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Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, Skip Spence: Skip Spence: The Next Big That Never Was

Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Angel, L.A. Weekly, 25 March 1994

IT'S EARLY December, 1966, at San Francisco's Avalon Ballroom. The Summer of Love is a good seven months off, the Avalon scene still small and ...

Warren Zevon: How He Saved Himself from a Coward's Death

Special Feature by Paul Nelson, Rolling Stone, 19 March 1981

  ALCOHOLISM. THAT'S what this story's supposed to be about. How Warren Zevon, after some heartwarming and colorful misadventures, licked the Big A and lived happily ...

Bonzo Dog Band, Vivian Stanshall: Vivian Stanshall (1979) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Ira Robbins, Rock's Backpages transcripts, January 1979

This is a transcript of Ira's audio interview with Vivian. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Little Richard (1985) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 5 March 1985

This is a transcript of Barney's audio interview with Little Richard. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Kim Fowley: Living and Dying in L.A.

Retrospective and Interview by Steve Roeser, Goldmine, 26 November 1993

IT'S A NAME (and yes, it's a man's name) that's been popping up around the music scene for roughly the past 35 years. And every ...

Al Kooper, Blood Sweat & Tears: Al Kooper: The Adventures Of Kooperman

Retrospective and Interview by Jeff Tamarkin, Goldmine, 18 February 1994

THE COVER of Rekooperation, Al Kooper's new album, his first in 12 years, is divided into 16 postage stamp-sized photographic portraits of the artist as ...

Carole King's monumental 1971 Tapestry Returns In 2 CD Deluxe Edition

Special Feature by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, 12 May 2008

Harvey Kubernik tells the story of the making of this epochal album, and interviews producer Lou Adler ...

The Who

Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, October 2001

AUGUST, 1969: Upstate New York. All along America's Eastern seaboard upright citizens of this great nation are starting to slowly stir from deep and uneventful ...

Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship: Grace Slick Interviewed: Grass, Acid And The Starship

Interview by Jim Esposito, Oui, February 1977

GRACE SLICK, the original Acid Queen, was born Grace Wing October 30th, 1939, in Chicago, Illinois. Her father was an investment banker. Her mother, a ...

Blue Cheer, Randy Holden: Randy Holden

Interview by Richie Unterberger, Perfect Sound Forever, 24 April 1999

RANDY HOLDEN might be the Great Lost Guitar Hero of the 1960's. ...

Crosby and Nash, Crosby Stills and Nash, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Graham Nash, The Hollies: Graham Nash: The Winds Of Change

Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 1 February 1980

INTEGRITY, MORE than any other word seems to define what Graham Nash is all about. ...

Stevie Wonder: Singing in the Key of Life

Overview by Craig Werner, Goldmine, 8 October 1999

IT WAS THE fall of 1974 and signs of confusion were everywhere. President Richard Nixon had fled from office in disgrace, only to receive a ...

Stevie Ray Vaughan: Blue Smoke: The Life and Death of Stevie Ray Vaughan

Retrospective and Interview by Alan Paul, Guitar World, April 1999

NINE YEARS AFTER his death, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s influence only continues to grow. It can be heard in barrooms and arenas around the globe, in ...

Joe Meek: Hearing A New World: The Joe Meek Story

Retrospective by John McCready, MOJO, May 2001

NOTE: This piece originally featured in Mojo magazine in a truncated 8,000 word edit. this is the full near-12,000 word original piece. This is such ...

Pete Townshend, The Who: Pete Townshend: Conversations With Pete

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 19 April 1980

On an up with britain's longest serving honest man of rock ...

Brian Jones, Rolling Stones, The: Brian Jones: The Bittersweet Symphony

Retrospective by Rob Chapman, MOJO, July 1999

Rolling Stones founder, Rolling Stones reject; ruthless controller, helpless passenger; blues obsessive, dabler in the exotic; countercultural networker, paranoid recluse; adored Prince Charming, vicious heartbreaker; ...

Fleetwood Mac: We Want To Be Together

Retrospective and Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, July 2015

IT SHOULDN'T WORK, but it does: the drummer fractionally behind the beat and the bass slightly ahead. For close to 50 years, Mick Fleetwood and ...

Morrissey, The Smiths: Morrissey and The Smiths: There's A Place In Hell For Me And My Friends

Retrospective by Dave Thompson, Goldmine, 4 March 1994

IN JUNE 1984, Rolling Stone journalist James Henke asked Britain's latest rising superstar, Smiths vocalist Morrissey, for his opinions on the British Prime Minister, Margaret ...

Led Zeppelin: Stairwell to Headley: Led Zeppelin's Fourth Album

Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, July 2006

THE SCENE IS Atlantic Records' HQ in New York City, the date early September 1971. The event is a tense standoff between, on the one ...

Blue Öyster Cult: Rock Criticism as Brain Surgery: Deborah Frost Looks Back

Interview by Steven Ward, rockcritics.com, June 2002

MUSICIAN/SONGWRITER Deborah Frost took a little break in the early '70s from a gig with an all-girl band that lasted until the early '90s. ...