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The Rolling Stones: Some Girls

Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 10 June 1978

WHICHEVER WAY you look at it, this is an important album of the first order. Important primarily because it's the first album (excluding Love You ...

The Rolling Stones: Some Girls

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 10 June 1978

THESE LAST two or three years, the Stones haven't really been that important to rock and roll. ...

The Rolling Stones: Some Girls

Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, July 1978

AH, THE NEW Stones album. For me the most feverishly-anticipated event between the first album in 1963 and Black and Blue two years ago was ...

Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings and Food

Review by Roy Trakin, New York Rocker, July 1978

Head and Shoulders Above ...

The Rolling Stones: Stones Still Hungry After All These Years

Review by Geoffrey Himes, Unicorn Times, 1 July 1978

THE ROLLING STONES first crawled into our collective hearts as a teenage working class street punk band. And now, here are Keith Richard and Mick ...

Rolling Stones, The: The Rolling Stones: Some Girls (Rolling Stones Records)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, September 1978

STONES FIND MOSS RETARDANT ELIXIR ...

Rolling Stones, The: The Rolling Stones: Some Girls (Rolling Stones)

Review by Nick Tosches, Circus, 14 September 1978

Stones Rise From The Dead ...

Yes: Tormato

Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 16 September 1978

I UNDERSTAND it has remained OK to like Genesis (which I don't) but it's not OK to like Yes (which I do though no longer ...

10cc: Bloody Tourists (Polydor)

Review by Jon Young, Feature, January 1979

WHEN LOL Creme and Kevin Godley took their gizmo and went off to make Consequences, the remainder of 10cc (5cc?) seemed to be reeling from ...

Led Zeppelin: In Through The Out Door (Swansong)

Review by Nick Kent, NME, 11 August 1979

THREE LONG years has it been? Let's me see now. Ah, yes Presence, released in April 1976, was the last shot of new Led Zeppelin ...

Tom Verlaine: Tom Verlaine (Elektra Import) ***

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 8 September 1979

IMAGINATIVE TITLE, eh? Nah, but hand it to him for resilience, you really thought you'd seen the last of teevee after the hostile critics were ...

The Rolling Stones: Emotional Rescue (Rolling Stones)****

Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 28 June 1980

"IMAGE IS so important to rock stars. Mick Jagger is the rock star with the longest running image. He's the one all the young white ...

Rolling Stones, The: The Rolling Stones: Emotional Rescue (Rolling Stones Records CUN 3911)

Review by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 28 June 1980

LAUNCH THE LIFEBOATS ...

Rolling Stones, The: The Rolling Stones: Emotional Rescue (Rolling Stones)

Review by Ariel Swartley, Rolling Stone, 21 August 1980

News from the pantheon — The Rolling Stones: what kind of a Rescue is this? ...

The Rolling Stones: Dirty Work

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 29 March 1986

IN THE 1970s, The Rolling Stones were a distinctly unlovely proposition: fronted by a jet-setter and a junkie and churning out a series of tedious ...

The Smiths: The Queen Is Dead (Rough Trade)

Review by Nick Kent, Melody Maker, 14 June 1986

THIS IS NEITHER the time nor the place to indulge in trivial banter; suffice to say that The Smiths' peculiar career manoeuvres, which have caused ...

Sisters of Mercy: Some Girls Wander By Mistake

Review by Robert Sandall, Q, June 1992

"I LIKE to think it was the songs that made this band," Andrew Eldritch writes in the sleevenotes, "I know it wasn't." And as this ...

Mick Jagger: Wandering Spirit (Atlantic)

Review by Mat Snow, Q, March 1993

A GLAMOROUS grandad of 49, no one in rock'n'roll is more tightly corsetted than Mick Jagger. His iron determination to keep lean and mean, to ...

Mick Jagger: Wandering Spirit

Review by Deborah Frost, Village Voice, 2 March 1993

HE MAY BE a wandering spirit, but Mick Jagger sure doesn't travel light. This simple fact of life informs both the major tragedies and minor ...

The Rolling Stones: Rolling Stones: Live Licks

Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, January 2005

THEIR SEVENTH concert record, if you’re counting ...