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Osmonds, The

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Nancy Sinatra, The Osmonds: Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas NV

Live Review by Ann Moses, New Musical Express, 22 August 1970

FRANK SINATRA played host to 500 members of the Press to celebrate the fourth anniversary of Caesar's Palace and his daughter Nancy's opening. ...

The Osmonds: Madison Square Garden, New York NY

Live Review by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 5 December 1971

Don't Knock Cradle Rock ...

The Osmonds: Forum, Inglewood CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 6 December 1971

BUSINESS AT the bar Saturday in the Inglewood Forum lobby isn't brisk. The odor of hot dogs fills the room. Daddy Whitebucks, Pat Boone himself, ...

The Osmonds: Phase Three (MGM)

Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, May 1972

IT CAME AS no surprise when FAVE Magazine recently handed out its best of the year awards. Left unresolved was the question of who really ...

The Osmonds: They're Enough To Make You Scream…

Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 27 May 1972

LAST FRIDAY at High Noon it was 'teen time' at London's Churchill Hotel, where those Beetle-haired Monkee-faced and indecently wholesome Osmond Brothers (You have probably ...

The Top of Pop: The Dolls Will Be Heard From

Column by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 3 September 1972

THREE HEROES. You pay your money and you take your choice. Which one is yours? ...

They're Here! Amen — it's the Osmonds

Interview by Val Mabbs, Record Mirror, 4 November 1972

VAL MABBS REPORTS FROM HEATHROW ...

The Osmonds: Ever Thought Of Stringing Jimmy Up On Stage?

Report by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 10 March 1973

HAVE YOU heard? Donny Osmond's in town – along with big brother Alan – and the secret weeny bopper jungle telegraph knows where he's going ...

The Osmonds: The Business Of Being An Osmond

Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 10 March 1973

EDD LEFFLER knows just how to take care of his boys. He knows all about double and triple entendres and how reporters sometimes like to ...

Golden Age Of The Osmonds

Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 17 March 1973

THE OSMONDS have been around for years and Alan has known success with earlier line-ups, but it is with Donny that the brothers have discovered ...

Donny Osmond: Sometimes I Just Can't Believe We're on Top!

Interview by Loraine Alterman, Family Weekly, 20 May 1973

"We finally decided to go with me as a solo. There's no jealousy in the family about the decision. If I sing a solo record, ...

The Osmonds: The Plan (MGM)

Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 7 July 1973

The Os come of age ...

Br-r-r-ring... Hi, this is Alan Osmond

Interview by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 4 August 1973

WIMP ROCK AND WEIRD CITY. IT'S THE OSMONDS GROWING UP. IAN MacDONALD REPORTS ...

The Osmonds: The Plan (Kolob/MGM SE-4902)

Review by Toby Mamis, Zoo World, 11 October 1973

YOU'D HAVE to be a hermit not to have heard the Osmonds, either a hermit or a pompous ass that only listens to "FM radio, ...

The Osmonds Fan Club

Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 13 October 1973

TONY STEWART meets a mother to 60,000 gymslips ...

The Osmonds: The View From Seat T39

Report by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 3 November 1973

He thought it would be good clean fun… Safe family entertainment. He was wrong. Now Charles Shaar Murray reveals the full horror of the night ...

The Osmonds: Our Man in Lost Wages

Report by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 17 August 1974

The man to the right of this announcement is ANDREW TYLER: He's a hippie. And he's on the loose in YOUR neighbourhood. Parents, protect your ...

The Osmonds: Mass Masochism In Belgravia — The Story of O

Report by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 7 June 1975

Young girls spend hours queuing in Eaton Square in the hope of catching a glimpse of the Osmond Brothers pop group. Some of them get ...

The Osmonds by Paul H. Dunn (W. H. Allen, £2.95)

Book Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 24 January 1976

Osmonds inside out ...

The Family Plan Of The Latter-Day Osmonds

Profile and Interview by Tom Nolan, Rolling Stone, 11 March 1976

The Wizards who Live in the Land of OsWorship their God and Obey the LawsWear Ice Cream Suits without Bulges or FlawsAnd Smile with the ...

In the busy world of Donny Osmond

Interview by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 2 November 1977

"YOU'RE GOING to phone Donny Osmond?" A couple of my jazzfan friends stared in disbelief. It was as if I had announced that Duke Ellington ...

The Osmonds: The Osmonds' Greatest Hits

Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 28 January 1978

I HAVE this theory that they're a totally separate (and probably hostile) species. They breed and multiply in hidden canyons of the American South West. ...

The Osmonds: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by David Hancock, Evening News, London, 26 January 1979

All good clean fun, but oh, for some emotion ...

The Osmond Family: Puppy Love

Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1983

"It was not until groups like the Osmond brothers appeared on the scene that the pop revolution really get underway," wrote Richard Robinson in his ...

Child Stars: We Blame The Parents!

Report by Martin Aston, Q, August 1994

Don't put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthington. Better still, burn that Opportunity Knocks application form. Today's child stars are tomorrow's drug addicts, depressives, ...

see also Donny Osmond

see also Little Jimmy Osmond

see also Marie Osmond

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