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Rick Nelson: Ricky Nelson: Now Ricky's Name Change Is Official!

Profile and Interview by Alan Smith, NME, 27 April 1962

'YOUNG WORLD' is probably the last disc by Ricky Nelson you'll see in the NME Charts – but don't panic. At 21 Ricky has no ...

Little Richard: Well, look who's back — it's Little Richard

Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 6 October 1962

BOBOBALOOMBA Abimbamboom all Rootti Tutti Frutti. With this gnomic verse about ice-cream and a shriek of masochistic ecstasy, Little Richard exploded before a wondering world ...

Timi Yuro: Her Middle Name Is Soul

Profile and Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 9 March 1963

"SOUL" — what is it? In a word, it's "indefinable". It's a sort of total involvement in the music one is expressing, whether by voice ...

Bobby Rydell: Twenty Years Plus Bobby

Profile and Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 23 March 1963

A SIGNIFICANT thing happened to Bobby Rydell when he was five years old. His father took him to see a stage show. And another stage ...

Searchers, The: Hit Brings Big Offers for the Searchers

Profile and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 13 July 1963

No sales for three weeks, then crash, the new boys make it big! ...

Gene Vincent: The original man in the black leather suit

Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 13 July 1963

THEY USED to call Gene Vincent The Screaming End. He started the others wearing black leather, he started them hollering and diving about the stage. ...

Inez & Charlie Foxx: Inez and Charlie Foxx: Gospel Voice and Lunatic Gestures...

Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 July 1964

CHARLES AND Inez Foxx are a handsome pair. To the initiated and fortunate few in this country who have heard them, they are known as ...

Val Doonican: Relaxation: it's a way of life for the housewife's choice...

Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 20 March 1965

VAL DOONICAN Is a friendly, easy-going man of 36 who makes his living — it would be but slight exaggeration to say — by looking ...

John Hammond: Folk And Blues Friends

Profile and Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 1 May 1965

"DYLAN — WELL, let's say he gave me confidence when I needed it most." The speaker was John Hammond, 22 years old blues singer from ...

Spencer Davis Group, Jackie Trent, Vashti Bunyan: Vashti agrees: her last name must go (it's Bunyan)

Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 15 May 1965

VASHTI BUNYAN is the latest in a stream of refined, nicely brought-up, middle-class girls whose well-bred accents have adorned the hit parade since Marianne Faithfull ...

Nico Leads Andrew's Off Beat Company...

Profile and Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 28 August 1965

PETER JONES REPORTS ...

Vejtables, The: Vejtables Growing in San Francisco

Profile and Interview by Carol Deck, KRLA Beat, 1 January 1966

THE LAST thing on anybody's mind would be to call themself a vegetable, but five young San Franciscans have gone one step farther and call ...

Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger: Bad Joke into Social Lion

Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, Evening Standard, 4 February 1966

THE ROLLING STONES WERE PLAYING in the Station Hotel, Richmond, two-and-a-half years ago when their two prospective managers came to take a look at them. ...

Our Nancy's Life Abroad — with Those British Pop Stars

Profile and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 13 February 1966

The telegram came from Interpop. It read "ARRIVING IN DETROIT FROM LONDON ON PANAM FLIGHT 57 TUESDAY 3:20 PM IS YOUNG LADY OF POSSIBLE INTEREST ...

Tammi Terrell: Tammi Terell: From Medicine To Music

Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 19 March 1966

SOME PEOPLE fade into a crowd and some just naturally stand out. Tammi Terell is one of those who stand out. ...

Association, The: The Association: Electric Switch Paid Off

Profile and Interview by Mike Gormley, The Ottawa Journal, 20 August 1966

SAN FRANCISCO — Six folk-singers got together in February, 1965, worked and waited for a year, changed to electric instruments and then — 'Along Comes ...

Sandpipers, The: The Sandpipers: Grads Graduate to Big Time

Profile and Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 5 February 1967

SUCH DIVERSE elements as a book on zoology, the Mitchell Boys Choir and a Spanish song all conjoined one day to produce one of the ...

Marvin Gaye, Kim Weston: Marvin and Kim: Swingin' Twosome!

Profile and Interview by Alan Smith, NME, 11 February 1967

SIX FEET high, aged 27, songwriter, athlete, ballad singer and rock 'n' roller — this is Marvin Gaye. Attractive, intelligent, married to a producer and ...

Pink Floyd: They're all in the PINK!

Profile and Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 8 April 1967

THE PINK Floyd burst on to the London club scene in a kaleidoscope of colours some months ago. Literally, because colour, shapes and light gave ...

Pink Floyd: Ladies Clothes, Free Form Music, Anarchy and the Pink Floyd

Profile and Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 8 April 1967

WHEN YOU talk about controversy in pop music these day, you obviously have to talk about the Pink Floyd. ...