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Morrissey: Unhappy Birthday, Morrissey
Retrospective by Len Brown, Rock's Backpages, 22 May 2009
N.B. This is the full, unedited version of a piece published in The Guardian on 22 May 2009 ...
Buddy Holly: The Angel with the Devil's Music: Buddy Holly
Retrospective by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 30 January 2009
Fifty years ago, Buddy Holly's life was sadly cut short. Richard Williams salutes the clean-cut 22-year-old who came to Britain and showed a whole generation ...
Booker T & The MGs: Memphis Sunset: The Mysterious Death of Stax Heartbeat Al Jackson, Jr.
Retrospective by Andria Lisle, Grand Royal, Fall 1997
JULY 31, 1975 – Booker T & the MGs drummer and Stax session musician Al Jackson, Jr. is shot in the chest with a .22-caliber ...
GTOs, The: Miss Christine: The Fast Life of a Rock Legend
Retrospective by Erik Himmelsbach, Alta Journal, 11 December 2018
Christine Frka was a muse to Alice Cooper, a secretary to Frank Zappa, and a member of a pioneering all-girl band. The glamour goddess-icon of ...
Randy California, Spirit: Randy California
Retrospective by Johnny Black, MOJO, February 2004
Just turned 22, Spirit guitarist and figurehead Randy California stands on Chelsea Bridge, staring down into the grey waters of the River Thames. It's April 1973, ...
Richard Buckner: Bloomed (Slow River/Rykodisc)
Retrospective by Matt Hanks, No Depression, Summer 1999
RICHARD BUCKNER'S 1994 debut album, Bloomed, heralded the arrival of a uniquely expressive and honest songwriter and reaped Buckner tomes of critical praise, a deal ...
Retrospective by Ian Penman, The Wire, October 2000
Ian Penman celebrates the late Jack Nitzsche, the rogue composer whose soundtrack legacy reads like a rollcall of the Hollywood damned. ...
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The book that declared pop music dead
Retrospective by Bob Stanley, The Observer, 6 February 2016
Nik Cohn thought John Lennon "self-pitying", Led Zeppelin "embarrassing" and rated Del Shannon's 'Runaway' above Van Morrison's entire career. Bob Stanley revisits his 1969 book. ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Q, February 1997
THE TWIST WAS the most remarkable dance phenomenon in the history of the rock era. Here's the story of how it happened in the words ...
Buddy Holly: Down the Line: Buddy Holly
Retrospective by Mark Kemp, Texas Music, January 2009
WHEN THE FIRST gentle notes ring from Buddy Holly's acoustic guitar on his cover of Mickey & Sylvia's 'Dearest', you could swear it was recorded ...
Retrospective by Chris Welch, The History of Rock, 1984
NEIL PEART is one of rocks show drummers, whose uncompromising personality matches his single-minded dedication to music. As one-third of Canadas Rush, Neil made a ...
The Supremes: Mary Wilson on The Supremes
Retrospective by Johnny Black, MOJO, April 1997
"ONE DAY IN mid-April we were all summoned to berrys home on Outer Drive," remembers Mary Wilson of The Supremes. "As I drove there, I ...
Retrospective by Mick Houghton, MOJO, April 2007
The sound of the wildly original country cat who penned Elvis' 'Burning Love'. ...
Electric Prunes, The: The Electric Prunes: Too Much To Dream
Retrospective by Don Waller, LA Weekly, 15 June 2001
FROM THE "mind-expanding" flight of the 2,000-pound bumblebee opening to the liquid, screaming, droning guitars to the '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction'-derived drums, the Electric ...
Robert Johnson: Unravelling the Legend of Robert Johnson
Retrospective by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 19 June 1971
JERRY GILBERT looks at Robert Johnson, greatest of the Delta bluesmen ...
The Pogues, Shane MacGowan: Shane MacGowan: It's A Long Way From Tipperary
Retrospective by Ian Fortnam, Vox, January 1998
AS PUNK PASSION dissipated and died, choking on its own irrelevance, a generation of serial venters were suddenly deprived of its primal, therapeutic effect. The ...
Ritchie Valens: The Young Singer Who Pioneered Chicano Rock
Retrospective by Martin Hawkins, The History of Rock, March 1982
WHEN ROCK'N'ROLL first stopped calling itself rhythm and blues in the mid Fifties, it became a young man's game. Teenage performers like Ritchie Valens began ...
Waylon Jennings: Honky Tonk Heroes
Retrospective by Gavin Martin, Uncut, September 1998
FOR WAYLON Jennings – born into a dirt poor cotton-picking West Texas family – the wanderlust began as far back as he could remember. ...
Retrospective by Ian Fortnam, Uncut, May 1998
Ahh, those much-mimicked hedgehogian coxcombs; those calf-chafing, tartan-trimmed trews with half a yard of surplus flapping flare to spare; those cheery, cheeky chipmunk grins and ...
Dazed and Infused: The Summer of Love
Retrospective by Miles, Vox, August 1992
"You had to be there" Barry Miles travels back in time. IT'S 25 years since the Summer of Love freaked its way into the ...
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