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Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, Rolling Stone, 5 June 1975
THOUGH IT SOUNDS like a song about a stale love affair, ‘How Long’ is the story of an English band struggling to stay together. ...
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Report and Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 10 November 1973
ROY CARR in Wandsworth with another of those up'n coming pub bands. ...
Ace: Hornsey College of Art, London
Live Review by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 19 January 1974
ACE PERFORMED a nifty little set at the Hornsey College of Art last Thursday. I do not have much information about this band except their ...
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 7 December 1974
Tex Comer (bass guitar), Fran Byrne (drums). Bam King (rhythm guitar), Phil Harris (lead guitar), Paul Carrack (organ, piano). Producer John Anthony. ...
Ace gotta play their cards right
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 11 January 1975
When you've spent your life on the breadline, one hit single doesn't mean a financial freakout. Our economics correspondent ROY CARR reports. ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, April 1975
WHILE IT'S TEMPTING at first listening to lump Ace's first album with the Average White Band's AWB and then to make broad statements about the ...
Review by Wayne Robins, Rolling Stone, 8 May 1975
FROM THE LOOK of its album cover, Ace is a band of five frustrated English football players who, like Rod Stewart, turned to music to ...
Pub Rock: Grass Roots On the Other Side of the Fence
Overview by Bud Scoppa, Crawdaddy!, October 1975
IN BRITAIN DURING the late '60s and early '70s, while rock 'n roll was being transformed into Big Business, a network of bands sprang up ...
Ace: Time For Another (Anchor) 40 mins****
Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 29 November 1975
FOLLOWING THEIR debut vinyl effort Five A Side and the immense success of 'How Long', both here and in America, it certainly is "Time For Another". Yet ...
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 13 December 1975
PHIL HARRIS, OF Ace, suddenly perked to attention on the edge of his chair and made a compassionate plea. "We love Britain, 'onest," he craved. ...
Graham Parker: Southampton University, Southamption
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, New Musical Express, 24 January 1976
YOU CAN PICTURE the scene – it's the same one that goes down on the first night of every major college tour; equipment trouble, late ...
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Review by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, May 1976
PUB ROCK BREAKDOWN ...
Ace: It's An Ace Life In The Low-Key Whacky World Of Los Angeles
Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 15 January 1977
SEVEN OF US leave the Ace ranch in Hidden Valley and go late night cruisin' in drummer Fran Byrne's '69 Pontiac. Fran heads for ex-Chilli ...
see also Action, The
see also Paul Carrack
see also Mighty Baby
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