Oz
OZ was an underground alternative magazine. First published in Sydney, Australia, in 1963, a second version appeared in London, England from 1967 and is better known. It was published in the UK until 1973. The magazine was well known for its confrontations with authority, and trials of its publishers for obscenity.
21 articles
List of articles in the library
Bob Dylan: An Attempt at Analysis: What's So Good About Dylan?
Essay by Michael Gray, Oz, October 1967
DYLAN'S LYRICS are not poems, they are parts of songs. This is not to assert that Dylan is not a poet but simply to remember that ...
Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, Oz, December 1968
Update, 2019. My Oz episodes — 1. IN DECEMBER 1968, age 28, I was interviewed for the post of editor of Radio Times, the BBC's ...
MC5: The MC5 Kick Out The Jams!
Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, Oz, 1 February 1969
2019 note: My Oz episodes — 2. My first piece for Oz, "Why isn't London jumping?", a tirade against the BBC's programming of pop music, ...
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin (Atlantic)
Review by Felix Dennis, Oz, March 1969
VERY OCCASIONALLY a long-playing record is released that defies immediate classification or description, simply because it's so obviously a turning point in rock music that ...
Bob Dylan: Nashville Skyline (CBS)
Review by Mick Farren, Oz, May 1969
SOMEBODY ONCE said that when Bob Dylan first started his career he wanted to be Elvis Presley much more than he wanted to be Woody ...
The Beatles: Abbey Road: The Beatles Come Together
Report and Interview by Miles, Oz, November 1969
ON INITIAL hearing I thought that the isolated life led by The Beatles had at last begun to show in their work: that they lacked ...
Review by Felix Dennis, Oz, 1970
A review by A.J. Weberman Jnr. ‘The world’s only living Zappaologist’. MY OLD man’s become something of a celebrity these days. Seems like every time ...
Bob Dylan: Local Jew Boy Makes Good: Bob Dylan’s New Morning
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Oz, 1970
NEW MORNING is a breath of clean air in a darkly polluted musical environment. With the prevailing sound being the grinding urban paranoia of the ...
Neil Young: After The Gold Rush
Review by Mark Williams, Oz, 1970
To start with Nell Young ain't tryin' anything flashy – he does what he knows and he does it with the perfection of a trained ...
Comment by Charles Shaar Murray, Oz, May 1970
IT WAS, AT least for me and most of the people I know, the music that first aroused interest in things Underground, and the music ...
Jimi Hendrix: Live Experience 67-68 (Bootleg)
Review by Felix Dennis, Oz, January 1971
JAMES MARSHALL Hendrix was a mindfucker. ...
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Oz, January 1971
MUDDY WATERS has been my favourite singer since I was twelve years old, and since that time one of my primary objectives has been to ...
The Velvet Underground: Velvet Underground: Loaded (Cotillion Import)
Review by Jonathon Green, Oz, January 1971
BACK IN ILLUSORY flower power 1967, when most people wanted to go to San Francisco, and those who didn't made up for it by pickling ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Oz, March 1971
"Well I'm sitting here in this womb/lookin' all around, I'm looking out my belly button window/and I see a whole world frowns, And I wonder ...
David Crosby: Dave Crosby: If I Could Only Remember My Name (Atlantic)
Review by Jonathon Green, Oz, April 1971
THE CURRENTLY fashionable craze for the muzak freaks down at J. Walter Thompson (Know the West Coast — all you need's a cursory glance at ...
Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, Jimi Hendrix: Isaac Hayes' Black Moses and other albums
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Oz, 1972
TO CLAIM to have found a representative selection of black music on four records is patently absurd, but as a random cross-section of what’s approximately ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Oz, May 1972
FANNY'S previous album. Charity Ball, may not have been the best album of the last eight months, but it was probably the one I played ...
Universal Exhibition: The Bickershaw Festival
Report by Charles Shaar Murray, Oz, May 1972
"FESTIVALS," SAID Tommy Chong, leaning up against the RCA caravan at Bickershaw, "are just camping out with a light show." ...
David Bowie: The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars (RCA)
Review by Nick Kent, Oz, July 1972
DAVID BOWIE, easily the most brilliant young songwriter in this country, seems to have been going through quite a few rapid changes over the last ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Oz, July 1972
SINCE HIS LAST album, Beck has brought in an outside producer, Steve Cropper, no less. Unlike Rough and Ready, this one features some real songs, ...
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