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Beach Boys, The: Mr. Wilson hated rock — but he loved the Beach Boys

Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 22 August 1964

THE NOISE the Beach Boys make is a wail with a touch of adenoid; the songs, they sing are about surfing and cars. What with ...

Joe Cocker: 'U.S.'s Only Culture is Black'

Profile and Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Rolling Stone, 1 March 1969

LONDON – Joe Cocker, the frizzy-haired new idol of the English pop scene, lives modestly in a first floor bed sitter in South Kensington. You ...

Frederick Knight: Success From Out Of Left Field

Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 2 June 1972

REGULAR READERS of B&S will already be more than aware of how we occasionally jump on a record right from when it becomes available in ...

Barclay James Harvest: Waiting For The Cherry Harvest

Profile and Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 4 August 1973

A COUPLE of years ago I chanced to review an album by a band which transformed a flirting relationship into something of a commitment. The ...

Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids

Profile and Interview by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 20 December 1973

YOU MIGHT FIND this hard to believe, but if it wasn't for a fifth of whiskey Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids probably wouldn't be ...

The Good Rats Just Keep On Keeping On

Profile and Interview by Wayne Robins, Good Times, 30 January 1974

YOU COULDN'T find a more classic showcase for the Good Rats than Ubie's O.T.J, in West Islip. Monday night means beer blast at Ubie's, Wednesdays ...

The Good Rats: American Band Via Long Island

Profile and Interview by Wayne Robins, Creem, April 1974

YOU COULDN'T find a more classic showcase for the Good Rats than Ubie's O.T.J. in West Islip. ...

Carpenters, The: The Carpenters: Up From Downey

Profile and Interview by Tom Nolan, Rolling Stone, 4 July 1974

KAREN CARPENTER, the solo singing half of a brother and sister musical duo that has sold over 25 million records world-wide, has classic "good looks" ...

The Guess Who: Guess Who's a smash!

Profile and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 28 December 1974

"I WANTED to buy some records, so I went collecting for UNICEF on Halloween and took the money," recalls the 26-year-old lead singer for the ...

Revelation: B&S debut feature: Revelation

Profile and Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 15 April 1975

"POSITIVE THINKING and a high energy level" are, according to Benny Diggs, what make Revelation what they are. If you ever feel that you want ...

Little Feat in Heat

Profile and Interview by Sam Sutherland, Phonograph Record, December 1975

LOWELL GEORGE is ravaged, eyes wired with fatigue beneath the peak of a floppy leather poorboy cap, face pallid against the dark beard. He smiles ...

Gene Clark: The Soulful Return Of Gene Clark

Profile and Interview by Mick Brown, Sounds, 24 January 1976

WHILE ROGER McGuinn plays with his electronic toys in his Hollywood mansion and makes records that are mere shadows of his past work; while David ...

Peter Frampton: How Frampton Came Alive

Profile and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 10 July 1976

WHAT WAS it about the Fifties that encouraged the birth of so much talent? Was it the result of H-bomb testing or increased sunspot activity ...

Queen

Profile and Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 18 September 1976

BRIAN MAY remembers Queen's first-ever free gig well. It was in London, five years ago, when the band invited 120 people along to a lecture ...

Thin Lizzy: Tonight There's Gonna Be Trouble!

Profile and Interview by Wesley Strick, Circus, 30 December 1976

Thin Lizzy Stalks the Fury of Fandom. By Wesley Strick ...

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes: Southside Johnny: Bisexual Artichoke?

Profile and Interview by Robert Duncan, Creem, August 1977

New Trends In Art Rock From New Jersey ...

Controllers, The: The Controllers: Four Young Men With A Soulful Message

Profile and Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 17 January 1978

ALMOST EVER since the term "soul music" was coined – and it might be interesting to find out just who coined it first! – there ...

Hot: When You're Hot You're Hot

Profile and Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 31 January 1978

ONE OF the biggest international hits of 1977 belongs to three, very attractive, very intelligent young women who go by the name of Hot. ...

Detective: Watching The Detective

Profile and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 18 March 1978

LOS ANGELES is a city full of Englishmen and Anglophiles. British bands don't play here any more, they live here. Londoners hanging out at the ...

Third World: Now That We've Found A Hit

Profile and Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 18 November 1978

BY JAMAICAN STANDARDS, Third World are pretty unique. Going against the run of the studio-dominated JA music scene, founder members guitarist Stephen "Cat" Coore and ...