New York Sunday News
The New York Sunday News was the sister publication of the New York Daily News.
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Birtha, "Mama" Cass Elliot, Labelle: Birtha and Mama Cass: The Right On Sound Called Liberated Rock
Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 17 September 1972
I WAS interested to read in one of those glossy magazines that the coming trend in music for the fall is "rock 'n' rouge," because ...
Black Oak Arkansas: It's One Big Party and You're Invited
Report and Interview by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 22 July 1973
I HAVE IT from the horse's mouth this week — the best way to get a rock and roll band is through the road managers. ...
Black Sabbath: Festival Hall, Brisbane, Queensland
Live Review by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 4 February 1973
The Spooky Black Sabbath in Brisbane ...
Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 25 June 1972
"DEAR LILLIAN: It sure must be nice to be a rock critic. I really envy you. Can you tell me something about your life? ...
David Bowie: Clothes Make the Bowie
Profile by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 20 February 1972
WHEN I WAS in England recently, a lot of excitement seemed to be about David Bowie, a singer-songwriter, who, in the past, has managed to ...
David Bowie & the Spiders From Mars: Carnegie Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 8 October 1972
A Rock Happening: David's Debut ...
David Bowie: The Elvis Of the Seventies
Comment by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 18 June 1972
IT WAS just after the Elvis concert and David Bowie and I were sitting in his suite at the Park Lane Hotel (that's where record ...
Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 30 July 1972
LONDON — ONE year, when I was in London, 1966 I think, I saw the Beatles and the Rolling Stones on the same bill as ...
David Bowie, The Rowan Brothers, Slade, T. Rex: Like Wow, What A Week That Was!
Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 24 September 1972
DIARY OF A ROCK WRITER, instalment two, or why-does-it-all-have-to-happen-in-one-week? ...
David Cassidy: The Real David Cassidy
Profile by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 19 March 1972
A FEW WORDS in defense of Mr. David Cassidy. What is this nonsense about "writhing sensuality" and "apple pie and sex"? ...
Chicago: The Weary Life Of a Wandering Minstrel
Interview by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 24 June 1973
Chicago, a group that packed Madison Square Garden, may not look it, but they're a tired bunch of performers. ...
The Cockettes: Vulgarity or Vanguard?
Profile by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 14 November 1971
A SHOW came to New York this week that many people found tedious, offensive and unspeakably vulgar. I want to remind all those people who ...
Commander Cody: The Early Sound Of "Now" Music
Interview by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 29 July 1973
HIS FIRST BAND was called the Fantastic Surfing Beavers and, according to Commander Cody, it was the worst band that ever existed. I was sorry ...
Live Review by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 10 June 1973
Paul Simon & Alice Cooper, So Differently the Same ...
Interview by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 8 July 1973
I DON'T CARE how many superannuated Peter Noone groupies rushed the stage, Richard Nader's '60s nostalgia night was still a bomb, with a total lack ...
Emerson Lake & Palmer: The Top of Pop: A Rock Fan Writes
Column by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 23 April 1972
THAT FINE dividing line between fan and groupie is often razor thin and rather shaky. I used to admire groupies because they at least broke ...
The Faces: Yes, All You Rock Fans, Your Idols Love Letters
Interview by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 20 May 1973
IF YOU'VE ever wanted to write to Rod Stewart or any one of the Faces, now's your chance. I don't want to sound like the ...
Focus: Philharmonic Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 1 April 1973
The Focus is on a Group Called Focus ...
Al Green: The Soft-Sell World of Al Green
Interview by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 15 July 1973
IT IS THE HOTTEST, most enervating Sunday in all creation. I am in Manhattan, and it is like a steambath. He is in far off ...
The GTOs, Helen Reddy: A Requiem For Miss Christine
Comment by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 26 November 1972
THE DEATH OF Christine Frka has depressed me deeply. Miss Christine (she never used that troublesome last name) had her shining face on this page ...
The Jackson 5: Jackson 5: Black and Talented
Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 9 July 1972
I THOUGHT I was going; to die. There was just me, them — and him. Not a soul over 16 in sight, just me entirely ...
The Jackson 5, Jermaine Jackson: Let's Hear a Scream For the Jackson Five
Profile by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 17 June 1973
"Hey, Jackson Five fan! Look at all this outasight J-5 groovy good stuff you can order! Hurry! Send away today! Fast delivery! Money-back guarantee" ...
Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger Lets His Hair Down
Interview by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 18 March 1973
THOSE OF you who have been irritably wondering what in the name of heaven I was doing in Australia with Mick Jagger when I should ...
Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger: A Basically Serious Boy
Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 23 July 1972
LONDON — HE may be his satanic majesty to Life magazine and Time and all the rest of the gang, but over here in London, ...
The Kinks, Iggy Pop, The Stooges: Ray & Iggy: A Pair of Rock Aristocrats
Profile by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 8 April 1973
IN THEIR own ways, they are both aristocrats. Last week belonged to both of them, with Ray Davies and the Kinks playing two colleges in ...
Labelle: Nona Hendryx of Liberated Labelle
Profile and Interview by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 2 July 1972
SOUL! NONA Hendryx of Labelle, a group of three young black women that has been together more than 10 years, gets this sweet look on ...
Led Zeppelin: The High-Flying Led Zeppelin Tour
Interview by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 13 May 1973
THE WAY I've been hearing it, it's already the biggest tour in rock and roll history — 33 concerts in 30 cities, a gross that ...
Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 5 August 1973
SO THEY'RE saying rock and roll is dead? Not this week, they aren't! What a week! While every newspaper, radio and TV station was telling ...
John Lennon, Yoko Ono: The Top of Pop: John & Yoko
Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 20 June 1971
JOHN AND Yoko Lennon have come to town. ...
Rod McKuen, Helen Reddy, Slade: A Rock Critic's Rough and Reddy Life
Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 29 April 1973
THE LIFE of a rock and roll writer, as I have said all too often before, is not all sunshine and roses. The Friday night ...
New York Dolls, The Osmonds: The Top of Pop: The Dolls Will Be Heard From
Column by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 3 September 1972
THREE HEROES. You pay your money and you take your choice. Which one is yours? ...
New York Dolls, Todd Rundgren, T. Rex: Marc Bolan: The Man, The Myth and the Music
Report and Interview by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 12 August 1973
HE SITS there with his head covered in corkscrew curls, his temples and eyelids gently rouged, his lower lashline ever so slightly outlined in pencil, ...
The Osmonds: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 5 December 1971
Don't Knock Cradle Rock ...
The Rolling Stones: Rolling Stones Gather No Groupies
Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 25 February 1973
GERI MILLER, where are you? They had a party for the Rolling Stones here in Sydney, Australia, this week, and it might as well havebeen ...
The Rolling Stones: A Case of the Mick Jaggers
Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 11 March 1973
IT WAS one of the funniest cartoons I have ever seen. A mother is standing there, looking rather alarmed, holding on to her son whose ...
Leon Russell, Loudon Wainwright III: The Perils of a Rock and Roll Reporter
Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 1 October 1972
WITH INFINITE sadness and deep sorrow, I would like to announce I won't be covering any more events at the Nassau Coliseum, unless I am ...
James Taylor, West, Bruce & Laing: James Taylor: Radio City Music Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 12 November 1972
Radio City Rocks and Rolls ...
Three Dog Night: Flower Flight to Dallas
Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 13 August 1971
YOU'VE HEARD about "Ship of Fools". Now let me tell you about the "Flower Flight" — a far-too-early plane that flew to Dallas recently for ...
Dionne Warwicke: elegance, simplicity and Maplewood, N.J.
Profile and Interview by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 20 February 1972
THE COFFEE table is marble and kidney shaped with little gilt legs. The bar is a wooden cylinder with a vase of pink feather flowers ...
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