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Flourishing a revolver our weird hero enters his dark, refrigerated room to recount strange tales the likes of which may never before have been heard ...

Nils Lofgren

Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 1 May 1976

"I'M A ROMANTICIST for life," Lofgren says, sprawled on the bed of his third floor room at Swingo's Celebrity Motel. "Three years ago I wanted ...

Average White Band: Young Rascals Searching For Your Soul

Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 29 May 1976

Barbara Charone talks to Scotland's most famous sons, the Average White Band'I'm sure people will put us down...I hope they don't put us down but ...

Average White Band: The Average White Band: Person To Person

Review by Tony Stewart, NME, 8 January 1977

WELCOME BACK the musically credible and eminently excellent Average White Band with this defiant poke in the ear for all those people who seven months ...

Elton John: Blue Moves (Rocket)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, February 1977

Elton Cops Some ZZZ's ...

Fleetwood Mac (1977) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by John Pidgeon, Rock's Backpages transcripts, March 1977

This is a transcription of John's audio interview with Fleetwood Mac. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Cheap Trick: In Color (Epic PE-34884)

Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 22 September 1977

Cheap Trick's comical treat ...

Wings: The Trial of James Paul McCartney

Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 29 April 1978

IMAGINE THAT Paul McCartney didn't bury himself in hermit-like seclusion in Liverpool after the assassination attempt by Jack Ruby that followed the break-up of The ...

Electric Light Orchestra: Themes and Variations on ELO

Profile and Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 27 May 1978

THE ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA's forthcoming British tour, which includes a run of eight nights at Wembley Empire Pool, will be the band's last appearances here ...

George Harrison: A Conversation with George Harrison

Interview by Mick Brown, Rolling Stone, 19 April 1979

UP FOR THE DAY FROM HIS HOME IN OXFORDSHIRE, some 30 miles from London, George Harrison had spent the morning in the recording studio with ...

XTC: Drums And Wires (Virgin)

Review by Paul Morley, NME, 18 August 1979

Something Like The Best ...

Cheap Trick: Dream Police (Epic)

Review by Paul Rambali, NME, 22 September 1979

BRIEFLY, THIS is the fifth time in four years that Cheap Trick have vented their prodigious energies. Dream Police was made before Live At The Budokan made Cheap Trick ...

The Beach Boys' Schizophrenia

Essay by Geoffrey Himes, Musician, April 1981

ON JULY 4, 1980, the Beach Boys sat at the base of the Washington Monument and played to a vast sea of half a million ...