Andrew Bailey
Andrew Bailey has spent most of his working life in media-related industries. He was a journalist for 15 years, working as the UK Editor of Rolling Stone magazine for 5 years and as a columnist and critic on the Evening Standard for two years. During this time, he also worked as a TV presenter. Following a short (and largely unsuccessful) career in the music business, his next move was into advertising, where he worked for many years as a copywriter/creative consultant for a range of agencies.
Andrew reminisces about his underground days on Friends magazine
19 articles
List of articles in the library
Dave Mason, Dave Mason & Cass Elliot, Traffic: Alone Together: Mason and Cass
Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 17 September 1970
LONDON — Dave Mason was sitting about 6,000 miles away from the action. While his album, Alone Together, was booming in America, with a first ...
Jethro Tull: Ian Anderson, in it for the Birds
Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 2 December 1970
LONDON — "The name? Well, we hadn't got one and we were asking around and this university-educated agent suggested Jethro Tull. I'd never heard it ...
Brinsley Schwarz: A Legend Before Their Own Time
Profile and Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 7 January 1971
LONDON — Eyes moist with tears of humility but with handshakes firm and sincere the publicist and the lawyer and the agent and their coiffured ...
Procol Harum and Facts of Life
Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 10 June 1971
The band behind 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' sets the record straight on its massive hit ...
Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 24 June 1971
LONDON — For some time, Jeff Beck had the reputation for being the epitome of English white-blues smartie-pants guitarists. A breed of questionable ethics, it ...
Alexis Korner, Father of Us All
Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 8 July 1971
The man who has influenced a universe of British musicians and movements ...
Gilbert O'Sullivan: What Rhymes With O'Sullivan?
Profile and Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 14 October 1971
The strange case of the pop star with the pudding basin haircut ...
Savoy Brown: Shadow Boxing with Savoy Brown's Mgr.
Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 11 May 1972
LONDON — HARRY rose from the chair and his mouth went slack. His eyes rolled around and his tongue slid out like an epileptic's. He ...
Report by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 6 July 1972
LONDON — "Somebody leaped out at her from behind some bushes in our driveway," explained a seething Lieut-Col. Michael Underwood, "and gave her a black ...
Wings: Beatle Wanderings: Paul On Tour; No Wingsmania Yet
Report and Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 31 August 1972
PARIS — THE last time Paul McCartney had played the Olympia was 1964. Trini Lopez was headlining; the Beatles overshadowed him. Backstage scuffles. The swarming ...
Sharks, Chris Spedding: Chris Spedding: Confessions Of a Top UK Session Guitarist
Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 29 March 1973
LONDON — Chris Spedding flicked his eyes anxiously down to his wrist-watch. It was coming up to 10 PM. The three-hour session, Chris' second of ...
Marianne Faithfull: Somewhere in Her Soul...
Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 12 April 1973
LONDON — She once said: "It's like there's this chant — 'Poor, tragic Marianne, poor, tragic Marianne.'" Tragic is a word that has cropped up ...
Roger Daltrey: A Who Sings His Heart Out in the Country
Profile and Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 26 April 1973
The frontman discusses his solo record. ...
Marc Bolan, T. Rex: The Low-Profile Marc Bolan: Finished with "R&R Lunacy"
Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 20 December 1973
LONDON — THE man who put the bump and grind back into British pop music was a few minutes late arriving at his West End ...
The Rolling Stones: Rock Dreams: Teen Fantasies as Art
Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 11 April 1974
Artist Guy Peellaert and Rock Dreams, artwork of rock icons in fantasized situations ...
Bill Wyman Solo: It's Me, Such As I Am
Report and Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 6 June 1974
THE NIGHT BEFORE, Bill Wyman had been in a studio making a short promotional film for his debut solo album, Monkey Grip, released May 15th. ...
The Strawbs: Strawbs: Stumbling Cousins
Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 26 September 1974
LONDON — THERE'LL always be a Dave Cousins, sure, but will he always have a Strawbs? The group's leader has a knack for not saying ...
George Harrison, Ravi Shankar: George Harrison: The Niceman Cometh
Report by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 21 November 1974
LOS ANGELES — Somewhere in the city, inside the trailer of a tractor-trailer rig, hammers, saws and measuring rules bang and whine toward conversion of ...
Rolling Stone: A Day in the Life
Memoir by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 15 October 1992
I RAN THE magazine's London office for five years in the early Seventies, contributing stories and acting as editor for a bunch of other writers, ...
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