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Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers: Jonathan Sings
Review by Bill Black, Sounds, 30 June 1984
IT'S BEEN a long time since Jonathan Richman's last album, Back In Your Life, and apart from the release of some interesting Kim Fowley produced ...
Jonathan Richman: In Love With The Modern World
Profile by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 17 September 1977
On the eve of Jonathan Richman's first British tour, Ian Birch traces his career ...
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The Jonathan Richman Colouring Scrapbook
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 20 May 1978
Fun for all the family in the Modern World as No.1 citizen J. RICHMAN holds court in a rare and candid interview with our own ...
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers: Rock 'n' Roll with the Modern Lovers (Beserkley PZ-34800)
Review by Paul Nelson, Rolling Stone, August 1977
SOME HISTORY is necessary. Four or five years ago, David Johansen's New York Dolls and Jonathan Richman's Boston-based Modern Lovers were the most talented progenitors ...
Live Review by Max Bell, The Times, 23 June 1984
WHILE THE big names are sweating it out at the annual round of festivals, beginning with Glastonbury this weekend, the main event of midsummer night ...
Review by Chas de Whalley, Vox, March 1993
WHEN JONATHAN RICHMAN and The Modern Lovers first surfaced with Roadrunner, late in 1976, the studied '60s simplicity of their garage band arrangements and Richman's ...
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, the Fall, Neil Innes: Elephant Fayre, Port Eliot, Cornwall
Live Review by David Quantick, New Musical Express, 11 August 1984
JUMBO NUTBURGERS! ...
Shoot-Out at Sesame Street: Jonathan Richman Talks!
Interview by Bill Holdship, Creem, May 1984
I HATE IT when my heroes get attacked. That's why I screamed "Ignorance!" and threw a copy of Musician magazine across the room when this ...
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers: Rock 'n' Roll With The Modern Lovers (Beserkley BSERK9)
Review by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 20 August 1977
Richman: hearing is believing ...
Jonathan Richman: The Venue, London
Live Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 29 May 1982
JONATHAN RICHMAN made his name by singing about the modern world in a style that belonged to the cityscapes of the Velvet Underground. Then he ...
Ultra-Modern Lovers: Sophomoric Seduction In The Big, Red Apple
Report and Interview by Bob Spitz, Crawdaddy!, January 1977
NEW YORK — It had been pouring for most of two days, but the rain began to let up about four in the afternoon. As ...
Jonathan Richman: Wax Museum, Washington DC
Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Musician, January 1983
IT'S EASY TO laugh at Jonathan Richman's wavering, off-key singing as he drifts off into naive, spoken monologues. When he visited Washington's Wax Museum this ...
There's Something about Jonathan
Retrospective and Interview by Max Bell, The Independent, 25 September 1998
Jonathan Richman introduced us to the abominable snowman in the supermarket. Now, like wow, he's a film star. ...
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 24 September 1977
RICHMAN MORE MAN ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001
b. 16 May 1951, Boston, Massachusetts, USA ...
Jonathan Richman: Having A Party With… (Cheree)
Review by Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, 18 January 1992
SINCE Modern Lovers '88, Richman's career appears to have run to seed, each subsequent release an ever fainter reminder of the days when his idiosyncratic ...
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers: Rockin' And Romance (Rough Trade)
Review by Penny Kiley, Melody Maker, 29 June 1985
IF JONATHAN RICHMAN'S single, 'That Summer Feeling', isn't a hit this year, you can only blame it on the Met Office. Richman, eternal cult figure, ...
Jonathan Richman: If I Were A Richman...
Interview by Tim Lott, Record Mirror, 8 October 1977
Does Jonathan still love the modern world? TIM LOTT finds out — or does he? ...
Jonathan Richman: A Roadrunner For Your Love
Interview by Craig Zeller, New York Rocker, February 1978
I'M STRAIGHT and I used to be in love with Jonathan Richman. Don't get me wrong: I still like him a helluva lot; whether he's ...
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 25 June 1977
A sense of wonder ...
Danny Fields: The Fields Connection
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 9 July 1977
The Doors, MC5, Iggy & The Stooges, John Cale, Lou Reed, Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers and The Ramones — without them the last ten years of ...
Hey There Little Insect! Whatever Happened To Beserkley Records?
Report and Interview by Julian Henry, Underground, 26 March 1987
Julian Henry braves the wilds of West London to find out what did happen to Beserkley ...
Jonathan Richman: Town Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Lisa Persky, New York Rocker, December 1976
AFTER AN almost unmentionable flight into vaudeville with the opening acts (a magician and a juggler) who suffered limitless abuse from the audience, Jonathan Richman ...
Jonathan Richman: The Echo, Los Angeles
Live Review by Roy Trakin, Hits, 13 July 2012
IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME since I've seen the legendary founder of the Modern Lovers, the man-child my fellow companion at a show once showered ...
Jonathan Richman: The Man Who Hates Sitting Down
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, May 1993
OCCUPANTS OF automobiles cruising the road betwixt the crumbling house of Margaret Mitchell (she who wrote Gone With The Wind) and the shiny tower of ...
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers: Live (Beserkley); The Tyla Gang: Yachtless (Beserkley)
Review by Dave Schulps, Crawdaddy!, April 1978
BESERKLEY RECORDS certainly keep things interesting. Slightly over a year ago they became the first American New Wave independent to secure a distribution deal with ...
Jonathan Richman: Town Hall, New York City
Live Review by Lester Bangs, New Musical Express, 13 November 1976
THE FUNDAMENTAL things apply, as time goes by. Like Sister Ray, for instance. It had only been out for a couple of years when Jonathan ...
The Modern Lovers: The Modern Lovers Live
Review by John Tobler, ZigZag, December 1977
WELL, I think that's the title, but anyway you should know that this is the vinyl result of Jonathan Richman's quite unforgettable concerts here a ...
Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, November 1976
THERE'S SOMETHING LIKE five years between the recording of these two albums, so it comes as little surprise that they're almost totally different in style ...
Jonathan Richman Melts An Old Cynic's Heart
Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 1 October 1977
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers: Hammersmith Odeon, London ...
Jonathan Richman: Rock Poet Of Lower Middle-Class Suburbia
Live Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 23 October 1976
I'm in touch with the modern worldI'm in love with the modern worldI got the radio on(Radio on) ...
Jonathan Richman: Back In Your Life
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, June 1979
THE OSCAR BRAND of the now generation returns with his first studio LP in quite a while. Amid the ceaseless confusion that is Beserkley Records, ...
Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers: The Modern Lovers
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 3 July 1976
I'D LIKE, if I might, to commence this review by borrowing an expression from Andy Childs, he of 'Zig Zag' and 'Fat Angel' fame. Okay ...
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, November 1977
I KNOW IT'S BEEN a hectic year full of surprises but if anything 1977 will go down as the year Jonathan Richman (a) Got in ...
Johnathan Richman: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, 24 September 1977
CONTRADICTION. (I don't wanna grow up; there's too much...) ...
Beserkley Records: The Fabled Label
Overview by Ian Birch, Sounds, 16 October 1976
SOME PLACES become legendary. Mystical meccas for the besotted. That is usually until you sample them first hand. ...
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 24 September 1977
IT CONFOUNDED all expectations. Cross a children's pantomime with a Charlie Chaplin movie and filter it through a gawky highschool kid who mimes awful ...
Jonathan Richman: Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
Review by Robert Sandall, Q, 1989
BESERKLEY HAVE re-issued their entire catalogue of Jonathan Richman albums but they should have stopped with this one, a brilliant piece of East Coast proto-punk ...
Modern Romancer: Jonathan Richman
Report by Bill Black, Sounds, 6 July 1985
Richman, you’re a Baby! Bill Black takes a rare opportunity to explore the eccentric psychology of a modern lover. ...
Modern Lovers: Modern Lovers Live
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, April 1978
AS A RESULT of a fairly ridiculous chain of events, the ‘Home of the Hits’ has relocated (at least for the time being) from Berkeley, ...
Report and Interview by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 December 1995
BAY AREA cult favorite Jonathan Richman is close to signing a recording deal with Vapor Records, the new label run by Neil Young and his ...
Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers: Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers
Review by Gene Sculatti, Crawdaddy!, October 1976
WHAT WE HAVE here, as every pop observer knows, is a four-piece band led by a highly eccentric singer-songwriter full of inspiration and highly visible ...
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers: Rock 'n' roll with The Modern Lovers (Beserkley)
Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 13 August 1977
A FRIEND of mine who has seen The Modern Lovers reckons they're the best band he's seen in about ten years, since The Who in ...
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