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The sometime Love leader talks about growing up in Memphis and South-Central L.A. and recalls his dreams of being a musician. He also describes a gay near-miss with Jimi Hendrix, rants about hip-hop, and spouts a lot of New Age gibberish.

File format: mp3 File size: 91mb Interview length: 1h 34 minutes 45 seconds Sound quality: **

Love, Arthur Lee, Jimi Hendrix: Arthur Lee & Love: Club Lingerie, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 25 November 1994

Hendrix Birthday Love-In Skips a Beat at Club Lingerie ...

Love: False Start (Blue Thumb BTS8822)

Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Rolling Stone, 4 February 1971

SURPRISE! THIS is a fine album. Particularly so for this depressing year in rock, because if you've wished that for once you could hear a ...

Love: The Blue Thumb Recordings

Review by Mick Houghton, Uncut, September 2007

Love's Post-Elektra Albums Plus Intriguing Rediscovered Live Recordings. ...

Jimi Hendrix, Arthur Lee, Love: On The Horizon: Love Springs Eternal For Arthur Lee

Profile and Interview by Dan Nooger, Circus, March 1975

ARTHUR LEE sits by the picture window of his mid-Manhattan hotel room, staring at the hotel across the bustling street below. "I just couldn't see," ...

Arthur Lee, Love: Invisible Jukebox: Arthur Lee

Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, August 2002

Every month we play a musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of what ...

Arthur Lee, Love: Hard Times: Arthur Lee

Report and Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 21 May 2002

Arthur Lee was once bigger than Hendrix or Jim Morrison. Back on the road after six years in jail, Love's frontman talks to Paul Lester. ...

Arthur Lee, Love: Arthur Lee: Winter of Love

Overview by Ted Kessler, New Statesman, 20 January 2003

MANY outrageous claims have been made on Arthur Lee's behalf — but most of them are true. ...

Love

Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Melody Maker, 28 February 1970

ARTHUR LEE, mastermind and founder member of American west coast group Love, seemed surprised when I suggested that the band had faded into oblivion after ...

Love: Forever Changes(Elektra/Rhino)

Review by Richard Riegel, Village Voice, 16 April 2001

LOVE'S THIRD ALBUM mystified both the band's ardent fans and the scene's founding rockwriters almost from the day it appeared in November 1967. ...

Love's Forever Changes Revisited

Retrospective by Martin Aston, MOJO, August 2007

"LOVE WAS THE breakthrough band of the '60s," began journalist Phil Gallo's liner notes to the 1995 box set Love Story 1966-72. ...

Love, Arthur Lee: Arthur Lee: Love Story

Report and Interview by Andria Lisle, Memphis Flyer, 17 August 2006

Psychedelic-rock legend ARTHUR LEE began and ended his life in Memphis. In between was quite a journey. ...

Arthur Lee, Love: Arthur Lee: Love Hurts

Retrospective and Interview by Andria Lisle, MOJO, October 2006

Egomaniac, original, troubled genius: Arthur Lee — who died last month — was all of these and more, his band, the legendary Love, kicked viscerally ...

Love, Arthur Lee: Arthur Lee: The Daily Planet Revisited

Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 8 August 1981

ARTHUR LEE, THE PSYCHO OF '60s PSYCHEDELIA AND FORMER LEADER OF LOVE, BREAKS HIS SILENCE TO KEEP A RARE APPOINTMENT ON PLANET EARTH ...

Love: Four Patterns of Love

Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 7 January 1969

Update, 2019. Forty years ago leading BBC tv Radio DJ Paul Gambaccini organised Critic's Choice: Top 200 Albums, in which 47 rock music writers including ...

Arthur Lee, Love: Love with Arthur Lee: House of Blues, Los Angeles

Live Review by Kandia Crazy Horse, PopMatters, 19 August 2003

SOMETHING STARDUST and sunshine had characterized those days of flowers and civil unrest in the western canyons of America's other neverland of dreams, Los Angeles. ...

Love Story: Alone Again, or Arthur Lee

Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, June 1997

HIGH UP in Laurel Canyon, with all of Los Angeles spread out around him, Arthur Lee would sit and stare and contemplate death – "sitting ...

Love: Orange Skies Over the Castle

Retrospective by Kirk Silsbee, New Angeles Monthly, October 2008

"Love – featured tonight in the Diamond Mine! On display in the psychedelic department store!" –Dave Diamond, KBLA, June 16, 1967 ...

Love: Prelude To Love

Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, February 1973

WHILE CHATTING to Jerry Hopkins, Rolling Stone's man in London, at a press reception, I found that he was involved in the early career of ...