Cameo
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Interview by Simon Witter, Rock's Backpages audio, 2 July 1985
The Cameo frontman goes back and forth over his influences, the band's formation and changes over the years, philosophy, race and all kinds of fascinating stuff!
File format: mp3; file size: 89.9mb, interview length: 1h 33' 37" sound quality: ***
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Cameo: Still Going Strong After Rigor Mortis Has Set in
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 8 November 1977
B&S raps with the funky, funky 9-man band who play some pretty arresting music ...
Cameo: Ugly Ego (Casablanca CAL 2040)
Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 16 January 1979
NINE PIECE, self-contained group have established themselves a little bit more with every release since their arrival on the scene more than two years ago. ...
Cameo: Sitting Pretty With Their Ugly Ego
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 30 January 1979
If the group's second album was two steps ahead of their debut set, then the new one is five steps ahead of either, they feel. ...
Cameo: Ugly Ego (Casablanca CAL 2038)
Review by Ronnie Gurr, Record Mirror, 3 March 1979
CAMEO, ACCORDING to my tattered old Webster's, in the literary sense is — quote — "a piece of detailed writing in polished style." In the ...
The Fatback Band, Cameo, General Caine II and Prince Charles & the City Beat Band
Review by Lloyd Bradley, New Musical Express, 4 July 1981
Slicing through the funk fat: The Fatback Band: Tasty Jam (Spring); Cameo: Knights Of The Sound Table (Chocolate City); General Caine II: Get Down Attack ...
Cameo, Dazz Band: Greek Theatre, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 1983
CAMEO GENERATES PARTY-TIME SPIRIT ...
Cameo: She's Strange (Casablanca Phonogram Import)
Review by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 19 May 1984
Blackmon's Burden ...
Cameo: She's Strange (Atlanta Artists/Polygram)
Review by Steve Bloom, Record, July 1984
BACK IN the days when there was a record company called Chocolate City, a group named Cameo gave the label instant credibility. Cameo's 1977 debut, ...
Live Review by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 1985
Cameo: Nottingham Rock City ...
Interview by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 10 August 1985
CAMEO? Not funk? ("When you think of funk you think of guys who don't take baths...") SIMON WITTER learns the art of staying a cult ...
Interview by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 14 September 1985
Larry Blackmon, the man with a lead role in Cameo, doesn't like his music labelled funky. He also has these Rambo fantasies. Paul Sexton decides ...
Cameo: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 9 December 1985
DESPITE CAMEO'S low media profile, they boast a distinguished history of 11 album releases yielding estimated sales of 20 million records. It is but one ...
Cameo: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 21 December 1985
LET'S RESIST the churlish temptation to start wondering how many of Cameo's crowd were there when they last funked the hell out of Hammersmith 18 ...
Review by Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, 11 January 1986
THE MANDATORY credit to God is featured in the small print on the sleeve of Cameo's eleventh album and, when you consider how many cruddy ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, Sounds, 30 August 1986
Listen up! Ambition may be the result of having a possessive, overbearing mother, but just eat a big avocado salad and you'll be solid. And ...
Cameo: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Neil Perry, Sounds, 4 October 1986
THE CODFATHER ...
Cameo: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Ted Mico, Melody Maker, 4 October 1986
WORDY RAPPING FUNK ...
Cameo: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 4 October 1986
DOCTOR MY EARS ...
Cameo: Word Up! (Phonogram/Club Records)***2/3
Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 11 October 1986
WORDS UPSIDEDOWN: Because you're not the only one whose heart has been broken and Blackmon's approach will serve to remind you of this – and ...
Review by John McCready, New Musical Express, 11 October 1986
WISE UP! ...
Interview by William Shaw, Smash Hits, 5 November 1986
Oh. That's funny, we could have sworn you were the bloke with the"codpiece" from Cameo, Larry Blackmon (for it is he) announces his plans for world domination. ...
Cameo Wins Funk Fans With Sly Wit
Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 1 December 1986
Cameo: Santa Monica Civic, Santa Monica ...
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 20 December 1986
His codpiece was banned from TOTP, his new single 'Candy' has been banned by Radio One, but LARRY BLACKMON has still led Cameo to the ...
Cameo's Black-Rock Breakthrough
Profile and Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 15 January 1987
Veteran band goes Top Ten with 'Word Up' ...
Cameo: Empire Pool Wembley, London
Live Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 10 October 1987
TRAPPED BY THEIR UNDERPANTS ...
Live Review by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 10 October 1987
The Funk Absurd ...
Live Review by Damon Wise, Sounds, 10 October 1987
THE MAN WITH THE FULL METAL CODPIECE ...
Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 21 October 1988
To celebrate Cameo's thirteenth album Adam Sweeting joins Larry Blackmon for a wholemeal bagel in downtown New York. ...
Cameo: I'm A Rhinestone Codpiece
Interview by Damon Wise, Sounds, 29 October 1988
Cameo's frontman, Larry Blackmon, explains that as much brain as brawn went into the band's latest album, Machismo. Damon Wise works out to their hybrid ...
Interview by Andrew Smith, Melody Maker, 2 June 1990
ANDREW SMITH TALKS TO LARRY BLACKMON ABOUT POP'S LACK OF CODPIECES, THE AMERICAN DRUG PROBLEM, NWA, HOUSE MUSIC, THE BAND'S NEW SINGLE, 'I WANT IT ...
Cameo: Real Men... Wear Black (PolyGram) ***
Review by Amy Linden, Rolling Stone, 6 September 1990
THERE WAS a time when Larry Blackmon's yowl was a definite signal to be on the lookout for the funk. Cameo's leader and main vocalist ...
Cameo: Emotional Violence (Reprise)
Review by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 28 March 1992
WELCOME TO the parallel cosmiverse of Larry Blackmon, where time stands still, and real guys wear codpieces and sport gravity-defying barnets, safe in the knowledge ...
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