Lita Eliscu
Lita Eliscu wrote extensively for Crawdaddy, the East Village Other, Phonograph Record and other publications. She also worked in publicity for Atlantic Records.
14 articles
List of articles in the library
Albert King Delineates the Blues...
Interview by Lita Eliscu, Phonograph Record, August 1976
Lita Eliscu Listens! ...
Laura Nyro: Five Years of Silence
Essay by Lita Eliscu, Phonograph Record, January 1976
BORN LAURA Nigro, she was fated to sing the blues. Though her solitary visions weren't attuned to the pop pulse of the movement-minded sixties, she ...
David Bowie in The Man Who Fell To Earth
Film/DVD/TV Review by Lita Eliscu, Phonograph Record, August 1976
THIS FILM stars David Bowie — a logical choice — as a space visitor who comes to Earth in an attempt to find a way ...
Aretha Franklin: You (Atlantic SD18151)
Review by Lita Eliscu, Phonograph Record, November 1975
Aretha's Latest is a Blend of All that has Made Black Music, American Music ...
Bill Wyman Solo: "Happier in The Stones Because I Have This Outside Freedom"
Interview by Lita Eliscu, Phonograph Record, March 1976
"I'VE BEEN in this band so long that if I haven't sung for a long time, I can't sing. If I haven't written a song ...
Profile and Interview by Lita Eliscu, East Village Other, 14 May 1969
ROCKET ROCKET ROCKET to the — YEAHHHHH the — Fuckit yeah yeah sheeeeit baby Get. Down. On. It. Cmon mothahfuckahs CMON MOTHAH-FUCKAHS MAKE FUCK A ...
Column by Lita Eliscu, East Village Other, 3 March 1970
MEDIA INTERFERENCE interactions of the past couple of days probably a week, 6 days; around there: The Grateful Dead, Love, The Allman Brothers, Zabriskie Point, ...
Stanley Clarke: Return to Love (Nemperor Records)
Review by Lita Eliscu, Phonograph Record, October 1975
BASS PLAYERS are not really famous for standing out in the world of rock. McCartney, of course...Jack Bruce...Bill Wyman sometimes. In Jazz, however, where the ...
Cecil Taylor: Five Spot, New York, NY
Live Review by Lita Eliscu, Phonograph Record, May 1975
QUINTESSENTIAL JAZZ club, even has patina of history: the perfect place for Cecil Taylor to express his music after a long hiatus. The small stage ...
Carole King: Simple Things (Capitol SMAS11667)
Review by Lita Eliscu, Phonograph Record, August 1977
THIS ISN'T simple, it's simplistic. An album full of observations on life and living — none of which comes off without an unbelievable amount of ...
Don Cherry, Richard Davis, Billy Taylor: Jazz In The Seventies
Report and Interview by Lita Eliscu, Phonograph Record, November 1976
OVER THE last few years, iazz has re-achieved, to use an inelegant word, the enthusiastic encouragement of a new and important audience: people with money ...
Daryl Hall & John Oates: Hall & Oates: Blue-eyed Soul For The Masses
Interview by Lita Eliscu, Phonograph Record, September 1976
NEW YORK — In this world cluttered with singer-songwriter-performers and other hyphenated musical creations, into this electronic, technologic, upheaving miasma of pure and impure sounds ...
The Beatles: Yellow Submarine (King Features/Apple Corps, Dir. George Dunning)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Lita Eliscu, East Village Other, 15 November 1968
YELLOW SUBMARINE is the full-length cartoon made on the basis of the Beatle's Sgt. Peppers' album, and as the story goes, the Beatles wanted nothing ...
Up Against The Wall, Bill Graham!
Report by Lita Eliscu, East Village Other, 25 October 1968
PEOPLE WERE going around saying, It's an obscenity or an insanity or if they could get their heads together, they said both, fast and in ...
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