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The Sydney Morning Herald is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, Australia since 1831.
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The Everly Brothers: Phil Everly: He Can't Spell But He Can Sing Like A Million Dollars
Interview by Maureen Cleave, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 11 November 1962
From MAUREEN CLEAVE in London ...
Mort Shuman: Writing Songs Is So Easy
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 11 October 1964
FOR SONG-WRITING we British make do with Lennon/McCartney. The Americans are more extravagant; they use Pomus and Shuman, Leiber and Stoller, Goffin and King, David ...
Sybil — and a discotheque named Arthur — set the trends
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 16 May 1965
Sybil Burton, ex-wife of actor Richard Burton, has suddenly become the leader of New York's glittering social set. Fashion and entertainment trend-setter and close friend ...
Bob Dylan: Poet or pop? — a new role for a folk-hero
Profile by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 9 January 1966
BOB DYLAN, folk-singer, folk-composer and folk-millionaire, has upset a lot of people in his time — TV networks, civil liberties committees, parents, teachers, recording technicians ...
James Brown: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 27 March 1966
He's the singer who puts Elvis to shame ...
Ethel Merman: The role she made her own — Annie gets her gun again... 20 years after
Interview by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 5 June 1966
THERE REALLY is no business like show business. Ask Ethel Merman, who this week, at the age of 57, got to play the part of ...
Chet Atkins, John D. Loudermilk: Nashville: The Town With The "Fresh Sound"
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 19 June 1966
It started with Grand Ole Opry ...
The Beatles, The Byrds, The Velvet Underground: Psychedelics: That's The New Fad
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 17 July 1966
The Pop movement has become old-hat now. In its place a brand new gimmick has started to sweep American discotheques. ...
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 31 July 1966
Once again rebellious young rock 'n' rollers have turned exclusive Newport into a riot city of jazz and festival From LILLIAN ROXON, who visited Newport, U.S., ...
Now it's all above ground — the Underground
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 12 February 1967
It's the new 'in' thing ...
Hippies take over from the Beatniks
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 4 March 1967
A new youth grouping, the Hippies, has sprung up in San Francisco and promises to spread over America and to Europe. Hippies are still way-out, ...
Now it's the big "Be-In": they all go to the park
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 30 April 1967
New Yorkers go gay in the 800 acres they have found right in the heart of town ...
The Beatles, The Byrds: Allen Ginsberg: Poet Who Swam in the Ganges — And Started Something
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 10 September 1967
NEWS THAT the Beatles were flying to India for two months in October, that they were giving up drugs and taking up Indian mysticism may ...
Bobbie Gentry: 'Billie Joe' girl moves to modelling
Profile and Interview by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 15 October 1967
SHE'S beautiful. She's talented. She has a song at the top of the hit parade and this week she will make even more news by ...
James Brown, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin: Soul: it's what Negroes have and white men are learning
Overview by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 30 June 1968
THE WORD is "soul" and if white Americans haven't been quite sure what it meant before, they are this week. ...
Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, The Lovin' Spoonful: Popocracy — The New Revolution
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 3 November 1968
The casual, oddly dressed stars of American pop music are making so much money they don't know how rich they are ...
MC5: The MC5: Rock frenzy points a way
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 4 January 1969
THOSE OF us who have watched rock with interest, believing it to be as good a barometer of the changing times as art or the ...
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 17 July 1969
BLACK POWER, WHITE POWER, STUDENT POWER, KID POWER, MATRON POWER, MOON POWER ...
Charles Manson, John Phillips: You just don't know Hollywood
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 1 November 1969
More things there than murder are bizarre, reports Lillian Roxon ...
The Beatles, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane: Agnew urges curbs on "brainwashing" lyrics
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 16 September 1970
NEW YORK, Tuesday. — The Vice-President, Mr Spiro Agnew, last night accused some songwriters and motion picture makers of "brainwashing" young Americans with lyrics and ...
The "famous" children are going to pot...
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 4 October 1970
More and more big names are cropping up in the round-up of dangerous narcotics-takers ...
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin: Death joins the electric band
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 10 October 1970
JIMI HENDRIX died last week. Janis Joplin died this week. The needle is picking off the electric generation one by one with the precision of ...
Janis Joplin: Girl of the Electric Generation
Obituary by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 11 October 1970
To be all woman, yet equal with men; to be free and yet a slave to real love; to nose-thumb convention, yet get back to ...
The Stalk-Forrest Group: Stalk Is Big Time
Profile by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 25 October 1970
A NEW Group has hit the American rock scene — Stalk-Forrest. It is said to sound like a cross between The Doors and The Jefferson ...
Profile by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 1 November 1970
AMERICA'S NEWEST Rock idol is probably only about 5ft tall. His stage "costume" is a pair of badly ripped blue jeans — and elbow length ...
Creedence Clearwater Revival: The band that means business
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 23 January 1971
Lillian Roxon flew from New York across America to attend a party for an $82 million rock and roll group — a party which, she ...
Bob Neuwirth: Gaslight, New York NY
Live Review by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 7 March 1971
ANOTHER STAR IS BORN ...
Peter, Paul & Mary, Mary Travers: Mary (of Peter, Paul and Mary) is doing a McCartney
Interview by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 3 April 1971
LILLIAN ROXON INTERVIEWS A SINGER WHO HELPED TO MOULD POPULAR MUSIC ...
Bob Dylan: They Won't Invite Bob
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 18 April 1971
BOB DYLAN is having a birthday party the day he turns 30 — May 23 — and everyone's invited except him. ...
Alice Cooper: Town Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 16 May 1971
WITCH-CRAFT? ...
Helen Reddy: Helen now a star in demand
Profile by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 27 June 1971
THEY invited 20 people for a quiet little get together back at their Hilltop home after her show closed — and 280 turned up. ...
Grand Funk Railroad, John Sebastian: Is this the end of the festival?
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 17 July 1971
LAST WEEK was not a very nice week for rock music. ...
John Lennon, Yoko Ono, John Sinclair: John and Yoko "go protest"
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 19 December 1971
NO SOONER did Bob Dylan astonish everyone by going back to "protest" and coming out with a song protesting the death of convict George Jackson ...
Profile by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 19 December 1971
HE'S HERE, the greatest thing since the Beatles but Americans don't realise it yet. His name is Marc Bolan and he's the most important part ...
T. Rex: Carnegie Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 5 March 1972
A DREAM PRINCE HAD A SLOW AWAKENING ...
David Cassidy: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 19 March 1972
David Cassidy was a roaring success ...
Manassas: Carnegie Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 14 May 1972
Stills sours the critics ...
Bette Midler: A new Piaf — the divine Miss M
Profile by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 19 October 1972
SHE HAS never appeared outside New York. Her album is still unreleased. Her appearances on national television have sent viewers into shock. And yet Bette ...
Elvis Costello: Rebirth of a Punk Hero
Profile by Mark Mordue, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 27 November 1987
Mark Mordue profiles Elvis Costello, now in his post-punk phase and about to tour Australia next week. ...
Gil Scott-Heron: A Frail Godfather
Profile and Interview by Mark Mordue, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 1 March 1995
GIL SCOTT-HERON greets me genially. He's slightly spidery in his dangled movements, surprisingly slight and aged. At 45 the man oft referred to as The ...
Paul Kelly (Australia): Paul Kelly: Poet of the Common Man
Report and Interview by Mark Mordue, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 12 January 1996
PAUL KELLY'S back in town. I meet him at a King's Cross hotel where his daughter, Madeleine, is turning her slice of cheese into a ...
Profile and Interview by Mark Mordue, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 18 September 1998
JARVIS COCKER wanders through London's Tower Books and Records like a spy in a foreign country. Close by, music fans are harvesting the racks of ...
Report and Interview by Mark Mordue, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 24 December 1998
KENNETH BRANAGH at a You Am I gig?! I had to look twice. It turned out to be an ostrich-like version, but that's New York ...
Robert Milliken: Lillian Roxon, Mother Of Rock
Book Review by Clinton Walker, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 2002
ROCK JOURNALISM is, of course, the lowest of the low. Trust me, I know. It has recently enjoyed improved profile with films like High Fidelty ...
Bob Dylan: Chronicles: Volume One
Book Review by Toby Creswell, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 13 November 2004
THERE'S NO WAY that Bob Dylan, after all this time, is going to spill the beans on his life. The high priest of protest makes ...
Overview by Mark Mordue, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 28 December 2004
I'VE STARTED writing this story a hundred different ways and every time I think I might be getting somewhere I end up stumbling across some ...
Bob Dylan: Dylan on Dylan edited by Jonathan Cott
Book Review by Mark Mordue, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 24 June 2006
LATELY I've begun to think that Bob Dylan does not exist. That the boy who made him up might still be dreaming. And we are ...
Radio Birdman: Birds of a Feather Rock Together
Retrospective and Interview by Anthony O'Grady, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 16 July 2007
THERE ARE two general categories of musicians in Halls of Fame – the supremely successful sellers of concerts and records, and those who pave the ...
Joan As Policewoman: Goodbye and Hello: Joan as Policewoman
Profile and Interview by Mark Mordue, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 9 August 2008
BIRDS ARE SHRIEKING through the trees all over Rushcutter's Bay. It is as if something violent and tuneful is going on at once as we ...
Book Review by Mark Mordue, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 10 April 2010
ART can set us free. Art is holy. Art is love. ...
5 Seconds Of Summer: Smells Like Teen Spirit
Interview by Toby Creswell, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 20 July 2012
IT WAS LIKE A Hard Day's Night writ small. Four young men alight from an aeroplane confronted by screaming teenage girls. ...
Interview by Toby Creswell, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 10 March 2013
The songs may change but the story of a hit remains the same. With today's reduced attention spans, it's no small feat that four boys ...
The Ramones: The enduring appeal of the Ramones
Retrospective by Andrew Stafford, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 21 April 2016
MY FAVOURITE QUOTE about the Ramones comes from Richard Hell, the New York provocateur who, along with Tom Verlaine, formed the art-punk band Television in ...
Coldplay's Chris Martin: Why Things Have Never Been Better
Profile and Interview by Andrew Stafford, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 7 December 2016
CHRIS MARTIN is up for it. Half an hour after soundcheck and a few hours before showtime at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium, the Coldplay singer, flanked ...
Lorde talks second albums and night-time energy on the eve of Australian tour
Profile and Interview by Andrew Stafford, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 16 June 2017
I'M TOLD I CAN call her Ella: Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor is quite a mouthful. The single-syllable name by which she is better known, though, ...
Profile and Interview by Andrew Stafford, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 28 July 2017
A PIECE OF PAPER stuck to the entrance of the Coburg RSL in Melbourne reads "cash only (dark ages)". It's not much warmer inside than ...
Sampa the Great: After the Australian Music Prize, Sampa the Great wants to set her story straight
Interview by Jenny Valentish, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 5 April 2018
SAMPA THE GREAT didn't get the memo that artists should be of the tortured persuasion. She peppers her speech with gales of laughter. She wants ...
Aldous Harding: Chasing rainbows with Kiwi cult star Aldous Harding and her many voices
Interview by Andrew Stafford, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 25 April 2019
THE THIRD ALBUM by Aldous Harding, New Zealand's woman of a thousand voices, is called Designer. Its sleeve represents the title vertically – white on ...
Sleater-Kinney carry on with new album and new purpose
Interview by Andrew Stafford, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 15 August 2019
THE CENTRE Won't Hold, the title of Sleater-Kinney's ninth album, is taken from W.B. Yeats' 1919 poem The Second Coming, the words of which have ...
Beck: "I think there's a misconception": Beck on Scientology
Profile and Interview by Andrew Stafford, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 22 November 2019
BECK LOOKS toasted. Under round vintage sunglasses and a broad-brimmed black hat, the cheeks of one of the most inventive, elusive artists of the last ...
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