The Chi-Lites
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The Chi-Lites: Baileys, Leicester
Live Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 18 February 1975
WHEN IT comes to perfection, I think we would all agree that it is a state of affairs that is rarely achieved. Well, on this ...
The Chi-Lites: The Brightest Lites
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 18 February 1975
EUGENE RECORD, Marshall Thompson and Robert Lester, known affectionately the world over as Squirrel. They are the Chi-Lites, currently midway through a tour of Britain ...
Stones Producer Jimmy Miller Part Two: The tracks I like best
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 10 June 1972
In this final part of his interview with Ritchie Yorke, Miller talks about the many artists he has recorded, and in particular about tracks which ...
The Chi-Lites: Top Rank, Brighton
Live Review by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 13 November 1976
EIGHTEEN YEARS on... and the Chi-Lites can still do the seaside shuffle. ...
The Chi-Lites — too good to be ignored
Interview by David Hancock, Record Mirror, 23 November 1974
EVEN FIVE years ago a few "oohs and "aahs" and a bit of harmony would have got any soul record branded as specialist. But things ...
The Chi-Lites... too good to be ignored
Interview by David Hancock, Record Mirror, 23 November 1974
EVEN FIVE years ago a few "oohs and aahs" and a bit of harmony would have got any soul record branded as specialist. But things ...
Hello Goodbye: Eugene Record and the Chi-Lites
Interview by Bill DeMain, MOJO, April 2004
MARCH I960 ...
Roy Carr in Harlem sees the Chi-Lites
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 5 February 1972
IT HAS TAKEN the Chi-Lites ten years to become an overnight success. A decade of dues playing on the Chitlin' circuit which helped justify their ...
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 4 February 1972
IT WAS in February 1970 that my eyes were first really opened to the Chi-Lites. Until then. I had only been able to hear a ...
The Chi-Lites: For God's Sake Give More Power To The People (Brunswick BL 754170)
Review by John Morthland, Creem, November 1971
'(FOR GOD'S SAKE) Give More Power to the People' is one of my favorite singles so far this year. After the opening Moog blast comes ...
The Chi-Lites: The Windy City Sound
Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 24 June 1972
IF ANY outfit holds serious aspirations to usurping the Temptation's crown as the world's leading soul group then it must surely be Chicago's Chi-Lites who ...
The Chi-Lites Are Deep But Not Too Deep
Profile and Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 28 August 1971
WE'RE ALL familiar with the Detroit "sound." Well it seems the next big American industrial city to become famous for its music will be Chicago. ...
The Chi-Lites Step Out Of The Shadows
Profile and Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 8 January 1972
THANK heaven for the Chi-Lites. This four-man Chicago-based outfit has brought back to soul music two elements missing from it for too long – good ...
Legends of Songwriting: Eugene Record of The Chi-Lites
Profile and Interview by Bill DeMain, Performing Songwriter, May 2004
IN 1969, WHEN The Chi-Lites scored their first hit with 'Give It Away', it was a well-earned triumph. ...
The Chi-Lites at Hammersmith Odeon
Live Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 13 September 1975
AFTER AN HOUR or so of the kind of entertainment that tempts freeloading reviewers to demand their non-existent money back, any halfway-decent act is a ...
The Chi-Lites: Half a Love and The Moments: Sharp
Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 6 September 1975
IF IT WERE ONLY for All Platinum's second certifiable classic – The Moments' 'Dolly My Love' – this group's new album would need to be ...
Interview by Bob Fisher, New Musical Express, 22 February 1975
IT'S A SOMEWHAT perplexed Chi-Lites who recently embarked on their second and most extensive UK tour of Clubs and Cabaret. ...
The Chi-Lites: The Complete Chi-Lites on Brunswick, Vols. 1 and 2 (Edsel)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, July 2004
Definitive comp of Windy City vocal-group soulsters beloved of Tony Soprano. ...
The Chi-Lites: Theatre Royal, London
Live Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 7 May 1977
THE HOUSE LIGHTS dimmed and the musicians took their places. There was a buzz of activity on the darkened stage for a minute or so ...
Review by Simon Frith, Let It Rock, April 1975
I'D BETTER DECLARE myself: I like Philly Sound, the Stylistics, Barry White even (or, rather, sometimes); I don't think Norman Whitfield mangled Motown: I do ...
see also Barbara Acklin
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