Be Bop Deluxe
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Be-Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson (1978)
Interview by Ian Ravendale, Rock's Backpages audio, 6 February 1978
From his school band the Cosmonauts through to latest Be Bop Deluxe album Drastic Plastic, Nelson tells the whole story: teen bands; conversion to Pentecostal Christianity; forming the band, signing to EMI and recording debut Axe Victim; changing the band's line-up, and record producers... not forgetting his perpetual self-doubt.
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Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 6 July 1974
IT'S GREAT to be right in there on the first still-to-be-perfected artistic utterance of A Truly Great Group To Be. That old warm self-congratulatory glow ...
Be-Bop Deluxe: 1974 was Last Year’s Thing
Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 3 August 1974
...so what about the Sound of ‘75, man? Could it even be BE-BOP DELUXE, already? (We knock ‘em down and then we build ‘em up ...
Letter from Britain: Something Might Happen
Report by Ian MacDonald, Creem, November 1974
SITUATION UNCHANGED. Still hanging on in here, waiting for something to happen. (Wait — was that a heart-grazing lobe-grinder of a new single from Mick, ...
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 9 August 1975
THE FIRST THING that hits you when you see Be-Bop Deluxe in their current incarnation (or, for that matter, listen to said incarnation's Futurama album ...
Review by Ira Robbins, Circus Raves, December 1975
FIVE YEARS AGO in the bleak Northeast England town of Wakefield a guitar player named Bill Nelson sat around rapping with some friends who owned ...
Be-Bop Deluxe: Sunburst Deluxe
Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 31 January 1976
BILL NELSON, IF popular opinion is to be believed, is destined to become something of a superstar in the coming year. And the new Be-Bop ...
Be-Bop Deluxe: Arty Smarty Or Just The Guitar Hero Next Door?
Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 7 February 1976
THE SAME sign as Hendrix: Sagittarius. Into Hank Marvin, Duane Eddy, Wes Montgomery, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry and BB King. And Jimi Hendrix. ...
Be-Bop Deluxe: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Miles, New Musical Express, 9 October 1976
AT £2.50 a ticket I was expecting to hear the words, particularly from a group whose lyrics are so important, but the thousand or so ...
Be-Bop Deluxe: Nelson's Column
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 9 October 1976
"HELLO, I'm the man with two noses....." ...
Interview by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 22 January 1977
LONDON'S BURLINGTON Arcade runs up the side of the Royal Academy. It has high gates at either end and boasts some of the most expensive ...
Be Bop Deluxe: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Tim Lott, Sounds, 2 April 1977
Be Bop 'N Boredom ...
Be-Bop Deluxe: Santa Monica Civic
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, September 1977
SANTA MONICA CIVIC is not the best place to see a rock concert in Los Angeles. It's got about as much rock atmosphere as the ...
Be-Bop Deluxe: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 8 October 1977
SANTA MONICA Civic is not the best place to see a rock concert in Los Angeles. It's got about as much rock atmosphere as the ...
Be Bop Deluxe: Live! In The Air Age/Steve Harley: Face To Face/Ian Hunter: Overnight Angels
Review by Ira Robbins, Crawdaddy!, November 1977
Every British band knows it: only American success buys the Bentleys. Be Bop Deluxe, Steve Harley and Ian Hunter have all had their stateside ups ...
Be Bop Deluxe: City Hall, Newcastke
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 18 February 1978
WHEN IT'S your seventh try at an intro it gets down to saying it's your seventh try at an intro. You see. Bill Nelson coined ...
Be-Bop Deluxe and John Cooper Clarke: Sheffield City Hall, Sheffield
Live Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 25 February 1978
The Dangers Of Being Likeably Listenable ...
Ol’ Bill: Be-Bop Deluxe’s Bill Nelson
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Record Mirror, 25 February 1978
"THE AMERICAN interviewers have been saying, 'Hey, are you going to wear the suits again this time?' and I say, 'We've worn them the last ...
Be Bop Deluxe: Drastic Plastic (Harvest)
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, April 1978
For a while there, Be Bop was one of the great post-glitter hopes from Britain. The first trio of albums displayed Bill Nelson as a ...
Be Bop Deluxe: The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 6 May 1978
GOING TO The Shrine in sleazy downtown LA is a bit like going to the pictures, a sort of giant Odeon with lumpy seats and ...
Hung up on these silver strings: Be-Bop Deluxe in 1975
Book Excerpt by Nick Coleman, 'Yes Is The Answer' (Rare Bird Books) , 30 May 2013
BE-BOP DELUXE came in through the out-door. And, this being England, they brought some weather in with them. ...
Be Bop Deluxe: Be Bop Deluxe At The BBC 1974-1978
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, October 2013
IN ADDITION TO releasing five studio albums in as many years, Bill Nelson's modernist/ futurist art-rock ensemble found space in their diaries to regularly visit ...
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