Steve Winwood
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Steve Winwood: 'I'm Gonna Do an Album a Week!'
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 17 May 1973
IT'S BEEN MANY a long year since Steve Winwood has made impact as an individual on the English rock scene. ...
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Interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages audio, February 1997
Winwood talks about the early days in Birmingham, from his childhood through to the start of the Spencer Davis Group, and thence to the stop-start life of Traffic, plus an overview of where he's at now
File format: mp3; file size: 114.7mb, interview length: 1h 59' 29"; sound quality: ****
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Steve Winwood: Pier 84, New York NY
Live Review by Jeff Tamarkin, Billboard, 18 October 1986
BEFORE LAUNCHING this tour in late August, Steve Winwood had long been absent from the concert circuit. And, seemingly, from his point of view those ...
Retrospective and Interview by Jonathan Morrish, Trouser Press, January 1978
By Way of Introduction ...
Steve Winwood Keeps On Running
Interview by Jim Farber, Creem, April 1981
The Diver Comes Up For Air ...
Steve Winwood: Pier 84, New York NY
Live Review by Jeff Tamarkin, Billboard, 18 October 1986
BEFORE LAUNCHING this tour in late August, Steve Winwood had long been absent from the concert circuit. And, seemingly, from his point of view those ...
Live Review by John L. Walters, The Guardian, 23 May 2008
A QUIET LEGEND before he was even out of his teens, Steve Winwood is one of a handful of musicians who shaped the way rock ...
Chris Blackwell: A Man of Wealth & Taste
Profile and Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 18 February 1999
For forty years, CHRIS BLACKWELL has survived on killer instincts, killer bud and tough business tactics. Along the way, he's changed the course of pop ...
Player of the Month: Stevie Winwood
Interview by Kevin Swift, Beat Instrumental, February 1966
THERE COULDN'T possibly be a bloke who is more "in" than our Player Of The Month. Stevie Winwood has been called a prodigy, the English ...
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, March 2008
THE TITLE OF Steve Winwood's new album is Nine Lives – which refers to the number of songs the disc contains, but could just as ...
Steve Winwood: Revolutions – The Very Best of Steve Winwood
Review by Stevie Chick, bbc.co.uk, 7 June 2010
Career retrospective for enduring R&B legend, available as no-filler disc or four-CD set. ...
10 Questions for Steve Winwood
Interview by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, April 2004
The blue-eyed soul voice behind the Spencer Davis Group and Traffic on jamming with Jimi Hendrix, the madness of Viv Stanshall and the problems of ...
Steve Winwood says — Groups must play much much softer
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 4 January 1969
"FREAKING OUT with volume is over. Everybody seemed to think volume was the revolution of the music. That's okay theatrically, but not musically." ...
Spencer Davis Group: Winwood 66
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 17 September 1966
Frustrated or happy? Both, reveals Chris Welch ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, June 2008
Have (Blind) Faith! A '60s-style Stevie is back! ...
Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Musician, June 1985
Pop Royalty's First-Call Bassist Is Into More Than Keeping Time. ...
The Lord-Alge Brothers — The First Family of Engineering
Interview by Tony Scherman, Musician, March 1988
The three stooges of the studio get the last laugh. ...
Eric Clapton: The Return of God
Profile and Interview by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, September 2008
To the faithful, Eric Clapton's guitar playing has always been sacred. But in 2008, from a Blind Faith reunion to a host of blazing session ...
A Bird's Eye View of Stevie Winwood
Interview by Dawn James, Rave, January 1967
When a bird like RAVE's Dawn James takes a close look at Stevie Winwood through the magnifying glass of a personal interview, she is surprised. ...
Empire of the Sun: Island at 50
Retrospective and Interview by Tom Doyle, Q, June 2009
The grand scheme of a gambler with a taste for chicken blood, Jamaican label Island Records introduced Bob Marley and U2 to the world. On ...
Steve Winwood: Maida Vale Studios, London
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, September 2010
Musicianship gets in the way of music as BBC studio with a great face for radio hosts revered veteran. ...
Traffic: Stevie Winwood, A Calm, Shy Superfreak
Report and Interview by Al Kooper, Rolling Stone, 27 April 1968
IT WAS LATE 1965 and Mike Bloomfield was with Butterfield and I was with the Project. We were sitting in my apartment listening to a ...
Live Review by Keith Altham, Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 13 May 1967
POLL SHOW THRILLS ALL THE WAY ...
Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 16 June 1977
LONDON — AFTER an extended period of getting together whatever one gets together in the English countryside, Stevie Winwood, 29, has emerged with his first ...
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 4 March 1967
MM EXCLUSIVE: CHRIS WELCH probes the Great Break Up and finds the Spencer Davis-Stevie Winwood split inevitable ...
Stevie Winwood: 'I'm Gonna Do An Album A Week!'
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 17 May 1973
IT'S BEEN many a long year since Stevie Winwood has made impact as an individual on the English rock scene. ...
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 20 June 2003
HIS FIRST ALBUM in six years finds Steve Winwood striking out in the direction of Latin America, using a core unit of jazz guitarist Jose ...
Steve Winwood: Winwood (U.A. Import).
Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 6 January 1973
WHAT A strange world it is. A couple of years ago this same double set was released in America, and swiftly withdrawn following objections ...
The Eye That Sees Aright: Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood, Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Richard English, Rock's Backpages, May 2010
IT'S RARE THAT ONE mixes Aristotle with rock, but it was impossible to ignore a giant eye rolling on the back projection screen during 'Voodoo ...
Comment by Steven R Rosen, One Shot, Winter 1987
CATCHING PERFORMERS on the oldies circuit can be sad. ...
Yamashta, Winwood, Shrieve: Go (Island)
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 26 June 1976
THE THEORY of it could be a blueprint for the grossmost excess of pretentious rock – a fusion of cultures through music yet, Japanese, German, ...
The Steve Winwood Autodiscography
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, May 1981
Steve Winwood's work defies pigeonholing; his distinctive "blue-eyed soul" vocals grace an impressive blend of rock, soul, jazz and folk. He's responsible for a wealth ...
Stevie Winwood: Sixties Soul Survivor
Profile by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 8 June 1974
"STEVE'S only 25 you know. When people criticise him and say he's not as good as he used to be in the old days, they ...
Steve Winwood: Goodbye Mr Fantasy, Hello Midland Maniac
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 7 May 1977
THE SIXTIES are very much alive in Ladbroke Grove these days. Tucked away in the back of Island's Basing Street Studios, swinging London gently reverberates ...
The Spencer Davis Group: Eight Gigs A Week — The Steve Winwood Years
Review and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, June 1996
BACK IN THE EARLY '60s, in their Golden Eagle residency days, The Spencer Davis Group played the whole gamut of American R&B from John Lee ...
Profile and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Creem, July 1988
HE SEEMS QUITE MONK-LIKE – steady stare, fish-pale complexion and a faraway look that, if I'd brought a compass, I could guarantee went in the ...
Stevie Winwood: Not Just A Singer In A Rock And Roll Band
Retrospective by Ben Edmonds, Phonograph Record, April 1973
I MADE INITIAL contact with Stevie Winwood in March of 1966, a weekend rebel still in the high school clutches of suburban Boston. As was ...
Steve Winwood: Steve Winwood (Island)
Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 2 July 1977
I ONCE WAS A-CRYING BUT NOW MY LUCKS TURNED ['Lucks In']. ...
Interview by Miles, New Musical Express, 12 June 1976
MILES, our resident Grand Master of cosmic funk, unscrews the inscrutable and accompanies STEVIE WINWOOD and STOMU YAMASHTA into the infinite as they discuss, rehearse ...
Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, May 1997
IT WAS NOT UNTIL 1993, 30 years after he first heard Ray Charles sing, that Steve Winwood met his lifelong idol. Winwood happened to be ...
see also Spencer Davis Group
see also Traffic
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