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Joe Cocker, Rita Coolidge, Claudia Lennear, Leon Russell: The Joe Cocker Show... Mad Dogs And Englishmen

Report and Interview by Dave Marsh, Creem, April 1970

THE DISCOVERY OF CANINA, A MOST SPECIAL PET (AND, COINCIDENTALLY, LEON RUSSELL, A MOST SPECIAL MUSICIAN) ...

Grand Funk Railroad: The Bigtime Rock Band That's Ignored Back Home in Detroit

Report and Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 17 May 1970

THERE'S NOTHING small-time about Detroit in the music business. More and more, record company executives come here first to tap talent. They know it's here. ...

Big Brother & The Holding Company: What Big Brother Is Up To

Report and Interview by Ben Edmonds, Circus, October 1970

THE EXPLOITS OF Janis Joplin in her post-Big Brother days are inevitably front-page material, but what of the band she left behind? Big Brother & ...

Rolling Stones, The: Goodbye Great Britain: The Rolling Stones On Tour

Report and Interview by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, 15 April 1971

LONDON – "Boogie, Bobby, boogie," Marshall Chess is saying over and over to Bobby Keys in the seat next to him, slamming out the phrase ...

Iggy Pop, Stooges, The: Night of the Iggy

Report and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 12 February 1972

WHO IS IT who smashes a microphone in his teeth, tears flesh from his bare chest, leaps into the audience busting bones in all directions, ...

Suzi Quatro: Tipped For Success This Year

Report and Interview by uncredited writer, New Musical Express, 20 January 1973

[NOTE: This uncredited piece was included in a Radio Luxembourg promotional special inset entitled the 208 Times.] ...

Slade: Cum On Feel The Boyz

Report and Interview by Lester Bangs, Let It Rock, October 1973

I'VE NEVER SEEN anything like it, though you may have. The kids come jostling in and pack the halls every time. Two or three thousand ...

New York Dolls: Dead End Kids On The Champs-Elysées

Report and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, 26 January 1974

"NOW JOHN LENNON... y'know, that song 'Gimme The Truth'?" The Dolls' David Johansen's cracked Brooklyn drawl appears from the side of his mouth while a ...

Bruce Springsteen

Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 15 November 1975

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN says he just writes down his impressions of stuff whereas here in Hollywood, Calif., there are people in from New York who believe ...

Ramones, The, Dictators, The, Television: The Punk Rock Machine

Report and Interview by Lester Bangs, Screw, November 1976

IT'S A WARM New York night in the spring of 1976, and there are a lot of places that the press moguls who publish, edit, ...

CBGBs, Max's etc: Underground Overground

Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 27 November 1976

"PUNK ROCK? What's that supposed to mean? The bands that play at my club aren't punks. They might wear leather jackets, chew gum and try ...

Motörhead: Pulling Out of the Pits

Report and Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 2 July 1977

"GET OUT of the f––––– way. We’ve got a concert to do." ...

Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Rockpile: The Rockpile Tapes

Report and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, 30 July 1977

DAVE EDMUNDS HAS had his definitive quote on Nick Lowe's talents down pat for a long while now. "There are loads of guys around in ...

David Bowie, Eddie & The Hot Rods: The Thin White Duke Has Gone. Here's The New David Bowie

Report and Interview by Tim Lott, Record Mirror, 24 September 1977

THE TONE is final. This negative is as impenetrable as it is predictable. "No." ...

Eddie & The Hot Rods, MC5: The Return of the MC5's Rob Tyner

Report and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 1 October 1977

'Vocalist with legendary Detroit rock band seeks gig with hot British combo. Has own harp...' ...

Cheap Trick

Report and Interview by Max Bell, NME, 8 April 1978

Meet Tricky Ricky and the Denim Deliverers. Ricky Neilson and CHEAP TRICK, to be more precise, who're currently wowing the Heavy Metal Hordes and MAX ...

Jane Aire & The Belvederes, Tin Huey, The Waitresses: Rock in Akron: The Music Of Greater Akron

Report and Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 17 June 1978

Is this the avant-garde or the sound of cash registers? Pete Silverton has a pretty good idea ...

Flamin' Groovies, The: The Return of the Flamin' Groovies

Report and Interview by Andy Schwartz, New York Rocker, September 1978

IT ALL BEGAN on a slow summer afternoon with a frantic phone call from Miriam Linna. The Flamin' Groovies (or someone speaking for them, perhaps ...

Pure Hell: Just Another Bunch Of Middle Class Kids With Silly Names And Spiky Haircuts: Pure Hell

Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 25 November 1978

"H-E-E-EYY..." Pure Hell drummer Spider Blaze tousles his Rita Hayworth red crop and slaps his right palm down on mine, giving me one of those ...

Dead Boys, The: Dead Boys Tell No Tales (Under An Hour, That Is)

Report and Interview by Richard Riegel, Creem, February 1979

FIVE MINUTES into my first-ever meeting with the Dead Boys, and already I have an angle, a metaphorical hook for my story on the band: ...