Disc and Music Echo
Disc and Music Echo, originally published as Disc and then Disc Weekly, was a weekly British popular music magazine, published between 1958 and 1975, in competition with Melody Maker, New Musical Express and Sounds. In 1975 it was merged into Record Mirror.
102 articles
Cilla Black: Cilla on Marriage
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 23 April 1966
'THE QUEEN HASN'T DONE TOO BADLY – BUT IT'S NOT YET FOR ME!' ...
Film/DVD/TV Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 23 April 1966
FRIDAY'S EDITION of Ready Steady Go! proved it is possible to have a good half-hour live pop show — IF the artists are good enough. ...
Cat Stevens: Cat: What A Drag It Is Being Young
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 21 January 1967
THE LYRICS IN Cat Stevens’ songs would imply that he was a simple person involved with the simple things in life. Working for a rotten ...
Manfred Mann: That Mobbing Scene Is Over
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 8 April 1967
MICHAEL D'ABO burst into song, sitting in the sun outside a London pub, and signed two autograph books proffered by two slightly embarassed fans. ...
Jonathan King: Our Man in America: They're Even Knocking Jonathan King Here!
Column by Derek Taylor, Disc and Music Echo, 8 April 1967
AS IT IS still the Beatles towards whom pop-America leans for leadership, there is profound regret here (among those who are aware of the British ...
Pink Floyd: They're all in the PINK!
Profile and Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 8 April 1967
THE PINK Floyd burst on to the London club scene in a kaleidoscope of colours some months ago. Literally, because colour, shapes and light gave ...
The Rolling Stones: Swedes Riot For The Stones While Jagger Plans A Fresh Tour Draw...
Report and Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 8 April 1967
HALFWAY through their Continental tour last week the Rolling Stones were experiencing scenes of fantastic fan fervour, riots and galloping policemen. ...
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 8 April 1967
Sam and Dave plus a Stax of soul! ...
The Beatles: Down in Deepest Beatle-land, All John Gets is Love
Report by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 5 August 1967
DOWN IN the prosperous community of St. George's. Hill, Weybridge, in Surrey, something stirred. It wasn't a bird – it was a caravan, John Lennon's ...
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 5 August 1967
SANDIE SHAW was engaged in something of a friendly battle with an Italian waiter at the Palace Hotel, Viareggio, when I finally caught up with ...
Tom Jones: The Champagne World of Tom Jones
Profile and Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 5 August 1967
'The doctor says champagne is good for the throat' ...
Jefferson Airplane: Airplane Magic Creeps Up... Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow (RCA Victor)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 30 September 1967
'My Best Friend'; '3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds'; 'D.C.B.A.25'; 'How Do You Feel'; 'Embryonic Journey'; 'Don't Slip Away'; 'Come Up The Years'; 'Chauffeur ...
Tim Rose: Meet Tim Rose, Man Who Helped To Put Jimi Hendrix On The Hit Trail
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 24 February 1968
TIM ROSE is an American in the odd position of having been responsible for two of pop's standard classics — without actually having a hit ...
Simon & Garfunkel: 'Mrs. Robinson'
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 6 July 1968
I HAVE A strange and nice feeling that this is going to be the record to break the Simon & Garfunkel chart silence in Britain. ...
Tim Hardin Talking Of Life's Raw Deal...
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 20 July 1968
THAT TIM HARDIN actually arrived in London last week to embark on his first concert tour is a history-making event in itself. ...
Jack Good: Blasting British Pop TV
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 5 October 1968
T.V. whizz-kid Jack Good flies in to make a spectacular and says: "I don't want the masses; they can go watch Coronation Street" ...
David Ackles: Meet David Ackles, The Man Who Wrote Jools' Next Hit
Interview by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 5 October 1968
WHEN THE man came to see David Ackles with a view towards making him lots of money and propelling him into a world of beautiful ...
Frank Zappa, The Mothers Of Invention: Zappa, Vegetables And Uncle Meat...
Report and Interview by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 5 October 1968
THE FOLLOWING scene is not recommended for the squeamish, children below the age of three months, soldiers, policemen, politicians or vegetable-lovers (but may be seen ...
Hair: Shaftesbury Theatre, London
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 2 November 1968
The Lesson of Hair ...
Dusty Springfield: Five Great Years of Dusty
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 2 November 1968
ON NOVEMBER 5, 1968, Dusty Springfield celebrates five years as a solo star. ...
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland (Track)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 2 November 1968
Hendrix: rock at its sublimest level ...
The Deviants: Revolution — With Guitars, Not Bullets
Interview by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 2 November 1968
FOR MICK FARREN, magnificently hairy leader of the (formerly Social) Deviants, the underground is a very definite force against the establishment, blind authority and the ...
The Mothers Of Invention: The Mothers of Invention: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 2 November 1968
Mothers Superior ...
Underground: Not So Much Pop Music More A Way Of Life
Overview by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 2 November 1968
Let's kill all barriers in music... ...
Profile and Interview by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 2 November 1968
WAY BACK in 1960 Pete Brown gave everything up to try to make a living writing poetry. Not surprisingly, it wasn't too easy — five ...
Lulu: A tiger in her £20,000 cage… Lulu at home
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 30 November 1968
ITS ALWAYS news when pop stars move into houses — so few have permanent homes of any kind because they're always on the move. ...
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 30 November 1968
Dusty: this might be that elusive smash... ...
John Lennon: Fighting The Good Fight With All Of His Might
Comment by Derek Taylor, Disc and Music Echo, 30 November 1968
THIS IS addressed to those who love Lennon, who call him John and who give thanks for his being alive, hard by, at hand, dear ...
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 30 November 1968
Marvin and Tammi: big warm glow! ...
The Who: Cattiest Group In The Business...
Interview by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 30 November 1968
IN A LARGE, mellowed house just a few yards from the River Thames in Twickenham, a rather staid suburb of London, Pete Townshend, noted composer ...
Bonzo Dog Band: Urban Spacemen DO Exist! The Mad, Mad Mad World Of The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 30 November 1968
CAROLINE BOUCHER INSIDE A DOO DAH DEN! ...
Whatever Happened To All The Christmas Hits?
Report and Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 30 November 1968
REMEMBER THAT golden oldie from the King Presley, 'Blue Christmas'? 'Twas something of a hit four years ago, and in 1968 just about sums up ...
Crosby Stills and Nash: It's A Revolution
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 7 December 1968
IN A SMALL TOP-FLOOR flat off Bayswater, London, a music revolution is taking place. ...
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 18 January 1969
BLONDE, GRITTY Christine Perfect not only bears the distinction of being lead singer of the famed Chicken Shack blues band, but is also married to ...
Jethro Tull: Why It's Wrong To Judge Jethro Tull By Looks
Report and Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 14 June 1969
HEREWITH A MESSAGE to all dubious parents who are still of the opinion that every hairy and strangely attired pop group — like the one ...
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 10 July 1969
DAVID BOWIE – AMAZING SOUND! ...
David Bowie Says Most Things The Long Way Round!
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 25 October 1969
ON HEARING a new LP called David Bowie, someone remarked: 'Well it's very nice, but do you think he's a lasting talent?' ...
Profile and Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 8 November 1969
WHEN CHRISTINE Perfect was 19 and studying to be a sculptress in Birmingham, she was roped into playing bass for a local group that didn't ...
Jethro Tull: "The Only Thing We Have In Common Is Our Music"
Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 8 November 1969
IT'S QUITE possible that John Peel — let's face it, the creator of Britain's underground scene — does not like Jethro Tull. John was praising ...
Profile and Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 15 November 1969
HER VOICE IS dry with a tinge of North Country humour in it; she's not conventionally pretty – but she is pleasant and warm and ...
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 29 November 1969
DESMOND DEKKER had a pretty nasty experience the other day when fans got hold of his scarf and nearly strangled him. He was unconscious for ...
Joni Mitchell: My Personal Life is a Shambles
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 10 January 1970
GENTLE, SHY Joni Mitchell flew into London last week with her friends, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, to do her last concert for a long, ...
Stephen Stills keeps fighting — against violence in pop music
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 28 February 1970
STEPHEN STILLS is possibly the most underrated musician and musical force of our time. But he’s no demi-god. It is one of those strange ironies ...
Profile and Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 11 April 1970
GINGER BAKER is 31 years old and you DON’T ignore him. You can’t. He has accumulated a monstrous reputation over the past 10 years that ...
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 8 August 1970
THE MC5 are a very good, very determined rock band. In the old days when people weren't too bothered about listening to them, they used ...
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 29 August 1970
AFTER A recent concert in Texas, Frank Zappa was accosted by a very smart elderly man, and three society women. "We want you to know ...
Clarence Carter: Am I A Bit Of A Fraud?
Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, October 1970
CLARENCE CARTER is beginning to think perhaps he's a bit of a fraud! So many people are rushing out to buy his first British hit ...
Elton John: The Record Rise Of A Superstar Called Reg
Essay by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 1971
IN APRIL 1970 an album was released that was to whisk Reg Dwight of Pinner into Elton John. It was, quite simply, titled Elton John, ...
James Brown: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 20 March 1971
SOUL POWER TO THE PEOPLE... AND HOW! ...
Marmalade: Marmalade May Become Even Tastier
Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 20 March 1971
HUGHIE NICHOLSON is fairly small, very handsome, likeable, unassuming, smart and – so they tell me – a more-than-adequate guitarist, singer and writer. ...
Neil Diamond: A Boy Who Outgrew His Hits
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 20 March 1971
IT TOOK a long while but the U.K. public woke up one day and discovered Neil Diamond. And with 'Sweet Caroline' providing a quick follow-up ...
The Rolling Stones: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 20 March 1971
MICK'S SO CHIC.. ...
Freda Payne: After a massive worldwide hit... Freda's looking for love!
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 17 April 1971
FREDA PAYNE looks all set to repeat her success of last year with her new record. Her ambitions, however, are in another direction... ...
Dave and Ansell Collins: Ansell Plays It Cool While Dave Searches For His Mum...!
Profile and Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 8 May 1971
DAVE BARKER is a well-built Jamaican who talks fast and enthusiastically and punctuates his sentences with finger-clicking and hearty slaps of his right thigh. Ansell ...
Long John Baldry, Elton John: Elton John: How fat Reg lost lbs, and won dollars
Profile and Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 8 May 1971
ELTON JOHN USED TO BE A FAT GUY CALLED REG WHO FELT INFERIOR. HE COULDN'T WEAR 'NICE CLOTHES'. IN GROUPS HE WASN'T ALLOWED TO SING. ...
The Faces: Faces "jam" — in a midget studio, or... A Night in the Life of Disco 2
Report by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 8 May 1971
IT'S THURSDAY at the BBC Television Centre, which means it's Disco 2 day, and there's feverish activity in a tiny studio high up in the ...
King Crimson Take To The Road!
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 8 May 1971
IT'S HARDLY surprising that King Crimson are scared stiff at the prospect of their first British gig, for it will be the first time they've ...
Ronnie Spector: Ronnie Tries It Solo
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 8 May 1971
THE SUCCESS of Motown's Supremes somewhat overshadowed most of the other girlie-groups in America back in the mid-sixties. But one trio who managed to hold ...
Shirley Bassey: Colston Hall, Bristol
Live Review by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 8 May 1971
HOW PEOPLE love Shirley Bassey! There's not another female singer in Britain, nay, probably the world who gets from her audiences so much love. ...
The Faces: The Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 8 May 1971
They're fantastic! ...
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 15 May 1971
IT'S NOT been all peaches and cream for Freda Payne since she had a worldwide hit with 'Band Of Gold'. As she says: "Until recently ...
Memoir by Derek Taylor, Disc and Music Echo, 15 May 1971
They're back! The American group who soared to success her in 1965 with 'Mr. Tambourine Man', then quickly 'disappeared'. Here Disc traces the Byrds' flight ...
Profile and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 29 May 1971
AT A SESSION last week for Bobby Keyes' album, Jim Gordon, Dave Mason, pianist Nicky Hopkins, Felix Pappalardi on bass and Leslie West on guitar ...
Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 29 May 1971
OSIBISA – the name is now on the lips of everyone just as we prophesied. The criss-cross rhythms are exploding with happiness right across the ...
The Band – Or When The Booing Ended
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 29 May 1971
NOBODY SEEMS to know much about the Band. That they're a living legend is a fact, a household name, true, but few people could enlighten ...
The Elgins: Down Tools, Folks, It's A Lucky Strike
Report and Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 29 May 1971
The dispirited Elgins quit in 1967 and took up humdrum jobs in industrial Detroit. And then it all happened... ...
Funkadelic: When The Circus Hit Town
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 5 June 1971
FUNKADELIC man George Clinton casually made the understatement of the year. There they were, the five front men of the year's most outrageous band, dressed ...
R. Dean Taylor: The Great White Hope
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 5 June 1971
In our March 13th issue we called R. Dean Taylor the great white hope. He didn't have a hit then but he has now and ...
Rick Wakeman, The Strawbs: Rick Wakeman: The Down To Earth Star
Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 5 June 1971
RICK WAKEMAN has been described as the saviour of the Strawbs, a musical genius, the great white wonder of progressive music and numerous other pretentious ...
Tami Lynn: Tami Worked Hard For Overnight Success!
Profile and Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 5 June 1971
"IT'S LIKE a Cinderella or Alice in Wonderland story. Just when you think it's all over it starts to happen." ...
Marvin Gaye: A Study of Marvin Gaye's Liberation
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 12 June 1971
MARVIN GAYE is a mystery man. Most people know him as the singer who made the biggest-selling Motown record ever – 'I Heard It Through ...
Neil Diamond: The Jekyll and Hyde of Pop
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 12 June 1971
NEIL DIAMOND is a latter day Jekyll and Hyde. The quiet, hesitant, sensitive man you meet in a plush London hotel suite is nothing like ...
Slade: When Their Hair Finally Grew
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 14 August 1971
"A YEAR AGO a lot of people back home walked on the other side of the street if they saw us coming so they didn't ...
Andy Fraser: The Tea-Boy And The Van Driver Join Andy's Group!
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 28 August 1971
ANDY FRASER is, as they say, getting things together in the country. He's got a 400 year old cottage and a three week old hand ...
The Chi-Lites Are Deep But Not Too Deep
Profile and Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 28 August 1971
WE'RE ALL familiar with the Detroit "sound." Well it seems the next big American industrial city to become famous for its music will be Chicago. ...
John Martyn: Say John Martyn… Louder
Profile and Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc and Music Echo, 1 December 1971
JOHN MARTYN's family are very proud of him. And to show that they are, they travel great distances to see him when he does big ...
Curtis Mayfield, The Impressions: Curtis Mayfield: Soul Music's Elusive Dynamo
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 4 December 1971
CURTIS MAYFIELD is a hard man to catch these days. If he's not locked away in a studio all night recording himself, the Impressions, or ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 4 December 1971
DURING THE NEXT 12 months Nicky Hopkins, the world's best-known anonymous pianist, will be the fourth German on the right no more. After years of ...
Patto's Royal Command Performances
Report and Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 25 December 1971
MIKE PATTO and his friends like to be known as the last of the raving bands – and they may well be right. Meeting them ...
Review and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 8 January 1972
THIS IS THE story of how Badfinger won the West. They didn't really have to do much in fact. They just went to America, did ...
Bloodstone: Diggin' Bloodstone
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 8 January 1972
IF THE reaction to Bloodstone's first London appearance – at the Rainbow Theatre on a recent Soul concert – is anything to go by, then ...
King Crimson: Reshuffle At The Court Of The King
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 8 January 1972
"WE'VE ALL gone through our various changes and Peter and I came out at different places." ...
Man: Violence? Man You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet!
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 8 January 1972
MAN HAD JUST finished a gig in Hamburg's notorious Top Ten Club and were ambling around town looking for action when someone stuck a two-bore ...
Sly & The Family Stone: There's A Riot Goin' On (Epic)
Review by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 8 January 1972
SYLVESTER STEWART and Sly Stone (OK so you know they're one and the same but the sleeve credits insist this album was written, arranged and ...
The Chi-Lites Step Out Of The Shadows
Profile and Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 8 January 1972
THANK heaven for the Chi-Lites. This four-man Chicago-based outfit has brought back to soul music two elements missing from it for too long – good ...
Humble Pie: The New Filling In Humble Pie
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 8 January 1972
EVERY NOW and again, America latches onto an English band in a big way. Last year it was Elton John, the Faces, and Long John ...
John McLaughlin, Mahavishnu Orchestra: John McLaughlin: Man For All Seasons
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 15 January 1972
Meet John McLaughlin the jazz giant, man of God, New York hermit and cult leader ...
Steamhammer's Fight for Survival
Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 15 January 1972
STEAMHAMMER... ah, yes, they weren't a bad blues band were they? ...
Yes: The Squire Of Notting Hill Gate
Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 15 January 1972
...talks to David Hughes ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 20 January 1972
"THE TROUBLE with English and European crowds," said Black Sabbath vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, "is that they listen to you as if you were a jukebox. ...
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 20 January 1972
IT'S ALWAYS sad when a group splits up amidst much bad feeling. It's even worse when one member leaves amidst equal bad feelings, and then ...
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 4 March 1972
CARLY SIMON has been compared to a lot of people. She admits: "I'm told I sound like Judy Collins and my style of writing is ...
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 4 March 1972
IT COMES AS something of a shock when the MC5 – long since branded as a revolutionary and rather spine-jarring band – looks deep into ...
Mungo Jerry: Ray Loses that Happy Habit
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 4 March 1972
RAY DORSET, it transpires, is a seasonal songwriter. He writes at the end of the summer and just before the spring, but at other times ...
Rick Nelson: How Ricky Became Rick
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 4 March 1972
A YEAR and a half ago and full of enthusiasm for his new band, Rick Nelson set off for Europe and a tour of American ...
Michael Jackson: The One Who Got Away
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 18 March 1972
THE MOST amazing thing about little Michael Jackson's solo success is how calmly he's taking it all. "I think it's great," is all he says ...
Manassas, Stephen Stills: Stephen Stills: Angry in Suburbia
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 18 March 1972
"HEY, THERE'S a tape recorder going. Hey, there's a tape going here," Steve Stills tosses a dice in the direction of the chatter and chuckles, ...
Ten Years After: Alvin Lee On The Hassles Of Being A Success
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 25 March 1972
ALVIN LEE is currently suffering from a surfeit of everything. He's had too much touring, too much hype, too much idolatry. Nowadays the band can't ...
Ben E. King Why Ben Stopped Drifting
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 25 March 1972
KEEPING abreast of the times, says Ben E. King, is one of the most important and difficult jobs for a singer. He's been singing and ...
Profile and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 25 March 1972
ASK GENESIS how their careers are progressing and they'll tell you they're superstars in Aylesbury and Belgium, but little known elsewhere. In fact their fame ...
Harry Nilsson: Nilsson Knees Up
Report by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 25 March 1972
THE PINNER contingent were no match for the notorious East Enders from Stepney, London, even though they did outnumber them 42 to 12. ...
Rory Gallagher: On the Road with Rory
Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 8 April 1972
Andrew Tyler found out just how hard life on the road is when he followed Rory Gallagher north on a couple of gigs. ...
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