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Who, The: The Who: Bang A Gong The Who Get It On

Report by Barbara Charone, New Musical Express, 11 August 1973

THE MAN across the road didn't really understand why Keith Moon was standing in the pouring rain, beating on a Paiste gong outside the Who's ...

Evelyn Thomas, Gloria Gaynor, The Weather Girls: High Energy

Report by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, 7 June 1984

It's a new type of dance beat. Hazell Dean's 'Searchin'' is High Energy; so are The Weather Girls, Gloria Gaynor and Evelyn Thomas. The charts ...

CBGB: This Ain't No Mudd Club

Report by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 10 February 1994

CBGB celebrates its 20 years of rock & roll ...

The Beat, Fleetwood Mac: The US Festival: Us & Them

Report by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 25 September 1982

That Woz the Fest that Woz! Barney Hoskyns takes a bite of the rotten Apple and hangs his head in despair ...

Fela Kuti: Africa's Cult Musician: Fela Anikulapo Kuti

Report by Nicholas Jennings, Maclean's, 13 October 1986

WHEN ONE OF Africa's most celebrated musicians receives visitors at his home in the Nigerian capital of Lagos, he lounges in little more than a ...

Jimmy "Orion" Ellis, Orion: Hail, Hail O Mighty Orion!

Report by Robot A. Hull, Creem, June 1981

NASHVILLE,TN — Who is this masked man? Does he, in some way, bear a relationship to the original myth of the hunter Orion? Let us ...

Rolling Stones, The: The Rolling Stones: When Irish Fans Are Punching

Report by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 11 September 1965

ALAN WALSH, MM MAN-ON-THE-SPOT, REPORTS THE STONES' IRISH TOUR ...

Portishead, Massive Attack, Tricky: Trip Hop: Another City, Another New Sound

Report by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 28 May 1995

POP GROUPS hate being identified as part of a scene centred on a city. But if there's one thing bands resent even more, it is ...

Won't Woodstock Ever End?

Report by Loraine Alterman, Rolling Stone, 7 February 1970

NEW YORK — "The picture is not as bad as it was," John Roberts, toothpaste heir head of the Woodstock Group (nee Ventures) says. "We've ...

Earl Scruggs, Hank Williams, Uncle Dave Macon, Jim Reeves, Bill Anderson, Lester Flatt, Ernest Tubb: Durable Formula for Grand Ole Opry

Report by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 26 November 1961

NASHVILLE, TENN. After thirty-five years of broadcasting, the grand old dinosaur of American radio, Grand Ole Opry, is as boisterously alive as ever. The show ...

A little sax with the snorkelling: Spice Jazz festival, Grenada

Report by Chris Salewicz, Daily Telegraph, 3 March 2001

Grenada is trying to extend its season with a jazz festival. For Chris Salewitz, the listening was all too easy. ...

The Beach Boys: America Celebrates

Report by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, June 1976

"This is gonna be the most outrageous summer story of all"– Mike Love ...

Northern Soul: Fact, Fiction, Faction, Friction

Report by Idris Walters, Street Life, 15 November 1975

IS NORTHERN SOUL DYING ON ITS FEET? ...

Michael Jackson: Called To Account

Report by Dorian Lynskey, The Word, October 2006

If Michael Jackson had put his money in a Post Office account he could have bought a small country, but his legendary spending has left ...

Glastonbury: "I am offered cocaine. I am offered ecstasy. But what I really want is a lethal injection."

Report by Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 5 July 1998

AND SO, INEVITABLY, it has come to this. In a teeming beer tent near to the main Pyramid stage at Glastonbury, Paddy is crouched over ...

Acid Crackdown: Sunrise III, Greenwich

Report by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 19 November 1988

2003 note: Sunrise III, which took place in November 1988 on an industrial wasteland that would later house the Dome, was a pivotal event in ...

David Bowie: Meet Chas, he's been mad about Bowie since he was a lad

Report by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 1 December 2017

From diehard to recent fans, Tim Cooper spends the night immersed in Bowie fanatics. ...

Sound Of Silence: The Rise Of The Compact Disc

Report by Jack Barron, Sounds, 13 December 1986

You don't have to be a classical fanatic or yuppie stadium rock lover to appreciate compact disc – the quiet revolution has hit the indie ...

Prince at the Super Bowl: A Preview

Report by Evelyn McDonnell, Times Herald-Record, 4 February 2007

WHEN PRINCE sat down with the producers of Super Bowl XLI entertainment to make his pitch for playing the halftime show, he had done his ...

Paul Oakenfold, Paul van Dyk: Trance: New Invader on the Dance Floor

Report by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 29 November 1998

THE ESPERANTO of electronic dance music, trance is probably the most popular rave sound in the world. Although this kinetic, hypnotic music has maintained a ...