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Report by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, June 1976

"This is gonna be the most outrageous summer story of all"– Mike Love ...

Sherbet: Around Australia In 350,000 Girls

Report by Anthony O'Grady, RAM, 24 September 1976

2011 introduction: From 1974-79 there was an Australia-wide rock 'n' roll touring circuit, headed by Sherbet. The peak was Sherbet's 1976 'Around Australia in 80 ...

The Rolling Stones: Advance Warning of New Meisterworks Department

Report by Miles, NME, 16 July 1977

Stones: Got Duff Chord Changes If You Want THE ROLLING STONES — even Bill and Charlie — have all been in New York this ...

Independents Day Revisited

Report by Paul Rambali, NME, 5 August 1978

Last September, in our extraordinarily collectable NME Collectors Issue, we looked at the seemingly unstoppable explosion of independent record labels. Times change, though. Rebels become ...

EMI: Saturday Night Beneath The Corporate Umbrella

Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 2 June 1979

MUSIC, FILMS TV, HOTELS, RESTAURANTS, MEDICINE, WEAPONS...HOW A GIANT RECORD COMPANY NOW EXTENDS INTO EVERY AREA OF LIFE – AND DEATH. ...

Record Prices: Tear Them Down

Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 7 July 1979

AM I CRAZY or am I in the UK? Strolling through a discount record store I look to the right and there's Blondie's Parallel Lines ...

The Specials: Rude Boys Can't Fail

Report by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 15 March 1980

THEY DON'T muck about, the Yanks. These buildings go all the way up like the architect was getting paid by the cubic foot although exactly ...

The Specials: Scam & Scandal In The Family

Report by Andy Schwartz, New York Rocker, May 1980

IN THE LAST issue of NY Rocker (#27/March '80), we printed an "Emergency Editorial" decrying the $10.00 price of tickets to the Specials' show presented on March ...

B-52s, The, Elvis Costello, Pretenders, The, Rockpile, Talking Heads: Heatwave Festival: Crouching Towards Bowmanville Or Elvis: What Happened?

Report by Susan Whitall, Creem, November 1980

I MUST confess to hating "rock festivals" with some passion. My response to the rhetorical "Would you have gone to Woodstock?" question has always been ...

John Mellencamp: John Cougar: XR-7's Entire Midwest Metropolis

Report by Richard Riegel, Creem, December 1980

Renegade Stories Down Thru the Years: ...

Jimmy "Orion" Ellis, Orion: Hail, Hail O Mighty Orion!

Report by Robot A. Hull, Creem, June 1981

NASHVILLE,TN — Who is this masked man? Does he, in some way, bear a relationship to the original myth of the hunter Orion? Let us ...

Millie Jackson, Prince, Rick James, D-Train, Maze, Skyy (US), Brass Construction: Touring Talent Sacrifices Luxury For Livelihood

Report by Vernon Gibbs, Billboard, 5 June 1982

Revert To '60s Packaging ...

Iron Maiden: Unleashed With The Beast

Report by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 28 August 1982

CORPUS CHRISTI lies humid and unhurried under a scorching Texas sun. The shining orb's efforts to reduce the populus to mobile blobs of molten jelly ...

Mighty Movers of Mombassa

Report by Richard Cook, NME, 18 September 1982

The New African Music: part two. Continuing our musical trek... to Mombassa, where we meet Mazembe — the voice of Kenya, and discover the talk ...

The Beat, Fleetwood Mac: The US Festival: Us & Them

Report by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 25 September 1982

That Woz the Fest that Woz! Barney Hoskyns takes a bite of the rotten Apple and hangs his head in despair ...

3 Mustaphas 3, ABC, Captain Sensible, Elvis Costello, Damned, The, Everything But The Girl, Frank Chickens, Haircut 100, Malcolm McLaren, Musical Youth, Shriekback, Wah!, Wham!, Dennis Bovell, JoBoxers: I See London

Report by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 30 March 1983

IF YOU'RE keen to witness a major cultural capital in hibernation, try being in London the week between Christmas and New Years. Just about everything ...

Prince: A Second Coming Thru Purple Haze

Report by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 2 April 1983

A MONTH ago, in Minneapolis, mecca of absence, I had time on my hands – all over my body, actually – to consider the idea ...

Evelyn Thomas, Gloria Gaynor, The Weather Girls: High Energy

Report by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, 7 June 1984

It's a new type of dance beat. Hazell Dean's 'Searchin'' is High Energy; so are The Weather Girls, Gloria Gaynor and Evelyn Thomas. The charts ...

Jermaine Jackson, Michael Jackson, Jacksons, The: The Jacksons: Victory — Tour de Force or Tour de Farce?

Report by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 31 July 1984

John Abbey reports from backstage at the opening of The Jacksons' Victory Tour, the most eagerly awaited tour for many a long year. The organisation, ...

Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers, Trouble Funk, Experience Unlimited (EU): Go-Go: Drop The Bomb On The Love Boat

Report by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 22 September 1984

Go-go's got a godfather and a group in every area!! RICHARD GRABEL goes ga-ga in Washington as he uncovers the biggest show in those suburbs. ...