Gong
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Rude and Banana Guitar Playing with Gong
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, December 1971
Someone once said that if Dylan Thomas was alive now he'd be writing for a rock group. Daevid Christopher Allen is the perfect example of ...
Virgin Records' First-Ever Releases: Mike Oldfield, Daevid Allen & Gong, Faust
Report by Ed Jones, Cracker, June 1973
AT 18, RICHARD BRANSON STARTED a nationwide magazine called Student, from a basement in Connaught Square, London. Realising that literacy was a faltering skill among ...
Interview by Fred Dellar, New Musical Express, 13 July 1974
FRED DELLAR. Nothing strange about that name is there? It's sort of, well, homely, Comforting. And he lives in Badger's Walk, too. A far cry ...
Gong: Look! There's A Pothead Pixie Arriving
Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 26 October 1974
THERE'S A lot of musicians around that are going to be kissing Mike Oldfield's dirty underpants. The success of Tubular Bells has almost certainly uncovered ...
Gong: You See A Lot Of Frenchmen With Berets... But Not Too Many With Fried Eggs On Their Heads
Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 21 December 1974
GONG'S HOTEL in the Avenue de Wagram in Paris is directly opposite the Salle Wagram where they are due to gig tonight. It should take ...
Robert Wyatt and Henry Cow, Gong: Piazza Farnese, Rome
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 19 July 1975
The Roman Spring Of Mr. Wyatt Thrill to the chariot racing. Dice with death in the streets of the Italian capital. Listen to the music. Special ...
Gong: Imperial College, London
Live Review by Miles, New Musical Express, 22 November 1975
THE HALL was packed. It was the kind of audience that likes to jostle like mad for the first half of the set, blast a ...
Gong: Demise Of Teapot Heralds New Obscure Era
Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 21 February 1976
We proudly present GONG Now, in which assorted Gauls and other Foreigners explain (sort of) certain radical changes and new concepts which may extend the ...
Review by Miles, New Musical Express, 6 March 1976
THE LINEUP CHANGES have been so substantial and the musical direction has altered so drastically since their last album (You), that Gong might have changed ...
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, October 1976
A former Gongster spills the karmic beans ...
Steve Hillage....Electric Gipsy
Profile and Interview by Andy Childs, ZigZag, February 1977
AS I RECALL, it was the "livin' jukebox" himself, Andy Dunkley, who first assailed my ears with Steve Hillage's album Fish Rising. ...
Gong: Gazeuse! (Virgin); Allan Holdsworth: Velvet Darkness (CTI import)
Review by Miles, New Musical Express, 5 February 1977
THE PRESENT Gong lineup includes only three of the members of the line up on the last album Shamal. They are Didier Malherbe, Mireille Bauer ...
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 27 August 1977
THIS IS a double album of many distinctions. For instance, I've never known a record feature the line 'have a cup of tea' so often. ...
UFOs Over The UK '77 — Gong: Gong Live, Etc. (Virgin)
Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 27 August 1977
Old H*pp**s Never Die — They Just Release Live Albums ...
Gong: Magik Brother, Mystic Sister; Gong Est Mort — Vive Gong!
Review by Fred Dellar, New Musical Express, 12 November 1977
TWO CHAPTERS in the life of Daevid Allen, space dingo and nomad of nonsense. ...
Profile and Interview by Nick Coleman, Independent on Sunday, 14 January 2007
Steve Hillage was a prime groover on the Canterbury psychedelic scene of the Seventies and still makes far-out trance music today. So why do people ...
Gong: The Gong Remains The Same
Retrospective and Interview by Jack Barron, Record Collector, October 2010
Jack Barron celebrates the 40-year celestial trip of "Europe's Grateful Dead". ...
Giorgio Gomelsky: An Interview
Retrospective and Interview by Archie Patterson, Eurock, Spring 2011
IF THERE EVER was a man who lived and breathed music it's the international vagabond Giorgio Gomelsky. Born in the former Soviet-Georgia, his parents fled ...
Obituary by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 13 March 2015
Founder member of the psychedelic rock groups Soft Machine and Gong. ...
see also Steve Hillage
see also Soft Machine
see also System 7
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