Barry Manilow

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Audio interviews
Interview by Tom Graves, Rock's Backpages audio, 1974
Interviewed by Kini Kedigh and Tom Graves just as he's starting to hit big, Manilow talks about his background in music, backing Bette Midler at the Continental Baths, and gives his opinions on just about everything under the sun.
File format: mp3; file size: 45.1mb, interview length: 49' 16" sound quality: *
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The Gold Lamé Dream of Bette Midler
Profile and Interview by Ed McCormack, Rolling Stone, 15 February 1973
"Puh-leez, Honey" ...
Bette Midler, Barry Manilow: Palace Theater, New York NY
Live Review by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 4 December 1973
Miss M. Divine: Bette Midler Begins Month at the Palace ...
Profile and Interview by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 20 December 1973
BARRY MANILOW sits at the piano flanked by Sharon, Robin, and Charlotte, affectionately known as the Harlettes onstage, and it looks like a scene out ...
Barry Manilow: From a Jingle to a Scream
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 8 February 1975
Chris Charlesworth in New York meets Barry Manilow, who made Number One in the States with 'Mandy' — and looks set for a hit in ...
Barry Manilow: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 5 April 1975
Barry becomes a star ...
Barry Manilow: Trying To Get the Feeling
Interview by Bob Spitz, Crawdaddy!, September 1977
IT'S ELEVEN-below-zero on the Avenue, pitch black and hailing glassy bullets the size of golf balls. Empty buses on the suicide run choke back jetstreams ...
Barry Manilow: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 12 January 1982
The pink panther ...
Barry Manilow: Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire
Live Review by Max Bell, The Times, 29 August 1983
IN ONE OF the season's most outrageous pieces of theatre Barry Manilow, the boy from Brooklyn, played his weekend concert before forty thousand people at ...
There's Nose Business Like... Barry Manilnose. The Fairy Prince Holds Court at Blenheim Palace.
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 10 September 1983
BARNEY HOSKYNS GOES BARMY OVER THE MUSAK MONSTER AT BLENHEIM. ...
Barry Manilow: Opium of the Missus
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, Marxism Today, April 1984
IF BARRY Manilows career is on the wane, youd never have guessed it from last summers grandiose Concert At Blenheim Palace, when 40,000-odd pilgrims, preponderantly ...
Conan The Pipe Cleaner: Barry Manilow with Anthea From Cheshire: NEC, Birmingham
Live Review by Terry Staunton, New Musical Express, 25 January 1986
A STRANGE BLEND of a thousand perfumes wafts its way across the aisles, but further back by the souvenir stalls there is a much stronger ...
Review by Fred Dellar, New Musical Express, 5 March 1988
ARISTA'S SWING Street hails the return of Bazza the jazzer. The man who once put more bums on the grass at Blenheim than Churchill had ...
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 16 April 1989
He's been up, he's been down, now he's trying to get the feeling again. A humbled but hopeful Barry Manilow opens on Broadway. ...
Barry Manilow: Palladium, London
Live Review by David Toop, The Times, 1 February 1990
Falling for the master of charm ...
Barry Glitter — Barry Manilow: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 24 January 1998
Could it be magic? When Mr Manilow sings, grannies swoon, moan, even storm the stage. Caroline Sullivan knows just how they feel ...
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