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.
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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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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?' ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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." ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mountain: How the West won 'em over
Profile and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 29 May 1971
Mountain have Leslie West, the best guitarist in the world. Now he's attracting the attention of the other best guitarists in the world... ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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' ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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." ...
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. ...
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. ...
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... ...
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 ...
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 ...
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 10 July 1969
DAVID BOWIE – AMAZING SOUND! ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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!' ...
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 ...
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 ...
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! ...
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 ...
Yes: The Squire Of Notting Hill Gate
Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 15 January 1972
...talks to David Hughes ...
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? ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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, ...
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" ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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... ...
Hair: Shaftesbury Theatre, London
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 2 November 1968
The Lesson of Hair ...
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 ...
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 ...
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 30 November 1968
Marvin and Tammi: big warm glow! ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Mothers of Invention: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 2 November 1968
Mothers Superior ...
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 Faces: The Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 8 May 1971
They're fantastic! ...
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! ...
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. ...
The Rolling Stones: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 20 March 1971
MICK'S SO CHIC.. ...
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 ...
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. ...
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 8 April 1967
Sam and Dave plus a Stax of soul! ...
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 ...
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... ...
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... ...
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: 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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Percy Sledge: The Incredible Hit Story of Percy Sledge
Profile and Interview by Derek Taylor, Disc and Music Echo, 28 May 1966
Hollywood, Tuesday ...
Patti LaBelle, The Supremes: Supreme CINDY-ella!
Profile by Nancy Lewis, Disc and Music Echo, 23 September 1967
Reflections on the new girl in the Supremes, Cindy Birdsong, who feels so much like Cinderella... ...
The Rolling Stones: Stones Single — Your verdict
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 14 May 1966
FRIDAY THE thirteenth of May — tomorrow — will be a red-letter day for Stones fans. It's the release date of the new Stones single ...
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 18 November 1967
'Sunday Morning'; 'I'm Waiting For The Man'; 'Femme Fatale'; 'Venus In Furs'; 'Run, Run, Run'; 'All Tomorrow's Parties'; 'Heroin'; 'There She Goes Again'; 'I'll Be ...
The Walker Brothers: Walker Brothers: Does John Maus miss the cream?
Report and Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 23 July 1966
THIS WEEK, into Disc and Music Echo's offices, appeared the following tome: "We have all had enough of Scott Engel. Even Gary gets more attention ...
Dusty Springfield: Where Am I Going? (Philips 33s. 6d.)
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 18 November 1967
Dusty: so worth the wait ...
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 1 April 1967
Blast-off for THE big four is this Friday — Here's Disc's curtain-raiser by the stars themselves ...
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 19 November 1966
CAN YOU TELL CREAM FROM BUTTERFIELD? ...
The Who: The Who Sell Out (Track)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 13 January 1968
'Armenia City In The Sky'; 'Heinz Baked Beans'; 'Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand'; 'Odorono'; 'Tattoo'; 'Our Love Was'; 'I Can See For Miles'; 'Can't ...
Gladys Knight and the Pips: Gladys Knight: How It Took Miss Knight 14 Years To Get A Hit
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 9 December 1967
GLADYS KNIGHT And The Pips have been together for 14 years — a fact made all the more unbelievable when you consider that Gladys herself ...
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 30 June 1967
HENDRIX: impact of a 50-megaton H-BOMB! ...
The Doors: Strange Days (Elektra)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 13 January 1968
Title Track; 'You're Lost Little Girl'; 'Love Me Two Times'; 'Unhappy Girl'; 'Horse Latitudes'; 'Moonlight Drive'; 'People Are Strange'; 'My Eyes Have Seen You'; 'I ...
The Troggs: OOPS! A TROGG named PRESLEY! And his relations were furious.
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 28 May 1966
HAVE YOU ever come to wonder about Reg Trogg's surname being Presley? It's very strange really. ...
The Deviants, Pink Floyd, Soft Machine: U.F.O. — in front of what's happening!
Report by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 24 June 1967
AS FAR as London is concerned, the hippies' paradise known as U.F.O. — stands for unidentified flying object, the non-own-up official term for flying saucers ...
Simon & Garfunkel: Simon and Garfunkel: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 25 March 1967
AFTER WATCHING Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel and one guitar hold a packed London Albert Hall audience — probably six to seven thousand people — in ...
The Beach Boys: Beach Boy In Town... Cool, So Cool
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 28 May 1966
BRUCE JOHNSTON is 23 and has sandy hair and wears bright custard shirts. He used to be a record producer for CBS in America and ...
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 25 March 1967
Stax sensation ...
Paul Jones: How I went on Juke Box Jury — and LIVED!
Report by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 23 July 1966
Disc and Music Echo singles reviewer whose Jury appearance this week was recorded last Saturday. ...
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 25 March 1967
THE BYRDS are an exciting, progressive group whose records get better and better and, on the strength of their new album Younger Than Yesterday can ...
Procol Harum: Procol: "It's nice to think they're copying us..."
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 30 September 1967
'A WHITER Shade Of Pale' has sold four million copies. A fact which would have most jolly groups leaping about in joy, but which Procol ...
Report by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 6 January 1968
CAUTION: ELECTRICITY can be hazardous to health — but Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band are as Safe As Milk. And London is due for ...
Jimi Hendrix: For Jimi Hendrix, colour means his shade of music...
Interview by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 22 April 1967
SCOPE — a series in which stars discuss their pet subjects ...
The Troggs: Troggs: Why The Nasty Knocking?
Comment by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 27 August 1966
I WOULD like to defend The Troggs. ...
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band: Safe As Milk (Pye)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 13 January 1968
COMBINE A subtle, blues-based group, magic, snarling savage vocals, ridiculously good songs, electricity and perfect held-back recording and what do you get? Right — Captain ...
The Small Faces: We excite ourselves say Small Faces!
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 20 January 1968
ONCE KNOCKED for being merely a bunch of mini noise-makers with spots and gravelly voices who were not exactly listed among people you would most ...
Mike D'Abo, Manfred Mann: Miked D'Abo: D'Abo Digs Dollies!
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 17 September 1966
MIKE D'ABO turned up ten minutes late, full of apologies but his cats Alfie and Dolly had been ill. ...
The Band, Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan & the Hawks: Adelphi Cinema, Dublin
Live Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 14 May 1966
THE LEAN and wiry Bob Dylan, hair longer and more unruly than ever, left behind 2,500 frustrated fans after the opening date of his 13-concert ...
Film/DVD/TV Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 23 April 1966
…and wasn't Dusty a gas on RSG? ...
Live Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 4 February 1967
Ball at the Albert Hall ...
Madeline Bell, Dusty Springfield: Madeline Bell: Demon Phone Calls Drive Dusty Crazy
Interview by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 18 March 1967
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD and flatmate Madeline Bell are, unhappily, on the move again. ...
Live Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 8 October 1966
They're Off! Walkers, Troggs, Dave Dee ...
The Supremes: How the SUPREMES stopped worrying and started happening...
Interview by Nancy Lewis, Disc and Music Echo, 1 July 1967
NANCY LEWIS, DISC girl in New York, talking to Tamla's top trio! EXCLUSIVE! ...
Cilla Black: Cilla Sings a Rainbow (Parlophone)
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 23 April 1966
CILLA: A SUPER NEW LP ...
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 November 1966
FOR ALL discotheque darlings and soul brothers and sisters Atlantic in Britain have re-released a bumper crop of albums. ...
Live Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 22 April 1967
BO and BEN: the rock-soul truce men! ...
The Rolling Stones: Rolling Stones: Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out (Dacca) ****
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 September 1970
Stones give new vitality to some old numbers ...
Live Review by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 4 November 1967
TREMELOES IN top form; Pete Townshend having another "smashing" time; Herd's Peter Frampton a solo smash; still screams for Traffic's Stevie; impressive debut for the ...
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Middle Earth, London
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 27 January 1968
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART BLOWS WILD! ...
The Supremes: Copacabana, New York NY
Live Review by Nancy Lewis, Disc and Music Echo, 27 May 1967
Major triumph for Supremes! ...
The Rolling Stones: The fearful treatment and unfair torture of the Rolling Stones
Comment by Derek Taylor, Disc and Music Echo, 15 July 1967
Our man in America Derek Taylor, Hollywood, Tuesday ...
Love: 'Alone Again Or' (Elektra)
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 20 January 1968
CERTAINLY THE best of the West Coast groups, I have always loved Love's ability to combine progress with strong melody and a certain indefinable something. ...
Big Brother & the Holding Company: Cheap Thrills (CBS)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 October 1968
BIG BROTHER: FRESH MAGIC, CAPTURED LIVE! ...
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 14 May 1966
Sandie's improved — this is a big hit ...
Jimi Hendrix, Garnet Mimms: Jimi Hendrix Experience, Garnet Mimms: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 13 May 1967
Hendrix turns on the heat ...
Report by Vicki Wickham, uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 19 November 1966
Ready, Steady Go! Editor Vicki Wickham reviews highlights of the TV aeries that ends on December 23 ...
The Monkees: The Monkees (RCA)
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 21 January 1967
CATCHEE MONKEES — on their first great LP ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: Anthem of the Sun (Warner Bros.)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 October 1968
EVERYONE'S BEEN talking for so long about the GRATEFUL DEAD and at last, having heard Anthem Of The Sun (Warner Bros.) we know why — ...
The Peddlers, Lou Rawls: Lou Rawls, the Peddlers: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 25 May 1968
Lou Rawls — staggered ...
Sly & the Family Stone: Sly and the Family Stone: Dance to the Music (Direction)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 October 1968
SLY AMD FAMILY — THE NEW LEADERS ...
Rod Stewart: Gasoline Alley (Vertigo) ***
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 September 1970
ROD GOES SOLO — BUT NOT ALONE! ...
Sly & the Family Stone: Sly and Family Stone... in a crazy world of their own!
Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 3 August 1968
THEY BLEND PSYCHEDELIA WITH RHYTHM AND BLUES ...
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 28 May 1966
Subdued Animals — smash hit! ...
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 October 1968
Byrds switch to country music... and it's great ...
Jeff Beck, Cream: Cream, Jeff Beck: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 8 July 1967
Cream — just beautiful! ...
The Beatles, George Harrison: Beatle Wife Pattie Sets Up Shop...
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 3 August 1968
PATTIE BOYD, a regular customer of the Chelsea Antique Market, changed sides of the counter last week when she opened her own stall there. ...
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Quicksilver Messenger Service (Capitol)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 October 1968
YUMMY YUMMY: Quicksilver Messenger Service, yet another highly respected San Francisco group, are really too much. We've heard their name ever since the very beginning ...
Traffic: You Can All Join In (Island)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 October 1968
Traffic cannot be faulted ...
The Mothers of Invention: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 30 September 1967
MOTHERS of INVENTION: best rock sound since Beatles! ...
Otis Redding: Otis in England: a big, dynamic voice
Interview by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 17 September 1966
"BRITISH AUDIENCES," Otis Redding said after his debut in this country at Colston Hall, Bristol, "are the greatest." He went on, "But they didn't hear ...
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 3 August 1968
Such a NICE day in the park ...
Ravi Shankar: Ravi Shankar at the Monterey International Pop Festival (Columbia)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 October 1968
RAVI SHANKAR at the Monterey International Pop Festival is a stone groove! The whole audience, who sat under glaring sun for three whole days last ...
Jimi Hendrix: "Nice To Win — But We've Not Begun!"
Interview by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 17 February 1968
FOR A GUY to whom his music is more important than anything, you'd think being voted the World's Top Musician by Disc readers would make ...
Obituary by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 11 February 1967
JOE MEEK, man behind the mammoth-selling 'Telstar' and many other hits, who was found dead with shotgun wounds in his Holloway, London, flat on Friday, ...
Dusty Springfield: Searching so hard to find herself...
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 9 September 1967
Close up on a pop giant... by Penny Valentine ...
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 12 November 1966
WHO PLUS BATMAN: A MINI BONANZA! ...
Tomorrow, Keith West: Tomorrow: the pop revolution
Interview by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 9 September 1967
"FIRST it was Tomorrow, then it was Tomorrow with Keith West, then it was Keith West and Tomorrow, then Keith West and now it's just ...
Live Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 19 November 1966
The 'Reach Out, I'll Be There' boys hit town and cause a sensation among the stars and fans at their concert ...
Johnny Rivers: This Johnny is a cool customer
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 18 February 1967
JOHNNY RIVERS is the sort or name they've been throwing around with abandon in the hippie homes USA-style for some time now. ...
Obituary by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 9 March 1968
FRANKIE LYMON, described by one national newspaper as "a 26-year-old American Rock'n'Roll singer," died last week in New York. ...
The Herd: Hey, have YOU heard the HERD? The Herd: Brough Assembly Hall, Aylesbury
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 1 June 1968
What progress is being made by the group voted Brightest Hope of '68 in Disc's Poll? Hugh Nolan reports ...
Status Quo: Pictures of Matchstick Men (Pye)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 October 1968
Status Quo — the hard work shows ...
The Supremes: Supremes smash phone records!
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 15 October 1966
NO MATTER where they happen to be — Japan or Germany, Australia or Andalusia — a phone call is put in to Mrs. Ross, of ...
Live Review by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 1 June 1968
HOLLIES tour — puts life into live shows ...
The Byrds: How to set a Byrd on fire!
Report by Derek Taylor, Disc and Music Echo, 18 February 1967
Hollywood, Tuesday ...
Spencer Davis Group: The Spencer Davis Group: Autumn 66 (Fontana)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 1 October 1966
YEAH! SPENCER'S GREATEST ALBUM ...
The Byrds: Fifth Dimension (CBS)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 1 October 1966
WHERE HAVE ALL THE YOUNG BYRDS GONE? ...
Column by John Mendelssohn, Disc and Music Echo, 18 March 1972
PLEASE ALLOW me to introduce myself: ...
The Last Poets: This Is Madness (Douglas SDGL 69102, £2.49)
Review by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 15 January 1972
THIS ALBUM has had tremendous success in America over the last year and practically become the testament of the Black American. It's not hard to ...
Joe South: Eligible Joe just loves his guitar!
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 31 May 1969
JOE SOUTH is one of America's most eligible bachelors. He's 25, wealthy, handsome, suntanned and talks in a deep Southern drawl that seems to come ...
Emerson Lake & Palmer: 'ELP is on the way
Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 6 June 1970
IN THIS age of musical complexity, of musicians caring and playing more for themselves and their personal satisfaction than for their hard-working, hard-paying audiences, 'ELP ...
Retrospective and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 6 February 1971
Chris Hillman looks back on the Byrds and talks about his 'Brothers' ...
Profile by Derek Taylor, Disc and Music Echo, 23 July 1966
DEREK TAYLOR reporting: Hollywood, Tuesday ...
Roxy Music — one year later...
Profile and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 4 March 1972
ROXY MUSIC must be the only group around who took the trouble of rehearsing for a whole year before doing a concert. And although for ...
The Rolling Stones: 'Jumping Jack Flash' (Decca)
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 25 May 1968
Yes! Yes! Stones flash back with a No.1 ...
Deep Purple: Machine Head (Purple Records, TPSA 7504, £2.40)
Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 1 April 1972
Just a flash of inspired Purple ...
Dusty Springfield: Talk Of The Town, London
Live Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 13 May 1967
DUSTY A WOW IN CABARET ...
Mason Williams: Sharepickers (Warner Brothers K46120, £2.29)
Review by David Hancock, Disc and Music Echo, 15 January 1972
IT SEEMS Mason (the 'Classical Gas' man for those with short memories) has stopped throwing typewriters out of Greyhound buses and other 'pop-art' pursuits and ...
Hotlegs, The Moody Blues: Hotlegs are on the rood again... at last!
Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 4 December 1971
IF YOU were among the lucky audiences on the recent Moody Blues tour you can't fail to have been impressed by the surprise live debut ...
The Pioneers: A high-class comeback for the Pioneers of reggae
Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 28 August 1971
'LET YOUR Yeah Be Yeah' marks the return of the Pioneers to the chart after a two-year absence. It was in 1969 they came into ...
The Beatles, The Kinks: The Beatles: Revolver (Parlophone)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 30 July 1966
RAY DAVIES reviews the BEATLES LP: 'Really, it's a load of RUBBISH' ...
Pamela Motown — a home-grown hit-maker
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 28 August 1971
PAMELA SAWYER is one of Motown's most successful songwriters. And as such is unique. She's the only English staff writer the company has. ...
Loudon Wainwright III: He's shy, he's unfit for army service and his name is L Wainwright III
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc and Music Echo, 15 May 1971
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT is the archetype all-American boy. He looks like Trampas from The Virginian complete with fair fair and freckles. He even played baseball when ...
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 29 October 1966
BEACH BOYS' new single — and it's a work of art 'Good Vibrations': What can you say about a work of art other than stating ...
Emitt Rhodes: The long and winding Rhodes
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 4 December 1971
Hailed as a "one man Beatles" EMITT RHODES talks about his musical influences to Andrew Tyler ...
David Bowie: Big Week For Bowie: A new star shoots upwawrds
Report and Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, February 1970
DAVID BOWIE has had a good week. ...
Paul Butterfield Blues Band: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band: East-West (Elektra)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 29 October 1966
FOR TOO long the Paul Butterfield Blues Band has been buried in deepest Chicago, its unique brand of tough, modern — but from the roots ...
Isaac Hayes: Black Moses (Stax Super 2628 004, £4.50) ****
Review by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 15 January 1972
The real test for Hayes ...
Overview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 20 March 1971
There's a new pop elite in America today, a closely-knit group of singers and musicians who have taken the music scene by storm. The members ...
Quintessence — sincere, or a fraud?
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 29 May 1971
SHIVA IS a Christian Hindu who lives in Notting Hill Gate downstairs from his Guru. He is 22, born in Australia and arrived here two ...
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 24 December 1966
CREAM HAVE everything in their favour. A fever of interest from everyone to see what they can do and how they'll achieve it, three of ...
The Cowsills, Grateful Dead: But is Britain ready for the Grateful Dead?
Profile by Judith Sims, Disc and Music Echo, 9 December 1967
By JUDY SIMS, Disc's new Hollywood reporter ...
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 15 July 1967
THE CREAM are all things bright and beautiful. They have suddenly arisen from the depths of a mediocre music scene, like a splendid awakening Kraken. ...
Report by Derek Taylor, Disc and Music Echo, 19 August 1967
DEREK TAYLOR reporting on George Harrison's American visit. GEORGE talks of the "magic of his beads". ...
Amen Corner: David Hughes reporting from... Amen Corner, where seven stars are poster crazy!
Report and Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 10 February 1968
Andy Fairweather-Low takes us on a tour of a hit group's house ...
Pink Floyd: Freak out comes to town
Profile and Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 22 July 1967
MUCH HAS been written, and even more said, of the whys and wherefores of the Pink Floyd. ...
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 10 December 1966
WHO AND THE HAPPY WORLD OF PETE TOWNSHEND 'Happy Jack' (Reaction) — Happy Who, happy us, happy world of Pete Townshend! ...
Report by Derek Taylor, Disc and Music Echo, 22 April 1967
DEREK TAYLOR reporting from Hollywood on a meeting of the giants ...
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 6 August 1966
THIS IS THE BEST BEATLE SONG EVER! ...
The Doors: The Doors (Elektra)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 22 April 1967
IT'S ALWAYS interesting to see what they're up to on America's wild West Coast and the Doors are a well-talked-of group from over there. Unfortunately ...
The Beatles: The Beatles (Parlophone)
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 9 November 1968
73 bob is the cost of the Beatles' LP. Pay up and smile THE BEATLES GETS AWAY FROM SERGEANT PEPPER ...
The Beatles: Brian Epstein: In Memoriam
Memoir by Derek Taylor, Disc and Music Echo, 9 September 1967
Derek Taylor — Disc Hollywood writer, was Beatles press officer before leaving for America to work with the Beach Boys, Byrds and other top groups. ...
Canned Heat: Get set to boogie with Canned Heat
Interview by Judith Sims, Disc and Music Echo, 24 August 1968
JUDY SIMS in Los Angeles interviews the new British chartbusters ...
David Bowie: David Bowie (Deram)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 10 June 1967
Hear David Bowie — he's something new ...
The Mothers Of Invention: Mothers of Invention: Freak Out! (Verve)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 19 November 1966
FREAK OUT! by the fearsome-looking MOTHERS OF INVENTION hasn't been released over here yet, and if it is a lot of people are going to ...
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 29 July 1967
Soulful ARETHA turns on the heat ...
Joe Cocker: Joe gets by, with a little help from fags
Report by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 9 November 1968
Day in the life of Joe Cocker by CAROLINE BOUCHER ...
Chris Farlowe, Mick Jagger: Chris Farlowe: The Art of Chris Farlowe (Immediate)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 19 November 1966
CHRIS FARLOWE has come a long, long way in a short time. His voice has improved and his interpretations become more imaginative and more skilled ...
The Move: Move (Regal Zonophone)
Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 16 March 1968
Out now — their first fantastic album! ...
Report by Derek Taylor, Disc and Music Echo, 6 May 1967
DEREK TAYLOR reporting from Hollywood as the Big Tour hits Britain ...
Canned Heat: Future Blues (Liberty)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 26 September 1970
Heat are as good as ever — but there's a note of sadness ...
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