International Times
International Times (it or IT) was an underground newspaper founded in London in 1966. It ran until 1972, and then reappeared sporadically until 1986.
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Report by uncredited writer, International Times, 14 September 1966
AT INDICA Gallery from November 9 to 22, there will be a one-man show of Instruction Paintings by Yoko Ono, photographed above performing her Cut ...
Live Review by Miles, International Times, 14 October 1966
I ATTENDED the Stones' concert at the Albert Hall which was fun though it turned out to be almost more of a happening than a ...
Pink Floyd, Soft Machine: 2500 Ball at IT Launch
Report by uncredited writer, International Times, 31 October 1966
IT ISN'T SO cool to rave about your own party, but the IT Rave-Up at the Roundhouse two Saturdays ago was such an event we ...
Kim Fowley, The Mothers Of Invention: Kim Fowley: Portrait of a Freak
Interview by uncredited writer, International Times, 31 October 1966
KIM FOWLEY is a hustler. He telephoned International Times and bombarded me with ideas. His main idea was that I should interview him and give ...
The Beatles, Paul McCartney: A Conversation with Paul McCartney
Interview by Miles, International Times, November 1966
THIS WAS recorded at Paul's house in Cavendish Avenue, Saint John's Wood in November 1966 for International Times, known as IT, the London Underground newspaper. ...
MILES: UFO and the Underground
Column by Miles, International Times, 30 January 1967
UFO in Tottenham Court Road affords us a unique opportunity to examine the London "Underground" generations. ...
The Who: Miles Interviews Pete Townshend
Interview by Miles, International Times, 13 February 1967
WHO? Pete Townshend, that's Who. Lead guitarist, song-writer, destructivist for this off-number-oned-pop group. He walks, he talks, he smashes. The WHO is the most popular ...
The Beatles, George Harrison: The Way Out is In: A George Harrison Interview
Interview by Miles, International Times, 19 May 1967
GH: If you could just say a word and it would tell people something straight to the point, then you take all the words that ...
Review by uncredited writer, International Times, 2 June 1967
LOVE IS one of the leading Californian, post Dylan/Stones groups, and their second L.P. is, to say the least, interesting. They are obviously trying to ...
The Rolling Stones: Pop In The Police State
Comment by Mick Farren, International Times, 2 June 1967
"People try to put us down just because we get around."The Who – 'My Generation' ...
The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts' Club Band (Parlophone)
Review by uncredited writer, International Times, 2 June 1967
ONE OF THE hang-ups on the pop scene is that too many groups have been writing "psychedelic" music before they have achieved sufficient insight into ...
Jimi Hendrix: The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced (Track)
Review by uncredited writer, International Times, 2 June 1967
Yes JH ...
Knack, The (UK), The Move: The Move, the Knack: U.F.O., London
Live Review by uncredited writer, International Times, 2 June 1967
THE MOVE played last week to the largest crowd U.F.O. has ever held and although judged by normal beat group standards they did a very ...
Live Review by uncredited writer, International Times, 30 June 1967
ARTHUR BROWN arrived at UFO last week with what appeared to be a new P.A. set, microphones for his drummer and his organist, more make-up, ...
The Fugs, Grateful Dead, The Mothers Of Invention: Miles' Trip: New York
Report by Miles, International Times, 30 June 1967
"Two persons were shot dead and several others injured in a gun battle between shoplifters and store detectives in a Bronx supermarket today." ...
The Rolling Stones, The Who: The Rolling Stones drugs bust: Time Is On Our Side
Report by uncredited writer, International Times, 28 July 1967
THE SUN isn't known to have two faces, only the moon, but in England we have the lunatic Sun (a newspaper it thinks) with as ...
Yusef Lateef: Ronnie Scott's, London
Live Review by Mick Farren, International Times, 28 July 1967
YUSEF LATEEF is at present playing a season at Ronnie Scotts backed by the Stan Tracey Trio. I have always thought of Lateef as one ...
Frank Zappa's Comments on The Mothers of Invention's album Absolutely Free
Interview by Miles, International Times, 31 August 1967
When Zappa arrived in London in the summer of 1967, he naturally looked to the underground press for support, just as he did in Los ...
Arthur Brown: It's Time To Use Records As Weapons
Interview by Mick Farren, International Times, 27 October 1967
ARTHUR BROWN: I refuse to talk without the presence of my cat near the microphone. Come here... ...
The Incredible String Band: The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (Elektra)
Review by uncredited writer, International Times, 8 March 1968
A VERY CELLULAR INCREDIBLE STRING BAND ...
Report by Miles, International Times, 19 April 1968
The UFO idea first began in February 1966 when Steve Stollman (front the ESP avant-garde jazz record label in New York – then still in ...
Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones: Street Fighting Stone: Mick Jagger Talks
Interview by Miles, International Times, 17 May 1968
This conversation was taped over cups of tea at my house on Lord North Street one afternoon a few days after the famous anti-Vietnam war ...
Comment by Mick Farren, International Times, 14 June 1968
POP MUSIC is one of the last free mediums, but is quickly becoming entangled in its own and society's games. ...
The United States of America: The United States of America (Columbia CS 9614)
Review by Miles, International Times, 28 June 1968
THE UNITED States of America are an electronic rock group and represent the greatest advance yet made in this field. ...
Review by Miles, International Times, 12 July 1968
WITH THE guile and cunning of a Zaptieh, Zappa presents his first 'solo' record: a ballet, an opera, a collage of all the elements then ...
Pink Floyd: A Saucerful Of Secrets (Columbia)
Review by Miles, International Times, 26 July 1968
THE FLOYD have developed a distinctive sound for themselves, the result of experiments with new 'electronic' techniques in live performance, however the result of most ...
Spooky Tooth: It's All About (Island ILPS 9080)
Review by Miles, International Times, 9 August 1968
Luther Grosvenor — lead guitar; Mike Harrison — harpsichord and vocals; Mike Kellie — drums; Reg Ridley — bass guitar; Gary Wright — organ and ...
The Doors: The Doors (Elektra); Strange Days (Elektra); Waiting for the Sun (Elektra)
Review by Miles, International Times, 6 September 1968
Jim Morrison (Vocal); Ray Manzarek (Organ, Piano, Bass); Robby Krieger (Guitar); John Densmore (Drums). ...
The Rolling Stones: 'Street Fighting Man' (London 45-909)
Review by Miles, International Times, October 1968
CHE GUEVARA'S band were all poets, Buckminster Fuller writes his architectural papers in poetry, The Rolling Stones sing Revolution! ...
Big Brother & The Holding Company: Cheap Thrills (CBS)
Review by Miles, International Times, 4 October 1968
Janis Joplin (lead voc); Peter Albin (bass, voc); San Andrew (lead & rhm gtr); James Gurley (lead & rhm gtr); David Getz (Drms, voc). ...
Deep Purple: Shades Of Deep Purple (Parlophone)
Review by Miles, International Times, 4 October 1968
Rod Evans (voc); Jon Lord (voc, org); Nic Simper (bass gtr); Ritchie Blackmore (lead gtr); Ian Paice (drms). ...
Review by Miles, International Times, 4 October 1968
Rob Landes (pno, org, et al); Dennis Keller (voc.); Michael (gtr); E.E. Wolfe III (bass); John Tuttle (drms). ...
Bob Dylan: From Rock to Acid Rock
Essay by Michael Gray, International Times, 18 October 1968
FROM ROCK to Acid Rock is first a ride to freedom, second an illusion. Rock, the kind of music for which Rosko still does extravagant ...
Review by Miles, International Times, 28 November 1968
THE ALBUM OF huge underground word-of-mouth reputation in the States these days, an album far removed from the fashion changing ladder of the high chart ...
The Beatles: The Beatles (White Album)
Review by Miles, International Times, 29 November 1968
WELL, THE new Beatle album's here with 30 catchy little numbers for you to whistle on your way to work, glide around the Mecca to, ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: Anthem Of The Sun (Warner Bros WS1749)
Review by Miles, International Times, 29 November 1968
Jerry Garcia (ld. gtr.); Bob Weir (rhm. gtr.); Ron McKernan (org.); Micky Hart, Bill Kreutzmann (drms. perc.); Tom Constanten (prep, pno.) ...
Soft Machine: The Soft Machine: The Soft Machine (ABC)
Review by Miles, International Times, 29 November 1968
SEVERAL exotic people were sitting on the floor at an Indica Gallery opening in 1966, the tall one with the Dr Strange cape was called ...
The Mothers of Invention: Cruising with Ruben and the Jets (Verve V6 5055S)
Review by Miles, International Times, 13 December 1968
The 1955 Zappa ...
James Taylor: James Taylor (APCOR 3)
Review by Miles, International Times, 1 January 1969
TAYLOR'S FIRST ...
Crosby Stills and Nash: Supergroup: Stills-Nash-Crosby
Interview by Miles, International Times, 1 January 1969
ONE SUNDAY before Christmas we went to a flat in Moscow Road to hear what Graham Nash had described on the phone as 'one of ...
Review by Miles, International Times, 1 January 1969
THE DEVIANTS are at their best when not imitating other groups. On this, their second album, it would be best to disregard a number of ...
Buddy Miles Express: Expressway To Your Skull (Mercury SR61192)
Review by Miles, International Times, 31 January 1969
A COMBINATION of heavy soul backing with overlay of modern blues — like taking the Electric Flag a bit further, this album is of great ...
Lady Wootton talks to Caroline Coon about Pot
Interview by Caroline Coon, International Times, 31 January 1969
THE BARONESS Wootton of Abinger was chairman of the subcommittee on 'Cannabis' of the Advisory Committee on Drug Dependence whose Report was published on 8th ...
Spirit: The Family That Plays Together (Ode)
Review by Miles, International Times, 14 February 1969
From The Ergot Fields ...
Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield: The Live Adventures Of Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper (CBS KGP6)
Review by Miles, International Times, 28 March 1969
Recorded September 26-28, 1968, San Francisco. ...
MC5: Kick Out The Jams (Elektra EKS-74042)
Review by Mick Farren, International Times, 28 March 1969
MC5 Muddle ...
Country Joe & The Fish: Country Joe: Fish Head
Interview by Mark Williams, International Times, 11 April 1969
INTERVIEWING COUNTRY Joe McDonald was an escapade I embarked on with fear in my heart, butterflies in my stomach and a copy of How to ...
Judy Collins: Who Knows Where The Time Goes? (Elektra EKS74033)
Review by Miles, International Times, 11 April 1969
THOUGH GLITTERING ecstatic static runs through Hendrix Fudge USA Touch, there's nothing but boring old feedback, too loud for subtlety, in MC5 & Blue Cheer ...
Interview by Mark Williams, International Times, 11 April 1969
IT'S NOT hard to suss that Led Zeppelin are well on the way to becoming a 'Supergroup', in the best tradition. ...
Leonard Cohen: Songs From A Room (CBS 9767 import)
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 11 April 1969
LEONARD COHEN is not the world's greatest singer, his voice has a raspy edge to it and one often gets the impression that he's singing ...
The Edgar Broughton Band: Magic Triangle: The Edgar Broughton Band
Report and Interview by Mick Farren, International Times, 11 April 1969
THE EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND came to London from Warwick in November of last year and have, in relatively short time, gained a solid reputation as ...
Interview by Miles, International Times, 25 April 1969
This interview is transcribed from a tape recorded conversation done at my house in Westminster. It has been edited for grammer and coherence only. Lee ...
Bob Dylan: Nashville Skyline (CBS)
Review by Miles, International Times, 9 May 1969
PART THREE of the new-style Dylan saga Is a direct continuation from the previous two albums: Kenny Buttrey (drums) and Charles McCoy (bass) have both ...
Report by Mark Williams, International Times, 9 May 1969
JANIS WAS WANDERING round rapping and goofing with her band when I ventured onstage during her pre-concert rehearsal at the Albert Hall. She was obviously ...
Interview by Mark Williams, International Times, 9 May 1969
A VERY WELL respected record producer recently informed me that Led Zepplin were the ONLY band that we're going to elevate themselves to the ranks ...
The Pink Fairies Motorcycle Club And All Star Rock And Roll Big Band: A Fairy-tale
Report and Interview by Mick Farren, International Times, 9 May 1969
A NUMBER of musicians from various well known bands in London have, it was revealed to IT in an exclusive interview this week, formed an ...
Review by Miles, International Times, 9 May 1969
THIS ARTICLE on the Who's new LP, Tommy, appears in place of an interview with Pete Townshend which could not be prepared in time to ...
Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley: Sun Records: Country Meets Rock
Retrospective by Guy Stevens, International Times, 23 May 1969
An occasional series which looks into pop music and its antecedents is the latest plot to swell our readership figures, thereby making the fuzz look ...
Interview by Miles, International Times, 23 May 1969
THIS INTERVIEW is the edited result of a two hour tape recorded Sunday May 4 at Miles's house. The story of The Who's two volume ...
King Crimson King Crimson King Crimson King Crimson
Interview by Mark Williams, International Times, 13 June 1969
[NOTE: The first two paragraphs of this piece – along with one or two others – appear to bear no relation whatsoever to Mark's piece... ...
Report by Mark Williams, International Times, 13 June 1969
IN AN ARTICLE in the dreaded Melody Maker (7/6/69), Tony Wilson points out that, 'At last the underground seems to be coming to terms with ...
Interview by Miles, International Times, 13 June 1969
M: IS THERE any musical influence on this album at all? Outside of the WHO itself I suppose the nearest thing is The Mothers, except ...
Blossom Toes: If Only For A Moment (Marmalade)
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 4 July 1969
BLOSSOM TOES. Now there IS a band. Amazing people, a gas to be with, group looners of the old school but as music makers they've ...
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bayou Country (Liberty)
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 4 July 1969
HOORAY FOR this bopping, rhythm muslc! What more can a groover of a leaper ask for than to be socked endlessly by the compulsive unpretentious ...
Interview by Mark Williams, International Times, 4 July 1969
THE FAMILY used to scare me a bit. Onstage they seemed to perform with a mixture of super coolness, a nonchalance that sometimes gave me ...
The Rolling Stones: Jagger Rap/Stoned Earful
Interview by Mark Williams, International Times, 4 July 1969
FEELING RATHER like a tin can on a conveyor belt, moving along waiting to be filled with fruit salad or spaghetti, I went along to ...
Profile and Interview by Mark Williams, International Times, 18 July 1969
WHILST STARVING in Birmingham, trying to make ends meet, the dreary winter days were claeered up a little by an album called We Are Ever ...
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 18 July 1969
THE ONLY OTHER record I possess on English Monument, is Ray Steven's single, 'Mr Businessman', which is beautiful and so is this album by Mr ...
Nick Drake: Five Leaves Left (Island)
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 18 July 1969
I DON'T think I've been so impressed by an unknown singer/songwriter since I got the Duncan Browne album on Immediate, eighteen months ago, (why don't ...
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 18 July 1969
WRITING REVIEWS of records made by people I'm happy to regard as good friends, always makes me feel a little guilty. What if my opinions ...
Report by Mark Williams, uncredited writer, International Times, 1 August 1969
FREE CONCERTS constitute a threat to the established promotional ethos. An opportunity for music to be played without the encroachments of contractual stipulations, of advertising ...
Crosby Stills and Nash: Crosby, Stills & Nash: Crosby, Stills & Nash (Atlantic 588 189)
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 15 August 1969
LATE LAST summer Dave Crosby was preparing his first solo album after having left the Byrds, Graham Nash was in America having a rest from ...
Jethro Tull: Stand Up (Island I LPS 9103)
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 15 August 1969
SOME CLEVER bastard is going to remark that the cover is the best part of this album, which would be a drag for him. Nevertheless ...
The Action, Mighty Baby: Mighty Baby: The Five Year Pregnancy
Interview by Mark Williams, International Times, 15 August 1969
ROGER TELLS the story with the quiet resignation of someone who has been fucked about so much that it really doesn't matter any more. ...
Crazy Horse, Neil Young: Neil Young with Crazy Horse: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Reprise)
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 15 August 1969
THE AFFECTION one feels for Neil Young is already immense because of his contribution to Buffalo Springfield, and the many beautiful things he wrote and ...
Frank Zappa, The Mothers Of Invention: Frank Zappa Interview
Interview by Miles, International Times, 29 August 1969
FRANK: There are some things I'd like to clarify about my editing technique. The editing technique is an extension of the composition because, as I ...
Bonzo Dog Band: The Bonzo Dog Band: Tadpoles (Liberty)
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 29 August 1969
LIBERTY RECORDS have gone to an almost unusual amount of trouble to supply record reviewers, deejays and other assorted irks with a copious, track-by-thrusting-track run ...
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 29 August 1969
THE NICE just keep escalating from strength to strength, their reputation solidifying as their incorporation of classical phraseology (sometimes admittedly borrowed wholesale) becomes even more ...
Interview by Mark Williams, International Times, 29 August 1969
THE THIRD Ear Band, in its various forms, has been with us for over a year and will hopefully exist for many moons to come. ...
The Band, Bob Dylan, Richie Havens, Tom Paxton: Bob Dylan, The Band: Isle of Wight Festival
Live Review by Miles, International Times, 12 September 1969
VISITORS to the 2nd Isle of Wight Music Festival at Godshill near Ryde more than doubled the population of the Island, outnumbered the 130 local ...
Tea & Symphony: Rock In The Sticks: Tea & Symphony
Interview by Mark Williams, International Times, 12 September 1969
THE MOST INTERESTING group in this article, from an historical point of view, is Tea & Symphony. They have had almost as many changes in ...
Interview by Mark Williams, International Times, 26 September 1969
I'D NEVER seen Mick Abrahams in a suit before. In fact, he'd confessed to me that he'd never bought a suit in his life. He'd ...
Interview by Mark Williams, International Times, 26 September 1969
AS ALL OF us who diligently study the music press will know, Graham Bond is back in Britain after nearly 2 years in America and ...
Iron Butterfly: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Atco SD 33-250, Import)
Review by Miles, International Times, 26 September 1969
A SECOND album, Darryl DeLoach no longer with them, which is a significant loss as he wrote most of the lyrics on Heavy (SD 33- ...
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 10 October 1969
TWO BEAUTIFUL records both with an element of surprise; Joni's isn't as immediately impressive as was her first and Bridget's manages to emanate an aura ...
Deep Purple with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 10 October 1969
THE ALBERT Hall Concert on Wednesday September 24th, featuring Deep Purple in concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, was possibly the most important musical event ...
King Crimson: In The Court Of The Crimson King (Island ILPS 9111)
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 10 October 1969
THE ULTIMATE Album. There is little one can fault with it; the arrangements make masterful use of multi-tracking, compressing and reducing, the standard of playing ...
Mott the Hoople: Hoopling Furiously
Interview by Mark Williams, International Times, 10 October 1969
GUY STEVENS is a man one should learn to trust. Every musical entity, record, group, or individual performer he's ever recommended me to, has turned ...
The Deviants: The Deviants (Transatlantic)
Review by Miles, International Times, 10 October 1969
FIRST CAME PTOOFF!: an album of outrageous London Underground freakery, soggy nostalgia and general-purpose nastiness – as English as potting sheds and The Goon Show ...
The Flock: The Flock (Columbia CS 9911)
Review by Miles, International Times, 10 October 1969
DESCRIBED BY John Mayall as "The best band I've heard In America", the Flock are a group without a leader or a contrived image: "We ...
Mighty Baby: Mighty Baby (HOLS 6002 Head Records)
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 6 November 1969
MIGHTY BABY are unique In having, over a period of five years, transmuted from a good Moddy (Skinhead)?) soul/pop group into a brilliant electric contemporary ...
Delaney & Bonnie And Friends: Accept No Substitute (Elektra)
Review by Miles, International Times, 21 November 1969
THE ALBUM that Apple wanted to get so much because George liked them so much and so for that matter did Derek Taylor which might ...
Jerry Yester, Judy Henske: Judy Henske & Jerry Yester: Farewell Aldebaran (Straight)
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 21 November 1969
JUDY HENSKE'S magnificent, almost butch voice makes this album memorable. Jerry Yester's vocals, arrangements and production (shared with ex-Lovln' Spoonful man Zal Yanovsky,) don't. ...
Mountain: Leslie West: Mountain (Bell)
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 21 November 1969
LESLIE WEST is a large American who sings a bit like a white Buddy Miles (or a black Terry Reld) and plays guitar just like ...
Sam Apple Pie: Sam Apple Pie (Decca)
Review by Miles, International Times, 21 November 1969
FROM THE depths of London's East End, the old Liberties, comes another underground group – a real one this time. ...
The Byrds: Preflyte (Together Records)
Review by Miles, International Times, 21 November 1969
THEY'RE CUTTING ACROSS BARRIERS WHICH MOST PEOPLE WHO SING ARE NOT EVEN HIP TO. THEY KNOW IT ALL. IF THEY KEEP THEIR MINDS OPEN THEY'LL ...
The Youngbloods: Elephant Mountain (RCA)
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 21 November 1969
THIS ALBUM is one of the essential records one would possess if a broad cross-sectlon of Rock is the ultimate zenith of one's collecting habits. ...
Al Kooper: You Never Know Who Your Friends Are (Columbia CS 9855)
Review by Miles, International Times, 5 December 1969
NO LONGER standing alone Al Kooper has found some friends. Now he is less self-conscious, more self-confident and it shows because this album is nice. ...
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 5 December 1969
IT'S VERY difficult you see. The record companies send you FREE records to review and something goes wrong: not enough space, a strangely appalling record ...
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 5 December 1969
R.C.A. VICTOR, whoever he may be, has just issued these two albums which both employ pictures of the recording stars in question at a very ...
Larry Coryell: Lady Coryell (Vanguard SVRL 19051)
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 5 December 1969
THIS IS quite possibly the most important record Philips have put out this year. Coryell is an unclassifiable guitarist and an artist who uses sound ...
The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed (Decca)
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 28 January 1970
IT'S ONLY after deliberately listening to the complete Stone's recorded output (9 albums, umpteen singles, 1 promotional album, 2 EPs) that one really appreciates just ...
Interview by Mark Williams, International Times, 12 February 1970
CTA, CANNED HEAT, Love & Flock are some of the more interesting American contemporary bands we've seen, or will be seeing, in Britain during the ...
The GTOs: Permanent Damage (Straight/CBS)
Review by Miles, International Times, 27 February 1970
IT'S NOT TOO difficult to reject the spectacle of Hollywood, to drop out, find yourself, re-evalue your ideas, unless you LIVE in Hollywood. What if ...
Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath (Vertigo)
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 13 March 1970
A BLOW JOB. Just get the gear on stage and wind it up Marshall stacks nine feet high on big & harsh with an edge ...
Caravan, The Wilde Flowers: Caravan and That Lot
Profile and Interview by Mark Williams, International Times, 13 March 1970
I REMEMBER the early publicity campaign, a minor masterpiece of hip PR and, it being early 1969 when the 'Underground Group As Pop Stars' syndrome ...
John and Beverley Martyn: John & Beverley Martyn: Stormbringer! (Island)
Review by Miles, International Times, 27 March 1970
J & B LAY IT DOWN AND STOMP ON IT ...
Yes: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Live Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 9 April 1970
IT HAS BEEN many months since I've seen YES and the consequent starvation of tight British progressive rock music par excellence left me eagerly awaiting ...
Frank Zappa: Zappa Press release, on disbanding Mothers, 1970
Report by Miles, International Times, 9 April 1970
"The Mothers of Invention, infamous & repulsive rocking teen combo, is not doing concerts any more." ...
The Sound of the Seventies and The Pop Proms: It's All a Put On
Report by Mark Williams, International Times, 8 May 1970
Pop Proms, Rock machine & the penis of promoting. ...
Report by Mick Farren, uncredited writer, International Times, 10 September 1970
2011 note: this report on the 1970 IoW festival is led off by Mick Farren but includes contributions by other, unnamed IT writers. The title ...
Review by Hugh Nolan, International Times, 25 February 1971
THESE TWO albums have more in common than being on the same label (and it's no detriment to either that it should be the label ...
Frank Zappa: Film: Zappa On 200 Motels
Interview by Miles, International Times, 28 February 1971
Interview with Frank Zappa – recorded at Rattner's on 2nd Ave. New York City November 14th 1970. Interview continued in an empty dressing room, backstage ...
Plastic Ono Band: John Lennon: John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (Apple PCS 7174)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, International Times, 28 February 1971
"I don't expect to be singing 'Twist and Shout' when I'm thirty." — John Lennon (1964) ...
Review by Hugh Nolan, International Times, 11 March 1971
A FITTING epitaph for the maverick First Lady of Rock. ...
Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground: Loaded (Cotillion import)
Review by Hugh Nolan, International Times, 11 March 1971
HAVING BEEN overtaken back in the early days by the Airplane, the Dead et al as the Most Identifiable sound of the underground, the Velvets ...
The Mothers Of Invention: Mothers Of Invention: Fillmore East — June 1971 (Kinney)
Review by Mick Farren, International Times, 26 August 1971
FOR THE most part this could be a live recording of the concert I saw at the Colosseum in January of this year. The band ...
The Doors: L.A. Woman (Elektra)
Review by Hugh Nolan, International Times, 26 August 1971
TITLE TRACK sounds like a typical Ballard fantasy — 'Woman viewed as linear plan of the City' or something — a beautifully imperceptible change from ...
Obituary by Mick Farren, International Times, 21 October 1971
GENE VINCENT, after years of illhealth and injury, died this week of a perforated ulcer. ...
Sandy Denny: The North Star Grassman & the Ravens (Island)
Review by Mick Farren, International Times, 21 October 1971
THERE SEEMS to be a line that lady singers have to cross before they begin to exhibit real soul. The transition also seems, to many, ...
Interview by Howard Parker, Chris Rowley, International Times, 1972
"IF YOU CAN’T get cunt, you want to be a rock ‘n’ roll Something so you can get it, and when you have it you ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: Empire Pool, Wembley
Live Review by Mick Farren, International Times, 20 April 1972
"The trouble with a lot of kids who come to our concerts is that they can't see beyond the drugs. They get so ripped that ...
Smith, Perkins & Smith: Smith, Perkins & Smith (Island)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, International Times, 19 June 1972
I THINK I'M going crazy. Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Kossoff, Kirke, Tetsu, Rabbit, Fishbaugh, Fishbough, Zorn, Brewer, Shipley, Demick, Armstrong, Seals, Crofts, Scott, Ethridge, Barbata, ...
The Persuasions: Street Corner Symphony (Island)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, International Times, 19 June 1972
THE PERSUASIONS are a five-strong black vocal group who perform acappella. Their album Street Corner Symphony is just what it says: a set of songs ...
The Rolling Stones: The Long Road to Room Ten-O-Nine
Comment by Mick Farren, International Times, 19 June 1972
The Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street ...
The Velvet Underground: Live at Max's Kansas City (Atlantic)
Review by Jonathon Green, International Times, 25 August 1972
THE VELVET Underground were New York's premier rock band. Max's Kansas City still is a club that makes the Speakeasy something like a pale reflection ...
Retrospective by Mick Farren, International Times, 18 September 1972
A LOOK AT A JET AGE RED HOT MAMA ON THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF HER DEATH ...
John Lennon, Yoko Ono: Lennon-Ono: Deporting The Great Swan
Report by Jonathon Green, International Times, 2 November 1972
NEW YORK: 'It is with great pleasure that we wish to add PEN American Center's great Roc's voice to the vast chorus of poetic larks and ...
Review by Chris Rowley, International Times, 17 November 1972
A WHILE BACK I was leaning up against the pinball machine in our favourite hostelry when one of the company remarked to me that the ...
The Deviants, The Pink Fairies: Pink Fairies
Profile by Chris Rowley, International Times, 2 December 1972
Chris Rowley has been probing the life and times of the Pink Fairies: the women, the liquor, the hot hot music, the grim realities behind ...
Grateful Dead: Ron 'Pigpen' McKernan: 'As Long As He's Been Doin' It Right'
Obituary by Jonathon Green, International Times, 22 March 1973
PIGPEN IS DEAD. Ron McKernan, 27 years old, organist and all-purpose alky crazy for the Grateful Dead. ...
Review by Chris Rowley, International Times, May 1973
THIS IS THE definitive Hawkwind LP and very definitely their best. Being live it has all the right qualities to bring back memories of twitching ...
Review by Bob Fisher, International Times, 17 May 1973
A COUPLE OF years ago an excellent little gangster movie from the States was doing the circuit, called The Grissom Gang. Now rock has come ...
Comment by Jonathon Green, International Times, 17 May 1973
THEY'RE RIGHT, you know. I always had this sneeking suspicion that they might be, but ferchrissake, I never really wanted to talk about it before. ...
OZ: More Than Simply Another Hippy Rag
Report by Jonathon Green, International Times, 31 May 1973
I TOLD YOU so. I've always wanted to say it, and now I can. Here, as I hack out yet another goddam obituary, I can ...
Overview by Penny Reel, International Times, 31 May 1973
WHITE MAKES his move. Black makes his move. White moves and Black reciprocates. Black moves and White reciprocates. The players perpetuate the game for the ...
Bob Marley & the Wailers: The Wailers: Catch a Fire (Island)
Review by Penny Reel, International Times, 31 May 1973
WITH THE Wailers presently heralded as the reggae band by music acclaimants, I expect to see Catch a Fire amongst those record collections where Eddie ...
Festivals: Whither The Million-Dollar Bash?
Report by Chris Rowley, International Times, 12 June 1973
'During Saturday evening the weather deteriorated with the wind increasing and bringing heavy rain. By this time it was not possible to carry patients by ...
Festivals: Whither The Million-Dollar Bash?
Report by Chris Rowley, International Times, 12 June 1973
'During Saturday evening the weather deteriorated with the wind increasing and bringing heavy rain. By this time it was not possible to carry patients by ...
Review by Jonathon Green, International Times, 28 June 1973
Punk drunk junk ...
Toots & The Maytals: Funky Kingston (Dragon)
Review by Penny Reel, International Times, 28 June 1973
Jamaican Rock'n'roll ...
Rita Coolidge, Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Dir. Sam Peckinpah)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Jonathon Green, International Times, 12 July 1973
Real Blood and Jizzum, Sam... ...
Commander Cody: Commander of the Ozone
Profile by Chris Rowley, International Times, 26 August 1973
OZONE: Form of Oxygen having three atoms per molecule, pungent, refreshing odour and exhilarating influence. ...
The Rolling Stones: ...We Also Sing The Blues
Essay by Mick Farren, International Times, 6 September 1973
THE ROLLING STONES are apt to get tied in with so many images, drugs, decadence, libertine aristos of the jive renaissance, that it gets all ...
What Made Rizla Famous Made A Loser Out Of Me
Comment by Penny Reel, International Times, May 1974
AFTER YEARS OF shadowy unwillingness as one of the mainstays of the dope scene, Rizla and their finest quality gummed papers have finally put one ...
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