Rachel Sweet
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Various Artists: The Akron Compilation (Stiff); Short Circuit — Live at the Electric Circus (Virgin)
Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, 24 June 1978
OH JESUS! After Devo, the (marketing) deluge. ...
Interview by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 23 September 1978
THAT AKRON ALBUM took its listeners by surprise. Simultaneously old, new and current, it was fashioned – like any good adventure playground – from whatever ...
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 14 October 1978
AKRON'S BRIGHTEST star smiles knowingly and proves that everyone else has it all wrong, because nope, you don't have to exhibit an air of disdain ...
Stiff Records: Be A Killer Or Be A Real Stiff…
Report by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 28 October 1978
W. C. FIELDS would have hated the "Be Stiff" tour. A sixteen year child star who toured with Mickey Rooney? A performing punk dwarf called ...
Stiff Tour Invades Colonies: Records Break, Eric Stays Up Past Bedtime
Report and Interview by Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, April 1979
Probing reporter Dave Schulps sees the show, talks to the Records' Will Birch, and delves into the acidic past of Wreckless Eric. ...
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 14 April 1979
★ America's answer to Lena Zavaroni! ★ The Seventies' Brenda Lee! ★ Stiff's 'alternative' to Little Jimmy Osmond! ★ A brat ★ Five foot nothing ...
Rachel Sweet: What Rachel Did Next
Report and Interview by Penny Valentine, Melody Maker, 14 April 1979
Rachel Sweet may follow Tanya Tucker's career with particular interest, but she really wants to be Bruce Springsteen. PENNY VALENTINE followed her on a tour ...
Rachel Sweet: Sixteen and Nobody's Fool
Profile and Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 23 August 1979
AKRON, OHIO ...
Interview by Penny Valentine, Creem, October 1979
IN HER TIGHT jeans and t-shirt her body looks like a 12-year-old's. Her face and her manner tell another story. Make-up across her broad cheekbones, ...
Rachel Sweet: Dingwalls, London
Live Review by David Hepworth, Sounds, 8 December 1979
THE RECENT transfiguration of Rachel Sweet into hard punchin' rock and roll chicklet series two may be causing the continent of her birth to curl ...
Various Artists: The Big Stiff Box Set
Review by Stuart Maconie, The Word, December 2007
THE '70S BEGAN and ended in turmoil, with strikes, crises, terrorism, class war and new political orthodoxies on the march. ...
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