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Dear Charlie... Love, Lester

Retrospective by Lester Bangs, Excerpts from letters to Charlie Gillett, 1971

CREEM,187 South Woodward Avenue, Suite 203Birmingham, Michigan 48011(313) 642-8833[Autumn 1971] ...

MC5, Up, The, John Sinclair: Rock & Roll Dope: John Sinclair

Retrospective by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, 28 May 1971

IT WAS back in the fall of 1966 when Rob Tyner, lead singer for the then "Avant Rock" MC5, and myself got in Rob's beat ...

The Dave Clark Five

Retrospective by Metal Mike Saunders, Flash, 1972

A-WOP-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bam-boom! ...

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. ...

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Retrospective by Lester Bangs, unpublished, 1975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 ...

The Pink Fairies: Looking Back

Retrospective by Mick Farren, NME, 26 April 1975

A thrilling tale of Ladbroke Grove, loose aggregations, hanging out, and falling about – recounted in loving detail by an actual participant in those glorious ...

The Sonics: Have Love, Will Travel: In Praise of the Sonics

Retrospective by Metal Mike Saunders, Gulcher, July 1975

IT ALL STARTS with Richard Berry. He never received a Nobel Prize for writing 'Louie Louie', but to this day it beats me why – ...

The Doors (part 1): The Hunting of the Lizard King

Retrospective by Mick Farren, NME, 27 September 1975

Visionary? Poet? Revolutionary? Or was he simply a narcissist with a drink problem? Either way he created a considerable legend. In the first of a ...

New York Dolls: Meet The Boys In The Band: The New York Dolls

Retrospective by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 4 December 1976

Prime movers of P**K, this gang of poseurs were wearing safety pins when they were still in diapers. ...

MC5: The MC5: How the Jams Were Kicked Out!

Retrospective by John Sinclair, ZigZag, July 1977

In Britain, the MC5 are now far more popular than they ever were in their heyday – a fact which has prompted the recent re-release ...

Chocolate Watchband, The, Remains, The, Seeds, The, Bob Seger, Shadows Of Knight, The, Standells, The, Troggs, The, Leaves, The, Litter, The, Count Five, Terry Knight & the Pack, Rationals, The, Barbarians, The, Syndicate of Sound, The, Music Machine, The, Fugitives, The, Pleasure Seekers, The, New Colony Six, The, Rockin' Ramrods, The, Lost, The, Uniques, The, Swingin' Medallions, The, Hombres, The, Gentrys, The, Floyd Dakil Combo, The, Gants, The: That's Cool That's Trash: A History of the First Punk Era, Part 2

Retrospective by Robot A. Hull, Creem, July 1979

THE STANDELLS story convolutes through a media maze. Russ Tamblyn's brother, Larry Tamblyn, had already recorded on an East L.A. Mex-punk label when he founded ...

The Fugs: Fugging around

Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1982

Widespread, commercial appeal was never high on the Fugs' list of priorities. ...

Black Sabbath: Prole Metal to Ozzy and Beyond

Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Creem, 1982

FROM THE first oafish gothic crash of 'Black Sabbath' it was clear this band was dumb. Really intensely dumb. Even in that first hearing there ...

MC5: Kicking Out The Jams With The Motor City Rebels

Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1983

"If you take everything in the universe and break it down to a common denominator, all you've got is energy", said the MC5's Wayne Kramer ...

Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett: Syd Barrett: The Tragedy Of Floyd's Founding Genius

Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1983

Early in 1970, Melody Maker asked Roger Waters what he thought of The Madcap Laughs, the debut solo album by his erstwhile Pink Floyd colleague ...

Suzi Quatro: Oh, Suzi Q!!

Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1983

How Quatrophenia conquered the UK "SUZI QUATRO MADE A WELCOME CHANGE from the wimpy, folksy girls who were rock’s only other female representatives at ...

The Damned

Retrospective by Dave Thompson, Goldmine, 7 February 1992

NO ONE could ever have predicted it, but the Damned are the great survivors of punk. ...

Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett: Syd Barrett

Retrospective by Mark Paytress, Record Collector, 1993

IN COMMON with Brian Wilson, Captain Beefheart and Phil Spector, Syd Barrett is a musician whose work is often overshadowed by the myths that surround ...

Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett: The Crazy Diamond: Syd Barrett

Retrospective by Cliff Jones, MOJO, September 1996

He was Pink Floyd’s astral voyager who went too far, the star-child of psychedelia who never returned from his journey to inner space. Nearly 30 ...

Beatles, The, Black Grape, Boy George, Paul McCartney, Oasis, Rolling Stones, The: ...And The Arrest is History: Great Rock'n'Roll Drug Busts Through the Ages

Retrospective by Stuart Bailie, New Musical Express, 25 January 1997

Liam Gallagher's caution for possession of cocaine is the latest in a long line of rock'n'roll drug busts. STUART BAILIE remembers those other pop stars ...