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Jonh Ingham

Jonh Ingham

John Ingham was born in Australia to English parents and grew up in Australia, Canada, and the USA. As a student at CalArts in Los Angeles he took a course from Village Voice music critic Robert Christgau, who taught him to be a music critic and helped him get his first bylines. While still at college his work appeared in Rolling Stone, Creem, and other contemporary magazines. With Greg Shaw he was instrumental in launching the influential music fanzine Who Put The Bomp.

Moving to London, UK, in 1972 to attend film school, he was a freelance writer for the NME and other British music magazines before joining Sounds. As a staff writer from 1975 to 1977 he wrote high-profile interviews with major rock artists such as the Rolling Stones, Jimmy Page, Roxy Music and Queen, and was one of the first journalists to champion the punk movement.As well as doing the first interview with the Sex Pistols he wrote the first reviews of the Damned and the Clash.

In 1977, he left journalism to become co-manager of the punk band Generation X. In December of that year he moved to Los Angeles to work in the film industry, returning to music in 1980 as seminal manager of the Go-Go's. Under his tutelage the group became a leading L.A. attraction before signing to IRS Records.

Ingham started the Fake Club in 1982, the first of L.A.'s many "temporary" nightclubs that dominated the '80s, before moving to Tokyo in 1985 to work in advertising. In London in 1996 he joined CompuServe as Head of Content, starting his current career in online content. In 2000, as Head of Content at music startup Worldpop, he created Europe’s first content service for mobile phones. He is now a founder of online talent show 1Click2Fame.

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Grand Funk Railroad: Forum, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Creem, May 1971

WHAT A WAY TO RUN A RAILROAD ...

Aretha Franklin at Fillmore West

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Creem, June 1971

BILL GRAHAM'S Fillmore West. At one end is a fairly large stage, the sides littered with sound equipment. Behind it hangs the light show scrim. ...

Hot Tuna: First Pull Up, Then Pull Down (RCA)

Review by Jonh Ingham, Phonograph Record, September 1971

I FIRST HEARD Hot Tuna at a free concert in late 1969. It consisted of Jack and Jorma on guitars, Joey Covington on drums (Spencer ...

Grin: Grin (Spindizzy Z30321)

Review by Jonh Ingham, Creem, October 1971

IT'S A LITTLE early to predict accurately, but it appears the era of the rock and roll commune is upon us. So far we've got ...

Jethro Tull: The Forum, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Creem, October 1971

Rock As Electric Wallpaper ...

The Sun Records Revival

Review by Jonh Ingham, Phonograph Record, November 1971

SUN RECORDS and Phil Spector's Philles Records were the two most important independent record companies in the history of rock and roll. ...

The Strawbs: From The Witchwood (A&M)

Review by Jonh Ingham, Rolling Stone, 25 November 1971

THE STRAWBS started out as a bluegrass duo, went through incarnations with Sandy Denny in her pre-Fairport days and a cellist from Sadler's Wells Opera ...

The Who: Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy (Decca)

Review by Jonh Ingham, Phonograph Record, December 1971

WELL, THEY'VE (and we all know who they are) finally gotten around to putting 'I Can't Explain', 'The Seeker', and 'Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere' onto an ...

The Faces

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Phonograph Record, 1 January 1972

AS FAR AS AMERICA is concerned, the Small Faces were notable for one single, 'Itchycoo Park', and one album, Ogden's Nut Gone Flake; the former ...

David Bowie: Central London Polytechnic, London

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Phonograph Record, 1 July 1972

"YES, I'M DAVID BOWIE. These are the Spiders from Mars. And we're the slickest show in town." ...

James Brown, The Rolling Stones: The T.A.M.I. Show

Retrospective by Jonh Ingham, Creem, September 1972

Monster Rock Flick Flips Out Freaks Coast To Coast ...

Alice Cooper: Dancing In The Street Without A Permit Is Strictly Forbidden

Report by Jonh Ingham, Fusion, November 1972

Alice hits London. Summertime blues 1972. ...

Roy Harper: Stormcock in Heat, That's Roy Harper

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Rolling Stone, 7 December 1972

ROY HARPER WAS holidaying in Norway when word of the movie reached his management. It was his first holiday in three years, and all they ...

Michael Nesmith: The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (RCA)

Review by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 13 January 1973

IT'S LITTLE known information, but Stephen Stills auditioned for the Monkees. So it follows illogically that CSN&Y was just Steve's ambition to be a Monkee ...

The Rowan Brothers: Rowan Brothers: Rowan Brothers (CBS)

Review by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 27 January 1973

THESE TWO caballeros made their first appearance of note with the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West: two downy-cheeked youths on acoustic guitars with Uncle ...

The Pretty Things: Pretty Things: Decade Of Dues Now Pays Off

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Rolling Stone, 1 February 1973

THE ENGLISH BANDS that have survived since the first days of the British Invasion can be counted on the fingers of one hand. The Stones, ...

Slade: Steamroller Rock Knocks 'Em Flat

Profile and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Rolling Stone, 1 February 1973

LONDON – Noddy gets the fans shouting, clapping, stomping, throwing their bras and knickers up on stage. Dave looks inhuman, silver from head to toe, ...

Roy Harper: The Original Hippie

Report by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 3 February 1973

"I'LL COME back and see you, but I'm not getting smashed. I'm 24 and feeling it.""That's all right Robert, neither am I. We'll stand in ...

Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen: Hot Licks, Cold Steel and Truckers Favorites (Paramount)

Review by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 24 March 1973

IT WAS like driving through an infinite oven, the sun dancing in cool water-mirages across the four-lane asphalt. Wayne wiped the sweat from his brow. ...

The Beach Boys #1: The Perfect Wave

Discography by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 24 March 1973

"I love to make records that my friends like to hear." – BRIAN WILSON ...

The Pretty Things: Still As Strong As Bo Diddley's Guitar Arm

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 24 March 1973

FEEL THE svelte red leather. Take in the expensive walnut dashboard surrounding the precision instruments; the speedo flicking between 70 and 80. Experience the full ...

The Beach Boys #2: The Exiles Return

Discography by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 31 March 1973

THE SECOND and concluding part of Jonh Ingham's retrospective look at the Beach Boys covers the '66 to '73 period. ...

Roxy Music: The Roots

Interview by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 28 April 1973

"I'D BEEN nursing the idea for Roxy since my last band," says Bryan Ferry, "since 1964-65. Obviously, when I stopped with the other band I ...

Roxy Music: Ultra Pulp Images On The Video-Cassette Of Your Mind

Profile and Interview by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 28 April 1973

THE FIRST COSMIC rock law of the seventies is this: "Everybody is a star". To which the answer is: "So what?". Roxy Music, undeniably, have ...

Sly & The Family Stone: Fresh (Epic)

Review by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 12 May 1973

SLY IS AN interesting enigma. Top soul dj-turned-musician, he singlehandedly influenced the course of soul music with a sound that owed more to acid than ...

Liza Minnelli: Rainbow Theatre, London

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 26 May 1973

LUREX 'N ADULATION — OR, WHAT HAPPENED WHEN FLAME TORSO (with a T) REVIEWED LIZA MINNELLI'S RAINBOW GIG ...

Led Zeppelin: Houses Of The Holy

Review by Jonh Ingham, Let It Rock, June 1973

THE WAY I SEE IT, if you've been a Led Zep fan since day one, and think that 'Whole Lotta Love' is the cat's pyjamas, ...

Suzi Quatro, Sweet: Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman: The Dynamic Duo Of Plastic Pop

Interview by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 2 June 1973

Nicky Chinn is an ex-public schoolboy, Mike Chapman a one-time waiter. Together they're... The Dynamic Duo Of Plastic Pop ...

Roxy Music at the Rainbow Theatre, London

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Phonograph Record, September 1973

KONO IS A a Japanese journalist, top of his class. One week he's flaming around New York, the next week in London, hip to all ...

The Pretty Things: Silk Torpedo

Review by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 23 November 1974

IT GIVES you faith to know that through all the impermanency and transience of this beast we call rock, The Pretty Things soldier on. ...

Fanny: Unnnghhh! Grunt, Slurp…

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 30 November 1974

LETS BE SEXIST for a coupla paragraphs. ...

Jefferson Starship: Dragonfly

Review by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 30 November 1974

HONESTLY, HAVING even to think about Jeff Airplane/ Starship/whatever these days is getting to be a bore. ...

Cornell Dupree: Teasin' (Atlantic)

Review by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 7 December 1974

THE COVER sums this one up: a comfy sofa and an old electric fan and a Coke machine that's about fifteen years old, with the ...

The Beach Boys: Hello Bruce, this is Bruce, Bruce

Interview by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 7 December 1974

GIVE BRUCE Johnston credit; he isn't put off his chosen path easily. ...

Alvin Lee: Alvin Thrills the U.S. Army Freaks

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 28 December 1974

ALVIN LEE is a deceptive character. He's never really worked at making his presence felt in the way Rod Stewart or Elton John have done, ...

Lady June: Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy

Review by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 18 January 1975

FILE THIS ONE under Everybody Is A Star. ...

Thin Lizzy: Imperial College, London

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 1 February 1975

IT WAS WITH thunderous welcome that the dynamic Thin Lizzy returned to London last Saturday, winning many new fans and "wowing" old ones in a ...

Ducks Deluxe: Man in the Moon, London

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 15 February 1975

THE DUCKS ARE one of the few '70s bands that have the power to redefine rock and make it a vibrant life force once more, ...

The Flamin' Groovies: Grease; Alive Forever! (More Grease)

Review by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 15 February 1975

SOME OF YOU may remember The Flamin' Groovies. ...

Ronnie Lane: Seedy Lad Discusses Tent Collapse

Interview by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 29 March 1975

SOMEWHERE IN the hinterlands of this once-proud isle, in a medieval pub which has beams wallpapered with matchbooks proclaiming the existence of "Joe's Cafe", Ronnie ...

Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers, Dr. Feelgood, Kokomo: Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers, Dr. Feelgood, Kokomo: Rainbow Theatre, London

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Phonograph Record, April 1975

THE SECOND wave of '70s bands to emerge from England is an entirely opposite affair from the glitter/glam of the Mark I model. It's centred ...

Mott The Hoople: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Creem, April 1975

EVEN AS MOTT the Hoople were announcing Mick Ronson as their new guitarist at a fancy New York press conference, plans were underway for the ...

Ace, Bees Make Honey, Brinsley Schwarz, Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers, Dr. Feelgood, Ducks Deluxe, Kilburn & The High Roads, Kokomo, The Kursaal Flyers: Letter from Britain: New Bands Hit The Pubs (And The Charts)

Report by Jonh Ingham, Creem, May 1975

"IT'S 1975, OKAY, and all across London town, hey hey," or something like that. It's not so much a case of no fun as a ...

Brinsley Schwarz: God Save The Grateful Dead, Or Someone Like Them

Report by Jonh Ingham, Creem, June 1975

Happy doing what we're doing,Happy that we're doing it right.Happy doing what we're doing,Happy that the feeling is right. ...

Sadistic Mika Band: Sadist Faction

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Let It Rock, June 1975

TWO YEARS AGO I attended an out of town Roxy gig. Along for the ride was Kazuhiko and Mika Katoh, husband and wife leaders of ...

Steely Dan: Katy Lied

Review by Jonh Ingham, Let It Rock, June 1975

WHEN I FIRST RECEIVED this album it engendered dispassionate dislike, but the more I play it the more I become merely ambivalent. Certainly there are ...

Allen Toussaint: Southern Nights (Reprise)

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 14 June 1975

Toussaint's Night Flight ...

Roy Harper: Poetry In Motion With The One Eyed Giant

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 14 June 1975

ROY HARPER reckons Roger Waters listens to Valentine at least three times a week. He also reckons he's influenced Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull. If ...

Ian Hunter, Mott The Hoople: Ian Hunter: Through the Glasses Darkly

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Creem, August 1975

THOSE SHADES! Oceans of mid-Atlantic green plastic bounded by translucent brown frames, black electrical tape wound in large balls around the tips to protect the ...

Mick Ronson: Rats To Riches

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Creem, August 1975

"I should never have done solo albums, but I'm glad I did." ...

Aerosmith: Toys In The Attic (CBS) (36:59).

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 2 August 1975

AS AEROSMITH race through 'Toys In The Attic', first track on the platter, all raging guitars, quaint lyrics about 'leaving the things that are real ...

The Supremes: The Supremes (Tamla Motown) (32.16)

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 16 August 1975

SIX PRODUCERS on one record? Is this some kind of a joke? I've heard of Rick Derringer dreaming of a different producer for each song ...

Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley & the Wailers: Letter from Britain: Johnny Too Bad's Kinky Reggae

Column by Jonh Ingham, Creem, September 1975

THEY SAY that reggae is breaking into America via discos. It would be nice to think so, because if ever a music deserved to gain ...

Manhattan Transfer: Be-bopin' The Transfer Tradition

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 6 September 1975

Manhattan Transfer don't like being classed as a nostalgia band, they feel they're urban folk singers, singing music of the ghetto. Jonh Ingham talks to ...

Chris Spedding: Speeding With Spedding

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 20 September 1975

DEEP IN the bowels of Television Centre, Chris Spedding whiles away the hours in a dressing room, waiting for those few minutes on TOTP when ...

Queen: Wimpy and Quips

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 27 September 1975

Jonh Ingham shares an eggburger with Queen's Brian May... ...

Dr. Feelgood: Dr Feelgood: Malpractice (United Artists) (36.08)

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 4 October 1975

FROM THE speed-crazed paranoid stares on the cover to the buzz-bomb guitar attacks inside, one question demands to be answered: would you let your parents ...

Andy Mackay, Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera, Roxy Music: The Roxy Music Story

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 4 October 1975

THE TELEPHONE'S ringing woke him. Sleepily Flame Torso surveyed the tangle of blankets which hid the form next to him. He vaguely tried to remember ...

Alvin Lee: TYA's Animated Man

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 11 October 1975

TO VISIT ALVIN LEE at home is seemingly to see a man living the perfect fantasy life – 40 room mansion, large gardens, recording studio, ...

Loggins & Messina: Loggins and Messina: So Fine (CBS 69169) (32.45 mins)

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 18 October 1975

I HATE this record with a rare savagery. It features the duo's renditions of a dozen exhumed oldies and it raised the anger so fast ...

Dr. Feelgood: The /almost collected thoughts of Dr. Feelgood

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 18 October 1975

DR FEELGOOD: Wilko Johnson – guitar; Lee Brilleaux – vocals; John B Sparks – bass; The Figure – drums. They grew up on Canvey Island in ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd: De Doelen, Rotterdam, Holland

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 25 October 1975

Lynyrd skynful ...

10cc And Ready To Roar

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Hit Parader, November 1975

FIVE YEARS AGO one of the most mindless, repetitious, quintessential singles thumped up the world record charts in double-quick time. It was called 'Neanderthal Man'. ...

The Bay City Rollers: Bay City Rollers: Flattened

Comment by Jonh Ingham, Creem, November 1975

THE ROLLERS SNEAKED up on everybody. The astute observer would have first noticed their presence two and a half years ago when their initial success ...

Sadistic Mika Band

Profile and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Hit Parader, November 1975

TWO YEARS AGO, at the time of For Your Pleasure, I attended an out of town Roxy gig. Along for the ride was Kazuhiko and ...

Patti Smith: La belle dame sans merci: Patti Smith: Horses (Arista Import) *****

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 20 November 1975

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I give you the record of the year. Or the record of 1976, since it won't be released here until January.  ...

Queen: A Riot At The Opera: Queen Triumphant

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 29 November 1975

QUEEN ARE the type of group that make a man want to abandon rock writing. They pose questions and never provide answers. They exist in ...

Tangerine Dream: Ricochet (Virgin) 38 min*****

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 29 November 1975

THE TANGS RULE. Jamie had seen it spray painted on walls all over town. In underpasses. On the back walls of railway sidings – 20 ...

Roy Wood: Mustard

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 6 December 1975

EVEN IF you don't particularly care for Roy Wood (and his music seems to arouse, negatively speaking, disinterest rather than hate), you have to give ...

The Band: Northern Lights, Southern Cross (Capitol)

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 20 December 1975

THE BAND don't rush things – this is their first album of original material in four years – and to review this after having listened ...

The Doctors of Madness

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 20 December 1975

PORTSMOUTH Poly wasn't Saturday night's top hotspot by any means, but then it seemed as well hidden as El Dorado. Still, an evening's pleasure topped ...

10cc: How Dare You! (Phonogram)***

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 10 January 1976

THIS ALBUM really bugs me. So much so that I've spent the better part of a morning throwing away half-typed sheets of paper. The trouble ...

Buck Owens, Susan Raye: Buck Owens & the Buckaroos, Susan Raye: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 24 January 1976

THE ALBERT HALL isn't the most obvious place to see the Bakersfield Emperor, but it did make for an interesting ambience, with the audience about ...

David Bowie: Station to Station (RCA)

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 24 January 1976

IN MY PHYSICS textbook at school was an amazing photo of two galaxies colliding. Just imagine being on a planet in a system in either ...

Pan's People: I Was A Pan's People (And Lived)

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 24 January 1976

Unwitting girls in White Slavery? Sex objects exploited for male fantasies? The best thing on Top Of The Pops? ...

Queen: Mercury Rising: The Queen Interview

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 31 January 1976

AND SO IT CAME to pass that the Santa Claus single this Yuletide season was a spaghetti-melodrama of Love and Death, by that most British ...

Kevin Ayers: Odd Ditties (Harvest) ****

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 21 February 1976

PERHAPS THE most apt album title of this or any year. Kevin Ayers has a great penchant for odd ditties, and these songs are decidedly ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Hammersmith Odeon, London; Apollo Theatre, Glagow

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 21 February 1976

IF YOU want to know just how good Skynyrd are, they're the rare band you wouldn't mind working for, just to watch the action every ...

John Entwistle, The Who: John Entwistle: Is This The Right Man For Mayor of Acton?

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 28 February 1976

'Momma's got a squeeze box she wears on her chestAnd when Daddy comes home he never gets no rest Because she's playing all nightAnd the ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Report by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 28 February 1976

KATE SIMON'S MOTHER used to warn her, "Katherine, beware of people who drink before two p.m." My mum advised me to keep that first glass ...

T. Rex: The Lyceum, London

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 28 February 1976

I MET A TRUE love at a T. Rex concert, so he has a special affection. At that time he was assaulting America, expecting everybody ...

The Kursaal Flyers: The Great Artiste (UK) ****

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 28 February 1976

THE KURSAALS have always had a way with visuals and image – Paul Shuttleworth's background in commercial art no doubt. Just check the ad for ...

Kevin Ayers: Golden Ayers

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 6 March 1976

IN HIS last, rather desperate sounding album, Kevin Ayers really hit the nail on the head. In the middle of the first song, weightily titled ...

The Kursaal Flyers: Kursaal Flyers: Coming In On A Wing And A Prayer

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 6 March 1976

IT'S AMAZING the difference a moustache makes. ...

The Doctors of Madness: Doctors Of Madness: Late Night Movies, All Night Brainstorm (Polydor) ***

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 13 March 1976

IF NOTHING ELSE, this record proves that you can't know anything personal about the people involved if you're to take this whole rock-noir terminal guttercrawl ...

Led Zeppelin: Jimmy Page: Technological Gypsy

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 13 March 1976

'Aleister Crowley is the great misunderstood genius of the 20th century.' ...

Led Zeppelin: Presence (Swan Song)

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 10 April 1976

AFTER THIS PLATTER had spun incessantly for an afternoon on the office phonogram I asked a non-Zep fan what he thought."Oh, it's okay I guess. ...

Sex Pistols: El Paradise Club, London

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 10 April 1976

SOHO'S EL Paradise Club is to become a Sunday residency for the Sex Pistols and London is all the better off for it. It's about ...

Chris Spedding: Chris Spedding (Rak)

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 17 April 1976

'AND EVERYONE goes/To see their guitar heroes' is not the kind of lyric many people would even think of, let alone commit to posterity. But ...

Pavlov's Dog: At The Sound Of The Bell (CBS 81163) ***½

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 17 April 1976

ON THE front cover is a recreation of a quite famous scene of the Lon Chaney Hunchback of Notre Dame swinging on the bells; the ...

The Flamin' Groovies: Shake Some Action (Philips) [Import]**

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 17 April 1976

IT'S HARD to imagine that the Groovies are ten years old, or that it's four years since they tried to enliven us in Britain. But ...

Sex Pistols: The Sex Pistols are four months old...

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 24 April 1976

THE SEX PISTOLS are four months old, so tuned in to the present that it's hard to find a place to play. Yet they already ...

Alvin Lee: Lemme Out!

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 1 May 1976

AT 3PM, Alvin Lee, benevolent despot, was still asleep – he hadn't gone to bed until 9.30am – so it seemed a good excuse to ...

Gram Parsons: GP (Reprise)*****

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 1 May 1976

IF YOU woundered why, or where, Rick Grech gets off with performing Gram Parsons type country music, it stems from co-producing this bona fide classic. ...

The Rolling Stones: Fire and Fury in Frankfurt

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 8 May 1976

FORTY POUNDS for one night in a hotel. It makes you wonder. Forty Pounds would keep me and the missus for a week or more, ...

Patti Smith Is Innocent, OK?

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 29 May 1976

Jonh Ingham, on the other hand, is guilty. Six days it took him to get us this piece. SIX DAYS! The Patti-Smith-crazy Sounds staffers were ...

The Sex Pistols: Sex Pistols: 100 Club, London

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 5 June 1976

BUT FIRST a few words about support group Dogwatch. At first they sounded exactly like It's A Beautiful Day circa 1968, but this rapidly gave ...

The Pretty Things, Uriah Heep: Uriah Heep/Pretty Things: Empire Pool, Wembley

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 19 June 1976

THE PRETTY Things can, on occasion, succumb to being ordinary, but usually they're great. This night was no exception. Using the cavern of Wembley Empire ...

Mott The Hoople: Motto Grosso

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 26 June 1976

Mott are shouting and the girls are pointing. That's what being on the road is all about. Mott are back and JONH INGHAM was there ...

The Flamin' Groovies: Flamin' Groovies: Shake Some Action (Sire) ***

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 3 July 1976

SEVERAL WEEKS ago I reviewed a French import of the above mentioned Groovies album, complaining about the terrible sound. It is my pleasure to announce ...

The Beach Boys: 15 Big Ones

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 3 July 1976

THE FIRST new Beach Boys studio album in three years. Fifteen big ones celebrating 15 years of Beach Boys on their 23rd album (not counting ...

Thin Lizzy: Fat Cheque For Thin Men?

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 3 July 1976

Lizzy hit the big time. With one eye on Wimbledon, they reveal all to JONH INGHAM... ...

Martha Velez: Escape From Babylon (Sire)

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 10 July 1976

IF YOU'RE of the opinion that there isn't enough Wailers music available, here's something to make your day. Apart from Ms. Velez, Lee Perry and ...

Bryan Ferry (1976)

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Rock's Backpages audio, 13 July 1976

Mr. Ferry talks about his latest solo album, Let's Stick Together: choosing material, using session men like Chris Spedding, and the ballads v rockers variety of material; he talks ablout his need for privacy and unwillingness to expose himself; his relationship with Jerry Hall; how he views himself, and being an autobiographical lyricist; his dislike of being interviewed, but being a good listener.

File format: mp3; file size: 48.5mb, interview length: 50' 33" sound quality: ***

Bryan Ferry Comes Clean

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 24 July 1976

THE LIGHT caught him in bas-relief. Under the scuffed, light brown leather jacket a light blue shirt with creases pressed into the shoulders and rolled ...

Buzzcocks, Sex Pistols: Sex Pistols/Buzzcocks/Slaughter and the Dogs: Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 31 July 1976

ABOVE MANCHESTER'S Free Trade Hall is a little known auditorium, capable of holding some 400, cunningly named the Lesser Hall. Until the Sex Pistols discovered ...

Bryan Ferry: Let's Stick Together (Atlantic) Import***

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 9 October 1976

IT'S HARD to review this album without sounding as artsy-fartsy as the man in question. I mean, I don't know much about Art but I ...

The Runaways: Runaways (gasp): At Last An (groan) Objective (pant) View

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 9 October 1976

The Runaways: The Roundhouse, London ...

The Sex Pistols, Siouxsie & The Banshees: The (?) Rock Special (#2): The Audience

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 9 October 1976

"I didn't even know the Summer of Love was happening. I was too busy playing with my Action Man."— Sid Vicious ...

The Sex Pistols: The (?) Rock Special (#3): Sex Pistols

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 9 October 1976

John Rotten (vocals), Steve Jones (guitar), Glen Matlock (bass), Paul Cook (drums). ...

The (?) Rock Special (#4): Mark P

Profile and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 9 October 1976

"I may be sounding dramatic but I wanna go out and hear the sounds that I like every night, I wanna have to choose what ...

Buzzcocks, The Clash, The Damned, Eater, Eddie & The Hot Rods, The Subway Sect, The Vibrators: The (?) Rock Special (#5): Other Bands

Profile by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 9 October 1976

"I don't understand why people think it's so difficult to learn to play the guitar. I found it incredibly easy. You just pick a chord ...

The Clash, The Damned, The Sex Pistols: Welcome To The (?) Rock Special (#1): In Love With The Modern World

Overview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 9 October 1976

Johnny Rotten, the Clash, the Damned and a committed cast of hundreds of new music makers give the finger to the old farts ...

Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains The Same (Swan Song)**

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 16 October 1976

THREE YEARS to get a live album out? Three years??? I mean – really!! After all, John Denver did it in ten days. ...

Patti Smith, The Stranglers: Patti Smith: Once Is Not Enough (ungh! choke! etc)

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 30 October 1976

Patti Smith/The Stranglers: Hammersmith Odeon, London ...

Wings: 'She's A Good Cook, Eamon'

Report by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 30 October 1976

THANK YOU, AND I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO TELL ANYONE WHO HE WAS.THE LARGE, widely spaced, easy to read letters are to be the first words ...

Tangerine Dream: Singalongatangs

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 6 November 1976

YOU WANT a picture of prosperity?Take a gander over there, then. Yeah, that guy sitting on the floor at the back of the audience. That's ...

Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains The Same

Film/DVD/TV Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 13 November 1976

SO THERE we were. We'd pushed through the crowds outside the Warner West End theatre. Run the gamut of flashbulbs. Said Hello to the McCartneys. ...

The Clash, Suburban Studs: Barbarella's, Birmingham

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 13 November 1976

WEDNESDAY HAD been booked as Punk Night at Barbarellas, an excuse, if nothing else, for the club deejay to fall in love with the sound ...

The Clash: Barbarellas, Birmingham

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 13 November 1976

WEDNESDAY HAD been booked as Punk Night at Barbarellas, an excuse, if nothing else, for the club deejay to fall in love with the sound ...

The Sex Pistols: Sex Pistols: This Could Be The Last Time

Report by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 28 January 1978

HYSTERIA! Disgust! Bemusement! Perplexity! The hip, FM radio dj still can't believe it. The Sex Pistols in San Francisco – heavee, man! Back in Hollywood, ...

Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones: And Sitteth At The Right Hand Of God…

Retrospective by Jonh Ingham, Rock's Backpages, December 2003

Jonh Ingham recalls a night in the presence of Keith Richards, April 1976. ...

The Damned, Sex Pistols: Citizen Punk

Retrospective by Jonh Ingham, Q, 2005

APRIL 1976: For me it began at the El Paradise strip club, where the Sex Pistols filled a tiny room with three-chord beat and Rotten ...

The Hold Steady: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, July 2, 2007

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Rock's Backpages, July 2007

I FORGET WHICH sexy mega rock god said it, but it was someone suitably svelte and saturnine who said, "Anyone who tells you they got ...

Elvis Presley: Elvis At 72

Comment by Jonh Ingham, mog.com, 17 August 2007

EVERY YEAR a bunch of new noisy kids will tell you rock and roll is a young man's game. At 72 and still The King, ...

Chuck Berry: Hail, Hail, Chuck Berry!

Essay by Jonh Ingham, Jonh Ingham's Blog, October 2007

"If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry."– John Lennon ...

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