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Report and Interview by Johnny Black, Smash Hits, 6 January 1983
"I ACTUALLY ENJOY Top Of The Pops very much but it lacks the excitement of a live programme. You can't cheat the kids. You've got ...
Billy Bragg, Paul Weller, Tom Robinson Band: Red Wedge
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, March 1996
Only one thing could possibly save us from vicious '80s Conservatism: the assembly of pop pinkos that made up the Labour-supporting Red Wedge organisation. Johnny ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Q, February 1997
THE TWIST WAS the most remarkable dance phenomenon in the history of the rock era. Here's the story of how it happened in the words ...
The Supremes: Mary Wilson on The Supremes
Retrospective by Johnny Black, MOJO, April 1997
"ONE DAY IN mid-April we were all summoned to berrys home on Outer Drive," remembers Mary Wilson of The Supremes. "As I drove there, I ...
Steve Winwood, Traffic: Steve Winwood
Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, May 1997
IT WAS NOT UNTIL 1993, 30 years after he first heard Ray Charles sing, that Steve Winwood met his lifelong idol. Winwood happened to be ...
James Brown, B.B. King, Lloyd Price: Eyewitness: The Black Woodstock — 22-23 September 1974
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, June 2000
As Muhammad Ali and George Foreman waited to go toe-to-toe in Zaire, Don King persuaded James Brown and BB King to headline a music festival. ...
The Bee Gees: You Lookin' At Me?
Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, May 2001
"WHAT IMAGE?" ASKS BARRY Gibb. "I haven't got an image." What he does have, though, is a guitar. It's a second-hand customised hollow-bodied Epiphone, bought ...
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, June 2001
IT WAS EASTER 1965. THE STONES were at Number 1 in the UK with 'The Last Time', The Beatles and The Supremes were battling it ...
Beatles, The, Paul McCartney: Paul McCartney (2003)
Interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages Audio, 14 March 2003
A long, free-flowing conversation, during which Paul talks about Phil Spector and Let It Be, on his relationship with Yoko and the "whose name first" saga, and the deaths of John Lennon and George Harrison, plus much more.
File format: mp3; file size: 75.8mb, total interview length: 1h 22' 44" sound quality: ****
Pink Floyd, Move, The, Tomorrow, Soft Machine, Mick Farren, Arthur Brown: We Have Lift Off!
Retrospective by Johnny Black, MOJO, February 2004
In less than one year, London's UFO (pronounced "you-foe") club became the nocturnal haunt of the '60s counterculture, gathering place for the Beatles, Stones and ...
Randy California, Spirit: Randy California
Retrospective by Johnny Black, MOJO, February 2004
Just turned 22, Spirit guitarist and figurehead Randy California stands on Chelsea Bridge, staring down into the grey waters of the River Thames. It's April 1973, ...
T. Rex, Cure, The, Oasis, Pulp: Top 5 Unforgettable Glastonbury Moments
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Music Week, May 2007
1. 19-20 September 1970: The very first Glastonbury It was a triumph of faith over common sense. Having snuck in for free to the Bath Festival ...
Wembley Arenaversary: A Legendary Venue Turns 50
Report and Interview by Johnny Black, Audience, March 2009
FIFTY YEARS AGO, in March, 1959, Petula Clark, Lonnie Donegan and rising young songstrel Shirley Bassey appeared in the Record Star Show, the first live ...
Profile and Interview by Johnny Black, Music Week, June 2009
IT'S OBVIOUS to anyone with even a smattering of pop music suss that without Neil Sedaka there would be no 'Breaking Up Is Hard To ...
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages, March 2010
ON 28 OCTOBER, 1964, the T.A.M.I. Show was recorded at the Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. T.A.M.I. stood for Television Audience Measurement Index, though ...
Supertramp: Vinyl Icon: Supertramp's Breakfast In America
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, June 2010
WHEN SUPERTRAMP released their sixth album, Breakfast In America, on March 29, 1979, the two core members of the band, Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies, ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Music Week, June 2011
ANYONE LOOKING for a dream come true probably wouldn't start in a hole in the ground in the remote hinterland of Cornwall. Nevertheless, that's what ...
Spade Cooley: Eye Witness: Spade Cooley Murders His Wife
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Country, January 2014
IN THE EARLY 1960s, ageing country music star Spade Cooley and his significantly younger wife Ella Mae were living on his remote ranch, Rosamund, in ...
Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac: Peter Green and Fleetwood Mac
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Blues, January 2014
PETER GREEN IS, arguably, the most underrated lead guitarist of the British mid-'60s blues boom, consistently relegated to a position somewhere below the holy triumverate ...
Electric Light Orchestra: Vinyl Icon: ELO's Out Of The Blue
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, February 2014
MUSIC THAT was reviled by the critics in its day frequently proves to have lasting merit which only reveals itself in the fullness of time. ...
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