The Four Tops
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Blowing their TOPS! The Four Tops, Easybeats, Cliff Bennett: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 19 November 1966
The 'Reach Out, I'll Be There' boys hit town and cause a sensation among the stars and fans at their concert ...
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 14 January 1967
NOW IT'S psychedelic Blind Date. At least, that's what Paul Jones' session in the hot seat seemed like at the time. First of all, the ...
The Four Tops: Four Tops 'Live' (Tamla Motown TML 11041, Stereo STML 11041)
Review by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, March 1967
GREAT! THAT'S the only way to describe the Four Tops' performance on this "live" album. And it really is "live", too. Recorded at the Upper ...
The Four Tops, Madeline Bell, the Merseys, the Remo Four: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 4 February 1967
Ball at the Albert Hall ...
Retrospective and Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, January 2009
FIFTY YEARS AGO this month in Detroit, a 29-year-old African-American songwriter named Berry Gordy, Jr – a former boxer, autoworker, and Army veteran – borrowed ...
Singles From the Four Tops, Percy Sledge et al
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 7 January 1967
A lack of new ideas but another Tops success ...
Holland-Dozier-Holland: This Tamla Trio Top The Hitmakers Chart
Interview by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 28 January 1967
HOLLAND-DOZIER-Holland may sound like a firm of solicitors, but they must rank among the most prolific songwriting teams in history. ...
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 19 November 1966
The stars single out the new singles ...
Supremes and Tops aren't Puppets of Motown
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 17 July 1971
NME's Alan Smith on the phone to Supreme Jean Terrell in Los Angeles. ...
Tamla's Miracles Break Through At Last!
Report by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 20 January 1968
THE FIRST of the Tamla Motown groups, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, have finally made it big in the British charts with their runaway transatlantic ...
Four Tops Hoping For British Tour, Diana Splits Next Year
Report by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 25 October 1969
ALAN SMITH reports the latest views from DETROIT, A CITY PACKED WITH NATURAL MOTOWN TALENT. ...
Nancy and The Who Making It Big
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 6 January 1967
AT THE RIPE old age of 23, Nancy Lewis isn't exactly a teenager. But Detroiter Nancy is swimming right in the middle of all the ...
The Four Tops: Yesterday's Gone (Tamla Motown Stereo ST ML 11087).
Review by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 18 January 1969
SOME UNEXPECTED selections on this long awaited 4 Tops collection. The Tops are classics of The Male Motown list and have certainly put some brilliant ...
Report and Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 25 March 1967
Wives taught us to dance — FOUR TOPS ...
Four Tops Live Up To Their Name
Profile by Mike Gormley, The Ottawa Journal, 22 March 1968
THEY HAD reached the top — all four of them. ...
Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 13 January 1968
THE BIG R & B companies have a habit of LP release lists which make mouths watery with anticipation. Of course the omnipresent financial problem ...
The Four Tops: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 19 November 1966
UNIQUE ATMOSPHERE AT TOPS SHOW ...
Drop the Tops in Britain — And the Crowds Go Wild
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 3 March 1967
WHAT DO you get when you mix the Motor City's Four Tops with the British public? A whole lot of love flowing both ways. ...
Loraine Alterman on Records: New Albums from Vanilla Fudge, Big Brother et al
Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 3 September 1967
Vanilla Fudge: Exciting Album ...
Comment by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 10 August 1968
CHRIS WELCH records the demise of a chart influence ...
The Pointers: Sign of a Wasted Rock Culture
Profile by Vernon Gibbs, New Musical Express, 29 September 1973
ANYTIME THE American media welcomes a new act with such an overt display of scraping and bowing for superlatives, it's time to be suspicious. ...
The Four Tops: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Royston Eldridge, Sounds, 17 October 1970
THE WORST part of growing up is that your teenage favourites tend to lose their magic as the years pass. Thankfully, whatever the Tops have ...
Four Tops Kept Trying and Won!
Profile and Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 26 August 1966
"IF AT FIRST you don't succeed, try, try again." A tired old saying, but it gets new life this week as the Four Tops climb ...
The Four Tops: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 19 November 1966
TREMENDOUS TOPS SCORE AT SAVILLE ...
New Singles from the Rolling Stones, Four Tops et al
Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 14 January 1967
GOODIES THIS WEEK INCLUDE A MUCH-BETTER ROLLING STONES, SIMILAR, BUT DISTINCTIVE SOUND FROM TOPS, AND A PLAINTIVE PAUL JONES, NOT-SO INSTANT VAUDEVILLE BAND, AND A ...
The Supremes: Psychedelic Tamla!
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 18 November 1967
Brian Holland, one of Motown's famous composing team, speaks to Alan Smith, and tells about PSYCHEDELIC TAMLA! ...
Four Top A Week: Levi The Leader
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 27 May 1967
MUSTACHIOED LEVI Stubbs is the undoubted leader of the Four Tops — the man in front, the quiet man of influence, and a singer with ...
Four Top A Week: Easy-Going Abdul Fakir
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 20 May 1967
TOP ABDUL is the one the others call Duke — why, he doesn't quite know. Maybe it's his air of royal dignity. ...
Four Top A Week: How I Got Out Of The Ghetto by Renaldo Benson
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 13 May 1967
TOP RENALDO is the most instantly likeable man I ever met. Happiness was made for Renaldo. It sparkles out of his honest eyes. It gleams ...
Four Top A Week: Laurence Payton, The Quiet One
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 6 May 1967
LAURENCE the Top has a homely round face, honest, open eyes, and a liking for big shirts with big collars. He sits with his dark ...
On Disc: Singles Reviewed By John E. Abbey
Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 29 March 1970
RECORD OF THE FORTNIGHT ...
The Four Tops, The Merseys, Madeline Bell, Remo Four: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 4 February 1967
FOUR TOPS HAD US ALL ON OUR FEET reports Alan Smith ...
Jimi Hendrix, Four Tops, Jeff Beck et al: Singles Reviews
Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 25 March 1967
Catchy debut solo from Jeff Beck, and a typical but powerful Four Tops. Better showcase for Jimi Hendrix on his newie, and best yet from ...
Interview by Carol Deck, KRLA Beat, 22 October 1966
WHEN FOUR handsome young men from Detroit put out a record that immediately grabs everyone's attention, people soon want to know everything there is to ...
Report by Rochelle Reed, KRLA Beat, 31 December 1966
EPSTEIN BOOKS TOUR ...
NME Chart News Woke Up The Four Tops In Record Time!
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 21 October 1966
THE PHONE rang eleven times in Room 3055 at New York's Hilton Hotel before Lawrence Payton roused himself from his slumbers and dragged it towards ...
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 4 February 1967
SWINGING London was practically rocked off its hinges the first time the famous Four Tops descended among us last year – the year of 'Reach ...
Report and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 9 October 1970
IN THE FIVE short months that have passed since the last time the Tops came to Britain, a great deal has happened to them. ...
The Magnificent Seven Live: The Supremes and the Four Tops live at the Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 17 December 1971
DUE TO lack of publicity, the International Children's Aid Charity concert on Tuesday November 30 at the Royal Albert Hall was not as well attended ...
Memoir by Dave Marsh, Rock and Rap Confidential, October 2008
WHEN I WAS 15, I met the Four Tops on a downtown Detroit street, where they were doing a photo shoot with the Supremes. ...
Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 2 August 1975
FIRST, THE GOOD NEWS. The Supremes' new LP is a winner. ...
The Four Tops: One More Mountain (Casablanca)
Review by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 4 September 1982
WHEN MARVIN Gaye recorded What's Going On in the early '70s it was part of an important transition for the Motown label, its mixture of ...
Four Tops Don't Walk Away Ever!
Interview by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 6 February 1982
MY FIRST TASTE of Motown music was many summers ago as I mulled away my school holidays in a sort of passive ignorance, more interested ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, May 1970
THE BIG QUESTION hanging over the heads of the Four Tops, Tamla Motown's long-running stars, is just how much they are going to miss the ...
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