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Mott The Hoople: All The Young Dudes (CBS 65184, £2.29)

Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 16 September 1972

At last Mott get it all on wax! ...

Live Review by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 26 July 1974

Jobriath Displays A New Rock Voice But Familiar Face ...

David Bowie: Me and David: An Interview with Photographer Mick Rock

Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'The Rise of David Bowie' (Taschen), February 2014

YOU COULDN'T make the name up: as the man himself says in the interview that follows, "Mick Rock" sounds like a cartoon character, a distillation ...

David Bowie, T. Rex: Glad to be Glam!

Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, The Independent, 12 September 1998

What do the original devotees think of Ziggy, Bolan, platform boots and glitter 25 years on? Will the latest revival of '70s androgyny take off? ...

Jobriath: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 August 1974

Jobriath Potent, but Not Nuclear ...

Jobriath: Jobriath (Elektra)

Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 26 January 1974

YOU WILL soon be told that this cat is going to be the big breeze in 1974. Receive this piece of information with sceptical, though ...

Glitter Band, The, Mud, Slade, Sweet, Bearded Lady, Iron Virgin, Brett Smiley: Glam rock shines again

Retrospective by Bob Stanley, The Times, 21 March 2003

Thirty years on, the forgotten stars of glam rock are shining again. ...

David Bowie, Elliott Murphy, New York Dolls, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Rolling Stones, The: Farewell Androgyny n. hermaphroditism (Gr. Gyne, woman)

Overview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 16 March 1974

Is it time to shut the closet door? OUR HERO SEES THROUGH THE SEE-THROUGHS AND COMES TO THE CONCLUSION THAT ELEGANCE IS MORE THAN A LIMP ...

T. Rex: Exile of a Street Punk

Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 16 June 1973

MARC BOLAN talks to Rosalind Russell as he prepares to get back into the swing of things. ...

New York Dolls, Todd Rundgren, T. Rex: Marc Bolan: The Man, The Myth and the Music

Report and Interview by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 12 August 1973

HE SITS there with his head covered in corkscrew curls, his temples and eyelids gently rouged, his lower lashline ever so slightly outlined in pencil, ...

New York Dolls: The New York Dolls: The New York Dolls (Mercury — import)

Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 18 August 1973

Dolls: Junior Stones ...

Geordie, Sweet: Sweet, Geordie: Rainbow Theatre, London

Live Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 7 April 1973

Bitter Sweet ...

Iggy Pop, David Bowie: Nick Kent: Once Upon a Life

Memoir by Nick Kent, The Observer, 14 March 2010

In 1972 he was sorting mail in a Sussex post office. Twelve months later he was partying with Led Zeppelin. Here, the hugely influential music ...

Marilyn Manson: The Man Who Fell To Earth

Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, September 1998

THE ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR is no more. ...

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, ...

Marc Bolan, T. Rex, Tyrannosaurus Rex: Marc Bolan: Glam Rock Is Dead

Obituary by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 24 September 1977

Even people who didn't care for his records acknowledged his charisma ...

Led Zeppelin, New York Dolls, Iggy Pop, Stooges, The: The "Fun City Sound" Is What's Happening in Rock

Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 5 August 1973

SO THEY'RE saying rock and roll is dead? Not this week, they aren't! What a week! While every newspaper, radio and TV station was telling ...

Marc Bolan, John's Children, T. Rex, Tyrannosaurus Rex: Rock and Roll Heart: Marc Bolan 1947-1977

Obituary by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 24 September 1977

MARC BOLAN was born on September 30, 1947, in Hackney Hospital, East London, the second son of Sid and Phyllis Feld. ...

Sweet: Rainbow Theatre, London

Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 7 April 1973

I'M STILL trying to work this one out, but here's a brief rundown of what basically happened at the Sweet's Rainbow gig. ...