Maureen Cleave
Maureen Cleave wrote about pop music and culture for the London Evening Standard in the 1960s. Most famous for the Beatles interviews she conducted for the Standard, in 1966 she married Francis Nichols, whose work took her to Peru in the late 1960s. Returning to the UK, Maureen continued her career in journalism, writing for the Daily Telegraph, The Observer and other publications. She was diagnosed with ME in the '90s, and later with dementia after her husband’s death in 2015. She passed away in November 2021.
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Johnny Mathis: "Sometimes I feel I earn too much," says Mr. Mathis
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 15 July 1961
"YOU'D BE amazed how many people have an awful lot of money," said Johnny Mathis easily, thinking no doubt what an awful lot of mugs ...
Juliette Gréco: Gréco heads for Edinburgh...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 2 September 1961
Plus band and her personal electrician ...
Acker Bilk: You don't have to be poor to be good — says Acker Bilk
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 7 October 1961
CHRIS BARBER put 'Petite Fleur' into the hit parade three years ago and, in a sense, started the trad jazz boom. Mr. Barber still looks ...
Brenda Lee: Little Miss Lee keeps up with her school work
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 31 March 1962
PRODUCING CHILD prodigies is something the Americans are exceedingly good at. They have them in every field. ...
Jerry Lee Lewis: No Sneering — This Mr. Lewis Is Simply Great!
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 12 May 1962
FOUR YEARS ago, Jerry Lee Lewis was booted out of this country with an extraordinary display of righteous nastiness. ...
Chris Barber, Blues Incorporated, Alexis Korner, Mantovani: Mr. Korner and his weird front line...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 26 May 1962
TOGETHER, THEY MAKE THE BEST TWISTING NOISE I'VE HEARD ...
Lonnie Donegan, Glyn Johns: Lonnie Donegan: The first (and last) skiffler keeps one jump ahead...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 16 June 1962
LONNIE DONEGAN was the apostle of skiffle, an ephemeral art form if ever there was one. He is its sole survivor. ...
Alma Cogan Adds Another Country To Her Collection
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 23 June 1962
THE JAPANESE are potty about Alma Cogan. It was a little number called 'Just Couldn't Resist Her, With Her Pocket Transistor' that won her the ...
Della Reese: Putting On The Squeal — It's Like Cooking Rice
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 21 July 1962
IN AMERICA today, the sound to make is a coloured sound. The pop scene is riddled with young men aping Ray Charles, but they don't ...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 18 August 1962
A CITYBILLY is somebody who sings folk songs in towns. You recognise him in America in Greenwich Village-type places by his shapely blue jeans, his ...
Bobby Vinton: The sad, sad road to success — via the nursery
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 15 September 1962
WHAT A flabby, masochistic lot they are in the hit parade at the moment! In the five records at the top, not one of them ...
Little Richard: Well, look who's back — it's Little Richard
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 6 October 1962
BOBOBALOOMBA Abimbamboom all Rootti Tutti Frutti. With this gnomic verse about ice-cream and a shriek of masochistic ecstasy, Little Richard exploded before a wondering world ...
The Everly Brothers, Phil Everly: Maybe Mr. Everly can't spell — but he sure can sing
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 13 October 1962
LIKE FALLING off a log, cried all the little boys up and down the country when they first heard the Everly Brothers six years ago. ...
Sam Cooke: When you're well-read and dress like wham!
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 20 October 1962
WE HAD the wireless on throughout. Sam Cooke wore red-patterned pyjamas, a black dressing-gown and a beaten gold ring, which he wears because he doesn't ...
B. Bumble & The Stingers: Even B. Bumble has trouble with names
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 27 October 1962
YOU WOULD think that if you went to the trouble of calling yourself B. Bumble there would be little chance of people getting you mixed ...
The Everly Brothers: Phil Everly: He Can't Spell But He Can Sing Like A Million Dollars
Interview by Maureen Cleave, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 11 November 1962
From MAUREEN CLEAVE in London ...
Odetta: When Odetta opens her eyes...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 12 January 1963
IT IS TO SAY "THANK YOU" FOR ALL THAT APPLAUSE ...
The Beatles: Why The Beatles Create All That Frenzy
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 2 February 1963
THE BEATLES are the darlings of Merseyside. The little girls of Merseyside are so fiercely possessive about their Beatles that they forced Granada to put ...
Marion Williams: Just keep on clapping — it's Miss Williams
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 2 March 1963
CHRIS BARBER, they tell me, has been to see her twenty times. Humphrey Lyttelton cannot keep away. ...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 27 April 1963
IT WOULDN'T be difficult to be exceedingly jealous of Brian Epstein. In fact, I should think a lot of people are — managers particularly. ...
Ray Charles, Margie Hendrix, The Raelets: I'll Stick To Ray, Says Margie Hendrix
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 18 May 1963
Why? Because Mr. Charles is nice ...
Billie Davis, John Leyton, Mike Sarne: Robert Stigwood: The Young Tycoon Behind Mike Sarne & Co.
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 22 June 1963
FEW GROWN up people, I find, have a genuine respect for the pop singer. They see him as a creature who makes inexplicably large sums ...
Oscar Brown Jr.: A Very Cheerful Man Is Oscar Cicero Brown
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 29 June 1963
OSCAR BROWN JR. is an extremely cheerful person. From his riotously checked shirt to his shoes with funny little thongs at the side, he exudes ...
Jack Good: Well, he's come back — the man who really started it all
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 6 July 1963
IT WAS Jack Good who I first sold us rock 'n' roll. This is one of my wilder generalisations and it takes no account of ...
Gene Vincent: The original man in the black leather suit
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 13 July 1963
THEY USED to call Gene Vincent The Screaming End. He started the others wearing black leather, he started them hollering and diving about the stage. ...
Chubby Checker: What 3 years of Twisting have done for Chubby
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 17 August 1963
CHUBBY CHECKER is one of the nicer people you meet in this business. He looks nicer for a start. He has a brown friendly face ...
Kathy Kirby: But The Smile Does Have To Go On And On...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 7 September 1963
KATHY KIRBY is the girl in Stars and Garters who looks like Marilyn Monroe. She has the same curves and the same defenceless, little-girl curls; ...
Peter, Paul & Mary: Peter, Paul and Mary and the Sweet Smell of Cerebral Involvement
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 28 September 1963
YOU DON'T often find a beard in the hit parade — or a waistcoat for that matter. We have Acker Bilk sporting both in ours, ...
Cilla Black: After Those Beatles — The Gear Girl
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 5 October 1963
"I LOVE PARTIES," SAYS THE GIRL FROM LIVERPOOL. "WE ACT SOFT, DANCE FLAMENCO AND WEAR WAX ROSES IN OUR MOUTHS." ...
Jet Harris & Tony Meehan: My Nerve Has Gone Says Jet Harris
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 7 October 1963
POP SINGER-guitarist Jet Harris, small, sad, pale and shaking, arrived at Victoria from Brighton today. ...
Bo Diddley: So Ethel Mae stayed — and so did the guitar
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 12 October 1963
'THE BIGGER THE CLOWN YOU ARE, THE MORE RECOGNITION YOU GET,' SAYS BO. 'WE DO EVERYTHING EXCEPT STAND ON OUR HEADS.' ...
The Beatles: The Year of the Beatles, part one
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 17 October 1963
AS THEY MAKE THE ROYAL SHOW: A STUDY OF HOW THEY DID IT ...
The Beatles: Part II Of "The Year of the Beatles": This is where the 'O' level world becomes Rock...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 18 October 1963
WHAT DISTINGUISHES the Beatles and the Liverpool Movement from the rest is their self-confidence. ...
The Beatles: Part III Of 'The Year Of The Beatles': It's Like Living It Up With Four Marx Brothers
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 19 October 1963
EACH BEATLE differs so much from the other Beatles that it's odd they get on so well together. They like each other best. "We are ...
Georgie Fame: Soul — that's what stuns Georgie Fame
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 January 1964
GEORGIE FAME soldiers through life with a surname like that. He also has an accent like George Formby's and a singing voice like Fats Domino's. ...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 January 1964
IT WAS A bad idea, perhaps, to interview them in a canteen. A great number of suet rolls and custards never got digested that day ...
Richard Anthony: Report from the land of Les Yé Yé
Profile by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 18 January 1964
PARIS, Saturday. ...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 25 January 1964
THERE WAS a time when Phil Spector would have been Beau Spector and the rage of Bath. His clothes alone would have made him famous. ...
The Beatles: How the Frenzied, Furry Beatles Took Over England
Profile by Maureen Cleave, The San Francisco Examiner, 2 February 1964
'We Are Our Friends, Pals And Buddies' ...
The Beatles: Beatles look at New York — from behind barricades
Report by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 8 February 1964
AND THEY'RE JUST POTTY WITH JOY ...
The Beatles: Beatles Panned By U.S. Critics
Report by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 10 February 1964
But they wow TV audience and bring out mounted police ...
The Beatles: Beatles' Wisecracks Win the Day
Report by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 February 1964
NEW YORK, Tuesday. — The American Press had a go at the Beatles yesterday. They stayed with them from ten in the morning until seven ...
The Beatles: The Great American Love Affair with the Beatles
Report by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 12 February 1964
From MAUREEN CLEAVE: Washington, Wednesday ...
The Beatles: It's Bedlam for the Beatles
Report by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 13 February 1964
THINGS ARE really getting beyond a joke. The Beatles arrived back in New York from Washington yesterday afternoon and were marooned for three-quarters of an ...
The Beatles: I Love Them All, Says Ringo
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 22 February 1964
THERE WERE 8000 on the roof. A thousand running through the building. And police galore. ...
Derrick Morgan, Prince Buster, Duke Reid, Sir Coxone: It's Ska — but we call it Blue Beat!
Report by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 7 March 1964
I SUPPOSE we'd all reckoned without Jamaica. Since the failure of that embarrassing calypso which we were told would sweep the nation — the nation ...
Eden Kane: Fancy Ever Thinking Eden Kane Wasn't a Home-Loving Type!
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 14 March 1964
EDEN KANE was the classic pop singer. He was selected, preposterously renamed, instructed in what to drink at dinner, garbed from head to toe in ...
The Rolling Stones: This Horrible Lot – Not Quite What They Seem
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 21 March 1964
"BUT WOULD YOU LIKE your daughter to marry one?" is what you ask yourself about the Rolling Stones. They've done terrible things to the musical ...
Sister Rosetta Tharpe: How Sister Rosetta gets them rolling
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 9 May 1964
THEY CALL her the Holy Roller. Sister Rosetta Tharpe is indeed a holy lady but she does roll in a way that would do credit ...
The Rolling Stones: But would you let your daughter marry one?
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 May 1964
Take A Middle-Class Value, Stand It On Its Head: You've Got A "Stone ...
Bob Dylan: If Bob can't sing it, it must be a poem or a novel or something...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 16 May 1964
SOME SAY that Bob Dylan is a genius; others say he is a very moderate folk singer but not bad at the guitar. I say ...
The Yardbirds: Well, they've got a bearded Russian manager!
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 23 May 1964
THERE ARE five Yardbirds and they have two interesting properties. The first is a Russian manager with a beard, dark glasses and a Lancia in ...
Peter and Gordon: Peter & Gordon: Now What About A Look At Gordon (Not Peter)
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 30 May 1964
WE KNOW all about Peter of Peter and Gordon. We know he is the brother of Jane Asher who is the friend of the gifted ...
Carl Perkins: Here's the man to set you patting your blue suedes
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 6 June 1964
CARL PERKINS has a place of his own at the very beginning of the rock 'n' roll story. On January 1, 1956, he recorded a ...
Dusty Springfield: What's Wrong With Me — by Miss Springfield
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 20 June 1964
TOWARDS THE end of last year, Britain went into mass production of the Girl Singer. The most durable of these is Dusty Springfield. She is ...
Jimmy Witherspoon: All About Spoon — And How He Got Another Chance
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 27 June 1964
JIMMY WITHERSPOON is a gigantic man of 41 with great bristling eyebrows and moustaches and a large winning smile. Intimates and admirers call him Spoon. ...
Lulu, Millie: In this business where you're old at 20, Millie and Lulu are the Younger Fry
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 July 1964
WHILE THEIR elder sisters, Kathy Kirby, Dusty Springfield and Cilla Black sing moving songs about love and desertion, Millie and Lulu are to be found ...
Inez & Charlie Foxx: Inez and Charlie Foxx: Gospel Voice and Lunatic Gestures...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 July 1964
CHARLES AND Inez Foxx are a handsome pair. To the initiated and fortunate few in this country who have heard them, they are known as ...
Long John Baldry: LJB sticks his neck out...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 25 July 1964
IF YOU really want to bore Long John Baldry, ask him if it's cold up there. His height is 6ft. 7½in., which makes him — ...
Marianne Faithfull: Put it down to my age, says Miss Faithfull
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 25 July 1964
MARIANNE FAITHFULL is a raving beauty of 17 who lives with her mother, the Baroness Erisso, in a small terraced house in Reading. She goes ...
Andrew Loog Oldham, The Rolling Stones: Mr. Oldham Has Second Thoughts About The Stones...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 8 August 1964
"I'D BE A FOOL TO GIVE UP ALL THAT LOOT" ...
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 15 August 1964
ARE THE Record Companies losing their grip? There are eight British records in the Top Ten. Of these eight, only three have been recorded by ...
The Beach Boys: Mr. Wilson hated rock — but he loved the Beach Boys
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 22 August 1964
THE NOISE the Beach Boys make is a wail with a touch of adenoid; the songs, they sing are about surfing and cars. What with ...
Burt Bacharach: The man who put neurosis into top pops
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 29 August 1964
THE INTRODUCTION of the Neurotic Ballad to British popular music is the responsibility of an American called Burt Bacharach. We first developed a taste for ...
Jack Nitzsche, The Rip Chords: Jack Nitzsche: Dress For 'Nitchie'
Profile by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 26 September 1964
— Orange Jeans, Black Jersey, Green Jerkin ...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 10 October 1964
THE BEATLES have done terrible things to the American record industry. Nobody knows what to record any longer. Should they try to reproduce what is ...
Mort Shuman: Writing Songs Is So Easy
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 11 October 1964
FOR SONG-WRITING we British make do with Lennon/McCartney. The Americans are more extravagant; they use Pomus and Shuman, Leiber and Stoller, Goffin and King, David ...
Roy Orbison: The Unlikely Mr. Orbison flies into London
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 14 October 1964
ROY ORBISON, the only American we tolerate at the top of our native hit parade, flew into London this morning wearing dark glasses and black ...
Delaney & Bonnie, Jackie DeShannon: Jackie DeShannon: The girl who began when she was two
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 24 October 1964
JACKIE DeSHANNON might be considered an alarming girl. She is one of those prodigies in whom the Americans seem to specialise. She appeared on the ...
The Isley Brothers: The boys who put OOOOHHHH! into Pop
Profile by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 24 October 1964
THE ISLEY Brothers — Rudolph, Ronnie and O'Kelly Jr., but chiefly Rudolph — put the high-pitched, train noise OOOOHHHH into British pop music. The importance ...
Brenda Lee: The man who'd barely heard of Brenda Lee (she married him)
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 14 November 1964
BRENDA LEE turned professional when she was six; she had actually been singing for two years before that. She appeared on the Steve Allen show ...
Ron & Mel: How Ron And Mel (From Streatham) Took The Twist To Bagdad
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 28 November 1964
THAT THE Middle East saw the light is entirely thanks to Ron and Mel Lines. These two young men, without encouragement, financial backing, Brian Epstein ...
The Beatles: Beatles For Sale (Parlophone)
Review by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 28 November 1964
BEAUTIFUL BEATLES ...
The Chipmunks: He Is Those Chipmunks
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The San Francisco Examiner, 29 November 1964
Ross Bagdasarian's Electronic Creatures Are Vastly Real ...
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: Claudette: Alone among the Miracles
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 5 December 1964
CLAUDETTE MUST be one of the few women who got the job when she stood in for her brother. She has been standing in now ...
Twinkle: A sad song about Terry
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 5 December 1964
HER PARENTS hoped that Twinkle would be a deb; Twinkle was rather keen to become a pop singer. And so she did. She is 17, ...
The Righteous Brothers: The strange thing about the Righteous Brothers is that they're white...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 16 January 1965
THE RIGHTEOUS Brothers are not brothers at all; nor indeed are they more than ordinarily righteous. Their names are Bobby Hatfield and Bill Medley, and ...
Donovan: Whether or not Donovan is the Genuine Thing is not what really matters...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 13 February 1965
FOR THE past few weeks, Donovan has had his own little corner of Ready, Steady, Go! each Friday. He is to be seen with chin ...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 27 February 1965
FROM NOW ON, many of your favourite American rhythm and blues records will appear under a label called Chess. This is owned by two brothers ...
Val Doonican: Relaxation: it's a way of life for the housewife's choice...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 20 March 1965
VAL DOONICAN Is a friendly, easy-going man of 36 who makes his living — it would be but slight exaggeration to say — by looking ...
Marianne Faithfull: The Trouble With Marianne: By The Man She'll Marry
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 27 March 1965
MARIANNE FAITHFULL announced her engagement to Mr. John Dunbar in The Times. Pop singers do not often use The Times to let their friends know ...
The Beach Boys, The Lettermen: Nobody bugs the Gutsy Greek — the sten guns see to that
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 1 May 1965
NICK VENET went into the American record industry when he was 18 years old for this reason: "I wanted," he said, "to do something devastating; ...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 8 May 1965
THERE'S ONE thing the Everly Brothers are really good at and that's survival. Quite soon they will celebrate their silver anniversary of 25 years in ...
Petula Clark: A Lady In Show Business — Petula Clark
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 1965
The Girl Who Sings 'Downtown' ...
Vashti Bunyan, Spencer Davis Group, Jackie Trent: Vashti agrees: her last name must go (it's Bunyan)
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 15 May 1965
VASHTI BUNYAN is the latest in a stream of refined, nicely brought-up, middle-class girls whose well-bred accents have adorned the hit parade since Marianne Faithfull ...
Bang Went The Silence — And Ready Steady Hogg Emerged
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 12 June 1965
MICHAEL LINDSAY-Hogg is a large young man of 25 with calm brown eyes set in a calm round face. One of ITV's youngest directors, he ...
The Beatles: George, M.B.E., Always Knew...
Comment by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 12 June 1965
SO THE Beatles have the MBE; they may be pleased but I doubt whether they're surprised. If they'd been made dukes I doubt whether they ...
Solomon Burke: Cost of Solomon's Cadillac: a couple of songs and two good funerals...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 19 June 1965
THE LARGE, smiling, splendid man in the picture is called Mr. Solomon Burke. He is 25. His wife is called Dolores Othello and they have ...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 10 July 1965
GROWN-UPS, it seems, squabble just as boringly over labels, like jazz and blues, as do the younger fry over rock 'n' roll and the genuine ...
Vicki from Inkpen, Berks, may not look like a girl with power — but she's got it, lots of it
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 31 July 1965
SHE'S BACK! THE GIRL WHO REALLY KNOWS THE POP PEOPLE ...
The Kinks: When Kink sees psychiatrist guess who asks the questions!
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, August 1965
THE KINKS have been successful for a year now. They appeared last August at a time when everybody said there would be no more groups ...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 7 August 1965
As my friend in Hollywood wrote in advance of their coming: "This is no Nina and Frederik deal, I assure you." ...
Jonathan King: The challenge behind Jonathan's trip to the moon
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 14 August 1965
POP SINGING, I had always thought, demanded of the pop singer his all. Did we appreciate to the full, I had often asked myself, the ...
The Beatles: Help! (Parlophone PMC 1155)
Review by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 14 August 1965
SMALL WONDER the Americans pressed a million copies of this LP before they released it. Seven of the 11 new songs are what I can ...
Andrew Loog Oldham: Immediate People Never Wear Three-Button Suits
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 21 August 1965
ANDREW OLDHAM, aged 21, and Tony Calder, 24, yesterday formed a record company and with it released three pop singles that will compete with pop ...
Cilla Black: Two years later Cilla Black is much the same really...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 18 September 1965
She is more famous, of course: there were only ten people in the coffee bar but they all came to pay their respects... ...
Joan Baez: What money, love, and the wear and tear of life have done to Joan Baez, folk singer
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 October 1965
MAUREEN CLEAVE interviewing the darling of smart young Americans ...
Marc Bolan: Knit Yourself A Pop Singer — Marc and Mike Will Tell You How
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 23 October 1965
HUMILITY AMONG POP SINGERS used to be all the rage. "Mr. Presley," the interviewer would ask, "is it to luck or to talent that you ...
The Beatles: It's a keen pad... Cyril Lord could make a fortune in this place, say the Beatles
Report by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 26 October 1965
THE BEATLES went to Buckingham Palace this morning to see the Queen. The occasion was the presentation of their MBEs. But the confrontation was inevitable, ...
Zoot Money: The trouble with Zoot Money is that he can't get his hands on any
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 13 November 1965
ZOOT MONEY is the son of Oscar Money. Mr. Oscar Money is half Italian and works as a wine waiter in Bournemouth. "He speaks very ...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 20 November 1965
KIT LAMBERT and his partner Chris Stamp manage the Who and the Merseybeats. Chris Stamp is Terence Stamp's brother, more handsome but less photogenic. ...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 27 November 1965
ON SEA? WELL, THAT'S HOW IT SEEMS TO LEAPY LEE WHO RECKONS HE CAN TELL IT WITH HIS EYES CLOSED ...
Adam Faith, Sandie Shaw: Eve Taylor: When Eve Fought For Adam
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 December 1965
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The Beatles: Rubber Soul (Parlophone PMC 1267)
Review by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 December 1965
THIS — LET it be faced — is a disappointment. They have tried to do too much. There are 14 new songs — two by ...
An ordinary girl, Cathy, and that's why she succeeds
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 December 1965
CATHY McGOWAN'S career is based, when you come do think of it, on her very ordinariness. Most people get their jobs because of an ability ...
Joan Baez: A Lady in Show Business — Joan Baez
Interview by Maureen Cleave, Detroit Free Press, 12 December 1965
THERE WERE many things about Joan Baez, the folk singer, to give the impression that she was — if not slightly holier than most people ...
Georgie Fame, Chris Farlowe: He is lovable... that's the funny thing about Rik Gunnell
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 15 January 1966
THERE ARE two Gunnell brothers, Rik and Johnny. If asked their dearest, secret wish, they might say they wished there were three Gunnell brothers — ...
Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger — Bad Joke Into Social Lion
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 February 1966
MAUREEN CLEAVE talks to the voice of the Stones ...
Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger: Bad Joke into Social Lion
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 February 1966
THE ROLLING STONES WERE PLAYING in the Station Hotel, Richmond, two-and-a-half years ago when their two prospective managers came to take a look at them. ...
The Beatles, John Lennon: How Does a Beatle Live? John Lennon
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 March 1966
ON A HILL IN SURREY... A YOUNG MAN, FAMOUS, LOADED AND WAITING FOR SOMETHING ...
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 March 1966
RINGO LIVES in Weybridge at the bottom of the hill of which John lives on top. His house, too, is large and Tudor-ish. It has ...
The Beatles, George Harrison: How A Beatle Lives Part 3: George Harrison — Avocado With Everything…
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 18 March 1966
GEORGE HARRISON is 23, the youngest Beatle and the least well-known. He isn't one of the two who sing and he isn't Ringo; indeed some ...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 25 March 1966
THE SCENE SHIFTS FROM WEYBRIDGE TO LONDON ...
The Beatles, Cilla Black: Brian Epstein: The Man Behind The Beatles And How He Lives
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 1 April 1966
Many theories developed about Brian Epstein: he was crooked, he was straight; he was a tough businessman, he was a lousy businessman; it was all ...
The Yardbirds: Simon Napier-Bell always tells the truth... especially about Simon Napier-Bell
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 13 May 1966
MAUREEN CLEAVE'S FRIDAY INTERVIEW ...
The Beatles, The Hollies: The Beatles: 'Paperback Writer'/'Rain' (Parlophone)
Review by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 June 1966
IT'S HARD to know what to say about either of these songs. One thing is certain: Ella Fitzgerald and all the gang of real singers ...
The Beatles: Revolver (Parlophone PMC 7009)
Review by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 30 July 1966
THIS COMES out next Friday. The cover shows the Beatles with huge heads of Beardsley hair and little photographs of themselves propped up on the ...
Little Richard: Even God can do better with Little Richard on his side
Interview by Maureen Cleave, London Express Service, 24 March 1985
GOD ALWAYS addresses Little Richard by name — it was the same with Moses and the prophet Samuel and St. Paul. ...
John Lennon: The John Lennon I knew
Memoir by Maureen Cleave, Daily Telegraph, 5 October 2005
The man who changed the course of pop music would have been 65 this week. Maureen Cleave, who knew the Beatles at the height of ...
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