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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 ...

Beatles, The, Jimi Hendrix, Moody Blues, The: London: Beatles Clip Banned

Column by Nick Jones, Rolling Stone, 20 January 1968

  THERE ARE a few gloomy faces in England these days since our pound has devalued (what?) but it's mainly the profiteers who can't bear the ...

John Mayall, MC5, Traffic: Rock and Roll Dope #6

Comment by John Sinclair, Fifth Estate, 15 August 1968

NOW THAT things have cooled down a little for the MC5 and myself after all the excitement of recent weeks maybe I can get into ...

Bring Back the Single

Comment by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 22 October 1968

A STORY of virtue rewarded: Polydor, tiny in Britain compared with EMI or Decca, sold more LPs in the third quarter of 1968 than any ...

Monkees, The, Michael Nesmith: Mike Nesmith: No Monkee Business

Interview by Keith Altham, Record Mirror, 3 October 1970

EX-MONKEE Mike Nesmith has withdrawn from the bubble gum stakes to regain his country and western identity with the First National Band. ...

Animals, The, Jimi Hendrix, Slade: Chas Chandler: Slade Driver

Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 7 October 1972

Chris Charlesworth talks to CHAS CHANDLER, ex-docker, ex-Animal, ex-manager of Jimi Hendrix and now manager of Britain's hottest band, Slade ...

Jobriath: Superstar or Superhype?

Interview by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 12 January 1974

"If hype means projecting your artist, I'm going to produce the biggest hype ever" – Jerry Brandt talking to ROBERT PARTRIDGE about his latest discovery, ...

Jimi Hendrix, James Taylor: The Ghost Tapes

Report by Bill Wasserzieher, Los Angeles Free Press, 22 November 1974

OLD DEMO TAPES have a habit of rising to the surface — usually as soon as a performer has become big enough to be considered ...

Joe Boyd: An Interview

Interview by Penny Valentine, Street Life, 21 February 1976

Penny Valentine talks to the man in between, Joe Boyd who has recently produced Toots Hibbert, Maria Muldaur, and the McGarrigles. ...

Stuff et al: The 'Citteh'

Report and Interview by Davitt Sigerson, Black Music, October 1976

Davitt Sigerson investigates New York's soul music underground ...

Beatles, The, Elvis Presley, Sex Pistols, The: Father-Figure Knows Best: Rock managers from Elvis to Elvis

Overview by Dave Marsh, Trouser Press, June 1980

EVER SINCE Col. Tom Parker, genius entrepreneur of Hadacol, dancing chickens and Eddy Arnold, signed Elvis Presley to an exclusive (on both parts) contract, managers ...

Stiff's Upper Lip

Interview by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 1 February 1986

Stiff supremo DAVE ROBINSON explains to HUGH FIELDER why he's back at first base and going for a home run. ...

John Fogerty, Randy Newman, Prince: Lenny Waronker: All In The Family

Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, July 1994

Warner Brothers President Lenny Waronker is not your Average Corporate Cheese ...

Beatles, The, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix: Who the hell does MAX CLIFFORD think he is?

Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, September 1994

Hamster snack outrage! Lycra thigh-shots farrago! Politician-toe-to-actress-tonsil coincidence! All the proud work of one proud PR man, ever spoon-feeding the media, manipulating the smaller-format newspapers, ...

Animals, The, Jimi Hendrix, Slade: Chas Chandler 1938-1996

Obituary by Chris Welch, The Independent, 17 July 1996

WHEN JIMI Hendrix set fire to his guitar, Chas Chandler was ready with the lighter fuel. When Slade were desperate for a new image, Chandler ...

Stan Cornyn: It's A Warner-Ful Life

Interview by Todd Everett, Hits, 10 April 2002

FOR MORE THAN 30 years, Stan Cornyn was the "voice" of Warner Bros. and Reprise Records. The company's image-setting print advertisements – offering free Topanga ...

Music to watch ads by

Report by Chas de Whalley, Record Collector, August 2004

How the Advertising Industry hijacked pop ...

Jimi Hendrix, Nick Drake, Fairport Convention: Joe Boyd: White Bicycles – Making Music in the 1960s (Serpent's Tail)

Book Review by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 14 May 2006

THIS PROTEIN-PACKED memoir entwines a number of stories that reach well beyond the subtitle's modest brief. At one level it's a boy's own adventure. Joe ...

Georgie Fame: Rik Gunnell, 1931-2007

Obituary by Andy Gill, The Word, August 2007

RIK GUNNELL, who died recently aged 75 in the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbuhel, where he owned and ran a bar called The Londoner, was ...

Beatles, The, Doors, The, Motörhead, Ramones, The, Rolling Stones, The: Merch

Retrospective and Interview by James Medd, The Word, May 2010

Could the iconography of rock outlive the music? James Medd looks at the enduringly profitable trade in signs, symbols and signifiers ...