Isaac Hayes
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Isaac Hayes: Chronicle/For The Sake Of Love
Review by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, 18 November 1978
IT'S MY CONTENTION that, whatever bizarre circumstances caused the flurry of lawsuits circulating round Isaac Hayes prior to the demise of Stax Records, and the ...
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The Stax Story (Part 6): Porter & Hayes, Producers
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, February 1968
ISAAC HAYES and Dave Porter have written about one hundred and fifty songs together for Stax artists and also produced most of them. So far their ...
Led Zeppelin, Wolfgang, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Isaac Hayes: Winterland, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 7 November 1969
Led Zeppelin Has a Rare Magic ...
Led Zeppelin, Isaac Hayes, Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Winterland, San Francisco CA
Live Review by uncredited writer, The Berkeley Barb, 14 November 1969
WINTERLAND BUMMER ...
Albums from Isaac Hayes, Taste and James Brown
Review by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 10 January 1970
Isaac Hayes: Hot Buttered Soul (Stax) Tremendously successful in the States, this is the first solo album from Isaac Hayes, better known as the hit songwriter with Dave ...
Isaac Hayes: The Isaac Hayes Movement (Enterprise 1010 — U.S.), (Stax 1032 — U.K.)
Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 22 May 1970
THE ISAAC HAYES MOVEMENT IN DEPTH ...
Isaac Hayes: The Most Important Soul Man Of Today
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, June 1970
JA: How did you first get together with David Porter, in the very beginning? ...
Coke-and-lemon beat and smiles for one whole hour
Live Review by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 3 October 1970
Having moaned so long about the failure of British radio, TV, and record buyers to give the due recognition to black singers, I suppose I ...
Isaac Hayes: Isaac Hayes... To Be Continued
Review by Loraine Alterman, The New York Times, 18 April 1971
The 'Black Moses' Should Move Ahead ...
Overview by Tony Cummings, Record Mirror, 5 June 1971
ISAAC HAYES has really turned the world of soul production upside down. ...
Good Hayes music, but a flat film!
Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 27 November 1971
"JUST ONE moment please. Mr Hayes will be right with you," said the voice at the other end of the transatlantic phone. Fifty minutes later ...
Isaac Hayes' Black Moses and other albums
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Oz, 1972
TO CLAIM to have found a representative selection of black music on four records is patently absurd, but as a random cross-section of what’s approximately ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, January 1972
JAMES BROWN may still be Soul Brother Number One but now Issac Hayes, songwriter/arranger/producer and artist is making a serious challenge. ...
Isaac Hayes and The Platinum Pirates
Report by Roger St. Pierre, Record Mirror, January 1972
BOOTLEG RECORDS have become a familiar part of the music scene in the past few years but a far more serious problem for record companies ...
Isaac Hayes: Black Moses (Stax Super 2628 004)
Review by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 22 January 1972
HAYES HAS got to the stage now where "genius" is a word liberally applied to just about everything he does and, certainly, he has reached ...
Isaac Hayes: Black Moses (Stax — 2 LPs)
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 29 January 1972
Hayes: Doggone Good ...
Isaac Hayes: Black Moses (Stax)
Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 5 February 1972
HAYES SPREADS IT THIN ...
The Aloof Mystique of Isaac Hayes
Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 11 March 1972
...but he's part of the people in his gold-plated Rolls Royce ...
Comment by Bob Merlis, Words & Music, July 1972
WE'VE BEEN experiencing a remarkable phenomenon in recent months; the re-emergence of rhythm and blues as an important force in American popular music. Since it ...
Wattstax 72: Seven Hours of Soul
Live Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 8 September 1972
THE whole idea of WATTSTAX '72 was splendid. It enabled more than 100,000 people to attend a seven hour concert at the Los Angeles Coliseum ...
Isaac Hayes: Live At The Sahara Tahoe
Review by Bob Fisher, Cream, 1973
IGNORING the Shaft soundtrack, Isaac Hayes blew it with the Black Moses double set. This followed three good and original albums, although you could still ...
Isaac Hayes: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 3 February 1973
ISAAC HAYES, they tell me, is the leading light of the new black life-style. Black Moses, yet. ...
Wattstax (dir. Mel Stuart, Stax)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 10 February 1973
ISAAC HAYES, ROD STEWART and assorted FACES were at the preview of a new soul film. So was MM's RICHARD WILLIAMS... ...
Isaac Hayes: The Man They Call Moses
Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 10 February 1973
IMAGES DON'T come much heavier than that surrounding Isaac Hayes. But take away the dark shades, the heavy chains, the robes, the immense mink coats, ...
Isaac Hayes: The Day Moses Came To Town
Report and Interview by Roger St. Pierre, West Indian World, 16 February 1973
THE LONDON Hilton's high-speed lift whisked me up 27 floors into the super-soul world of Isaac Hayes, the original "Black Moses". ...
Isaac Hayes: A Man Of The People
Interview by Roger St. Pierre, Beat Instrumental, April 1973
ISAAC HAYES certainly lives up to his 'Super-star' title. During his recent British visit the Black Moses spent £38,000 on jewellery and another £30,000 on ...
Isaac Hayes: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by Vernon Gibbs, New Musical Express, 18 August 1973
Brilliant Hayes: the bald facts ...
Isaac Hayes: Black Moses Back From The Wilderness
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 5 August 1975
A SIGN OF TRUE GREATNESS in terms of an entertainer is surely the ability to stay. Think about it – how many names can you ...
Hurricane II: Thunder in the Heart of Texas
Report by Joe Nick Patoski, Rolling Stone, 26 February 1976
Carter Benefit at Astrodome ...
Isaac Hayes: Golden Hour Presents Isaac Hayes and Groove-a-thon
Review by Simon Frith, Street Life, 20 March 1976
FOR A FEW YEARS Isaac Hayes' reputation veered alarmingly: genius? fraud? joke? God? The settled consensus was that he had founded a new sort of ...
Isaac Hayes And Edwin Starr: Live In Manchester
Live Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 11 November 1978
Two men with but one single thought: Which way is up? ...
Interview by Richard Wootton, Melody Maker, 10 March 1979
RICHARD WOOTTON talks to David Porter about the life and tempos of Stax ...
Interview by Lloyd Bradley, MOJO, July 1995
'Laura We're On Our Last Go Round'Single 1962 (Youngstown) ...
Profile by Carol Cooper, The Village Voice, 25 July 1995
As an opinionated teen in the early ‘70s, I hated Barry White for stealing Isaac Hayes’s sound – even though by 1973 Hayes had evolved ...
Retrospective by Chris Roberts, Uncut, February 1998
AN INSURANCE salesman, David Porter, visited a Memphis meat-packing factory in 1965. He tried to sell a policy to one of the meat-packers, a big ...
Interview by Matt Hanks, Memphis Flyer, 9 March 1998
IT'S 11:30 A.M. in New York City, nearly lunchtime for most people, but Isaac Hayes sounds like he just rolled out of bed. At first, ...
Various Artists: The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-68
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, September 1998
Epic set of Sixties soul classics, formerly import-only ...
Retrospective and Interview by James Maycock, The Guardian, 20 July 2002
Intro: This is about 1000 words longer than the version published by The Guardian. There’s much more on the concert, more quotations and more on ...
Retrospective and Interview by James Maycock, The Guardian, 20 July 2002
When Los Angeles erupted in the bloodiest racial uprising of the 1960s, the black citizens of Watts sent a message to the world, demanding that ...
Various Artists: Music From The Wattstax Festival & Film
Review by James Maycock, MOJO, November 2003
ON 20TH AUGUST, 1972, Isaac Hayes was celebrating his 30th birthday. But Ike wasn't chilling at his gilded Memphis mansion ripping into a skyscraper pile ...
Isaac Hayes: Hot Buttered Soul
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 2004
BY 1969 BLACK artists were following rock's lead and recording very long tracks. At the forefront of such experimentation was big bad Isaac Hayes, co-author ...
Interview by Bill DeMain, MOJO, February 2004
DO YOU remember your first week at Stax? ...
Retrospective by Richie Unterberger, MOJO, July 2004
THE BIGGEST soul concert ever was about to end in a riot. ...
Obituary by David Nathan, Stax 50th Online Blog, August 2008
IT MIGHT be easy to simply consider Isaac Hayes as Black Moses, as the distinguished winner of an Oscar for 'Theme For Shaft', as the ...
Why the early '70s was the greatest period for live soul albums
Guide by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, December 2016
JAMES BROWN invented the modern live soul album with the release of Live at the Apollo in 1963, and Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, and Etta ...
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