Martin Hayman
35 articles
List of articles in the library
Can: Communism, Anarchism, Nihilism
Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 24 February 1973
CAN: A GROUP defined by their very lack of an image? A Few heavy theories have been batted to and fro about the formidable space-rock ...
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Creedence Revival Is On Again
Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 7 August 1971
Martin Hayman talks to Stu Cook ...
Steve Miller: Treat In Store For Miller's Followers
Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 26 February 1972
STEVE MILLER picks up the hotel 'phone and dials through to his managers (two black guys who wander round together wearing floppy hats): "Hey, have ...
Velvet Underground: From Sader-Masoch to a Top Rank Ballroom
Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 16 October 1971
EVERYBODY KNOWS who the Velvet Underground are, but who are they? Disclosed to the world in 1965 as though they had descended from the sky ...
Average White Band: Average, Who Says So?
Profile and Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 3 March 1973
AVERAGE WHITE Band — another band of Scottish musicians. OK lads, we've seen Glencoe and they're good. Most of them will be in the audience ...
Mahavishnu Orchestra, John McLaughlin: John McLaughlin: The Best of All Possible Worlds
Profile and Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 10 March 1973
IT WAS IN the very first-ever issue of this paper that a long article on John McLaughlin appeared, praising him to the skies and honouring ...
Sly & the Family Stone: Sly Stone: Shy Boy Who Had Power
Report and Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 28 July 1973
TAKE A look at that feller in the picture (sorry — RBP ED). Pretty smart, eh? A nice-looking geezer, beautiful soft rubbery face with a ...
Arthur Lee: Vindicator (A&M AMLS 64356)
Review by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 9 September 1972
There's a lot of mileage in Arthur yet ...
Review by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 9 September 1972
THIS IS the full soundtrack of the film of the same name. Needless to say, with the present move towards "gentrifying" reggae music it's bound ...
John Cale: Half Past California
Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 2 June 1973
JOHN CALE is not the easiest of men to talk to. Not that he is obstreperous, bored or plain dumb. Quite the reverse. Ask him ...
Bob Marley & the Wailers: Wailers' Simple Message
Profile and Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 9 June 1973
BOB MARLEY looks as though he could be a heavy. Though he's of average height and spare build, he has the gleaming eye of a ...
Queen: Britain's Biggest Unknowns
Profile and Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 5 January 1974
QUEEN ARE being hailed as the natural successors to Led Zeppelin on the other side of the Atlantic. This may cause an outburst of derisive ...
Don Nix: Keeping On Keeping On
Profile and Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 28 July 1973
SKIN ALLEY have certainly had a great opportunity in signing with Stax in the States: not least among the advantages it brings them is the ...
J.J. Cale: Contemporary Songwriter: J.J. Cale
Profile by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 10 March 1973
Just listen to the mystery man ...
Hawkwind: Queensway Hall, Dunstable
Live Review by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 18 November 1972
ALL ABOARD HAWKWIND'S SPACE RITUAL ...
John Cale, Brian Eno: Eno and John Cale: The Wild Bunch
Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 18 May 1974
Martin Hayman jumps into the Tardis, goes into the future with typewriter over his shoulder and ends up on the beach with Eno, Phil Manzanera and ...
J.J. Cale: Endurance Of The Anti-Hero
Interview by Martin Hayman, Street Life, 1 May 1976
J.J. Cale reckons he's pretty good at doing nothing. He sleeps as long as he can ...
Mott The Hoople, Procol Harum: Guy Stevens: Guy's Out For Glory
Profile and Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 30 March 1974
GUY STEVENS is the kind of guy who might be buttonholing your young lady in the boozer. ...
Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 5 February 1972
THE OTHER evening at the Rainbow Theatre an American band called Cat Mother made a not very auspicious debut in Britain. They have been around ...
James Brown: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 10 March 1973
MR. JAMES BROWN — Soul Brother Number One. Mr. Dynamite. ...
Brian Eno: Eno: Here Come The Warm Jets (Island ILPS 9628)
Review by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 16 February 1974
Iron Bean's nut cracker ...
Live Review by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 24 February 1973
CAN IS not a band which lends itself easily to review. At the Rainbow on Sunday night they drew a nearly capacity audience, which in ...
Mike Harrison, Mott The Hoople: Guy's Out For Glory
Profile and Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 30 March 1974
GUY STEVENS is the kind of guy who might be buttonholing your young lady in the boozer. ...
Al Green: Livin' For You (import)
Review by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 12 January 1974
AL GREEN: ALIVE AND SO REAL ...
Captain Beefheart and his Tragic Band
Report by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 8 June 1974
WHO WOULD WANT TO WRITE THIS? ASKS MARTIN HAYMAN ...
Boz Scaggs: Silk Degrees (CBS 81193)
Review by Martin Hayman, Street Life, 1 May 1976
THIS IS a really great dance record. Put on the first three cuts of either side and you'll get going anybody who's got rhythm in ...
The Rolling Stones: Rolling Stones: Black And Blue (Rolling Stones Records COC 59106)
Review by Martin Hayman, Street Life, 1 May 1976
Old, Borrowed, Black And Blue ...
Sharks: Hard Rock Café, London
Live Review by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 9 March 1974
THE SHARKS are evidently getting ready for America where, in the immortal words of the pundit, they will have to kick ass harder than they ...
Jimmy Cliff: Country Boy Jimmy Cliff
Report by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 18 May 1974
Martin Hayman meets one of reggae's mainmen ...
Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 8 June 1974
DENNY CORDELL is not at all like my image of him. Well in fact, I didn't know what to expect but he was not like ...
John Cale: Paris 1919 (Warner Bros. Import)
Review by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 5 May 1973
JOHN CALE, as the extravagant sleeve-note insert in this stylish American album package indicates, has always had one foot in each camp — the classical ...
Average White Band: Marquee, London
Live Review by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 3 March 1973
THE AVERAGE White Band work in a very narrow well-defined area of music, but within that context they excel. Their music is tough and funky ...
Bob Marley & the Wailers: The Wailers: Catch A Fire (Island SW9329)
Review by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 5 May 1973
TRUTH TO tell, I think that reggae is a lost cause in Britain. It's an entirely popular music and unless it makes it from the ...
Bobby Womack and Peace: Across 110th Street (UAS 29451)
Review by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 2 June 1973
BOBBY WOMACK has been recording some very acceptable soul records for UA for a little while now without ever making much of a dent on ...
Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground: Lou Reed — End of the Black Comedy
Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 22 January 1972
LOU REED is the founder member of the Velvet Underground. Together with John Cale, he wrote New York as he saw it from Greenwich Village ...
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