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Pat Boone: Cover Personality: Pat Boone
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 7 February 1959
JUST FOUR years ago this month, a young singer called Pat Boone made his debut on record. Since then, amid the overnight wonders and the ...
Sammy Davis Jr.: Sammy Davis Jnr.: No Hits For Two Years
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 7 March 1959
But he's still on top with the fans ...
Russ Conway: "I've Only Had One Big Hit" says Russ Conway
Profile and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 2 May 1959
"YOU'RE joking, of course," said Russ Conway when I told him that he was to be featured on our cover. "I don't deserve it. After ...
Lonnie Donegan: The House Built on Skiffle (for £11,000)
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 23 May 1959
THIS WEEK'S Cover Personality has not tried "sticking his chewing gum on the bedpost overnight." "I would not dare," says Lonnie Donegan. "I have just ...
Lonnie Donegan: Cover Personality: Lonnie Donegan
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 26 September 1959
LONNIE DONEGAN was rehearsing for a TV show when I tracked him down. He was in one of his usual good moods and greeted me ...
Emile Ford: The Checkmates Go Into The Charts
Profile and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 7 November 1959
They recorded the number which won them the Disc amateur vocal group contest ...
Winifred Atwell: More Albums from Winnie
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 28 November 1959
AND ONE OF THEM IS A 'CLASSICS ONLY' LP ...
Gene Vincent: They All Want Gene Vincent
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 5 December 1959
RADIO AND TV, STAGE SHOWS IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE, A GERMAN TOUR, MORE STAGE SHOWS HERE ...
Johnny Kidd & The Pirates: Cover Personality: Johnny Kidd — Johnny Has Hopes of a U.S. Trip
Profile and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 19 December 1959
A CHANCE meeting with top American radio personality, Rene Morell, put Johnny Kidd's version of 'If You Were The Only Girl In The World' in ...
Fats Domino: Cover Personality — No Change, Fats is Still at the Top
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 9 January 1960
ROCK MAY not be dead, but it certainly has changed, and so have most of the singers. They change to try to be different but ...
Charles Mingus: Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop: East Coasting (12in. Parlophone PMCI092)***
Review by uncredited writer, Disc, 30 January 1960
Mingus is blazing, bitter — and outstanding ...
Frank Ifield: Aussies? Squares?
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 30 January 1960
The fans get a better deal down under says FRANK IFIELD, Australia's Tommy Steele, now making a name for himself over here ...
Johnny and The Hurricanes: Johnny & The Hurricanes: They're Wild, Man, Like Crazy
Comment by June Harris, Disc, 30 January 1960
JUNE HARRIS examines that rocking phenomenon JOHNNY & THE HURRICANES ...
Bobby Darin: This Is Darin (London)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc, 26 March 1960
DARIN DOES IT AGAIN ...
Fears... Hopes... Dreams... They're All Centred On That Recording Test
Report and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 2 April 1960
To find out what it is like on the receiving end DISC sent June Harris along to take that first and biggest hurdle of a pop singer's ...
Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent: Eddie Cochran Tragedy — Body Flown to States
Report by uncredited writer, Disc, 23 April 1960
Gene Vincent's injuries are not serious ...
Perry Como: Como Show May Be Filmed In Paris, Milan,
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 23 April 1960
PERRY COMO arrived at London Airport on Saturday, and within minutes of landing he was filming his first scene for the London edition of his ...
Brenda Lee — Only Fifteen but They Want Her for Hollywood
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 28 May 1960
"SHE'S DYNAMIC. For her age she's ridiculously adult, she knows exactly what she wants and goes all out to get it." This is Wham! producer Jack Good ...
Billy Fury: Fury Plans to Sing Blues
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 4 June 1960
BILLY FURY, the 19-year-old rock singer from Liverpool, enthused: "I must be Britain's number one fan of the blues." And he added: "In time, I ...
Joe Brown: First it was Tommy Steele, now it's JOE BROWN — Film Star
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 27 August 1960
'I just can't wait to do those pub shots' ...
Jimmy Jones Gets Used to Our One-Nighters
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 29 October 1960
IT IS TWO and a half weeks since Jimmy Jones started his British tour, and it was not until last week at the Astoria Cinema, ...
Duane Eddy: Over a Desert to Make a Disc
Profile and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 12 November 1960
DUANE EDDY lives in Phoenix, Arizona, and has to drive more than 200 miles — across desert — to reach Los Angeles and the recording ...
Jess Conrad, Gene Vincent: Gene Vincent, Jess Conrad: East Ham Granada, London
Live Review by June Harris, Disc, 18 February 1961
GENE VINCENT and Jess Conrad, heading the latest all-star rock package, are a knockout! ...
The Ventures: Can The Ventures Hit the Jackpot for Third Time?
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 1 April 1961
IN HOLLYWOOD last week, Liberty Records announced that their overseas turnover amounted to 25% of the company's sales. The Ventures, who have had two best ...
Cliff Richard, The Shadows: Another Hit for Cliff but This ISN'T Expected
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 15 April 1961
CLIFF RICHARD, winner of eight of our Silver Discs, has another hit on his hands, and one he did not really expect. The number is ...
Live Review by June Harris, Disc, 15 April 1961
CLIFF, SHADOWS TOPS IN BEAT SHOW ...
Adam Faith: Jack Good Reveals the 'Real' Adam Faith
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 6 May 1961
He's back to work on TV, films and two LPs ...
Del Shannon: A year ago he was just a G.I.
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 27 May 1961
First time in the Twenty — DEL SHANNON ...
Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers: New to You: Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 1 July 1961
'You've Got What I Like' ...
Clarence "Frogman" Henry: 'Frogman' Henry: Made His First Disc Five Years Ago
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 15 July 1961
NEW ORLEANS — the home of jazz since the turn of the century... of Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino and now Clarence "Frogman" Henry. ...
Ann-Margret, Kenny Clayton, The Highwaymen (folk), Barry Mann, The Mar-Keys: New To You
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 2 September 1961
The Highwaymen 'Michael' ...
Geoffrey Goddard: 'Buddy Holly Spoke To Me' says singer who wrote 'Tribute'
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 26 October 1961
THREE weeks before the release of 'Johnny Remember Me', songwriter Geoffrey Goddard claims he received a "message" from the late Buddy Holly saying "this song ...
Dave Brubeck Quartet: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by June Harris, Disc, 25 November 1961
Brubeck is on a waltz kick now ...
Dave Brubeck: I Don't Want to Go Commercial says DAVE BRUBECK
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 25 November 1961
HAS DAVE Brubeck, who arrived in Britain for a concert tour last Friday, created a precedent with 'Take Five' that will lead to a more ...
Bobby Vee: The Old Rock Has Gone For Good
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 2 December 1961
Bobby Vee talks to DISC ...
Chubby Checker: American Bandstand: $250,000 of Talent Sang 'Happy Birthday'
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 16 December 1961
* BOBBY RYDELL SWORE ME TO SECRECY * CHUBBY'S GREETING CAN BE KILLING * EYDIE'S COUGH GETS INTO ACT HARRY WALTERS talks to June Harris about ...
Cliff Richard, The Shadows: The Young Ones (dir. Sidney J. Furie, Warner-Pathé)
Film/DVD/TV Review by June Harris, Disc, 16 December 1961
CLIFF SHOWS HOW POP STARS SHOULD MAKE FILMS June Harris reviews The Young Ones ...
Bobby Vee: I Wish You All As Good A Time As I Will Have
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 23 December 1961
BOBBY VEE sends an exclusive Christmas message to DISC ...
Eden Kane: No Risks — That Third Hit Was Far Too Vital
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 27 January 1962
EDEN KANE talks about 'Forget Me Not' ...
Bobby Vee Gets a Pleasant Shock at British TV
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 3 February 1962
HERALDED BY more than 200 members or his British fan dab, and flanked by officials from the Liberty Recording Company, Bobby Vee flew into Britain ...
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 10 February 1962
SNUFFY GARRETT, the 22-year-old A& Rhead of Liberty's chart-hitting teenage artists at present over here with the label's top seller, Bobby Vee, wants to record ...
Ella Fitzgerald: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by June Harris, Disc, 24 February 1962
SLIMMER ELLA IS AT HER BEST ...
Live Review by June Harris, Disc, 24 February 1962
Denver is hit of Parnes package ...
Gene Chandler: Chandler Could Surprise Us All With His U.S. Hit
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 3 March 1962
FROM THE very top of the American charts where he has ousted all versions of the Twist with his sensational debut record 'Duke Of Earl', ...
Joey Dee & the Starliters: The Peppermint Boys Have A Great Chance
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 17 March 1962
IT IS SURPRISING that Joey Dee and the Starliters, next to Chubby Checker the most famous "twisters" in America, have not yet made it here ...
Johnny Burnette: Already Dead Keen to Come Back
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 21 April 1962
JOHNNY BURNETTE arrived in Britain at the end of last week for his tour with U.S. Bonds and Gene McDaniels, which opens in Glasgow on ...
Bobby Darin: Confident Darin Is Careful Over Films
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 26 May 1962
CONFIDENT. That's the word that seems to describe Bobby Darin better than any other. He has known what he wanted, has set out to get ...
John D. Loudermilk and Fred Foster: Nashville Men Take a Look at London
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 9 June 1962
TRAVELLING companions on a brief visit to London last week were songwriter and RCA recording artist John D. Loudermilk, and Fred Foster, the 30-year-old boss ...
Henry Mancini: Thirty-Minute Song Will Make Mancini A Fortune
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 9 June 1962
"I RECKON I'll have made around $100,000 dollars on 'Moon River' within the next two years or so," said Henry "Hank" Mancini, or the song ...
John Leyton: I Can't Keep On With This Sob Stuff
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 7 July 1962
WATCH OUT for John Leyton's next release. The change in style is going to hit you smack between the ears! Gone are the emotional lyrics ...
Ketty Lester: Now Ketty Lester Faces The Big Test
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 7 July 1962
CAN KETTY Lester do it again? Can she sustain the tremendous success she achieved with 'Love Letters' with her next release, 'But Not For Me', ...
The Dave Clark Five: New To You: The Dave Clark Five
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 14 July 1962
It all started with soccer ...
The Crickets: Crickets May Have To Tour Without Jerry Allison
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 28 July 1962
JERRY ALLISON, longest-serving member of the Crickets, whose 'Don't Ever Change' is still climbing our Top Twenty, may not be able to get to England ...
Tommy Roe, Billy Joe Royal, Joe South: New For You: Tommy Roe, Billy Joe Royal and Joe South
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 26 August 1962
U.S. Stars Hopes For More Success Here ...
Billy Boyle, Carole King, Babs Tino: New to You: Carole Writes, Arranges — And Now She Sings
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 8 September 1962
Carole King: 'It Might As Well Rain Until September' ...
Doug Sheldon: We Can Produce That American Sound
Report and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 8 September 1962
LAST WEEK I was allowed to listen to something very new on the British recording scene, something that could have repercussions throughout the industry and ...
Buzz Clifford, Dion, Del Shannon: Dion And Buzz Have a Swinging Day in Britain
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 15 September 1962
...at the invitation of DISC! ...
Johnny Kidd & The Pirates: The Star Club: Fantastic, That's the Scene in Germany
Report and Interview by uncredited writer, Disc, 15 September 1962
"FANTASTIC. Like a world on its own. Things there swing so much it's breathtaking." And "there" is NOT America, but... Germany, the country that is ...
Bobby Vinton: I Wanted To Record 'Lonely' But Buddy Greco Got In First
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 22 September 1962
WHAT'S IT feel like to write a number you think is great, be allowed to record it on an LP after much argument, and then, ...
Frank Ifield: U.S. Success Shakes Ifield
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 22 September 1962
"I THINK it's fantastic," said Frank Ifield over the phone from Brighton where he was appearing last week. "Suddenly 'I Remember You' is selling throughout ...
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 22 September 1962
DO YOU LIKE a real, bluesy, earthy, down-south American sound? If you do, then your ears will flap when you listen to 'Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow', a new ...
The Crickets, Frank Ifield, Bobby Vee: Ifield's Hit Turns Bobby Vee To C And W!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 27 October 1962
THE SUCCESS of Frank Ifield in America has really converted Bobby Vee to country and western music! "I had no idea that C and W ...
The Crickets: Our first tour and we're glad it's in England
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 27 October 1962
I'VE JUST received a nine page letter from the Crickets, who arrive tomorrow (Friday) for their tour with Bobby Vee, which opens on November 3, ...
Report by June Harris, Disc, 10 November 1962
THERE'LL BE no stopping Frank Ifield now! It HAD to happen that 'Lovesick Blues' would hit number one, and establish the Australian as our leading ...
Jet Harris & Tony Meehan: Jet And Tony Can't Wait To Cut That Disc
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 10 November 1962
"JUST THINK, me and Tony together again after a year. I think it's the greatest, in fact, I'm so excited that I just wish we ...
The Beatles: Beatles Find Show Biz Isn't All Fun
Interview by Jean Carol, Disc, 24 November 1962
THE BEATLES, newest British group to join the ever-growing list of outfits to challenge the Shadows, dropped into the DISC office just about 12 hours ...
Little Eva Can't Wait To Get Here!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 1 December 1962
"I'M FIGHTING like mad to get Carole King to come with me on this trip," said Little Eva. "But I think it's going to be ...
Patsy Cline: Patsy Cashes In on the C and W Boom
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 1 December 1962
LAST WEEK, when 'Heartaches' eased its way into our Top Thirty at 29, Patsy Cline became the first American country and western girl to get ...
Freddy Cannon, Alexis Korner: Freddy Cannon Raves over OUR R & B music!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 8 December 1962
STRICTLY NON-working hours for Freddy Cannon whenever he visits Britain are spent, whenever possible, at London's Marquee jazz club, watching Alexis Korner at work. As ...
Nat King Cole: Not Even Nat Cole Can Afford To Be Without A Hit
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 15 December 1962
AFTER 25 years in show business, with TV, radio and cabaret success his for the asking, you might think that Nat King Cole would count ...
Helen Shapiro: She's Full of her New Home
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 22 December 1962
Big party plans ...
Heinz, The Tornados: Tornados Shock: Heinz Leaves
Report by uncredited writer, Disc, 29 December 1962
Bass guitarist wants to be a singer ...
Duane Eddy: From Arizona, DUANE EDDY tells DISC Now I Know I'm On The Right Twang
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 12 January 1963
GUITAR-MAN Duane Eddy says that he's back on the "right twang" — and will stay there — girl chorus and all — for his next ...
Tony Orlando: Give Him a Hit, and Tony Orlando Will Come Back to Britain
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 12 January 1963
IF "DISC DATE" reviewer Don Nicholl is right and 'Beautiful Dreamer' DOES make the charts, then Tony Orlando will be rushing back to Britain just ...
Shirley Bassey: Shirley, These Gowns Are Just Great!
Report and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 19 January 1963
TOMORROW (Friday) Shirley Bassey will appear at a special concert in Washington before President Kennedy to mark the anniversary of his inauguration, the first time ...
Brian Hyland: Gee, I'm So Excited I Can Hardly Believe It
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 26 January 1963
Brian Hyland talks to June Harris just before he leaves for his first-ever trip to Britain ...
Brian Hyland: Wow, I'm Going To Love England, Says Brian
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 2 February 1963
"I DIG girls, suede coats, Del Shannon, one-nighters, C and W music, Cliff Richard, appearing on television and London," said Brian Hyland. ...
Little Eva: England, That's Something Different says Little Eva
Profile and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 2 February 1963
"I USED to sing whenever I was asked... and sometimes even when I wasn't asked!" recalls Little Eva. "But to be actually invited to sing ...
The Beatles: Liverpool Group Takes Britain by Storm
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 9 February 1963
LAST WEEK Brian Matthew described The Beatles as "the most original musical and visual sensation since The Shadows." And the off-beat writings of leader John ...
Billie Davis: "I'm just an ordinary sort of girl," says Billie Davis
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 23 February 1963
"I DIG BOYS, clothes, music and all the things other girls like," said Billie Davis. "I'm just A an ordinary type of girl. I mean, ...
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 23 February 1963
DICK CLARK, top U.S. D.J., tells DISC ...
Ray Charles: A Genius — But He Needs The Right Audience
Report and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 2 March 1963
TOP AMERICAN DJ DICK CLARK TALKS TO JUNE HARRIS ABOUT — RAY CHARLES ...
The Beatles, Gerry & The Pacemakers: Merseyside Beat Pays Off At Last!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 23 March 1963
IT'S ALL happening up in Liverpool! First The Beatles, now Gerry and the Pacemakers and in a few weeks time, who knows? The music the ...
Helen Shapiro: There's Going to be a Brand New Me says Helen Shapiro
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 30 March 1963
"IT'LL TAKE a little time," said Helen Shapiro, as we chatted during a BBC rehearsal, "but I've decided there's going to be a new me." ...
The Springfields: Hit Trio Get The Holiday Fever!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 13 April 1963
Another disc crashes the charts, but The Springfields still want that break! ...
Roy Orbison: Hits Are Great — But I Miss Those (MODEL) Planes
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 20 April 1963
A few weeks before the start of his first-ever tour of Britain, and with 'In Dreams' still climbing the charts here, ROY ORBISON talks to ...
Gerry & The Pacemakers: Pacemakers are still on Cloud Nine
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 27 April 1963
AT SOME time — he was in such a daze he can't remember exactly when — between the hours of 5 and 6 p.m. on ...
Live Review by June Harris, Disc, 4 May 1963
SARNE STEALS SHOW ...
The Chiffons, Ruby & the Romantics: Romantics and Chiffons Make Their Marks
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 4 May 1963
Five girls, four boys, two hit groups ...
Dee Dee Sharp: Dee Dee's Not Really Wild!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 11 May 1963
ON RECORD, Dee Dee Sharp is wild and uninhibited, but in real life, she's delightful, delectable and very STUDIOUS! ...
Del Shannon, Johnny Tillotson: Del Loves England, But It Hurts His Pocket
Report and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 11 May 1963
DISC TALKS TO DEL SHANNON AND JOHNNY TILLOTSON ...
The Four Seasons, as they dash into Britain, tell Disc We're Getting Used to Tearing Around
Interview by Jean Carol, Disc, 18 May 1963
"SURPRISED ABOUT our last-minute British trip? No, I guess not," said Tommy de Vito of The Four Seasons over fried eggs and sausages at London's ...
The Beatles: ...Disaster nearly struck The Beatles!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 25 May 1963
Back from their holiday in the Canary Isles, the boys tell of the moment when... ...
Live Review by June Harris, Disc, 25 May 1963
Beatles-Roy Orbison tour is a sensation! ...
Roy Orbison, Del Shannon: Del And Roy Hope To Tour Here Again — But Together
Report and Interview by Jean Carol, Disc, 8 June 1963
ROY ORBISON and Del Shannon have formed a mutual admiration society! More than anything, these two American stars would love to make a British tour ...
Gerry & the Pacemakers: Gerry and the Judies*
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 8 June 1963
*DOLLS, BIRDS, CHICKS, DAMES ...
Del Shannon: A Great Tour But Del's Happy To Be Home
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 22 June 1963
DEL SHANNON gulped down a bottle of coke, lit a cigar and leaned back in his leather upholstered chair. On his last night in England, ...
Freddie & The Dreamers: Freddie, of the Dreamers, has a Weakness for 'Birds', Fruit and Squash
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 22 June 1963
FREDDIE GARRETTY ordered a glass of orange squash, six dishes of fruit salad, and confessed that two items share the number one spot in his ...
Report and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 29 June 1963
Freddie and the boys have a ball in the studio ...
Billy J. Kramer: Great Session by Billy J — But Those Tonsils Will Have To Come Out!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 6 July 1963
BILLY J. KRAMER has tonsil trouble. "I reckon I'll have 'em chopped out in September," he told me over the phone last week. "The specialist ...
The Beatles, Elvis Presley: John Lennon: El's Still The King — But He's Got To Watch It!
Interview by Jean Carol, Disc, 6 July 1963
That 'I don't like Presley' remark on Juke Box Jury has caused an uproar, but JOHN LENNON is sticking to what he said.... ...
John Leyton: Leyton Wants a House — in the South of France!
Interview by Jean Carol, Disc, 6 July 1963
JOHN LEYTON, was happily posing for photographers near EMI's office in London. As usual he was handsomely groomed and well dressed. And, despite the fact ...
Profile and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 6 July 1963
THERE ARE very few way-out, wild rhythm and blues numbers which hit the British charts. 'Twist And Shout' by The Isley Brothers is one of ...
The Springfields: All Change Springs Go For R and B
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 6 July 1963
TOM SPRINGFIELD gave a gusty yawn over the 'phone, remarked, "I'm not with it this afternoon, mate" and asked for two minutes silence to put ...
Helen Shapiro: There's Just No Stopping The New Style Helen!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 13 July 1963
TO SAY there are changes in Helen Shapiro would be an understatement. In less than three months, the 16-year-old singer has developed info a poised, ...
The Searchers: Hit Brings Big Offers for the Searchers
Profile and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 13 July 1963
No sales for three weeks, then crash, the new boys make it big! ...
Joe Brown: Shooting, Yes, and Riding, But Right Now Joe's Crazy About That Fishin' Lark
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 13 July 1963
JOE BROWN slapped his make-up on, ran his fingers through his close-cropped hair and complained of sheer fatigue. "I dunno what's the matter with me, ...
The Tornados: 'Telstar' Still Makes Tornados Nervous!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 13 July 1963
FIVE TIE-less, tan-less Tornados trooped into the stately lounge at the Carlton Hotel, Great Yarmouth, and shocked the residents into silence as, none too quietly, ...
The Beatles: Beatles Recover From That Fantastic EP
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 17 July 1963
JOHN LENNON removed his black rimmed glasses and wiped the steam off with his tie. The other three Beatles hunted blindly for chairs, dropped in ...
The Big Three: Everything Happens to the Big Three — Even an Electric Shock!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 20 July 1963
"ISN'T IT fab" remarked Johnny Hutchinson. "Are we really in the charts again? It's gear. The works." Johnny was enthusing over the success of the ...
Chuck Berry: At Last it's the Real Thing!
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 27 July 1963
CHUCK BERRY, THE WILD MAN OF BEAT MUSIC, GETS HIS BIG CHANCE ...
The Rolling Stones: Rolling Stones Just Live for Kicks
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 3 August 1963
IF YOU happen to have a load of bricks and mortar lying around, don't be surprised if five young hipsters, sporting ragged haircuts and corduroy ...
The Tymes Are Not Just One Hit Wonders
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 3 August 1963
"THEY'RE THE Ink Spots of the future — or The Platters A without the girl," said Frankie Day, manager of the new, swinging hit parade ...
Dick Dale, The Surfaris: Two Hits Already: U.S. Surfing Craze Could Easily Catch On Over Here
Report and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 10 August 1963
BEAT BUG... gremlin... hodad... hiway surfer... shooting the curl... stoked... wipe out. This is the jargon used by surf crazy teenagers in California, and throughout ...
Report by Jean Carol, Disc, 17 August 1963
JEAN CAROL finds out what it is really like. ...
Heinz: Disc Success Cut Heinz's Boat Holiday by 10 Days
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 24 August 1963
HEINZ DIDN'T get very far on his recent boating holiday. In fact, he only spent four days on the water out of a planned 14! ...
The Searchers: Everything Happens to the Searchers!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 24 August 1963
Success, accidents, you name it, they've had it! ...
Del Shannon, Back in the Charts With 'Two Silhouettes', Says... I Won't Come to Britain Too Often
Report and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 31 August 1963
DEL SHANNON'S back in the charts with 'Two Silhouettes' — a number he chose while he was in Surrey on his last British trip! ...
Jan & Dean: Hits in a Garage — By Jan and Dean!
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 7 September 1963
JAN AND DEAN, those two all-American boys with the clean-cut college look — both are over six feet tall, boasting blue eyes and blond hair, ...
The Tremeloes: Success? It's not having plenty of money, or a new car, or even a hit record
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 7 September 1963
Brian Poole talks to June Harris ...
The Bachelors Have Split up — But Only to Get More Space
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 14 September 1963
THE BACHELORS have split up. Not for real, but much to the relief of Con Clusky and John Stokes, youngest member Dec Clusky has moved ...
Tommy Roe wants to crack London Town wide open!
Report and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 14 September 1963
...and June Harris shows him around ...
Billy J. Kramer: Billy J. Still Can't Believe it!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 21 September 1963
No. 1 with his first. No. 1 with his second, and now he tops his own package... no wonder Billy J. still can't believe it! ...
The Searchers: June Harris Visits the Searchers... And Finds Them Doing Nothing!
Report by June Harris, Disc, 21 September 1963
THE THEATRE was quiet! A few people sat scattered around the auditorium, and The Searchers were on stage, saying and doing nothing! ...
Live Review by June Harris, Disc, 21 September 1963
ROY, BRIAN, FREDDIE — THEY'RE A KNOCKOUT! ...
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 12 October 1963
THINGS ARE swinging for the Searchers. Their 'Ain't Gonna Kiss Ya' EP stormed into our Top Thirty two weeks ago at 16, moved up to ...
Little Richard: Gaumont Theatre, Watford
Live Review by June Harris, Disc, 12 October 1963
RICHARD IS DYNAMIC ...
Chuck Berry: He's Running an Amusement Park in Missouri!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 9 November 1963
IT'S ALL happening for Chuck Berry! He's come hurtling back in the British charts with 'Memphis, Tennessee', and now he's all set for his debut ...
The Crystals: Now There's Only Three They're Still Looking For A Fourth!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 9 November 1963
THREE CRYSTALS, and wearing very offbeat outfits, sat grouped on an American type put-u-up in a huge apartment on New York's fashionable East Side. At ...
The Ronettes, Phil Spector: The Ronettes
Profile and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 9 November 1963
A two-week British tour is planned for end of January ...
Dusty Springfield, The Springfields: The Springfields: Separate Careers and All Booming!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 30 November 1963
Dusty, Tom and Mike go solo — and head for the top ...
The Singing Nun: A Nun — The Strangest Hit Parader!
Profile by Alan Walsh, Disc, 7 December 1963
IN ALL THE surprise at the success of 'Dominique' by a Belgian missionary nun, one thing has perhaps tended to be forgotten — the future ...
Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley: Chuck and Bo May Tour Here Together in March
Report by June Harris, Disc, 7 December 1963
WHAT DO you think of having Chock Berry and Bo Diddley headline a rhythm and blues package in England? Promoter Don Arden, just back from ...
The Beatles: Only Do TV — At First
Report and Interview by Alan Walsh, Disc, 7 December 1963
WHEN THE Beatles go to America next year it will be virtually only to appear on the Ed Sullivan TV show. Speaking to me in ...
The Dave Clark Five: Dave Clark: He Loves Acting Just As Much As Singing!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 14 December 1963
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The Beatles Go Home To Liverpool In Triumph
Report by Alan Walsh, Disc, 14 December 1963
RINGO STARR, perched on a dais six feet above the stage of Liverpool's Empire Theatre, looked chilled despite his overcoat. Below him on the stage ...
Gene Pitney: 'Tulsa' looks like bringing Gene back here in January
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 14 December 1963
WE DIDN'T have too much of a chance to see cool, immaculate Gene Pitney during his recent trip to England. Unfortunately, a 'flu bug caught ...
The Beatles: Beatles: Yes, It's All So Different Now, Says John
Report and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 21 December 1963
JOHN LENNON was the first to enter the Southend Odeon. He strolled across the stage looking very un-Beatlish in a suede cap and huge dark ...
The Beatles: Paris Prepares For That Beatle Invasion
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 21 December 1963
June Harris talks to Jo Bergman of the Beatles Press office, just back from Paris ...
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 21 December 1963
Nobody can look back on 1963 with more satisfaction than The Beatles. In the last 12 months they've caused riots at the Royal Variety Performance, ...
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 21 December 1963
This year has been just fantastic, but despite what the pessimists say, the next 12 months could be even bigger for the Beatles. Nobody can look ...
The Beatles: Yes, It's All So Different Now, Says John
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 21 December 1963
JOHN LENNON was the first to enter the Southend Odeon. He strolled across the stage looking very un-Beatlish in a suede cap and huge dark ...
Dusty Springfield: Dusty Celebrates as She Plans Her First Album
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 4 January 1964
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD has just won a Silver Disc for her first solo single, 'I Only Want To Be With You', and she was bubbling over ...
Freddie & the Dreamers: Pantos are great fun, says Freddie
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 4 January 1964
THERE ISN'T enough room to swing a mouse in Freddie and The Dreamers' dressing room at the Chester Royalty, what with costumes lining the four ...
The Searchers: Searchers Aim to Shake the Market!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 4 January 1964
THIS YEAR, more than anything, The Searchers want to shake the British market with a new, way-out sound! Their success last year with numbers like ...
The Tremeloes: Hit sound? It's played out, says Brian Poole
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 4 January 1964
"YES, YOU can say our hit sound is played out and we have to try something different," admitted Brian Poole. "What's the use of trying ...
The Beatles: Beatles Head For No.1 In U.S.!
Report by June Harris, Disc, 18 January 1964
THE BEATLES' 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' is heading straight for the Number One spot in the American 100! Last Friday the record soared ...
Johnny Kidd & The Pirates: Johnny Kidd Denies Pirates Split
Interview by Alan Walsh, Disc, 18 January 1964
JOHNNY KIDD, just back from another successful season at Hamburg's Star Club, looked sunburned — so sunburned in fact, his face was chapped and peeling. ...
The Beatles: Beatles Booked for U.S. Carnegie Hall
Report by June Harris, Disc, 25 January 1964
THE INCREDIBLE, unbeatable, fab Beatles! There's no stopping them! Now... a bill-topping Carnegie Hall concert... U.S. tour offers pouring into Brian Epstein's office... more American ...
The Swinging Blue Jeans: New Sound Wanted for Blue Jeans' Next Disc
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 25 January 1964
THE SWINGING Blue Jeans were rehearsing like mad in the final few minutes before their guest appearance on Go Man Go. ...
Cilla Black: Cilla Cut Disc In Three Takes
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 1 February 1964
"I DON'T care if it doesn't go. In ten years' time, I can look back on 'Anyone Who Had A Heart', and say to myself, ...
Phil Spector: Man Of The Moment Spector Wants To Be Controversial
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 1 February 1964
PHIL SPECTOR checked the gold watch hanging from the chain of his elaborate black brocade waistcoat, and remarked: "It's 6.30 a.m. in Los Angeles, and ...
The Beatles: Worried About That American Trip? Not Us, Say John and George
Report and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 8 February 1964
TOMORROW (Friday) is B-Day in New York. And in New York. The Beatles mean big business! They will arrive at 1.40 p.m. to be met ...
The Ronettes: We Just Haven't Stopped Buying
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 8 February 1964
Ronettes really dig our clothes ...
The Crystals: Crystals Aim To Hit All Our Shops
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 15 February 1964
Four slick chicks fly starry-eyed into town — in knee-length boots ...
Gene Pitney: I Feel So Comfortable in Britain, Says Gene
Report and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 15 February 1964
"TWENTY-FOUR hours from home!" That was Gene Pitney's comment when he flew into London from Paris last Wednesday for a day on his way back ...
The Merseybeats: Merseybeats — On The Way Up — Look For A Replacement
Interview by Alan Walsh, Disc, 15 February 1964
IN THE background was that thumping, dynamic beat that tells you this is Liverpool! And the voice on the phone, too, was unmistakably Scouse. Tony ...
Heinz: Tours, Films, a Summer Season... It's ALL Happening This Year
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 15 February 1964
Heinz talks to June Harris about 1964 ...
Big Dee Irwin, Bobby Vee: Big Dee and Bobby Vee both swing in
Profile by June Harris, Disc, 22 February 1964
TWO TOP American stars, Big Dee Irwin and Bobby Vee, arrive this week for starring stints on The Searchers-Dusty Springfield package, opening at the Slough ...
Billy J. Kramer: Billy Has An Eye For Pop Fashion
Interview by Alan Walsh, Disc, 29 February 1964
BILLY J. KRAMER, rated one of Britain's snappiest popsters dresswise, was talking to me about his wardrobe. We were in Liverpool, where Billy was relaxing ...
Roy Orbison's Moving Into His Dream House
Report by June Harris, Disc, 29 February 1964
ROY ORBISON, who will be back here in a few weeks for a tour which opens on April 17 and whose 'Borne On The Wind' ...
The Searchers: Here's What Makes Searchers a Hit
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 7 March 1964
WHAT MAKES a hit disc? The singer, the song, the producer, or a combination of all three? More particularly, what makes The Searchers such a ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Disc, 14 March 1964
I'm the only girl on tour — and it's really marvellous! ...
Them: Everyone wants to know about... that there Them group!
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc, 10 April 1965
...and here's the secret of their success — writes PENNY VALENTINE ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Disc, 14 August 1965
* stage door routine * butter-up compere * through fan club ...
Report and Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc, 13 November 1965
What DO DUSTY, SANDIE and CILLA talk about when they're trapped? ...
Eddie Floyd: Greentree — Eddie Floyd To You — Is Back In Town!
Interview by uncredited writer, Disc, 2 December 1967
KNOCK ON wood and raise your hand, 'cos things get better baby on a Saturday night and Greentree's back in town! ...
The Band: Music From Big Pink (Capitol)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc, 9 November 1968
Dylan's Band is a cool rave... ...
The Herd, Humble Pie, The Small Faces: Helpings of Humble Pie
Interview by David Hughes, Disc, 9 August 1969
IF THERE'S one particular impression of Humble Pie that sinks deeper than any other, it's the name. ...
David Bowie: Chart Control to David Bowie: The "Human Oddity" Interviewed
Report and Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc, 11 October 1969
DAVID BOWIE IS 22 years old, thin, with a halo of fair hair, a delicately soft face and two cold eyes. One is pale kitten ...
Black Sabbath: Paranoid (Vertigo) ★★★★
Review by uncredited writer, Disc, 12 September 1970
BLACK SABBATH, as a hard rock band, are well up in their field, and Paranoid will no doubt sell as well as their first album. ...
Billy Preston: I Wrote A Simple Song (A&M AMLH 63507, £2.29)
Review by David Hancock, Disc, 15 January 1972
SOLO BILLY AT HIS FUNKIEST ...
America: Are America too good to be true?
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 1 April 1972
AMERICA ARE young, average age 19. They have only a few months of strong, regular professional experience behind them in Britain, plus one hit single ...
Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa: Captain Beefheart: Zappa stole my ideas, says the Captain
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 1 April 1972
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART is talking about his home, Eureka, where the snails are THIS big — he indicates about nine inches with his hands — and ...
The Groundhogs: Who Will Save The World (United Artists UAG 29237, £1.94)
Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 1 April 1972
THE RICHLY decorated, animated gatefold cover hints at something special inside and there aren't too many disappointments. ...
Ashford & Simpson, Valerie Simpson: Valerie Simpson: Valerie's Black and Proud
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc, 1 April 1972
THE HERALDING of one more female songwriter-singer may make you want to throw your hands in the air and mutter something along the lines of ...
Judee Sill: A Sill-y Story: Judee Sill
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 8 April 1972
JUDEE SILL is quite a remarkable woman. When you consider her past it becomes apparent just how remarkable. She lost both her parents and her ...
Rory Gallagher: Rollicking Rory - Live at Leeds
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 8 April 1972
YOU SEE THEM EVERYWHERE. Those uniformed peak capped gendarmes with sergeant stripes and an air of placid bewilderment. ...
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 6 May 1972
DAVID BOWIE is at last letting the Great British Public catch up with him. With grasshopper alacrity, he has kept ahead of us for years ...
Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 6 May 1972
AFTER A WHILE, you get the feeling you're part of the scenario for one of those colossally far-fetched paperbacks with titles like Rock God (make ...
The Staple Singers: A Staple Diet
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc, 6 May 1972
IT ALL seems to be happening at once for Stax Records, the soul record company in Memphis, Tennessee. At present they hold American chart positions ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 13 May 1972
"IT'S RIDICULOUS really," said Chicago's composer and keyboard man, Bob Lamm, "Here I am in Hollywood, living in grand style and my parents are still ...
Emerson Lake and Palmer: Why Keith Wants To Become Immortal
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 13 May 1972
KEITH EMERSON would like to be remembered as a twentieth century composer – he thinks about it quite a lot and finds it curious that ...
Joe Cocker: I Almost Forgot What Rock 'N' Roll Was All About
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 13 May 1972
THE CURRY looked sort of ropey. It had probably been frozen for a lifetime between cardboard. Joe Cocker examined it incredulously, sifting it through his ...
Rita Coolidge, Kris Kristofferson: Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge: Kris and the Delta lady
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 13 May 1972
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON and the Delta Lady — Rita Coolidge — arrived in London last week to a hero's welcome. Could it be that people are ...
The Everly Brothers: Back In Favour
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 13 May 1972
JUST WHEN we were getting used to thinking of the Everly Brothers as a monument to a distant era they come up with Stories We ...
King Crimson: Fripp Finds the Answer
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 27 May 1972
...in White magic, coloured candles and a witch called Walli Emlark ...
Jo Jo Gunne: The Spirit of Jo Jo Gunne
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 27 May 1972
SOME say the stench given off by their first album is just too rank to bear. Others are moved to disagree. Strong stuff, it is ...
Yes: Yes are Well and Grooving
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 27 May 1972
IN THE basement of Una Billings School of Dancing, Shepherd's Bush, London, Yes are bouncing ideas off each other for a new album. Jon Anderson, ...
Spencer Davis Group: Spencer Davis: Waiting For The Next Crack-Up
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 3 June 1972
SPENCER DAVIS' ailment is that he's hooked on music. It has made him ill, broke, come near to wrecking his marriage and, although he talks ...
Stackridge: The Stackridge Story
Review and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 3 June 1972
NOW JIM Walters has passed his bricklaying exams he's rejoined his old band Stackridge. If things don't work out, you see, he'll have something to ...
Marvin Gaye: Washington's Week Of Marvin Gaye
Report by Phil Symes, Disc, 3 June 1972
AFTER A self-imposed exile lasting almost four years, Marvin Gaye, whose What's Going On album was one of the most acclaimed of 1971, returned to ...
Caravan: Missing Out On Hysteria
Report by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 24 June 1972
YOU CAN almost see the sky through the hazy plastic roof. Richard Sinclair hands around huge pastries stuffed with stringy macro weeds. Guzzling Cokes and ...
Gladys Knight: Gladys and Her British Problem
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc, 24 June 1972
"UNDERRATED" is a fond word of Press agents and record companies to explain away lack of success for their artists. So when someone uses the ...
The Rolling Stones: Rolling Stones: Long Beach Arena, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by John Mendelsohn, Disc, 24 June 1972
VIRTUALLY nowhere during the past week could a Hollywood hipster fail to encounter signs proclaiming the purchasability (mostly at prices reminiscent of a prince's ransom) ...
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 24 June 1972
THE SANCTIFIED Sisters, four beautiful black ladies Joe Cocker collected in the US for his British homecoming, are more than visual relief from all those ...
Dick Heckstall-Smith: At Last The Leader Of The Band
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 1 July 1972
HE'S ABOUT five miles high and not coming down: "I feel as if I've got wings growing out of my ankles. Part of me is ...
The Moody Blues: Moodie Blues: Graeme Edge Living Like A Lesser Mortal
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 1 July 1972
RESTING IN a reverse overhead lotus, a tortoiseshell at his feet and fingers pointing towards the All-Saints Hare Krishna Temple in the Marylebone Road, Graeme ...
J. Geils Band: J Geils Band: Rude Noises
Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 8 July 1972
J. GEILS make the sort of rude music Jagger and his band specialised in before they started showering regularly and holidaying in the South of ...
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas: Martha Reeves Goes Solo
Report and Interview by Phil Symes, Disc, 8 July 1972
MARTHA REEVES is going solo. After 10 years fronting one of Motown's most successful groups, Martha and the Vandellas, Miss Reeves is stepping out alone. ...
Paul Williams: The Dwarf Genus
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 8 July 1972
HE WAS hanging out in one of those saucy marble and satin masterpieces tucked away neatly behind Piccadilly. His suite, equipped with Scotch, peanuts, a ...
Average White Band: Above Average White Band
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 22 July 1972
THIS PIECE, unless I serve a personal restraining order and keep my legs firmly crossed, is likely to develop into a hysterical citation of the ...
Atomic Rooster: Rooster Keep On Crowing
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 22 July 1972
ATOMIC ROOSTER have seemed set to topple more than once as Vincent Crane, the band's organist and catalyst, found himself virtually alone. ...
Iggy Pop, The Stooges: Iggy & The Stooges: Kingsound (King's Cross Cinema), London
Live Review by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 22 July 1972
IGGY AND the Stooges made their first performance in over a year on Saturday night, Sunday morning. Despite the event happening in the dead of ...
Judge Dread: Here comes the Judge
Profile and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 22 July 1972
AFTER RECEIVING three stab wounds in the stomach, an axe wound on the head and a broken bottle in the face, Alex Hughes gave up ...
The Impressions: Making an Impression
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc, 22 July 1972
THE IMPRESSIONS are now into the fourteenth year. And everything is fine. Like a small number of other acts around they've become an institution. Over ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 29 July 1972
THE FORMIDABLE hand of fate has moved in to give Billy Preston his first American No. 1 hit — something he's clamoured for since turning ...
Fleetwood Mac, Christine Perfect/McVie: Fleetwood Mac: Perfect Woman
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 5 August 1972
PETE GREEN'S in Israel. Jeremy Spencer is making cassettes of devotional songs and recruiting the wayward and lonely for The Children Of God and Fleetwood ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 5 August 1972
ON THE fringe of unassuming Dunstable, Beds., Queensway Hall crouches like an errant space machine — an impressive spectacle and very expensive. It's at least ...
Screaming Lord Sutch: Sutch is Life...
Profile and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 5 August 1972
SCREAMING Lord "Jack the Ripper" Sutch — as he now likes to be known — is currently wearing his grudge on his chest. He is ...
Ringo Starr, T. Rex: T. Rex: Marc
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 5 August 1972
MARC BOLAN'S first film, titled Born To Boogie, is due for release on the cinema circuit in September. It would appear that it's a logical ...
Curtis Mayfield: Super Fly (Curtom)
Review by Robin Katz, Disc, 12 August 1972
MAYFIELD'S MOVING MESSAGE... ...
Roberta Flack: Flack and Beautiful
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc, 12 August 1972
"THE BEST thing that has happened to London since Hitler missed," is how one ecstatic onlooker described Roberta Flack's first London concert. ...
Little Richard: The Georgia Peach
Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 19 August 1972
OOOWEE, Lawd knows it was a bad night's work. According to the divine plan, the Wembley crowd should have been blowing kisses at the Georgia ...
David Bowie, Mott The Hoople: Mott The Hoople: Civic Hall, Guildford
Live Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 19 August 1972
"WE'VE LAID a lot of new stuff on you tonight and you've been really good," an obviously delighted Ian Hunter told his audience at Guildford ...
Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 26 August 1972
ARETHA MOVING AT SNAIL'S PACE ...
Bill Withers: Leanin' On Bill Withers
Profile and Interview by Phil Symes, Disc, 26 August 1972
THAT OLD saying "never too late" is certainly true in the case of Bill Withers. Withers is just about the hottest male singer in America ...
Bobby Vee: Bye Bye Bobby – Meet Mr Villene
Profile and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 26 August 1972
A CLAIM to fame you don't often associate with Bobby Vee is that he once sacked Bob Dylan from his band. Over here having just ...
Joe's Lights: Many Hands Make Lights Work
Profile and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 2 September 1972
A look at the people behind the glitter. Caroline Boucher meets JOE'S LIGHTS, one of the best creative light shows around today ...
Interview by Robin Katz, Disc, 2 September 1972
IT WASN'T very long ago that Thelma Houston was on everyone's list as most probable new star. The reasoning was simple. Thelma's first album had ...
Van Morrison: Saint Dominic's Preview (Warner Bros. K46172, £2.09)
Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 2 September 1972
FOLLOW THAT VAN ...
Mott The Hoople: All The Young Dudes (CBS 65184, £2.29)
Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 16 September 1972
At last Mott get it all on wax! ...
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc, 30 September 1972
AL GREEN is top of the American chart again. 'I'm Still In Love With You' makes it four in a row. ...
Bobby Womack: Preacher Bobby's Hour-Long Sermon
Interview by Robin Katz, Disc, 7 October 1972
YOU JUST CAN'T talk to Bobby Womack. Don't misunderstand. It's not that this man doesn't have a thing to say, quite the contrary. ...
Humble Pie: Black Birds Baked in a Pie
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 14 October 1972
STEVE MARRIOTT has a dream. A colossal vision of honey-voiced black ladies and a crazy Louisiana sax player, skinny as a wasp and with dynamite ...
The Marvels, Jackie Wilson: Jackie Wilson, The Marvels, Black Faith: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by David Nathan, Disc, 14 October 1972
CURRENTLY riding the national charts with 'I Get The Sweetest Feeling', Jackie Wilson is something of a veteran of the music scene having enjoyed hits ...
Home, Mott The Hoople: Mott The Hoople, Home: Top Rank, Brighton
Live Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 14 October 1972
THERE WAS a great sense or occasion when I saw Mott at Guildford just a few weeks back. They were laying all their new stuff ...
Argent, Colin Blunstone, The Zombies: Plague of the Zombies
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Andrew Tyler, Disc, 14 October 1972
Were the Zombies one of the great neglected bands of the '60s? They had their hits, broke up and then created the sort of interest ...
Sandy Denny: Lady Mitchell College, Cambridge
Live Review by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 14 October 1972
THERE APPEARS to be an army of green men all over Cambridgeshire. I thought it odd, at first, that every pub in the county should ...
Lou Reed: The Black Sheep of New York
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 21 October 1972
THE INTERVIEW is to take place in a pub just off London's Curzon Street at around lunch-time. Lou Reed arrives late, looking papery. He's not ...
Thelma Houston: Thelma waits...
Interview by Robin Katz, Disc, 21 October 1972
WHEN LAST she graced the British shores, Thelma Houston talked about her strange success story that was lacking in only one aspect. Last week, over ...
Chairmen Of The Board: Night Of The General
Interview by Robin Katz, Disc, 28 October 1972
GENERAL JOHNSON writes stories about people and puts them to music. In three minutes he covers an entire biography where some people take an entire ...
Gladys Knight and the Pips: Gladys and Pips — been together now for 20 years
Profile by Robin Katz, Disc, 28 October 1972
THERE'S AN incredible excitement that one feels when discovering an artist for the first time; especially if it's before most people do. You feel as ...
Gary Glitter: A Raven in Rich Plumage
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 4 November 1972
"YOU WILL bear in mind that he's got dreadful 'flu, won't you," says Gary Glitter's publicity agent when we fixed up the interview. And sure ...
Lindisfarne: The Boogie Merchants
Profile by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 4 November 1972
ROSALIND RUSSELL traces the history of the band, through their schooldays, previous groups in which they played, and their emergence first as Newcastle's top outfit ...
Jerry Butler: Night Affair with Jerry Butler
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc, 4 November 1972
"THE CONCEPT of my album was to capture variety in a record. 'One Night Affair' deals with the feeling I think all men have at ...
The Stylistics: Stylistics' Soulful Romance
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc, 4 November 1972
WHAT MOTOWN did for Detroit, writers like Thom Bell, Gamble and Huff, and groups like the Stylistics are now doing for Philadelphia. With their brand ...
Argent, Nazareth: Sundown, Mile End, London
Live Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 11 November 1972
SUPPOSE A Rock-n-Roll band gave a concert and no one came – a thought that might have flashed through Rod Argent's mind as he scanned ...
Dennis Coffey: The White Soul Guitar
Profile by Phil Symes, Disc, 11 November 1972
DENNIS COFFEY is a white man who plays soul music. Ask any soul fan. Regular pop fans might not be acquainted with his name but ...
Bill Withers: Lots of Sunshine for Bill Withers
Profile and Interview by Phil Symes, Disc, 11 November 1972
MOST SONGWRITERS dream of one day writing a standard. Singers dream of establishing one. Bill Withers does both – frequently. You only have to look ...
Roxy Music: Central Hall, Chatham
Live Review by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 11 November 1972
"COR," SAID the bloke behind me after Roxy Music had finished their first number, "I like the way they take the micky out of themselves." ...
T. Rex: The Science Fiction Diplomatic Twentieth Century Robotised Holy Man Sends A Message...
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 11 November 1972
AS THE knockers warmed to their theme last week and adjusted their sights on Marc Bolan, the man himself was being mobbed at London Airport ...
The Jackson 5: Caroline Boucher Meets The Father Of A Phenomena
Report and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 11 November 1972
THE TWO rival fan factions swarm round the Churchill Hotel, Osmond Brothers fans to the left waving up to those windows, Jackson Five ones massed ...
The Jackson 5: The Jackson Five: The Talk of the Town, London
Live Review by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 11 November 1972
TWO DAYS after they arrived, the Jackson Five had the unenviable task of doing a 45-minute spot to the British press at a champagne party ...
Lindisfarne: On and Off the Wagon
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 18 November 1972
THERE HAVE BEEN more dazzling, more debauched rock'n'roll roadshows. Some of the more spectacular have been known to cushion the strain of touring with sultry ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 25 November 1972
ROCK OF AGES: Andrew Tyler meets rock recluse JIMMY PAGE, ex-Yardbird, on the completion of Led Zeppelin's fifth album. ...
Silverhead: guaranteed reaction...
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 25 November 1972
SILVERHEAD HAVE only been in existence for a couple of months, but they're already causing some extreme reaction round the country. One reader wrote in ...
Sparks: Food First, Music Second
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 25 November 1972
"Too many groups we know are into music." ...
Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 2 December 1972
THOSE OF you kind enough to read the idiocies I write to introduce the live gigs will know that, as far as I'm concerned, Lou ...
Bill Withers: The Raggety Genius
Interview by Robin Katz, Disc, 9 December 1972
"I DON'T want to get dependent on being called a genius to survive. I don't want to get so sucked in by flattery that I ...
Ringo Starr, T. Rex: Ringo Starr on Born to Boogie
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 9 December 1972
"BOLAN STRUTS, man, and I like that about him a lot. A lot of people, when they first meet him, can be put off because ...
Marc Bolan, T. Rex: The Boogie Merchants: Marc Bolan
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 9 December 1972
CAROLINE BOUCHER takes a bleary, cross-eyed view of Marc Bolan who started life as a Tooting Mod, progressed to a flower child, bopped as an ...
Mott The Hoople: The Mott Mystique — Does it Mean Death or Glory?
Report and Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 9 December 1972
THE STORY of how David Bowie's hastily written 'All The Young Dudes' snatched Mott The Hoople from an untimely grave and provided the band with ...
Deep Purple: Made In Japan (Purple TPSP 351 £3.25)
Review by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 16 December 1972
Deep in the heart of Japan ...
The Beatles, Marc Bolan, Ringo Starr, T. Rex: Ringo: Apple to the Core
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 16 December 1972
RINGO WAS always supposed to be like that empty-headed klutz who followed Peter Sellers everywhere in the Magic Christian — a good-humoured and honourable Tonto-figure ...
Grateful Dead: Europe 72 (Warner Brothers K 66019, £4.99) **
Review by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 23 December 1972
Dead boring ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 30 December 1972
SHARKS KNOW enough riffs to play hard-to-get. If they really wanted to wear Mexican sandals, army socks from Badges and Equipment and be very mysterious, ...
Alice Cooper, Kim Fowley, Jethro Tull: The Government and Alice Cooper’s Panties
Report by John Mendelsohn, Disc, Summer 1972
WOTTA week it’s been here in Hollywood, guys and gals, what with each and every day virtually splitting its trousers with grand and glamorous events, ...
The Temptations: Hitler's part in the rise of the Temps
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc, 13 January 1973
IS IT really eight years The Temptations have been with us? It really only seems like yesterday that Motown's senior male group were making a ...
Crazy Horse: Crazy Horse At Crooked Lake (Epic £2.29) **
Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 20 January 1973
LIKE THOSE unfortunates who happen to be the son, daughter, sister or brother of a famous personage, Crazy Horse seemed to be lumbered with the ...
Steely Dan: Can't Buy A Thrill (Probe SPB 1062, £2.25)
Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 20 January 1973
THIS ONE'S already speeding up the Billboard and Cashbox charts – currently around the 30 mark and likely to jump about 20 places by next ...
The Faces: And Along Came Jones
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 20 January 1973
BASICALLY SAYS Kenney Jones, the Faces have to be busy because if they're not working pretty regularly they get bored, very bored. And a bored ...
Claudia Lennear: Brown Sugar Lady
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 27 January 1973
A CLUSTER of fly-bursting, brown-skinned ladies has become pretty much standard roadshow equipment for plenty of white rock bands these past few years. The lead ...
Report and Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 3 February 1973
Sweet's Andy Scott Talks To Ray Fox-Cumming ...
Colin Blunstone: Hard Work But Still No Miracles
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 10 February 1973
SLIMMING IS a soul-destroying business. While I'm drinking a mug of sugarless tea, Colin Blunstone is sitting opposite me, blithely assuring me that he is ...
Fairport Convention: Town Hall, Watford
Live Review by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 10 February 1973
Fairport Below Par ...
Olivia Newton-John: Olivia Newton John: Nights in White Satin
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 10 February 1973
SOME INTERVIEWEES need only to be given their head with a single question before sounding off about their whole life history and psyche, while the ...
John Peel: Peel And The Pig — An Everyday Story Of Country Folk
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 17 February 1973
JOHN PEEL is a sensitive figure with a sturdy patch on the crotch of his jeans and a tendency towards schoolgirls and sensible underwear. A ...
David Cassidy: A Partridge Planning to Leave the Nest
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 10 March 1973
Looking through the eyes of Caroline Boucher at DAVID CASSIDY, with whom she spent a day at his Los Angeles home ...
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 10 March 1973
… from Zappa, whom Caroline Boucher visited at his Hollywood home ...
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 ...
Eddie Kendricks: When Temptation Got The Best Of Eddie Kendricks
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc, 10 March 1973
IT'S A big decision quitting a world-famous group, especially when they're on top, and look like sitting pretty for a long while. So it was ...
Interview by Robin Katz, Disc, 17 March 1973
ONE OF the best ingredients a composer can toss into a song is a dash of universality. Put something in the lyrics that people can ...
The Osmonds: 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 ...
Mahavishnu Orchestra: Birds Of Fire (CBS 65321, £2.29)
Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 17 March 1973
Mahavishnu more than one degree under ...
Procol Harum: Grand Hotel (Chrysalis CHR 1037 £2.30)
Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 17 March 1973
Procol's Hotel Mark II ...
Rick Springfield: Tricky Ricky
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 17 March 1973
RICK SPRINGFIELD'S record company and management people, leaving nothing to chance, have been dropping the odd hint. Like the smart white-on-white, life-size poster that arrived ...
David Cassidy: Empire Pool, Wembley, London
Live Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 24 March 1973
Nice one David! ...
Procol Harum: Six Years In The Harum
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 24 March 1973
'GARY'S GOT GOUT,' Keith Reid explains without so much as a trace of nonsense in his eyes, 'so he couldn't make it today.' ...
Average White Band: Marquee, London
Live Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 7 April 1973
IT'S SO EASY to be brought down by the gross excesses of what is fondly being referred to as the "pop revival." Much of it ...
Profile and Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 7 April 1973
RANDY CALIFORNIA isn't the state of the nation — it's the name of Spirit's lead guitarist. He's one of the two original members left from ...
Roxy Music, Sharks: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 7 April 1973
SIX OR seven months ago, a Roxy performance was such a cool business you got the impression the band would be just as satisfied if ...
Live Review by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 7 April 1973
SPIRIT'S TOUR here has not been over-publicised, so it's all to their credit that they're managing to pull large crowds and have had no less ...
Geordie, Sweet: Sweet, Geordie: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 7 April 1973
Bitter Sweet ...
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Live Review by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 14 April 1973
"THAT WAS just TERRIBLE," said Captain Beefheart after the opening performance of his tour at Manchester Free Trade Hall last Thursday. ...
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 14 April 1973
IT'S FUNNY how you get preconceived ideas about places and people, and things usually turn out to be completely different to the picture you'd imagined. ...
Lindisfarne: On Reflection: Alan Hull of Lindisfarne
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 14 April 1973
FOR SEVERAL weeks there had been rumbling and muttering noises suggesting that all was not well with Lindisfarne. It was Alan Hull in a careless, ...
The Beatles, Paul McCartney, Wings: Paul McCartney: Spilling the beans...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 14 April 1973
Paul McCartney on Wings, Klein and the chances of a Beatles get-together. Andrew Tyler reports ...
David Bowie, Cherry Vanilla: Cherry Vanilla: Cherry Sauce
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 21 April 1973
...Or hot gossip from a former skin-flick queen who's been hired to handle David Bowie's publicity machine. ...
Manassas: Down The Road (Atlantic K40440, £2.17)
Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 5 May 1973
Mystical Manassas ...
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 5 May 1973
MRS CONNOLLY, where are you? Wherever you are, your son Brian is doing all right thank you. He has just bought a new car and ...
Report and Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 26 May 1973
RAY FOX-CUMMING WATCHES THAT MAN STUN THE SCOTS IN ABERDEEN ...
David Bowie: Music Hall, Aberdeen
Live Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 26 May 1973
OUTSIDE ABERDEEN Music Hall last Wednesday a whole crowd of dour little Scottish guys stood touting programmes and posters, looking acutely self-conscious with Aladdin Sane ...
David Bowie: Aladdin Scotland (part 2)
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 2 June 1973
Part two of Ray Fox-Cumining's report on David Bowie in the North ...
Yes: A Story of Chinese Scriptures and Vegetable Eaters
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 2 June 1973
STEVE HOWE... ENGLAND IS STILL BEST ...
Iggy Pop, The Stooges: Iggy and the Stooges: Raw Power (CBS 65586, £2.17) ****
Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 9 June 1973
Iggy gives power to the people... ...
Cat Stevens: Summer in the city
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 16 June 1973
CAT STEVENS in his Fulham retreat talks to Ray Fox-Cumming ...
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 16 June 1973
PAUL SIMON minus his famous side-kick Art, in part one of his interview with Caroline Boucher ...
T. Rex: Exile of a Street Punk
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 16 June 1973
MARC BOLAN talks to Rosalind Russell as he prepares to get back into the swing of things. ...
Emerson Lake & Palmer: Carl Palmer 'ELPing Himself
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 23 June 1973
SO YOU thought Keith Emerson was a flashy organist? You should see Carl Palmer these days. He's got a two-tone Perspex rostrum which revolves when ...
First Choice: A return of Choice ladies to the scene
Profile and Interview by Phil Symes, Disc, 23 June 1973
FIRST CHOICE are climbing the charts with a great disco record called 'Armed and Extremely Dangerous'. It is not only their first hit, but when ...
Carole King: Lou Adler — voice of a King
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 23 June 1973
IT WAS after making Tapestry that Carole King met her producer, Lou Adler, one day and just casually enquired how the album was selling. It ...
Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel: Simon on the split... The Paul Simon interview — part two
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 23 June 1973
WHEN CONFRONTED with the inevitable questions about the split partner, Artie Garfunkel, Paul Simon always says now that it is three years since he made ...
Bryan Ferry, Roxy Music: Solo Ferry Sets Sail
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 23 June 1973
BRYAN FERRY has obviously not yet found it necessary to adopt strict security measures to avoid his Earls Court flat being invaded by hoards of ...
Jefferson Airplane, Grace Slick: Grace Slick in London: Killing three stones with one bird
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 30 June 1973
THE HEAT in London is stifling, writes your man from the front, but the cool of the hotel room, and the glass of chilled champagne ...
Live Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 30 June 1973
I REMEMBER THE TIME when you could hum along to a Jethro Tull tune. I even remember the time you could hum along to a ...
Sylvia Robinson: Not So Much A Debut For Sylvia
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc, 30 June 1973
ONCE IN A while a record comes along that nothing will stop being a hit. Not even the fact that radio producers are frightened of ...
David Bowie, Humble Pie, Judge Dread, Slade, Wizzard: The Bouncers
Report by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 30 June 1973
ANDREW TYLER Investigates the growing thuggery in concert halls the world over. And gets points of view from the stars, bouncers and the companies who ...
Golden Earring: Earring is believing
Profile and Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 2 February 1974
IN RATHER general terms. I'd say that Southern Comfort has made as much impact on bands as Eric Clapton has in recent years — for ...
Brian Eno: Eno: Blank Frank — the Messenger of Doom
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 2 February 1974
The initials B.F. spell... think about it. Words by Caroline Boucher ...
Hawkwind: Reaching out for higher flings
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 2 February 1974
Hawkwind's Stacia acts it out. Disc's Caroline Boucher writes it down ...
Mud, Sweet: The Sweet smell of success turns to Mud in the eye
Report and Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 9 February 1974
NOTHING WOULD please Nicky Chinn more this week than to see Sweet topple Mud from the top of the singles chart. One would think that ...
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 16 February 1974
TELLING BOWIE he'd won five Disc Music Poll Awards didn't seem much of a big deal. In the past few months he must have collected ...
Can: Future Days (United Artists UAS 29505, £2.25)
Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 16 February 1974
DESPITE THE title, which invites trouble, there's nothing futuristic about this album. It attempts nothing that hasn't already been done, often to death, before. Future ...
Slade: Hill Junior marches in, heats his hands at the fire and turns to warm his bum
Report and Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 16 February 1974
Was this Dave Hill's reaction to DISC'S awards? ...
Al Kooper, Lynyrd Skynyrd: Who The Hell Are Lynyrd Skynyrd?
Profile and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 16 February 1974
LYNYRD SKYNYRD is, in fact, a used-car salesman somewhere in Florida. At least, he doesn't spell his name quite like that – the band had ...
Brian Eno: Eno: Here Come The Warm Jets (Island ILPS 9268, £2.30) ****
Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 23 February 1974
I WAS BEGINNING to wonder if the Mad Mekon Of The Moog would ever justify the acres of coverage he's had since he left Roxy ...
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 23 February 1974
MAGGIE BELL, Queen of the Night, is emerging from the dark. She's been off the stage now for over a year, commuting back and forth ...
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 2 March 1974
Silly words from Terry Jones to Rosalind Russell ...
Brian Eno, The Winkies: Eno & the Winkies: Civic Hall, Guildford
Live Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 2 March 1974
BEFORE HIS Guildford concert with the Winkies last Wednesday, Eno told me: "I've tried rearranging the running order of the songs in all sorts of ...
Brian Eno, The Winkies: Eno: "I'm a Born Thief"
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 2 March 1974
... or "Eno helps digest other people's music". Fox-Cumming gets on earful of warm jets. ...
Maggie Bell: Queen Of The Night (Polydor 2383 239 Super £2.15)
Review by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 2 March 1974
WHAT CAN you say about an album that says it all by itself? Maggie made this album three times and took a year over it, ...
Marc Bolan & T. Rex: Zinc Alloy And The Hidden Riders Of Tomorrow (EMI BLNA 7751) ****
Review by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 2 March 1974
Bolan: more depth in style ...
The Bay City Rollers: Split! Nobby and the Bay City Boys Roll Their Separate Ways
Report and Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 16 March 1974
Rosalind Russell delves for the truth behind the departure of Nobby Clark from the Bay City Rollers ...
Glen Campbell: The Campbell's are coming... to London, or Houston, or...
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 23 March 1974
Glen Campbell changes the song title depending on where he's playing ...
David Bowie: O'Keefe Auditorium, Toronto
Live Review by Lenny Kaye, Disc, 29 June 1974
THE POWER of the image took precedence as David Bowie opened the first leg of his North American tour with a string of Canadian dates. ...
David Bowie, T. Rex: Tony Visconti: Behind Bolan And Bowie
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 28 September 1974
THIS IS a story of Marc Bolan and David Bowie – compared and contrasted. Bolan, the complete professional, who lost out through believing himself above ...
Ann Peebles: Gulliver's, London
Live Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 19 October 1974
CONCERTS at the ultra-trendy Biba's Rainbow Room almost invariably, for some reason or other, turn out to be disappointing and, from the reviews I've read ...
Ann Peebles: I Can't Stand The Rain
Interview by Harry Doherty, Disc, 19 October 1974
BRITAIN has been bitten by the Ann Peebles bug and, in a typical reciprocal move, our very own famous bug (commonly known as 'flu) has ...
T. Rex: Bolan Coming Up From The Bottom
Report and Interview by Lenny Kaye, Disc, 19 October 1974
AH, YES, the garden state of New Jersey. MARC BOLAN is being raised on a five-pointed star, framed in light bulbs, crucified to the wings ...
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band: Alex Harvey: The Dream Comes True
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 26 October 1974
THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM is coming true. At last, after 20 years in and around the business, Alex Harvey has got himself a hit. Don't worry ...
The Bay City Rollers: Bay City Rollers: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Harry Doherty, Disc, 26 October 1974
ROLLERS RUSHED ...
Status Quo: Would You Live Next Door To Status Quo?
Interview by Harry Doherty, Disc, 26 October 1974
A STATUS QUO recording session is an experience. What with furious neighbours bursting into the studio in the middle of "takes" and morse code messages ...
David Essex: The Busy Mr Essex
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 2 November 1974
MR ESSEX, I Presume? One could be forgiven for asking the question because, caught unawares in his dressing room for the 45 show, he looks ...
The Bay City Rollers: Phil Coulter: The Creator
Interview by Harry Doherty, Disc, 2 November 1974
Disc meets the man behind the Rollers and many others ...
The Bay City Rollers: Rollers On The Run
Interview by Harry Doherty, Disc, 2 November 1974
FAN HYSTERIA is reaching its peak with the Bay City Rollers. It's got to the point now where the Rollers can't even go to the ...
Cockney Rebel: The Mellowing Of Mr Harley
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 9 November 1974
STEVE HARLEY just sits there a-glowering, looking, if one can, defiantly mellow. The suggestion that the arrogant ol' sour puss has softened up a bit ...
Live Review by Harry Doherty, Disc, 9 November 1974
FOR SOME bizarre reason, HUMBLE PIE have been finding it particularly hard to gain acceptance in England, despite the fact that they are now a ...
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 9 November 1974
THESE WERE THE MYSTERIOUS INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO FOX-CUMMING WHEN HE SOUGHT AN INTERVIEW WITH THIS CHAP ...
Interview by Harry Doherty, Disc, 9 November 1974
"GARY IS great. His operation was a success and there are no aftereffects at all. If anything, it has improved his voice." ...
Mott The Hoople, Mick Ronson: Mick Ronson: Taking Care Of Business
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 16 November 1974
YORKSHIREMEN are renowned for their good business sense and Hull-born Mick Ronson sure ain't going to be the one to let the side down. Already ...
David Bowie: Radio City Music Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Lenny Kaye, Disc, 23 November 1974
THE DAVID Bowie Minstrel Show shuffled into Radio City Music Hall last week for a stay of five days, in what had to be the ...
The Faces, Ronnie Wood: Ronnie Wood: Is This The Face Of Violence?
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 23 November 1974
Ros Russell finds Woody on the warpath ...
Suzi Quatro: Poker Queen of Hearts
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 23 November 1974
Rosalind Russell busts in on Suzi Quatro and discovers the games she likes to play ...
The Rubettes: Rubettes Bring Back Jive
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 30 November 1974
IN DANCE-craze circles 'The Bump' is supposed to be all the rage...but is it? ...
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