Newsday
Newsday is an American daily newspaper, first published in 1940, that primarily serves Nassau and Suffolk counties and the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, although it is sold throughout the New York metropolitan area. It is also available online.
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The Wailers: Bruce Springsteen, The Wailers: Max's Kansas City, New York NY
Live Review by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 19 July 1973
Rock and reggae ...
Mott The Hoople, New York Dolls: Despite the Complications, The Dolls Will Yet Be a Superstar
Profile by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 12 August 1973
EVEN THOUGH Mott the Hoople is among the most British of rock bands, and the New York Dolls is one of the most American, they ...
Report by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 19 August 1973
Being a Partial Compendium of Some of the More (Or Less) Outstanding New York Unknowns ...
Professor Longhair: Kenny's Castaways, New York NY
Live Review by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 17 October 1973
A myth who can make it ...
John Lennon, Yoko Ono: Yoko Ono: Going it alone
Interview by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 28 October 1973
SHE IS — the late Bruce Lee aside — the most famous Oriental entertainer in the western hemisphere, half of the most notorious show-biz couple ...
New York Dolls: They Weren't Dolls at the Waldorf Concert
Report by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 4 November 1973
PROMOTER HOWARD Stein wanted to add some glamor and sophistication to the rock scene, so he put on rock's first show at the Waldorf Astoria ...
Mahavishnu Orchestra: The Mahavishnu Orchestra: Avery Fisher Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 28 December 1973
The same mountain, again ...
Joni Mitchell: Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale NY
Live Review by Dave Marsh, Newsday, August 1974
Big time now ...
The Band: Selling Talent Short for Cheap Cheers
Comment by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 15 September 1974
THE BAND, out on its own again after two albums and a tour with mentor Bob Dylan, didn't have an ordinary dressing room for a ...
David Bowie, Luther Vandross: David Bowie: Radio City Music Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 31 October 1974
Bowie's soul doesn't glitter ...
Report by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 3 November 1974
I like sex, because sex is not dangerous. Violence is dangerous, that's why I leave my violence on stage. But we've never been into glitter. ...
Rory Gallagher, If, Rush: Rory Gallagher, Rush, If: Beacon Theater, New York NY
Live Review by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 6 November 1974
Rock in a gilded cage ...
Loudon Wainwright III: Singing His Way Into M*A*S*H
Interview by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 17 November 1974
CAPT. CALVIN Spaulding entered the Korean war recently as one of the crazed crew of doctors who staff CBS TV's M*A*S*H. But even the most ...
Live Review by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 9 December 1974
Let it rock ...
Charlie Rich: Felt Forum, New York NY
Live Review by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 17 December 1974
Not as Rich any more ...
The Rolling Stones Need More Than Another Pretty Face
Report by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 22 December 1974
IMMEDIATELY AFTER Mick Taylor left (I hesitate' to say "quit") the Rolling Stones last week, speculation about his successor began. The gossip all but ignored ...
Roxy Music: Decadent, But What Is That?
Profile and Interview by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 23 February 1975
THE BRITISH rock band had been up all night, doing to their midwestern hotel what British rock bands are famous for doing. In the morning, ...
Patti Smith: Very special sound
Profile by Dave Marsh, Newsday, April 1975
THE BEST new rock music in the area is taking place this weekend (Thursday to Sunday) and next (April 17-20) at a scruffy Bowery bar ...
Patti Smith: A Rocker Determined To Do It All
Interview by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 20 April 1975
PATTI SMITH, the reformed poet, playwright and songwriter, learned to sing sometime last year. Now, her connections of Motown soul sounds and Paris in the ...
Labelle: Harkness Theatre, New York NY
Live Review by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 7 May 1975
Silver birds ...
The Ramones, Talking Heads, Television: Punk Rock: Its Day Will Come
Report by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 25 January 1976
IF YOU thought Jefferson Airplane was a weird name, let some of these drop off your tongue. Talking Heads. Tuff Darts. Ramones. Planets. Heartbreakers. Shirts. ...
David Bowie: Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale NY
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 24 March 1976
Reincarnation ...
Aerosmith Flies, After a Long Takeoff
Profile by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 2 May 1976
IN JANUARY, 1973, Columbia Records released the first album by Aerosmith, a Boston-based hard rock band. Six months later, that album, Aerosmith, had sold a ...
Tom Waits: Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York NY
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 10 May 1976
True believer, but not Kerouac the second ...
Profile and Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 20 June 1976
SOME BANDS get you with their charismatic stagecraft. Others, with musicianship that drives and dazzles. But it is the songs that make Steely Dan the ...
Elton John, Bernie Taupin: He Puts Words Into Elton John's Mouth
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 8 August 1976
WHEN ELTON John takes the stage of Madison Square Garden Tuesday night in the first of an unprecedented seven shows there (long ago sold out), ...
Patti Smith's Crowd Appeal Shows She's Going Places
Profile and Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 19 September 1976
A FEW weeks ago, the Patti Smith Band, which visits Hofstra University for two shows Thursday, played an unannounced and unadvertised midnight show at the ...
Peter Frampton: Frampton hits the middle
Report by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 3 October 1976
After 10 years on the fringes of popularity, Peter Frampton is suddenly on top. ...
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 13 February 1977
PEOPLE WITH careers in the record world refer to their industry as the music business for one elementary reason. It is a business, with a ...
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 24 April 1977
WHAT KIND of record company would use as its motto the phrase "reversing into tomorrow"? Which record company would define its purpose, on its first ...
Olivia Newton-John: She's as serene as her repertoire
Profile and Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 8 May 1977
OLIVIA NEWTON-John is gorgeous — so attractive with her fluffy blonde hair, ice-blue eyes and sleek figure that she could pass for Farrah Fawcett-Major's sister. ...
Average White Band, Marvin Gaye: Marvin Gaye, Average White Band: Radio City Music Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 17 September 1977
Body and soul singer ...
Talking Heads: Making heady music out of school
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 9 October 1977
IT IS only three years since three friends from the Rhode Island School of Design moved to New York, bent on developing their careers as ...
David Bowie: Bowie locks away an old life-style
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 27 November 1977
FIVE YEARS ago, David Bowie created "Ziggy Stardust." Ziggy was the prototypical glitter rock star: Rich, beautiful, stylishly pansexual. The 1972 album The Rise and ...
Sex Pistols: The Sex Pistols: Great SouthEast Music Hall, Atlanta GA
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 7 January 1978
More heat than raunch in Sex Pistols debut ...
Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson: Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings: Outlaws offer new kind of country
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 22 January 1978
IF YOU think the Super Bowl was rough on the Denver Broncos, you should have seen Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson the next afternoon. The ...
Joni Mitchell: Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (Asylum)
Review by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 26 January 1978
Mitchell evolves ...
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 22 February 1978
Earth, Wind and Fire puts on a flashy show ...
Pere Ubu, Hedy West, Warren Zevon: Warren Zevon: Rained out of his home
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 3 March 1978
THIS WINTER has done more than dump masses of snow on the East. It's also made a lie out of Albert Hammond's song 'It Never ...
David Cassidy, Shaun Cassidy: Shaun Cassidy, Rock Star
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 5 March 1978
An overnight sensation No time for an explanation Sensation, yeah, yeah, yeah — Shaun Cassidy, 'Teen Dream' ...
Pat Benatar: Overcoming the classics
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 24 March 1978
PAT BENATAR is a singer who has put herself in the unusual position of trying to unlearn almost everything she knows about her vocation. On ...
The Band: A big-time goodbye for The Band
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 30 April 1978
THERE WAS nothing small-time about The Last Waltz. It was a concert held in San Francisco a year ago last Thanksgiving to mark the final ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Rossington Collins Band, The Who: Lynyrd Skynyrd: "Still healing"
Report and Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 17 September 1978
THE EFFECTS of last October's plane crash that ended the career of Lynyrd Skynyrd, America's most talented Southern-grown hard rock band, are still being felt ...
Donna Summer: Felt Forum, New York NY
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 4 November 1978
Safe at the Forum ...
Charles Mingus, Joni Mitchell: Charles Mingus, Jazz Pioneer, Dead
Obituary by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 9 January 1979
CHARLES MINGUS, the innovative jazz composer, band leader and bassist, died Friday night in Cuernavaca, Mexico. He was 56. ...
Sex Pistols, Sid Vicious: Sid Vicious Dies of Overdose
Report by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 3 February 1979
NEW YORK — Sid Vicious joined his girlfriend Nancy in death yesterday. ...
Boney M: A hit almost everywhere but here
Profile and Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 18 March 1979
THEY'VE BEEN No. 1 in Germany and Japan, Israel and Kuwait, France, Peru, Portugal, Kenya and dozens of other countries. One of their singles recently ...
Cheap Trick's conquest of Japan
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 20 May 1979
THE TRADITION of American musicians and artists going to Britain or the European continent in search of more responsive audiences is a venerable one. Spirits ...
The Who is undated in a new age
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 24 June 1979
THE WHO may have won and maintained its devoted and massive following thanks to the flamboyant intensity of its peerless live performances and the surging ...
Rickie Lee Jones: Carnegie Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 24 July 1979
DESPITE THE immediate success of her debut album, there has been some question as to whether Rickie Lee Jones was a one-shot hot-shot or an ...
Jefferson Starship: The Starship, rebuilt
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 9 November 1979
LAST YEAR, it must have seemed as if the curse of Tutankhamen had fallen on the Jefferson Starship. In June, 1978, the band lost more ...
Public Image Ltd.: Is there any rust in the metal box?
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 9 March 1980
The king is gone but he's not forgotten This is the story of a Johnny Rotten It's better to burn out Than it is to ...
Grateful Dead is very much alive
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 16 March 1980
HAIGHT-ASHBURY. The diggers. Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Owsley's acid. Family Dog, Acid Tests. The summer of love, San Francisco, wear flowers in your ...
Blue Angel: My Father's Place, Roslyn NY
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 15 November 1980
Forgotten Era Of Rock ...
The Beatles, Murray the K: Murray the K Dies; "Fifth Beatle" Was 60
Obituary by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 23 February 1982
SUBMARINE RACE watchers walked hand-in-hand listening to golden gassers on the Swingin' Soiree. Teens jabbered in a peculiar language, taunting parents and teachers by inserting ...
Joni Mitchell: Jones Beach Theater, New York
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 26 July 1983
DURING THE COURSE of her unpredictable but resilient career, Joni Mitchell has been the dewy-eyed sophomore, the slit-eyed hipster, the clear-eyed visionary. Her songs of ...
John Travolta: Practice Makes Perfect
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 2 June 1985
John Travolta has gone from the disco hunk of Saturday Night Fever to the Rolling Stone reporter of his new movie. In between, he says, ...
Bruce Springsteen: Into the Future
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 4 April 1988
THE "TUNNEL OF LOVE" tour is not rock-and-roll business as usual, or even Springsteen business as usual. This, after all, is a show that for ...
Report and Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 23 October 1988
FOR HOURS, the same shot repeats over and over on a massive screen in a high-ceilinged editing room in Studio City, just a traffic jam ...
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 29 January 1989
FIVE-YEAR-OLDS take guns to school, 10-year-olds sell crack. Homelessness, Howard Beach, Joel and Hedda, Tompkins Square, Tawana, AIDS. Lou Reed didn't make this world, but ...
Barry Manilow: A Barry Manilow for The '90s
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 16 April 1989
He's been up, he's been down, now he's trying to get the feeling again. A humbled but hopeful Barry Manilow opens on Broadway. ...
Aretha Franklin: Westbury Music Fair, Westbury NY
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 24 June 1991
ARETHA FRANKLIN is so far beyond having anything to prove that it would be easy to excuse her if she just wanted to go through ...
Caetano Veloso: Town Hall, New York City
Live Review by Richard Gehr, Newsday, 8 August 1991
Brazil's most respected singer-songwriter is a velvet-voiced visionary with a surreal sense of humor. Richard Gehr at Town Hall, Saturday night. ...
Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia: An Interview with Jerry Garcia
Interview by Richard Gehr, Newsday, 9 September 1991
IT WAS THE first thing that happened to the Grateful Dead when they arrived in New York City on June 1, 1967, and Jerry Garcia ...
Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio
Comment by Tim Page, Newsday, 20 November 1991
THERE'S NOTHING particularly mysterious about writing a piece of "classical music," especially when one commands the power and influence of a Paul McCartney. ...
Grateful Dead: Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, NY
Live Review by Richard Gehr, Newsday, 12 March 1992
ICY WINDS RIPPED ACROSS Long Island Wednesday night as the Grateful Dead launched the first of three sold-out Uniondale evenings with the meteorologically inspired 'Cold ...
Genesis: Giants Stadium, New Jersey
Live Review by Deborah Frost, Newsday, 4 June 1992
"DRUMMER SENSITIVE to acoustic music" read the want ad Genesis once placed in an English music paper. Its ironieshave never been more apparent or more ...
Little Richard: AWOP-BOP-ALOO-MOP-ALOP-BAM-BOOM!
Profile by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 18 June 1992
THERE'S NO QUESTION that some rock icons learned how to do what they do by watching and hearing Little Richard, from the cascading "whooo's!" on ...
Joan Armatrading: Square the Circle (A&M)
Review by Deborah Frost, Newsday, 12 July 1992
WHEN BONO interrupted a recent arena performance to sing a few bars of Joan Armatrading's minor '70s hit, ‘Love & Affection’, he struck the one ...
Shabba Ranks: Dancehall Invasion
Report by Richard Gehr, Newsday, 27 August 1992
CURRENTLY MAKING impressive inroads into the American market, dancehall reggae may be the most challenging--and, many would say, irritating--style of popular music since rap, which ...
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Party: Town Hall, NYC
Live Review by Richard Gehr, Newsday, 11 October 1992
SITTING CROSS-LEGGED on an Indian carpet, surrounded by his seven-man qawwali "party," rotund Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan may look like Jabba the Hut but he ...
Bob Dylan: 30th Anniversary Concert at Madison Square Gardens
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 17 October 1992
BOB DYLAN'S SONG catalogue is so varied and vital that Friday's four-hour concert at Madison Square Gardens barely got the key in the door of ...
Leonard Cohen: The Loneliness of the Long-Suffering Folkie: Leonard Cohen
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 22 November 1992
ON HIS NEW ALBUM The Future (Columbia), Leonard Cohen views history's changing currents with more than a little bit of wariness. "Give me back the ...
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 23 May 1993
THE PENINSULA Hotel's presidential suite is not your standard overnight business accommodation, even for Fifth Avenue. There are three bedrooms, a library, two living rooms, ...
Interview by Ira Robbins, Newsday, 10 August 1993
JOHN SEBASTIAN of the Lovin' Spoonful was all of 22 when he sang, "I think I've come to see myself at last." ...
Interview by Ira Robbins, Newsday, 1994
Like an old flame breezing back through the door with no more than an indolent shrug and a sly wink, Elvis Costello has returned from ...
Anita Baker, Roberta Flack: Anita Baker: Rhythm Of Love, Roberta Flack: Roberta
Review by Carol Cooper, Newsday, September 1994
In a long list of thank you’s on her first new album in four years, Anita Baker cites Roberta Flack "for loving me anyway." Now ...
Review by Carol Cooper, Newsday, 1995
TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD Faith Evans was already a successful songwriter before mini-mogul Sean "Puffy" Combs signed her as a solo act to his Bad Boy label. This ...
Freddie Jackson: Private Party/Christopher Williams: Not a Perfect Man
Review by Carol Cooper, Newsday, 1995
FREDDIE JACKSON and Christopher Williams are mature, polished performers with superb voices. Both were signed to their respective labels at a time when each record ...
Profile and Interview by Carol Cooper, Newsday, 1995
EASTER SUNDAY, 10:30 p.m. The police are manning barricades on West 27th Street to disperse an overflow crowd that has flocked to the Tunnel to ...
Green Day: Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, NY
Live Review by Carol Cooper, Newsday, 1995
BY MATCHING the cheeky insouciance of the early Beatles with the amphetamine hooks of the Ramones in the late ‘80s, Green Day graduated rock and ...
The Commodores: The Past Of Young America
Review by Carol Cooper, Newsday, 1995
The Commodores: Best Of The CommodoresVarious Artists: The Music, The Magic, The Memories of Motown: A Tribute to Berry Gordy JUST WHEN we were sure ...
Review by Carol Cooper, Newsday, 1995
IN THE early to mid ‘80s, two of the most successful rap records concerned vigilantism. The Rake’s 'Street Justice' and Kool Moe Dee’s 'Wild Wild ...
Tito Puente Live At SOB’s, New York: At The Top Of His Game
Live Review by Carol Cooper, Newsday, 14 June 1995
Raising his drumsticks like a doubled scepter over a gleaming set of timbales , Tito Puente announced to Monday night’s capacity crowd at S.O.B.’s, "Tonight ...
Profile and Interview by Tim Page, Newsday, 30 July 1995
CONDUCTING IS the most mysterious of musical talents. Who hasn't wondered what that person was really doing up there anyway, making those funny faces, testing ...
Bo Diddley: The Bo Diddley Beat Just Keeps Jangling Along
Live Review by Carol Cooper, Newsday, 19 December 1995
Bo Diddley: Chicago Blues, New York, NY ...
The Braxtons' Right Risks: So Many Ways
Review by Carol Cooper, Newsday, 1996
THE STORY goes that The Braxtons originally were a quartet. Producers L.A. and Babyface pulled Toni Braxton out of the bunch, because, at the time, ...
Maria Muldaur: A Multifaceted Muldaur
Profile and Interview by Carol Cooper, Newsday, April 1996
"IF YOU THINK about it," Maria Muldaur remarked during a recent showcase for her new blues album, Fanning the Flames, "a tarantella is really just ...
Iggy Pop: Roseland, New York, NY
Live Review by Carol Cooper, Newsday, 11 April 1996
In 1967, when The Doors released their first LP, a young ex-drummer named James Osterberg formed the Psychedelic Stooges to voice the primal urges of ...
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