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Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane: California Dreamin'

Report by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 27 May 1967

AMERICA'S WEST COAST — ESPECIALLY SAN FRANCISCO — IS WHERE IT'S ALL AT NOW. WHAT LESSON CAN WE LEARN FROM IT? NICK JONES EXPLAINS ...

Rolling Stones, The: Pop In The Police State

Comment by Mick Farren, International Times, 2 June 1967

"People try to put us down just because we get around."The Who – 'My Generation' ...

Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin: Death joins the electric band

Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 10 October 1970

JIMI HENDRIX died last week. Janis Joplin died this week. The needle is picking off the electric generation one by one with the precision of ...

Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin: Jimi and Janis: Victims of the Plague

Essay by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, February 1971

EARLY IN the morning of Monday, October 5, 1970, Janis Joplin was found dead in an apartment in San Francisco, her arms filled with tracks, ...

R.I.P.: Calendar of Death in Rock

Special Feature by Michael Gray, Record Mirror, 29 October 1977

WE'VE HAD heavy rock, blues rock, folk rock, glam rock and punk rock. And now, in 1977, it's... snuff rock. ...

Keith Moon, Who, The: The Who Come To a Fork in the Road

Interview by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 5 October 1978

"THIS POOR hotel," says Pete Townshend, gesturing at his spacious suite in the Navarro Hotel on New York's posh Central Park South. "Mr. Russell, the ...

Warren Zevon: How He Saved Himself from a Coward's Death

Special Feature by Paul Nelson, Rolling Stone, 19 March 1981

  ALCOHOLISM. THAT'S what this story's supposed to be about. How Warren Zevon, after some heartwarming and colorful misadventures, licked the Big A and lived happily ...

Jeffrey Lee Pierce: impurely an entertainer

Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 25 January 1986

JEFFREY LEE PIERCE is a nice man when he's sober but when he's got three fingers in his mouth he's a scream. JACK BARRON held ...

Miles Davis: The Man With The Horn

Retrospective and Interview by Gene Santoro, Pulse!, June 1988

IT'S DRIZZLING on an unseasonably warm spring day in New York; even the huge bay windows in this suite on the upper reaches of the ...

Stone Roses, The: The Stone Roses: Bliss This House

Report and Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 10 June 1989

  "THE BAND? Sorry mate, they've just left. Urgent business." Outside Walsall's Junction 10 Club, the Stone Roses' tour van is disappearing around the corner when ...

Marianne Faithfull: Keeping The Faith

Interview by Ethlie Ann Vare, Elle, July 1990

MARIANNE FAITHFULL WAS ONE OF THE MOST RAVISHING ICONS OF THE SIXTIES AND A CELEBRATED ROCK CASUALTY OF THE SEVENTIES. NOW, AT 43, SHE IS ...

Shamen, The: The Shamen: Open up your head

Interview by Helen Mead, i-D, June 1992

After achieving pop success and suffering the death of Will Sin last year, the Shamen are back.New singer, new songs, but an enduring interest in ...

Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, Skip Spence: Skip Spence: The Next Big That Never Was

Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Angel, L.A. Weekly, 25 March 1994

IT'S EARLY December, 1966, at San Francisco's Avalon Ballroom. The Summer of Love is a good seven months off, the Avalon scene still small and ...

Hole, Mother Love Bone, Nirvana: Rock 'N' Roll Suicide?

Report by Pete Makowski, Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 9 July 1994

Seattle's heroin nightmare continues. First ANDY WOOD of the seminal MOTHER LOVE BONE overdosed and died. Then KURT COBAIN ended his desperate addiction by committing ...

E: Safer House

Report by Andrew Smith, The Face, October 1995

Amsterdam's Safe House Project does more than just advise clubbers on Ecstasy: it goes right to the source, to the manufacturers. ...

Byrds, The, Flying Burrito Brothers, International Submarine Band, Gram Parsons: Gram Parsons: Another Country

Retrospective by Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian, 12 September 1998

Twenty-five years ago, Gram Parsons died in a remote desert motel, the victim of a prodigious appetite for drugs and alcohol that shocked even Keith ...

Arthur Lee: Love hurts

Retrospective and Interview by Sara Scribner, L.A. Weekly, 25 March 1999

SOMETHING ABOUT Arthur Lee invites myth. Lee – the cantankerous, charismatic singer and guitarist of the groundbreaking yet largely forgotten band Love – inspires tales ...

Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver: Velvet Revolver's Slash (2004) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages transcripts, June 2004

This is a transcript of Adam's audio interview with Slash. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Beatles, The, Rolling Stones, The: Summer of Love: London

Retrospective by Alan Light, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2007

Tightly knit, decadent and explosively creative, the scene was too good to last ...

Nick Kent, Rolling Stones, The, Sex Pistols, The: Nick Kent: Apathy for the Devil – A 1970s Memoir

Book Review by Robert Sandall, Sunday Times, 21 February 2010

AS AN EYEWITNESS account of the dangerous excesses of the 1970s rock scene, Apathy for the Devil is in a compulsively readable class of its ...