Frankie Knuckles
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Chicago House: Last Night A DJ Saved My Life, Part 1
Report and Interview by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 16 August 1986
In the first of two instalments, Atlantic-hopping Frank Owen introduces DJ International, home of CHICAGO HOUSE music, the finest club beat of the moment ...
Sample and Hold: The House Sound of Chicago
Report by Sheryl Garratt, The Face, September 1986
"Sue the bastards!" WE'VE BEEN IN Chicago for two hours now, and for reasons too ridiculous to explain we are sitting in an Armenian restaurant talking ...
Time To Jack: The House Sound Of Chicago
Report and Interview by Simon Witter, i-D, September 1986
Is House music the latest in a long line of Urban American dancefloor explosions – or the latest in a long line of record company ...
Profile and Interview by Simon Witter, Unique, 1987
Eighteen months after it's commercial birth, House Music is getting stronger by the week. On his first trip to England Unique spoke to the scene's ...
Groovemaster No.1: Frankie Knuckles
Profile and Interview by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 20 June 1987
IN 1980, Chicago was the centre of the anti-disco campaign that was, at that time, sweeping America. Two local DJs, Steve Dahl and Jerry Meier, ...
Report and Interview by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 15 August 1987
2008 NOTE: One year after the big bang of house hype, I was back in Chicago to investigate the latest developments – among them Acid ...
Frankie Knuckles: The Godfather
Report and Interview by John McCready, The Face, May 1989
AS YOU'RE assaulted by yet another PWL production — the legacy of House lives on in 'I'd Rather Jack' — this question may or may ...
House Music: The Blues for Dance
Report by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 1989
The new sound pumps up the volume and eyes a move from R&B underground to the pop mainstream. ...
Comment by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 17 March 1990
STEVEN WELLS investigates American rock's backlash against gays ...
Frankie Knuckles: Beyond The Mix (Virgin America VUSLP 36)
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 8 August 1991
A set of Knuckles in the ears ...
Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 7 April 1992
As the disco boom strikes UK club-land again, B&S touches base with New York DJ, remixer/producer, Frankie Knuckles, to trace disco's roots and chart it's ...
Frankie Knuckles: Bare Knuckles
Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 13 April 1993
He wasn't exactly the most prolific remixer last year, but B&S readers still voted him the best in the business. He bares his soul to Jeff Lorez ...
Frankie Knuckles Interviewed in NYC
Interview by Frank Broughton, djhistory.com, 27 February 1995
Anyone with even a passing knowledge of dancefloor history knows Frankie Knuckles respectfully as the 'Godfather of House'. Together with his childhood friend Larry Levan ...
My Kind Of Town: The History of Chicago House
Retrospective and Interview by Frank Broughton, i-D, April 1995
IT’S 1981. Frankie Knuckles, a New York DJ relocated for the last four years in Chicago, is driving south through the outskirts of his adopted ...
Book Excerpt by Sheryl Garratt, The Face, October 1998
Chicago's Eighties club scene was the tinderbox that sparked a global dance music explosion. Sheryl Garratt remembers the time... ...
Def Mix: The house that Judy built
Retrospective and Interview by Bill Brewster, Pacha, August 2007
AT THE CENTRE of every story is what philosopher Malcolm Gladwell calls a "connector". Connectors are people who know lots of other people. They are ...
The House That Frankie Knuckles Built
Profile and Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 13 October 2011
Frankie Knuckles is back, minus a foot but loaded with plaudits including a street named after him in Chicago ...
Obituary by Bill Brewster, The Guardian, 1 April 2014
Trailblazing American record producer and club DJ hailed as the Godfather of House ...
1986: Clubbing In Chicago With Frankie Knuckles & Ron Hardy
Report by Simon Witter, Sabotage Times, 12 October 2015
In July 1986, having talked i-D Magazine into letting me cover the nascent Chicago house scene for them, I found myself in the Windy City ...
see also Jamie Principle
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