Wilson Pickett
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Interview by Michael Lydon, Rock's Backpages audio, May 1977
Michael Lydon meets wicked Wilson Pickett at home in Englewood, New Jersey, and asks him about his gospel roots, the Falcons, Atlantic Records, and recording in Memphis and Muscle Shoals.
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Wilson Pickett — Stones, Tom Jones Fan!
Interview by Tracy Thomas, New Musical Express, 1 October 1965
"I WAS SITTING on the front porch picking at my guitar and singing. This neighbour boy came up and asked me to play some more. ...
Wilson Pickett: Master of Beat and Soul
Interview by Kevin Swift, Beat Instrumental, January 1966
THE WILD sound of Wilson Pickett is still fairly new to our hit parade. 'Midnight Hour' and 'Don't Fight It' have put him in the ...
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. ...
Otis Redding & Wilson Pickett: For Soul Brothers — A Bumper Crop Of LPs
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 November 1966
FOR ALL discotheque darlings and soul brothers and sisters Atlantic in Britain have re-released a bumper crop of albums. ...
Report and Interview by Bill Harry, Record Mirror, 24 December 1966
FRANK FENTER is a tall, tanned, talkative South African who has a way of expression with his hands that would do credit to an Italian. ...
Official Sound Report: An Interview with Wilson Pickett
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, April 1967
AS WE WALKED into Wilson Pickett's dressing room at the Apollo in New York, two shady characters were in the process of selling a freshly ...
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, November 1967
WILSON PICKETT started his singing career in the spiritual field in the city of Detroit. He and his family moved there when Wilson was in ...
Singles from the Beach Boys, the Parliaments, Wilson Pickett et al
Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 18 November 1967
AMERICA AWAKES, INCORPORATING 'ROCK-SOUL-BLUES REVIEWS' BY NORMAN JOPLING ...
Soul LPs... including Wilson Pickett and James Brown
Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 17 February 1968
WILSON PICKETT: The Best Of Wilson Pickett 'In The Midnight Hour'; 'I Found A Love'; '634-5789'; 'If You Need Me'; 'Mustang Sally'; 'Don't Fight It'; ...
Wilson Pickett: "I'm tired — I ain't doing no TV"— but he does!
Report and Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 15 February 1969
Alan Smith welcomes to England an unhappy WILSON PICKETT ...
Wilson Pickett: Why Wilson dropped the "la-la-la" bit
Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 15 February 1969
WHEN WILSON Pickett landed at London's Heath Row airport two hours late last Thursday after flying from Rome, all he wanted to do was sleep. ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 22 February 1969
The Wicked Pickett's Diet ...
Wilson Pickett/Erma Franklin: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 27 September 1969
A Vote For Wilson (Pickett That Is!) ...
Jerry Wexler: Aretha, She's Just Unbelievable
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 22 January 1971
JERRY WEXLER is without doubt, one of the great producers who revolutionised Rhythm and Blues music in the 50's and 60's. ...
Wilson Pickett: In Philadelphia (Atlantic) and If You Need Me (Joy)
Review by Charlie Gillett, Cream, May 1971
IT SEEMS AS if Wilson Pickett's been the number two soul singer ever since the term was coined. Ray Charles, James Brown, Otis Redding, and ...
Wilson Pickett: Apollo Theatre, New York NY
Live Review by Vicki Wickham, Melody Maker, 22 May 1971
EX-TEMPTATIONS man, Eddie Kendricks, now solo, was due to open and debut his act at The Apollo but at the eleventh hour he cancelled out saying "the ...
Wilson Pickett, Jackie Moore: Copacabana, NYC
Live Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, March 1972
CAN YOU imagine seeing Wilson Pickett at the Talk of the Town in London, complete with middle-aged folks having a night out, coach parties from ...
Wilson Pickett: Don't Knock My Love (Atlantic)
Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 25 March 1972
SINCE THE mid '60s when Pickett came up with such goodies as 'Midnight Hour' and 'Mustang Sally' his voice has changed very little. And now ...
Wilson Pickett On African Soul
Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 13 May 1972
WILSON PICKETT is back — as big and brash as ever, and if his press reception this past week at WEA Records (nee Kinney) is ...
Buddy Miles: Big black hunk of funk
Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 3 June 1972
BUDDY MILES ON SANTANA, HENDRIX ...
Wilson Pickett: Join Me and Let's Be Free
Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 26 July 1975
FIRST OF ALL you have to picture the scene. There he stands, up to his elbows in stagnant water, a faraway look in his eyes, ...
Report and Interview by Michael Lydon, unpublished, 1977
"I’VE ALWAYS WANTED to be a star," said Wilson Pickett. He clapped his hands and fell back into a deck chair behind his house in ...
Wilson Pickett: Land Of A Thousand Libels
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 10 November 1979
IN GUY PEELAERT'S Rock Dreams tome of some six autumns back, one of the artist's strongest slices of visualized popular music imagery went under the ...
Still Wicked: Wilson Pickett's Raw Return
Report and Interview by Ted Drozdowski, The Boston Phoenix, 18 October 1999
THE HOWL is unmistakable. Raw as fresh meat, gritty and powerful as sandblasting. That's Wilson Pickett shouting thunder over the fatback grooves of a new ...
Wilson Pickett: Singer who revolutionised the sound of '60s Soul
Obituary by Dave Laing, The Guardian, 20 January 2006
IN 1964 Wilson Pickett, who has died of a heart attack aged 64, was signed by Atlantic Records of New York. It was an era ...
Gritty Soul Men: Remembering Lou Rawls and Wilson Pickett
Obituary by Mark Anthony Neal, PopMatters, 26 January 2006
Grit was not just about the "sound" of soul, but also the grittier social and political realities that soul music offered transcendence from. The recent ...
Wilson Pickett: Farewell, Wicked Messenger
Obituary by Andy Gill, The Word, March 2006
Wilson Pickett: you couldn't sing 'In The Midnight Hour' the way he did without a terrible temper and in this respect the man from Prattville, ...
Deep Soul: How Muscle Shoals became music's most unlikely hit factory
Retrospective and Interview by Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, October 2013
IN JANUARY 1967, a young singer named Aretha Franklin arrived in the small Alabama town of Muscle Shoals, her career hanging in the balance. ...
Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man: Wilson Pickett, the Midnight Mover
Book Excerpt by Tony Fletcher, Oxford University Press, January 2017
ON MAY 11, just a few days after Pickett's unexpected Apollo headline billing concluded, and with the surprise baby newly ensconced at home, he and ...
Tony Fletcher: In The Midnight Hour – The Life & Soul Of Wilson Pickett
Book Review by Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, February 2017
ABUSE RUNS in the family, or so they say. Those ill-treated as children go on to ill-treat as adults and it's near impossible to break ...
Tony Fletcher: In The Midnight Hour – The Life and Soul of Wilson Pickett
Book Review by Graeme Thomson, MOJO, April 2017
IN OCTOBER 1967, the month of Otis Redding's untimely death, Wilson Pickett was very possibly the biggest soul star on the planet. ...
Wilson Pickett: The 600 Dollar Man
Interview by Dan Nooger, Record Collector, April 2017
Wilson Pickett often cut a controversial figure; he was tough, brash and volatile. But he was also one of the great soul singers, and could ...
Tony Fletcher: In The Midnight Hour – The Life And Soul of Wilson Pickett (Oxford University Press)
Book Review by Tony Burke, Blues & Rhythm, December 2017
BACK IN THE mid-1960s, Wilson Pickett was one of my main men. A series of great singles waxed for Atlantic, including 'In The Midnight Hour', covers of ...
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