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James Brown, B.B. King, Lloyd Price: Eyewitness: The Black Woodstock — 22-23 September 1974
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, June 2000
As Muhammad Ali and George Foreman waited to go toe-to-toe in Zaire, Don King persuaded James Brown and BB King to headline a music festival. ...
Teddy Riley, Guy: Teddy Riley: Swingin'
Interview by Steven Daly, Blitz, September 1989
A meteoric rise has seen Teddy Riley, at the age of 22, become one of theworld's most sought-after producers. ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001
Shirley Brickley, b. 9 December 1944; Steve Caldwell, b. 22 November 1942; Marlena Davis, b. 4 October 1944 (replaced by Audrey Brickley); Rosetta Hightower, b. ...
Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 24 March 1967
BRENDA LEE, who at age 22 has been in show business for a dozen years, is in town at the Roostertail where there'll be a ...
Ruby & the Romantics: New to the Charts: Ruby, Romantics Make It At Last!
Profile by uncredited writer, New Musical Express, 12 April 1963
'OUR DAY Will Come' couldn't be a more appropriate disc title for Ruby and the Romantics, who enter the NME Chart this week. Their record ...
Kool and the Gang: Kool & The Gang
Interview by William Shaw, Smash Hits, 19 November 1986
They're one of the most successful disco bands ever! They make pots and pots of money! They used to beat up paint cans! They're useless ...
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 ...
Smokey Robinson: Smokey — Once & Future
Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 23 November 1980
THE TEST OF time is one accepted yardstick for determining great songs and, by that standard, Smokey Robinson certainly ranks as one of the premier ...
Sam Cooke: Keep Movin' On (ABKCO)
Review by Ted Drozdowski, The Boston Phoenix, 14 March 2002
THE TRAGIC DEATH of Sam Cooke remains one of rock and roll's great mysteries. Cooke was shot in the wee hours of December 10, 1964, ...
Georgie Fame: After many years Georgie realises an ambition...
Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 14 August 1965
GEORGIE FAME'S latest hit ('Like We Used To Be') represents an important step forward in the career of this 22-year-old singer-bandleader-pianist-organist. It's his first composition. ...
Teddy Riley, Guy: Teddy Riley: The Life of Riley
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 10 June 1989
At 22 TEDDY RILEY is the most sought-after producer in America. His mixture of R&B and rap has created a new sound, dubbed New Jack ...
Drake, The Weeknd: Drake/The Weeknd: Manchester Arena
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 12 March 2014
ABEL TESFAYE, aka the Weeknd, is receiving the kind of cheers you rarely hear for what is technically a support act. The fast-rising 22-year-old Toronto ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, 8 July 1989
Soul legend Johnnie Taylor tells Barney Hoskyns about his background in gospel with the Highway QCs and the Soul Stirrers, Sam Cooke, Stax Records, having hits in the disco era, and finding a new home at Malaco.
File format: mp3 File size: 20.8mb Interview length: 22 minutes 45 seconds Sound quality: ****
Interview by Cliff White, Rock's Backpages Audio, Summer 1976
Howard E. Scott and Harold Ray Brown of the funk formation War on their two-year recording hiatus; collaboration with harmonica player Lee Oskar; commercial success versus be-your-natural-self approach; the American economic ethos: investment versus bank savings, capitalist society and its effect on War, and the dreams and myths it triggers; the necessity of cooling your mind on tour, and Baptism and salvation.
File format: mp3; file size: 79.5mb, interview length: 1h 22' 47" sound quality: ***
Sam Cooke: Pop singer shot dead
Report by Ivor Davis, Daily Express, 12 December 1964
Hotel Manageress Fires Three Shots After Girl-In-Chase Drama ...
Chocolate Syrup: Introducing Chocolate Syrup
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 7 January 1972
1971 HAS been a remarkable year for group's names and none has been more imaginative than Chocolate Syrup, five young men who are currently enjoying ...
Billy Preston: Billy's a Natural
Profile by Richard Green, NME, 12 July 1969
IF EVER there was a "natural" for the charts, Billy Preston's 'That's The Way God Planned It' — which enters this week at No. 19 ...
Mabel: O2 Academy Brixton, SW9
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 13 December 2018
MABEL MCVEY's mother is Swedish singer-songwriter Neneh Cherry (she of '7 Seconds' fame); her father is Massive Attack producer Cameron McVey. But she's a star ...
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 10 December 2012
"C'MON," says Seal, holding back the first verse of his signature tune 'Killer' until the audience is clapping from front row to back. Then he leaps ...
Report by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 20 January 1968
THE FIRST of the Tamla Motown groups, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, have finally made it big in the British charts with their runaway transatlantic ...
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