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Marty Wilde

Marty Wilde

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Shakespeare Swotting — that's For Me Says Marty Wilde

Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 29 April 1961

PETER JONES REPORTS ...

Billy Fury, The Tornados, Joe Brown et al: ABC Cinema, Croydon

Live Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 12 October 1963

WHEN LARRY Parnes puts out a touring show, he puts out a big 'un. He slams in plenty of acts, plenty of variety, plenty of ...

The Rolling Stones, Marty Wilde, The Ronettes: No Guitar But Will Travel

Report by Keith Altham, Fabulous, 4 April 1964

— says Fab's Keith on the road with The Rolling Stones... for kicks and pix... ...

Should A Pop Star Marry?

Report by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 16 May 1964

Norman Jopling and Peter Jones take a look at the pros and cons of pop star marriages ...

Larry Parnes: The past master in idol speculation

Obituary by David Toop, The Times, 7 August 1989

David Toop on how Larry Parnes, who died last week, invented the British pop music star as a result of a meeting in a coffee ...

The Blackheath Jungle

Interview by Jon Savage, MOJO, February 1995

MARTY WILDE WAS, ALONG WITH CLIFF, BRITAIN'S BIGGEST ROCK star from 1958 through 1960: there was even a girl's comic named after him. Born Reginald ...

Marty Wilde

Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001

b. Reginald Leonard Smith, 15 April 1936, Blackheath, London, England ...

Marty Wilde and the Wilde Cats: Epsom Playhouse

Live Review by Keith Altham, Rock's Backpages, March 2017

AN AVALANCHE of white hair and bald heads enthusiastically greeted the burly, bewigged figure of the genial Marty Wilde when he lumbered on stage at ...

see also Kim Wilde

see also Ricky Wilde

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