Street Life
Street Life was a UK magazine launched in 1975 as a UK equivalent to Rolling Stone, but which ceased publication in 1976.
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Bonnie Raitt: Home Plate (Warner Bros.)
Review by Penny Valentine, Street Life, 1 November 1975
BONNIE RAITT is an intriguing talent, firmly rooted in the music of men like Otis Rush and Fred McDowell whom she met and worked with ...
Bruce Springsteen: "What Made Milwaukee Famous"
Report and Interview by Robin Katz, Street Life, 1 November 1975
OR: "I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE OF ROCK AND ROLL AND HE IS SLIDING DOWN MY WINDSCREEN" ...
Rupie Edwards, King Tubby, Niney the Observer, Augustus Pablo: Dub: Reggae's Cutting Edge
Overview by Idris Walters, Street Life, 1 November 1975
RIGHT NOW, Dub is at the cutting edge of reggae. ...
Nils Lofgren: Teenage Genius Grinned
Interview by Penny Valentine, Street Life, 1 November 1975
TEN years after he heard his first rock record: "I thought pop music was too simple, I could call out all the chords and analyse ...
The Who: Imagine a Life Full of Heroes & Villains & Fools
Essay by Penny Valentine, Street Life, 1 November 1975
THAT summer: Tolliday and I roaming Soho’s warm night streets, swapping stories, putting each other in roles, lingering outside sawdust-floored Italian food-stores, sniffing in the ...
Northern Soul: Fact, Fiction, Faction, Friction
Report by Idris Walters, Street Life, 15 November 1975
IS NORTHERN SOUL DYING ON ITS FEET? ...
Van Dyke Parks: Clang Of The Yankee Reaper (Warner Bros.)
Review by Penny Valentine, Street Life, 15 November 1975
ONE DAY I got this strange note from America. It said: "Thanks for the review of my single. It is the first good review I've ...
Review by Penny Valentine, Street Life, 29 November 1975
THIS ALBUM is sub-titled 'A Pythagorean Theory Tale'. Pythagoras, you may remember, had a theory that the education system approved of, about the square of ...
Emmylou Harris: New Victoria, London
Live Review by Penny Valentine, Street Life, 29 November 1975
THE LIGHTS had just gone down, the musicians were just striking up when these two guys fell up the stairs singing loudly, "New York, New ...
Neil Young: Zuma (Warner Bros.)
Review by Chris Briggs, Street Life, 29 November 1975
THE FIRST real Crazy Horse album since Everybody Knows catches Young on his left foot backing off broken romance. ...
Rufus: Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan (ABC)
Review by Penny Valentine, Street Life, 29 November 1975
AMERICAN BLACK music (that which is loosely termed 'soul') has been going through a disturbing period. It continues to do so. Where once the arm ...
Nils Lofgren: The Selling Of Nils Lofgren
Profile and Interview by Penny Valentine, Street Life, 29 November 1975
The chalked sign on the blackboard at Manchester University reads: Tonight – Nils Lofgren, and then in brackets Ex-Neil Young & Crazy Horse. The price ...
J. Geils Band: Backroom Stuff From J. Geils' Peter Wolf
Interview by Mick Brown, Street Life, 10 January 1976
PETER WOLF lopes across his Savoy Hotel Suite to a tape-deck and slots in a cassette of Arthur Conley singing 'Sweet Soul Music'. "That opening ...
Live Review by Penny Valentine, Street Life, 10 January 1976
PAUL SIMON is small and neat and nervous. His songs reflect him perfectly. They are small and neat and edgy. Paul Simon delivers his songs ...
Rory Gallagher: Newcastle City Hall
Live Review by Idris Walters, Street Life, 10 January 1976
RORY GALLAGHER is a Conservationist. He preserves various traditions – the old blues, 'British' rhythm and blues, the anti-star guitarist mood and the Celtic will ...
Review by Simon Frith, Street Life, 24 January 1976
DESIRE begins with ‘Hurricane’, Dylan’s account of how black boxer Reuben Carter was falsely charged and jailed for murder. I don’t know how many cut ...
Review by Mick Brown, Street Life, 24 January 1976
AFTER JUST one album (two and a half if you count her collaborations with Gram Parsons a couple of years back) Emmylou Harris' name is ...
Bad Company: Run With The Pack (Island ILPS 9346)
Review by Idris Walters, Street Life, 7 February 1976
Bad Co's Style Of Stiffness ...
Bad Company: Run With The Pack (Island)
Review by Idris Walters, Street Life, 7 February 1976
SOMEWHERE DEEP inside the mix on Bad Company's first album was a little shimmer of Oriental Rock. Not much. Just enough to suggest the germ ...
David Bowie: Station To Station (RCA ALP1-1327)
Review by Ian MacDonald, Street Life, 7 February 1976
Bowie's Station: The Playback Of The Western World ...
The Fania All Stars: Fania All Stars: Salsa Live (Island Help 21)
Review by Idris Walters, Street Life, 7 February 1976
THIS IS the third pioneering Salsa release from Island distributed, presumably, to coincide with the band's recent London Lyceum show. ...
Gil Scott-Heron: "You Will Not Be Able To Plug In, Turn On, Cop Out"
Profile and Interview by Mick Brown, Street Life, 7 February 1976
IT'S A mystifying truism that perhaps the most surprising thing about Gil Scott-Heron is that he is still standing very much in the shadows as ...
Van Dyke Parks: The Clang of Van Dyke Parks
Profile by Penny Valentine, Street Life, 7 February 1976
"He deals in streams of consciousness and clicks someone’s brain on to accepting an abstract concept... he can grab those feelings and wrench them out ...
Commander Cody: Lost Planet Airman Finds Lone Star, Starts Drinking
Report and Interview by Mick Brown, Street Life, 21 February 1976
THEY DIDN’T ask Commander Cody if they could use his face to advertise Lone Star beer, but he’s the first to admit it fits. "Country ...
Comment by Penny Valentine, Street Life, 21 February 1976
THERE ARE three women writers on Street Life. We are generally treated with the same 'respect' as our male colleagues. In other words, if there's no ...
Interview by Penny Valentine, Street Life, 21 February 1976
Penny Valentine talks to the man in between, Joe Boyd who has recently produced Toots Hibbert, Maria Muldaur, and the McGarrigles. ...
Buck Owens: You Don’t Buck The Rules On The Bus: Buck Owens
Report and Interview by Mick Brown, Street Life, 21 February 1976
IT’S LIKE Tom Wolfe said: you’re either on the bus or you’re off the bus. No three ways about it. ...
Overview by Penny Valentine, Street Life, 6 March 1976
THE NUMBER of women working in British music is pitifully small. You can count them on one hand. Why? ...
Gladys Knight & the Pips: Gladys Knight and the Pips (DJM)
Review by Simon Frith, Street Life, 6 March 1976
SHE'S JUST GONNA have to get used to it. When you're the greatest pop singer in the world (and she is) and have been together ...
Maria Muldaur: Sweet Harmony (Reprise)
Review by Penny Valentine, Street Life, 6 March 1976
THE FIRST time I saw Maria Muldaur live she was magnificent. Which is unfortunate because it set a precedent she could never follow short of ...
Robin Trower: City Hall, Newcastle
Live Review by Idris Walters, Street Life, 6 March 1976
THIS WAS a Sunday, all day long. ...
Barry White: The Discreet Charm Of the Black Bourgeoisie: Barry White and Company
Review by Penny Valentine, Street Life, 6 March 1976
WHEN YOUNG American blacks threw off their jeans, gave them to the white kids, and emerged supercool in their three-piece suits, brogues and cashmere sweaters ...
Emmylou Harris: Sincerity in Sin City
Interview by Mick Brown, Street Life, 20 March 1976
OF COURSE, Emmylou Harris has to be staying in an elite hotel. Large, rambling, fin-de-siecle. The author J. P. Donleavy stays here when he's in ...
Isaac Hayes: Golden Hour Presents Isaac Hayes and Groove-a-thon
Review by Simon Frith, Street Life, 20 March 1976
FOR A FEW YEARS Isaac Hayes' reputation veered alarmingly: genius? fraud? joke? God? The settled consensus was that he had founded a new sort of ...
Review by Penny Valentine, Street Life, 20 March 1976
"SOMETIMES IT'S all too much to say aloud...sometimes the words are painful to the ear." ...
Bobby Womack Sings Through Clenched Teeth
Interview by Mick Brown, Street Life, 3 April 1976
IT PROMISED to be, in that time-honoured cliche of showbusiness hyperbole, a 'star-studded occasion'. His publicist said Bobby Womack would be dropping off in the ...
Profile and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Street Life, 3 April 1976
EVERYTHING you ever heard about Minnie Riperton is true about Flora Purim. Truer, in fact, for not only does the 34 year-old Brazilian singer have ...
Review by Penny Valentine, Street Life, 3 April 1976
AS PEOPLE are attracted to evil I was always fascinated by Laura Nyro. The fascination was on two levels – as a musician she was ...
Charly Records: The Dark Side Of The Sun
Retrospective by Charlie Gillett, Street Life, 17 April 1976
SAM PHILLIPS must be shaking his head in bewilderment that somebody should be issuing his out-takes. ...
Profile and Interview by Penny Valentine, Street Life, 1 May 1976
FREEBO’S SHAGGY, morose head appears through the doors of the van: "There is no truth in the rumour," he shouts, "that when Bonnie Raitt arrived ...
Boz Scaggs: Silk Degrees (CBS 81193)
Review by Martin Hayman, Street Life, 1 May 1976
THIS IS a really great dance record. Put on the first three cuts of either side and you'll get going anybody who's got rhythm in ...
J.J. Cale: Endurance Of The Anti-Hero
Interview by Martin Hayman, Street Life, 1 May 1976
J.J. Cale reckons he's pretty good at doing nothing. He sleeps as long as he can ...
Review by Simon Frith, Street Life, 1 May 1976
IN WHICH the Godfather of Soul issues a firm but gentle reminder of who's boss and why... ...
Obituary by Dave Laing, Street Life, 1 May 1976
PHIL OCHS, who committed suicide in Los Angeles on April 9, was among the most sardonic and militant of the Greenwich Village folksingers of the ...
The Silly Sisters: Playing Silly Sisters
Interview by Idris Walters, Street Life, 1 May 1976
There are seven in the song, but two on the road: Maddy Prior and June Tabor ...
Robin Trower: Once More With Feeling
Profile and Interview by Mick Brown, Street Life, 1 May 1976
THERE ARE THREE kinds of limousine driver in America. There are the elder men who used to be accountants or clerks, until the recession forced ...
The Rolling Stones: Rolling Stones: Black And Blue (Rolling Stones Records COC 59106)
Review by Martin Hayman, Street Life, 1 May 1976
Old, Borrowed, Black And Blue ...
Review by Simon Frith, Street Life, 1 May 1976
'LOVE MACHINE' was the Miracles' biggest hit for years (if not ever) and a fine single too. Why? What are the Miracles doing right again? ...
Bob Marley & the Wailers: Bob Marley and the Wailers: Rastaman Vibration
Review by Simon Frith, Street Life, 15 May 1976
I DON'T KNOW how this music will be rated but my word would be mellow. This is a very uncluttered album – the rhythms are ...
Dolly Parton: Parton's Creative Country
Interview by Mick Brown, Street Life, 15 May 1976
Heard the one about the Heathrow cowboy with Dolly tattooed from neck to backside? ...
Marvin Gaye, The Temptations: Soul Albums Reviewed
Review by Simon Frith, Street Life, 15 May 1976
Temptations: Wings of LoveMarvin Gaye: I Want YouLee Garrett: Heat For The Feets EVEN SOUL musicians grow old and, though black music has never ...
Patti Smith: Patti in Excelsis Deo
Profile and Interview by Mick Gold, Street Life, 29 May 1976
WE LIVE in dangerous times. We live in a society that can co-opt its own downfall, sprinkle some glitter on it, and gift wrap it ...
Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: Dr Hook: Act Naturally
Interview by Mick Brown, Street Life, 12 June 1976
THE REPORTERS from the provincial press had gathered in the room where the press conference was to be held and were guzzling record- company wine, ...
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