Laura Nyro
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Laura Nyro: Laura's London Triumph
Live Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 13 February 1971
Laura Nyro/Jackson Browne: Royal Festival Hall, London ...
Laura Nyro: Union Chapel, Islington, London
Live Review by Rob Steen, MOJO, February 1995
WHEN LAURA PLAYED MONTEREY, nerves and rushed rehearsals saw her flounder as the hairies waited for Hendrix. Tonight there are enough baldies in the pews ...
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New Stars on the Horizon: Mojo Men, Laura Nyro, The Sopwith Camel, The Electric Prunes
Profile by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, June 1967
THE MOJO MEN ...
Monterey Pop Festival: The Hip Homunculus
Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 29 June 1967
"The West is the best: Get here and we'll do the rest!" — The Doors ...
Laura Nyro: Eli and the 13th Confession (Columbia)
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 7 April 1968
Laura Nyro Makes a Change ...
Laura Nyro, Brewer & Shipley: the Troubadour, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 1969
LAURA NYRO reminded me that she is my favorite female singer Thursday night at the Troubadour, where she will appear through Sunday for two reserved-seat ...
Laura Nyro: New York Tendaberry (CBS)
Review by Ray Connolly, The Evening Standard, 17 January 1970
Laura and her captain ...
Laura Nyro: Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 26 January 1970
Poetess at the Piano Comes Back on Top ...
The Week's Singles: Laura Nyro, James Taylor, Eric Clapton, The Band et al
Review by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 10 October 1970
Magnificent, dynamic Nyro ...
Profile by Richard Williams, The Times, 5 January 1971
THE CURRENT STATE of pop music allows its performers to make the most naked personal statements. Only an artist with considerable character, though, can keep ...
Laura Nyro: Christmas And The Beads of Sweat
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 30 January 1971
EACH OF LAURA Nyro's four albums has had its own distinct personality. ...
Laura Nyro: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 8 February 1971
LAURA NYRO treads a path the width of a knife edge, between stark reality and empty histrionics. Placing herself at a distance from her audience, ...
Report by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 15 May 1971
"LAURA WANTS the monitor turned up please." ...
And Laura Nyro Captivates, Too!
Report by Nancy Lewis, New Musical Express, 19 June 1971
says Nancy Lewis from New York ...
Laura Nyro and Labelle: Gonna Take a Miracle (Columbia)
Review by Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, 20 January 1972
THIS ALBUM comes at the nicest time within Laura Nyro's career, for like most of the other performers that have cut a swath through pop ...
Laura Nyro, Labelle: Community Theatre, Berkeley CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 28 February 1972
Laura Nyro's Murky Depths ...
Laura Nyro: Working With Labelle
Report by Vicki Wickham, Hit Parader, October 1972
LAURA NYRO and Labelle, would, at first thought, be impossible... But... ...
Laura Nyro: The Five-Year, Five-Album Span Of High-Pressure Creativity
Overview by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 29 June 1974
"Nights in New York street angels running down steps into the echoes of the train station to sing..." ...
Laura Nyro: Five Years of Silence
Essay by Lita Eliscu, Phonograph Record, January 1976
BORN LAURA Nigro, she was fated to sing the blues. Though her solitary visions weren't attuned to the pop pulse of the movement-minded sixties, she ...
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 7 February 1976
MICHAEL WATTS reports from Connecticut on a long-awaited return... ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 20 March 1976
LAURA NYRO: fringed red velvet shawl over a lamp, candlelight, one line of cocaine on a mirror, a half-empty glass of red wine on the ...
Review by Penny Valentine, Street Life, 3 April 1976
AS PEOPLE are attracted to evil I was always fascinated by Laura Nyro. The fascination was on two levels – as a musician she was ...
Laura Nyro: Smile (Columbia PC33912)
Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 6 May 1976
LAURA NYRO'S first album in four years fails to live up to the promise of her lovely early records. While Smile has a certain charm ...
Laura Nyro: Season Of Lights (Live)
Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 9 July 1977
THERE'S something about Laura Nyro that inspires devotion in her followers. ...
Live Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 13 August 1977
LAURA NYRO'S a recluse. Season Of Light proves, in case you ever wondered, that it's her own decision. ...
Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 8 July 1978
THERE IS a particular type of songstress who feels the need, once a year, to commit her emotional diaries to vinyl. The purpose and merits ...
Laura Nyro Returns for a Soulful Connection
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 11 August 1988
IN THE YEAR of the comeback, the touted returns of Brian Wilson and Patti Smith are no more startling than the re-emergence of Laura Nyro, ...
Laura Nyro: Mayfair Theater, Santa Monica CA
Live Review by David Nathan, Billboard, 1 October 1988
BACK ON tour after a lengthy hiatus, innovative singer/songwriter Laura Nyro has been reminding audiences that she is a unique and exceptionally gifted artist. At ...
Profile and Interview by Rob Steen, The Independent, 2 December 1993
MY WIFE KEPT REMINDING ME: "Whatever you do, don't mention you named our daughter after her." Too creepy. What about the dispassionate dignity of the ...
Laura Nyro: Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best Of Laura Nyro
Review and Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, March 1997
Most comprehensive Nyro compilation to date, features extensive booklet with her own notes and unseen photographs – not to mention guest appearances over the years ...
Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best Of Laura Nyro
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, June 1997
AT THE age of 21, she was the most sought-after writer in America, a one-woman hit factory, providing songs for everyone from Sinatra to Aretha. ...
Obituary by Johnny Black, MOJO, June 1997
LAURA NYRO DIED OF OVARIAN CANCER, AT HOME IN Danbury, Connecticut, on April 8. Of all the revered ‘60s singer-songwriters, she was the one whose ...
Retrospective by Paul Lester, Uncut, July 1997
"This sorrow is so deep that I really can't help myself. Somehow I think she knew that we loved her as if she was our ...
Oh My Love-Trumpet Soul: Laura Nyro's New York Tendaberry
Retrospective by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, August 2000
AND A GREAT tenderness came forth from the unforgiving streets of the East Side. It's easy to dislike Laura Nyro. Your first requirement is to ...
Laura Nyro: The Essential Masters
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, December 2000
DEEP ARTIST travestied by shallow "Greatest Hits" package. ...
Songs in the Key of Life: Laura Nyro's Angel in the Dark
Review by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 6 April 2001
THIS ALBUM IS incomplete, but so was Laura Nyro's life. It is the project on which she was working when she died of ovarian cancer ...
Laura Nyro: Angel In The Dark (Rounder)****
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, July 2001
THE LAST recordings from the 'Bronx Bronte', covered by everyone from Sinatra to Streisand. A live album's imminent, too. ...
Donny Hathaway and Laura Nyro: Live From Planet Soul
Retrospective by Mark Anthony Neal, PopMatters, 24 August 2004
Donny Hathaway and Laura Nyro were both products of an era when Soul music had a transformative power and These Songs for You, Live! and ...
Retrospective by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 2 April 2005
"EXPERIENCED A catastrophe so profound that its effects would never quite fade" (Laura Nyro) ...
School of Rock Study Guide: Singer-Songwriters
Guide by Barney Hoskyns, iTunes, October 2008
"WHERE DO YOU have left to go but in?" It was a question posed by Joni Mitchell, the brilliant Canadian blonde who specialized in intensely ...
Interview by Carl Wiser, Songfacts, 1 August 2009
THE SON OF jazz musicians Aaron Sachs and Helen Merrill, Alan moved from New York to Japan when he was still a teenager, becoming the ...
Dark Angel: The Stone Soul Genius of Laura Nyro
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, September 2009
Author's note: This is a "director's cut" version of the feature that ran in the January 2010 issue of Uncut. ...
Laura Nyro — Tender is the Nyro
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, January 2010
With her sophisticated, soulful lullabies of Broadway, Laura Nyro was an incongruous figure at the late-'60s hippy love-in. Eventually, though, she would be acclaimed as ...
Retrospective and Interview by Bruce Pollock, brucepollockthewriter.com, December 2011
ONE OF THE MOST enigmatic and evocative and emotionally intense songwriters ever to hit the Top 40, Laura Nyro's career survived numerous dips and bends. ...
Mark Winkler Finds Healing in the Songs of Laura Nyro
Report and Interview by Kirk Silsbee, Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, 7 June 2013
ASK JAZZ SINGER and songwriter Mark Winkler which of his parents he favors and he's unequivocal. "Oh, I'm definitely my mother's son," he grins. "My ...
The passion and soul of Laura Nyro
Retrospective by Laura Barton, The Guardian, 19 April 2017
Twenty years after her death, the rhythmic and shifting life of a songwriter who composed for the stars – but sidestepped celebrity herself – is ...
Laura Nyro: the Gothic genius who transformed Sixties pop — then quit
Retrospective by Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, 5 August 2021
The late songwriter, whose music is now being re-released, lent her tales of private agony to everyone from Barbra Streisand to Diana Ross. ...
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