Michael Watts
Michael Watts (snapped in Durango, Mexico, in 1973) wrote regularly for Melody Maker and was the magazine's US editor between October 1972 and August 1973. He's since been an editor at the Financial Times, the Independent, the Evening Standard and Esquire. He now writes for Wired, Conde Nast and anyone else who’ll have him...
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Pink Floyd: Birmingham Town Hall, Birmingham
Live Review by Michael Watts, Walsall Observer & South Staffordshire Chronicle, 27 June 1969
SOUND SPELL CAST BY THE FLOYD ...
Eric Burdon, War: Burdon on War, Peace, Love and Hate
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 18 July 1970
HIGH UP on the sixth floor of the plush Londonderry Hotel, Mayfair, Eric Burdon was sitting with his feet, clad in pumps, tucked beneath him; ...
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 8 August 1970
ON THE surface it seemed crazy — 1,500 kids packed into a hot stuffy old engine shed, while outside the temperature was in the seventies. ...
Report by Mark Plummer, Michael Watts, Chris Welch, Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 5 September 1970
MM's Richard Williams, Chris Welch, Michael Watts and Mark Plummer present a five-page report on an amazing weekend of music and other scenes... ...
Joni Mitchell: Glimpses of Joni
Report and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 19 September 1970
SCENE IN A television studio: a girl in a long pink shift, which catches at her ankles when she walks, picks hesitantly at a few ...
The Mothers Of Invention: Mother's Union
Report and Interview by Michael Watts, Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 5 December 1970
TELL ME, Mr. Zappa, what do you think of the critical reaction to your work over the past five years? ...
Amon Düül: Amon For All Seasons
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 12 December 1970
IN THE BEGINNING there was Amon Duul, and A.D. was a musical community of about a dozen people of varied musical backgrounds. Gradually, some of ...
Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt: Soft Machine: Inside the Mind of a Machine
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 2 January 1971
Michael Watts talks to Soft Machine drummer Robert Wyatt ...
Patto: Bitter Patto: Two Years Ahead
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 23 January 1971
I FIRST met Mike Patto four months ago. With his agent he walked into the MM office, a gangling figure in high green leather boots ...
Grand Funk Railroad: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 23 January 1971
Grand Flunk Railroad ...
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 23 January 1971
"I'M FROM New York, but I don't like the scene. Why? Because there is none. At least, it's nothing to do with the music. It's ...
Caroline Coon: The Underground Angel Of Mercy...
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 30 January 1971
Michael Watts talks to CAROLINE COON of Release ...
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 30 January 1971
NICO USED to be a blonde; you can see it on the cover of the Velvet Underground's first album, on a photograph from which her ...
The Rolling Stones: This Could Be The Last Time
Report by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 13 March 1971
AS STONES BEGIN THEIR LONG-AWAITED — AND POSSIBLY FINAL — TOUR OF BRITAIN, MICHAEL WATTS REPORTS... ...
Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground: Loaded (Atlantic Super)
Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 13 March 1971
The most important album since Tommy? ...
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 27 March 1971
STORIES ABOUT Syd Barrett are legion. That he became overbearingly egotistical, impossible to work with. That he was thrown out of The Pink Floyd. That ...
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 3 April 1971
Michael Watts talks to sessionman supreme NICKY HOPKINS ...
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 24 April 1971
In the three years since he first won the Top DJ title in the MM Poll, John Peel has been mocked and worshipped. Today he wipes the ...
The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers (Kinney)
Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 24 April 1971
Bands come and go – but the Stones keep rollin' on ...
The Champs, Seals and Crofts: Seals and Crofts alias The Champs
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 1 May 1971
HALFWAY UP the bill at the Roundhouse the other Sunday there was this band with a decidedly curious instrumentation. ...
Procol Harum: Band on a Knife-edge
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 17 July 1971
IT WAS RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, I think, in The Poetry Of Rock, who described Procol Harum as an intellectual, ever striving to contain the Steppenwolf within ...
Larry Coryell: Long Distance Larry
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 21 August 1971
SINCE HE left Gary Burton and after that four-month stint with Herbie Mann — no one has been in much doubt that Larry Coryell has ...
Randy Newman: Lonely at the Top
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 21 August 1971
PEOPLE STILL talk of the press reception for Randy Newman. ...
Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young: Joni and the Laurel Canyon Mob
Comment by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 18 September 1971
SO YOU wanna be a rock and roll star, right? Well, our advice is to head out Laurel Canyon way. Take a tip from one ...
Shirley Bassey: The Soul Of Showbiz
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 18 September 1971
EVEN BEFORE she stuck out her bottom and waggled it provocatively at the crucial moments on 'Big Spender', yes, even before she and Eartha Kitt ...
John Lennon, Yoko Ono: John and Yoko: A Press Conference at Apple
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 2 October 1971
THERE'S A GLINT of spectacles. Gathering recognition as the sandy hair, short and unfamiliar registers. Take in the smart grey trousers and the conventional shirt. ...
Gilbert O'Sullivan: Working Class Hero: Gilbert O'Sullivan
Profile and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 9 October 1971
WHOEVER WOULD have thought it? Gordon Mills, manager of Tom and Engel, those popular, polished professionals, taking a shine to an odd young Irishman whose ...
David Bowie: Oh, You Pretty Thing: David Bowie
Profile and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 22 January 1972
DAVID BOWIE, rock's swishiest outrage; a self-confessed lover of effeminate clothes, Bowie, who has hardly performed in public since his 'Space Oddity' hit of three ...
Can: Tago Mago (United Artists)
Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 29 January 1972
AS DUNCAN Fallowell says in his sleevenotes, Can could not be anything but German. ...
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 29 January 1972
SHE USED to be Dionne Warwick, and before that Dionne Warrick. The extra letter is important. The rules of numerology dictate it. Just as it ...
Iggy Pop, The Stooges: Night of the Iggy
Report and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 12 February 1972
WHO IS IT who smashes a microphone in his teeth, tears flesh from his bare chest, leaps into the audience busting bones in all directions, ...
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 4 March 1972
COMPOSER, MYSTIC, visionary, a prophet for the Age of Aquarius. There he sits in the portrait gallery on the front sleeve of the Sgt. Pepper ...
Tim Hardin, Steve Miller: The Steve Miller Band, Tim Hardin: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 4 March 1972
Miller's grinding blues ...
Randy Newman: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 11 March 1972
WITH AN awkward shuffle and an embarrassed wave to the adulating audience, Randy Newman left the stage of the Festival Hall, London, on Monday night ...
Manassas, Stephen Stills: Stephen Stills: The Loner
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 11 March 1972
Step aside, open wide. It's the loner. ...
Iggy Pop, The Stooges: Lock Up Your Daughters, Iggy's Here
Profile and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 1 April 1972
AS MARC BOLAN swung his hips for the benefit of Ringo Starr's camerawork, did any of the 9,000 upturned faces notice the auburn-haired American fifth ...
The Rolling Stones: Stones Special
Interview by Michael Watts, Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 20 May 1972
MICK JAGGER talks to Michael Watts... and MICK TAYLOR talks to Chris Welch ...
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 15 July 1972
MICHAEL WATTS REPORTS on Friday's sensational — and controversial concert. ...
Bill Evans: Living Time With Evans
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 9 December 1972
NONE OF THE other diners appeared to recognise the pianist, but to anyone with jazz inklings he was unmistakable. The long, thick hair, cut page-boy ...
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 17 February 1973
IT WAS Stan Getz's 46th birthday last Friday and they gave him a cake. It was one of those weeks. On the Wednesday his old ...
David Bowie: Stranger in a Strange Land
Report and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 24 February 1973
Aladdin Sane is the punning title of David Bowie's next album. It's more remote, more spacey, than anything he's done before says MICHAEL WATTS, who ...
Alice Cooper: Spectrum, Philadelphia
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 17 March 1973
THE ROCK WORLD today mourns the death of Alice Cooper, who was accidently killed last night when the safety screws failed on the guillotine he ...
Profile and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 7 July 1973
The name's unpromising, but Andy Pratt could be the next cult hero. He used to play with Edgar Winter, has cut a couple of solo ...
J. Geils Band: The Boston wranglers
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 21 July 1973
THEY HAD said the J. Geils Band was a democracy, and they were right. All six of them are ranged around three sides of this ...
Van Morrison: Philharmonic Hall, New York
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 21 July 1973
Van: the best white blues singer of them all. MICHAEL WATTS in New York gives a foretaste of the giant who hits Britain this weekend... ...
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 21 July 1973
War declared at Shea Stadium. ...
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 11 August 1973
Wailers fail to catch afire ...
Waylon Jennings: You Gotta Be A Man First, 'Fore You Can Be Anything...
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 11 August 1973
Waylon Jennings, the cowboy who finally hit that golden trail. By MICHAEL WATTS in New York ...
Allman Brothers Band: The Allmans are to America now what the Grateful Dead were in '67
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 25 August 1973
NOBODY TALKS at all about the deaths. Gregg seems too spacey, anyway, detached and oblivious behind his shades; maybe a few brief nods of acknowledgement ...
Billy Preston, The Rolling Stones: Billy Preston: The Way Billy Planned It
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 1 September 1973
When The Stones hit the road this month BILLY PRESTON goes with them. Here, he talks to MM's MICHAEL WATTS in Los Angeles ...
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 8 September 1973
It's a long way from San Diego street corners to gold records. But War are still street people playing street music. MICHAEL WATTS reports... ...
Essra Mohawk: Just Baiting for Laura Nyro
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 8 September 1973
THIS IS a slightly strange situation to be in. Over there, in the corner of the room, Sherry Bo Berry, a member of the Cockettes-derived ...
Diana Ross: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 29 September 1973
DIANA ROSS may be a real superstar, as critics like Derek Jewell assert, but there's altogether too much of the "sooper" in her act for ...
Art Garfunkel: Garfunkel: Angel Clare (CBS)
Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 29 September 1973
No Art, no heart ...
Linda Ronstadt: Don't Cry Now (Asylum)
Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 10 November 1973
LOOKING AS she does, an impossibly cuddly chicklet, it's easy to forgive Linda Ronstadt any musical deficiencies. But this album, in fact her first on ...
Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 10 November 1973
Roxy: an air of lush decay ...
The Band: Moondog Matinee (Capitol)
Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 24 November 1973
Band of hope and glory ...
New York Dolls: Band They Love To Hate
Comment by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 8 December 1973
I'VE SEEN the New York Dolls five times in New York, and London's Biba's last week made it six. ...
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 12 January 1974
AT NIGHT we sit on the verandah, Myrna and I, watching the bobbing lights of the yachts in the harbour below as the fireflies endlessly ...
Bette Midler: Bette Midler (Atlantic)
Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 19 January 1974
THE STATEMENT of Bette Midler's stardom has been pushed so far down our throats now that it's become a truism, yet Bette Midler, her second ...
The Band, Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan: Planet Waves (Island)
Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 26 January 1974
ANY NEW Bob Dylan album induces a somewhat unnerving emotional response in the reviewer, but the very latest record from Dylan, to be released here ...
Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark (Asylum)
Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 26 January 1974
OF ALL THE female writers and singers post-dating Joan Baez in pop music, Joni Mitchell seems to me to have arrived at the most complete ...
Harry Chapin: Short Stories (Elektra)
Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 9 February 1974
BY NOW IT should be deemed a case of criminal neglect that Harry Chapin's 'W.O.L.D.' is not in the top ten or even higher, because ...
Joni Mitchell, Tom Scott & the L.A. Express: New Victoria Theatre, London
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 27 April 1974
THE divine Miss M ...
Joni Mitchell, Tom Scott: Tom Scott: Great Scott!
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 4 May 1974
Michael Watts talks to the men who put jazz into Joni. ...
Waylon Jennings: Honky Tonk Heroes (RCA)
Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 4 May 1974
INTEREST IN country musicians is currently running high with Charlie Rich in the charts and a whole spate of country albums being released as a ...
David Bowie, Mott The Hoople, Lou Reed, Mick Ronson: Tony DeFries: Bowie's MainMan
Profile by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 18 May 1974
Tony DeFries is Mr Big of today's rock —the 70s' Col. Parker. He deals in STARS, the most glittering of whom is David Bowie. He ...
Maggie Bell, Led Zeppelin: Peter Grant: The Man Who Led Zeppelin
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 22 June 1974
With a background in wrestling, it's not surprising that Peter Grant is cast as a heavy. And as manager of Led Zep, the legend has ...
Report by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 27 July 1974
ROCK FESTIVALS come these days without loud trumpetings and laying-on of hands — without, in fact, the blah and hoo-hah that attended the Isle of ...
Report and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 3 August 1974
Long before Beatlemania hit Britain, JOHNNIE RAY was the idol of the screamers and fainters. His highly emotional stage act included breaking down in tears ...
Led Zeppelin: INSIDE PAGE — Exclusive! Zeppelin star opens up to Michael Watts
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 7 September 1974
Jimmy Page is working hard on a new Zeppelin album and a film of the band shot mostly in the States. But he takes time ...
Leonard Cohen: New Skin For The Old Ceremony (CBS)
Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 28 September 1974
LEONARD COHEN is an artist who worries a great many people. Dismissed on the one hand as pretentious, on the other as a plain old ...
Bruce Springsteen: Avery Fisher Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 12 October 1974
Hail to the new genius! ...
Herbie Hancock, Minnie Riperton: Carnegie Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 12 October 1974
Coarse Hancock ...
Labelle: Dinner and cards with Reggie
Profile and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 9 November 1974
"I REMEMBER the time," says Sarah, "when we toured in England and Bluesology backed us. And Patti used to play cards with Reggie — Elton ...
Report and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 30 November 1974
He laughed when critics called him "the new Dylan". But he stuck to his guns and he's now playing to ecstatic audiences. MICHAEL WATTS in ...
Profile and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 7 December 1974
When Billy Swan cut a solo single, things started to happen — and they kept on happening until he reached the American No 1 spot... ...
Gregg Allman: Felt Forum, New York NY
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 14 December 1974
Greg — mining the blues ...
Harry Chapin: Avery Fisher Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 14 December 1974
NEW YORK: The trouble with Harry is that he's such a goddam regular guy. The way he handles himself onstage, for instance. Like a scoutmaster, ...
Bob Dylan: Blood On The Tracks (CBS)
Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 25 January 1975
DYLAN: Seeking gentler ground Special preview of Blood On The Tracks by MICHAEL WATTS ...
David Bowie: Cracked Actor (BBC 1)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 1 February 1975
I WOULDN'T care to examine the merits and de-merits of David Bowie on the strength of last Sunday's Omnibus programme on him. Titled Cracked Actor ...
Marlene Dietrich: Wimbledon Theatre, London
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 15 February 1975
MARLENE DIETRICH: what is there left to say about her, except that the Blue Angel is now bluing a little around the edges? But even ...
Joni Mitchell: The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 29 November 1975
ON THE INSIDE sleeve of this album, Joni has a short, cryptic liner note stating that the record is "graphically, musically, lyrically and accidentally" a ...
The Band: Northern Lights — Southern Cross (Capitol St— 11440)
Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 20 December 1975
The Band is back — almost ...
Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 3 January 1976
THE LINK between these two artists is by no means absolute, but the somewhat eccentric tastes of each have produced intriguing and offbeat albums. ...
Bert Jansch: An Everyday Story of Funky Folk
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 17 January 1976
NOW THAT Bert has returned from the Continent, where he has been touring these months and more, he will have to find somewhere else to ...
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 31 January 1976
TOM WILSON is an elegant, very tall (6ft 4in) black American, a former Harvard man who talks a little like Bill Cosby but whose pencil-thin ...
Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 7 February 1976
Sisters of mercy ...
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 7 February 1976
MICHAEL WATTS reports from Connecticut on a long-awaited return... ...
Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Women in Love
Profile and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 17 April 1976
Like Dylan, the Band and Randy Newman, the songs of Kate and Anna McGarrigle recall America in its pioneer days. With a fine debut album ...
Willie Nelson, Billy Swan: New Victoria Theatre, London
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 1 May 1976
Good and bad ol' boys ...
Patti Smith, The Stranglers: Patti Smith: The Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 22 May 1976
Patti Smith: poet cornered ...
The Rolling Stones: Scandal of the Stones
Report by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 29 May 1976
THE ROLLING Stones flopped on the opening night of their six-concert series at London's Earls Court, despite the advantage of a sound system that cost ...
Steely Dan: Art For Art's Sake…
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 19 June 1976
In the space of five albums in four years, Steely Dan have created arguably the best rock music, and certainly the most erudite, of the ...
David Bowie, Iggy Pop: Iggy Pop: A new career in a new town
Report and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 5 March 1977
Iggy Pop, touring Britain this week, speaks to MICHAEL WATTS from Berlin. David Bowie's saying nothing... ...
Glen Campbell, Jimmy Webb: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 9 April 1977
The Standard Jim Webb ...
Tom Waits: Sound Circus, London
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 7 May 1977
THE OBVIOUS question about Tom Waits — is he, or is he not, a phoney? — ought to be perfectly clear, yet was never quite ...
Essra Mohawk: Essra (Private Stock).
Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 14 May 1977
THE LAST album (on Asylum) was simply called Essra Mohawk. Now, by way of Essra, a title whose warmer, more personal implication is complemented by ...
Sex Pistols: America Learns to Loathe the Pistols
Report and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 21 January 1978
Michael Watts reports on the Memphis hotel set-up (was it the CIA?); the two suspicious cowboys (were they big-time dope dealers?); the sociologists' poll (where ...
David Bowie: From Brixton To Berlin
Report and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, February 1978
Michael Watts reports from the German film set where David Bowie is making Just A Gigolo ...
Grateful Dead: Dead on the Nile
Report by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 23 September 1978
Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Keith & Donna Godchaux, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Hamza El-Din, Bill Graham, Ken Kesey & The Merry Pranksters, the Sphinx, the ...
Pete Townshend, The Who: Pete Townshend: Picking Up The Pieces
Report and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 14 October 1978
"ROGER AND I have really got to get together and thrash out... not a compromise, but what is really gonna work. And if we can't ...
Simon Frith: The Sociology Of Rock (Constable. £7.50; paperback, £3.50)
Book Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 28 October 1978
FUN OR PROFIT? ...
Bob Harris: The Bomber bales out
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 2 December 1978
Carved up by the critics since his tube debut in 1972, Bob Harris is blowing the whistle on his TV career. It wasn't just the ...
Amanda Lear: Who's Afraid of Amanda Lear?
Report and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 10 February 1979
She lived with Brian Jones, and was Salvador Dali's protégé. She took David Bowie to see Metropolis, and watched him turn Fritz Lang into hit ...
John Lydon, Malcolm McLaren, Public Image Ltd, The Sex Pistols: Rotten v. McLaren: No Winner
Report by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 24 February 1979
AS JOHNNY Rotten savours his first victory in the Lydon-Glitterbest case, Public Image Ltd. prepare to record a second album with a new drummer, the ...
Ivor Biggun, Duffo, The Lurkers, Tubeway Army: Beggars Banquet: Where Taste is a Dirty Word
Report and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 31 March 1979
Nick Austin and Martin Mills are the perpetrators of Duffo, Ivor Biggun and the Lurkers. They may have traded in their Jags for Cortinas. but ...
Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 16 June 1979
THE CONCEPT of Joni Mitchell singing Charles Mingus, the late and very great jazzman, is eccentric but not illogical. For her it is the culmination ...
Retrospective and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 16 June 1979
The Man Who Sold The World ...
Retrospective and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 23 June 1979
EARLY IN July, 1978, the office of Glitterbest Ltd. at 90/98 Shaftesbury Avenue, which is the centre of London's Theatreland, received the following letter. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 30 June 1979
WHEN HE WAS LYING, HE WAS MORE INTERESTING THAN MANY MEN TELLING A STORY TRULY. ...
Randy Newman: Born Again (Warner Bros K56663)
Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 25 August 1979
HOW IS IT that Born Again should be Randy Newman's worst album to date, and yet his most marketable? For a start, it is topically ...
Paul McCartney, Wings: Paul McCartney: The Yellow Perils Of Paulie
Report by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 26 January 1980
The Nips nabbed Big Macca last week as he allegedly lugged half-a-pound of marijuana through the Japanese customs. Is the naughty 'former Beatle' set for ...
Joni Mitchell: The Public Life of a Private Property
Profile and Interview by Michael Watts, The Sunday Times, 17 April 1983
One of the few pop singers for whom the term "artist" isn't just gross exaggeration, Joni Mitchell ends a British tour at Wembley next weekend. ...
Malcolm McLaren: Proud Pirate of Punk
Profile and Interview by Michael Watts, The Times, 27 May 1983
Malcolm McLaren was dismissed as a distasteful maverick when he managed the Sex Pistols, but there is more to him than an outrageous gift for ...
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