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Spencer Davis Group: 'Somebody' Makes No. 1 — But Too Quickly For Spence!

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, NME, 15 April 1966

THAT WELL-known chart topper and expectant father ("If it's a bloke I'm going to call him Gregory") and man about Potters Bar – Spencer Davis, ...

Lindisfarne: How Wee Wee Music Went Down The Drain

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, NME, 13 October 1973

LAST WEEK I heard the new Lindisfarne album, provisionally titled Don't Rip It...I'll Take It By The Yard with sleeve complete and scheduled for release ...

John Sebastian: Welcome Back Hits

Profile and Interview by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, May 1976

"I DID DOZE OFF for a long while." John Sebastian speaking, summing up his last few years. Up until a few weeks ago, that's ...

Captain Beefheart: The Number One Weirdo Comes Back To Earth

Interview by John Morthland, Gig, February 1978

ON PAPER, IT probably sounds like just another Captain Beefheart comeback. Lord knows he's had his share. Yet for his fans, it's a most welcome ...

Buffalo Springfield: The Buffalo Springfield

Profile by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, June 1967

THE BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD was formed in California in the spring of 1966. Too poor to afford rehearsal space, they were practicing at the edge of ...

Brown Shoes Don't Make It

Comment by Charles Shaar Murray, Oz, May 1970

IT WAS, AT least for me and most of the people I know, the music that first aroused interest in things Underground, and the music ...

Denny Laine, Georgie Fame, Moody Blues, The: Denny Cordell: The Man...

Interview by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 5 August 1967

...behind Procol Harum, the Move, Georgie Fame and Denny Laine talks about why he is a record producer ...

Modern Folk Quartet, The: MFQ Members Are Zany Philosphers

Profile and Interview by Carol Deck, KRLA Beat, 6 November 1965

From Folk to Rock ...

Rascals, The: The Young Rascals Inside a Phone Booth

Profile by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 2 July 1966

OUTSIDE IT'S cold. Very. This time of the year in New York always is. Inside the Phone Booth it's hot — Los Angeles during August. ...

Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel: Paul Simon: Pop think-in

Interview by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 30 April 1966

The biggest thing Dylan has got going for him is his mystique ...

Tim Hardin

Profile and Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Hullabaloo, October 1968

He says that if he doesn't die, he'll be rich and famous. Probably, all things being equal. In most instances, the legend looms larger than ...

Donovan, Petula Clark: Fun, Work Behind The Cameras At Filming of 2nd T.A.M.I. Show

Report by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 25 December 1965

A COUPLE OF weeks ago The BEAT took you behind the scenes of a recording session to show you that it was not so easy ...

Jonathan Richman: There's Something about Jonathan

Retrospective and Interview by Max Bell, The Independent, 25 September 1998

Jonathan Richman introduced us to the abominable snowman in the supermarket. Now, like wow, he's a film star. ...

The Rascals: The Definitive Rascals

Sleevenotes by Gene Sculatti, Rhino, February 2007

"THE FIRST ALBUM wasn't us," Felix Cavaliere confided to Hit Parader magazine in 1968. "It was our interpretation of other people's music. 'Good Lovin'' was ...

The Bangles: Manic Impressives

Interview by Mat Snow, NME, 8 March 1986

"VICKI ALWAYS tells me that I always used to sit in, the back of the car, a big Buick station wagon, when I was three ...

Willie Nile: What Would You Do If You Got Rich?

Profile and Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 28 June 1980

NEW YORK. The Bowery is a Hell's Angel being shot in the ass by an off-duty cop he's just tried to strangle. The Bowery is ...

Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground

Book Excerpt by Lenny Kaye, David Dalton, Rock 100, 1977

OBVERSE, REVERSE, INVERSE, PERVERSE. A whiplash girl-child waits in the dark, splintered in blue fragments, pinpricks of white heat. The Velvet Underground cauterized their time, ...

R.E.M.

Interview by Blake Gumprecht, Alternative America, Winter 1983

FROM INGLORIOUS beginnings playing a birthday party, R.E.M.'s independent first single, 'Radio Free Europe', was Robert Palmer's choice as 10th best single of 1981 in ...

Geoff Muldaur: Blues Is The Basis

Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 22 February 1975

You're probably more familiar with Maria — but Geoff Muldaur has an impressive track record of his own, taking in the legendary Blues Project, the ...

Faces, The, Ian McLagan: Ian McLagan's Top Ten

Interview by John Pidgeon, Let It Rock, December 1974

I'VE GOT sixty records on my juke box and I had a hell of a job whittling my singles collection down to them. But ten!?!... ...