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Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, Billie Holiday, Rolling Stones, The: From Pop Singers To Rock Bands

Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, 1965

Update, March 2019: I KNOW exactly when I wrote the piece below, where I was, and why I withdrew it from publication. It was January ...

MC5: All-Night Graduation Party

Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 1966

DO THE graduating seniors at Lincoln Park High spend graduation night carousing at wild private parties? Not since 1964, when a group of parents under ...

MC5, Outsiders, The, Donna Lynn: The MC-5: 'More Like One Big Musician'

Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 17 February 1967

SOME PEOPLE call it psychedelic. The MC-5 call it the "new music". They should know, for they are the leading exponents of the far-out sounds ...

MC5: An Interview with Rob Tyner

Interview by John Sinclair, The Warren-Forest Sun, May 1967

The following interview with ROBIN TYNER, the lead singer of the MC5, the major Detroit avant-rock band, was recorded by JOHN SINCLAIR in the first ...

MC5: Our Hippies — What They Say and Do

Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 19 May 1967

IN SAN Francisco a sight-seeing bus runs tours into the Haight-Ashbury district billing it as "the only foreign tour within the continental limits of the ...

Hippy Ideas That Shock Parents

Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 26 May 1967

LAST WEEK on this page I reported on the teen-age hippies in the Detroit area, on where they hung out, what they looked like, and ...

Chuck Jackson: What It's Like When Chuck Jackson Records

Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 26 May 1967

WATCHING CHUCK Jackson record is a gas! He's so creative and professional that he can listen once or twice to the band track and then ...

MC5: 'Aid, Comfort For Parents Of Hippies'

Readers' Letters by uncredited writer, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 1967

In response to the story on the parents of hippies which appeared in the Free Press Women's Section last Sunday, and the two stories about ...

Jefferson Airplane, MC5, Rationals, The: Jefferson Airplane, the Rationals, the MC5: Ford Auditorium, Detroit

Live Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 1967

The Jefferson Airplane, Soaring on Pop Power ...

MC5: Flash! July 27th 1968 — Total Assault On The Culture

Report by uncredited writer, The Warren-Forest Sun, 26 July 1967

MC5 ARRESTED IN ANN ARBOR FOR PLAYING FREE MUSIC IN WEST PARK CHARGED WITH DISTURBING THE PEACE ...

The Beach Boys: California!

Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Listener, 22 November 1967

2012 NOTE: In the third (and last) column below written for The Listener in late 1967, I tried to begin to grope towards construction ...

Big Brother & The Holding Company, Byrds, The, Canned Heat, Electric Flag, Jimi Hendrix, MC5, Soft Machine, Rationals, The: Rock & Roll Crusader: Detroit

Report by uncredited writer, The Warren-Forest Sun, 1 March 1968

DETROIT IS turning into ROCK CITY before our eyes, and we love it! All over the country groups are being "discovered, " and cities like ...

Big Brother & The Holding Company: Big Brother: James Gurley Talks to the Sun

Interview by uncredited writer, The Warren-Forest Sun, 29 March 1968

SUN: LET'S TALK some about the old Detroit, before the days of LSD 25. When did you leave Detroit? ...

MC5: Rock & Roll Dope #2

Report by John Sinclair, The Fifth Estate, 19 June 1968

A STRANGE polarization (or maybe it's a natural one) seems to be happening with rock and roll fans right now, with white teen-age audiences turning ...

MC5: Rock & Roll Dope #3

Report by John Sinclair, The Fifth Estate, 4 July 1968

I PROMISED you when I started this column that I'd take you behind the scenes in the rock and roll industry so you can see ...

MC5: Rock & Roll Dope #4

Report by John Sinclair, The Fifth Estate, 18 July 1968

IN THE past two weeks since the last issue of this paper a bunch of new developments have taken place: Almost every job for the ...

MC5 Deposition 7/23/68

Press Release by uncredited writer, The Warren-Forest Sun, 26 July 1968

WHAT FOLLOWS is a deposition written by Rob Tyner, Wayne Kramer and Dennis Thompson of the MC5 upon their return from the Loft and the ...

MC5, John Sinclair: Flash! July 26th, 1968: MC5 Attacked By Police On Job

Report by uncredited writer, The Warren-Forest Sun, 26 July 1968

JOHN SINCLAIR, FRED SMITH BEATEN, MACED, ARRESTED — CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING POLICE OFFICERS ...

MC5: Rock & Roll Dope #5

Report by John Sinclair, The Fifth Estate, 1 August 1968

Poet-MC5 manager John Sinclair and MC5 guitarist Fred Smith were brutally assaulted, beaten, MACEd, and arrested by members of the National Security Police, the Oakland ...

John Mayall, MC5, Traffic: Rock and Roll Dope #6

Comment by John Sinclair, Fifth Estate, 15 August 1968

NOW THAT things have cooled down a little for the MC5 and myself after all the excitement of recent weeks maybe I can get into ...


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