Gregory Isaacs
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Gregory Isaacs: Presenting Mr Isaacs
Review by Penny Reel, New Musical Express, 12 August 1978
PRIOR TO the glorious advent of soulful lover Pat Kelly in more recent weeks, lean, laconic crooner Gregory Isaacs was recognised as possibly the most ...
Gregory Isaacs: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Penny Reel, New Musical Express, 27 September 1980
TAKE ANY moderate gathering of citizens intent on peaceable pursuit and out comes the Babylon in force. I am growing altogether more and more disgruntled ...
Interview by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 31 October 1981
MARK COOPER talks to the 'cool ruler', Gregory Isaacs ...
Gregory Isaacs: Savoy, New York NYC
Live Review by Richard Grabel, New York Rocker, January 1982
SMOOTH IS the word for Gregory Isaacs. So smooth, and so suave. The cool king of that gentle, romantic Jamaican reggae called lover's rock. ...
Gregory Isaacs: Night Nurse (Island ILPS 9721)
Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 28 August 1982
FOLLOWING A brief sojourn on Pre, the 'Cool Ruler' now elects Island to release the latest fruits of his labours. A change of label does ...
Gregory Isaacs: Night Nurse (Island)
Review by Penny Reel, New Musical Express, 4 September 1982
IT'S SINGULAR how Gregory Isaac releases a better number of tunes as good as 'Night Nurse' over the past decade and longer, and as good ...
Gregory Isaacs: Gregorian Rants
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 4 December 1982
The elusive Mr Isaacs tracked down by Jack Barron ...
Gregory Isaacs: Lyceum, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Times, 31 May 1984
SUCH IS the flexibility of Gregory Isaacs's vocal prowess that he does not deserve to be typecast to a particular style. Isaacs is first and ...
Gregory Isaacs: That Easy 127th Album
Review and Interview by Penny Reel, MOJO, October 1995
SEEMS LIKE EVERY TIME you turn around, as Bob Dylan so succinctly put it, there's another hard-luck story you're gonna hear. Most would appear to ...
Guide by Kieron Tyler, Q Classic, 2015
Author's note, 2020: The Harder They Come, conspicuous by its absence from this list, was not included, since it was the subject of a feature ...
Book Excerpt by Nick Coleman, 'Voices' (Jonathan Cape), January 2018
GREGORY ISAACS may or may not have been a nice man. He may or may not have been piously observant of the Rastafarian faith that ...
Memoir by Paul Wellings, Louder Than War, June 2021
10. Terry Farley, Superstar House DJ Terry was my Editor at Boys Own fanzine. He was a country bumpkin from Royal Berkshire but he had ...
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