Dion
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Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 1 August 1989
New York great Dion DiMucci talks about the golden years, the sound of NYC, and addiction and recovery.
File format: mp3; file size: 33.8mb, interview length: 36' 57" sound quality: ***
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Dion And Buzz Have a Swinging Day in Britain
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 15 September 1962
...at the invitation of DISC! ...
Live Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 26 October 1963
ALTHOUGH IT'S billed as "The Greatest Record Show Of 1963", the first performance at Finsbury Park Astoria last Sunday didn't exactly bear witness to that. ...
Best Records of 1967: The Fifth Dimension, Dion & The Belmonts, The Byrds
Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 6 January 1968
UNLIKE DAVID Griffiths, I have no really clear-cut LP choices of last year. I've narrowed the field down to three records which I've written about ...
Dion: Today I Think I Got A Chance
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Rolling Stone, 21 December 1968
NORTH MIAMI – After a six year battle with drugs, singer Dion DiMucchi has his pointed Italian shoes firmly planted on the comeback trail. His ...
Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin et al: Album Reviews
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 26 April 1969
Both sides of the great Elvis Presley, orchestral pop from the Brothers Ryan ...
Dion & the Belmonts: Reunion; The Belmonts: Cigars, Acapella, Candy; Dion's Greatest Hits
Review by Greg Shaw, Rolling Stone, 29 March 1973
DION WAS the original punk. Stand him up next to his contemporary male teen idols – Frankie Avalon, Fabian, Bobby Vee, Brian Hyland, Bobby Rydell, ...
Dion & the Belmonts: Reunion; The Belmonts: Cigars, Acapella, Candy; Dion's Greatest Hits
Review by Gene Sculatti, Creem, June 1973
YEARS AGO, Mad ran a feature on "What Kind of Parents Will Today's Teenagers Make?" It depicted a pair of graying, pot-bellied rockers in leathers, ...
Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 31 May 1975
THE OCCASION is Professor Phil Spector's guest lecture at the Sherwood Oaks Experimental College record-producing seminar. Last time Phil talked at the school was in ...
Report and Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 20 March 1976
Flourishing a revolver our weird hero enters his dark, refrigerated room to recount strange tales the likes of which may never before have been heard ...
Interview by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, August 1976
MIAMI, FLA. – "Frankie Valii turned my head around. I was in Westbury (Conn.), where he was playing, and he said, 'Watch, this.' He introduced ...
Dion: Born To Be With You, Greatest Hits and Streetheart
Review by John Tobler, ZigZag, September 1976
THE THREE most recent albums to come on to the British market, and as a measure of my own commitment to the artist, the 16th, ...
Dion: The King of the Noo Yawk Streets Comes Home
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Sunday Correspondent, September 1989
WHEN DION DiMucci made his major comeback at New York's Radio City Music Hall two years ago, he was joined onstage by an all-star quartet ...
Dion: Bronx Blues — The Columbia Recordings (1962-1963)
Sleeve notes by Gene Sculatti, Sony/Columbia Records, 1991
"Rock 'n' roll started as rebellious music. It had an attitude, and in that attitude was a lot of stuff: anger, frustration, joy, and that ...
Sleeve notes by Gene Sculatti, EMI/Right Stuff, 1993
"I've got my J-200 there with me. That's the big Gibson, like the kind the Everly Brothers had custom-made for them. So beautiful. The case ...
Sleeve notes by Gene Sculatti, EMI/Right Stuff, 1993
One of the few good things left in the current morass of ‘oldies’ radio is the element of surprise. In a world where the same ...
Interview by Tom Cox, Daily Telegraph, 10 February 2001
IMAGINE IF YOU made the best record of your career, in collaboration with one of your heroes, and it was released only abroad, leaving such ...
Dion: The Wanderer Walks with the Blues
Interview by Gene Sculatti, ICE, Winter 2005
IT'S A SHAME that, these days, a singer this good needs a qualifier. Until the arrival of Celine, there was only one Dion — Dion ...
The Rock Snob's Dictionary: An Introduction
Book Excerpt by David Kamp, Broadway Books, February 2006
2021 AUTHOR'S NOTE: This was written in 2005 and does not entirely hold up today. (But most of it does.) ...
Review by Larry Jaffee, The Audiophile Voice, April 2006
IN 2000, CAPITOL Records' imprint The Right Stuff released King of the New York Streets, which it deemed the "Ultimate Dion Collection", comprising 65 tracks ...
Dion: "I saw the devil himself"
Interview by Andrew Purcell, The Guardian, 15 December 2006
He's been a doo-wop legend, a heroin addict, a protest singer and a Phil Spector protege: now Dion's a Grammy-nominated bluesman. Andrew Purcell met him ...
Dion: The Bard Of Bronx County
Profile and Interview by Graeme Thomson, The Word, April 2012
HOW DID THEY miss Dion DiMucci when they were casting for The Sopranos? Even at 72 and now resident in Florida, doo-wop's Bronx apostle still ...
Dion: The Wanderer Pens a New Love Letter to the Big Apple
Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 19 January 2016
OFTEN, EARLY rock and roll artists were tied to a certain geographical area, becoming something of unofficial (and unelected) city representatives. Elvis meant Memphis. Buddy ...
Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, 2017
IF HE'D DONE nothing before or after he dropped by a Bob Dylan recording session in June 1965, sat down at the Hammond organ – ...
Review and Interview by Wayne Robins, Copper, Summer 2020
THE FIRST ALBUM I ever bought with my own money was Presenting Dion and the Belmonts (Laurie LLP 1002). In faded red ink from a ...
see also Belmonts, The
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