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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: 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 ...

Laura 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, ...

Laura Nyro: Lady Laura

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: 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 ...

Laura Nyro: In From The Cold

Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 7 February 1976

MICHAEL WATTS reports from Connecticut on a long-awaited return... ...

Laura Nyro: Smile

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 ...

Laura Nyro: Smile (CBS)

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. ...

Laura Nyro: London

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. ...

Laura Nyro: Nested

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 ...

Laura Nyro: The Unsung Blues

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. ...

Laura Nyro: 1947-1997

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 ...

Laura Nyro

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 ...

Lady Lightning: Laura Nyro

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 ...

Alan Merrill: An Interview

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 ...

Laura Nyro

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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