Kevin Coyne
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Review by Bruce Malamut, Crawdaddy!, October 1975
Young and Coyne En Route to Martyrdom ...
Kevin Coyne: Matching girth & vision!
Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 15 April 1978
In both cases, the operative term is "broad". At a time when the unique worldviews of Elvis Costello and Ian Dury have become chartbound sounds, ...
Obituary by Alan Clayson, The Guardian, 6 December 2004
KEVIN COYNE was a singer-songwriter respected by his contemporaries but lacking their chart success. Nevertheless, largely through Radio One presenter John Peel's championing, he built ...
Kevin Coyne: New London Theatre, London
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 17 April 1976
KC's Sunshine band ...
Retrospective and Interview by Gavin Martin, Uncut, November 2003
IN THE EARLY '70s, Derby-born bluesman Kevin Coyne's unflinching portraits of mental despair and emotional turmoil helped pave the way for punk. His songs were ...
Kevin Coyne: Babble, Oval House, London
Live Review by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 24 August 1979
HAVING ALREADY seen Babble banned from one London theatre as the result of a sensationalist and grossly misrepresentative newspaper story, Kevin Coyne found it necessary ...
Kevin Coyne: Trans-Derby Express
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 14 April 1979
Being An Inter-City Heart-To-Heart featuring KEVIN COYNE. Engaged Comment: Giovanni Dadomo, Slightly Surreal Robot Reporter. PS: The food was lousy! ...
From a Crushed Dandelion to a Rampant Virgin — K. Coyne Esq.
Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, October 1973
RIGHT, NOW you've got a sensational headline, now bloody read the words. No, much more important, get off your arses and buy the record, because ...
Kevin Coyne: In Living Black And White (Virgin) *****
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 22 January 1977
TELLING THE world about Kevin Coyne is a bit like smashing your head against a brick wall at times. ...
Kevin Coyne: Music Of A Different Coyne
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 3 February 1979
And my message to the people Is don't tie me to the steeple Don't put me with the stocks and in your market square. ...
Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, April 2001
KEVIN COYNE has been balancing on the border of sanity for more than 30 years now. Adolescent jobs as a psychiatric nurse, arts therapist and ...
Review by Ted Drozdowski, The Boston Phoenix, 23 August 1999
BRITISH SINGER-SONGWRITER Kevin Coyne is a strange one. As influenced by the rough-and-tumble sounds of Mississippi blues as by his job as a counselor to ...
Kevin Coyne: I Want My Crown - The Anthology 1973–1980
Review by Jim Irvin, MOJO, January 2010
Four–disc appreciation of British singer–songwriterhood's best kept secret. ...
Kevin Coyne: Beautiful Extremes 1974-1977
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 25 February 1978
KEVIN COYNE is, make no mistake, a major artist. His 'product' might not 'ship' a million 'units' but in every other way he's the superior ...
Kevin Coyne: Bursting Bubbles (Virgin)
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 5 April 1980
WHATEVER ELSE it might be, Kevin Coyne's universe is not a comfortable one. ...
Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 21 January 1978
'If I played my cards right, I'd be a gift to the media chat shows, the lot' ...
Kevin Coyne: Coyne, The Unfrozen Currency
Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 27 March 1976
KEVIN COYNE kicks and stamps his feet outside the Atlantic Hotel in Aarhus, Western Denmark, as we waits for a taxi to take us to ...
Kevin Coyne: New Theatre, London
Live Review by Miles, New Musical Express, 1 May 1976
WITHOUT DOUBT ONE of the most powerful presentations I've ever attended. When it was over Kevin was drained, his band was drained, the audience was ...
Review by John Tobler, New Musical Express, 24 April 1976
THIS IS KEVIN COYNE'S seventh album in as many years, and I find it the most satisfying record he's made since the second (and final) ...
Kevin Coyne: Exile on Hauptstrasse
Profile and Interview by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 19 January 2001
IN 1985, KEVIN COYNE walked out of his Clapham flat, saying goodbye to his wife and two children, on his way to a short tour ...
Kevin Coyne: Matching Head And Feet
Review by John Tobler, ZigZag, November 1975
READERS WHO have survived from the Golden Age of ZigZag will probably know that I'm a bit partial to the outpourings of Mr Coyne. However, ...
Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, July 1971
"WHEN I WAS very young, a fat-arsed bingo club manager said: 'You're going to the top, right to the top, and I am going to ...
Kevin Coyne: New London Theatre, Drury Lane
Live Review by Miles, New Musical Express, 1973
Without doubt one of the most powerful presentations Ive ever attended. When it was over Kevin was drained, his band was drained, the audience was ...
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