Glam, Glitter
248 articles
T. Rex, Tyrannosaurus Rex: Tyrannosaurus Rex: Two Heads Are Better Than One
Interview by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 28 March 1970
TYRANNOSAURUS REX are one again. The double-headed animal has happily been put together again after it had split two ways last year. ...
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 13 February 1971
MARC BOLAN, teased, stimulated and tempted by the midday wine, looned around in the rain and stood in humorous mood viewing the vast hulk of ...
Report and Interview by John Mendelssohn, Rolling Stone, 1 April 1971
LOS ANGELES: In his floral-patterned velvet midi-gown and cosmetically enhanced eyes, in his fine chest-length blonde hair and mod nutty engineer’s cap that he bought ...
Marc Bolan, T. Rex: Marc Bolan: Energy Is What It's All About
Interview by Keith Altham, Record Mirror, 17 April 1971
MARC BOLAN is ready to take on the world following his incredible success with two maxi singles, 'Ride A White Swan' almost indecently closely followed ...
David Bowie: The Man Who Sold the World (Mercury SR 61325)
Review by Richard Cromelin, Creem, May 1971
SOMEHOW IT seems that it is during my occasional moments of paranoid fantasy that all the strange social phenomena that the media-systems funnel into my ...
Alice Cooper: Love Them To Death
Profile and Interview by Danny Goldberg, Circus, June 1971
"WE'RE MERELY the end-product of an affluent society," Alice Cooper is fond of saying. "We enjoy getting on stage and showing the public what their ...
Slade: Now Slade Can Laugh Last
Interview by Val Mabbs, Record Mirror, 17 July 1971
THE BOOTS and braces, brawn and bovver image, worked fine for a time, but now Slade are loath to talk about their Skinhead image. But ...
Slade: Bovver Boys Who Grew Their Hair And Got A Hit
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 17 July 1971
SLADE, BRITAIN'S first skinhead band — were launched just over a year ago in the true tradition of eye-catching pop publicity. But the implications of ...
T. Rex: Marc's science fiction film
Interview by Val Mabbs, Record Mirror, 24 July 1971
WITH THE surge or phenomenal interest that has arisen for T. Rex, Marc Bolan has become infinitely aware of the difficulties facing some fans who ...
David Bowie: The Space Oddity Comes Down To Earth
Interview by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 14 August 1971
AT ONE TIME singer/songwriter David Bowie used to write songs because, "I truly believed we songwriters were going to change the face of the world." ...
Slade: When Their Hair Finally Grew
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 14 August 1971
"A YEAR AGO a lot of people back home walked on the other side of the street if they saw us coming so they didn't ...
Marc Bolan, T. Rex: T. Rex's Marc Bolan (1971)
Interview by Keith Altham, Rock's Backpages audio, October 1971
Marc talks about the latest T. Rex album Electric Warrior: how it's not as simple as it sounds, its reception, and how it relates to Tyrannosaurus Rex. He goes on to discuss his change as a performer, and the new way he presents himself; being accused of selling out; 'Hot Love', 'Get It On', 'Ride A White Swan' and the three minute single, and writing musical science fiction.
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T. Rex: Marc Bolan: I Am The Cosmic Dancer
Interview by Keith Altham, Record Mirror, 9 October 1971
I DO BELIEVE I am in grave danger of becoming a pleb! For example, in the opinion of a number of eminent musical critics Marc ...
T. Rex: Fairfield Hall, Croydon
Live Review by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 30 October 1971
MAGIC IS a hard thing to summon up on a Sunday after-lunch afternoon audience. So if anyone deserves the award of the month it's Marc ...
Marc Bolan, T. Rex: Marc Bolan: Hot Rods and Hot Love
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, November 1971
CAMOUFLAGED WELL enough to stand unnoticed in front of a rainbow, Marc Bolan sat crosslegged on his sofa and explained that "too much" had happened ...
Slade: How Slade's image caused them bovver
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 13 November 1971
THE SKINHEAD era worked two ways on Slade — who had become the first group of the skinhead kind. It brought them to the attention ...
The Cockettes: Vulgarity or Vanguard?
Profile by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 14 November 1971
A SHOW came to New York this week that many people found tedious, offensive and unspeakably vulgar. I want to remind all those people who ...
Profile by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 19 December 1971
HE'S HERE, the greatest thing since the Beatles but Americans don't realise it yet. His name is Marc Bolan and he's the most important part ...
Live Review by Miles, New York Dolls/Glam Rock, 1972
"It’s a fact that LA soft rock has been stomped on by glittering lurid day-glo platform shoes worn by a female impersonating, posturing hard-rock singer... ...
David Bowie: Oh, You Pretty Thing: David Bowie
Profile and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 22 January 1972
DAVID BOWIE, rock's swishiest outrage; a self-confessed lover of effeminate clothes, Bowie, who has hardly performed in public since his 'Space Oddity' hit of three ...
T. Rex: Gliderdrome, Boston, Lincs.
Live Review by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 22 January 1972
REXMANIA At the Boston Gliderdrome on Saturday, T. Rex turned the musical dock back to the early sixties. In scenes of hysteria and confusion unparalleled since ...
Interview by Danny Holloway, New Musical Express, 5 February 1972
Outspoken Danny Holloway series ...
Marc Bolan, T. Rex: Marc Bolan: A Weird Kid With No Friends
Interview by Danny Holloway, New Musical Express, 12 February 1972
Outspoken Danny Holloway series ...
David Bowie: Clothes Make the Bowie
Profile by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 20 February 1972
WHEN I WAS in England recently, a lot of excitement seemed to be about David Bowie, a singer-songwriter, who, in the past, has managed to ...
Slade: Melody Maker Band Breakdown: Slade
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 4 March 1972
UNLIKE MANY of the groups currently enjoying chart success with hit singles, Slade have been in the game a long time. ...
T. Rex: Carnegie Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 5 March 1972
A DREAM PRINCE HAD A SLOW AWAKENING ...
Interview by Tony Norman, New Musical Express, 11 March 1972
I HAVE KNOWN Marc Bolan for several years now and have never thought of him as being, well, completely normal. By that I don't mean ...
Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 25 March 1972
SLADE: BRASH, RAW, FLASHY — AND GREAT ...
T. Rex: "The Mania Never Stops"
Interview by Harold Bronson, Phonograph Record, April 1972
HUMILITY HAS never been one of man's virtues. Whether warranted or not, we tend to exaggerate our credibility. What we must never forget is why ...
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 6 May 1972
DAVID BOWIE is at last letting the Great British Public catch up with him. With grasshopper alacrity, he has kept ahead of us for years ...
David Bowie: The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (RCA)
Review by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 10 June 1972
Bowie at his best ...
David Bowie & the Spiders From Mars: City Hall, Sheffield
Live Review by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 17 June 1972
THE LAST time I saw David Bowie was six months ago when he was playing a purely acoustic set. And although I'd heard his new ...
David Bowie: The Elvis Of the Seventies
Comment by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 18 June 1972
IT WAS just after the Elvis concert and David Bowie and I were sitting in his suite at the Park Lane Hotel (that's where record ...
Roxy Music: Roxy Music (Island)
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 24 June 1972
KARI-ANN STARES, with lustful expectancy, teeth bared and surrounded by frosted deep pink lips. She reclines on a counterpane of silvery satin in a halternecked ...
David Bowie: Central London Polytechnic, London
Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Phonograph Record, 1 July 1972
"YES, I'M DAVID BOWIE. These are the Spiders from Mars. And we're the slickest show in town." ...
David Bowie: David at the Dorchester: Bowie on Ziggy and other matters
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 22 July 1972
THREE CHANGES of dress and a kiss from Lou Reed. The waiters were horrified. ...
Ringo Starr, T. Rex: T. Rex: Marc
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 5 August 1972
MARC BOLAN'S first film, titled Born To Boogie, is due for release on the cinema circuit in September. It would appear that it's a logical ...
Interview by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 12 August 1972
A menace to society ...
David Bowie, Roxy Music: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 26 August 1972
GOING TO THE Rainbow these days is definitely an outing, an excursion, something of a treat. Unfamiliarity breeds respect, and though the cheerful hippies who ...
David Bowie: The Wild Mutation As A Rock 'n' Roll Star
Profile by Nick Kent, Friends/Frendz, September 1972
SATURDAY NIGHT was star night down at the Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park and how! I mean, my dear, you just wouldn't believe all those ...
Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 2 September 1972
Stars of rock: T. Rex: The Slider; Rod Stewart: Never A Dull Moment; David Bowie: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars; Roxy Music: Roxy ...
Mott The Hoople: All The Young Dudes (CBS 65184, £2.29)
Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 16 September 1972
At last Mott get it all on wax! ...
T. Rex: Will America Learn To Love Marc Bolan?
Report by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 23 September 1972
T. REX are making another attempt to win the hearts of young America. But it don't come easy, as MM's Roy Hollingworth reports... ...
David Bowie: Carnegie Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Lillian Roxon, New York Daily News, 30 September 1972
David Bowie Can Do It All ...
Interview by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 7 October 1972
We're tired of being dismissed as a teenybop band say the Wig Wam Bam men ...
David Bowie: Carnegie Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 7 October 1972
Can Bowie save New York from boredom? ...
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 7 October 1972
JUST WHEN IT seemed that all the excitement, glamour and sparkle were going out of rock – along with the anger, vulgarity and vitality which ...
David Bowie & the Spiders From Mars: Carnegie Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 8 October 1972
A Rock Happening: David's Debut ...
Report by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 21 October 1972
New York Report by Roy Hollingworth ...
Lou Reed: The Black Sheep of New York
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 21 October 1972
THE INTERVIEW is to take place in a pub just off London's Curzon Street at around lunch-time. Lou Reed arrives late, looking papery. He's not ...
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 28 October 1972
Bowie Band Fails To Arouse Crowd ...
Alice Cooper: Dancing In The Street Without A Permit Is Strictly Forbidden
Report by Jonh Ingham, Fusion, November 1972
Alice hits London. Summertime blues 1972. ...
Gary Glitter: A Raven in Rich Plumage
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 4 November 1972
"YOU WILL bear in mind that he's got dreadful 'flu, won't you," says Gary Glitter's publicity agent when we fixed up the interview. And sure ...
T. Rex: Marc Bolan's Optimistic Overlook
Report and Interview by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 11 November 1972
"A NICE THING happened in New Jersey," related Marc Bolan with a gleam in his eye. He pauses momentarily and the small group of press ...
Roxy Music: Central Hall, Chatham
Live Review by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 11 November 1972
"COR," SAID the bloke behind me after Roxy Music had finished their first number, "I like the way they take the micky out of themselves." ...
T. Rex: The Science Fiction Diplomatic Twentieth Century Robotised Holy Man Sends A Message...
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 11 November 1972
AS THE knockers warmed to their theme last week and adjusted their sights on Marc Bolan, the man himself was being mobbed at London Airport ...
Roxy Music: All This and Eno Too… How Can They Fail?
Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 18 November 1972
T.S. ELIOT, MUSING upon a takeaway Chinese meal once asked "Is true art dead?", while over at the pinball machine Little Richard picked his nose ...
English Trends in L.A.: Rodney Bingenheimer Makes Good
Report and Interview by Marty Cerf, Phonograph Record, December 1972
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA — Just when we all expected it least, it happened. With our pants down, mouths wide open, Rodney Bingenheimer fulfilled the unknown pledge ...
Ringo Starr, T. Rex: Ringo Starr on Born to Boogie
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 9 December 1972
"BOLAN STRUTS, man, and I like that about him a lot. A lot of people, when they first meet him, can be put off because ...
David Bowie (& the Spiders from Mars) (1972)
Interview by uncredited writer, Rock's Backpages audio, 11 December 1972
A press conference, held at RCA's New York studios, in which Bowie is asked about hair dye; his style; influences; US audiences; Ziggy Stardust; producing Iggy Pop, Lou Reed and Mott the Hoople; his impressions of America; the future of rock; homosexuality; violence in rock... and his relationship with Marc Bolan.
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The Beatles, Marc Bolan, Ringo Starr, T. Rex: Ringo: Apple to the Core
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 16 December 1972
RINGO WAS always supposed to be like that empty-headed klutz who followed Peter Sellers everywhere in the Magic Christian — a good-humoured and honourable Tonto-figure ...
David Bowie: Freak Out In A Moonage Daydream
Report and Interview by Lenny Kaye, Cavalier, January 1973
AYLESBURY, ENGLAND. He is, as he had planned, magnificent. The stage appears impeccably struck, lights arranged to catch the finer angles of his face, making ...
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.] ...
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, February 1973
Their faces drooping in disbelief, the fans shook their baffled, bewildered heads. "If we hadn't seen him with our own eyes we never would have ...
Brian Eno, Roxy Music: A Flight of Fantasy: Eno
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 3 February 1973
ENO'S PLAYBOY bachelor flat in mystical Maida Vale possesses a decor that is God's own gift to a journalist caught for a good opening paragraph. ...
David Bowie, Fumble: David Bowie & the Spiders from Mars: Radio City Music Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Dan Nooger, The Village Voice, 22 February 1973
THE BEST that New York had to offer came out in the rain to witness David Bowie's triumphant return last Wednesday. No less a personage ...
David Bowie: Gay Guerillas & Private Movies
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 24 February 1973
ALRIGHT, SO you're a rock singer out of Beckenham, Kent called David Bowie and you're hotter than a stolen atom bomb packed with pictures of ...
Alice Cooper: Spectrum, Philadelphia
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 17 March 1973
THE ROCK WORLD today mourns the death of Alice Cooper, who was accidently killed last night when the safety screws failed on the guillotine he ...
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 17 March 1973
...is the title of Roxy Music's sensational second album. Roy Hollingworth presents an exclusive preview with comments from Roxy's Bryan Ferry. ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 24 March 1973
THERE ARE A large number of people in the music business who would be delighted to hear that Roxy Music had blown it. Their sudden ...
Alice Cooper: Alice and His $1 Million
Report and Interview by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, April 1973
"TO BE HONEST, I was a little worried about the guillotine," Alice Cooper says. "The safety doesn't work too well, and, well, there was that ...
Gary Glitter: Garbage Rock Comes of Age
Essay by Dave Marsh, Creem, April 1973
WHEN THE CURTAIN comes up, the band are all ready there, pumping out a fuzzy, semi-atonal, rhythmically confused version of left-field '50's music. They are ...
Geordie, Sweet: Sweet, Geordie: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 7 April 1973
Bitter Sweet ...
Sweet: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 7 April 1973
I'M STILL trying to work this one out, but here's a brief rundown of what basically happened at the Sweet's Rainbow gig. ...
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 5 May 1973
MRS CONNOLLY, where are you? Wherever you are, your son Brian is doing all right thank you. He has just bought a new car and ...
David Bowie: Cha...Cha...Cha...Changes — A Journey with Aladdin
Report and Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 12 May 1973
CHARING CROSS STATION, London, 9.10 pm: And when he arrived they screamed and they cried, and they rushed, and gushed forth and beat their feverish ...
David Bowie: Music Hall, Aberdeen
Live Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 26 May 1973
OUTSIDE ABERDEEN Music Hall last Wednesday a whole crowd of dour little Scottish guys stood touting programmes and posters, looking acutely self-conscious with Aladdin Sane ...
Essay by Simon Frith, Let It Rock, June 1973
ARGUING ABOUT pop stars is mostly a loony thing to do. So many of the judgements involved are subjective that the inarticulacy of a Juke ...
Slade: Santa Monica Civic, Santa Monica CA
Live Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, June 1973
SLADE'S PREMIER headlining appearance, coming on the crest of the most explosive streak of singles since the 1965-7 Who, and the equally earthshaking SLAYED album, was as ...
Suzi Quatro, Sweet: Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman: The Dynamic Duo Of Plastic Pop
Interview by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 2 June 1973
Nicky Chinn is an ex-public schoolboy, Mike Chapman a one-time waiter. Together they're... The Dynamic Duo Of Plastic Pop ...
Michael Des Barres, Silverhead: Silverhead Savage
Interview by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 9 June 1973
MICHAEL DES BARRES, the ultimate rock and roll star sits drinking decaffeinated coffee in the health food-come-curio shop on the Portobello Road, London. He's swamped ...
T. Rex: Exile of a Street Punk
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 16 June 1973
MARC BOLAN talks to Rosalind Russell as he prepares to get back into the swing of things. ...
David Bowie: Gaumont State Theatre, Kilburn, London
Live Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 23 June 1973
Bowie — the case for the defence ...
Edgar Winter: How Winter Went Glam and Created A Frankenstein Monster
Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Melody Maker, 30 June 1973
EDGAR WINTER, his wife and his band live in a 13-bedroom white clapboard mansion at Sands Point, overlooking Long Island Sound. 30,000 dollars a year ...
Slade, Sensational Alex Harvey Band: Earls Court, London
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 7 July 1973
IT'S MONDAY morning and my ears are still ringing. The night before, I'd been among the 20,000 fans who packed London's Earls Court to prove ...
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 7 July 1973
Far more so than all the Bowies, Bolans and Roxies... Slade are easily the most important British band of the '70s. ...
David Bowie: The Case For and Against Bowie: Shrewd Publicity Stunt Or Necessity?
Interview by Roy Carr, Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 14 July 1973
AFTER CALLING Jeff Beck on stage to climax last week s final night of his British tour, David Bowie reappeared alone before the curtain to ...
Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 5 August 1973
SO THEY'RE saying rock and roll is dead? Not this week, they aren't! What a week! While every newspaper, radio and TV station was telling ...
New York Dolls, Todd Rundgren, T. Rex: Marc Bolan: The Man, The Myth and the Music
Report and Interview by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 12 August 1973
HE SITS there with his head covered in corkscrew curls, his temples and eyelids gently rouged, his lower lashline ever so slightly outlined in pencil, ...
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 ...
New York Dolls: The Guys In The Dolls
Report by Michael Gross, New Musical Express, 25 August 1973
THE BACK room of Max's Kansas City is generally bathed in a pink glow of lighting effects. Depending on how much liquor you've consumed, it ...
New York Dolls: Matrix, San Francisco CA
Live Review by j. poet, The Berkeley Barb, 14 September 1973
j. poet loves dolls: BEST BAND YET! ...
Interview by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 29 September 1973
THE SWEET'S BALLROOM BLITZKRIEG GOES ON. BUT BEHIND THE ONSTAGE MINCING AND MAKE-UP, THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE IN THE AIR. IN FACT, THE ROCK PARIAHS NOW ...
New York Dolls Greatest Hits Volume 1
Profile and Interview by Ben Edmonds, Creem, October 1973
(They're not a fag band. -Ed.) ...
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: Oh, Those New York Dolls
Report and Interview by Anne Moore, Valley Advocate, 3 October 1973
LOS ANGELES – The New York Dolls are waiting to play a gig. The dressing room is crowded with well-wishers, friends, and groupies, this generation's ...
David Bowie: Bowie's Free For All
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 27 October 1973
Chris Welch describes the weird and wonderful scenes when Ziggy returned to London's Marquee Club ...
Sweet: Can You Take Sweet Seriously?
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, November 1973
SO SWEET WANT to be taken seriously! Well, that's what they've been telling everyone over the past few months. ...
Live Review by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 2 November 1973
Pop Music: Dolls Fans Visit Waldorf for Halloween ...
New York Dolls: They Weren't Dolls at the Waldorf Concert
Report by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 4 November 1973
PROMOTER HOWARD Stein wanted to add some glamor and sophistication to the rock scene, so he put on rock's first show at the Waldorf Astoria ...
David Bowie: The Rise and Fall of David Bowie: All That Glitters is Not Gold
Comment by Jon Tiven, Good Times, 7 November 1973
"No matter how good David Bowie may really be, the stuff he's doing now is a lot of shit." – Chris Chesnutt, editor of the ...
Profile and Interview by Anne Moore, Los Angeles Free Press, 23 November 1973
AS STREET TALK goes, Slade doesn't have the greatest reputations. It is admitted they are one of the better non-Bowieish-type rock groups to come out ...
Elton John: Belle Vue, Manchester
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 8 December 1973
FOR THE first time since Bill Haley's motion picture triumph Rock Around The Clock, played at the now-demolished Queen's Cinema, Catford, in 1956, the urge ...
New York Dolls: Band They Love To Hate
Comment by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 8 December 1973
I'VE SEEN the New York Dolls five times in New York, and London's Biba's last week made it six. ...
Marc Bolan, T. Rex: The Low-Profile Marc Bolan: Finished with "R&R Lunacy"
Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 20 December 1973
LONDON — THE man who put the bump and grind back into British pop music was a few minutes late arriving at his West End ...
Alice Cooper: A Christmas Chiller
Report by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 22 December 1973
The great Sherlock Holmes, cleverly disguised as MM investigator Chris Charlesworth, pulls his deerstalker over his eyes and sets forth on his most dangerous adventure. ...
Marc Bolan, T. Rex: Marc Bolan (1974)
Interview by John Pidgeon, Rock's Backpages audio, 1974
Bolan looks back at Tyrannosaurus Rex and the British underground scene; turning electric and the Beard of Stars album; 'Ride a White Swan'; and ruminates on glitter, image and stardom.
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Marc Bolan, T. Rex: Marc Bolan (1974) [transcript]
Audio transcript of interview by John Pidgeon, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 1974
This is a transcript of John Pidgeon's interview. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Slade: School Leaver Assignment: Dave Hill Exclusive
Interview by Miranda Ward, School Leaver, 1974
Head Puts The Block On Slade!? ...
Suzi Quatro: The Girl in the Gang
Report and Interview by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, 1974
A SEPARATE dressing-room had been provided upstairs, but Suzi Quatro preferred to use the same one as her band. It was large, clean, grey and ...
Suzi Quatro: Suzi Q: Expatriate Rockerette
Interview by Toby Mamis, Zoo World, 3 January 1974
N.Y. — "I DIDN'T want to play with girls anymore," she told me via transatlantic phone conversation, from her manager's office in London. ...
Jobriath: Superstar or Superhype?
Interview by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 12 January 1974
"If hype means projecting your artist, I'm going to produce the biggest hype ever" – Jerry Brandt talking to ROBERT PARTRIDGE about his latest discovery, ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 26 January 1974
YOU WILL soon be told that this cat is going to be the big breeze in 1974. Receive this piece of information with sceptical, though ...
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 16 February 1974
TELLING BOWIE he'd won five Disc Music Poll Awards didn't seem much of a big deal. In the past few months he must have collected ...
Slade: Hill Junior marches in, heats his hands at the fire and turns to warm his bum
Report and Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 16 February 1974
Was this Dave Hill's reaction to DISC'S awards? ...
Brian Eno, The Winkies: Eno & the Winkies: Civic Hall, Guildford
Live Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 2 March 1974
BEFORE HIS Guildford concert with the Winkies last Wednesday, Eno told me: "I've tried rearranging the running order of the songs in all sorts of ...
Marc Bolan & T. Rex: Zinc Alloy And The Hidden Riders Of Tomorrow (EMI BLNA 7751) ****
Review by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 2 March 1974
Bolan: more depth in style ...
New York Dolls: Standing in the Shadow of Rock: Shadow Morton, Pt. 1
Interview by Lenny Kaye, Melody Maker, 2 March 1974
"I don’t consider myself a good producer. I’m one of the best." Shadow Morton, producer of the New York Dolls, talks to Lenny Kaye. ...
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 9 March 1974
Bolan's teenage dream ...
Overview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 16 March 1974
Is it time to shut the closet door? OUR HERO SEES THROUGH THE SEE-THROUGHS AND COMES TO THE CONCLUSION THAT ELEGANCE IS MORE THAN A LIMP ...
Roxy Music: Songs from Europe: Roxy Music's Stranded
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Shakin' Street Gazette, May 1974
"Eno once busied himself amplifying the travel of earthworms.""Thomas Mann in Buddenbrooks characterizes the decline and dissolution of a prominent family with the increase in ...
Report and Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 23 May 1974
Nouveau Rock Bops British Charts ...
Review by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, July 1974
RUFF-RUFF-BOW-BOW: Bowie's bewitched, bothered, bewildered and back to play – 25 eastern cities in an intense five week tour concluding mid-July with his single biggest ...
Jobriath: The Bottom Line, New York NY
Live Review by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 26 July 1974
Jobriath Displays A New Rock Voice But Familiar Face ...
Brian Eno, Bryan Ferry: Bryan Ferry: Another Time, Another Place; Eno: Here Come The Warm Jets
Review by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, August 1974
AS EXPECTED, Eno's first solo album is a sonically innovative and adventurous thing, boldly experimental in its employment of phasing, drones, repetition, shifting of layers, ...
Jobriath: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 August 1974
Jobriath Potent, but Not Nuclear ...
Jobriath: The Troubadour, Los Angeles
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, September 1974
JERRY BRANDT isn't noted for doing things in a small way, but Jobriath, his latest project, might prove to be merely mildly successful. ...
Slade: Your Public Is Your Judge
Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 19 October 1974
THEY CAME out of Wolverhampton. Failed skinheads who became the loudest, most aggressive stomping band in the land. A year ago nobody questioned it – ...
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 ...
Roy Wood, Wizzard: Wizzard: Eddie & the Falcons
Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, November 1974
FOR A MUSICIAN of his acknowledged brilliance, Roy Wood has shown an inordinate interest in paying tribute to the past works of others. ...
Report by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 3 November 1974
I like sex, because sex is not dangerous. Violence is dangerous, that's why I leave my violence on stage. But we've never been into glitter. ...
Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 9 November 1974
SO THE BARON displayed a certain lack of sartorial "chutzpah" in his last choice of onstage image-tackle. So blame his tailor. Country Life is so ...
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 30 November 1974
A MYSTERIOIUS lack of bubble seems to be affecting Master Marc Bolan's latest offering, the Zip Gun Boogie, as it is known to those who ...
The Hollywood Stars: Hollywood Stars: Glue Sniffers From Hollywood High
Report by Wayne Robins, Creem, December 1974
HOLLYWOOOOOOD! — Anything can happen in this town; in fact, anything happens more often than some thing, which isn't to say there aren't times when ...
Gary Glitter: Ballroom Dancing With The Big G
Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 28 December 1974
GARY GLITTER is sensibly ensconced in a very old fashioned smart hotel where the only thing liable to disturb his peace-of mind is a nutty ...
Mick Ronson - Play Don't Worry
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 4 January 1975
DUNNO ABOUT YOU, but from where I'm sitting it seems as though you can't go on saying that someone has potential for too long unless ...
Live Review by Philip Norman, The Times, 10 March 1975
LIFE HAS changed for Mickie Most since he appeared as one half of The Most Brothers, "England's answer to the Everly Brothers". Forsaking the duet ...
New York Dolls: Little Hippodrome, NYC
Live Review by Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, April 1975
AFTER EXAGGERATED reports heralding their impending demise, the New York Dolls returned in early March to the Hippodrome in mid-Manhattan. They were supposedly to sport ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 26 April 1975
AT LAST the 1972 show! ...
Interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages audio, May 1975
The Black Country glam-rockers discuss their struggle to break the States; the importance to them of Top Of The Pops; their first hit 'Get Down and Get With It'; singles versus albums; their Yuletide No. 1 'Merry Xmas Everybody'; Slade Alive!; looking back on their skinhead phase, and meeting manager Chas Chandler for the first time.
File format: mp3; file size: 41mb, interview length: 42' 43" sound quality: ***
Mud, Suzi Quatro, Sweet: Nicky Chinn: From Riches to Riches
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Let It Rock, June 1975
LiR EXCLUSIVE: Journey to the centre of pop. Nicky Chinn interviewed ...
KISS: I Dreamed I Was Onstage With KISS In My Maidenform Bra
Report and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, August 1975
WELL, NOT exactly my idea of the perfect fantasy, but I was curious about life on the other side of the foot-lights. Armed with an ...
The Glitter Band: Listen To The Band (Bell)
Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 20 December 1975
DEFINITELY THE surprise of 1975, the album to earn the Glitter Band critical credibility, and deservedly so. If Listen To The Band is an indication ...
The Glitter Band: Farewell Glitter!
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 10 January 1976
The Glitter Band's New Year resolution? No more glam-rock. HARRY DOHERTY investigates ...
T. Rex: Lyceum Ballroom, London
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, New Musical Express, 28 February 1976
BORN TO BOOGIE, or born to Waltz? The story of an ageing teendream with the cheek to book himself into London's Lyceum Ballroom, without a ...
The Damned, T. Rex: T. Rex and The Damned: The Beautiful and The Damned
Report by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 19 March 1977
T Rex and The Damned on tour together... will the boppers say nix to the new wave? Will Bolan get blown off the stage? Captain ...
Slade: Ar The Kidz Owt've Site Shock Probe
Report and Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 7 May 1977
BANDS DON'T readily admit to being yesterday's heroes...so Slade, not long ago one of Britain's most celebrated bands, will only acknowledge that they've been through ...
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band: Big Hits And Close Shaves
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 28 May 1977
COMPILATIONS ARE generally the occasion for an in-depth reassessment of an artist's career. ...
Kiss: Love Gun Is a Real Bazooka
Interview by Wesley Strick, Circus, 4 August 1977
Behind the Scenes of the First Kiss Simulated Concept LP ...
Marc Bolan, T. Rex, Tyrannosaurus Rex: Marc Bolan: Glam Rock Is Dead
Obituary by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 24 September 1977
Even people who didn't care for his records acknowledged his charisma ...
Marc Bolan, John's Children, T. Rex, Tyrannosaurus Rex: Rock and Roll Heart: Marc Bolan 1947-1977
Obituary by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 24 September 1977
MARC BOLAN was born on September 30, 1947, in Hackney Hospital, East London, the second son of Sid and Phyllis Feld. ...
Gary Glitter: Silver Star (Arista SPAR-TY 1020)
Review by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 26 November 1977
Gary's growing ...
Gary Glitter, Slade, Suzi Quatro, Sweet, T. Rex: The Glitter Era: Teenage Rampage
Overview by Ken Barnes, Bomp!, March 1978
JUST THREE YEARS gone and it already seems so quaint. The time was c. 1971-1974, the place England, the sound "glitter," or "Glitter Rock." ...
David Bowie: Peter And The Wolf
Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, 27 May 1978
THE RELEVANCE of this classical record to the 'rock marketplace' is quite frankly marginal but evidently heavily counted upon by RCA in their wisdom. ...
David Bowie: The Spiders from Mars' Trevor Bolder (1979)
Interview by Ian Ravendale, Rock's Backpages audio, 4 March 1979
The Spider from Mars bass-man talks about his roots (and Rats) in Hull with Mick Ronson and getting together with David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust, glamming up and the end of the band.
File format: mp3; file size: 13.6mb, interview length: 14' 51" sound quality: ****
Blondie, The Knack, Suzi Quatro, Sweet: Long Overdue Recognition For Producer Mike Chapman
Profile by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 August 1979
WITH HIS productions of the multi-platinum Blondie LP, Parallel Lines, and Get the Knack, which earned a gold album faster than any other debut album ...
T. Rex: The Unobtainable T.Rex
Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 20 September 1980
AND SO, it appears, we are on the brink of a new T.Rex faith. Well, as one who defended the Bolanian right at school in ...
David Bowie: The Gender Bender
Comment by Jon Savage, The Face, November 1980
"WHAT DO YOU want to be when you grow up, David?" ...
Marc Bolan, T. Rex: Tony Visconti on Marc Bolan (1981)
Interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages audio, September 1981
Producer Visconti talks about the newly released T. Rex in Concert: the original stereo recordings, and what he did to improve them; on first meeting Marc in hippie club Middle Earth; why they stopped working together; the definitive version of T. Rex; Bolan vs. Bowie; Marc's charisma and arrogance; the 'Children of Rarn' demos; Bolan's ongoing legacy and the meaning of 'Metal Guru'.
File format: mp3; file size: 18.4mb, interview length: 19' 09" sound quality: ****
Blondie, Mud, Suzi Quatro, Sweet: Chinn and Chapman
Book Excerpt by John Tobler, Stuart Grundy, 'The Record Producers', 1982
THE YEARS BETWEEN 1971 and 1975 were tucked between psychedelia on the one hand and punk rock on the other, and while they featured country ...
Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 11 September 1982
"KIDS LOSE interest fast," mused the boy as the tots in the playground drifted back to their balls and rollerskates, having assimilated and dispensed with ...
Essay by John Tobler, The History of Rock, 1983
Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman orchestrated a British bubblegum revolution ...
Report and Interview by Paul Yamada, Concert News, July 1984
I'VE SEEN SLADE three times; this time makes the fourth. I went out of my way to see them the other times, and each trip ...
Sigue Sigue Sputnik: The Underworld, Croydon
Live Review by Julian Henry, Melody Maker, 17 August 1985
Space race ...
Mötley Crüe: Psychic Gruel and Mötley Crüe
Report and Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, April 1986
CONSIDER SUITE 619 at the Park Hyatt in Chicago. The floor plants in wicker baskets. The liquor cabinet. The glass coffee table, with fresh flowers ...
Scarlet Fantastic: Phantasmagoria
Profile and Interview by Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, 16 January 1988
ARE SCARLET FANTASTIC LEADERS OF THE NEW GLAM MOVEMENT OR MERELY HIPPIES DRESSED IN SATIN AND SEQUINS? CAROLINE SULLIVAN SEPARATES THE MAGIC FROM THE MANIFESTO. ...
Upchuck: Charles "Upchuck" Garrish: One Man's Battle
Interview by Gillian G. Gaar, The Rocket, October 1988
AIDS AND THE MUSICIAN BY GILLIAN G . GAAR ...
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, January 1990
WEDGING HIMSELF with effort into a most negligible pair of silver spangled trouserlettes, Gary Glitter is struck by the possibilities of a mirth-making ruse. He ...
Celebrity Skin: Rock 'n' Roll Disgrace
Profile and Interview by Bill Holdship, Spin, December 1990
ONLY LOS Angeles could produce a band like Celebrity Skin. In a city where celebrity is both religion and life-style, this group is a decadent ...
Celebrity Skin: Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves
Report and Interview by RJ Smith, L.A. Weekly, 4 July 1991
You too can be like Celebrity Skin ...
David Bowie: Angie Bowie cuts into the spotlight
Retrospective and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 20 January 1993
WE WERE AT Turner Fisheries – Angela Bowie, David Bowie's famous ex, and I. I nursed two drinks. She ate half a seafood dinner, sent ...
Suede, T. Rex: Tape Heads: Ed Buller meets Tony Visconti
Interview by Tom Doyle, Melody Maker, 12 March 1994
While even the most basic recordings get increasingly hi-tech, many modern producers are still searching for the vibey sounds of yesteryear. In the first of ...
Retrospective by Keith Altham, Gold, June 1994
PUTTING MARC BOLAN into any kind of historical perspective is still no easy matter, even though 17 years have passed since his death on Friday, ...
Wizzard: Making 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day'
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, January 1996
Mike Burney (sax, Wizzard): I'd been doing really boring big band gigs on the ballroom circuit so when Roy offered me a job in Wizzard ...
David Bowie, Marc Bolan, T. Rex: 10 Great Glam Rock Albums
Guide by Barney Hoskyns, Harpers & Queen, 1998
TEN GREAT GLAM ROCK ALBUMS you cannot afford to live without... ...
Marc Bolan, David Bowie, Freddie Mercury: The Androgynous Mirror
Book Excerpt by Jim Farber, 'Rolling Stone: The Seventies' (Little, Brown), 1998
ON A SWAMPY July night in 1974, I left my suburban home bound for David Bowie's Diamond Dogs concert, dressed in midnight-blue eyeliner, hepatitis-yellow platforms ...
New York Dolls: Too Much, Too Soon: The Dolls take New York
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Glam!' (Faber), 1998
Note: this is a piece adapted in edited form from Glam! Bowie, Bolan & the Glitter-Rock Revolution (Faber, 1998) ...
Brian Eno, Roxy Music: Brian Eno (1998)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 13 January 1998
Eno talks about the early days of Roxy Music; the band's intersection with Glam; the impact of David Bowie; androgyny and flamboyance; leaving Roxy, and setting out on his solo career.
File format: mp3; file size: 33.5mb, interview length: 36' 36" sound quality: ** (phoner)
David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust: The Album That Killed The Sixties
Retrospective by Mark Paytress, Record Collector, June 1998
Bowie's Ziggy Stardust redefined the meaning of rock artistry. ...
All The Young Dudes: The Return of Glam Rock
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, September 1998
YOU COULD argue that glam – glamour, from an old Scottish word meaning "a haze in the air" – was always intrinsic to pop music. ...
Marilyn Manson: The Man Who Fell To Earth
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, September 1998
THE ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR is no more. ...
David Bowie, T. Rex: Glad to be Glam!
Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, The Independent, 12 September 1998
What do the original devotees think of Ziggy, Bolan, platform boots and glitter 25 years on? Will the latest revival of '70s androgyny take off? ...
David Bowie, Gary Glitter, Roxy Music, Sweet, T. Rex: Divine Decadence: Memories Of Glam
Retrospective by Jon Savage, Gadfly, October 1998
GLAM — or as it was originally called in the UK, Glitter Rock — flourished from early summer 1972 to summer 1974: shorter than Hippie, ...
David Bowie, Marc Bolan: Glam Revival
Comment by David Stubbs, Uncut, November 1998
Why the frightening prospect of a full-scale Glam revival fills David Stubbs with dread… ...
David Bowie, Roxy Music, T. Rex: Glam Rock: Scary Monsters, Super Freaks #2
Special Feature by Chris Roberts, Uncut, November 1998
TWENTIETH CENTURY BOY ...
Jobriath: I'm Ready For My Close-Up
Retrospective by Rob Cochrane, MOJO, November 1998
Glam rock was a movie in search of a soundtrack. Today, Velvet Goldmine is that movie, but 25 years ago the publicity machine roared into ...
Kiss & Make-Up: The Perfect Glam Rock Soundtrack
Guide by Jon Savage, MOJO, November 1998
IN THE OPENING minutes of todd Haynes's Velvet Goldmine, a gaggle of lads hurtle down a drab city street, tottering in their platforms, clad in ...
Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 1999
HE BROUGHT YOUR SICKEST FANTASIES to life, and now you, poor fools, have fulfilled his. When Broadway wheels out the new millennial Jesus Christ ...
Hedwig and the Angry Inch: The Rock Musical That Isn't
Report and Interview by Evelyn McDonnell, Real Gone Music, February 1999
CHEATER IS A band that performs as the Angry Inch in the off-Broadway rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Hedwig is an East German ...
David Bowie: David Buckley: Strange Fascination – The Definitive David Bowie Story
Book Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 23 September 1999
WHILE MOST BOWIE biographies (notably Alias David Bowie, Peter & Leni Gillman's 1986 exposé of family mental illness and the Bowie "myth") are as welcome ...
David Bowie: Portrait of the Artist: David Bowie
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, SOMA, October 1999
He makes music. He acts. He paints. He makes sculptures. David Bowie sits and talks for 'hours...' with Stefan Chirazi about how it all comes ...
Bryan Ferry, Roxy Music: Glam’s Great Melancholic: Bryan Ferry
Profile by Barney Hoskyns, The Independent, 2000
BY HIS OWN slightly shamefaced admission, the first thought that raced through Bryan Ferry’s mind as he came within a hair’s breadth of plunging to ...
LA's Glam Revival And The Glitzy Return of Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco
Report and Interview by Paul Gorman, MOJO, March 2000
SOMETHING STRANGE is happening on the streets of Los Angeles. Glam-metal kids, 17 years out of date, are back walking the streets. Ambivalent Bowie-esque sexuality ...
Brian Eno, Roxy Music: Another Glam World: Brian Eno’s Adventures in Roxy Music
Interview by Djuna Parnes, Rock's Backpages, June 2001
DP: What does the phrase "Glam Rock" mean to you? ...
Book Excerpt by Mark Paytress, Omnibus Books, 2002
An extract from Bolan: The Rise And Fall Of A 20th Century Superstar by Mark Paytress, first published by Omnibus Press in 2002. (378pp, currently ...
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Chapman, unpublished, 2002
LET'S PLAY how to be hip. The rules go something like this. MC5 plus gritty urban Detroit plus White Panther polemic equals street cred and ...
Review by Jon Young, Blender, August 2002
New Yawk maverick gets commercial makeover from Ziggy Stardust, reaps chart reward. ...
Marc Bolan, T. Rex: Marc Bolan 25 Years On
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Daily Mirror, September 2002
A MONTH before the tragic car crash that killed him on September 16, 1977, a 29-year-old Marc Bolan told fellow pop star Steve Harley: "I'd ...
Bearded Lady, The Glitter Band, Iron Virgin, Mud, Slade, Brett Smiley, Sweet: Glam rock shines again
Retrospective by Bob Stanley, The Times, 21 March 2003
Thirty years on, the forgotten stars of glam rock are shining again. ...
Scissor Sisters: Cut to the New York dolls
Interview by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 2 January 2004
Our critic goes to the cutting edge of glam as she meets Scissor Sisters, the band most likely to in 2004 ...
New York Dolls: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, September 2004
The best advice to bands that delight in near-mythic status is "let it lie". Can the reformed Lipstick Killers disprove the rule? ...
Vodka Collins: Glam Rock, Japanese Style
Retrospective and Interview by Dave Thompson, Goldmine, November 2004
THINK OF '70s Glam Rock and you will inevitably find yourself transported to the United Kingdom and the brief, but brilliant couple of years during ...
Sleeve notes by Chris Charlesworth, Polydor Records, 2005
IT IS JULY 1971 and I'm with Slade in Amsterdam's Vondelpark where they are shortly to perform on a bandstand in the centre of a ...
Retrospective by Nina Antonia, MOJO, March 2005
FOR THE GENERATION of kids who became punks, the New York Dolls' appearance on The Old Grey Whistle Test in November 1973 was an epiphany. ...
Goldfrapp: Tales Of The Supernatural
Interview by Ian Watson, The Scotsman, 13 August 2005
ABOUT A year and a half ago, Alison Goldfrapp finally snapped. ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2005
GOLDFRAPP took a big chance when they abandoned the swoonsome muzak of 2001's Felt Mountain for the kinky machinery of 2003's glamtastic Black Cherry. Few ...
Profile and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, September 2005
"I ALWAYS wanted to be seditious and dangerous. But in a good rock and roll way," explains Jeff Whalen, principal of L.A.’s glammy Tsar. ...
T. Rex: The Making of T. Rex's 'Bang A Gong (Get It On)'
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Blender, October 2005
T. Rex: 'Bang A Gong (Get It On)' ...
Slaughter and the Dogs: Leper Messiahs
Retrospective and Interview by Kieron Tyler, Q Classic, 2006
Formed by two young Bowie fans, Slaughter & the Dogs' bark was worse than their bite. But, as Kieron Tyler reveals, that was before they ...
Interview by Jon Wilde, Uncut, March 2006
They came from Detroit City but could have leapt from the pages of a DC comic. Thirty years ago, KISS — the biggest and trashiest ...
Placebo: Empress Ballroom, Blackpool
Live Review by Simon Price, The Independent, 9 April 2006
"I WAS CONFUSED by the birds and the bees", the Lilliputian, Luxembourgeois leader of Placebo sings, beneath the gilded plaster of Paris of the 110-year-old ...
New York Dolls: Make-up America!
Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, MOJO, June 2006
In 1971 Manhattan, five teenage toughs in make-up, tried to kick-start the punk revolution. By 1976 the New York Dolls seemed finished, poleaxed by drugs, ...
Interview by Steve Pafford, Record Collector, January 2007
As David Bowie turns 60 on 8 January, Neil Tennant from Pet Shop Boys talks about his lifelong obsession with the man who fell to ...
Book Review by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 18 February 2007
IT CAN'T have been easy choosing the alliterative lineup for the sub-title of this rock'n'roll memoir. After Phil Spector, Tony Visconti is probably the most ...
Mott The Hoople: The Making Of 'All The Young Dudes'
Retrospective and Interview by Gavin Martin, Uncut, January 2008
Breakups! Bowie! Gay roadies! The strange tale of glam rock's glorious singalong ...
New York Dolls: Cause I Sez So (Atco) ****
Review by Jeff Tamarkin, The Boston Phoenix, 28 April 2009
THE BIG NEWS regarding the New York Dolls' second album since their reactivation five years ago is the return of Todd Rundgren as producer. ...
David Bowie: Stardust Memories: Bowie reconsidered
Comment by Mark Dery, Las Vegas Weekly, 16 December 2009
WHEN DID I stop wanting to be Bowie? Too recently for a Man of a Certain Age is the short but sufficiently mortifying answer. ...
Marc Bolan, T. Rex, Tyrannosaurus Rex: Reborn to Boogie: Marc Bolan
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, February 2010
THERE IS ONLY one Starman in the room right now and his name is David Bowie. Flying high after his Top 5 astral novelty hit ...
Jobriath: Cult Heroes No. 4: Jobriath
Retrospective by Geoff Barton, Classic Rock, 26 February 2010
He was launched amid a mountain of publicity as the world's first openly gay rock star – but the world wasn't ready. ...
David Bowie, Iggy Pop: Nick Kent: Once Upon a Life
Memoir by Nick Kent, The Observer, 14 March 2010
In 1972 he was sorting mail in a Sussex post office. Twelve months later he was partying with Led Zeppelin. Here, the hugely influential music ...
Manic Street Preachers: Postcards From A Young Man
Review and Interview by David Quantick, Uncut, October 2010
Their 10th album is a glam belter, full of fire and thunder, gospel choirs and orchestras. But still not pompous, says David Quantick ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, The Quietus, 18 November 2010
The legendary Bryan Ferry has just released Olympia, his best album in two decades, and continues the Roxy Music revival tour in the new year. ...
New York Dolls: Dancing Backward in High Heels
Review by Johnny Sharp, bbc.co.uk, 14 March 2011
Reanimated glam-punk pioneers get dafter as they get older. ...
T. Rex: Electric Warrior (De Luxe Edition)
Review by David Hepworth, The Word, May 2012
Marc Bolan's magical flair for a pop hook was giddy and touching — and owed as much to Chuck Berry as Roy Harper. ...
Suede: Cheating The "Living Death": Suede Interviewed
Interview by Luke Turner, The Quietus, March 2013
They triumphed with their live return, and now they're about to release killer new album Bloodsports. Luke Turner speaks to Brett Anderson and Mat Osman ...
David Bowie: When Bowie met Burroughs
Retrospective by Jon Savage, The Guardian, 9 March 2013
ON 28 FEBRUARY 1974, Rolling Stone magazine published a remarkable encounter between David Bowie and William Burroughs. Entitled "Beat Godfather Meets Glitter Mainman", the event had been hosted ...
Sleeve notes by Barney Hoskyns, Universal Records, August 2013
GLAMOUR HAS always been pivotal to pop music. Elvis Presley was Glam, and so were Little Richard ('Ooh My Soul') and Billy Fury ('Jealousy'). The ...
Lou Reed, Mick Rock and John Varvatos launch Transformer in New York
Report by Jeff Slate, Examiner.com, 4 October 2013
"THESE ARE amazing images," host John Varvatos said at the opening of the Q&A at the launch party for Transformer, the new deluxe book from ...
David Bowie: Me and David: An Interview with Photographer Mick Rock
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'The Rise of David Bowie' (Taschen), February 2014
YOU COULDN'T make the name up: as the man himself says in the interview that follows, "Mick Rock" sounds like a cartoon character, a distillation ...
David Johansen, New York Dolls, Buster Poindexter: David Johansen: The MOJO Interview
Interview by Alan Light, MOJO, March 2015
DAVID JOHANSEN sits on the couch in the living room of his wife's long-time, walk-up apartment on a nondescript block of Manhattan's Upper West Side. ...
David Bowie's DNA: Spaceboy Keeps Swinging
Essay by Steve Pafford, DNA, June 2015
David Bowie was the bisexual alien rock star who sold genderfuck to the world. He's also claimed to be the first pop star to declare ...
David Bowie, Lady Gaga: Lady Gaga's David Bowie tribute didn't do either artist justice
Comment by Maura Johnston, The Guardian, 16 February 2016
Gaga has Bowie's shapeshifting abilities and a strong voice, but the late star's legacy was ill-served by the hectic megamix she performed. ...
David Bowie: The Gender Politics of David Bowie
Essay by Larry Jaffee, Women Across Frontiers, 29 February 2016
DAVID BOWIE embodied the fictional character of Ziggy Stardust for only about 18 months circa 1972-1973. Yet it's usually an image of that garishly made ...
Prince: How Prince's Androgynous Genius Changed the Way We Think About Music and Gender
Essay by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 22 April 2016
His clothes, songwriting, and production prowess all played a part in breaking through any and every type of convention. ...
David Bowie: Paul Morley: The Age of Bowie – How David Bowie Made a World of Difference
Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Observer, 17 July 2016
"EVERYONE HAS THEIR own Bowie," Paul Morley writes in this discursive, free-associating ride across the life and work of the Starman Who Changed the World. ...
Marc Bolan, David Bowie: Simon Reynolds: Shock & Awe – Glam Rock And Its Legacy (Faber)
Book Review by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, November 2016
AFTER DEFINING studies of post-punk (Rip It Up & Start Again) and nostalgia (Retromania), Simon Reynolds turns his gaze to glam in all its glory. ...
David Bowie, Freddie Mercury: Growing Up Gay to a Glam Rock soundtrack
Memoir by Jim Farber, The New York Times, 3 November 2016
Freddie Mercury, David Bowie and Alice Cooper send signals to a semi-closeted gay teen in the '70s. ...
Gary Glitter: Rock 'N' Roll Part 3? Gary Glitter's future
Comment by Alan Clayson, unpublished, 2017
IN 2015, 74-old Gary Glitter began a sixteen-year prison term for crimes that, seemingly, were beyond the prerogative of a rock star's outlaw chic. This ...
Slade: Dave Hill: So Here It Is (Unbound)
Book Review by Jude Rogers, New Statesman, 22 December 2017
THE EXCLAMATION mark in biography is a peculiar thing. It leaps from the page like a spark from a bomb, but it is jollier, perkier, ...
Retrospective by Stephen Dalton, BFI, 22 May 2018
In the Britpop era, few films came more wildly ambitious than Todd Haynes' kaleidoscopic glam-rock epic. Now Bowie is dead and Britain has turned a ...
Suede: Eventim Apollo, London — more stellar than ever in a tremendous primal celebration
Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 14 October 2018
Brooding menace and quasi-paganism replace urban sleaze as a feral Brett Anderson gives it his all in a staggering performance ...
David Bowie's DNA: Spaceboy Keeps Swinging
Retrospective by Steve Pafford, DNA, 3 November 2018
David Bowie was the bisexual alien rock star who sold genderfuck to the world. He's also claimed to be the first pop star to declare ...
The Struts: Bristolian Rhapsody: How the Struts put the pout back in pop
Profile and Interview by Paul Moody, The Guardian, 5 March 2019
He's the leotard-clad double of Freddie Mercury with the showboating to match. Struts frontman Luke Spiller reveals how he owes it all to Justin Hawkins ...
Roxy Music's For Your Pleasure
Retrospective by Rob Tannenbaum, Pitchfork, 13 October 2019
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we ...
Interview by Laura Barton, The Independent, 24 April 2022
With her sister Nancy, Ann Wilson fronted the revolutionary, female-led hard rock outfit Heart. Laura Barton speaks to her on the cusp of a new ...
Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Critic, August 2022
ROCK'N'ROLL years are all the rage these days. Ever since Jon Savage published his monumental 1966 (in 2015), the anni – particularly the 1970s – ...
Book Excerpt by Adele Bertei, 'Twist: An American Girl' (ZE Books), April 2023
This is an excerpt from Adele's memoir Twist: An American Girl, published by ZE Books in April 2023. ...
Slade: Daryl Easlea: Whatever Happened To Slade? When The Whole World Went Crazee (Omnibus)
Book Review by Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, November 2023
AT LAST! At last an author with insight, sympathy and commitment has written a substantial book about Slade that dissects the highs and lows of ...
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