Back Street Crawler

Back Street Crawler

Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, July 1975

WHEN Free finally fell apart at the seams after staggering around in various forms, there was a lot of damage done to the members. Despite ...

Back from the Dead: Paul Kossoff

Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 1 November 1975

Despite that painful appearance on the OGWT, Paul Kossoff is Alive and as Well as anyone could be after being at death' s door ...

Back Street Crawler: City Hall, Newcastle

Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 6 December 1975

IT WAS a fairly complete emotional experience watching Back Street Crawler at the City Hall. You wondered where performance ended and real life began. Was ...

Back Street Crawler: New Victoria, London

Live Review by Chas de Whalley, New Musical Express, 6 December 1975

SOME UGLY MOMENTS here. ...

Back Street Crawler: City Hall, Newcastle

Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 22 May 1976

IF YOU want a nice, peaceful night's rock 'n' roll don't go anywhere near a Back Street Crawler gig. It's more like an on the ...

Back Street Fighters: Back Street Crawler

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 22 May 1976

IF YOUR tastes run to nasty, sweat-and-gore boxing as well as nasty-hot rock, the ringside seat for you in the next couple of months should ...

Back Street Crawler: Second Street (Atlantic) 38 mins ****

Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 12 June 1976

THIS IS the last recording Paul Kossoff ever made which means that commenting on it is rather like reviewing a gravestone. You just don't. But ...

Back Street Crawler: Second Street

Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 19 June 1976

A CAPTAIN Midnight character adorns the cover, but he's no way as snobby as a similarly named person who writes in the Sunday Times. ...

Paul Kossoff: An Interview with Rock’s Street Crawler

Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, July 1976

THE LATE PAUL KOSSOFF, born in London, September 14, 1950, became the unsung guitar great of Free at the age of eighteen. That short-lived, but ...

Midnight Court: the Lyceum's walking wounded

Live Review by Ed Jones, Melody Maker, 10 July 1976

MY GOD, it's like dawn on the second day of the Somme. Lying prostrate everywhere are twisted bodies, obviously beyond the ministrations of medicine. The ...

Back Street Crawler: Leaving Coffins Outside Dressingrooms is Sick

Interview by Miles, New Musical Express, 24 July 1976

Just one of the problems Back Street Crawler have had to contend with since the death of Paul Kossoff. Terry Slesser explains. ...