Roger McGuinn
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Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 4 May 1974
"JEEZ, I HOPE the sound guy is straight tonight." said Al. "The guy who did it last night didn't have a clue. Might wind up ...
Roger McGuinn: Byrds Man Waits His Turn Turn Turn
Interview by Debbie Kruger, The Courier Mail, 9 April 1998
HEROES AREN'T ALWAYS hard to find. Roger McGuinn, founding member of seminal '60s group The Byrds, seems to make a career these days of being ...
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Chris Hillman, Roger McGuinn and Gene Clark (1977)
Interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages Audio, 30 April 1977
The three former Byrds discuss the prospect of being onstage together after some years apart; the possibility of a new Byrds album, and their own new bands and albums: Roger McGuinn's Thunderbyrd, Chris Hillman's Slippin' Away, and Gene Clark's Two Sides to Every Story.
File format: mp3; file size: 8.2mb, interview length: 8' 31" sound quality: ****
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Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 18 August 1973
NOW THIS is a little more like it. Of course, it would be ludicrous to expect a sudden reconciliation with the original classic Byrds feel ...
Roger McGuinn: Spacemen in my garden
Interview by Barbara Charone, New Musical Express, 23 February 1974
ROGER McGUINN has been around a long time. Way before the Byrds, he was with the Chad Mitchell trio – superstars of the Peter, Paul ...
Roger McGuinn, Roy Harper, Julie Felix, Toots & the Maytals et al: Hyde Park, London
Live Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 7 September 1974
Peace and paranoia: The Metropolitan Police Force's Gala Weekend Outing at Hyde Park ...
Roger McGuinn: A Man's Gotta Do...What A Man's Gotta Do
Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 7 September 1974
NIK COHN seemed to have it pretty well summed up in his Byrds caption for Rock Dreams: "The Byrds weren't so much a band as ...
Roger McGuinn: The Post-Flight Is Finally Solo
Report and Interview by David Rensin, Rolling Stone, 5 December 1974
LOS ANGELES – A solitary figure in the Troubadour spotlight, Roger McGuinn swayed gently as he sang: "Hey Mr. D. do you want me to ...
Roger McGuinn and Country Rock: Older Than Yesterday
Retrospective and Interview by Michael Gray, Let It Rock, January 1975
IT'S FRIDAY 30TH AUGUST, in Birmingham England, and it's afternoon. Roger McGuinn is listening to a track off his second solo album, Peace On You. ...
Linda Ronstadt, Roger McGuinn: Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 7 February 1975
Linda returns as a superstar ...
Steven Stills, Roger McGuinn & Band Albums
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 28 August 1975
Roger McGuinn: Roger McGuinn & Band (Columbia)Stephen Stills: Stills (Columbia) ...
Roger McGuinn - Roger McGuinn and Band
Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 30 August 1975
IT'S BEEN A fair old while since anyone pointed the finger at Roger McGuinn and accused him of pumping out high energy rock and roll. ...
Roger McGuinn: Urban Spaceman Metamorphoses Into Plumber
Report and Interview by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 30 August 1975
ROGER McGUINN’S return to the Los Angeles Troubadour could be described as something of a minor triumph. With Steve Love, Richard Bowden, Greg Attaway and ...
Bob Dylan and Friends on the Bus: Like a Rolling Thunder
Report by Larry Sloman, Rolling Stone, 4 December 1975
NEW YORK — It was four o'clock on a brandy-soaked October Thursday morning in Greenwich Village as about 20 friends and assorted hangers-on gathered in ...
Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, Joni Mitchell: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 20 December 1975
Dylan's damp squib ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 19 June 1976
ABOUT EIGHT OR nine months ago I was preposterously drunk in the Bottom Line club in New York watching the Roger McGuinn Band. ...
Roger McGuinn: Bottom Line, New York City
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 25 September 1976
NEW YORK: Roger McGuinn is an institution in American rock music and, like all institutions, he seems to crop up at least once a year ...
Roger McGuinn: Bottom Line, New York City
Live Review by Miles, New Musical Express, 26 March 1977
A FLURRY of movement on a darkened stage then a sudden hit of déjà vu – that voice and the song and the long jangling ...
Interview by Al Aronowitz, The Blacklisted Masterpieces of Al Aronowitz, 1981
Roger McGuinn is explaining that he's found religion. He's now a Christian. Jesus is the only one in sight that he can believe in. He's ...
R.E.M. and Friends: Capitol Theater, Passaic, N.J.
Live Review by Jeff Tamarkin, Billboard, 30 June 1984
IT WAS A folk-rocker's fantasy: R.E.M. was videotaping a concert for MTV broadcast in July, for a new series called Influences. And so the IRS Records ...
Bob Dylan/Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers /Roger McGuinn: Modena Autodrome, Turin
Live Review by Len Brown, New Musical Express, 26 September 1987
ROCK HACKS aren't allowed near Bob. He's got no time for the press. In fact, someone who once met his grannie's dog-minder tells me Bob ...
Gloria Estefan: Into the Light (Epic 4677821); Roger McGuinn: Back From Rio (Arista 261 348)
Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 8 February 1991
Breezy blend with a Cuban flavour ...
Roger McGuinn: A Byrd Returns To The Nest
Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Happening, April 1991
WHEN IT comes to the legends of rock & roll, there aren't too many singer-songwriters who have had the impact on contemporary rock as Roger ...
Roger McGuinn: The Jingle Jangle Man
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, April 1991
Nothing defined the sound of The Byrds so much as the 12-string Rickenbacker guitar of their leader Jim McGuinn. As the years went by his ...
Roger McGuinn: Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, August 1997
A BLACK EXECUTIVE chair sits in the middle of an empty stage in a in a puddle of swirling, blobby, cod-psychedelic lights. It’s as if ...
Roger McGuinn: Born To Rock And Roll
Review by Tom Cox, Uncut, January 1998
The former Byrd's mid-Seventies solo years ...
Interview by Stephen K. Peeples, unpublished, 2 April 1999
AUTHOR'S NOTE, Oct. 11, 2014: The following is an expanded version of my Roger McGuinn interview, a shorter version of which was first published at ...
Roger McGuinn: Twelve-string Driven Thing
Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, September 2002
THE OPENING JINGLE-JANGLE 12-string Rickenbacker guitar line on The Byrds' 1965 classic, 'Mr Tambourine Man', ushered in a new era in popular music – the ...
Obituary by Ken Hunt, The Guardian, 26 November 2004
IN 1969, JACQUES Levy, who has died of cancer aged 69, became director of the erotic revue Oh! Calcutta!, off-Broadway. It was that show which ...
The Byrds' Sweetheart Of The Rodeo at 50
Retrospective and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, June 2018
MARKING THE 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking Sweetheart of the Rodeo, Byrds co-founders Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman have been performing the album in its ...
Happy Birthday This Month from Gary Pig Gold to Both Roger And Jim McGuinn
Comment by Gary Pig Gold, Segarini, July 2022
IT'S BECOMING increasingly obvious, with every passing year and with every passing trend, that the Byrds were just about the greatest rock'n'roll band America ever ...
see also Byrds, The
see also McGuinn, Clark & Hillman
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