Junior Walker & the All Stars
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Top Tunes: Junior Walker's 'Shotgun' Is His First Big Hit
Interview by Ronnie Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 27 February 1965
JUNIOR WALKER and the All Stars can thank a couple of teenagers from Benton Harbor, Mich., for the inspiration that's led to their first major ...
Bob Dylan, James Brown, Otis Redding et al: Album Reviews
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 13 August 1966
Dylan rocks through 4 great sides ...
Junior Walker Makes Fans Sit Up
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 9 September 1966
IT DIDN'T mean a thing in Britain ...but a record called 'Shotgun' was the one that blasted Junior Walker and the All-Stars to hit parade ...
Junior Walker: Autrey (De Walt, not Gene) Aids Tamla's British Chart Invasion...
Profile by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 10 September 1966
AT LAST TAMLA'S wonder boy Junior Walker, alias Autrey DeWalt, has made our charts, after eighteen months of records which have been revered and worshipped ...
Junior Walker & the Allstars, Freddie King, Jimmy Cliff: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 21 October 1967
IT WAS A 'soul show' at the Saville last Sunday, in the very widest sense of the term. Jimmy Cliff started off, and when he ...
Junior Walker and The All-Stars, Jimmy Cliff, Freddie King: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 21 October 1967
GREAT THUNDERING jackanapes! An all-round good show at the Saville: No goofs, no curtains falling down, great music, a nice audience and even, wonder of ...
Junior Walker: A Hit For Junior — Because He Couldn't Sit Still
Profile and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 19 April 1969
AROUND THE Tamla Motown offices, Junior Walker became something of an oddity. Instead of sitting around, biding his time like the rest of the artists, ...
'We're Not Part Of The Tamla Sound' Says Junior Walker
Profile and Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 17 May 1969
OKAY, THE story has been told before. But here goes once again... so this guy Autry deWalt was a school-kid and he walked everywhere. Everyone ...
Back To School For Jr. Walker!
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 4 April 1970
DROP INTO any discotheque you care to mention in any city or holiday resort in Europe and you can bet safely that at least three ...
Live Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, September 1971
The Motown Variations ...
Junior Walker: Still as popular as ever
Profile and Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 3 November 1972
CURRENTLY enjoying very considerable success with his very cleverly put together maxi-single of 'Walk In The Night', 'Right On Brothers And Sisters' and 'Gotta Hold ...
The Jackson 5, Junior Walker, The Sisters Love: Empire Pool, Wembley
Live Review by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 1 December 1972
THE FIRST ever visit of Motown's Jackson Five is something which numerous people won't forget in a hurry: the staff at the hotels that the ...
Junior Walker: Out Front At Last
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, May 1973
AS IS AMPLY evidenced by the success of his recent British tour and the high chart placings gained by his last three singles, Junior Walker ...
Live Review by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 7 May 1974
The thrill is gone ...
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas: Anthology/Junior Walker & The All Stars: Anthology
Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 5 October 1974
MARTHA AND The Vandellas never really made the grade. ...
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 ...
Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 2 August 1975
FIRST, THE GOOD NEWS. The Supremes' new LP is a winner. ...
Interview by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 16 August 1975
CONSIDERING THAT THEY'D only checked in at 4 a.m. that morning – that they hadn't been notified of our appointment for an interview – and ...
KC & the Sunshine Band, Jnr. Walker & the All Stars: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 16 August 1975
YOU KNOW when you're frantically searching for a specific waveband on a cheap pocket transistor radio, and no matter how hard you try to tune ...
Junior Walker and the All-Stars: Hot Shot
Review by Joe McEwen, Rolling Stone, 25 March 1976
HOT SHOT is the first Junior Walker album in three years, which is surprising in light of the current reign of disco/dance music, Walker’s natural ...
Jr. Walker: 'Everybody's Just Ready For Me To Blow.'
Interview by Colman Andrews, Phonograph Record, October 1976
JR. WALKER is the man who, it might be said, invented disco-jazz. Ten years ago or more, he was creating a kind of music Ramsey ...
Profile and Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 10 May 1977
ONE OF the most consistently popular Motown artists of all time has to be Jr. Walker. His ratio of chart records may not be what ...
Report and Interview by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 4 January 1982
BY 10:30 SATURDAY night, the line in front of the Club Lingerie, a trendy Hollywood rock spot catering to in-crowd tastes, stretched around the corner. ...
Junior Walker: The Shotgun Sherriff Rides Again
Interview by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 26 November 1983
A Motown soul veteran for all seasons, Junior Walker has taken his sax appeal from small American clubs in the '50s to the heart of ...
Obituary by Geoffrey Himes, Rolling Stone, 25 January 1996
IN EARLY 1965, a new single lit up American radio. It began with a gunshot, echoed by the snare drum that followed. Then a tenor ...
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