Detroit Free Press
The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, and is under the same ownership as The Detroit News.
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Petula Clark: A Lady In Show Business — Petula Clark
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 1965
The Girl Who Sings 'Downtown' ...
The Rolling Stones: The Girls Waited 8 Hours, Finally Met the Stones!
Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 3 December 1965
NOBODY'S GOING to get Valerie Stewart, 14, or Patricia Curtis, 13, off their clouds. The guys who put them up on cloud 9 are the ...
The Byrds: Those Byrds Flew In For a Gig — You Dig?
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 10 December 1965
THE BYRDS was here. Between an appearance in Saginaw Monday and one in Cleveland Wednesday, the California-based singers dashed into Detroit to tape numbers for ...
Joan Baez: A Lady in Show Business — Joan Baez
Interview by Maureen Cleave, Detroit Free Press, 12 December 1965
THERE WERE many things about Joan Baez, the folk singer, to give the impression that she was — if not slightly holier than most people ...
The Dave Clark Five: Let's Be 'Glad All Over' With the Dave Clark Five
Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 17 December 1965
AT LEAST 150 high school journalists were "glad all over" last Friday night. WKNR invited them to question the Dave Clark Five at a press ...
Simon & Garfunkel: Both the Hair and Names Are Real
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 4 February 1966
WHEN I FIRST heard the names Simon and Garfunkel, I laughed. Those names sounded too funny to be real. But they are. ...
Our Nancy's Life Abroad — with Those British Pop Stars
Profile and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 13 February 1966
The telegram came from Interpop. It read "ARRIVING IN DETROIT FROM LONDON ON PANAM FLIGHT 57 TUESDAY 3:20 PM IS YOUNG LADY OF POSSIBLE INTEREST ...
Sonny & Cher: A Local Boy Makes Good: Sonny (of Sonny and Cher)
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 18 February 1966
WHEN SONNY and Cher come to Detroit for their performance at the Masonic Auditorium Sunday, Sonny will be returning to his hometown. ...
Profile and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 29 April 1966
THE PAUL Butterfield Blues Band is tearing audiences apart at The Living End with some of the grooviest sounds I've ever heard. The club is ...
The Lovin' Spoonful: Lovin' Spoonful: Simply Wild
Profile and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 13 May 1966
WHAT ARE John Sebastian, Zal Yanovsky, Joe Butler and Steve Boone? A barbershop quartet? Not with their long hair. They're The Lovin' Spoonful, who are ...
Edwin Starr: A Record Is Made — with Sweat and Soul
Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 20 May 1966
EMOTION FILLED the control room at Golden World Records out on West Davison. Driving, big beat sounds were coming through the four speakers hanging on ...
Profile and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 27 May 1966
GENE PITNEY came to town last Sunday night with some of the hottest recording stars in the business to put on a show at Ford ...
Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs: Sam Is Just a Sham With Earring and Beard
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 1966
YOU SEE a guy with a thick beard, long curly hair, a gold earring on his right ear, and a poet-sleeved bandanna print shirt and ...
MC5: All-Night Graduation Party
Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 1966
DO THE graduating seniors at Lincoln Park High spend graduation night carousing at wild private parties? Not since 1964, when a group of parents under ...
Profile by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 1966
THOSE BLUES sounds spilling off the stage at the Club Gay Haven currently come from that 'Secret Agent Man' himself, Johnny Rivers. ...
The Rolling Stones: Stones Really Nice Guys
Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 1966
They Just Hate Stupidity ...
Frank Zappa, The Mothers Of Invention: The Mothers of Invention: If You Get A Headache…
Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 1966
MOTHERS AND fathers, you thought the Beatles were bad. You got up in arms about the Rolling Stones. Sonny and Cher made you cringe. Well, ...
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels: A Rocket on the Road to Fame: Mitch and His Four Wheels
Profile and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 7 August 1966
THE MONSTER eight-door white Pontiac, looking more like an ambulance than a limousine for stars, stopped in places like Arnold's Park, Iowa; Freemont, Neb.; Sioux ...
The Beatles: Four Smiling, Tired Guys Talk About Their Music
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 19 August 1966
THEY'RE REAL. The Beatles, that is. I had never seen them in the flesh before, so I expected some kind of supermen to step out ...
The Yardbirds: Yardbirds Are Alive; They Click; They Have Fun
Profile and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 22 August 1966
MENTION THE Yardbirds to a musician and he'll give them mountains of praise. Listen to a Yardbirds' album like the current one Over, Under, Sideways, ...
Dionne Warwick And How They Discovered Her
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 3 September 1966
GIRL SINGER AT THE TOP ...
The Rationals: 'Respect' Makes a Hit for Ann Arbor Quartet
Profile and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 9 September 1966
PUT TOGETHER an Otis Redding tune, 'Respect', and four talented guys from Ann Arbor called The Rationals and you've got a big hit record. So ...
Bob Seger & the Last Heard: Coming Up — 'Persecution Smith'
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 30 September 1966
WHAT'S 'EAST Side Story' about? Ask Bob Seger, 21, from Ann Arbor — he's the guy who wrote it and sings it. ...
Lou Christie: The Sound Is Lou's — It's a Hit
Profile and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 30 September 1966
DOES LUGEE Gino Sarco make hit records? You bet — that's the real name of Lou Christie, who popped into Detroit recently. ...
Janis Ian, Jimmy Ruffin, The Supremes: Who Else but the Supremes Would Pedal a Rickshaw?
Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 30 September 1966
IMAGINE DIANA Ross, Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard in Taipei, pedalling rickshaws and letting the regular drivers ride in the seat. Picture Mary falling off ...
The Four Seasons: Celebrities In Detroit: The Four Seasons
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 9 October 1966
THE FOUR Seasons — Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tom DeVito, Joe Long — don't have long hair. (Frankie: "We won't grow our hair over our ...
Lorraine Ellison: Big Sound With Soul
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 14 October 1966
NO ONE IS happier that Frank Sinatra married Mia Farrow than Lorraine Ellison. Lorraine's current single, 'Stay With Me', has its big, big sound because ...
Smokey Robinson, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: The Other Smokey Robinson — Songwriter
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 14 October 1966
BACK IN 1957 Bill "Smokey" Robinson, then 17, bumped into Berry Gordy Jr. Smokey had a stack of about 100 songs he had written, and ...
That Queen of "Soul" Martha Jean
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 23 October 1966
LORAINE ALTERMAN'S DJ OF THE WEEK ...
Joni Mitchell, Tom Rush: Tom Rush Tells Why He's Now Electrified!
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 11 November 1966
ONCE UPON a time folk singers looked at electric guitars and top 40 radio in horror. Then several years back the big hero of the ...
Terry Knight & the Pack: Flint's Terry Knight and His Pack: "There's More There Than Hair"
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 13 November 1966
PRESENTING Terry Knight — long hair worn Prince Valiant style, mod clothes, no tie, much less a tie-tack. Immediately, 99 per cent of the adult ...
The Youngbloods: Story of Grizzly Bear
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 18 November 1966
TOO OFTEN I'm turned off by new groups on promotion tours to get their first single played. Many times they let the fact that a ...
Bobby Hebb, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, The Yardbirds: Sam, Yardbirds, Cousins — Great Mixture
Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 25 November 1966
WHERE COULD you see more long hair, pant suits, miniskirts, and Beatle caps per square foot than any place else in Detroit last weekend? Where ...
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 23 December 1966
TAKING TIME off from rehearsing for Friday's big Motown Revue at the Fox Theatre, Jimmy Ruffin stopped by to say hello the other day. Jimmy ...
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels: Mitch Ryder Quits Wheels To Start Brand New Show
Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 30 December 1966
WATCH OUT, world, here comes the brand new Mitch Ryder Show. Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels are no more. Instead Mitch will be socking ...
Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 1 January 1967
Face to Face With the Kinks' Pop Satire ...
James Cotton: Blues Is Big At Chess Mate
Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 6 January 1967
Loraine Alterman looks forward to a Detroit appearance by bluesman James Cotton. ...
The Four Tops, The Who: Nancy and The Who Making It Big
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 6 January 1967
AT THE RIPE old age of 23, Nancy Lewis isn't exactly a teenager. But Detroiter Nancy is swimming right in the middle of all the ...
The Monkees: Olympia Stadium, Detroit MI
Live Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 15 January 1967
Monkees Swing into City And Put Teens in Frenzy ...
The Monkees: Monkees a Target on Stage — 'Please Don't Throw Things'
Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 20 January 1967
SCREAMING. Jumping up on seats. Flashbulbs popping and then whizzing by onto the stage. Sobbing and hysteria. Police dragging kicking, clawing insanely crying girls out. ...
The Monkees: Their Buddy Tells You About the Real Monkees
Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 20 January 1967
FOG DELAYED the plane carrying Mike Nesmith, Peter Tork, Davey Jones and Micky Dolenz to Detroit last Saturday. So the Monkees arrived only an hour ...
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels: Mitch Ryder: University of Detroit
Live Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 27 January 1967
It's All Mitch Ryder — Straight to the Top ...
Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 29 January 1967
THE TREMENDOUSLY talented West Coast group called Love still hasn't made it into the bright spotlight of fame like the Beach Boys or the Lovin' ...
The Beach Boys: How Beach Boys Took England
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 10 February 1967
I TALKED ON the phone with Mike Love of the Beach Boys last week. Mike was in Los Angeles getting ready for the group's upcoming ...
Donna Lynn, MC5, The Outsiders: The MC-5: 'More Like One Big Musician'
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 17 February 1967
SOME PEOPLE call it psychedelic. The MC-5 call it the "new music". They should know, for they are the leading exponents of the far-out sounds ...
The Beach Boys, Keith, the Electric Prunes, the Left Banke: Masonic Auditorium, Detroit MI
Live Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 21 February 1967
Played to Packed House — The Beach Boys Concert: It Was a Crowd-Pleaser ...
Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 26 February 1967
MELLOW YELLOW The Provocative Donovan ...
The Four Tops: Drop the Tops in Britain — And the Crowds Go Wild
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 3 March 1967
WHAT DO you get when you mix the Motor City's Four Tops with the British public? A whole lot of love flowing both ways. ...
Sopwith Camel: Frisco's Sopwith Camel — Watch That 'Big Toe'
Profile by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 10 March 1967
OUT OF SAN Francisco — where weirdly named groups like Lothar and the Hand People and The Grateful Dead are happening — comes a delightfully ...
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 17 March 1967
I CAUGHT UP with Stevie Wonder who's constantly on the run performing all over the country. A private tutor travels with him so Stevie keeps ...
Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 24 March 1967
BRENDA LEE, who at age 22 has been in show business for a dozen years, is in town at the Roostertail where there'll be a ...
The Dave Clark Five: Why the Dave Clark Five is So Great
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 24 March 1967
TED LUCAS of the Spike Drivers once said, "In a pop world publicity becomes real." The Dave Clark Five's publicity releases represent them as one ...
Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 26 March 1967
Janis Ian: She's Hip at 15 ...
Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 23 April 1967
TO REACH Mecca in pop music means finding your own sound. Very few make it. Most groups fall down somewhere along the way. ...
Nancy Sinatra: The Girl Beneath the Brassy Image
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 25 April 1967
'WHAT IF DAD HAD BEEN A DOCTOR?' ...
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich: Dave Dee Raps U.S. Censors
Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 12 May 1967
I ALMOST WISH England's Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich hadn't changed their names a couple of years ago from Dave Dee and The ...
MC5: Our Hippies — What They Say and Do
Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 19 May 1967
IN SAN Francisco a sight-seeing bus runs tours into the Haight-Ashbury district billing it as "the only foreign tour within the continental limits of the ...
Sam & Dave: We Started Bugaloo — Curtain Came Down
Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 19 May 1967
SUPER EXCITEMENT on stage. That's what Sam and Dave generate. In fact the two work so hard that by the end of a set their ...
James Brown: Cobo Arena, Detroit MI
Live Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 23 May 1967
Brown Had The Crowds In His Hand ...
Elvis Presley: Easy Come, Easy Go (Dir. John Rich, Paramount Pictures)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 26 May 1967
Nothing But Plenty Of Elvis ...
Hippy Ideas That Shock Parents
Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 26 May 1967
LAST WEEK on this page I reported on the teen-age hippies in the Detroit area, on where they hung out, what they looked like, and ...
Chuck Jackson: What It's Like When Chuck Jackson Records
Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 26 May 1967
WATCHING CHUCK Jackson record is a gas! He's so creative and professional that he can listen once or twice to the band track and then ...
Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 1967
The Doors: A Fascinating New West Coast Sound ...
Lou Rawls: Suddenly in the Big Time: Lou Rawls' Exciting Year
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 30 May 1967
ASK LOU Rawls, who performed to a full house at Masonic Auditorium Sunday night, to tell you the most exciting point in his career and ...
MC5: 'Aid, Comfort For Parents Of Hippies'
Readers' Letters by uncredited writer, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 1967
In response to the story on the parents of hippies which appeared in the Free Press Women's Section last Sunday, and the two stories about ...
The Who: Who? It's The Who, That's Who
Profile and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 16 June 1967
FIRST OUT the door of customs at Metro Airport Tuesday was a blond fellow in a paisley, mandarin-collared coat. A few moments later a shorter, ...
Sonny & Cher: Good Times (Dir. William Friedkin, Columbia Pictures)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 1967
Sonny and Cher's Film: Great Fun ...
Bob Seger: Detroit's Bob Seger and Heavy Music
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 1967
CALIFORNIA MAY be giving the world flower music, but Detroit's Bob Seger has created heavy music which promises to spark a lot of national excitement. ...
Live Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 1967
The Jefferson Airplane, Soaring on Pop Power ...
Jefferson Airplane, The Rolling Stones, The Who: The Jefferson Airplane Here
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 7 July 1967
"WE JUST played and let the music take us instead of us taking the music," said Marty Balin, lead singer of the Jefferson Airplane, talking ...
Janis Ian: 'Society's Child', And Why the Ban Is Being Lifted
Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 1967
"Walk me down to school, baby Everybody's acting deaf and blind Until they turn and say 'Why don't you stick to your own ...
The Bee Gees in Detroit: "We're Planning a U.S. Tour"
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 21 July 1967
THEY'RE BUGGED BY THE DRUG SCENE ...
The Rationals: One of Detroit's Real 'In' Groups
Profile and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 21 July 1967
WHO DOES Mitch Ryder demand back him up when he does a special appearance in Detroit without his band? Who stole the show at the ...
The Supremes: Supremes' Flo Ballard: It's Said She's Leaving
Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 1 August 1967
FLORENCE BALLARD of Diana Ross and The Supremes has temporarily asked to be withdrawn from the group, according to a spokesman for Motown Records. ...
Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 4 August 1967
TO US LULU is the name of a comic strip character, but to the British Lulu is the name of an adorable 18-year-old pop singer. ...
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 6 August 1967
IN 1946 AT Dwyer Elementary School in Detroit, a six-year-old first-grader, wearing a pasted-on beard and white high-top shoes, played Uncle Remus in a school ...
Trini Lopez: "Made Up My Mind To Be a Success"
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 6 August 1967
THE SUN BEAT down on the poolside terrace at the Ponchartrain. Across the street on the marquee of Cobo Hall you could see the announcement ...
The Monkees: Olympia Stadium, Detroit MI
Live Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 14 August 1967
12,000 SHRIEKERS Monkees' Show is a Happening ...
Van Morrison: Singer Van Morrison's Mind-Blowing Music Style
Profile and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 25 August 1967
VAN MORRISON, whose 'Brown-Eyed Girl' is a top ten record in town, isn't the easiest person to talk to. He prefers communicating through his music ...
Jimi Hendrix: The Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Frantic — Yet Somehow Casual"
Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 28 August 1967
NO EXAGGERATION: The Jimi Hendrix Experience is the most exciting act I have yet seen in pop music. ...
The Supremes: Roostertail, Detroit
Live Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 30 August 1967
Cindy Birdsong, the New Supreme: A Detroit Debut ...
Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 3 September 1967
Vanilla Fudge: Exciting Album ...
Carla Thomas: A Lady in Show Business: Carla Thomas, the New Blues Queen
Profile and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 10 September 1967
SHE'S AN authority on 18th Century drama, a favorite among the GIs in Vietnam and has one of the most caressing voices on records. She's ...
The Merry-Go-Round: Merry-Go-Round: The "Older" Group
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 29 September 1967
THEY'VE NEVER played 'Louie Louie' or 'Twist 'n' Shout' in public and are proud of it. Instead they play their own material — which is ...
Cream, Donovan: Cream/Donovan: The Cream Set Records in Detroit
Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, October 1967
LAST WEEKEND about 4,500 kids proved that Detroit knows good contemporary music. ...
Donovan, Hearts & Flowers, Jefferson Airplane, Mother Earth: The West Coast And Hippieland
Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 6 October 1967
BACK FROM two weeks in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Back to Detroit where the man on the street still gets uptight seeing long-haired, bearded ...
Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 8 October 1967
TWO EXCELLENT new albums show how far the best contemporary song-writing and record making has come from the June-moon-spoon days. One is Of Cabbages and ...
Cream, Donovan, Janis Ian: Cream: Grande Ballroom; Donovan, Janis Ian: Masonic Auditorium, Detroit
Live Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 17 October 1967
Reviews of Detroit's Big Pop Weekend ...
Carla Thomas: Touring Germany With Carla Thomas
Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 3 November 1967
HAMBURG, W. Germany — Hot bright lights. Cameras dollying around. Makeup ladies running to dab powder on the performer's shiny nose. Directors, assistant directors, light ...
Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 5 November 1967
THE DOORS, with Jim Morrison singing lead in his urgent, compelling voice, lead you into the strange world of their music after the freaky album ...
Bobby Darin: Hate to Ruin His Image, but He's Nice
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 13 November 1967
I REALLY hate to ruin anyone's reputation, but Bobby Darin just doesn't live up to his: During his years in show business, Bobby has often ...
Charles Aznavour: 'Life Is A Very Great Gamble'
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 14 November 1967
THE KNOWLEDGE THAT LOVE DIES ...
Charles Aznavour, Donovan: Donovan: "I Don't Need Drugs for Strength"
Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 17 November 1967
PROPOSES BANNING ALL FALSE-GOD TRIPS ...
Strawberry Alarm Clock: 'Kids Think Funny Things
Profile and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 17 November 1967
'INCENSE AND Peppermints' conjures up pleasant visions to us all, but for the Strawberry Alarm Clock the visions spell success. ...
Report by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 16 August 1968
THINGS JUST WONT BE THE SAME ...
Vanilla Fudge: Taking Apart the 'Fudge': Can They Survive Now?
Profile by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 4 October 1968
THEIR PRESS release says, "The Vanilla Fudge is a group unlike any other." They proved this with their rendition of 'You Keep Me Hanging On'. ...
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap: Thoughts of the Union Gap
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 13 December 1968
WILL THEIR FANS LEAVE THEM? ...
Buffalo Springfield, Neil Young: Neil Young: On His Own In His Own Special Way
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 28 February 1969
NEIL YOUNG is into doing things his own way. ...
Mack Rice Hopes For a Comeback
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 14 March 1969
"'MUSTANG SALLY' has definitely been good to me, but you can't live off one big record. You need a string of 'Sally's' to be able ...
The Association: Wayne State University, Detroit
Live Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 24 March 1969
The Association Concert — A Display of Fine Talent ...
Leonard Cohen: Bad Boy Leonard Cohen Now Turned Good
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Detroit Free Press, 4 April 1969
THEY USED to describe Leonard Cohen as disrespectful. They also accused him of being controversial, outrageous, bitter and even an egomaniac. They, of course, being ...
Live Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 12 May 1969
Joplin Revue: Music, Yes; Excitement, No ...
Joe Cocker: On Stage Joe's Strong Otherwise He's Groggy
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 16 May 1969
JOE COCKER isn't the best known name in the land. In fact when it was announced he was coming to town everybody asked, "Who's Joe ...
Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 6 June 1969
NEIL YOUNG has allowed his full creative ability loose and hasn't ignored any type of music he's acquainted with in putting this album together. ...
Arif Mardin, The Mar-Keys: Arif Mardin: Glass Onion (Atlantic); The Mar-Keys: Damifiknow (Stax)
Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 4 July 1969
GLASS ONION — Arif Mardin. You may not be acquainted with Arif Mardin. For a quick run down, he's from Turkey, got deep into jazz ...
Johnny Winter: He Waited, Worked and Worried; Then Overnight, Winter Was Here
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 1969
HE'S A TALL, white Texan who not only plays the blues, he lives them. ...
Grand Funk Railroad Arrive in Detroit for First Visit
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 1969
THE STIGMA "local group" has been slapped on many bands and as a result several great groups have found themselves confined to their home territory. ...
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Savage Grace: Olympia Stadium, Detroit MI
Live Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 29 July 1969
A RATHER eventful weekend just passed as Jeff Berk's group played their last performance together Saturday night at the Grande. It's reported Beck and the ...
Blind Faith, Delaney & Bonnie, the Frost, Taste: Olympia Stadium, Detroit
Live Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 5 August 1969
In Detroit Debut at Olympia, Pop Pantheon's Blind Faith is 'Nothing Really Special' ...
Delaney & Bonnie: Delaney and Bonnie Sing a Simple Song
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 15 August 1969
THEY'RE POLITE but friendly, quiet but demonstrative, artistic but businesslike, talented — but talented. ...
Live Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 29 August 1969
B.B. IS the Blues King At Meadow Brook ...
Little Richard: "He's Forgotten Me" — Little Richard Raps James Brown
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 2 September 1969
LITTLE RICHARD is coming to Detroit along with Jerry Lee Lewis. They'll be at Cobo Hall Sept. 6. ...
The Stooges: The Very New "Iggy" Approach To Rock Music
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 21 September 1969
"On Saturday, Iggy appeared onstage wearing only sneakers and dungarees cut down to shorts. Iggy, who was a high school valedictorian back home, seeks to ...
The Beatles: George Harrison Talks About The Beatles' Album, Abbey Road
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Detroit Free Press, 26 September 1969
LONDON — Abbey Road is a short street in North London with only one distinctive feature — it houses the studios of E.M.I., the world's ...
The Beatles: Abbey Road (Apple)
Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 30 September 1969
THE FIRST Beatle album since just before Christmas, 1968, is being played all over the place. The album, Abbey Road, evidently will precede another LP around ...
Kim Fowley, The Hollywood Argyles: Kim Fowley
Profile by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 14 October 1969
EVER HEAR OF a guy named Kim Fowley? Fowley was the MC at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival, which was a good job for ...
The Beatles, Paul McCartney: Are We Burying McCartney Before He Is Dead?
Report by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 17 October 1969
What's the Meaning of Beatle Death Symbolism? ...
The Beatles: Christmas Release for Get Back — Album Won't Set the World on Fire
Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 17 October 1969
THE BEATLES' next album, Get Back, actually recorded before their recent album Abbey Road, probably won't set the scene on fire. It's better than Abbey ...
Report by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 21 October 1969
THE UP, A group we'll all be hearing a lot about in the near future, will get in the recording studios Oct. 24, 25, 26 ...
Lonnie Mack: Mack the 'Memphis' Man Returns: 'I'm Glad I'm in the Band'
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 24 October 1969
THE SONG 'Memphis', made Johnny Rivers a big star. Remember? He recorded it live at the Whiskey A Go Go, making the club famous throughout ...
The Beatles, The Chambers Brothers: The Chambers Brothers: 'They Put Us Up for Sale; People Bought'
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 31 October 1969
THE CHAMBERS Brothers, who are Willie, George, Joe and Lester Chambers plus Brian Keenan, were dressed in the usual cool clothes they've been noted for ...
Dennis Coffey: Guitarist Dennis Coffey: "No Room for Temperament in Music"
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 7 November 1969
WHEN YOU talk to him he impresses you as a confident man. He knows what's going on but chooses to do things his way rather ...
The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed (London)
Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 14 November 1969
Stones Make a Softer Sound With a Strong Hint of Dylan ...
Live Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 26 November 1969
Rock's Rolling Stones Invade Olympia Stadium ...
The Band: "It's Great Growing Up": The Hard Hawks Became The Relaxed Band
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 28 November 1969
THE BAND. Free-flowing, graceful, country-spiced music from an ex-hard, hard rock band. ...
Brownsville Station: Station Offers a Rock 'n Roll Holiday
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 26 December 1969
AS WE SEE it now, about 12 years ago a lot of people had good foresight. They knew what was going to happen in the ...
New-Old Grande Something to See
Report and Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 26 December 1969
THE LATEST word, in the merry-go-round that ballroom promoters have been sending Detroit people on, is good, but still a little confusing. It's confusing In ...
Hamilton Bohannon: Bohannon: "The Band Doesn't Get the Proper Respect"
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 2 January 1970
MOST MOTOWN groups don't perform on stage while playing their own instruments. It would be rather difficult for The Temptations to go through their dance ...
Chairmen Of The Board, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Yoko Ono: John and Yoko Envisage Super Jam
Report by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 2 January 1970
IT'S A WELL known fact that John and Yoko Lennon were in Toronto and Ottawa recently to talk about their Peace Festival to be held ...
Ronnie Hawkins: Ronnie Hawkins (Cotillion Records)
Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 16 January 1970
IT'S A CRAZY album. If anybody remembers the '50s, they are thinking of a man who came out with some of the best hard rock ...
The Band, Ronnie Hawkins: Rompin' Ronnie Hawkins Is Suddenly a Star
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 23 January 1970
SUDDENLY THE world is hearing about Ronnie Hawkins. And all because John Lennon made him an international figure by staying at Ronnie's Canadian home for ...
Buddy Holly, Tom Jones: 11 Years After, Buddy Holly Still Vital to Rock Music
Report by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 3 February 1970
THE TRAGEDY OF all tragedies in the rock world took place 11 years ego, Feb. 3, 1959. A plane, carrying Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper ...
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 8 February 1970
Yes, Holland-Dozier-Holland DID Split with the Giant; Yes, Eddie Holland DID form Invictus Records; Yes, Invictus IS Climbing the Charts ...
Live Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 17 February 1970
Sly and Family Survive Rush Down the Garden Paths ...
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Sly & the Family Stone: Sly Stone: Stone Too Sick to Rock
Report by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 24 February 1970
Refunds Available ...
Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 8 March 1970
VAN MORRISON — MOONDANCE — WARNER BROS. A tremendous album. The production is tight, the songs are good and Morrison's voice, weird as it is, fits perfectly. ...
Chairmen of the Board: 'We Turned Each Other On to Our Talents'
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 13 March 1970
TIME CAN be dangerous and it can be helpful. The old think of the past and enter depression. The young think of the future and ...
Freda Payne: In Pursuit of Superstardom
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 5 April 1970
From the Art Institute to Joe Louis To Duke Ellington to the Carson Show ...
Grand Funk Railroad: The Bigtime Rock Band That's Ignored Back Home in Detroit
Report and Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 17 May 1970
THERE'S NOTHING small-time about Detroit in the music business. More and more, record company executives come here first to tap talent. They know it's here. ...
Jethro Tull: He's Embarrassed and Great
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 1970
ALL THE hoopla about Jethro Tull, including stories in Life, Time, Jazz & Pop and other influential magazines, is justified. Jethro Tull is the best ...
Beaver and Krause, Grateful Dead: Albums from Beaver and Krause, and the Grateful Dead
Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 1970
IN A WILD SANCTUARY — Beaver and Krause — Warner Bros. ...
Live Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 16 June 1970
2 Happenings Make Exciting Weekend ...
Mariposa Folk Festival To Be One of the Best
Report by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 23 June 1970
TORONTO IS going to have a music festival. It will be properly run, have good talent and a place to operate. It's the same one ...
The Up: New Political Rock Group: The Up Begins Where the MC5 Left Off
Profile by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 1970
ABOVE AND beyond his highly publicized political life, John Sinclair had a great interest in the rock 'n roll world. His band, the MC5, attained ...
Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 9 August 1970
PERFORMANCE IS the movie starring Mick Jagger. Don't get it mixed up with Ned Kelly, the other Jagger starrer. Performance unlike Ned Kelly is supposed ...
Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 1 September 1970
Mayfield, Solo, Comes on Strong ...
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 4 September 1970
THE WATTS 103rd Street Rhythm Rand is probably best remembered for its million seller 'Loveland'. The group's had several records that have done just as ...
Review by Mike Jahn, Detroit Free Press, 11 September 1970
Tim Buckley — Folk's Own Jazz Singer ...
Elvis Presley: Olympia Stadium, Detroit MI
Live Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 15 September 1970
CAPTURED 17,000 MINDS Legendary Elvis Frenzy Lives On ...
Bob Seger: The Bob Seger System: Mongrel (Capitol)
Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 29 September 1970
Underrated Bob Seger LP Deserves Attention ...
Janis Joplin: Joplin's Last Visit: She Told Them Who Was Boss
Memoir by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 6 October 1970
LUSTY HEROINE OF ROCK IS DEAD ...
Notes to the Institute, By Stanley Mouse
Profile by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 17 October 1970
STANLEY MOUSE, better known to poster art lovers as just plain Mouse, has a show of his works at the Detroit Institute of Art. In ...
The Jones Girls, Little Richard: Little Richard: Music Hall Theater, Detroit MI
Live Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 9 November 1970
150 See Little Richard: Music Hall No 'Apollo' Yet ...
Emitt Rhodes: Emitt Rhodes (Dunhill)
Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 15 November 1970
EMITT RHODES' new LP is a one-man job that sounds like Paul McCartney's first solo effort. That crossed my mind to the point of mentioning ...
Little Richard: The Far-Out Little Richard
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 21 November 1970
'Bronze Liberace' Has Some Unusual Ideas About the State of Music — and the World ...
Grand Funk Railroad: Hot Group Gets the Cold Shoulder at Home
Report by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 24 November 1970
REST OF U.S. RIOTS OVER GRAND FUNK ...
Sly & the Family Stone: Cobo Hall, Detroit
Live Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 24 November 1970
YOU HATE to admit that a man who put you off three times and thus openly displayed his lack of interest in you, turned out ...
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass (Apple)
Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 6 December 1970
Old Un-Fancy George Returns ...
Mike Curb Congregation, John Sebastian: Mike Curb: Record Boss Keeps Mum
Report and Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 6 December 1970
The 'Curb 18' Still Unidentified ...
Fleetwood Mac: Kiln House (Reprise)
Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 13 December 1970
AN ECHO-chambered 'This Is The Rock' starts off Kiln House, Fleetwood Mac's latest album, setting the stage for one of the strangest albums this group ...
Creem Reflects Detroit Rock 'n' Roll And Tries to Direct 'the Monster'
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 19 December 1970
ROCK 'N' ROLL has always had its own journalistic field. The teen magazines used to tell us about Paul Anka's nose job and Elvis Presley's ...
Elton John: Elton Sings 'Your Song' and Finds Himself New Star of the 70s
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 19 December 1970
ELTON JOHN is a pianist, singer, songwriter and newfound hero of musicians and music lovers alike. Bob Dylan came to see him one night and ...
Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock: Follow Pianist Herbie Hancock On a Trip into the World of Jazz
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 19 December 1970
Meet Miles Davis, Ramsey Lewis And Oscar Peterson To Learn About the Kinds of Music That Are Sneaking into Rock ...
John Lennon: John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 19 December 1970
Tender and Bitter — Lennon Says It All ...
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