Susan Whitall
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David Bowie: Marvel-ous Angie, David's Black Widow
Report and Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, November 1975
NEW YORK, N.Y. — While hubby David was slinking around Albuquerque filming The Man Who Fell To Earth Angela Bowie hasn't exactly been lollygagging around ...
Peter Frampton: Once More With Feeling
Report and Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, March 1976
"ROLL OVER, darling. Pass me a Marlboro," Peter murmured. ...
Peter Frampton: Frampton Comes Alive (A&M)
Review by Susan Whitall, Creem, May 1976
WHAY, AFTER four moderately successful solo albums – not to mention a tempestuous and musically prolific stint with Steve Marriott in Humble Pie – has ...
Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, June 1976
NEW YORK — One early spring evening at CBGB's Wayne County was wrapping up his parody of Patti Smith when a disturbance erupted. All that ...
Peter Frampton: Frampton Goes Motown... Maybe
Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, July 1976
DETROIT — No, this is not a gay bar, this is the Motown studio in Detroit — Hitsville to us — and Peter Frampton is ...
Robin Trower: Prince of the Power Wah
Report and Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, July 1976
"ROBIN TROWER? He's very moody," I was warned before embarking on the road with the 31-year-old English axe ace. "And whatever you do, don't ask ...
Cliff Richard: Old Greasers, Read This And Weep!
Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, October 1976
DETROIT — Think of someone you know who's within five years of 40. Got it in your mind? The old geezer next door with the ...
Montrose: This Monster Thinks He's Mellow
Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, January 1977
DETROIT — "Ah, so you're from the trash magazine," Ronnie Montrose grinned as we shook hands over his electric guitar-encased body. "Let me see if ...
Thin Lizzy: Johnny The Fox (Mercury)
Review by Susan Whitall, Creem, January 1977
ALL RIGHT, let's deal with the "this guy's a black Irish Springsteen" ho-hum right at the start. ...
Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, February 1977
Not really, but you read this far, didn't you? ...
Comment by Susan Whitall, Creem, May 1977
Dozens listen. ...
Frankie Miller: High Life and Times
Report and Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, September 1977
THE LAST time I was in London Cass Elliott deep-sixed on a ham sandwich in a Mayfair hotel. Spring 1977, and Sylvia of the Three ...
Ted Nugent: Dancing With Mr D-O-G
Report and Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, September 1977
THE PHONE jangled and I jumped a foot in the St. Paul Holiday Inn. Horrible, holes in the carpet...rotten hungover weekend and what am I ...
J. Geils Band: At The Zoo With The J Geils Band
Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, October 1977
IT WAS time for a big Rock Show at the monolith just outside of Detroit, Pontiac Stadium, and this wasn't no rock 'n' roll at ...
Robin Trower to Rock: Get Back To Where You Once Belonged
Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, December 1977
LINDA, ONE of my co-editors here at Globotron – uh, CREEM – came back from lunch with Detroit disco producer extraordinaire Don Davis, waving an ...
The Sex Pistols: Johnny On The Split: "I'm A Free Man!"
Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, April 1978
JUST AS we were going to press, pasting up pictures of Messrs. Rotten, Vicious, Jones and Cook, the news broke. The band had broken up ...
Neil Young And Crazy Horse: Clarkston, Michigan
Live Review by Susan Whitall, Creem, December 1978
CLARKSTON, MI (Outside Detroit, MI): The sign outside the open air theatre said "RUST NEVER SLEEPS... AN EVENING WITH NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE". ...
Led Zeppelin: A Psychobiograph
Memoir by Susan Whitall, Creem, February 1979
I COULD BEGIN this psychobiograph by letting you in on the incredibly orgasmic Yardbirds-featuring-Jimmy Page-gig I caught at the Grande in Detroit in the late ...
Rory Gallagher: The Return Of The World's Best Normal Guitarist
Report by Susan Whitall, Creem, March 1979
THE BROTHER-(AND SISTER-) HOOD ...
Kiss: Bat Lizard Rocks The Boat
Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, April 1979
There was an appointed place: a hotel room in the gleaming steel rod Henry the Deuce built on the Detroit River to atone for the ...
Elvis Costello: He'd Rather Be Anywhere Else But Here Today...
Report by Susan Whitall, Creem, July 1979
NEW YORK — By now, everybody but Bonnie Bramlett's dog have given their side of the Columbus, Ohio brawl between the forces of Stills and ...
Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, July 1979
I GUESS I WAS almost prepared. The stories in the English papers portraying him as a garrulous kinda guv, the bashful puppydog picture sleeves on ...
The Police: Police Report: Message From Three Bottle Blonds...
Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, February 1980
JANUARY 1979: We started receiving phone calls here at BH Central of some urgency from John Pidgeon, one of our English writers who also toils ...
The Clash Clamp Down on Detroit
Report and Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, June 1980
Or: Give 'Em Enough Wisniowka ...
The Pretenders Stop Our Sobbing
Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, August 1980
AS LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER"There's something I dread about talking to female musicians," my co-editor DiMartino sighed as we drank beer and worried in the ...
Report by Susan Whitall, Creem, November 1980
I MUST confess to hating "rock festivals" with some passion. My response to the rhetorical "Would you have gone to Woodstock?" question has always been ...
Rick Nelson: Lonesome Town Cheers Up
Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, June 1981
Rick Nelson Goes Back On The Boards ...
Hank Williams: Chet Flippo: Your Cheatin' Heart — A Biography Of Hank Williams (Simon and Schuster)
Book Review by Susan Whitall, Creem, September 1981
ROSANNE CASH, Johnny's first-born and as I write, No. 1 on the country charts, was quoted in Esquire: "A lot has happened in country music ...
Hall & Oates: Laugh All The Way To The Synth Bank
Report and Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, June 1982
"Now no one will be able to accuse us of being fags that sing like the Spinners."Daryl Hall, to Jaan Uhelszki, August 1977. ...
Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant: Robert Plant Takes Root in the '80s
Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, October 1982
MOBY GRAPE INTO THE VOID ...
The Go-Go's: Go-Go's Of Your Dreams
Report and Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, December 1982
DEEP IN THE soul of every writer lies a secret: what does the writer do to avoid writing? I'll empty my brain pan now: I ...
Rory Gallagher: In The Midst Of A Blues Boom, Rory Gallagher Roars Back
Interview by Susan Whitall, Detroit News, March 1991
WHEN RORY Gallagher decides to take a flyer, he doesn't mess around. After years of soul-numbing touring up and down the American continent, the Irish ...
Interview by Susan Whitall, MOJO, March 1995
High in the US charts with his Greatest Hits album, leather-lunged god of heartland AOR Bob Seger talks to Susan Whittall about punk rock, "ferocious" ...
Interview by Susan Whitall, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 May 1996
AS FORMER LEAD singer and songwriter of the Replacements, Paul Westerberg labors under particularly burdensome expectations. His second solo album, Eventually, released last month on ...
Joni Mitchell: Hits and Misses
Review by Susan Whitall, Houston Press, 26 December 1996
IN A POP WORLD where female musicians are designed, micromanaged and as carefully positioned in the marketplace as a new brand of air freshener, how ...
Van Morrison: The Healing Game
Review by Susan Whitall, Houston Press, 27 February 1997
THE NEWS THAT there's a new Van Morrison CD out should be thrilling. But for some of us, there have been so many Morrison discs ...
Lush: Britpop Bondgirls Bash Bonehead Badboys
Profile and Interview by Susan Whitall, Yahoo! Internet Life, 26 August 1997
WHILE MUCH IS made of such supposed role models for young girls as Alanis Morissette, a young woman whose deeply personal songs are co-written by ...
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