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MC5, Up, The, John Sinclair: Rock & Roll Dope: John Sinclair

Retrospective by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, 28 May 1971

IT WAS back in the fall of 1966 when Rob Tyner, lead singer for the then "Avant Rock" MC5, and myself got in Rob's beat ...

MC5: Rock And Roll Dope: MC5

Comment by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, 25 June 1971

IT WAS A Friday night back in the fall of 1966 when Gary Grimshaw, myself and some brothers and sisters from Detroit set up some ...

MC5: The MC5: High Time

Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, September 1971

WHENEVER I USED to say I liked the MC5, I would always preface the statement with some remark like "sure, I know they're a bunch ...

MC5: High Time

Review by Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, 2 September 1971

IT SEEMS almost too perfectly ironic that now, at a time in their career when most people have written them off as either dead or ...

MC5 Back On Shakin' Street

Essay by Dave Marsh, Creem, October 1971

Their mamas all warned 'emnot to come into townBut they got it in their blood,now they gotta get down– 'Shakin' Street', The MC5 ...

MC5, John Sinclair: Rock And Roll Dope: MC5 Kick Out The Jams At The Grande Ballroom

Column by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, 29 October 1971

IT WAS back in the fall of 1966 when Rob Tyner, lead singer for the then "Avant Rock" MC5, and myself got in Rob's beat up ...

Arthur Brown, Alice Cooper, Fugs, The, MC5, Mothers Of Invention, The, Stooges, The, Screaming Lord Sutch, Frank Zappa: Aesthetics of Outrage

Overview by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 26 November 1971

Update, 2020. "Perverted, outrageous, violent, repulsive, ugly, tasteless. A travesty. That's what's good about them". This was a quote about the Rolling Stones, recorded around ...

MC5: The MC5: Back in the UK

Interview by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 12 February 1972

THE MC5 don't want to be stars, if you can dig that. They reason that they are there with you to fill the air with ...

MC5: The MC5 on Shock Rock

Interview by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 19 February 1972

OF ALL THE groups who have dabbled in politics over the last few years, the MC5 seem to have gained the reputation as one of ...

MC5: Teenage Outrage in Croydon: the MC5

Review and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Cream, March 1972

THE Fox in Crydon, Surrey, is a very long way indeed from the Grande Ballroom in Dee-troit, Michigan, and the MC5 were a very long ...

MC5 Turn Onto Love

Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 4 March 1972

IT COMES AS something of a shock when the MC5 – long since branded as a revolutionary and rather spine-jarring band – looks deep into ...

Syd Barrett, MC5: Syd Barrett: The Madcap returns

Report by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 4 March 1972

SYD BARRETT'S new band, Stars, made their strange debut at Cambridge Corn Exchange last week. Roy Hollingworth reports... ...

MC5 Interview

Interview by Nick Kent, Friends/Frendz, 31 March 1972

NICK: Firstly, why the move to Europe? ...

MC5: No More Violence

Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, April 1972

MC5 decided to conduct their interview with me in one of their cupboard-size hotel bedrooms. On the door was a poster of Chairman Mao, on ...

MC5: Kramer Climbs Back From MC5 Wreckage

Report by Mick Farren, NME, 27 April 1974

NEW BAND AND A NEW IMAGE: Mick Farren in Detroit ...

MC5, The Stooges: MC5/Stooges: Panic in Detroit

Report by Mick Farren, NME, 14 December 1974

THOSE FUN lovers from the motor city, the Stooges and the MC5, are winding up for another rampage. Of course, we've heard tales like this ...

MC5: Kick Out The Jams (Elektra)

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 4 June 1977

‘BROTHERS AND sisters...the time has come for each and every one of you to decide whether you are going to be the problem or whether ...

Mighty Diamonds, Motorhead, Skrewdriver, Rico Rodriguez, Gary Glitter, Equals, The, Elton John, New York Dolls, MC5, Nerves, The, Roky Erickson: Motorhead, Mighty Diamonds et al: Singles Reviews

Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 25 June 1977

REVIEWED BY PAUL SIMENON (BASS) AND RODENT (ROADIE) OF THE CLASH. TRANSCRIPTIONS: GIOVANNI DADOMO (AMATEUR) ...

MC5: The MC5: How the Jams Were Kicked Out!

Retrospective by John Sinclair, ZigZag, July 1977

In Britain, the MC5 are now far more popular than they ever were in their heyday – a fact which has prompted the recent re-release ...

Doors, The, MC5, Ramones, The, Jonathan Richman, Stooges, The: Danny Fields: The Fields Connection

Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 9 July 1977

The Doors, MC5, Iggy & The Stooges, John Cale, Lou Reed, Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers and The Ramones — without them the last ten years of ...