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Fela Kuti: Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Live In Amsterdam (Capitol); Perambulator (Lagos international)
Review by Randall Grass, Musician, January 1985
NIGERIA'S FELA Anikulapo-Kuti was the presumed messiah to break African pop internationally, just as Bob Marley had broken reggae. He sings in comprehensible pidgin English. ...
Fela Kuti: Army Arrangement (Celluloid)
Review by Carol Cooper, Spin, May 1985
IF YOU haven't yet heard of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, it isn't because he hasn't been trying to get your attention. ...
Fela Kuti: Afro Poppa: Fela Kuti, 1938-1997
Obituary by Richard Gehr, Spin, October 1997
IN THE annals of pop political activism, taking on TicketMaster or spoofing K Mart consumerism hardly compares to the cheeky dissidence of Nigerian superstar Fela ...
Fela Kuti: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 29 November 1986
COSTUME DRAMAS ...
Osibisa: Beat The (African) Drums For Osibisa
Profile by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 22 August 1970
IT MAY BE that, having endured the painfully stilted and emotionally lukewarm playing of most rock drummers for the last decade, audiences are waking up ...
Review and Interview by Don Snowden, The Boston Phoenix, 13 February 1985
"THE GOVERNMENT is trying to lure me into participation in the politics of Nigeria now but that doesn't really mean my situation is very cool ...
Fela Kuti, Femi Kuti, Seun Kuti: Fela Kuti: A Difficult Fela To Follow
Report and Interview by Mark Hudson, Daily Telegraph, 2 October 2004
As the Barbican celebrates the life and music of Fela Kuti, Mark Hudson travels to Lagos to meet his sons Femi and Seun, bitter rivals ...
Fela Kuti: Music is the Weapon: Fela
Report by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 21 February 1985
THE CONCEPT OF combining music with a strong political message is a romantic, enticing notion to many young musicians but it's a harsh, often painful ...
Fela Kuti: Fela Anikulapo-Kuti 1938-1997
Obituary by Vivien Goldman, Rolling Stone, 18 September 1997
KING OF AFRO BEAT DEAD AT 58 ...
Fela Kuti: Africa's Cult Musician: Fela Anikulapo Kuti
Report by Nicholas Jennings, Maclean's, 13 October 1986
WHEN ONE OF Africa's most celebrated musicians receives visitors at his home in the Nigerian capital of Lagos, he lounges in little more than a ...
Fela Kuti: The Great Pretender: Fela Kuti
Interview by Len Brown, New Musical Express, 25 October 1986
So, who is this FELA KUTI? An African musician just out of jail and now threatening to run for President of Nigeria? A polygamist in ...
Interview by Don Snowden, Escape, 10 June 1997
"WE HAVE A proverb in my hometown that says, 'Music must be the generosity of something that you take from your heart and you must ...
Report and Interview by Ian Dove, Billboard, 6 November 1971
THEY ALSO SERVE WHO ONLY LIFT AND HANDLE... ...
Fela Kuti: The Republic Of Kuti
Interview by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 3 December 1983
FELA KUTI gives Lynden Barber a lecture in African culture. ...
Fela Kuti: Fela: Return of the Afrobeat Rebel
Profile by Randall Grass, Musician, October 1983
KANO, NIGERIA, 1974: Sitting in the midst of a spacious, immaculate patio surrounded by manicured shrubbery and the graceful curved stone-and-glass walls of a post-modern restaurant, ...
Thomas Mapfumo: The Lion of Zimbabwe
Profile and Interview by Vivien Goldman, New Musical Express, 5 January 1985
Inspiration to freedom fighters and creator of the Zimbabwean sound, THOMAS MAPFUMO is ready to conquer the world. VIVIEN GOLDMAN talks to Africa's Bob Marley. ...
Obituary by Carol Cooper, Rock's Backpages, 3 January 2012
BURIED ON HER home island of São Vicente the Tuesday before Christmas amid nationwide mourning in her native Cape Verde, singer Cesária Évora enjoyed more ...
Interview by Christine Natanael, crushermagazine.com, July 2008
SOMETIMES going backwards can actually be going forwards. Is that not, after all the basic premise of most disciplines learned, from religion and mathematics to ...
Special Feature by Randall Grass, Spin, May 1985
The King of Afrobeat enjoyed a reign of sex, hemp, jazz and rock 'n' roll — then the empire struck back, trumping up charges to ...
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 ...
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