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Trout Mask's release (ZigZag, 1969)

Screamin' Jay Hawkins (Creem, 1973)

Jim Morrison the poet (Rolling Stone, 1979)

Jerry Lee Lewis' road to hell (Penthouse, 1982)

Trout Mask Replica ('Captain Beefheart: The Biography' (Quartet), 1999)

Trout Mask Replica (Neumu, 2002)

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Michael Stipe (Rock's Backpages Audio, 2003)

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Peter and Gordon (NME, 1965)

Phil Everly (Disc and Music Echo, 1972)

Bob Seger (Zoo World, 1973)

Gloria Jones (Blues & Soul, 1974)

Otis Redding (NME, 1974)

British Festival of Country and Western (Sunday Times, 1976)

Bernie Worrell (Blues & Soul, 1978)

The Brides Of Funkenstein (Blues & Soul, 1978)

Mike Hampton (Blues & Soul, 1978)

George Clinton (Blues & Soul, 1978)

Siouxsie & The Banshees (NME, 1978)

Kate Bush (Melody Maker, 1980)

Kraftwerk's Ralf Hütter (Keyboard, 1991)

U2 (The Face, 1992)

messrs. Mark Lanegan and Van Connor from Screaming Trees (Request, 1996)

Chicago (Spin, 2000)

23 Skidoo (Jockey Slut, 2001)

Driscoll-Auger Trinity (Goldmine, 2008)

Pink's road band (Australian Musician, 2009)

Gruff Rhys (The Independent, 2009)

ALBUM & LIVE REVIEWS:

Maggie Bell, live at the Rainbow (NME, 1974)

Marc Bolan's Zinc Alloy And The Hidden Riders Of Tomorrow (NME, 1974)

Television and the Only Ones, live at Hammersmith Odeon (NME, 1978)

E.L.O. (Melody Maker, 1978)

Rust Never Sleeps-tour Neil Young, live in L.A. (Sounds, 1978)

Wayne County & The Electric Chairs (Sounds, 1978)

The Skids' debut album, Scared To Dance (Melody Maker, 1979)

Queen's The Game (Trouser Press, 1980)

Bruce Springsteen's Live/1975-85 (NME, 1986)

the Dead Weather (live) (The Times, 2009)

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