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Column by Mark Shipper, Phonograph Record, September 1973

"GREAT ALBUMS are hard to find these days," I once wrote in my definitive book on the subject, Great Albums Are Hard To Find These ...

New York Dolls, Tubes, The: The New York Dolls, the Tubes: the Matrix, San Francisco CA

Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 5 September 1973

THE REMARKABLE thing about the rock group called the New York Dolls, who began a three night engagement last night at the new Matrix (once ...

Uriah Heep

Interview by Tony Stewart, NME, 8 September 1973

THIS INTERVIEW had the most ordinary of beginnings. David Byron and Uriah Heep's Press Miss and myself left the other four members of the band ...

Mott The Hoople: The Ballad Of Mott

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 8 September 1973

IAN HUNTER is a great romantic, torn by doubts and secure only in the knowledge that the will to succeed usually bears fruit. ...

Mott The Hoople: Mott: No Success like Failure

Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 13 September 1973

WHAT AN ARRAY of weapons this band has: awesome firepower, an ever-increasing depth of expression, timely themes and an artistic way of mixing qualities on ...

Lillian Roxon, Journalist-Author Of Rock Encyclopedia Dies at 41

Obituary by Loraine Alterman, Rolling Stone, 13 September 1973

NEW YORK — Lillian Roxon, author of the Rock Encyclopedia, was many things to many people. ...

The Rolling Stones: Stones-On-The Road Special

Report and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, 22 September 1973

THE LADY behind the amps, staring hazily at Billy Preston and his band performing on stage, looked elegantly damaged. Half of her face was covered ...

Herman's Hermits: So What's Wrong With Herman's Hermits?

Retrospective and Interview by Harold Bronson, Zoo World, 27 September 1973

CRINKLED NOSES and pained "ooohs" accompany ninety-five percent of the responses I receive when I tell people I like Herman's Hermits. But how can I ...

Lou Reed's New Deco-Disk: Sledgehammer Blow to Glitterbugs

Report and Interview by Larry Sloman, Rolling Stone, 27 September 1973

NEW YORK — At 10 AM on a muggy New York morning, in Studio A of the Record Plant, a slight, dark, intense young man ...

Slade: Sladest (Polydor)

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 29 September 1973

THE FIRST TIME I saw Slade I thought they were dreadful. It was that memorable night at the Lanchester Arts Festival when Chuck Berry cut ...

Sweet: Queens of the Hop

Interview by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 29 September 1973

THE SWEET'S BALLROOM BLITZKRIEG GOES ON. BUT BEHIND THE ONSTAGE MINCING AND MAKE-UP, THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE IN THE AIR. IN FACT, THE ROCK PARIAHS NOW ...

The Who: Exorcizing The Ghost of Mod

Review and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Creem, January 1974

The Who: Quadrophenia ...

Lou Reed: Berlin

Review by Michael Gross, Crawdaddy!, January 1974

LOU REED IS the grand ghoul of them all. He happens to scare people. He stands in the same relation to Bowie and Iggy and ...

Uriah Heep: The Tour That Detoured The Demons

Interview by Stephen Demorest, Circus Raves, January 1974

Scarcely a year ago, the Heep found America filled with threatening crazies, and went scurrying back to England with culture-shock. But a new look at ...

New York Dolls: First Annual N.Y. Dolls Trivia Quiz

Special Feature by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 3 January 1974

Do you think you can make it with Frankenstein? Or with David Jo Hansen? Or with Jerry Nolan? Or with Billy Murcia? Now that the ...

Alice Cooper: Alice through the looking glass

Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 12 January 1974

Shep Gordon worked for firm making clothes for the dead... Now he manages the killer himself, Alice Cooper. Gordon talks to MM New York writer ...

Jobriath: Superstar or Superhype?

Interview by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 12 January 1974

"If hype means projecting your artist, I'm going to produce the biggest hype ever" – Jerry Brandt talking to ROBERT PARTRIDGE about his latest discovery, ...

John Lennon: Please, Your Majesty, Can Our John Have A Free Pardon?

Interview by Andrew Tyler, NME, 19 January 1974

Heavy breathing over the phone as ANDREW TYLER gets the lowdown from LENNON in L.A. Genius is police harassment, says the Walrus ...

Bryan Ferry, Roxy Music: Bryan Ferry

Interview by Nick Kent, NME, 19 January 1974

"I TELL ya, mate, just wait till Bryan Ferry gets onstage – 'is face is goin' to look like a fuckin' cancered lung". ...

Mott The Hoople: Memoirs of a Street Punk

Interview by Nick Kent, NME, 19 January 1974

IAN HUNTER knows a thing or two about being a rock 'n' roll star. ...