Millie
13 articles
Audio interviews
Interview by Tom Graves, Rock's Backpages audio, 3 May 2016
After talking about her life after the hits, the 'My Boy Lollipop' girl takes us back to her youth, winning a talent contest aged 12; cutting her first records in Kingston; invited to England by Chris Blackwell and recording 'Lollipop' with Blackwell and Ernest Ranglin; life as a star in the UK; writing the song 'Enoch Powell', and on the difference between bluebeat and reggae.
File format: mp3; file size: 42.5mb, interview length: 44' 14" sound quality: *** (phoner)
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Report by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 15 February 1964
A LOOK AT THE LATEST CRAZE TO TAKE THE RECORD INDUSTRY BY STORM ...
Millie: A Blue Beat Bombshell!
Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 4 April 1964
A DARK-SKINNED very feminine ball of fire named simply, Millie. A Jamaican-born bombshell who is an old trouper at the age of 16... and could ...
Report by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 16 May 1964
PETER JONES TAKES A LOOK AT THE SUDDEN INFLUX OF THE BIG HIT GIRLS ...
Atlantic Label Releases Hot on Jamaica Ska Disks
Report by uncredited writer, Billboard, 23 May 1964
NEW YORK — Atlantic Records will soon release several dozen Jamaica Ska disks. ...
Little Topper — Little Chart Topper Millie
Report by uncredited writer, Top Boys, 23 May 1964
A WEEK OF MILLIE ...
In this business where you're old at 20, Millie and Lulu are the Younger Fry
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 July 1964
WHILE THEIR elder sisters, Kathy Kirby, Dusty Springfield and Cilla Black sing moving songs about love and desertion, Millie and Lulu are to be found ...
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 26 April 1969
Island Records boss CHRIS BLACKWELL talks to Richard Green ...
Interview: Island Records' Chris Blackwell (1989) [transcript]
Transcript of audio interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 1989
This is a transcript of John Tobler's 1989 audio interview. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Chris Blackwell: A Man of Wealth & Taste
Profile and Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 18 February 1999
For forty years, CHRIS BLACKWELL has survived on killer instincts, killer bud and tough business tactics. Along the way, he's changed the course of pop ...
Empire of the Sun: Island at 50
Retrospective and Interview by Tom Doyle, Q, June 2009
The grand scheme of a gambler with a taste for chicken blood, Jamaican label Island Records introduced Bob Marley and U2 to the world. On ...
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 ...
An Interview with Millie Small
Interview by Tom Graves, Goldmine, August 2016
MILLIE SMALL, the diminutive Jamaican teen sensation who introduced the world to the sounds of ska with her worldwide smash hit 'My Boy Lollipop', is ...
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