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Morrissey: Unhappy Birthday, Morrissey
Retrospective by Len Brown, Rock's Backpages, 22 May 2009
N.B. This is the full, unedited version of a piece published in The Guardian on 22 May 2009 ...
Buddy Holly: The Angel with the Devil's Music: Buddy Holly
Retrospective by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 30 January 2009
Fifty years ago, Buddy Holly's life was sadly cut short. Richard Williams salutes the clean-cut 22-year-old who came to Britain and showed a whole generation ...
Randy California, Spirit: Randy California
Retrospective by Johnny Black, MOJO, February 2004
Just turned 22, Spirit guitarist and figurehead Randy California stands on Chelsea Bridge, staring down into the grey waters of the River Thames. It's April 1973, ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Q, February 1997
THE TWIST WAS the most remarkable dance phenomenon in the history of the rock era. Here's the story of how it happened in the words ...
Buddy Holly: Down the Line: Buddy Holly
Retrospective by Mark Kemp, Texas Music, January 2009
WHEN THE FIRST gentle notes ring from Buddy Holly's acoustic guitar on his cover of Mickey & Sylvia's 'Dearest', you could swear it was recorded ...
The Supremes: Mary Wilson on The Supremes
Retrospective by Johnny Black, MOJO, April 1997
"ONE DAY IN mid-April we were all summoned to berrys home on Outer Drive," remembers Mary Wilson of The Supremes. "As I drove there, I ...
Retrospective by Mick Houghton, MOJO, April 2007
The sound of the wildly original country cat who penned Elvis' 'Burning Love'. ...
Electric Prunes, The: The Electric Prunes: Too Much To Dream
Retrospective by Don Waller, LA Weekly, 15 June 2001
FROM THE "mind-expanding" flight of the 2,000-pound bumblebee opening to the liquid, screaming, droning guitars to the '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction'-derived drums, the Electric ...
Robert Johnson: Unravelling the Legend of Robert Johnson
Retrospective by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 19 June 1971
JERRY GILBERT looks at Robert Johnson, greatest of the Delta bluesmen ...
The Pogues, Shane MacGowan: Shane MacGowan: It's A Long Way From Tipperary
Retrospective by Ian Fortnam, Vox, January 1998
AS PUNK PASSION dissipated and died, choking on its own irrelevance, a generation of serial venters were suddenly deprived of its primal, therapeutic effect. The ...
Ritchie Valens: The Young Singer Who Pioneered Chicano Rock
Retrospective by Martin Hawkins, The History of Rock, March 1982
WHEN ROCK'N'ROLL first stopped calling itself rhythm and blues in the mid Fifties, it became a young man's game. Teenage performers like Ritchie Valens began ...
Retrospective by Ian Fortnam, Uncut, May 1998
Ahh, those much-mimicked hedgehogian coxcombs; those calf-chafing, tartan-trimmed trews with half a yard of surplus flapping flare to spare; those cheery, cheeky chipmunk grins and ...
Rain Parade: Unsung Heroes: The Rain Parade
Retrospective by Terry Staunton, Uncut, February 2010
Pioneers of LA's '80s "Paisley Underground" — it's warring psych revivalists the Roback brothers! ...
Whitney Houston: The diva who had — and lost — it all
Retrospective by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 13 February 2012
From her rise as a fresh-faced teen to her sudden death in an LA hotel room at 48, Nick Hasted charts the highs and lows ...
Top 10 Hits from the '60s: Who Played on 'Em
Retrospective by Harold Bronson, Rock's Backpages, 14 January 2014
THE WRECKING CREW, a much-needed documentary about the behind-the-scenes elite crop of studio musicians who provided the instrumentation for many of the hits of the ...
Aaliyah's Age Ain't Nothing but a Number Ages 20 Years
Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, Ebony, 27 May 2014
THE LATE SONGSTRESS'S DEBUT ALBUM DROPPED IN MAY 1994, LAUNCHING A TOO-BRIEF CAREER THAT'LL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN ...
Pink Floyd Tear Down Their Wall
Retrospective by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 14 June 2005
IT IS THE rock reunion no one believed we would ever see – including the band members. Pink Floyd, who endured one of the most ...
Band of Susans, Big Black, Butthole Surfers, Sonic Youth: Sonic Youth and the Blast First axis
Retrospective by David Stubbs, The Wire, February 2013
A previously unpublished essay by David Stubbs, on Paul Smith's Blast First label and Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon's Sonic Youth. ...
Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, Skip Spence: We need to talk about... Skip Spence: Oar in dark water
Retrospective by Graham Reid, elsewhere.co.nz, 5 March 2012
SYD BARRETT of Pink Floyd and Roky Erickson of Thirteenth Floor Elevators don't own the category of "mad '60s acid casualty" exclusively. ...
Retrospective by Adam Sweeting, Uncut, July 2001
GENE CLARK'S NO OTHER IS ONE OF THE GREAT LOST ALBUMS. ...
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