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Roxy Music: Siren

Review by Simon Frith, Rolling Stone, 1 January 1976

THERE USED TO be this ad (in the Fifties, I suppose) for a cigarette: YOU'RE NEVER ALONE WITH A STRAND! A guy alone in the ...

Patti Smith: Her Horses Got Wings, They Can Fly

Profile and Interview by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 1 January 1976

Factory Girl, Coal Stove Visionary, Scion of Rimbaud and the Ronettes, Patti Smith Now Challenges the Assembly Line of Rock & Roll ...

David Bowie: Station To Station

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 10 January 1976

"A sixty thousand word novel is one image corrected fifty-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times"– Samuel R. Delaney ...

Journey's Long Road: From Santana to Space Rock

Interview by Tom Vickers, Rolling Stone, 15 January 1976

SAN FRANCISCO — A few years after acid rock dried up in the Bay Area, the talk turned to the music of the Mission district ...

Lou Reed: Coney Island Baby

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 24 January 1976

ARGUABLY, THERE IS no more exciting rock artist to listen to than one whose time has come; one whose art (not to mention attitude, appearance, ...

David Bowie: Station to Station (RCA)

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 24 January 1976

IN MY PHYSICS textbook at school was an amazing photo of two galaxies colliding. Just imagine being on a planet in a system in either ...

Doobie Brothers: The Doobies Brothers: Street Fighting Men

Interview by Steven Rosen, Sounds, 24 January 1976

DRUMMER JOHN Hartman leans back precariously in the Memphis Hotel room chair, fingers locked behind head and mouth working in a typically rapid manner. He's ...

Sweet: The Sweet: Top of the Pops

Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 31 January 1976

OH, YOU know, it gets so very confusing. What with the fickleness of all these rock writers and the constant need to come across with ...

David Bowie: Ground Control To Davy Jones

Interview by Cameron Crowe, Rolling Stone, February 1976

CORINNE SCHWAB is probably the last holdover from David Bowie's glitter glam phase – the days of Ziggy Stardust, Moonage Daydream, gaudy costumes, hulking bodyguards, ...

Television: Tom Verlaine

Interview by Alan Betrock, New York Rocker, February 1976

I WAS BORN in Morristown, New Jersey. Actually I was born in the hospital there but I spent the first few years in this lake ...

John's Children, Jet (UK): Andy Ellison Talks About John's Children, Marc Bolan, Jet, Psychedelics, Etc., Etc.

Interview by Dave Schulps, Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press, February 1976

DS: WAS JOHN'S Children your first band? ...

Mumps ...And Other Childhood Diseases

Profile by Lisa Persky, New York Rocker, February 1976

IN THE MUSIC biz, even on the chic Bowery, many a band are slain in the taking. An attempt on the life of one band ...

Iggy Pop, Runaways, The, Hollywood Stars, The, New Order (US), The: The L.A. Rock Explosion

Overview by Phast Phreddie Patterson, New York Rocker, February 1976

IN THE BEGINNING... ...

Be-Bop Deluxe: Arty Smarty Or Just The Guitar Hero Next Door?

Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 7 February 1976

THE SAME sign as Hendrix: Sagittarius. Into Hank Marvin, Duane Eddy, Wes Montgomery, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry and BB King. And Jimi Hendrix. ...

David Bowie: Station To Station (RCA ALP1-1327)

Review by Ian MacDonald, Street Life, 7 February 1976

Bowie's Station: The Playback Of The Western World ...

Robert Palmer: Pressure Drop

Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 12 February 1976

BRITISHER Robert Palmer is another marcher in the growing column of white folks who prefer playing it greasy and getting down (notable recent examples: Bowie, ...

Scott Walker, Walker Brothers, The: Scott Walker: No Regrets

Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 14 February 1976

IT'S ONLY mid-afternoon, but the curtains are drawn and the lights are out. The room is in darkness and at first it looks empty. "Hi, ...

The Fania All Stars: The Fania All-Stars: It's Skinny [OLÉ] It's Dangerous [OLÉ OLÉ] And It Drinks Cheap Spanish Wine...

Overview by Miles, NME, 14 February 1976

With a rose clenched between his teeth, the man they call EL MILES infiltrates the heady, exotic world of the Strand Lyceum, where trousers are ...

Fania All Stars, The, Ray Barretto: The Fania All-Stars: Salsa

Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 14 February 1976

You don't have to come from Puerto Rico to dig Salsa. Vivien Goldman hails from Golders Green and she's sold on it. Anyway, wherever you ...

Queen: Does Queen Out-Led Zep — Or Out-Uriah Heep?

Comment by John Swenson, The Village Voice, 16 February 1976

TWO MONTHS ago Warner Communications pulled its latest executive shakeup, moving David Lessen from Elektra/Asylum to the board of directors and replacing him with former ...