Millie Jackson
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Millie Jackson: Odeons Birmingham And Hammersmth
Live Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 4 February 1978
Millie's preoccupations, said The Guardian, are sex, sex and more sex; can't argue with that. ...
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Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 7 January 1972
MILLIE JACKSON has had one of the most meaningful songs of 1971 in her current hit, 'A Child Of God (It's hard To Believe)'. Not ...
Millie Jackson: Millie Jackson (Mojo)
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 9 December 1972
NO 45 HAS hit me with more power in the last year than Miss Jackson's 'A Child Of God'. An unambiguous exposé of everyday immorality, ...
Millie Jackson: Millie's Mojo Soul
Profile and Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 9 December 1972
AMONG THE better girl artists to emerge from America's R&B charts of late is Millie Jackson, who's been creating no small action over here in ...
Millie Jackson: Millie Jackson (Mojo Select 2918.005 £2.00)
Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 16 February 1973
'If This Is Love'; 'I Ain't Giving Up'; 'I Miss You Baby'; 'A Child Of God'; 'Ask Me What You Want'; 'My Man A Sweet Man'; ...
Millie Jackson: Sayin' What Comes Naturally
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 21 May 1974
IF THERE is truly any justice, 1974 will see the final emergence of the magnificent Mille Jackson right at the top of her field, where ...
"Ah'll meet ya tonite — after you're through with the wife." Two-timing with Millie Jackson
Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 15 February 1975
WHILE RADIO and club exposure sells a whole lot of records, it's easy to overlook the importance of word-of-mouth recommendation, which is the medium likely ...
Millie Jackson: Caught Up (Spring SPR 6703)
Review by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 10 April 1975
THIS REMARKABLE exposition of a lover's triangle told from the perspectives of wife and adulteress is the high point of Millie Jackson's career to date. ...
Millie Jackson: The Poor People's Queen
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 19 August 1975
STAND UP anyone who disagrees that Millie Jackson's Caught Up is the best deep soul album of all time... O.K., no takers, eh? Well, now ...
Millie Jackson: Still Caught Up
Review by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 25 September 1975
AND STILL GETTIN' it while the get-tin' is still good. Those who enjoyed Caught Up, Millie Jackson's last song cycle, won't be disappointed by this ...
Millie Jackson: Gettin' Her Piece
Interview by John Morthland, Black Music, November 1975
MILLIE JACKSON raps. That's what her fans come to see her for, she figures, and she'll rap about anything—though, nowadays, she raps most often about ...
Millie Jackson: Free And In Love
Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 12 June 1976
OOWEE, LORD HAVE mercy. This girl just turns me to jelly every time she opens her mouth. ...
Millie Jackson: Free And In Love (Spring/Polydor) ****
Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 10 July 1976
MILLIE JACKSON has purchased a slinky new catsuit for the sleeve of this album, suitable for a liberated courtesan. And she can afford it too, ...
Feminism Is, Uh, Like Skinning Cats...
Interview by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 4 June 1977
...or something like that, so it says here, in this double-date interview with Mss MINNIE RIPERTON and MILLIE JACKSON ...
Millie Jackson: Feelin' Bitchy
Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 29 October 1977
HEY, MILLIE? This is Vivien.I'm writing to you 'cos I dig the way you move onstage. I saw you foolin' round with that guy onstage ...
Millie Jackson: Stand up for the Queen
Interview by Robin Katz, Record Mirror, 14 January 1978
MILLIE JACKSON is eating away at my defences again. On her album Feelin' Bitchy Jackson is once more dealing with the cause and consequences of ...
Millie Jackson: In Tune With The People
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 17 January 1978
Soul's upfront lady makes sure she stays on target by taking time and trouble to talk to the people and staying in touch with what's ...
Millie Jackson: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 1 February 1978
ONE IS SO accustomed to the sexual boastfulness of male rock and soul singers that it comes as an instructive change to witness the same ...
Mille Jackson: The Primal Scream Therapist Of Soul
Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 4 February 1978
MILLIE JACKSON yanked me over to her side of the fence the first moment I heard her belting out some juicy slice of angst on ...
Millie Jackson: Another Day, Another Dollar
Report and Interview by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 11 February 1978
A COLLEAGUE FROM another paper and I were swopping reactions about Millie Jackson. He'd interviewed her in London; I'd caught up with her a couple ...
Millie Jackson rings the changes
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 18 July 1978
Millie's new album is far more uptempo than any album she's ever done. Ironically, the track that most people are picking up on is a ...
A few moments pleasure with Millie Jackson
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 22 May 1979
John Abbey talks to Millie about her new album, and her forthcoming set with Isaac Hayes... ...
Millie Jackson: Live And Uncensored
Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 12 January 1980
A COUPLE OF NIGHTS back I was re-discovering Millie Jackson's Caught Up/Still Caught Up albums and wallowing in the ecstasy of what arguably were the ...
Millie Jackson: For Men Only (Polydor 2391460)
Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 15 July 1980
'This Is Where I Came In'; 'This Is It'; 'If That Don't Turn You On'; 'I Wish That I Could Hurt That Way Again'; 'A ...
Millie Jackson - Rappin' with Millie J
Interview by Gary Sperrazza!, Black Music, September 1980
"So now ladies and gentlemen it is star time...ARE YOU READY FOR STAR TIME!!!...(yells, applause)...Thank you and thank you very kindly...It is indeed a great ...
Millie Jackson/Dynasty: Apollo Victoria, London
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 21 March 1981
MILLIE JACKSON was back at last, with the most uncompromising sex show I've ever seen. The Apollo tends to be a haven for flabby executives ...
Touring Talent Sacrifices Luxury For Livelihood
Report by Vernon Gibbs, Billboard, 5 June 1982
Revert To '60s Packaging ...
Millie Jackson, Bobby Bland: Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 1982
THE WAY Millie Jackson carries on in concert would make Bette Midler blush. Jackson, who sprang to prominence in the early '70s with a batch ...
Millie Jackson: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 13 November 1982
VOICE: robust and versatile, unique among name entertainers for its dynamic revitalisation of R&B and soul intonations of yesteryear. Humour: sardonic, self-deprecating, ego-crushing, uplifting; more ...
Millie Jackson: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Roger St. Pierre, Blues & Soul, 30 November 1982
GROIN-GRINDING, FOUL-MOUTHED, OUTRAGEOUSLY SENSUAL, Millie Jackson isn't exactly the kind of girl you would take home to meet Mum — but she sure is fun ...
Millie Jackson: E.S.P. (Extra Sexual Persuasion) (Spring)
Review by Vivien Goldman, New Musical Express, 4 February 1984
I RESPECT Millie Jackson the way I respect a hooker who succeeds in booting out her pimp and buys a computer to do the accounts ...
Millie Jackson: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People
Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 11 February 1984
WHAT'S HAPPENED to the great soul singers? ...
Millie Jackson: Dominion, London
Live Review by Mary Harron, The Guardian, 23 February 1984
MILLIE JACKSON has said publicly that she is bored with "talking trash," and with her image as soul's queen of sexual outrage. ...
Millie Jackson: Dominion, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 10 March 1984
WHY IS this woman not in the movies? ...
Millie Jackson: Caught Up /Still Caught Up
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 12 October 1985
MILLIE JACKSON is an astonishingly powerful and resourceful singer. It is easy to overlook her immense vocal skills particularly in the light of her current ...
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Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, BMG Books, 1987
NOTE: This piece is adapted from the 1987 book Say It One Time for the Brokenhearted, which was reissued in 2018 by BMG with the ...
Millie Jackson: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 21 April 1987
Dirty work: Adam Sweeting sees Millie Jackson strut her smut at Hammersmith Odeon ...
Interview by Bill Carpenter, Goldmine, 23 October 1998
MILLIE JACKSON'S name means a lot of things to a lot of different people. Pioneer or profiteer? ...
Interview by Lois Wilson, Record Collector, November 2004
Lois Wilson meets the queen of X-rated soul ...
Interview by Carl Wiser, Songfacts, May 2010
"LET WHITE FOLKS cross over to me..." An R&B star with a stunning voice, Millie Jackson was close to breaking into the mainstream like her ...
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