Gladys Knight and the Pips
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"'If I Were Your Woman' is the long awaited follow up to 'Grapevine'" says Gladys Knight
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 5 February 1971
THE NEW Year is only a month old yet already something of great note has occurred in the chart stakes in the States. Gladys Knight ...
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Gladys Knight & the Pips (1976)
Interview by Cliff White, Rock's Backpages audio, 22 April 1976
Gladys and the boys talks about choosing songs and working out vocal arrangements; becoming album artists and going Platinum with Imagination; doing the Pipe Dreams soundtrack album; the role of the Pips, their choreography, and being marvellously rude about the Stylistics' stage moves!
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Gladys Knight & The Pips: Glad Loses Pip!
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 12 August 1967
IT WAS ENOUGH to give Gladys Knight the pip, the tough struggle this attractive Tamla singer had in getting a hit in Britain. For a ...
Gladys Knight & the Pips, Alan Price Set: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 9 December 1967
Alan Price and Gladys Knight & the Pips — Saville triumph ...
Gladys Knight: How It Took Miss Knight 14 Years To Get A Hit
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 9 December 1967
GLADYS KNIGHT And The Pips have been together for 14 years — a fact made all the more unbelievable when you consider that Gladys herself ...
Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 13 January 1968
THE BIG R & B companies have a habit of LP release lists which make mouths watery with anticipation. Of course the omnipresent financial problem ...
Report by Mike Gormley, The Ottawa Journal, 26 April 1968
THEY RECORD for Soul Records in Detroit. And it's just possible the record label was named for the music the company's top group, Gladys Knight ...
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bayou Country (Fantasy 8387)
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 19 January 1969
Second Album for Clearwater ...
Gladys Knight & the Pips: Mr D's, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 14 May 1969
Gladys Knight Show Solid, Exhilarating ...
On Disc: Singles Reviewed By John E. Abbey
Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 29 March 1970
RECORD OF THE FORTNIGHT ...
Report by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times Magazine, 1972
STEVIE WONDER crosses the hotel lobby, resting on the elbows of two other people. That he is blind, has been blind from birth, is nonetheless ...
Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 24 June 1972
EXACTLY a week after leaving the employ of Music For Pleasure Records, and on the eve of departing for a much needed holiday, I received ...
Gladys Knight: Gladys and Her British Problem
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc, 24 June 1972
"UNDERRATED" is a fond word of Press agents and record companies to explain away lack of success for their artists. So when someone uses the ...
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 14 July 1972
BELIEVE IT or not, this September marks the 20th anniversary of Gladys Knight and the Pips. Before you let your imagination run away with you, ...
Gladys and Pips — been together now for 20 years
Profile by Robin Katz, Disc, 28 October 1972
THERE'S AN incredible excitement that one feels when discovering an artist for the first time; especially if it's before most people do. You feel as ...
Gladys Knight: Soul Perfection In Person
Profile and Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 17 November 1972
IT'S A VERY rare treat to meet an artist whose work you admire and whose in-person appearances you find exciting and who on top of ...
Gladys Knight: Gladys v Motown
Report by Robin Katz, Record Mirror, 5 December 1972
Robin Katz on the likely outcome of a forthcoming battle over contracts ...
Gladys Knight and the Pips: Help Me Make It Through The Night (Tamla Motown)
Review by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 10 March 1973
THOUGH IT'S packaged to make you think it's that way, this isn't an all-new album, the title track being the only recent cut. The rest ...
'Neither One of Us': Gladys Knight and the Pips
Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 10 May 1973
GLADYS KNIGHT and the Pips have left Motown the same way Ted Williams left the Red Sox, with a home run. 'Neither One of Us' ...
Gladys Knight And The Pips: a new chapter
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 25 May 1973
A NEW page in the seemingly long and successful career of Gladys Knight & the Pips is about to begin with the group's debut release ...
Gladys Knight & The Pips: A Day With Miss Knight
Interview by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 2 June 1973
IF GLADYS Knight took time off to reminisce there's no doubt she could come up with a few interesting tales about the record business. Simply ...
Gladys Knight & the Pips: Neither One Of Us (Tamla Motown)
Review by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 23 June 1973
SINCE GLADYS Knight and the Pips have now joined the Buddah label this will be their last album released on Motown, unless the company chooses ...
Review by Bob Woffinden, New Musical Express, 2 February 1974
COME TO THINK about it, I always did rate Gladys Knight very highly. ‘Take Me In Your Arms and Love Me’ especially was one of ...
Review by Bob Woffinden, New Musical Express, 23 March 1974
Seven years in the shadow of Diana Ross ...
Gladys Knight: Claudine (Original Soundtrack)
Review by Bob Woffinden, New Musical Express, 22 June 1974
IT MUST have seemed a good idea. Amalgamating the talents of Buddah stablemates Gladys Knight and Curtis Mayfield for the sound-track of Claudine. ...
Profile and Interview by Vernon Gibbs, Crawdaddy!, July 1974
THE MAN who taught the Temptations their strut, the Pips their dip, the Miracles their whip... takes it all in stride. ...
Live Review by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 5 July 1974
On L.I., Jazz Takes a Back Seat to Soul ...
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 8 October 1974
THOUGH JOHNNY Bristol has been involved with recording success for years now, his past track record stems from his career as a record producer. But ...
Live Review by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 19 November 1974
The first ladies of Soul: Aretha and Gladys ...
Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 2 January 1975
TWO YEARS AGO, while working for another magazine, I rejected a rambling interview between black poet Nikki Giovanni and singer Gladys Knight. The interview wasn't ...
Review by Bob Fisher, New Musical Express, 4 January 1975
RELUCTANTLY, ONE MUST admit that Aretha Franklin has now lost her crown as America's top female singer to Miss Knight. Gladys and her Pips have ...
Gladys Knight: In The Beginning
Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, February 1975
GLADYS KNIGHT'S rather sudden acceptance as America's reigning songstress not only caught many by surprise, it also created for her an audience that in all ...
Gladys Knight & The Pips: Midnight Train To Harlem
Report by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 26 April 1975
Blowing it at the Apollo means you haven't really made it at all. After a heart-stopping false start, GLADYS KNIGHT went on to prove that ...
Gladys Knight: The Best Of…, A Little Knight Music, Gladys Knight And The Pips
Review by Bob Woffinden, New Musical Express, 14 February 1976
DON'T BE MISLED – The Best Of... actually refers to the best of Gladys and the 'Pips' Buddah output, but such is the strength of ...
Gladys Knight & the Pips: Gladys Knight and the Pips (DJM)
Review by Simon Frith, Street Life, 6 March 1976
SHE'S JUST GONNA have to get used to it. When you're the greatest pop singer in the world (and she is) and have been together ...
Gladys in bloom. The Pips in harmony
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 4 May 1976
The lovely Ms. Knight is presently infanticipating, but she and the boys will not be idle over the next few months. There are several exciting ...
Gladys Knight & the Pips: It's a Family Affair
Report and Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 8 May 1976
And a very friendly one at that. Even though Gladys Knight and the Pips have been through real hard times, they don't tear at each ...
Gladys Knight & the Pips: New Victoria, London
Live Review by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 8 May 1976
THE ATTENTION which goes into the fundamentals of Gladys Knight's sound, is the key to the tremendous success she's had on her current tour. Which ...
Gladys Knight & the Pips: New Victoria, London
Live Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 8 May 1976
HORACE SILVER to Brain Case, NME, May 1st 1976. "I'd prefer just reports on concerts rather than a critique." Quite right too, Horace. O.K. then. ...
Gladys Knight and the Pips: New Victoria, London
Live Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 8 May 1976
HAVING BEEN privileged to see two out-of-London sets of G. K. and the P's, I was rather more picky than most of the London audience. ...
Gladys Knight: Things happen when you're a disciple of Buddah...
Interview by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 8 May 1976
... but it helps if you're GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE PIPS. Here's how things are going, as told to CLIFF WHITE. ...
A Knight in Las Vegas Or: Africa Calls, Gladys Answers
Interview by David Hancock, National RockStar, 4 December 1976
If politics and music don't mix, how come in the U.S. you have to be a top r 'n' b seller to get AM radio ...
Norman Whitfield: a gambler with some sure bets
Interview by Robin Katz, Record Mirror, 1 January 1977
NORMAN WHITFIELD has always been a ghost-like character in terms of his presence to music. As a producer and writer he has always been a ...
Gladys Knight & the Pips: Glad it's Knight
Interview by Robin Katz, Black Echoes, 15 January 1977
"EVERYBODY'S TALKIN' 'bout the good old days," right? In their 25-year history, Gladys Knight and the Pips have had their share of ups and downs, ...
Gladys Knight & The Pips: New Victoria, London
Live Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 15 January 1977
THERE IS AN unwritten guarantee with every ticket for a Gladys Knight & The Pips concert. A guarantee of aural, visual and emotional satisfaction. I've ...
In A Changing World, There's Always Gladys Knight
Live Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 15 January 1977
Gladys Knight and The Pips: New Victoria, London ...
Gladys Knight And The Pips: The Family That Eats Together Hits Together
Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 29 January 1977
Since their last visit eight months ago, nothing much has changed for Gladys Knight and the Pips. ...
Cholly Atkins, dancing machine
Interview by Deanne Stillman, Rolling Stone, 20 October 1977
DETROIT — I find Cholly Atkins, R&B dance master, in the basement of Gladys Knight's mother's Tudor mansion, rehearsing the Pips in a new routine ...
The Pips: A Solo Album But No Split With Gladys
Report and Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 28 February 1978
After twenty-five years together, Gladys Knight and The Pips have become virtually a musical institution. Now, a new chapter is opening in the history of ...
Gladys Knight & the Pips: Memories of the Way We Were (Buddah); 20 Golden Greats (Motown)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Melody Maker, 11 October 1979
GLADYS KNIGHT has been turned into the spinster of soul. Her generous face seems to invite desertion. Yet with almost maternal dignity, she translates this ...
Gladys Knight & the Pips: Wembley Conference Centre, London
Live Review by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 22 November 1980
IT MUST be the most pertinent observation that Gladys Knight and the Pips have made on record for a long time: "Everybody wants to be ...
Interview by Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 19 October 1981
After 30 Years, Things Are Still Pip ...
Gladys Knight & the Pips: Berklee Performance Center, Boston MA
Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 3 November 1981
A pleasant Knight-time ...
Gladys Knight And The Pips: Visions
Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 1983
SEEMS LIKE everyone is going Solar. Light to the touch but good to the bone, it's the radio sound of now. The perfect pop-soul marriage, ...
Gladys Knight & The Pips: Visions (CBS)
Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 31 May 1983
WHEN IT comes to sheer consistency and reliability, Gladys Knight & the Pips take some beating! They have that uncanny knack of teaming up with ...
The Bar-Kays, Nona Hendryx, Gladys Knight: Veteran Hitmakers Span The Generations
Interview by Vernon Gibbs, Billboard, 4 June 1983
IN A BUSINESS where the term "veteran" can be applied to acts that have been consistent chartmakers for at least five years, it is a ...
Gladys Knight: All Our Love (MCA)
Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 27 February 1988
SINCE WINNING the Ted Mack Amateur Hour TV show at the age of eight and picking up $2000 for her rendition of Nat 'King' Cole's ...
Live Review by David Nathan, Billboard, 15 October 1988
THE SECOND Budweiser Superfest to play Los Angeles in the last two months didn't generate anywhere near the same excitement as the first, even though ...
L.A. and Babyface: In Search of the Twenty Five Hour Day
Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 8 November 1988
When the likes of Gladys Knight, Whitney Houston, the Jacksons and Kool and the Gang amongst numerous others come knocking on your door, who do ...
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