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Blind Faith, Jimi Hendrix, Traffic, Steve Winwood: Steve Winwood says — Groups must play much much softer

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 4 January 1969

"FREAKING OUT with volume is over. Everybody seemed to think volume was the revolution of the music. That's okay theatrically, but not musically." ...

Noel Redding: I Dream Of Jimi

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 1 May 1976

"THEY'VE gotta name for you people." Eric Bell settled back in a speeding Volkswagen as we wound through the West Cork countryside, and addressed the ...

The Nice: 1968 The Year Of The Nice

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

NICE ARE now one of Britain's top groups, ranking with Cream and Jimi Hendrix's Experience. And as Cream aren't working and are on the edge ...

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 ...

Jack Bruce: The Heavy Burdens Of Jack’s Shoulders

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 24 January 1970

HIGH COURT Judges have often been heard to observe that pop stars have "grave responsibilities." However, they are usually referring to suspected powers of influence ...

Beach Boys, The: After The Maharishi What Next For The Beach Boys?

Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 1 June 1968

AN UNEXPECTED bonus came out of the collapse of the Beach Boys' abortive tour with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. After the Indian mystic split the trek, ...

Led Zeppelin: How They Got Led Zeppelin Off The Ground...

Interview by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 5 July 1969

OUT IN THE wilds of Willesden, a not-so-salubrious part of North London, Britain's heaviest band are cutting tracks for their second album before they return ...

Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll: Brian Auger: DANGER: All Our Groups are Going Abroad

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 18 May 1968

GREAT NEWS for all diggers of Britain's most power packed duo this week, as Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll finally crack the chart problem. ...

Love

Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Melody Maker, 28 February 1970

ARTHUR LEE, mastermind and founder member of American west coast group Love, seemed surprised when I suggested that the band had faded into oblivion after ...

Charles Lloyd: Why Lloyd Wants To Play With The Stones

Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Melody Maker, 23 January 1971

CHARLES LLOYD doesn't want to be known as the first jazzman to play the rock halls, Fillmore and Avalon. He says that categorization is demeaning, ...

Suede: Camden Underworld, London

Live Review by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 13 June 1992

PRETENTIOUS? CHAMOIS? ...

Larry Coryell, Gary Burton: Larry Coryell: Breaking Through The Barriers

Interview by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 4 November 1967

MM pop writer Nick Jones on the Gary Burton quartet in general — and guitarist Larry Coryell in particular — finds new hope for jazz ...

Last Exit: Really Free

Interview by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 14 June 1986

AS if he hasn't got enough on his plate, what with producing Motorhead and Fourth World funking all over the place, BILL LASWELL's gone and ...

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 ...