Georgie Fame
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Interview by Ira Robbins, Rock's Backpages audio, 1 March 1985
Mr. Fame talks about his current activities, then looks back to his first gig, backing Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran; being named by Larry Parnes; the Blue Flames starting as Billy Fury's backing group; playing the Flamingo, and discovering the Hammond after hearing 'Green Onions', and his first hit, 'Yeh Yeh'.
File format: mp3; file size: 11.1mb, interview length: 12' 09" sound quality: ** (phoner)
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The Beatles, The Rolling Stones et al: NME Poll Winners' Concert, Empire Pool, Wembley, London
Live Review by Keith Altham, Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 16 April 1965
IT WAS THE GREATEST POP SHOW ON EARTH ...
Interview by Sylvia Stephens, Fabulous, 15 May 1965
Who are the girls in the lives of the chart topping boys? Who are the girls who know them, who have encouraged them, who have ...
Georgie Fame : Will I be Flop of the Year?
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 6 August 1965
THE BLUE Flames had gone home, and Georgie Fame stood in the middle of a recording studio, reaching up to the mike and belting out ...
Georgie Fame: After many years Georgie realises an ambition...
Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 14 August 1965
GEORGIE FAME'S latest hit ('Like We Used To Be') represents an important step forward in the career of this 22-year-old singer-bandleader-pianist-organist. It's his first composition. ...
Live Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 14 August 1965
RICHMOND RAVE-UP! ...
Negro Blues — a Talking Point by Georgie Fame
Comment by uncredited writer, Music Echo, 21 August 1965
NEGRO BLUES is an essential part of pop music. Since the popularisation of R&B and blues music the scene has improved 100 per cent. The ...
In the first of a new series, Georgie Fame meets Mick Jagger person to person for R&B TALK
Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 6 November 1965
HERE IT IS — the start of another great Record Mirror series! The idea is simple enough: highly-respected R and B star Georgie Fame becomes ...
He is lovable... that's the funny thing about Rik Gunnell
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 15 January 1966
THERE ARE two Gunnell brothers, Rik and Johnny. If asked their dearest, secret wish, they might say they wished there were three Gunnell brothers — ...
Georgie Fame with the Harry South Orchestra: Marquee Club, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 30 April 1966
Fame and South — what a marvellous swinging mixture ...
Rik Gunnell: The Man Behind Fame and Farlowe
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 30 July 1966
AND IN THE beginning there was Georgie Fame. At least, that more or less how it was for Rik Gunnell. Disregarding the seventh day of ...
The Who, Cream et al: National Jazz and Blues Festival, Windsor
Live Review by uncredited writer, New Musical Express, 5 August 1966
Who 'wreck' festival ...
Sixth National Jazz and Blues Festival, Windsor: Jazz on a Summer's Weekend
Live Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 6 August 1966
A washout, but still swinging ...
Live Review by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 13 August 1966
THE COUNTRY is due for one of the most powerful package shows ever staged this Autumn, judging by the "pilot run" of the Fame-Farlowe concert ...
Live Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 28 October 1966
Eric Burdon Beats The Hecklers! Geno An Earthquake ! ...
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 29 October 1966
A GREAT SHOW and a puzzling audience reaction. That was the net result of the first night of the Georgie Fame package tour at Finsbury ...
Live Review by Keith Altham, Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 13 May 1967
POLL SHOW THRILLS ALL THE WAY ...
Interview by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 5 August 1967
...behind Procol Harum, the Move, Georgie Fame and Denny Laine talks about why he is a record producer ...
Georgie Fame: Pop Singer With A Jazz Orientation
Interview by Tony Leigh, KRLA Beat, 11 September 1968
GEORGIE FAME is not very well known in America — his appeal has been sporadic at best. In 1964, with the British wave his recording ...
Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan: Mind blowing duo
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 29 March 1969
NME's Richard Green talks to their producer, Bob Johnston ...
Alan Price, Georgie Fame: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 19 December 1970
An evening of Pricey nostalgia ...
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 10 April 1971
THERE I WAS sitting interviewing Messrs Fame and Price — or should it be Price and Fame — when this lady walks into the room. ...
Denny Cordell: The Cordial Englishman
Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 8 June 1974
DENNY CORDELL is not at all like my image of him. Well in fact, I didn't know what to expect but he was not like ...
Georgie Fame: Fanning the Flames
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 3 August 1974
TEN YEARS HAVE elapsed since Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames pioneered a brand of funky jazz in the sweating cellars of Soho and fought ...
Georgie Fame: The Nashville, London
Live Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 14 June 1975
WHILE APPRECIATING THAT what George Fame and his occasional Blue Flames are delivering is white rhythm'n'blues and not soul, it's perhaps unfortunate that he chose ...
Georgie Fame: Right Now! (Pye)
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, March 1979
"WELL, WELL, well, hello there, it's been a long, long time." Doesn't that introduction to 'Funny How Time Slips Away' take you back? I address ...
Larry Parnes: The past master in idol speculation
Obituary by David Toop, The Times, 7 August 1989
David Toop on how Larry Parnes, who died last week, invented the British pop music star as a result of a meeting in a coffee ...
Van Morrison with Georgie Fame and Friends: How Long Has This Been Going On (Verve) ****
Review by Geoffrey Himes, Rolling Stone, 8 February 1996
ARETHA FRANKLIN AND VAN MORRISON are the best vocal improvisers of their generation, but neither can be accurately described as a jazz singer. When authentic ...
Fame at the Flamingo: Golden years in Soho
Retrospective and Interview by James Maycock, The Independent, 16 January 1998
Georgie Fame and his band were regular performers at a nightclub that was a catalyst for British music in the early '60s. He looks back ...
Last Night a Record Changed My Life: Attack of the killer organ
Memoir by Colin Irwin, MOJO, October 1999
Elvis Costello was a scrawny 12-year-old — until Georgie Fame opened the door to hipness. ...
Obituary by Andy Gill, The Word, August 2007
RIK GUNNELL, who died recently aged 75 in the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbuhel, where he owned and ran a bar called The Londoner, was ...
Retrospective and Interview by Lois Wilson, MOJO, November 2015
IT'S DECEMBER 1962, three sharp dressed GIs are hefting a Hammond organ down the icy steps of the Flamingo, a tiny jazz club on Wardour ...
10 Unjustly Overlooked British Invasion Albums (1964–1966)
Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, September 2016
SO MANY artists in the tsunami of music from the U.K. that flooded America in the mid-'60s went on to make extraordinary albums over a ...
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