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Twiggy: A Mini-Everything

Profile and Interview by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 6 May 1967

NEW YORK – The world's most in-the-news model, Britain's seventeen year old Twiggy, arrived at Kennedy International Airport to a horde of newsmen and photographers ...

Pink Floyd: Freak out comes to town

Profile and Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 22 July 1967

MUCH HAS been written, and even more said, of the whys and wherefores of the Pink Floyd. ...

Pink Floyd: His dream girl turned into a hit song!

Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Jackie, 31 October 1967

Instant Guide to The Pink Floyd ...

The Incredible String Band: Once Again, Is It Folk?

Profile and Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 16 March 1968

WHEN poet Pete Brown, lyric-writer for the Cream, heard the new Incredible String Band LP, The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, he said: "That's what the Rolling ...

Blue Cheer: Top Tunes: Blue Cheer

Profile and Interview by Michael Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 13 April 1968

"THESE GUYS are just like Hell's Angels. The only difference is that they don't have motorcycles — they have their instruments." ...

Gary Puckett & The Union Gap: 16 Salutes The Union Gap

Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, 16 Magazine, July 1968

IN THIS day and age, with all the competition, it's quite an accomplishment to have a top ten record – especially for a new group. ...

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Smokey Robinson: Smokey Robinson

Profile and Interview by Michael Lydon, Rolling Stone, 28 September 1968

SMOKEY ROBINSON is the reigning genius of Top-40. Since the Beatles and the Beach Boys dropped out of the single-then-follow-up-album pattern aimed at the AM ...

Jose Feliciano: Jose Makes Old Very Avantgarde

Profile and Interview by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 12 October 1968

IF, AS THE cynics say, there is nothing new in the world, then the mark of the truly creative performer is one who can make ...

Doors, The: The Doors: Can They Still 'Light My Fire'?

Profile and Interview by Michael Lydon, The New York Times, 19 January 1969

"PLAY 'LIGHT MY FIRE’!" "Yeah, ‘Light My Fire.’" Out of the vastness of the Los Angeles Forum, its 18,000 seats filled on a December Saturday ...

Big Brother & The Holding Company, Janis Joplin: Big Brother & The Holding Company: Where They're At

Profile and Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, February 1969

BIG BROTHER and the Holding Company exploded on the national scene in the summer of 1967 at the Monterey Pop Festival when Janis Joplin, feet ...

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 ...

Janis Joplin: The Wildest Girl-Creature?

Profile and Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 12 April 1969

THEY CALL her: "The new American talent-character; the wildest girl-creature to burst on the in-person and disc scene yet." They call her: "a kind of ...

Stooges, The: The Ig Unbound: Some of the Real Truth About Iggy Stooge

Profile and Interview by John Mendelssohn, Entertainment World, 29 May 1970

FOR THIS ridiculously typical young swinger doing the whole, you know, number right there in the center of the Whisky dance-floor the last 45 minutes ...

Savoy Brown: Lookin' In, Lookin' Out

Profile and Interview by Dave Marsh, Circus, October 1970

IF THE BRITISH blues scene seems circular, both in terms of the way it has progressed over the last few years and in terms of ...

Joe Simon

Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 19 March 1971

WITH JOE Simon's signature, Spring Records have gained their first real entry into the super-star league. Joe's first for the label, 'Your Time To Cry', ...

Funkadelic, Parliament: Parliament/Funkadelic: A Parliafunkadelicment Thang

Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 14 May 1971

RARELY DOES an R&B act cause any controversy or speculation prior to making a British tour. But the one exception in recent years is Funkadelic, ...

Chocolate Syrup: Introducing Chocolate Syrup

Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 7 January 1972

1971 HAS been a remarkable year for group's names and none has been more imaginative than Chocolate Syrup, five young men who are currently enjoying ...

Undisputed Truth, The: The Undisputed Truth: Undisputed Talent; That's The Truth!

Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 28 April 1972

CERTAINLY ONE of the most impressive of 1971's many noteworthy new talents is Motown's trio, the Undisputed Truth. Though not initially discovered by him, Norman ...

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 ...

Major Lance

Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 16 June 1972

IF WE had to nominate the most asked after Soul artist who is outside of the super league of the Hayes/Mayfield/James Brown/Motown and ilk, it ...