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Freddie & The Dreamers: June Harris watches a new Freddie and the Dreamers, session, and talks to Mitch Murray

Report and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 29 June 1963

Freddie and the boys have a ball in the studio ...

Marianne Faithfull, Nashville Teens, The: Marianne Faithfull: The Battle Over A Bird

Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 8 April 1965

SAID MARIANNE: "The trouble with having a record called 'The Little Bird' is that I don't like birds. I'm being involved in publicity situations where ...

The Animals: Hell-Raisers Of Pop

Report by Keith Altham, NME Annual, December 1965

"THE HELL-RAISERS have all disappeared" mourned a leading national showbusiness reporter some months ago. All I can say is that he has obviously not met ...

Jethro Tull: Stand Up (Island I LPS 9103)

Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 15 August 1969

SOME CLEVER bastard is going to remark that the cover is the best part of this album, which would be a drag for him. Nevertheless ...

Easy Rider (Columbia Pictures; Dir. Dennis Hopper)

Film/DVD/TV Review by Miller Francis Jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 29 September 1969

"The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations. (Or if it is an idea, it ...

Donovan (Cocktails)

Report and Interview by Miller Francis jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 20 October 1969

OURS IS AN age of reluctant ambivalence. The impact of the new is devastatingly real, but the clinging corpse of what has been and what ...

Crosby Stills Nash & Young: Are We in Tune? No

Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 10 January 1970

Author's note, 2018: The review below was cut by the Guardian. What's here is uncut. Who plays Crosby Stills Nash (and Young) albums now or, ...

Judy Collins: "Music Reminds Us That We're Human Beings"

Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 30 October 1971

LIKE A CHILD Judy Collins posed for photographers at a special reception held for her this week to welcome her back to Britain for the ...

Beatles, The: The Act You've Known For All These Years: The Beatles and Sgt. Pepper

Retrospective by Mick Gold, unpublished, 1974

ALL ENTERTAINMENT HAS AN EXISTENTIAL dimension: all successful performances imply a life-style and a sense of values, a sub-structure of assumptions upon which the performer ...

The Doors: The End Is Always Near: Dread, Drunkenness and The Doors, Pt. 1

Retrospective by Lester Bangs, unpublished, 1975

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF the Doors should not be underestimated; it has been too often already. When you consider that they represented, in the positivist context ...

Rick Wakeman: Next Stop – The Gods

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 5 April 1975

RICK WAKEMAN on ice! It takes a cool nerve to launch a rock extravaganza in an area normally the preserve of pantomimes and hockey, but ...

The Strawbs: Ten Years of the Strawbs: From Donegan to Dali in Five Easy Stages

Interview by Jerry Gilbert, ZigZag, September 1975

THROUGH A ten-year period that has seen them frequently under-rated, and a time when they probably least deserved it the subject of mass adulation, the ...

David Bowie: Station To Station (RCA ALP1-1327)

Review by Ian MacDonald, Street Life, 7 February 1976

Bowie's Station: The Playback Of The Western World ...

Sex Pistols, The: Punk Rock: Rebels Against the System

Report and Interview by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 7 August 1976

JOHNNY ROTTEN looks bored. The emphasis is on the word "looks" rather than, as Johnny would have you believe, the word "bored". His clothes, held ...

Clash, The: The Clash: Rehearsal Rehearsals, Chalk Farm, London

Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 21 August 1976

The first band to come along who'll really frighten the Sex Pistols ...

The Buzzcocks, The Clash, The Sex Pistols: The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Buzzcocks: Screen On The Green, Islington, London

Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 11 September 1976

Our Islington correspondent mingles with the Sex Pistols' portable audience looking for Johnny Rotten's toof. It's incisive stuff… ...

Clash, The, Kursaal Flyers, The: The Kursaal Flyers/Crazy Cavan/Clash: Roundhouse, London

Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 11 September 1976

JOE STRUMMER'S Clash — the best new band of the year? Well, some would claim as much. At least you can guarantee that any band ...

Eddie & The Hot Rods: Eddie and the Hot Rods: "Punk? — We Just Do It"

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 25 September 1976

ENERGY, LIFE, YOUTH, ROCK 'N' ROLL! What are these strange ingredients that have suddenly injected themselves into the creaking old rock scene? "We're just DOIN' ...

The Clash, The Damned, The Sex Pistols: The Sex Pistols, The Clash et al: Punk Rock Festival, 100 Club, London

Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 2 October 1976

High dummy count flunks punks ...

Buzzcocks, The, Clash, The, Damned, The, Sex Pistols, The, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Chris Spedding, Stinky Toys, Subway Sect, The, Vibrators, The: Parade Of The Punks

Report by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 2 October 1976

THE 600-STRONG line, which last Monday straggled across two blocks outside London's 100 Club in Oxford Street, waiting for the Punk Rock Festival to start, ...


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