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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! ...

Mickie Most: Newcomer to the Charts: Mickie Most Goes Right Back...

Profile by Ian Dove, New Musical Express, 19 July 1963

MICKIE MOST may be a newcomer to the NME Top 30 with 'Mr. Porter', but he's had one of the longest careers in beat music ...

The Ronettes: Wrong Phone Number Brought Success

Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 11 January 1964

TALK ABOUT a coincidence! A thundering great coincidence — a flash of fate which virtually launched the swinging Ronettes, one of the most successful girlie ...

Beatles, The: Beatles Heat Flares in Court

Report by uncredited writer, Billboard, 25 January 1964

CHICAGO — The Beatles, the nation's hottest recording property today, are becoming the object of the nation's hottest lawsuits, at least as far as the ...

Beatles, The: Beatles Panned By U.S. Critics

Report by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 10 February 1964

But they wow TV audience and bring out mounted police ...

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Temptations, The: The Temptations: Hit Was Written in a Car

Interview by Ronnie Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 6 March 1964

IT TOOK the help of a "miracle" for the Temptations to come up with their first big hit, 'The Way You Do the Things You ...

Rolling Stones, The: The Rolling Stones: This Horrible Lot – Not Quite What They Seem

Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 21 March 1964

"BUT WOULD YOU LIKE your daughter to marry one?" is what you ask yourself about the Rolling Stones. They've done terrible things to the musical ...

Manfred Mann: Meet The Manfreds

Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 2 May 1964

PART ONE OF A NEW SERIES — MIKE HUGG AND TOM McGUINESS ...

Elvis Presley: The Facts About Elvis

Report and Interview by Peter Jones, Keith Matthews, Record Mirror, 30 May 1964

FROM JIMMY SAVILE ...

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 ...

Marianne Faithfull: Put it down to my age, says Miss Faithfull

Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 25 July 1964

MARIANNE FAITHFULL is a raving beauty of 17 who lives with her mother, the Baroness Erisso, in a small terraced house in Reading. She goes ...

Ivy League, The: The Ivy League: Songwriting Hit-Makers

Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 13 February 1965

FROM INSIDE the music publisher's office came the familiar sounds of creation, Tin Pan Alley style — tentative chords being hammered out on a piano ...

Junior Walker & the All Stars: Top Tunes: Junior Walker's 'Shotgun' Is His First Big Hit

Interview by Ronnie Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 27 February 1965

JUNIOR WALKER and the All Stars can thank a couple of teenagers from Benton Harbor, Mich., for the inspiration that's led to their first major ...

Paul Revere & The Raiders: Paul Revere & Raiders Carry Fight to British

Profile by Derek Taylor, KRLA Beat, 10 March 1965

WATCH FOR the world-wide ride of Paul Revere! ...

Marianne Faithfull: The Trouble With Marianne: By The Man She'll Marry

Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 27 March 1965

MARIANNE FAITHFULL announced her engagement to Mr. John Dunbar in The Times. Pop singers do not often use The Times to let their friends know ...

Them: Everyone wants to know about... that there Them group!

Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc, 10 April 1965

...and here's the secret of their success — writes PENNY VALENTINE ...

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 ...

Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs: Sam The Sham Has Sung In Opera!

Interview by Tracy Thomas, New Musical Express, 30 July 1965

Special from Tracy Thomas in Hollywood ...

Vicki from Inkpen, Berks, may not look like a girl with power — but she's got it, lots of it

Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 31 July 1965

SHE'S BACK! THE GIRL WHO REALLY KNOWS THE POP PEOPLE ...