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Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 6 January 1972

DAVID BOWIE, the swinging/mod Garbo, male femme fatale, confidante to and darling of the avant-garde on both sides of the Atlantic, and shameless outrage, is ...

The Strawbs' Dave Cousins

Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 22 January 1972

Can you talk, first of all, about the early days of the Strawbs, how you came together and so on. ...

David Bowie: Oh, You Pretty Thing: David Bowie

Profile and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 22 January 1972

DAVID BOWIE, rock's swishiest outrage; a self-confessed lover of effeminate clothes, Bowie, who has hardly performed in public since his 'Space Oddity' hit of three ...

David Bowie: "I'm Not Ashamed Of Wearing Dresses... But Unfortunately It's Detracted From The Fact That I'm Also A Songwriter"

Interview by Danny Holloway, New Musical Express, 29 January 1972

ON THE DAY I was to meet David Bowie at his home in Beckenham, Kent, I really didn't know what to expect. I had heard ...

David Bowie: Hunky Dory (RCA Victor)

Review by Danny Holloway, NME, 29 January 1972

Bowie at his brilliant best ...

Oldies In The 70's

Overview by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, March 1972

The dog days of rock are upon us. ...

Chelsea F.C.: Chelsea FC: Singing With The Feet

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, Record Mirror, 11 March 1972

"LET'S HOPE in Europe they think they are just a new group called Chelsea and I might get an international hit," said Penny Farthing's label ...

Art Ensemble of Chicago, Fontella Bass: Fontella Bass: Holding on this time

Profile by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 17 March 1972

FONTELLA BASS has had just one hit record in this country and that was with 'Rescue Me' back in 1965. However, ever since, every record ...

Badfinger, The Kinks: Badfinger/The Kinks: Berkeley Community Theatre

Live Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, April 1972

IT WASN'T YOUR usual Berkeley concert, the type you'd hear, say, Joy of Cooking at. I can't imagine where they came from, but sprinkled liberally ...

David Bowie: Bent on Success

Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 6 May 1972

DAVID BOWIE is at last letting the Great British Public catch up with him. With grasshopper alacrity, he has kept ahead of us for years ...

King Crimson: Fripp Finds the Answer

Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 27 May 1972

...in White magic, coloured candles and a witch called Walli Emlark ...

David Bowie: The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (RCA)

Review by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 10 June 1972

Bowie at his best ...

David Bowie & the Spiders From Mars: City Hall, Sheffield

Live Review by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 17 June 1972

THE LAST time I saw David Bowie was six months ago when he was playing a purely acoustic set. And although I'd heard his new ...

David Bowie: The Elvis Of the Seventies

Comment by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 18 June 1972

IT WAS just after the Elvis concert and David Bowie and I were sitting in his suite at the Park Lane Hotel (that's where record ...

Blood Sweat & Tears, David Bowie, Judy Collins, Harry Nilsson, Peter, Paul & Mary, Elvis Presley, Mark Radice, Simon & Garfunkel, Sandy Bull: A Week In the Life Of a Critic

Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 25 June 1972

"DEAR LILLIAN: It sure must be nice to be a rock critic. I really envy you. Can you tell me something about your life? ...

David Bowie: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (RCA)

Review by Jon Tiven, Phonograph Record, July 1972

DAVID BOWIE, England’s Answer-To-Alice-Cooper-But-He’s-For-Real, has finally made an album with positive commercial potential and consistent strength. Ziggy Stardust is the Aftermath of the Seventies, where ...

David Bowie: Phallus in Pigtails, or the Music of the Spheres Considered as Cosmic Boogie

Essay by Ron Ross, Words & Music, July 1972

MIGHT ONE suggest that "the longer one studies life and literature, the more strongly one feels that behind everything that is wonderful stands the individual, ...

David Bowie: The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars (RCA)

Review by Nick Kent, Oz, July 1972

DAVID BOWIE, easily the most brilliant young songwriter in this country, seems to have been going through quite a few rapid changes over the last ...

Lou Reed Talking About His First Solo Album

Interview by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, July 1972

Author's note, 2018. This was my scoop. New York, June 1972. Lou discusses all the tracks, one by one, in detail and with diversions, on ...

Alice Cooper: The Killer Comes to Town

Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, Friends/Frendz, July 1972

WELL, LET'S see, kids — it must be back there in 1969 that the name of Alice Cooper started to get around and gain a ...