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Jerry Butler, Bobby Womack: Bobby Womack: Home Is Where The Heart Is (CBS); Jerry Butler: Suite For The Single Girl (Motown)

Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 12 February 1977

Womack & Butler: Soul Survivors ...

Living In A Box: Boxing clever

Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 2 May 1987

They came from nowhere to take the Top Ten by storm. But who were the mystery men of LIVING IN A BOX? Were they black? ...

Prince Phillip Mitchell: Atlantic Crossing

Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 19 June 1979

AFTER TEN years of giving his best songs to other acts – notably 'Starting All Over Again' for Mel & Tim, 'Hurt So Good' for ...

Jim Ford: Demolition Expert

Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, January 2012

Ravishing set of unheard demos from fabled US country-soul brother THE STORY OF Jim Ford is steeped in Southern myth. Revered by good buddies Bobby Womack ...

Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Rod Stewart, Terence Trent D'Arby, Bobby Womack, Johnnie Taylor: Honey and Sandpaper: Sam Cooke's disciples

Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, January 1995

The deep and enduring influence of Mr Soul. ...

Anastacia: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London

Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 11 June 2001

Short, sharp shock of soul ...

Sam Cooke, Bobby Womack, Johnnie Taylor, Soul Stirrers, The, Valentinos, The: Sam Cooke's SAR Records: Two Desks, One Vision

Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, January 1995

SAR was Sam Cooke's dream of an R&B empire. It nearly came true. ...

Sly & The Family Stone: Sly Stone: Stone Free

Profile by Simon Witter, i-D, January 1988

Sly Stone, one of the first and greatest international black superstars, has survived unimaginable amounts of sex and drugs to be with us today. As ...

Ronnie Wood - Now Look

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 19 July 1975

MY H.A.L. PRINT-OUT on Ron Wood sez that his guitar-playing veers from the sublime to the ridiculous (i.e., his playing on Rod Stewart's solo albums ...

Johnnie Taylor: Eargasm

Review by Cliff White, NME, 24 April 1976

THAT THIS ALBUM has already been such an overwhelming success in America must surely be due to US Columbia's marketing techniques rather than the music, ...

Sam Cooke: The Man And His Music

Review by Andy Gill, NME, 26 April 1986

I SUPPOSE any Sam Cooke record is a gift from God, even an LP which fundamentally belies its title in the way this album does. ...

Brand X: Marquee Club, London

Live Review by Mick Brown, Sounds, 7 May 1977

"THIS IS our first gig for a while," joked Phil Collins, "so we celebrated by rehearsing this morning." ...

Thin Lizzy: Nightlife (Vertigo)

Review by John Mendelsohn, Phonograph Record, March 1975

WHEN, IN AN ill-disguised attempt to salvage what little was left of both his physical and psychic well-being after decades of arduous touring, lead guitarist ...

Archie Bell and the Drells Still Dance All Night

Profile and Interview by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 8 April 1976

NEW YORK – Archie Bell interrupts his rushed, businesslike replies for a moment and works up the faintest trace of a smile: "I didn't know ...

Gorillaz: Plastic Beach

Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Village Voice, 9 March 2010

Gorillaz Get Serious: Plastic Beach loads up on guest stars and gravitas ...

Me'Shell Ndegeocello: Meshell Ndegeocello

Profile and Interview by John Lewis, Hotline, June 2010

Meshell Ndegeocello talks to John Lewis about the Rolling Stones, the Devil and Christopher Hitchens. ...

Van Hunt: Van Hunt

Review by Kandia Crazy Horse, Village Voice, 27 April 2004

PREENING, CONFESSING, aloof Atlanta R&B phenom falls short ...

Raphael Saadiq: Stone Rollin'

Review by Lloyd Bradley, bbc.co.uk, 25 March 2011

Vintage touches and modern twists combine on an irrepressible soul record. ...

Gorillaz: Roundhouse, London NW1

Live Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 30 April 2010

NOT LONG AGO, Damon Albarn's reaction when asked about his involvement with Gorillaz was coyly to keep his counsel. At the concert that launched them ...

Damon Albarn, Gorillaz: Monkey see, monkey do, monkey tour: the Gorillaz are back

Interview by Pete Paphides, The Times, 10 May 2010

"I SAY! They're fancy!" exclaims Jamie Hewlett when Damon Albarn strides into the pair's West London headquarters. The object of his fascination? Albarn, his sidekick ...


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