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Nina Simone, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
Live Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 10 December 1977
YOU CAN'T keep tabs on everybody all the time. It wasn't until this concert was announced that I realised there hasn't been much heard from, ...
Nina Simone: To Love Somebody/Here Comes The Sun/Emergency Ward/Black Gold/It Is Finished
Review by Jim Irvin, MOJO, June 2002
EUNICE WAYMON never intended to be a pop singer. Her ambition was to be the first great black female classical pianist. She took up playing ...
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Miriam Makeba, Nina Simone: Carnegie Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 22 May 1961
TWO FOLK SINGERS PRESENT CONCERT ...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 10 July 1965
GROWN-UPS, it seems, squabble just as boringly over labels, like jazz and blues, as do the younger fry over rock 'n' roll and the genuine ...
Nina Simone: The Troubadour, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Ann Moses, Rhythm 'n' News, 22 October 1965
Nina Knocks Out With 'Pastel Blues' ...
Nina Simone: Pastel Blues (Philips BL 7683) ****
Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 22 January 1966
Nina goes back to blues on her new LP Pastel Blues ...
Nina Simone: Nina Simone Sings the Blues (RCA Victor RD7S33)
Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 23 September 1967
NINA SIMONE'S singing is very much an acquired taste, and I have to confess that it is not my favourite brand. I recognise, though, the ...
Nina Simone: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 14 March 1968
ONE OF Nina Simone's songs contains the line "He'll find her waiting like a lonesome queen." Though she is accompanied by a quartet and though ...
Interview by Dave Godin, Blues & Soul, July 1968
ONE IS always apprehensive about meeting artists for whom one has a great admiration or burning passion – I deliberately avoided meeting the one and ...
Profile by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 23 November 1968
NINA SIMONE provokes mixed reactions from the music critics of the world. Some hail her as a giant of the blues, while others, though grudgingly ...
The Fantasy World of Nina Simone
Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 21 December 1968
"YES, I'M happy that I've got a hit record. I'm happy because I like the song and because in the future I'll get some time ...
Nina Simone: 'Nuff Said (RCA Victor)
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 8 February 1969
PROOF TO SILENCE THE CYNICS ...
Nina Simone: Nina's The Medium For The Message
Interview by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 19 April 1969
NINA SIMONE, the artist, is the High Priestess of Soul, the blues singer and the jazz pianist. Nina Simone, the person, is compelling, formidable, and ...
Nina Simone: God Bless The Child
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, September 1969
NINA SIMONE was born Eunice Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina, the sixth of eight children. Her mother worked as a housekeeper and her father was ...
Nine Simone: Super Star For 1971
Report by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 22 January 1971
AS HAS been noted by her many fans and soul people generally, there has been a marked silence from the High Priestess of Soul for ...
Nina Simone: Carnegie Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 11 May 1971
Throng Welcomes Nina Simone, Back After Long Absence ...
Nina Simone: Carnegie Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Vicki Wickham, Melody Maker, 22 May 1971
Nina the leader ...
Nina Simone: Emergency Ward (SF 8304)
Review by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 20 January 1973
LOGGING A BIG pop hit sometimes does more harm than good to artists who previously had a rather specialist appeal. ...
Nina Simone: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Penny Valentine, Melody Maker, 22 September 1979
NINA SIMONE has never been a comfortable musician to see live. A powerful performer, she is formidably dedicated to her art. It's hardly surprising, then, ...
Nina Simone: Lady Trashes The Blues
Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 29 September 1979
Nina Simone's concerts are almost as nerve-racking as her turbulent personal life, which makes it easy to see her as a weird, tragic mixture of Billie Holiday and Judy Garland. KARL ...
Nina Simone: Ronnie Scott's, London
Live Review by Don Watson, New Musical Express, 28 January 1984
NINA SIMONE finishes another song, totters to the front of the stage and stands, fixing the audience with a gaze that's as intent as it ...
Nina Simone: Diary Of A Princess Noir
Interview by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 4 February 1984
GAVIN MARTIN DELVES IN BETWEEN THE SHEETS WITH NINA SIMONE – A SOULFUL PUSSYCAT WHO PRETENDS SHE'S AN ANGRY TIGRESS ...
Overview by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 12 January 1985
From the raw to the pure, from the sublime to the meticulous — BARNEY HOSKYNS sings the praises of 24 of music's most glorious voices. ...
Nina Simone: Ronnie Scott's, London
Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 6 May 1985
IT WAS A fair measure of Nina Simone's ability that, in, the bustling thoroughfare of Ronnie Scott's, she was able, to command close attention with ...
Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 14 November 1987
JAPANESE TOURISTS frantically snapping photographs of each other is a recurring scenario common to the lobbies of Europe's grandest hotels. Today is different. Stepping from ...
Nina Simone: Here Comes Trouble
Interview by Lloyd Bradley, Q, November 1991
"BE PUNCTUAL," they implored. "Be punctual, and everything should be all right." Ask about Nina Simone at her publisher's offices and you'll soon be appraised ...
Nina Simone: Diva Of The Dives
Interview by Lucy O'Brien, The Guardian, 20 November 1992
APPROACHING 60, Nina Simone, Princess Noir with the famed attitude, has got used to putting punters in their place. A one-time classical musician she should ...
Robert Wyatt: Invisible Jukebox
Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, December 1995
Every month we play a musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of what ...
Guide by Fred Dellar, MOJO, April 1998
IN SOME WAYS, things haven't changed overmuch since Eunice Waymon opted to change her name to Nina Simone so that her mother wouldn't find out ...
Interview by Precious Williams, The Big Issue, December 1998
NINA SIMONE is furious that there is no alcohol left in the house. It's not even 11 o'clock in the morning and yet the 65-year-old ...
Stocky And Wild-Eyed: Nina Simone at the Royal Festival Hall
Live Review by Lucy O'Brien, MOJO, September 1999
"EVERY GENERATION has to discover Nina Simone. She is evidence that female genius is real," says Germaine Greer, introducing tonight’s show, one of the highlights ...
Nina Simone: Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
Retrospective by James Maycock, The Independent, 10 November 1999
In the Sixties, Nina Simone's music radically espoused black civil rights. But by the turn of the decade she had rejected politics. Why? ...
Bishopstock 2001: Nina Simone and Van Morrison
Live Review by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, 1 September 2001
Two cantankerous legends hold court in the Devon sunshine ONE FESTIVAL, THREE DAYS, four major cancellations... and two obstreperous veterans doing their thang on Bank ...
Obituary by David Nathan, Rock's Backpages, April 2003
FOR PEOPLE THE world over, the passing of the great, legendary Dr. Nina Simone on April 20, 2003 will be met with much sadness. ...
Obituary by Phast Phreddie Patterson, Rock's Backpages, May 2003
Phast Phreddie Patterson on those gone but not forgotten ...
Nina Simone: Always Searching for a Key
Obituary by Ian Penman, The Wire, June 2003
The realisation that she was black in a country run by whites, a woman in a world run by men, turned Nina Simone into the ...
Gus Wildi's Bebopping Jazz Baby: Bethlehem Records
Retrospective by Fred Dellar, Rock's Backpages, March 2009
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1953. American TV companies were gearing up for the first programmes in colour, Playboy was cock-a-hoop about featuring Marilyn Monroe on the cover and ...
Retrospective by Jim Irvin, The Word, February 2011
WHEN RANDY NEWMAN'S Little Criminals was released late in 1977, ending a three-year drought for the irony tsar of Tin Pan Alley, critics queued up ...
Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, Wax Poetics, September 2011
"White people had Judy Garland. We had Nina." — Richard Pryor ...
Happy Birthday, Wild Child: Celebrating Nina Simone's 80th
Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, Philadelphia Weekly, 20 February 2013
A FEW YEARS before Nina Simone decided to become a singer, she was just another black girl from North Carolina living in Philadelphia with her ...
Nina Simone: "Are you ready to burn buildings?"
Retrospective by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 22 June 2015
From singing the soundtrack to the civil rights movement to living in self-imposed exile in Liberia, Nina Simone never chose the easy path. As a ...
Film/DVD/TV Review by Richard Williams, Uncut, November 2016
The often harrowing life and times of a musical and political force. ...
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