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Report and Interview by Peter Jones, Keith Matthews, Record Mirror, 30 May 1964

FROM JIMMY SAVILE ...

Inez & Charlie Foxx: Inez and Charlie Foxx: Gospel Voice and Lunatic Gestures...

Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 July 1964

CHARLES AND Inez Foxx are a handsome pair. To the initiated and fortunate few in this country who have heard them, they are known as ...

Marianne Faithfull: Put it down to my age, says Miss Faithfull

Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 25 July 1964

MARIANNE FAITHFULL is a raving beauty of 17 who lives with her mother, the Baroness Erisso, in a small terraced house in Reading. She goes ...

Burt Bacharach, Dusty Springfield, Dionne Warwick: Burt Bacharach: "Time Is My Enemy"

Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 4 September 1964

"I JUST DON'T get enough time to cram everything in," top U.S. songwriter, arranger and producer Burt Bacharach told me, during a two-day visit last ...

Beach Boys, The: Top Tunes: The Beach Boys Hit Town

Interview by Ronnie Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 26 September 1964

THE BEACH Boys, who were instrumental in starting the surfing and hot rod trends in music, are finished singing about cars and the surf and ...

Gene Pitney, Supremes, The: Gene Pitney's 72 Days With The Supremes

Interview by Ian Dove, NME, 2 October 1964

GENE PITNEY recently took a bus journey with the Supremes. They shared front seat views — FOR 72 DAYS AND OVER 30,000 MILES. Gene, who ...

Delaney & Bonnie, Jackie DeShannon: Jackie DeShannon: The girl who began when she was two

Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 24 October 1964

JACKIE DeSHANNON might be considered an alarming girl. She is one of those prodigies in whom the Americans seem to specialise. She appeared on the ...

Mugwumps, The: Top Tunes: The Mugwumps

Interview by Ronnie Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 24 October 1964

THEY MEET with "stunned silence" when performing before someone for the first time. They have their own language. A new dance has started because of ...

Impressions, The: Top Tunes: The Impressions

Interview by Ronnie Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 7 November 1964

WHOEVER CAME up with the advertising slogan, "often imitated but never duplicated," must have been thinking about the Impressions. ...

Sam Cooke: Pop singer shot dead

Report by Ivor Davis, Daily Express, 12 December 1964

Hotel Manageress Fires Three Shots After Girl-In-Chase Drama ...

Sam Cooke Tragedy

Report by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 19 December 1964

WITH THE DEATH of Sam Cooke in Hollywood last Friday, the RCA-Victor label lost one of its most consistent hit recording artistes. ...

Ivy League, The: The Ivy League: Songwriting Hit-Makers

Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 13 February 1965

FROM INSIDE the music publisher's office came the familiar sounds of creation, Tin Pan Alley style — tentative chords being hammered out on a piano ...

Junior Walker & the All Stars: Top Tunes: Junior Walker's 'Shotgun' Is His First Big Hit

Interview by Ronnie Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 27 February 1965

JUNIOR WALKER and the All Stars can thank a couple of teenagers from Benton Harbor, Mich., for the inspiration that's led to their first major ...

Paul Revere & The Raiders: Paul Revere & Raiders Carry Fight to British

Profile by Derek Taylor, KRLA Beat, 10 March 1965

WATCH FOR the world-wide ride of Paul Revere! ...

Marianne Faithfull: The Trouble With Marianne: By The Man She'll Marry

Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 27 March 1965

MARIANNE FAITHFULL announced her engagement to Mr. John Dunbar in The Times. Pop singers do not often use The Times to let their friends know ...

Them: Everyone wants to know about... that there Them group!

Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc, 10 April 1965

...and here's the secret of their success — writes PENNY VALENTINE ...

John Hammond: Folk And Blues Friends

Profile and Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 1 May 1965

"DYLAN — WELL, let's say he gave me confidence when I needed it most." The speaker was John Hammond, 22 years old blues singer from ...

Spencer Davis Group, Jackie Trent, Vashti Bunyan: Vashti agrees: her last name must go (it's Bunyan)

Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 15 May 1965

VASHTI BUNYAN is the latest in a stream of refined, nicely brought-up, middle-class girls whose well-bred accents have adorned the hit parade since Marianne Faithfull ...

Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs: Sam The Sham Has Sung In Opera!

Interview by Tracy Thomas, New Musical Express, 30 July 1965

Special from Tracy Thomas in Hollywood ...

Vicki from Inkpen, Berks, may not look like a girl with power — but she's got it, lots of it

Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 31 July 1965

SHE'S BACK! THE GIRL WHO REALLY KNOWS THE POP PEOPLE ...