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The Move: The Best Of The Move
Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, May 1974
IF THER IS one band whose legendary attributes and entangled history need no longer be catalogued, that band is the Move. True, of all the ...
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How Far Out Can The Poppers Go?
Report by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 28 May 1966
NOW YOU'RE NEVER ALONE — WITH A SITAR ...
The Move: Marquee Club, London
Live Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 2 July 1966
A GROUP who don't pull their punches, the Move, from Birmingham, are a stark, loud, flashy, hard bunch whose music smashes you right in the ...
Sixth National Jazz and Blues Festival, Windsor: Jazz on a Summer's Weekend
Live Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 6 August 1966
A washout, but still swinging ...
Spencer Davis Group, the Move, Jimmy James, VIPS, the Herd, Wynder K. Frogg: Fairfield Hall, Croydon
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 29 October 1966
SEDATE Fairfield Hall, Croydon, blew up with a wild pop package show featuring the Move, Jimmy James, VIPS, the Herd and Spencer Davis on Friday ...
The Move: Marquee Club, London
Live Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 29 October 1966
PSYCHEDELIC sounds came to London in a new — and explosive — dimension, as the Move continued their Thursday night residency at the Marquee Club ...
Overview by Maureen O'Grady, Rave, November 1966
RAVE's Maureen O'Grady puts on parade some of the greatest and the latest singers of "soul". The sound the "in" crowd said would happen. ...
The Move: The Speakeasy, London
Live Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 24 December 1966
MIDST OF A smog of smoke bombs, smashed TV sets, smashed people, and the psychedelic decor — well, who would settle for anything else — ...
The Who, The Move, Pink Floyd: The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London
Live Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 7 January 1967
Psychedelicamania at Roundhouse ...
Who's Psychedelic Now? MM Inquiry by Chris Welch and Nick Jones
Interview by Nick Jones, Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 14 January 1967
SPOTLIGHT ON THE PINK FLOYD AND THE MOVE ...
Profile by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 4 February 1967
NICK JONES GETS BEHIND THE TV-SMASHING MOVE IMAGE ...
Beatle Blind Date: Paul McCartney reviews the new pop singles
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 25 February 1967
LEE DORSEY: 'Rain Rain Go Away' (Stateside) Lee Dorsey. It's in the same old vein and it'll be a hit. Sometimes I wonder if he ...
The Move: Cadillac Club, Brighton
Live Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 15 April 1967
A LOT OF people moan because they don't see a TV being axed into dust when they go to see the Move. There is a ...
Live Review by Keith Altham, Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 13 May 1967
POLL SHOW THRILLS ALL THE WAY ...
The Move, the Knack: U.F.O., London
Live Review by uncredited writer, International Times, 2 June 1967
THE MOVE played last week to the largest crowd U.F.O. has ever held and although judged by normal beat group standards they did a very ...
Interview by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 5 August 1967
THOSE ONE-time gangsters, Carl, Trevor, Chris, Bev and Roy are MOVE-ing in on us again, with a single due for release in a week or ...
The Move Don't Care About Top Billing
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 14 October 1967
THANK goodness for Carl Wayne of the Move! It is a long time since I have found anyone new to the scene so pleasant, co-operative ...
Jimi Hendrix, The Move, Amen Corner, The Nice, Eire Apparent, Pink Floyd: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 25 November 1967
HUBBLE, BUBBLE, toil and trouble, and wowee Jimi Hendrix! The Hendrix-Move tour thundered off on its trip round Britain with a deafening start at London's ...
The Move: Disgusting, That's Our Stage Act
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 17 February 1968
"IS OUR stage act sexy? It's disgusting! There's no doubt about it, it's vulgar and obscene, and if I was a father I wouldn't let ...
The Move: Five Really Nice Guys
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 9 March 1968
Despite what you may think, the Move are really five nice guys – or so they say... ...
New Albums From Roy Orbison, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane et al
Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 6 April 1968
Some interesting LP's — a new and an old Orbison, powerful Move, brilliant Byrds, but a let-down from Jefferson Airplane, and an unexpected goodie by ...
Ace Kefford Splits With The Move
Interview by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 27 April 1968
THERE WERE rumours flying thick and fast: "Ace Kefford has left the Move", "the Move have left Ace Kefford", "Bristow is Superman", and "Ace Kefford ...
Move's Ace Kefford: If I Hadn't Left
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 27 April 1968
ONE OF THE older clichés in pop, exercised whenever a star cracks up, is "it was too much, too soon." ...
Peter Townshend of the Who Talks! We Listen!
Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, June 1968
"I mean, everyone seems to be arguing who invented feedback. I mean, I did — without a doubt." The whole truth on feedback, Eric Clapton, ...
Interview by Maureen O'Grady, Rave, July 1968
Who's afraid of the big, bad MOVE! RAVE braved the wild men of pop on their own ground and came up with this report. ...
The Byrds, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, The Move, Joe Cocker: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 13 July 1968
Bonzo's brilliance steals the show ...
The Move: New Moves and Good Vibrations
Interview by Dawn James, Rave, October 1968
Where has all the fury gone?... the answer is it's never been there, says Dawn James, after talking to pop's controversial group, the MOVE. ...
The Move, English Rock Group, Plays At Whisky
Live Review by John Mendelsohn, Los Angeles Times, 1969
THE FACT THAT England’s The Move, completing an abbreviated booking Sunday night at the Whisky, is unknown to all but the most devoted of anglophile ...
The Move, Gypsy: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 11 October 1969
The Move, English Rock Group, Plays at Whisky ...
The Move: 'Curly' (A&M); Thunderclap Newman: 'Something in the Air' (Track)
Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 18 October 1969
MY FELLOW devotees of what is frequently referred to as rock and roll's English sound should, on finishing this sentence, rush out willy-nilly in excited ...
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, Fall 1969
THE MOVE are a sometimes thing. In the past three years the group have given us precisely one album and seven singles which can hardly ...
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 ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, December 1970
ON ONE OF HIS rare visits to the Metropolis, Move's Roy Wood consented to have a quick chat with B.I. ...
The Move: Looking On (Fly, FLY 1; 39s 11d)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 19 December 1970
MOVE PACK IN SEVEN ROCKERS FOR FLY DEBUT ...
The Move: Looking On/Message From the Country
Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 14 October 1971
WHEN LAST we glimpsed The Move in these pages they had recently completed what was without the slightest glimmer of doubt the finest English rock ...
The Move: Everything You've Always Wanted to Know!
Profile by John Mendelsohn, Phonograph Record, December 1971
What Is The Move? The Move are one of the four or five most magnificent rock and roll bands in England, and therefore in the ...
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 10 June 1972
THE FIRST love in Roy Wood's life is obviously his new 10-piece mini-orchestra, the ELO, but meanwhile the Move are apparently still alive and very ...
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, May 1973
When the Move were smashing helicopters and burning telephone booths onstage, my heart was thumping to the beat of 'I Can Hear the Grass Grow', ...
Overview by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 26 January 1974
"Liverpool today – Birmingham tomorrow. That's the forecast for the beat business in rock music. Yes, the Brum Beat is all set to take over ...
Interview by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 9 March 1974
He's been called the Al Capone of pop, and the reputation's, shall we say, a little heavy. A nervous Robert Partridge talks to Don Arden... ...
Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 23 May 1974
NOBEL PRIZE Winner Konrad Lorenz, in his book Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins, alludes to modern man's downfall stemming from several factors: Genetic Decay, Overpopulation, ...
Move, Wizzard, ELO Play Musical Chairs
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 September 1974
THE TASK is somehow to connect and make a little sense of this odd assortment of data: A once musically booming English industrial city, home ...
The Move: California Man; Electric Light Orchestra: Showdown; Wizzard: See My Baby Jive
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 14 December 1974
IN WHICH it begins to look disturbingly like influences are dangerous toys indeed. ...
Displaying His Favors Once More: Roy Wood's Mustard
Review by Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, December 1975
WHEN OLIVER Ulyses Adrian ('Roy') Wood joined the ranks of Birmingham's professional musicians back in 1964, few observers could have guessed that he would evolve ...
Profile and Interview by Martin Aston, Q, April 1992
'NIGHT OF FEAR', 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow', 'Flowers In The Rain', 'Fire Brigade' — The Move were Birmingham's beat-group and psychedelic sensation with ...
Review by Miles, MOJO, May 1995
THE MOVE CAME from Birmingham but got their start at the Marquee in 1966. The band – Roy Wood (guitar/vocals), Bev Bevan (drums/vocals), Carl Wayne ...
Review and Interview by Rob Chapman, MOJO, December 1997
TO ANYONE who never saw Tony Secunda's little scam-mongerers in their psychpop pomp, the clip of The Move that turned up on VH1's Beat Beat ...
Hello Goodbye: Ace Kefford and the Move
Interview by Mark Paytress, MOJO, February 2004
Hello: October 1965 ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, MOJO, February 2004
In less than one year, London's UFO (pronounced "you-foe") club became the nocturnal haunt of the '60s counterculture, gathering place for the Beatles, Stones and ...
Review by Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, 23 October 2008
IT'S A MYSTERY how the Move have missed out on the fame and reputation enjoyed by contemporaries such as the Kinks, the Who and the ...
The Move at the Fillmore West, October 1969
Retrospective by Archie Patterson, Rock's Backpages, April 2009
THE PAST COUPLE years have been like heaven for those in the Move musical fandom community. Rob Caiger of Face the Music spent years searching ...
Killer Riffs: A Guide to Parody in Popular Music
Essay by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 19 October 2016
From the Residents' freakish Beatles sendups, to Spinal Tap's meta-metal escapades, to the gastronomic goofs of "Weird Al", a chronicle of those who have turned ...
see also Electric Light Orchestra
see also Jeff Lynne
see also Wizzard
see also Roy Wood
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