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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 ...

Beach Boys, The, Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Herd, The, Albert King, Jimmy Ruffin, Vanilla Fudge, Ken Dodd: Beach Boy Bruce Johnston reviews new singles in Blind Date

Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 19 August 1967

VANILLA FUDGE: 'You Keep Me Hanging On' (Atlantic). Oh! I love it. Oh it's great. I didn't recognise the beginning at first. Yeah, Vanilla Fudge. ...

Tomorrow: U.F.O.: Who Killed Flower Power?

Report and Interview by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 28 October 1967

U.F.O. the Flower power mecca has closed. Did it die a natural death — or was it murdered? And if it was... ...

Plastic Penny: Put Scratch On Record

Interview by Keith Altham, NME, 27 January 1968

A PLASTIC penny for your thoughts then, or to be more precise, tuppence-worth in the shape of vocalist Brian Keith and organist Paul Raymond who ...

Jefferson Airplane: Problem Of Egos Makes Jefferson Airplane Dive

Report and Interview by Mike Jahn, Pop Scene Service, 24 May 1968

Show Lack Of Leadership ...

Brian Auger, Bee Gees, The, Arthur Brown, Julie Driscoll, Jimi Hendrix, Moody Blues, The, Pentangle: Albums from Jimi Hendrix, the Bee Gees et al

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 27 October 1968

Sun Hasn't Set on British Sound ...

Big Brother & The Holding Company, Blood Sweat & Tears, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Electric Flag, Flamin' Groovies, The, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Steve Miller, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Santana, It's a Beautiful Day, Frumious Bandersnatch: Has Frisco Gone Commercial?

Report by Michael Lydon, The New York Times, 24 November 1968

  SAN FRANCISCO — In the heady first days of the "San Francisco Sound," someone dubbed the city the "Liverpool of the USA." The title, though ...

Hawkwind

Profile and Interview by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 25 October 1973

THERE SEEMS to be a general reawakening to the 1967 Summer of Love recently. All of England is agog over Star Trek reruns while 600,000 ...

Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett: A Nice Pair — The Pink Floyd LPs That Failed

Overview by Stephen Demorest, Circus, February 1974

They finally became stars on their ninth album, The Dark Side of the Moon, but they were first led around to the dark side of the psyche ...

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, ...

Gong: Look! There's A Pothead Pixie Arriving

Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 26 October 1974

THERE'S A lot of musicians around that are going to be kissing Mike Oldfield's dirty underpants. The success of Tubular Bells has almost certainly uncovered ...

Jimi Hendrix: Midnight Lightning and For Real

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 15 November 1975

AND THE GHOST walks once more. ...

Pink Floyd: Games For May

Retrospective by Miles, NME, 15 May 1976

TEN YEARS AGO THE PINK FLOYD were a semi formed idea in the mind of one SYD BARRETT. Nine years ago they were the darlings ...

Spirit: Farther Along

Review by Max Bell, NME, 31 July 1976

How Kapt. Kopter kept coming back California, a bona fide genius guitar hero. Who says so? Max Bell says so. ...

Steve Hillage, Gong: Steve Hillage: Hillage Rising

Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, October 1976

A former Gongster spills the karmic beans ...

Spirit: If You Value Your Life, On No Account Read This Headline...

Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 30 October 1976

...because if you do you'll have to read the feature which is about RANDY CALIFORNIA of SPIRIT. He's a very far-out person. He says so. ...

Hawkwind: Pulsating Poets of Sturm und Drang: Robert Calvert and Hawkwind

Interview by Chas de Whalley, Album Tracking, July 1977

"ROCK IS THE literature of this generation". Thus spake Robert Calvert, occasional playwright, self-styled poet, songwriter and lead singer with Hawkwind, the weirdest, most ...

Marc Bolan, John's Children, T. Rex, Tyrannosaurus Rex: Rock and Roll Heart: Marc Bolan 1947-1977

Obituary by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 24 September 1977

MARC BOLAN was born on September 30, 1947, in Hackney Hospital, East London, the second son of Sid and Phyllis Feld. ...

The Sound and Vision of Psychedelia

Overview by Robot A. Hull, Creem, January 1981

"Okay. You've swallowed the magic cube, downed a cup of organic tea with filigree leaves, and placed the diamond needle on the appropriate sounds. Now ...

Grateful Dead

Report and Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, January 1991

OUTSIDE THE Grugahalle, a monstrous concert erection in Essen, Germany, a bearded fellow bearing more than a passing resemblance to the young Charles Manson is ...