Blue Magic
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Aretha Franklin, Blue Magic: Radio City Music Hall, New York
Live Review by Vernon Gibbs, New Musical Express, 16 November 1974
ARETHA FRANKLIN ascended into the firmament that was always hers by right anyway with a spectacular Radio City Music Hall series of concerts that would ...
Live Review by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 19 November 1974
The first ladies of Soul: Aretha and Gladys ...
Live Review by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 18 March 1975
NEW YORK'S Radio City Music Hall, the world's largest theatre seating some 6000 people, just featured two widely differing aspects of black music within the ...
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 19 August 1975
ALTHOUGH THEY'VE only been around for 2½ years, in that relatively short time. Blue Magic have notched up an enviable track record as one of ...
Report and Interview by Tony Cummings, Black Music, December 1975
In the States, and in Britain, the insidious sweet beat of the Philly Sound continues to conquer the best selling charts. The whooping passion of ...
Blue Magic, Fifth Dimension: Westbury Music Fair, Westbury NY
Live Review by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 18 January 1977
OPENING MID-week at a sparsely-filled Westbury Music Fair, Blue Magic gave a good if somewhat average show as opening act for The Fifth Dimension. ...
Symphonic Soul: "You get more bees with honey"
Retrospective and Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 16 November 2007
Take one soul ballad. Add a falsetto vocal, swooping strings, timpani and an oboe or two. That's symphonic soul. Paul Lester talks to the heroes ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, Fall 2008
WHEN JERRY Wexler convinced the young Aretha Franklin to defect from Columbia to Atlantic in late 1966, few grasped that the signing was in fact ...
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