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Beatles, The, Cilla Black: Brian Epstein's Death Is Ruled Accidental Overdose
Report by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 7 October 1967
THE NEWS OF Brian Epstein's tragic death led to an immediate storm of speculation about the future of his artists and his various pop empires ...
The Rolling Stones: King Hash Is Sure To Come
Report and Interview by Sheila Weller, Rolling Stone, 14 May 1970
TANGIER – He shakes another pebble oul of the foot-long, coral-and silver-encrusted stash pouch, pokes an amber-ringed forefinger under the schlockedelic fake-silk ascot he has ...
Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd: The Cracked Ballad of Syd Barrett
Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 13 April 1974
The summer of '67 went up like a psychedelic mushroom-cloud – and some of the fall-out's still coming down. Brian Jones was casually snuffed out, ...
10cc, Donna Summer, Jane Birkin, Max Romeo, Serge Gainsbourg: Banned — Why?: What Turns Censors On…
Report by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 21 February 1976
It's Donna Summer at the moment, but the Beatles, Stones even Lena Horne have all run into radio censorship. So this week, MM examines that ...
Eric Clapton: Give Me Strength
Interview by Steve Turner, Sounds, 19 February 1977
Meg and George Patterson's cure for heroin addiction ...
Mahogany Rush: And This Little Piggy Took Too Much Acid
Interview by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 25 June 1977
If we tell you that Frank Marino of Mahogany Rush took 1500 trips in a month, you won't be surprised that the tale he tells ...
Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd: Syd Barrett: Careening Through Life...
Retrospective by Kris DiLorenzo, Trouser Press, February 1978
THE COLOR black is not a solitary real color. Nor is it the total absence of color. A black hole in space, in fact, is ...
Sid Vicious, Sex Pistols, The: Sid and Nancy
Comment by uncredited writer, New York Rocker, November 1978
WHAT MORE can we add to the pathetic, sordid tale of Nancy Spungen and Sid Vicious? ...
Pretenders, The: The Pretenders: Leather Wears Better Than Dreams
Profile and Interview by Lesley White, The Face, February 1984
In the last two turbulent years, Chrissie Hynde has had a baby by the man who once personified for her the rock and roll myth, ...
Overview by Mat Snow, NME, 27 September 1986
AFTER TWO false starts due to bad weather, the wide-eyed and jittery paratroopers swallowed their third load of benzedrines in three nights and flew off ...
Overview by David Toop, Mixmag, June 1992
WHEN PHUTURE'S 'Acid Tracks' hit the decks in 1987, the title of this minimalist techno-homage to the Roland TR-303 blinded most of us to the ...
Guide by Tom Hibbert, Q, September 1992
Music and drugs have always been promiscuously compatible bedfellows. How many of the great albums would exist had their creators not been "shedded" at the ...
Aerosmith: Sex'n'Drugs'n'Rock'n'Roll!
Memoir by Pete Makowski, Kerrang!, 6 April 1994
Up until the early '80s, Aerosmith indulged in every rock 'n'roll excess! "It's a miracle they survived!" says Dr. Pete Makowski, who met Steven Tyler ...
The Needle And The Damage Done
Report by Jim Sullivan, Boston Globe, 10 August 1996
"I've seen the needle and the damage done / A little part of it in everyone / But every junkie's like a setting sun" — ...
Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Rolling Stones, The: I Was A Pop Star's Arse-wiper!
Report by Martin Aston, Q, January 2000
For as long as there have been rock stars, there have been rock star "support systems", from the Memphis Mafia to "Spanish" Tony Sanchez to ...
The Rolling Stones: The Crowning of King Mick
Retrospective by Chris Salewicz, Sunday Times, 27 October 2002
It is hard to believe that Mick Jagger was once just another Rolling Stone. How did he become an idol? Chris Salewicz, his biographer, tells ...
Jefferson Airplane: High Priestess: Grace Slick and ‘White Rabbit’
Retrospective and Interview by Mark Paytress, The Guardian, 15 November 2002
White Rabbit has just come out top in a poll to find the finest drug song ever. Mark Paytress discovers that its writer/singer Grace Slick ...
Essay by Nick Kent, The Guardian, 19 April 2004
THEY ASKED ME to write this piece about "self-destruction and its place in rock" and that immediately set me to thinking: what do they mean ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, February 2005
Wooed by Dylan, ripped off by Jagger, too hardcore for Burroughs. A drug addict who recovered to make grainy, dramatic music rife with sex and ...
Hours, The: The Hours: Back From The Brink
Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 12 January 2007
The Hours have been through drugs, death and abandonment. But adversity has turned them into Britain's most powerful new band. Dave Simpson caught up with ...
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