Richard Goldstein
Widely regarded as America's first real "pop critic", Richard Goldstein wrote for the Village Voice from June 1966 until 2004, eventually becoming the paper's executive editor. He specializes in gay and lesbian issues, music, and counterculture topics, and is the author of the acclaimed memoir Another Little Piece of My Heart (2015).
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52 articles
List of articles in the library
Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde (Columbia)
Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, June 1966
LOOKING LIKE a man who's been waiting in line for two hours to find a vacant john, Bob Dylan peers in full color from the ...
Live Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 16 June 1966
Pop Eye: Soundblast '66 ...
The Shangri-Las: The Soul Sound from Sheepshead Bay
Profile and Interview by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 23 June 1966
THEY STARTED with a twinkle in their eyes and leatherette on their hips. Out there on the stage of the Brooklyn Fox, with Murray the ...
The Rolling Stones: Pop Eye: The Rolling Stones
Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 7 July 1966
THE JET landed amid a churning blast of mechanical thunder. The portable staircase was fixed in place. The stewardess and health officials departed. Finally, the ...
The Beatles: Revolver (Capitol)
Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 25 August 1966
SWINGING LONDON, August 17 — The reception which the Beatles have received so far on their American tour has been less than ecstatic. But it ...
The Beatles: Revolver (Capitol)
Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 25 August 1966
SWINGING LONDON, August 17 — The reception which the Beatles have received so far on their American tour has been less than ecstatic. But it ...
Simon & Garfunkel: The Sound of J.D. Salinger Clapping
Profile and Interview by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 3 November 1966
WE KNOW about the sound of two hands clapping. We're pretty sure these days what one hand clapping sounds like. But what is the sound ...
The Mothers of Invention: The Balloon Farm, New York NY
Live Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 1 December 1966
THE BALLOON Farm became much more than a discotheque last weekend, and the resident combo became much more than a pop-music ensemble. ...
The Beatles, George Harrison, Ravi Shankar: Pop Eye: Ravi and the Teenie Satori
Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 5 January 1967
THEY ARE waiting for him in the glass-enclosed library of Asia House, over coffee, cream, and croissants. All the regulars are there: the lady reporter ...
Jefferson Airplane: The Jefferson Airplane: Webster Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 12 January 1967
(RBP Editor's note: this article was extracted from Goldstein's "Pop Eye" column. The opening paragraph refers to the previous item) ...
Tim Hardin, The Rascals, The Velvet Underground: Pop Eye: Mover
Profile and Interview by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 19 January 1967
"HOW MANY columns you get in Newsweek?" ...
Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, Donovan, The Rolling Stones, The Supremes: Pop Eye: Singles
Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 26 January 1967
YOU KNOW something's fishy when you see that elastic grin on Brian Jones's face for the record jacket The title above tells all: 'Let's Spend ...
The Beach Boys, Jackson Browne, Buffalo Springfield, Love: Los Angeles: The Vanishing Underground
Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 16 February 1967
LOS ANGELES — Sunset Strip is dead. ...
Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 23 February 1967
PHILLERS ...
Report and Interview by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 2 March 1967
SAN FRANCISCO — Forget the cable cars; skip Chinatown and the Golden Gate; don't bother about the topless mother of eight. ...
The Diggers: In Search of George Metesky
Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 16 March 1967
ON A WINTER evening, knots of anxious hippies assembled at San Francisco's Howard Presbyterian Church, overlooking the treelined mall called the Panhandle. Now and then ...
The Doors: Ondine, New York NY
Live Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 23 March 1967
OPENING NIGHT at Ondines, that Queensboro Bridge of the soul, vast enough to encompass local beasts of prey, an occasional Rolling Stone on holiday, and ...
Donovan, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Rolling Stones: The Psychedelic Yenta Strikes Again!
Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 23 March 1967
THE LOVIN' Spoonful may soon find their names anathema to the very underground which nurtured them. ...
Report and Interview by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 30 March 1967
IN THE backstage halflight of the RKO 58th Street Theatre, Peter Townshend awaits his cue. Stagehands pace furiously, shouting orders in bizarre New York-ese. A ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead (Warner Bros.)
Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 13 April 1967
A GOOD ALBUM, like those long lasting cold remedies, is filled with tiny time capsules which burst open at their own speed. Cuts that astound ...
Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve)
Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 13 April 1967
THE VELVET Underground is not an easy group to like. Some of the cuts on their album are blatant copies: I refer specifically to the ...
The Flower Children and How They Grow
Essay by Richard Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 1967
Richard Goldstein is a young writer with a special view of the Flower Children and their contribution to modern American culture. He has been called ...
The Beatles: Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band (Capitol SMAS 2653)
Review by Richard Goldstein, The New York Times, 18 June 1967
We Still Need the Beatles, but… ...
Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 29 June 1967
"The West is the best: Get here and we'll do the rest!" — The Doors ...
The Beatles: I Blew My Cool Through The New York Times
Comment by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 20 July 1967
IF BEING A critic were the same as being a listener I could just enjoy Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Other than one cut ...
The Supremes: The Super Supremes: 'Stop in the Name of Love'
Profile by Richard Goldstein, The New York Times, 23 July 1967
THE BREWSTER Project is one of those redbrick slums donated by the city of Detroit to house its local unwashed. Diana Ross, lead singer in ...
Jimi Hendrix, The Monkees: The Monkees, Jimi Hendrix Experience: Forest Hills Stadium, Queens NY
Live Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 27 July 1967
DAVY JONES pretended to dip his microphone in a goblet of water. And Micky Dolenz admitted he had bought a Moog synthesizer ("I'm fooling around ...
Jackson Browne, Penny Nichols: The Billy James Underground
Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 3 August 1967
HE CRUISES along the Freeway out of Los Angeles in an open Rolls, the kind that used to have upholstery and windows. His young son ...
Report and Interview by Richard Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 27 August 1967
HIS DESK looks impressive. A clean blotter is piled high with correspondence. A vertical file bulges with memos. A calendar and a trash can are ...
Cream: They Play Blues, Not Superstar
Report and Interview by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 5 October 1967
IT'S SATURDAY night at the Village Theatre, New York's sad-eyed answer to the Fillmore-Avalon scene. Under the marquee, Slavs gape and Ratner's rejects mourn the ...
Donovan, Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (Dir. D.A. Pennebaker, 96 mins)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Richard Goldstein, The New York Times, 22 October 1967
Dylan: 'We Trust What He Tells Us' ...
The Beach Boys: Smiley Smile (Brother — ST 9001)
Review by Richard Goldstein, The New York Times, 29 October 1967
Recordings: The Beach Boys Sing a Rock Prayer ...
Arlo Guthrie: Arlo Takes a Giant Step
Profile and Interview by Richard Goldstein, The New York Times, 5 November 1967
WOODY GUTHRIE'S son Arlo is a folk-singer, too. ...
Leonard Cohen: Beautiful Creep
Profile and Interview by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 28 December 1967
And the child on whose shoulders I stand whose longing I purged with public, kingly discipline today I bring him back ...
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour (Capitol 2835)
Review by Richard Goldstein, The New York Times, 31 December 1967
Are They Waning? ...
Frankie Avalon, Fabian, Paul Revere & The Raiders: Dick Clark: Packager of Pop
Profile and Interview by Richard Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 7 January 1968
Though the folk-rock era ended his pop music dictatorship, there are signs Dick Clark is inching his way toward the center of the scene again. ...
The Beach Boys, The Beatles: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: The Politics of Salvation
Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 25 January 1968
The question of the hour is: can an honest man still be a fraud? ...
Jefferson Airplane: The Jefferson Airplane: After Bathing At Baxter's (RCA Victor LSO-1511)
Review by Richard Goldstein, The New York Times, 4 February 1968
Freedom can be costly ...
Van Dyke Parks: Talk of the Rock Rialto
Profile and Interview by Richard Goldstein, The New York Times, 3 March 1968
VAN DYKE Parks might have grown old in comfortable obscurity. At 25, he had made his mark along Sunset Boulevard (California's Teflon-pan alley) as the ...
The Band, Bob Dylan, Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Band: Music From Big Pink (Capitol SKAO 2995)
Review by Richard Goldstein, The New York Times, 4 August 1968
Big Pink Is Just a Home in Saugerties ...
The Doors: The Shaman As Superstar
Report and Interview by Richard Goldstein, New York, 5 August 1968
"Morrison's eyes glow as he discusses the Apollonian-Dionysian struggle for life's force. It's an easy guess which side he's on." "The shaman... he was a man ...
Theatre of Fear: One on the Aisle
Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 5 September 1968
CHICAGO — I brought the Fear out with me from New York, a white plastic helmet and a bottle of Vaseline. The same fear that ...
Country Joe & The Fish: C.J. Fish on Saturday
Interview by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 3 October 1968
IT WAS Saturday afternoon and the Algonquin Hotel smelled of old marble and mahogany. In his suite, Country Joe MacDonald sat on a sofa and ...
Obituary by Richard Goldstein, The New York Times, 26 August 1973
LILLIAN ROXON, who died on Aug. 9, understood something important about pop music and its milieu, which is that the very basis of its impact ...
Bette Midler, Barbra Streisand: The Dark Side of Bette Midler
Essay by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 21 April 1975
I wear a red heart like others, and have a dark, inconsolate, ugly destiny. — Rahel Varnhagen, in Hannah Arendt's study ...
Talking Heads Hyperventilate Some Clichés
Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 2 February 1976
TALKING HEADS offers a fragile middle finger to bands in which anonymous sidemen play powerhouse back-up through a Luftwaffe of amplifiers, while the man with ...
The Ramones, Sex Pistols, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Television: The Possibilities of Punk
Comment by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 10 October 1977
UP UNTIL about six months ago, CBGB's was the only rock bar I ever felt comfortable in. All you needed was a long scarf and ...
Studio 54: Innocent Until Proven Decadent
Comment by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 25 December 1978
IT OUGHT TO be possible to wish the combined forces of the IRS and the DEA well in their early morning raid on Studio 54 ...
Fab 5 Freddy: In Praise of Graffiti: The Fire Down Below
Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 24 December 1980
JOHN LINDSAY hated graffiti. He vowed to wipe it off the face of the IRT, and allocated $10 million to its obliteration. But the application ...
Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin: Thinking About the Sixties
Essay by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 8 March 1988
Something's happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear. Is the '60s revival a thaw in the Big Chill, or just more evidence of fashion ...
Essay by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 22 June 1993
"Let me tell you about the first time I got high. It was 1966, and I was a young reporter... There, sitting on the floor, ...
Comment by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 12 November 2002
TWO EVENTS of lasting significance occurred last week: the breakdown of the Democratic party and the breakthrough of Eminem. His debut film, 8 Mile, became the ...
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