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Chicago: Chicago VIII

Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 19 June 1975

WHILE IT'S DIFFICULT to picture anyone failing to be amused by the intentional ludicrousness of, say, dedicating an album to the revolution or making the ...

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Spooky Tooth, Chicago Transit Authority: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 11 September 1968

SPOOKY TOOTH, a British quintet with a sound similar to that of Traffic, is appearing at the Whisky a Go Go with CTA (the Chicago ...

Spirit, Kaleidoscope, Chicago Transit Authority: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA; Procol Harum, Santana, Blue Morning, Aum: Rose Palace, Pasadena CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 17 April 1969

Spirit, Procol Play Concerts ...

Tom Paxton, Chicago, Elyse Weinberg: Schaefer Music Festival, Central Park, New York NY

Live Review by Danny Goldberg, Billboard, 23 August 1969

A Double Triumph For Elyse Weinberg ...

Chicago, Johnny Winter: Fillmore East, New York NY

Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 16 November 1969

Blodwyn Pig Also on Bill of Jazz and Blues Rock ...

Chicago

Interview by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 6 December 1969

SELDOM HAS a group caused such a stir with a first album. America's Chicago became the most talked about band in Britain on the strength ...

Chicago: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 13 December 1969

CHICAGO ARE one of the great groups. We knew about them from their fine debut album, Chicago Transit Authority, released three months ago, but their ...

Chicago: Interview with Jimmy Pankow

Interview by Mike Quigley, Poppin, Summer 1969

This interview took place during the Vancouver Pop Festival in 1969, a horribly-organized mess which actually took place near Squamish, about an hour north of ...

Chicago ...Moving From Jazz-Rock To Classical-Rock

Interview by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 31 January 1970

STEVIE WINWOOD'S 'I'm A Man', the 1967 hit for the old Spencer Davis group, has brought the jazz-rock combination of Chicago to the puzzling British ...

Chicago: Chicago (CBS stereo 66233; 49s 11d)

Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 14 March 1970

TOO MUCH SOUNDS SAMEY ...

Chicago: Another interview with Jimmy Pankow

Interview by Mike Quigley, Rick McGrath, The Georgia Straight, 12 April 1970

After Chicago played their first set at the Gardens a couple of Thursdays ago, we wandered backstage to try and line up an interview with ...

The Isle of Wight Festival: Five Days That Rocked Britain

Report by Mark Plummer, Michael Watts, Chris Welch, Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 5 September 1970

MM's Richard Williams, Chris Welch, Michael Watts and Mark Plummer present a five-page report on an amazing weekend of music and other scenes... ...

Chicago: Chicago III (CBS stereo. 66267. 59s 10d)

Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 23 January 1971

Disappointing Chicago ...

3000 To Be Turned Away But Chicago Defend London Concert Cancellation

Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 22 May 1971

"UNDERGROUND IS now Overground," said Chicago's Terry Kath... "and Overground is commercial." We were on a transatlantic phone line at the weekend and he was ...

Chicago: One Date Only For The Chicago Seven

Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 22 May 1971

WITH THE news that Chicago will play just one concert at London's Royal Albert Hall on June 1, instead of two as they planned after ...

Chicago: Chicago Is…

Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 13 May 1972

"IT'S RIDICULOUS really," said Chicago's composer and keyboard man, Bob Lamm, "Here I am in Hollywood, living in grand style and my parents are still ...

Chicago: Chicago V

Review by Simon Frith, Cream, November 1972

WHY BOTHER? Chicago are rightly contemptuous of critics. They've never had a good review and their records sell by the million. Chicago V has been ...

Chicago: What Do You Think They'll Call Their Seventh Album?

Interview by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, February 1973

It all began when, after my particularly scathing review of Chicago V appeared in the October Crawdaddy, I received the following telegram from Bobby Lamm, ...

Chicago: The Weary Life Of a Wandering Minstrel

Interview by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 24 June 1973

Chicago, a group that packed Madison Square Garden, may not look it, but they're a tired bunch of performers. ...

Chicago: A James William Guercio Enterprise

Report and Interview by Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 19 July 1973

CHICAGO, THE line goes, would be a useless slag heap of Midwestern has-beens went it not for the strong hand of their producer, a young ...

Chicago: Is The Most Popular Band In America Handcuffed By Its Fans?

Profile and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus, January 1975

IN THE FALL of 1974, a small number of groups had multiple album entries lodged firmly in the Top 200 chart of Billboard Magazine, the ...

Chicago: Chicago VIII

Review by John Mendelsohn, Phonograph Record, May 1975

IF YOU'RE A regular reader of the Phonograph Record review section (and in this day and age who isn't?), you're probably beside yourself trying to ...

Beachago: The Beach Boys meet Chicago

Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 21 June 1975

PERHAPS THE MOST the most interesting side-effect of the depression in the United States has been the decision of two potential headliners to go out ...

Spirit Of America: A Beach Boys Retrospective

Retrospective by Michael Gross, Circus, August 1975

Never have two monster groups been so united as the Beach Boys/Chicago tandem which is touring America like blood brothers. ...

Chicago is Revolting!

Interview by Robert Duncan, Creem, February 1976

IT IS RARE that we review something that is not yet available for general consumption. But seeing as we've been getting sneak previews of it ...

Chicago: Chicago's 'Comeback'

Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 13 November 1976

FEW BANDS have enjoyed the stability of Chicago, those rather dull "pioneers of jazz-rock" whose 'If You Leave Me Now' not only tops the charts ...

Chicago: Getting Stronger Every Day

Interview by John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 14 December 1978

NEW YORK — Larry is a professional ticket scalper, and business at Central Park's outdoor concert series this past summer had been so good that he ...

USA For Africa: We Are The World (Columbia)

Review by J. Kordosh, Creem, August 1985

OUCHLESS BAND-AID ...

Oldies But Goodies: The Eagles, Chicago, Crosby Stills & Nash

Essay by Debbie Kruger, Weekend Australian, 7 March 1998

GROUPS SUCH AS the Eagles, Chicago and Crosby Stills & Nash sold millions of records here in their heydey – the Eagles still do – ...

Chicago: 34 years and Counting

Profile and Interview by Debbie Kruger, Goldmine, 16 June 2000

"With this album, we dedicate ourselves, our futures and our energies to the people of the revolution... And the revolution in all of its forms."So ...

More Than a Feeling: The 20 Greatest AOR Tracks of All Time!

Guide by Matthew Hamilton, Rock's Backpages, July 2009

Author's Note: I have found that most discussions of AOR get easily sidetracked unless it's made clear which definition of the AOR acronym we're using. ...

Mobsters, Crime And Jazz: Danny Seraphine's Chicago Story

Review and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 16 December 2010

FROM THEIR 1967 founding to his unceremonious ouster from the group in 1990, Danny Seraphine provided the pounding backbeat for Chicago, both for the early, ...

Chicago's Robert Lamm Knows What Time It Is

Retrospective and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 14 June 2017

SINGER/KEYBOARDIST Robert Lamm has been part of a particular band of brothers for decades as Chicago, the group he co-founded, celebrates its 50th anniversary this ...

Cruisin' with Justin & the Fudge: Five Days at Sea with the Rock Boomers

Report by Mark Leviton, Rock's Backpages, February 2019

"I've realized audiences aren't listening to the lyrics of my first song – they're too busy trying to figure out how old I look..." Al ...

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