The Evening Standard
The Evening Standard, since May 2009 named the London Evening Standard, is a local, free daily tabloid newspaper, published Monday to Friday.
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Chris Barber, Blues Incorporated, Alexis Korner, Mantovani: Mr. Korner and his weird front line...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 26 May 1962
TOGETHER, THEY MAKE THE BEST TWISTING NOISE I'VE HEARD ...
Little Richard: Well, look who's back — it's Little Richard
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 6 October 1962
BOBOBALOOMBA Abimbamboom all Rootti Tutti Frutti. With this gnomic verse about ice-cream and a shriek of masochistic ecstasy, Little Richard exploded before a wondering world ...
Sam Cooke: When you're well-read and dress like wham!
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 20 October 1962
WE HAD the wireless on throughout. Sam Cooke wore red-patterned pyjamas, a black dressing-gown and a beaten gold ring, which he wears because he doesn't ...
The Beatles: Why The Beatles Create All That Frenzy
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 2 February 1963
THE BEATLES are the darlings of Merseyside. The little girls of Merseyside are so fiercely possessive about their Beatles that they forced Granada to put ...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 27 April 1963
IT WOULDN'T be difficult to be exceedingly jealous of Brian Epstein. In fact, I should think a lot of people are — managers particularly. ...
Ray Charles, Margie Hendrix, The Raelets: I'll Stick To Ray, Says Margie Hendrix
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 18 May 1963
Why? Because Mr. Charles is nice ...
Kathy Kirby: But The Smile Does Have To Go On And On...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 7 September 1963
KATHY KIRBY is the girl in Stars and Garters who looks like Marilyn Monroe. She has the same curves and the same defenceless, little-girl curls; ...
Bo Diddley: So Ethel Mae stayed — and so did the guitar
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 12 October 1963
'THE BIGGER THE CLOWN YOU ARE, THE MORE RECOGNITION YOU GET,' SAYS BO. 'WE DO EVERYTHING EXCEPT STAND ON OUR HEADS.' ...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 January 1964
IT WAS A bad idea, perhaps, to interview them in a canteen. A great number of suet rolls and custards never got digested that day ...
Richard Anthony: Report from the land of Les Yé Yé
Profile by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 18 January 1964
PARIS, Saturday. ...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 25 January 1964
THERE WAS a time when Phil Spector would have been Beau Spector and the rage of Bath. His clothes alone would have made him famous. ...
The Rolling Stones: This Horrible Lot – Not Quite What They Seem
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 21 March 1964
"BUT WOULD YOU LIKE your daughter to marry one?" is what you ask yourself about the Rolling Stones. They've done terrible things to the musical ...
Sister Rosetta Tharpe: How Sister Rosetta gets them rolling
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 9 May 1964
THEY CALL her the Holy Roller. Sister Rosetta Tharpe is indeed a holy lady but she does roll in a way that would do credit ...
The Rolling Stones: But would you let your daughter marry one?
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 May 1964
Take A Middle-Class Value, Stand It On Its Head: You've Got A "Stone ...
The Yardbirds: Well, they've got a bearded Russian manager!
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 23 May 1964
THERE ARE five Yardbirds and they have two interesting properties. The first is a Russian manager with a beard, dark glasses and a Lancia in ...
Lulu, Millie: In this business where you're old at 20, Millie and Lulu are the Younger Fry
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 July 1964
WHILE THEIR elder sisters, Kathy Kirby, Dusty Springfield and Cilla Black sing moving songs about love and desertion, Millie and Lulu are to be found ...
The Beach Boys: Mr. Wilson hated rock — but he loved the Beach Boys
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 22 August 1964
THE NOISE the Beach Boys make is a wail with a touch of adenoid; the songs, they sing are about surfing and cars. What with ...
Burt Bacharach: The man who put neurosis into top pops
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 29 August 1964
THE INTRODUCTION of the Neurotic Ballad to British popular music is the responsibility of an American called Burt Bacharach. We first developed a taste for ...
The Beatles: Beatles For Sale (Parlophone)
Review by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 28 November 1964
BEAUTIFUL BEATLES ...
The Righteous Brothers: The strange thing about the Righteous Brothers is that they're white...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 16 January 1965
THE RIGHTEOUS Brothers are not brothers at all; nor indeed are they more than ordinarily righteous. Their names are Bobby Hatfield and Bill Medley, and ...
The Beach Boys, The Lettermen: Nobody bugs the Gutsy Greek — the sten guns see to that
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 1 May 1965
NICK VENET went into the American record industry when he was 18 years old for this reason: "I wanted," he said, "to do something devastating; ...
Solomon Burke: Cost of Solomon's Cadillac: a couple of songs and two good funerals...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 19 June 1965
THE LARGE, smiling, splendid man in the picture is called Mr. Solomon Burke. He is 25. His wife is called Dolores Othello and they have ...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 10 July 1965
GROWN-UPS, it seems, squabble just as boringly over labels, like jazz and blues, as do the younger fry over rock 'n' roll and the genuine ...
Vicki from Inkpen, Berks, may not look like a girl with power — but she's got it, lots of it
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 31 July 1965
SHE'S BACK! THE GIRL WHO REALLY KNOWS THE POP PEOPLE ...
Marc Bolan: Knit Yourself A Pop Singer — Marc and Mike Will Tell You How
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 23 October 1965
HUMILITY AMONG POP SINGERS used to be all the rage. "Mr. Presley," the interviewer would ask, "is it to luck or to talent that you ...
Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger: Bad Joke into Social Lion
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 February 1966
THE ROLLING STONES WERE PLAYING in the Station Hotel, Richmond, two-and-a-half years ago when their two prospective managers came to take a look at them. ...
The Beatles, John Lennon: How Does a Beatle Live? John Lennon
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 March 1966
ON A HILL IN SURREY... A YOUNG MAN, FAMOUS, LOADED AND WAITING FOR SOMETHING ...
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 March 1966
RINGO LIVES in Weybridge at the bottom of the hill of which John lives on top. His house, too, is large and Tudor-ish. It has ...
The Beatles, George Harrison: How A Beatle Lives Part 3: George Harrison — Avocado With Everything…
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 18 March 1966
GEORGE HARRISON is 23, the youngest Beatle and the least well-known. He isn't one of the two who sing and he isn't Ringo; indeed some ...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 25 March 1966
THE SCENE SHIFTS FROM WEYBRIDGE TO LONDON ...
The Beatles, Cilla Black: Brian Epstein: The Man Behind The Beatles And How He Lives
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 1 April 1966
Many theories developed about Brian Epstein: he was crooked, he was straight; he was a tough businessman, he was a lousy businessman; it was all ...
The Yardbirds: Simon Napier-Bell always tells the truth... especially about Simon Napier-Bell
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 13 May 1966
MAUREEN CLEAVE'S FRIDAY INTERVIEW ...
The Beatles, The Hollies: The Beatles: 'Paperback Writer'/'Rain' (Parlophone)
Review by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 June 1966
IT'S HARD to know what to say about either of these songs. One thing is certain: Ella Fitzgerald and all the gang of real singers ...
The Beatles: Revolver (Parlophone PMC 7009)
Review by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 30 July 1966
THIS COMES out next Friday. The cover shows the Beatles with huge heads of Beardsley hair and little photographs of themselves propped up on the ...
Kate Bush: Bringing It Back Home
Interview by James Johnson, The Evening Standard, 26 September 1978
THE feverish quality of the pop world barely intrudes into the calm atmosphere of the large comfortable family house on the edge of the Kent ...
Kate Bush: The Things Kate Doesn't Tell Mother
Interview by James Johnson, The Evening Standard, 5 September 1980
KATE BUSH would be less than human if she did not sometimes marvel at the attention she has received over the last three years. ...
Eastie Boys: Real Life in London's East End
Report by Paul Wellings, The Evening Standard, 24 July 1987
IT IS A HOT day in London’s East End. I’m sitting in my home of Stepney, sipping an ice-cool lager outside the infamous Blind ...
The Badder the Better: Soulboy Life in London
Report by Paul Wellings, The Evening Standard, 31 March 1988
IN LONDON TOWN, they’re funking till they’re raw. From badland clubland they’ve voted with their feet for black soul music. Pirate stations like ...
Cath Carroll: Ronnie Scott's, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 2 August 1991
Idol threats and promises ...
Bob Dylan: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 5 October 2000
AS HE approaches his 60th year there are many people prepared to vouch for the fact that Bob Dylan hasn't been in such great shape ...
Lenny Kravitz: 'Don't Call Me A Sex Symbol'
Interview by Precious Williams, The Evening Standard, 27 November 2000
LENNY KRAVITZ is late. His "people" (a personal chef, band manager, tour manager, personal manager, publicists, fixers, press officers and assorted attractive but apparently purposeless ...
Jaheim: Soul Boy Not Short On Confidence
Interview by Precious Williams, The Evening Standard, 14 March 2001
Jaheim Hoagland's smooth, soulful vocals have been likened to those of music legends Marvin Gaye and Luther Vandross – but he's not too happy about ...
Destiny's Child: The Joys Of Child-ish Behaviour
Interview by Precious Williams, The Evening Standard, 23 April 2001
THE SASSIEST girl group in the world are slumped on a sofa lamenting the "awfulness" of how they look. Destiny's Child – Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly ...
Interview by Precious Williams, The Evening Standard, 1 June 2001
Fifteen-year-old singer Lisa Roxanne. South London’s answer to Beyonce Knowles, wants to abolish rain, racism and boring people ...
Interview by Ian Watson, The Evening Standard, September 2001
THE INSTRUCTIONS are clear but minimal. Get to Ibiza Town and wait for an email with a mobile phone number. Try the number just after ...
Garbage: White Trash: Shirley Manson
Interview by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 8 November 2001
Shirley Manson, pop's most famous redhead, has suddenly gone blonde. A new look to match her new outlook. ...
Live Review by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 15 November 2001
New songs, new confidence ...
Taraf de Haïdouks: Johnny and the outlaws take Hackney by storm
Report by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 29 January 2002
IT IS not every day you find a Hollywood superstar slumming it in the East End. But last night Johnny Depp came to deepest Hackney ...
TLC: T-Boz: "The doctors told me I wouldn't live to see 40"
Interview by Precious Williams, The Evening Standard, 27 November 2002
She's a member of the famous girl band TLC. Here, T-Boz talks about her daily battle with sickle cell anaemia ...
Profile and Interview by Sheryl Garratt, The Evening Standard, October 2003
"WHEN WE WERE younger, we were always entertaining people," says Su-Elise Nash, at 22 the youngest member of the UK's most urban girl group, Mis-Teeq. ...
Christina Aguilera: Christina stripped bare
Interview by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 30 October 2003
The video for 'Dirrty' transformed Christina Aguilera overnight from girl next door to sex siren. As she plays Wembley, Tim Cooper talks to her about ...
David Bowie: "I've beaten vices thanks to my daughter"
Interview by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 20 November 2003
He is free from fags, booze and drugs. But clean-living David Bowie admits that staying that way will still be hard work in 30 years' ...
Interview by Ian Watson, The Evening Standard, June 2004
At 71, James Brown shows no signs of slowing down musically — or in his capacity for getting into trouble. Ian Watson meets the Godfather ...
Interview by Sheryl Garratt, The Evening Standard, July 2004
ANGIE STONE breezes into the bar at the Lowry Hotel in Manchester apologising for the burger in her hand and explaining that she's just flown ...
Interview by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 9 July 2004
After a decade of crises that would have finished off most bands, Wilco are back ...
Gwyneth Herbert: From bistro waitress to jazz festival star
Report and Interview by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 13 July 2004
Pub gigs pay off as "Britain's Norah Jones" is chosen to open concert ...
Interview by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 24 August 2004
Soul diva Gabrielle sold millions of records, before a serious throat condition — triggered by her obsessive compulsive disorder — threatened to wreck her career ...
Interview by Sheryl Garratt, The Evening Standard, 12 November 2004
"I'M LOOKING FORWARD to my 40s," declares Anastacia, a tiny woman with big hair, bold glasses and a big, big voice. "I want lines in ...
Jimmy Webb: The man who made the whole world sing
Interview by John Aizlewood, The Evening Standard, 6 May 2005
Jimmy Webb, composer of classics such as 'Wichita Lineman' and 'Up, Up and Away', is about to step up to the mike for two rare ...
My Morning Jacket: Astoria, London
Live Review by Stevie Chick, The Evening Standard, 25 September 2006
JAMMING IS A justly maligned practice in rock, too often the last refuge of self-indulgent musos running low on inspiration. ...
Amy Winehouse, My Bloody Valentine: Bestival, Isle of Wight ***
Report by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 8 September 2008
Still bloody loud and clear at Bestival ...
Soul II Soul's Jazzie B: "Ride what you've got until the wheels fall off"
Report and Interview by Lloyd Bradley, The Evening Standard, 11 June 2014
Some people already know that Jazzie B is a London Legend but tonight at the first London Music Awards he takes the title officially. The ...
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 3 July 2014
IT'S BEEN five years since La Roux's Elly Jackson announced she was going in for the kill. The intervening period has seen the south Londoner ...
Mark Lanegan: Electric Ballroom, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 5 August 2015
GRUNGE-ROCK survivor Mark Lanegan is not renowned for his rose-tinted view of the world. "You've been torturing me," rumbled the 50-year-old during set opener 'The ...
Live Review by John Aizlewood, The Evening Standard, 12 October 2016
WHEN JUSTIN BIEBER most recently played the O2 in 2013, he arrived two hours late, broke the hearts of his young audience and was shoddiness ...
Live Review by John Aizlewood, The Evening Standard, 28 October 2016
OVER THE COURSE of three albums, Los Angeles-based Warpaint have risen from strugglers (albeit well connected strugglers — bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg's sister is actress ...
Wretch 32: O2 Forum, Kentish Town, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 10 November 2016
Though there were strong moments, the break-out grime star sometimes blurred the line between touching and naff, says Rick Pearson. ...
Wilco: O2 Academy Brixton, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 21 November 2016
CAPABLE OF BEING as sombre as a Sunday night in with Bob Dylan or as wild as a Friday night out with the Pogues, Wilco ...
Rag'n'Bone Man: Electric, Brixton
Live Review by John Aizlewood, The Evening Standard, 25 November 2016
FAR FROM slender, festooned with tattoos which suggest he's spent the past few years at her majesty's pleasure, the wrong side of 30 and blessed ...
Why I made a 15,000-mile trip to a jazz festival when I don't even like jazz
Report by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 10 March 2017
THIS WEEK I made a round trip of 15,000 miles to go to a jazz festival on the other side of the world. ...
Young Fathers: Meltdown Festival, Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 12 June 2017
GIVEN THAT THIS year's Meltdown is curated by MIA, an artist who's made a career out of being as contrarian as is humanly possible, Friday night's ...
Feist: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 28 July 2017
JARVIS COCKER joined Feist on stage at the Empire, ambling on during 'Century' to ask: "How long is a century? Almost as long as a ...
Chase and Status: Chase & Status: Tribe
Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 18 August 2017
Bereft of originality ...
Interpol: Alexandra Palace, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 4 September 2017
There's a charisma vacuum where the flamboyant Carlos "D" Dengler used to be, says Rick Pearson, but this show was a reminder of the importance ...
Phoenix: Alexandra Palace, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 2 October 2017
ALLY PALLY IS a ruthless venue that chews up and spits out all but the best of live bands. To succeed in this cavernous space, ...
Madonna: Another view: My night with Madonna (and Sean Hughes)
Memoir by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 20 October 2017
BACK IN THE LATE 1990s I used to run into Sean Hughes all the time at parties. He was a Perrier Award-winning stand-up comedian and ...
The War on Drugs: War On Drugs: Alexander Palace, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 15 November 2017
IN AN ERA of instant gratification, the slow-burning pleasures of the War On Drugs provide the perfect antidote. ...
U2: Another view: The thing with Bono and Apple...
Comment by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 24 November 2017
I HEAR THAT U2 have a new album coming out. I know this not because I have received a press release (though I have) but ...
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds: Who Built the Moon? (Sour Mash)
Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 24 November 2017
FOR ALL ITS commercial success Noel Gallagher's post-Oasis output has hardly been a study in boundary-pushing experimentation. ...
David Bowie: Meet Chas, he's been mad about Bowie since he was a lad
Report by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 1 December 2017
From diehard to recent fans, Tim Cooper spends the night immersed in Bowie fanatics. ...
Queen & Adam Lambert: O2, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 13 December 2017
HOW DO YOU replace the greatest rock singer of all time? That was the issue facing Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor when Freddie Mercury ...
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 15 January 2018
FORGET WHAT you think you know about Paramore. No longer are the Tennessee band all about angst, eyeliner and power chords. Paramore in 2018 are ...
Bastille: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 17 April 2018
"AS YOU CAN see," said Bastille's Dan Smith, looking round at the orchestra and choir, "we're doing things a little differently tonight." That's something of ...
Courtney Marie Andrews: Islington Assembly Rooms, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 25 April 2018
PICKING UP THE gong for International Artist of the Year at the recent UK Americana Awards, Arizona's Courtney Marie Andrews came to Islington with expectations ...
Beyoncé, Jay-Z: Beyoncé and Jay-Z: London Stadium
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 18 June 2018
STILL CRAZY in love? That's the message that Jay-Z and Beyoncé are keen to project during their On The Run II tour, which came to ...
Flight of the Conchords: O2 Arena, London
Live Review by Bruce Dessau, The Evening Standard, 21 June 2018
BRET MCKENZIE and Jemaine Clement were supposed to play their first London tour dates in seven years in March but then Bret rather inconsiderately tumbled and ...
Lisa Hannigan and Stargaze: Barbican, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 5 October 2018
LISA HANNIGAN is still best-known for her work alongside Damien Rice: her voice was the ethereal counterpoint to his earthy tones on multi-platinum-selling O in 2002. ...
George Ezra: SSE Arena, Wembley
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 16 November 2018
Upbeat Ezra wraps arena in a cuddly cardigan with his big-hearted balladry. ...
Florence and the Machine: O2 Arena, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 22 November 2018
Quiet moments resonate loudest as Florence fills arena with love. ...
Mabel: O2 Academy Brixton, SW9
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 13 December 2018
MABEL MCVEY's mother is Swedish singer-songwriter Neneh Cherry (she of '7 Seconds' fame); her father is Massive Attack producer Cameron McVey. But she's a star ...
Lily Allen: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 18 December 2018
Singer shares her thoughts exactly in brave confessional ...
Lily Allen: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 18 December 2018
EYEBROWS WERE raised earlier this year when Lily Allen's latest album, No Shame, was nominated for the Mercury Prize but it fully deserved its place ...
Chvrches: Alexandra Palace, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 8 February 2019
ALLY PALLY is an unforgiving venue that will swallow up all but the hardiest of bands, so credit to Chvrches (pronounced churches) for proving they ...
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 12 March 2019
Rap's royal highness is as exciting as she is infuriating. ...
Burt Bacharach, Joss Stone: Burt Bacharach and Joss Stone: Eventim Apollo, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 18 July 2019
"THE QUESTION I always get asked is, 'Why are you still doing this?'" The answer for Burt Bacharach, 91, is love, sweet love. "It makes ...
Coldplay: Natural History Museum, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 26 November 2019
Arena mainstays downsize for whale of a night at the Natural History Museum ...
Wolf Alice on that Marilyn Manson "upskirting incident"
Interview by Laura Barton, The Evening Standard, 27 May 2021
Wolf Alice were making a third album when Covid hit — now it's arrived and its creators are itching to get back to business. They ...
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