Dave Edmunds
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Dave Edmunds: Subtle as a Flying Mallet
Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, December 1975
Perhaps you’re thinking it’s either premature or entirely unwarranted that a relative unknown whose sole claim to fame is a 1970 updating of Smiley Lewis’ ...
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Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 13 April 1972
A YEAR AGO, Englishman Dave Edmunds introduced himself to the rock audience through a scrupulously crafted recording of 'I Hear You Knockin'', once a Fats ...
Dave Edmunds: The Classic Tracks 1968-72
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Phonograph Record, March 1975
AH, DAVE EDMUNDS! The Welsh producer-songwriter-rock 'n' roller and guitarist extraordinaire. ...
Dave Edmunds: Subtle As A Flying Mallet
Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, July 1975
THIS ALBUM is a less unified work by this individualistic Welsh musician-producer than a gathering of tracks in varying modes that Edmunds has recorded since ...
Dave Edmunds: Get It (Swan Song)
Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 9 April 1977
FOR SOME TIME NOW, Dave Edmunds has been nearly legendary. He started as the minor league guitar king of Love Sculpture's 'Sabre Dance' fame, then ...
Around the bend on Stiff Records
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 24 April 1977
WHAT KIND of record company would use as its motto the phrase "reversing into tomorrow"? Which record company would define its purpose, on its first ...
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 30 July 1977
DAVE EDMUNDS HAS had his definitive quote on Nick Lowe's talents down pat for a long while now. "There are loads of guys around in ...
Dave Edmunds: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Tim Lott, Record Mirror, 5 November 1977
SOME PEOPLE said it was too loud, but I wanted it louder, LOUDER, LOUDER. This is rock 'n' roll fury. ...
The Stiff Tour: Stiffs Drugs And Rock 'N' Roll
Report by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 5 November 1977
"SEX AND drugs and rock and roll...sex and drugs and rock and roll...sex and drugs and rock and roll..." Hot damn, m'man, Leicester University is ...
Rockpile: Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds Face Off
Interview by Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, August 1978
Rockpile's Alternate Leaders Reveal Differing Strategies for (Riviera) Global Domination ...
Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 2 September 1978
EVERYBODY'S FAVOURITE cult – and an even bigger cult than Nick Lowe, his erstwhile companion in the reversible Rockpile – is the little Welsh rock'n'roller, ...
Profile and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 23 September 1978
Mister DAVE 'Are You Sure Chuck Played It Thaat Way?' EDMUNDS, the celebrated Welsh lickologist, persevered and learned those classic solos note for note. So ...
The Basher Tapes: Nick Lowe Achieves Verbal Dominance of the Free World
Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, July 1979
I GUESS I WAS almost prepared. The stories in the English papers portraying him as a garrulous kinda guv, the bashful puppydog picture sleeves on ...
Profile and Interview by Dave Schulps, Musician, July 1981
"MUSICALLY, WE didn't find a niche for ourselves. It amounted to a couple of songs from a Nick Lowe album, a couple of songs from ...
Dave Edmunds: "The Human League? Which Ones Are They?"
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 3 April 1982
"IT WAS a very weird thing that happened in 1954 or '55 or whenever it was. It was very special and I don't think I'll ...
Dave Edmunds: D.E.7th (Columbia)
Review by Fred Schruers, Musician, June 1982
THE CHORDS in the title of D.E.7th are, of course, a conspicuous pun on the fact that this is Edmunds' seventh solo record. The question ...
Dave Edmunds: D E7th (Columbia)
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, September 1982
A HARDHEARTED TRADITIONALIST with forthright dedication, Dave Edmunds has sought to preserve the classical textuality of rock 'n' roll for 15 years crashing headlong through ...
Dave Edmunds: From Small Things, Mama, Big Things One Day Come!
Interview by Bill Holdship, Creem, September 1982
DAVE EDMUNDS' second biggest pleasure in life seems to be photography. A slim Edmunds (he claims he was horrified when he first saw his paunch ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, 'Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music', 2001
b. 15 April 1944, Cardiff, Wales ...
Dave Edmunds: From Small Things: The Best Of...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 5 August 2004
Choice cuts from British roots rocker Edmunds and his cult supergroup ...
Dave Edmunds: Subtle As A Flying Mallet
Review by Terry Staunton, Uncut, July 2008
WAS THERE EVER a more reluctant pop star than Dave Edmunds? The common practice for almost anyone who's scored a big hit is to roll ...
Interview by Carl Wiser, Songfacts, 24 June 2015
IT TOOK Dave Edmunds about four months to deconstruct ten famous songs – 'God Only Knows', 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale' and 'Your Song' among ...
see also Nick Lowe
see also Rockpile
see also Love Sculpture
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