Andrew Tyler
Andrew Tyler wrote for Disc and Music Echo in the early 1970s and then for New Musical Express from 1973 to 1980. He was subsequently news features editor with Time Out. As a freelance writer, he contributed regularly to The Observer, The Independent, the Guardian and others. He is the author of Street Drugs. From 1995 until September 2016, Andrew was the director of Animal Aid, Europe's largest animal rights organisation and one of the first in the world. After suffering from Parkinson's, Andrew died at Dignitas in April 2017.
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Emitt Rhodes: The long and winding Rhodes
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 4 December 1971
Hailed as a "one man Beatles" EMITT RHODES talks about his musical influences to Andrew Tyler ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 4 December 1971
DURING THE NEXT 12 months Nicky Hopkins, the world's best-known anonymous pianist, will be the fourth German on the right no more. After years of ...
King Crimson: Reshuffle At The Court Of The King
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 8 January 1972
"WE'VE ALL gone through our various changes and Peter and I came out at different places." ...
Man: Violence? Man You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet!
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 8 January 1972
MAN HAD JUST finished a gig in Hamburg's notorious Top Ten Club and were ambling around town looking for action when someone stuck a two-bore ...
John McLaughlin, Mahavishnu Orchestra: John McLaughlin: Man For All Seasons
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 15 January 1972
Meet John McLaughlin the jazz giant, man of God, New York hermit and cult leader ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 20 January 1972
"THE TROUBLE with English and European crowds," said Black Sabbath vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, "is that they listen to you as if you were a jukebox. ...
Manassas, Stephen Stills: Stephen Stills: Angry in Suburbia
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 18 March 1972
"HEY, THERE'S a tape recorder going. Hey, there's a tape going here," Steve Stills tosses a dice in the direction of the chatter and chuckles, ...
Harry Nilsson: Nilsson Knees Up
Report by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 25 March 1972
THE PINNER contingent were no match for the notorious East Enders from Stepney, London, even though they did outnumber them 42 to 12. ...
Deep Purple: Machine Head (Purple Records, TPSA 7504, £2.40)
Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 1 April 1972
Just a flash of inspired Purple ...
The Groundhogs: Who Will Save The World (United Artists UAG 29237, £1.94)
Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 1 April 1972
THE RICHLY decorated, animated gatefold cover hints at something special inside and there aren't too many disappointments. ...
Rory Gallagher: On the Road with Rory
Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 8 April 1972
Andrew Tyler found out just how hard life on the road is when he followed Rory Gallagher north on a couple of gigs. ...
Rory Gallagher: Rollicking Rory - Live at Leeds
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 8 April 1972
YOU SEE THEM EVERYWHERE. Those uniformed peak capped gendarmes with sergeant stripes and an air of placid bewilderment. ...
Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 6 May 1972
AFTER A WHILE, you get the feeling you're part of the scenario for one of those colossally far-fetched paperbacks with titles like Rock God (make ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 13 May 1972
"IT'S RIDICULOUS really," said Chicago's composer and keyboard man, Bob Lamm, "Here I am in Hollywood, living in grand style and my parents are still ...
Joe Cocker: I Almost Forgot What Rock 'N' Roll Was All About
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 13 May 1972
THE CURRY looked sort of ropey. It had probably been frozen for a lifetime between cardboard. Joe Cocker examined it incredulously, sifting it through his ...
The Everly Brothers: Back In Favour
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 13 May 1972
JUST WHEN we were getting used to thinking of the Everly Brothers as a monument to a distant era they come up with Stories We ...
Jo Jo Gunne: The Spirit of Jo Jo Gunne
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 27 May 1972
SOME say the stench given off by their first album is just too rank to bear. Others are moved to disagree. Strong stuff, it is ...
Yes: Yes are Well and Grooving
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 27 May 1972
IN THE basement of Una Billings School of Dancing, Shepherd's Bush, London, Yes are bouncing ideas off each other for a new album. Jon Anderson, ...
Stackridge: The Stackridge Story
Review and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 3 June 1972
NOW JIM Walters has passed his bricklaying exams he's rejoined his old band Stackridge. If things don't work out, you see, he'll have something to ...
Caravan: Missing Out On Hysteria
Report by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 24 June 1972
YOU CAN almost see the sky through the hazy plastic roof. Richard Sinclair hands around huge pastries stuffed with stringy macro weeds. Guzzling Cokes and ...
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 24 June 1972
THE SANCTIFIED Sisters, four beautiful black ladies Joe Cocker collected in the US for his British homecoming, are more than visual relief from all those ...
Dick Heckstall-Smith: At Last The Leader Of The Band
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 1 July 1972
HE'S ABOUT five miles high and not coming down: "I feel as if I've got wings growing out of my ankles. Part of me is ...
The Moody Blues: Moodie Blues: Graeme Edge Living Like A Lesser Mortal
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 1 July 1972
RESTING IN a reverse overhead lotus, a tortoiseshell at his feet and fingers pointing towards the All-Saints Hare Krishna Temple in the Marylebone Road, Graeme ...
J. Geils Band: J Geils Band: Rude Noises
Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 8 July 1972
J. GEILS make the sort of rude music Jagger and his band specialised in before they started showering regularly and holidaying in the South of ...
Paul Williams: The Dwarf Genus
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 8 July 1972
HE WAS hanging out in one of those saucy marble and satin masterpieces tucked away neatly behind Piccadilly. His suite, equipped with Scotch, peanuts, a ...
Average White Band: Above Average White Band
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 22 July 1972
THIS PIECE, unless I serve a personal restraining order and keep my legs firmly crossed, is likely to develop into a hysterical citation of the ...
Atomic Rooster: Rooster Keep On Crowing
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 22 July 1972
ATOMIC ROOSTER have seemed set to topple more than once as Vincent Crane, the band's organist and catalyst, found himself virtually alone. ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 29 July 1972
THE FORMIDABLE hand of fate has moved in to give Billy Preston his first American No. 1 hit — something he's clamoured for since turning ...
Fleetwood Mac, Christine McVie, Christine Perfect: Fleetwood Mac: Perfect Woman
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 5 August 1972
PETE GREEN'S in Israel. Jeremy Spencer is making cassettes of devotional songs and recruiting the wayward and lonely for The Children Of God and Fleetwood ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 5 August 1972
ON THE fringe of unassuming Dunstable, Beds., Queensway Hall crouches like an errant space machine — an impressive spectacle and very expensive. It's at least ...
Little Richard: The Georgia Peach
Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 19 August 1972
OOOWEE, Lawd knows it was a bad night's work. According to the divine plan, the Wembley crowd should have been blowing kisses at the Georgia ...
Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 26 August 1972
ARETHA MOVING AT SNAIL'S PACE ...
Van Morrison: Saint Dominic's Preview (Warner Bros. K46172, £2.09)
Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 2 September 1972
FOLLOW THAT VAN ...
Humble Pie: Black Birds Baked in a Pie
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 14 October 1972
STEVE MARRIOTT has a dream. A colossal vision of honey-voiced black ladies and a crazy Louisiana sax player, skinny as a wasp and with dynamite ...
Argent, Colin Blunstone, The Zombies: Plague of the Zombies
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Andrew Tyler, Disc, 14 October 1972
Were the Zombies one of the great neglected bands of the '60s? They had their hits, broke up and then created the sort of interest ...
Argent, Nazareth: Sundown, Mile End, London
Live Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 11 November 1972
SUPPOSE A Rock-n-Roll band gave a concert and no one came – a thought that might have flashed through Rod Argent's mind as he scanned ...
Lindisfarne: On and Off the Wagon
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 18 November 1972
THERE HAVE BEEN more dazzling, more debauched rock'n'roll roadshows. Some of the more spectacular have been known to cushion the strain of touring with sultry ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 25 November 1972
ROCK OF AGES: Andrew Tyler meets rock recluse JIMMY PAGE, ex-Yardbird, on the completion of Led Zeppelin's fifth album. ...
Sparks: Food First, Music Second
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 25 November 1972
"Too many groups we know are into music." ...
Ringo Starr, T. Rex: Ringo Starr on Born to Boogie
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 9 December 1972
"BOLAN STRUTS, man, and I like that about him a lot. A lot of people, when they first meet him, can be put off because ...
The Beatles, Marc Bolan, Ringo Starr, T. Rex: Ringo: Apple to the Core
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 16 December 1972
RINGO WAS always supposed to be like that empty-headed klutz who followed Peter Sellers everywhere in the Magic Christian — a good-humoured and honourable Tonto-figure ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 30 December 1972
SHARKS KNOW enough riffs to play hard-to-get. If they really wanted to wear Mexican sandals, army socks from Badges and Equipment and be very mysterious, ...
Crazy Horse: Crazy Horse At Crooked Lake (Epic £2.29) **
Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 20 January 1973
LIKE THOSE unfortunates who happen to be the son, daughter, sister or brother of a famous personage, Crazy Horse seemed to be lumbered with the ...
Steely Dan: Can't Buy A Thrill (Probe SPB 1062, £2.25)
Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 20 January 1973
THIS ONE'S already speeding up the Billboard and Cashbox charts – currently around the 30 mark and likely to jump about 20 places by next ...
Claudia Lennear: Brown Sugar Lady
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 27 January 1973
A CLUSTER of fly-bursting, brown-skinned ladies has become pretty much standard roadshow equipment for plenty of white rock bands these past few years. The lead ...
John Peel: Peel And The Pig — An Everyday Story Of Country Folk
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 17 February 1973
JOHN PEEL is a sensitive figure with a sturdy patch on the crotch of his jeans and a tendency towards schoolgirls and sensible underwear. A ...
The Osmonds: The Business Of Being An Osmond
Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 10 March 1973
EDD LEFFLER knows just how to take care of his boys. He knows all about double and triple entendres and how reporters sometimes like to ...
Mahavishnu Orchestra: Birds Of Fire (CBS 65321, £2.29)
Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 17 March 1973
Mahavishnu more than one degree under ...
Procol Harum: Grand Hotel (Chrysalis CHR 1037 £2.30)
Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 17 March 1973
Procol's Hotel Mark II ...
Rick Springfield: Tricky Ricky
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 17 March 1973
RICK SPRINGFIELD'S record company and management people, leaving nothing to chance, have been dropping the odd hint. Like the smart white-on-white, life-size poster that arrived ...
Procol Harum: Six Years In The Harum
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 24 March 1973
'GARY'S GOT GOUT,' Keith Reid explains without so much as a trace of nonsense in his eyes, 'so he couldn't make it today.' ...
Average White Band: Marquee, London
Live Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 7 April 1973
IT'S SO EASY to be brought down by the gross excesses of what is fondly being referred to as the "pop revival." Much of it ...
Roxy Music, Sharks: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 7 April 1973
SIX OR seven months ago, a Roxy performance was such a cool business you got the impression the band would be just as satisfied if ...
Lindisfarne: On Reflection: Alan Hull of Lindisfarne
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 14 April 1973
FOR SEVERAL weeks there had been rumbling and muttering noises suggesting that all was not well with Lindisfarne. It was Alan Hull in a careless, ...
The Beatles, Paul McCartney, Wings: Paul McCartney: Spilling the beans...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 14 April 1973
Paul McCartney on Wings, Klein and the chances of a Beatles get-together. Andrew Tyler reports ...
David Bowie, Cherry Vanilla: Cherry Vanilla: Cherry Sauce
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 21 April 1973
...Or hot gossip from a former skin-flick queen who's been hired to handle David Bowie's publicity machine. ...
Manassas: Down The Road (Atlantic K40440, £2.17)
Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 5 May 1973
Mystical Manassas ...
Barclay James Harvest, Pete Sayers, Bridget St John: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 26 May 1973
IT WAS all a bit too easy on the ear at the London Festival on Friday night. First a tender Bridget St John — a ...
Yes: A Story of Chinese Scriptures and Vegetable Eaters
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 2 June 1973
STEVE HOWE... ENGLAND IS STILL BEST ...
Jefferson Airplane, Grace Slick: Grace Slick in London: Killing three stones with one bird
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 30 June 1973
THE HEAT in London is stifling, writes your man from the front, but the cool of the hotel room, and the glass of chilled champagne ...
Live Review by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 30 June 1973
I REMEMBER THE TIME when you could hum along to a Jethro Tull tune. I even remember the time you could hum along to a ...
David Bowie, Humble Pie, Judge Dread, Slade, Wizzard: The Bouncers
Report by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 30 June 1973
ANDREW TYLER Investigates the growing thuggery in concert halls the world over. And gets points of view from the stars, bouncers and the companies who ...
Genesis: The Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 10 August 1973
IT'S A LITTLE dishonest using the same strokes to hammer Genesis as are periodically used against Yes. But there you go. Such is the nature ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 25 August 1973
SO YOU'RE a dues-paying rock 'n' roll star with a couple of weeks to kill and you decide to flit off to Ahmadnagar and hang ...
Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 15 September 1973
THIS PIECE might easily be subtitled "How to operate with ice-cool expediency without ruffling your cosmique mantle." But that would definitely be rushing things. ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 22 September 1973
IF ALL THE world were a movie set, the Japanese artist could have married her rock star and lived happily ever after in the East ...
Brenda Lee: Mmmmm…Sweet Nuthin's
Interview by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 6 October 1973
WESTCLIFF-ON-SEA, Monday: "To make the most of the things you were born with...Think Big." ...
The Kinks: Ray Davies: Doggie Tricks And Bizness Licks
Interview by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 13 October 1973
THIS IS THE TRUE STORY of a street dog and his best friend – an incorrigible pair who get to see each other only on ...
The Persuasions: Big Legs 'n' Bad Asses
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 13 October 1973
WE'RE BACKSTAGE at Birmingham's Odeon, logjammed into a feeble grey van – a constable and sergeant at the controls – and now we're going to ...
Ellie Greenwich: Leaders of the Pack
Interview by Roy Carr, Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 3 November 1973
Ten years ago the American pop scene was dominated by two opposing song factories — KIRSHNER'S Krazy Kids and the Behemoths of the BRILL BUILDING. ...
Neil Young: The Naked Cowboy Fresh Out Of Beans
Essay by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 3 November 1973
EXPERIMENTS IN college dormitories with electrodes, erectoids and heat-meters show that the most consequential moment of a stripper's act is just prior to the panties ...
John Lennon: Please, Your Majesty, Can Our John Have A Free Pardon?
Interview by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 19 January 1974
Heavy breathing over the phone as ANDREW TYLER gets the lowdown from LENNON in L.A. Genius is police harassment, says the Walrus ...
Marianne Faithfull: As Years Go By
Interview by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 2 February 1974
EVEN THOUGH it's so bloody cold, everyone wants to know what happens to John Osborne's loathsome soldier hero in the end. ...
Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 16 February 1974
PEOPLE ARE always saying that the real modern age miracle is how you can fly London to Furt-frank and stand a penny on a table, ...
Marc Bolan, T. Rex: Marc Bolan: Zinc Alloy And The Hidden Riders Of Tomorrow (EMI)
Review by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 2 March 1974
I WAS HOPING the spangled dwarf was going to pull off something approaching musical competence just so as I could do my small bit to ...
Todd Rundgren: A Wizard, A True Star and Todd
Essay by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 2 March 1974
SHOO AWAY, Todd, and stop filling my head with this blue vinyl trash because it turns my head to glass and I'll never see light ...
Graham Nash: Return of the Manchester Mind Wrestler
Interview by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 20 April 1974
CONSIDERING the wastage rate in the higher echelons of rock 'n' roll, it's not difficult to accept as the norm a situation in which an ...
Monty Python's Flying Circus: Monty Python: Hi There, Tiger!
Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 25 May 1974
THE DUNBLANE HYDRO bestrides a cemented hillock just five miles across freeway and dale. ...
The Osmonds: Our Man in Lost Wages
Report by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 17 August 1974
The man to the right of this announcement is ANDREW TYLER: He's a hippie. And he's on the loose in YOUR neighbourhood. Parents, protect your ...
Man: Recall the Beginning! A journey from Eden, cert U
Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 3 May 1975
"Director Andrew Tyler and stars The MAN Band together produce a moving enconium for a dying lifestyle. I wept"William F. Buckley ...
Van Der Graaf Generator: In and Out of The Box
Interview by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 28 June 1975
INTROSPECTION. THAT'S WHY your face is on the floor and you're listening... doo dee dum doo. The French are good at it. French rock crowds ...
John Lennon's battle with the US Immigration Department
Report by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 26 July 1975
JOHN LENNON, IN his battle of wits with the US Immigration Department, is looking less like the stoical pre-doomed crazy of old, and more like ...
Windsor/Watchfield Festival: The Smallest Story Ever Told
Report by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 30 August 1975
Meanwhile...out west on Windsor's High Chaparral, a wandering hippie couple in search of the Ultimate Alternative Festival are waylaid by a pack of journalists hungering ...
Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 4 October 1975
VICTOR JARA sang songs for the people of Chile. In 1973, in the Santiago boxing stadium, a soldier cut off Jara's fingers before six thousand ...
Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 15 November 1975
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN says he just writes down his impressions of stuff whereas here in Hollywood, Calif., there are people in from New York who believe ...
10cc: The 10cc Fine Art Collection
Interview by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 7 February 1976
In which the Fab Four pick their Fabbest Fourteen to illustrate the ascent of sweetness, light, and the Technological Aesthetic to the neanderthal world of ...
Fun Boy Three, The Specials: Fun Boy Three: Why?
Report by Fred Dellar, Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 16 January 1982
FRED DELLAR and ANDREW TYLER report on the vicious race attack that put Lynval Golding in hospital ...
Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones: Rolling Stones: Taking The Mick Mick Mick Mick Mick
Report by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 8 May 1982
Andrew Tyler joins the Jagger press gang and finds the man won't fade away ...
Escape from Sanity: An Englishman in San Francisco in 1967
Memoir by Andrew Tyler, unpublished, October 2016
NOTE: This is an excerpt from an as-yet unpublished memoir by the former Disc/NME writer and Animal Aid activist, who very sadly died on 28 ...
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