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Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 23 March 1974

IN A ROCK world where folk tend to babble nonsense at the drop of a hat, blither platitudes, and indulge in half-baked philosophising, it is ...

Grand Funk Railroad: 'I Know You'll Get To Like It If You Give It A Chance Now'

Profile and Interview by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, 1 April 1974

A BRISK, ICY WIND was blowing through the overcast skies of Flint, Michigan as the members of Grand Funk Railroad arrived at Whiting Auditorium for ...

Kiss: Kiss (Casablanca Records 9001)

Review by Harold Tribune, Zoo World, 11 April 1974

SOME RECORDS by new groups on new labels might be looked on with considerably more disinterest than what's greeted this release. Just as Casablanca Records ...

Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd: The Cracked Ballad of Syd Barrett

Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 13 April 1974

The summer of '67 went up like a psychedelic mushroom-cloud – and some of the fall-out's still coming down. Brian Jones was casually snuffed out, ...

MC5: Kramer Climbs Back From MC5 Wreckage

Report by Mick Farren, NME, 27 April 1974

NEW BAND AND A NEW IMAGE: Mick Farren in Detroit ...

New York Dolls: The New York Dolls: Too Much Too Soon

Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 20 June 1974

Lotta Goin' Nowhere Goin' On ...

Suzi Quatro, Queen of Pop

Profile by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, August 1974

I was sitting in my den, as I often do, playing records and making notes for an article, when something clicked unexpectedly in my mind. ...

The Fugs: Lookin' Back at The Fugs

Retrospective by Mick Farren, NME, 17 August 1974

... a word of thanks to the guys who made all this decadence, vulgarity and debauchery possible. ...

Dr. Feelgood: Doctor Feelgood: Rocking at the Canvey Island Oil Refinery Claimants Union Ball

Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 31 August 1974

NICK KENT probes the aesthetics of DOCTOR FEELGOOD's chisel-toe chic. ...

Little Feat: Feat of Strength

Profile and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 28 September 1974

IT WOULD be difficult to count the number of musicians who have eulogised about Little Feat over the past year. This little known band from ...

Suzi Quatro: Elvis as Virgin Queen

Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, November 1974

"I STILL USE laundromats, and one day I was walking to one carrying a bag of laundry. I had a hat on and sunglasses because ...

Hawkwind: Hall Of The Mountain Grill (United Artists)

Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Shakin' Street Gazette, 7 November 1974

WHEN LAST WE visited our resident space-age hippies (Shakin' Street No. 3), they had completed their lengthy and powerful Space Ritual, exploring what Tom Bingham ...

Dr. Feelgood: Dingwalls, London

Live Review by Mick Farren, NME, 7 December 1974

BACK IN JUNE I made one of my regular midnight creeps to Dingwalls in Camden Town with the main purpose of getting drunk. ...

MC5, The Stooges: MC5/Stooges: Panic in Detroit

Report by Mick Farren, NME, 14 December 1974

THOSE FUN lovers from the motor city, the Stooges and the MC5, are winding up for another rampage. Of course, we've heard tales like this ...

The Doors: The End Is Always Near: Dread, Drunkenness and The Doors, Pt. 1

Retrospective by Lester Bangs, unpublished, 1975

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF the Doors should not be underestimated; it has been too often already. When you consider that they represented, in the positivist context ...

Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Sandy Denny, Brian Eno, Bryan Ferry, Nico, Roxy Music, Sparks, Sutherland Brothers and Quiver: Island Records: Treasure Island

Profile by Lenny Kaye, Hit Parader, January 1975

GIVEN THE commercial restrictions of the business we call music, it is the rare record company that is willing to lay itself on the line ...

The Doors: Strange Days

Review by Max Bell, NME, 4 January 1975

WAS THIS ALBUM WEIRD? You bet yer snakeskin mitts it was. ...

Dr. Feelgood: Down By The Jetty (United Artists)

Review by Nick Kent, NME, 25 January 1975

BOYS, BOYS now what did I tell you about being "too  ethnic"? ...

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 ...