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The Edgar Broughton Band: Edgar Broughton: Meet Edgar The Agitator
Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 17 January 1970
BOUNCERS ARE one of the bad old traditions of pop music, with roots reaching back through the 'Rock Around the Clock' riots to the Sinatra ...
Steppenwolf: On Politics and Pop
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 11 July 1970
FOR YEARS popular rhythm artists have expressed often in fairly heated fashion, or occasionally with affected languor, political opinions. ...
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 8 August 1970
ON THE surface it seemed crazy — 1,500 kids packed into a hot stuffy old engine shed, while outside the temperature was in the seventies. ...
MC5 — Still The Bad Boys Of Rock
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 8 August 1970
ONE THING that American rock bands can generally do better than their British counterparts is to channel their energy into the notes. ...
Rolling Stones, The: Stones and the Street Fighting Men
Report by Geoffrey Cannon, Melody Maker, 3 October 1970
Update, 2019. The Rolling Stones were never just entertainers. They are the world's leading creators and performers of Dionysian rock theatre. They are flamboyant, perverse, ...
Van Morrison: What's So Special About Van Morrison?
Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, Melody Maker, 20 March 1971
Update, 2019. BELOW THIS update is the first of two pieces on Van's early albums. They were commissioned by Richard Williams as my Melody Maker editor, ...
Funkadelic: It's Just To Get People's Attention
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 8 May 1971
EVER since Keith Emerson set fire to an American flag on the stage of London's Royal Albert Hall, the banning of groups from that particular ...
Jethro Tull: Rocking In The USA
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 16 October 1971
This week, Jethro Tull flew out to start their eleventh tour of America. Like other top British Rock acts, they are reaping the rich rewards ...
Interview by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 12 February 1972
THE MC5 don't want to be stars, if you can dig that. They reason that they are there with you to fill the air with ...
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, ...
Syd Barrett, MC5: Syd Barrett: The Madcap returns
Report by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 4 March 1972
SYD BARRETT'S new band, Stars, made their strange debut at Cambridge Corn Exchange last week. Roy Hollingworth reports... ...
Iggy Pop, Stooges, The: Lock Up Your Daughters, Iggy's Here
Profile and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 1 April 1972
AS MARC BOLAN swung his hips for the benefit of Ringo Starr's camerawork, did any of the 9,000 upturned faces notice the auburn-haired American fifth ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Report by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 2 October 1976
THE 600-STRONG line, which last Monday straggled across two blocks outside London's 100 Club in Oxford Street, waiting for the Punk Rock Festival to start, ...
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 ...
The Pretenders: Moonlight Club, London
Live Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 10 February 1979
NO APOLOGIES for following Mark Williams' review of the Pretenders at the Moonlight last week with an instant replay. Now is the time to catch ...
MC5, Wayne Kramer: Wayne Kramer Forgets The Motor City
Interview by Mark Williams, Melody Maker, 17 March 1979
"SOMETIMES we used to pass the Milan jail when the MC5 were driving to gigs outside of Detroit, and I used to look up at ...
Was (Not Was): Was (Not Was) (ZE/Island ILPS 7015)
Review by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, 27 June 1981
Was is not the Was that was ...
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