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Valentino, Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon, Charlie & Ray: Gay Soul

Overview by Tony Cummings, Black Music, August 1975

Valentino's 'I Was Born This Way' is probably the most upfront "gay" record ever to get played in the discos (where it's a big hit). ...

Larry Parnes

Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, NME, 2 August 1975

"Marty Wilde was managed by Larry Parnes – 'They don't call me Parnes, shillings and pence for nothing' – who entered rock as Tommy Steele's ...

David Bowie: Did We Use Him? Did We Abuse Him?

Essay by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 2 August 1975

Well, he's acting like we did, so maybe there's something in it. Two recent and much-maligned Bowie albums are herein re-evaluated for your reading pleasure... ...

Be-Bop Deluxe at Aylesbury

Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 9 August 1975

THE FIRST THING that hits you when you see Be-Bop Deluxe in their current incarnation (or, for that matter, listen to said incarnation's Futurama album ...

Rick Wakeman: Liszten To Rick!

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 16 August 1975

Lisztomania is quite a movie, says Rick Wakeman. He plays Thor in the film, as well as producing the music, and he tells Chris Welch ...

Stevie Wonder - Blind, Gifted and Loaded

Report by Bob Woffinden, NME, 23 August 1975

THERE HAS BEEN an official silence about Stevie Wonder's plans since he publicly announced in March last year that he was to retire in 1976 ...

Disco Kids in Gay L.A.

Report by Richard Cromelin, Rolling Stone, 28 August 1975

Where cycle sluts, tanktoppers and dedicated bumpers dance, dance, dance, stick poppers up adversity's nose and dodge surging roachers... ...

Lou Reed

Discography by Andy Childs, ZigZag, September 1975

THERE WAS once a time when I thought that Lou Reed was the single most important person working in contemporary American rock 'n' roll. I ...

The Strawbs: Ten Years of the Strawbs: From Donegan to Dali in Five Easy Stages

Interview by Jerry Gilbert, ZigZag, September 1975

THROUGH A ten-year period that has seen them frequently under-rated, and a time when they probably least deserved it the subject of mass adulation, the ...

Aerosmith: No Fear Of Flying Aero Smith

Interview by Wayne Robins, Creem, September 1975

A SIGN OF SUCCESS: Steven Tyler is eating escargot and oysters rockefeller at a downtown Detroit seafood restaurant. ...

Ian Hunter: Ian Hunter

Review by Andy Childs, ZigZag, September 1975

ON THE back page of Sounds dated 12/4/75 there's an ad for this album which includes a quote apparently taken from ZigZag, saying simply "a ...

Bruce Springsteen: Born To Run (CBS Import)

Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 6 September 1975

Roy Orbison makes big comeback ...

Robert Calvert

Interview by Vivien Goldman, NME, 20 September 1975

"ANYONE WHO KNOWS my work" said Bob Calvert earnestly, "would realise that however bad they might think it is, it's all intentional." ...

Santana: Guitarists Bore Me To Tears

Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 20 September 1975

OF ALL the great groups to have emerged out of San Francisco since the mid-sixties, Santana have retained a musical credibility that surpasses their home ...

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band: Alex Harvey: Delivered From The Jaws Of Death

Report by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 20 September 1975

...We proudly present the intrepid ALEX HARVEY, fresh from being restrained from swimming in the shark tank and currently engaged in entertaining the young people ...

David Bowie: Lindsay Kemp: Camp? No — Kemp

Interview by Mick Brown, Sounds, 20 September 1975

Lindsay Kemp says it with Flowers. He also aided and abetted the transformation of David Bowie into Ziggy Stardust. Mick Brown reports. ...

Tubes, The: The Tubes: The Tubes (A&M SP-4534)

Review by Wayne Robins, Rolling Stone, 25 September 1975

THE TUBES seem to be a theater group that parodies rock & roll and its associated social conventions of the last five years. There are ...

Jethro Tull: The Jethro Tull Story

Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 27 September 1975

"I want to justify the place on my passport where it says 'Occupation: musician'. I feel that I've not yet really justified that" Harry Doherty ...

David Bowie: Station to Station – A Report

Report by Ben Edmonds, Phonograph Record, January 1976

A YEAR AGO, David Bowie's public face was a mess. The Diamond Dogs tour he'd recently completed had certainly been successful enough, but it was ...