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Jimi Hendrix: The Experience Music Project Opens in Seattle (Part 1)

Report by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, 24 June 2000

IT WASN'T YOUR typical ribbon cutting. Gazillionaire Paul Allen smashed a Stratocaster made of unflavored green rock candy, designed especially for the occasion by glass ...

The Big Chill Festival

Report by Sheryl Garratt, The Observer, 26 August 2001

IT'S A WARM Sunday afternoon, and I'm stretched out on the grass watching white clouds blow across blue sky, while Norman Jay plays some of ...

Van Halen: Café Wha?

Live Review by Alan Light, MSN.com, January 2012

"WELCOME TO Occupy Van Halen!," said a grinning David Lee Roth, as the band took to the stage of New York's tiny basement club Café ...

Prince: My Name Is Prince: O2, London

Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 27 October 2017

I HADN'T anticipated the sudden pang of sadness as I walked in and saw all those gaudy, gloriously naff outfits. My eyes went straight to ...

Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, Jesse Colin Young, Quicksilver Messenger Service: Woodstock Remembered: KGB stages a rock festival

Report by Steven Rosen, LA Free Press, November 1972

SUNDAY’S KGB "Charity Ball" was important for one reason: the concert proved that people in large numbers can still come together for an event and ...

Eric Burdon: Monterey Pop Festival: Eric Burdon — 'It Was A Good Beginning'

Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 15 July 1967

"I THINK THE Monterey Festival was agood beginning for what may follow in the next few years. But I think there were a lot of ...

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 ...

Woodstock (Dir. Michael Wadleigh, Warner Bros.)

Film/DVD/TV Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 23 May 1970

WOODSTOCK — BEST FILM EVER MADE ABOUT POP ...

Various Artists: Woodstock (Atlantic, stereo 2663001; 150s)

Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 30 May 1970

Monster albums from Woodstock ...

Woodstock: Peace Mecca

Report by Danny Goldberg, Billboard, 30 August 1969

BETHEL, N.Y. – About 400,000 rock fans gave peace a chance Aug. 15-18, and it worked. For them and the overwhelmed residents of this Catskills ...

Who, The: The Who: Second thoughts on Monterey

Interview by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 1 July 1967

Pete Townshend talks to Nick Jones ...

1967, The Summer of Love: There Was a Brief Moment When the Sun Really Shone

Memoir by Judith Sims, Los Angeles Times, 2 August 1987

I'LL GET right to the point: 1967 was one of the best years of my life. ...

Tom Waits: The Bridge School Benefit, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, California, October 27, 2013

Live Review by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, January 2014

In which a failed restauranteur — specialities: eel, donuts, fish scales — repays his debt to Neil Young. Lucky day! ...

Why I made a 15,000-mile trip to a jazz festival when I don't even like jazz

Report by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 10 March 2017

THIS WEEK I made a round trip of 15,000 miles to go to a jazz festival on the other side of the world.  ...

Band, The, Beatles, The, Jimmy Cliff, Bob Dylan, Diana Krall, Led Zeppelin, Elvis Presley, Rolling Stones, The, Paul Simon, Spinal Tap, Talking Heads, Who, The, Dexter Gordon: 25 Essential Music DVDs

Guide by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, September 2004

1. The Last Waltz THE BAND'S elegant swansong is the ultimate rock concert movie. Director Martin Scorsese's discreet camerawork and superb sound captures inspired performances from ...

Arthur Brown, Ginger Baker, Jeff Beck, Jerry Lee Lewis, Joe Cocker, John Mayall, Marmalade, The Nice, Spencer Davis Group, Tim Rose, Traffic, Tyrannosaurus Rex: NME Reporters Cover the Weekend's Major Event — the Eighth National Jazz and Blues Festival

Live Review by Keith Altham, Richard Green, NME, 17 August 1968

STARS, SUNSHINE and a SHAMBLES ...

Country Joe & The Fish, Crosby Stills and Nash, Jimi Hendrix, Who, The: Woodstock: Back To The Garden

Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, Record Collector, October 2009

40 years on, Woodstock's epochal celebration of music, peace and unleashed hedonism is being marked with an unprecedented deluge of audio and visual releases. KRIS ...

Monterey Pops! An International Pop Festival

Report by Michael Lydon, unpublished, for Newsweek, 20 June 1967

Reporting for Newsweek took me to Monterey. I'd gone to work for Newsweek right out of college in 1965 – I was a reporter in ...

Chicago, The Doors, Emerson Lake And Palmer, Jimi Hendrix, John Sebastian, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis, The Moody Blues, Pentangle, Procol Harum, Richie Havens, Taste, Ten Years After, Tiny Tim, The Who: The Isle of Wight Festival: Five Days That Rocked Britain

Report by Chris Welch, Michael Watts, Richard Williams, Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 5 September 1970

MM's Richard Williams, Chris Welch, Michael Watts and Mark Plummer present a five-page report on an amazing weekend of music and other scenes... ...

Monterey Pops! An International Pop Festival (2)

Report by Michael Lydon, unpublished, for Newsweek, 20 June 1967

Part TwoDAY TWO was over and Sunday came grey and cold, but the excitement was still there and growing. Could anyone believe what had happened, ...