthur Lee Style: More Changes
Interview by Steven Rosen, Rolling Stone, 13 February 1975
LOS ANGELES – Not since the 1972 release of Vindicator has Arthur Lee been widely heard on record, that first polo project seemingly marking the ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, June 2002
On your recent US warm-up date you asked, "What did the monkey say after the pitbull bit off his tail?" ...
Overview by Ted Kessler, New Statesman, 20 January 2003
MANY outrageous claims have been made on Arthur Lee's behalf — but most of them are true. ...
The Everlasting Forever Of Arthur Lee
Retrospective by Tim Page, The Washington Post, 5 August 2006
ARTHUR LEE and his off-again-on-again rock group Love made only one great album – a brooding, opulent and improbable dream called Forever Changes, released in ...
Arthur Lee: Right Church, Wrong Pew
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, July 1992
"I FEEL REAL PHONEY when my name is Bell." This may not mean very much to the younger generation, but for those who struggled through ...
Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, November 1972
LIKE VAN MORRISON, Arthur Lee has been gifted with enormous catalytic power in his writing, the often innocent enunciation of a phrase capable of transforming ...
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