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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 ...

Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin: Jimi and Janis: Victims of the Plague

Essay by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, February 1971

EARLY IN the morning of Monday, October 5, 1970, Janis Joplin was found dead in an apartment in San Francisco, her arms filled with tracks, ...

Beatles, The, Rolling Stones, The: Summer of Love: London

Retrospective by Alan Light, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2007

Tightly knit, decadent and explosively creative, the scene was too good to last ...

Nick Kent, Rolling Stones, The, Sex Pistols, The: Nick Kent: Apathy for the Devil – A 1970s Memoir

Book Review by Robert Sandall, Sunday Times, 21 February 2010

AS AN EYEWITNESS account of the dangerous excesses of the 1970s rock scene, Apathy for the Devil is in a compulsively readable class of its ...

Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane: California Dreamin'

Report by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 27 May 1967

AMERICA'S WEST COAST — ESPECIALLY SAN FRANCISCO — IS WHERE IT'S ALL AT NOW. WHAT LESSON CAN WE LEARN FROM IT? NICK JONES EXPLAINS ...

Rolling Stones, The: Pop In The Police State

Comment by Mick Farren, International Times, 2 June 1967

"People try to put us down just because we get around."The Who – 'My Generation' ...

Grand Funk Railroad: We're An American Band

Retrospective and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, July 2010

Grand Funk Railroad shared drugs with Hendrix, helped Janis Joplin play tricks on the Stones, immortalised groupies, worked with Zappa and Rundgren, had the most ...

Amy Winehouse's Back to Black: 10 Things You Didn't Know

Retrospective by Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 27 October 2016

How 'Rehab' came to be, which song Nas inspired and other behind-the-scenes facts about singer-songwriter's 2006 smash ...

Marianne Faithfull: Keeping The Faith

Interview by Ethlie Ann Vare, Elle, July 1990

MARIANNE FAITHFULL WAS ONE OF THE MOST RAVISHING ICONS OF THE SIXTIES AND A CELEBRATED ROCK CASUALTY OF THE SEVENTIES. NOW, AT 43, SHE IS ...

Hole, Mother Love Bone, Nirvana: Rock 'N' Roll Suicide?

Report by Pete Makowski, Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 9 July 1994

Seattle's heroin nightmare continues. First ANDY WOOD of the seminal MOTHER LOVE BONE overdosed and died. Then KURT COBAIN ended his desperate addiction by committing ...

David Crosby: "The FBI scare me more than Hell's Angels"

Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 26 February 2014

The legendary songwriter on Janis Joplin, being "the voice of cosmic America" and Croz, his first solo album in 20 years.   ...

Jeffrey Lee Pierce: impurely an entertainer

Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 25 January 1986

JEFFREY LEE PIERCE is a nice man when he's sober but when he's got three fingers in his mouth he's a scream. JACK BARRON held ...

Stone Roses, The: The Stone Roses: Bliss This House

Report and Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 10 June 1989

  "THE BAND? Sorry mate, they've just left. Urgent business." Outside Walsall's Junction 10 Club, the Stone Roses' tour van is disappearing around the corner when ...

Arthur Lee: Love hurts

Retrospective and Interview by Sara Scribner, L.A. Weekly, 25 March 1999

SOMETHING ABOUT Arthur Lee invites myth. Lee – the cantankerous, charismatic singer and guitarist of the groundbreaking yet largely forgotten band Love – inspires tales ...

Country Joe & The Fish, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, Charlatans, The (US), Big Brother & The Holding Company: Suddenly That Summer

Retrospective and Interview by Sheila Weller, Vanity Fair, July 2012

It was billed as "the Summer of Love", a blast of glamour, ecstasy, and Utopianism that drew some 75,000 young people to the San Francisco ...

Canned Heat: The badass blues band that death couldn't kill

Retrospective and Interview by Max Bell, Classic Rock, January 2015

PICTURE THE SCENE: April 4, 1981, outside the World Famous Palomino Club in North Hollywood. The members of Canned Heat and their friends are smoking ...

Shamen, The: The Shamen: Open up your head

Interview by Helen Mead, i-D, June 1992

After achieving pop success and suffering the death of Will Sin last year, the Shamen are back.New singer, new songs, but an enduring interest in ...

Keith Moon, Who, The: The Who Come To a Fork in the Road

Interview by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 5 October 1978

"THIS POOR hotel," says Pete Townshend, gesturing at his spacious suite in the Navarro Hotel on New York's posh Central Park South. "Mr. Russell, the ...

Thin Lizzy: Phil Lynott — Vagabond Of The Western World

Retrospective by Graeme Thomson, Uncut, February 2011

The story of Phil Lynott reads like one of the Irish fables he loved. A buccaneering tale of wine, women and rock'n'roll that mixes poetry ...

E: Safer House

Report by Andrew Smith, The Face, October 1995

Amsterdam's Safe House Project does more than just advise clubbers on Ecstasy: it goes right to the source, to the manufacturers. ...