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Rolling Stones, The, Who, The: The Rolling Stones drugs bust: Time Is On Our Side

Report by uncredited writer, International Times, 28 July 1967

THE SUN isn't known to have two faces, only the moon, but in England we have the lunatic Sun (a newspaper it thinks) with as ...

Report from swinging London town

Report by Miles, Los Angeles Free Press, 26 January 1968

LITTLE HAS happened since winter came upon us and forced London's underground underground. The organisation called RELEASE has become one of the most valuable community ...

MC5: The Story Of The MC5 On The West Coast In March Part One

Report by John Sinclair, Ann Arbor Argus, 28 March 1969

John Sinclair, Minister of Information, White Panther Party ...

Who, The: Woodstock: Talking About My Generation

Essay by Miller Francis Jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 15 June 1970

"I'm looking for me, You're looking for you We're looking at each other and we don't know what to do." — 'The Seeker' by the Who ...

Quintessence — sincere, or a fraud?

Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 29 May 1971

SHIVA IS a Christian Hindu who lives in Notting Hill Gate downstairs from his Guru. He is 22, born in Australia and arrived here two ...

Up, The: Rock And Roll Dope: the Up

Column by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, 2 July 1971

UP PLAYED for the Scapegoat Six in Kennedy Square last Tuesday and after running a bunch of errands around the Motor City all afternoon we ...

Gil Scott-Heron: The Fire This Time

Interview by Vernon Gibbs, Playboy, July 1976

Gil Scott-Heron has been called the black Bob Dylan. He doesn't appreciate it. ...

MC5: The MC5: How the Jams Were Kicked Out!

Retrospective by John Sinclair, ZigZag, July 1977

In Britain, the MC5 are now far more popular than they ever were in their heyday – a fact which has prompted the recent re-release ...

Bad Manners: Roll Over Yul Brynner... ...And Tell Bad Manners The News

Interview by Mark Ellen, New Music News, 14 June 1980

MARK ELLEN Meets The UK's Answer To The Fordham Baldies. ...

Charlie Daniels: Fiddlin' Dixie

Interview by Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, August 1980

Charlie Daniels, Up From Tobacco Road ...

Bruce Springsteen: The Man Who Would Save Rock And Roll

Essay by Greil Marcus, New West, February 1981

LAST OCTOBER Bruce Springsteen released his fifth album, The River, which went swiftly to number one in the States, and began a tour that will ...

Fela Kuti, Sonny Okosun, Sir Victor Uwaifo: Juju, Afrobeat and Highlife

Report and Interview by Peter Murphy (British), The Face, April 1981

Special report: Rock in Nigeria. ...

Jerry Lee Lewis: Hellfire

Special Feature by Nick Tosches, Penthouse, March 1982

IT WAS 3 O'CLOCK in the morning and the master bedroom of Graceland was still. Elvis Presley lay in his blue cotton pajamas dreaming. ...

T Bone Burnett: Just Plain Folks

Interview by David Gans, Record, January 1984

T-Bone Burnett makes a case for himself as a regular guy ...

Stevie Wonder Has a Dream

Report and Interview by Carol Cooper, The Face, June 1984

In 1981 Stevie Wonder led the first of three marches in Washington D.C. calling for the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, the black civil ...

Fela Kuti: Fela: Rebel On Ice

Special Feature by Randall Grass, Spin, May 1985

The King of Afrobeat enjoyed a reign of sex, hemp, jazz and rock 'n' roll — then the empire struck back, trumping up charges to ...

Bob Geldof: Live Aid take may hit $60 million

Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 29 August 1985

As many as 2 billion people watched the event ...

Midnight Oil: The Only Band That Really Matters

Interview by J.D. Considine, Musician, September 1985

THERE'S A TV commercial running on television stations in Sydney that explains a lot about modern-day Australia. The ad is for McDonald's, and seeks to ...

Jerry Lee Lewis: No Sinner Like An Old 'Un

Interview by Jim Sullivan, New Musical Express, 14 September 1985

Not for JERRY LEE LEWIS the cosy trail from rocker to rocking chair. Last year a rollercoaster life and career hit a new low when ...

Bronski Beat, Communards, The: The Communards: Turning Pink into Red

Interview by Paul Mathur, Blitz, October 1985

A step forward, both emotionally and politically, from Bronski Beat, Jimmy Somerville's new project, the Communards, promises to take an even harder political line. ...