Music World
Music World was a monthly magazine published in Los Angeles, California and distributed free to record shops. Its first issue was in November 1972 and it stopped in 1974.
22 articles
List of articles in the library
Family: Bandstand (United Artists)
Review by Richard Cromelin, Music World, December 1972
PERSONNEL CHANGES have had much to do with the evolution of Family, and, as nice as the two early Reprise albums (Music in a Doll's ...
Jesse Colin Young: The Troubadour, Los Angeles
Live Review by Jeff Walker, Music World, December 1972
JESSE COLIN Young was a folkie at about the same time we all were. Years of New York City existing, some passionate living in a ...
Artist & Repertoire: We Buy And Sell Talent
Report by David Rensin, Music World, January 1973
"So you want to be a rock and roll star Well listen now to what I say Just get an electric guitar Take some time and learn how ...
The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt: The Eagles/Linda Ronstadt: Los Angeles
Live Review by David Rensin, Music World, January 1973
PERHAPS IT was the atmosphere of a college campus where the audience is usually reasonably intelligent and not prone to yelling "boogie" or "rock and ...
Dr. Hook And The Medicine Show At The Troubadour
Live Review by David Rensin, Music World, February 1973
A LONG TIME ago, when I first heard 'Sylvia's Mother', a song and image Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show would just as soon one ...
Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids, Fumble: Fumble and Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids
Review by Greg Shaw, Music World, February 1973
THE ROCK & roll revival is sure getting to be a pain in the ass. That's a tough admission for me to make, as I ...
Mance Lipscomb: Portrait of a Texas Bluesman
Profile and Interview by Harold Bronson, Music World, February 1973
MANCE LIPSCOMB is one of those bluesmen who has been promulgated by the blues revival. It's really too bad that his status is not one ...
Profile and Interview by Steven Rosen, Music World, April 1973
BOBBY WOMACK HAS been making music for twenty long years, an odyssey that carried him from the working quarters of Cleveland to the rocking corners ...
Review by Ken Barnes, Music World, April 1973
THE SINGER/SONGWRITER boom is still rolling merrily along, but some of the most brilliant artists in the genre have failed to break through thus far. ...
Sylvester: Stardom as Lifestyle
Profile by Richard Cromelin, Music World, April 1973
Of course, there's nothing more ancient or honorable than the old shamanistic transvestite that we see running up and down Greenwich Avenue. There's something very ...
The Incredible String Band Ascending To The Stars
Profile by Steven X Rea, Music World, April 1973
God made a song when the world was new, waters' laughter sings it true, O, wizard of changes, teachme the lesson of flowing — Robin Williamson ...
David Blue: A Natural Progression
Interview by David Rensin, Music World, June 1973
THERE IS SOMETHING about David Blue that screams "Handle With Care." Perhaps a quality attributable to a glass figurine that you hold up to the ...
Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Holy (Atlantic)
Review by Steven Rosen, Music World, June 1973
WHO WOULD have thought that Led Zeppelin would have followed up their rocking fourth album with a clunker like Houses Of The Holy? The fourth album ...
Neil Young: Unsettling Looseness
Live Review by David Rensin, Music World, June 1973
WRITING ANYTHING about Neil Young is always a labor of love, but the tendency to be both overly critical and sympathetic concerning his artistic fluctuation ...
Ruben and the Jets: Ruben & The Jets: For Real! (Mercury)
Review by Gene Sculatti, Music World, June 1973
AS DEBUTS GO, this is a competently performed, surely inoffensive first try, but it's not the oldies revamp its title implies. The problem is, it's ...
Slade: Santa Monica Civic, Los Angeles
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Music World, June 1973
SLADE, WHOM many anticipated to be an important new breath of life in the rock world, was slain by its own device here at the ...
Tom Waits: Thursday Afternoon, Sober as a Judge
Profile and Interview by Jeff Walker, Music World, June 1973
IT IS SOMETIMES extremely difficult to separate an artist from the trend he's involved in; even if there's only a single element that makes him ...
Elton John: What do Bowie, Elton, and Mantovani have in common?
Interview by Harold Bronson, Music World, 1 June 1973
I DON'T KNOW why so many of the stars take up residence at Hollywood's Chauteau Marmont Hotel on the Sunset Strip. Perhaps it's because of ...
Jesse Colin Young: Trying To Be A Good Highway
Interview by Steven X Rea, Music World, November 1973
WE DROVE our '54 Chevrolet along the road to Inverness on the Point Reyes peninsula quickly, somehow feeling threatened by the grey, heavy clouds that ...
Manfred Mann: Get Your Rocks Off
Review by Steven Rosen, Music World, November 1973
IT WOULDN'T be unfair to say that Manfred Mann's role in music has been similar to that of John Mayall's; that is, both musicians have ...
Steely Dan: Countdown To Ecstasy
Review by Steven X Rea, Music World, November 1973
THIS IS BASICALLY just a review of one song on Countdown To Ecstasy. I mean, the rest of the record is fine, the lyrics are ...
Spooky Tooth: The Return Of Spooky Tooth
Interview by Steven Rosen, Music World, November 1973
MIKE KELLIE walked into the A&M interview room with eyes bulging, mouth agape, and cheek bones drawn high; his answer to the oh-so-ordinary American handshake. ...
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