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Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 15 February 1975

WHEN LITTLE Leo Sayer does his Michael Crawford impersonation and becomes disaster prone Frank, protective instincts are aroused, and folk cluster around to prevent him ...

Kiss: Kiss (Casablanca)

Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 22 February 1975

UP UNTIL Max Bell gave us his reasoned defence of Kiss a couple of weeks ago, I had assumed they were simply an also ran ...

Roxy Music: Decadent, But What Is That?

Profile and Interview by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 23 February 1975

THE BRITISH rock band had been up all night, doing to their midwestern hotel what British rock bands are famous for doing. In the morning, ...

Bad Company: The Way They Choose

Essay by Idris Walters, Let It Rock, March 1975

IT LOOKS AS though Bad Company is a popular band: everybody's into Bad Company. ...

Deep Purple On The Road

Report and Interview by Jon Tiven, Circus Raves, March 1975

DAVID COVERDALE cocked his head forward and let loose with a thunderous growl to counter Ritchie's furious riff-picking. Glenn Hughes directed his bass notes at ...

Brian Eno, Roxy Music: Roxy Music: Country Life (Atlantic)/Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (Island)

Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, March 1975

WOMEN, ON Roxy Music covers, are like plants: lush vegetation, only more so. Unlike the reclining femme fatale on the cover of Stranded, who I've ...

Marc Bolan, T. Rex: Marc Bolan: Past, Present, and Future

Interview by Alan Betrock, Rock Scene, March 1975

IT'S A WEEKDAY night in New Jersey and there's another school day to face tomorrow. Yet the Joint in the Woods is packed to the ...

Rodney Bingenheimer: The Patron Saint of Teenage

Profile and Interview by John Mendelsohn, Phonograph Record, March 1975

FORGET THE hillside enclaves of those who either can not yet or no longer afford Beverly Hills, and what's left of the San Fernando Valley ...

The Kids Are Not Necessarily Alright

Essay by Mick Farren, NME, 1 March 1975

Or how the '70s has seen a limp-wristed sell-out of the ideals of the 60s. MICK FARREN discusses the way the Uncle Toms of Teendom ...

David Bowie, Alice Cooper, Donovan, George Harrison, Elton John, Janis Joplin, Diana Ross, Rubettes, The, Ringo Starr, Three Degrees, The, Kenny, Goodies, The: Singles from Elton John, David Bowie et al

Review by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 1 March 1975

Elton gets lost ...

Elton John part 3: Maybe It's Because I'm A Socialist…

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 8 March 1975

TELL US, El, what is Rock all about? Having a bloody good time. When I was a kid and went to see those Larry Parnes-Billy ...

John Lennon: Rock On!

Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 8 March 1975

It's a busy time for JOHN LENNON – hit singles, a new album of oldies and recording with Elton John and and David Bowie. Plus ...

George Benson, Herbie Hancock, Lou Reed, Ronnie Wood: Lou Reed: Ladies and gentlemen... the interview of the year (already)!

Interview by Lester Bangs, New Musical Express, 8 March 1975

"Lou Reed is a completely depraved pervert and pathetic death dwarf — a wasted talent living off the dumbell nihilism of a '70s generation that ...

Mick Ronson: Play Don’t Worry

Review by Charles Bermant, The Washington Post, 9 March 1975

WHEN DAVID BOWIE and the Spiders from Mars barnstormed America almost two years ago they managed to astound anyone who saw them perform. The Spiders ...

Alice Cooper: Alice Moves from Hysteria to Hollywood: The Billion Dollar Baby Goes Showbiz

Report and Interview by Ed McCormack, Rolling Stone, 13 March 1975

NEW YORK — It's a night for Henry Mancini mood music, with the rain slapdashing the sidewalks and dissolving pools of neonlike poster paint, and ...

David Bowie: Young Americans

Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 15 March 1975

WHERE have all poppa's heroes gone? Living in New York, every one. A hard city by reputation, but presumably it has its compensations for someone ...

David Bowie: Young Americans (RCA RS 1006)

Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Record Mirror, 15 March 1975

IT CONTAINS eight tracks and 40 minutes 6 seconds of music, which is all that should be said until you've given it a lot of ...

David Bowie, Mick Ronson: Mick Ronson: "It's Strange Being On Your Own"

Interview by Ron Ross, Circus, April 1975

WHEN MICK RONSON set down his guitar and stepped out of the London studio where he was serving as "musical director" for lan Hunter's first ...