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Hamilton Bohannon: Return of a Disco Legend: Hamilton Bohannon

Report and Interview by Edward Helmore, The Guardian, 17 March 2014

The disco pioneer Hamilton Bohannon played his first show in 30 years this weekend. We were there, and caught up with him afterwards. ...

Living Colour: 93 Minutes With Corey Glover and Vernon Reid

Report and Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, New York, 4 October 2009

Twenty-one years after 'Cult of Personality', Living Colour has a new album, a few regrets, and no intention of ever wearing neon spandex again. ...

Living Colour: Don't Call Living Colour a "Cult" Band, Please

Report and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 24 July 2013

LIVING COLOUR vocalist Corey Glover knows it. He knows that, despite putting out five studio albums of criminally underrated rock, mention their name and the ...

Tindersticks, Belle And Sebastian: Rocking the Cradle: Songs for Kids

Report and Interview by James Medd, Esquire, February 2007

Yes, it's children's music-but these dark, soulful, sweet tunes are a long way from Bob the Builder. ...

Lothar and the Hand People: Return Of The Weird: Lothar and the Hand People

Report and Interview by Steven R Rosen, Denver Post, 29 October 1995

"YOU THINK THERE'LL be enough interest in this that I'll be able to make a fortune giving theremin lessons?" ...

Buffalo Springfield, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Stephen Stills: Stills Life

Report and Interview by Geoffrey Cannon, Melody Maker, 28 November 1970

A portrait of a rock giant... at work on his solo LP and at home in his English country house ...

The Mamas and The Papas, Scott McKenzie: The Mamas and The Papas: Mamas And Papas Have A Feud On Their Hands

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, NME, 8 July 1967

"SOMEONE has just shot our gardener – I can't speak to you just now. Come up tomorrow," invited a harassed John Phillips, of the Mamas ...

2 Timers

Report and Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 18 March 1978

New York's newest are 'like The Heartbreakers on brown rice', said someone. SANDY ROBERTSON agrees, and then some. ...

John Mayall: Bare Wires

Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 13 July 1968

JOHN MAYALL HAS taken a great leap forward with his Bare Wires suite which takes up one side of his latest Decca album. ...

Santana: Carlos Santana’s Journey Toward Perfection

Report and Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 21 February 1980

"I’VE WANTED SOME Roy Rogers boots ever since I was a kid." Seated in his manager’s office, Devadip Carlos Santana pulls on a glistening red ...

Kid Jensen

Report and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, January 1972

KID JENSEN IS probably more able to make or break an album than any other radio jockey in the free world. His two-hour show is ...

Chris Spedding: Speeding With Spedding

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 20 September 1975

DEEP IN the bowels of Television Centre, Chris Spedding whiles away the hours in a dressing room, waiting for those few minutes on TOTP when ...

Rufus Thomas: Rufus and The Funky Penguin

Report and Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 1 January 1972

RUFUS THOMAS was half-way through a busy tour the last time we met. This time round I caught up with him just two days before ...

Harvey Mandel: Fluctuating Intensity

Report and Interview by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 25 November 1972

HARVEY MANDEL is a conversationalist of flucuatingly intensities. Sometimes he's right with you, sometimes he's way ahead, and other times he spaces out and you ...

Mountain, Leslie West: Mountain Man Leslie West Once Had Houston at His Fingers

Report and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 19 November 2013

"YOU'RE IN HOUSTON, so let me ask you something," a gravelly, low voice asks on the other end of the phone. "Is the bed you're ...

Jeff Buckley: Keeper of the Flame: Jeff Buckley's Mum

Report and Interview by Mark Paytress, The Guardian, 30 October 2002

IT IS FIVE YEARS since Jeff Buckley took his final, mid-evening stroll into the Wolf River, a sleepy tourist spot on the outskirts of Memphis, ...

Jimi Hendrix, Fat Mattress: In the name of pop music NME's RICHARD GREEN suffers a... NOEL REDDING EXPERIENCE

Report and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 5 October 1968

IT IS VERY unlikely that the Editor will send me to Biafra to cover the war for the NME or that I shall be asked ...

Nice, The: Richard Green goes afloat with Nice

Report and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 21 September 1968

And nearly goes down with them! ...