Pete Wingfield
Pete Wingfield wrote about soul music for Let It Rock and other '70s publications before scoring a major hit with the immortal 'Eighteen With A Bullet'. He subsequently became a respected producer, listing the first Dexy's Midnight Runners album among his credits.
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Aretha Franklin: Greatest Hits – on Atlantic and Columbia
Review by Pete Wingfield, Cream, December 1971
ON ATLANTIC: Greatest Hits illustrates the power that fourteen condensed, concise, definitive musical statements can exert – particularly in the soul/R&B field, totally geared until ...
Review by Pete Wingfield, Cream, December 1971
THIS DOUBLE ALBUM set of Etta James' hits from Chess seems uncharacteristically enlightened, despite a commercially suicidal price-tag (£3.99, enough to make even ardent soul ...
Honey Cone: The Honey Cone: Three Gals with a Past!
Interview by Pete Wingfield, Record Mirror, 11 March 1972
EX-MOTOWN men Holland, Dozier and Holland may have fallen short in their aim of making a second Diana Ross out of Freda Payne, but their ...
Profile by Pete Wingfield, Let It Rock, October 1972
I’VE NEVER met Joe Tex, never met anybody who has; never seen or heard an interview with him, never read a feature on him — ...
Allen Toussaint: Toussaint: Life, Love And Faith
Review by Pete Wingfield, Let It Rock, October 1972
TO PUT THIS album in its proper perspective, I’d need to rhapsodize at length over New Orleans R&B and the neglected talents of Allen Toussaint, ...
Review by Pete Wingfield, Let It Rock, October 1972
ANYBODY OUT THERE listen to rock on A.F.N. at all? – well, if you do, you'll know Tower of Power: Tony Pigg, an FM D-J ...
Billy Stewart: Billy Stewart's Golden Decade (Chess)
Review by Pete Wingfield, Let It Rock, December 1972
'BRRRRRRRR-RP.. CHUP. CHUP.. CHUP-CHUP.... HEH!' With the soul scatting that became his trademark, 'Summertime' begins a belated tribute to the original contribution of Billy 'Fat ...
Gamble-Huff, Thom Bell and the Philly Groove
Overview by Pete Wingfield, Let It Rock, January 1973
On a balmy night in the late summer of ’67, while the world was wearing flowers in its hair, I was sinking into my seat, ...
Report by Pete Wingfield, Let It Rock, March 1973
THE NAMES Ashford and Simpson should ring a bell with anybody that reads the small print on Motown records: Nicholas and Valerie have chalked up ...
Review by Pete Wingfield, Let It Rock, April 1973
May I shout in your ear? The word is Bloodstone: no, not Bloodrock, Terry Knight's horror, nor my kind employer, the British Mr. Blunstone, but ...
Timmy Thomas: Breaking the rules: Timmy Thomas
Report and Interview by Pete Wingfield, Let It Rock, May 1973
IN THE American record business, like any other, it’s the biggies with the bread that rule the roost. But every so often, an obscure record ...
Soul Foundations: Twenty Essential Soul Records
Guide by Pete Wingfield, Let It Rock, October 1973
OH LORD – I'M GONNA GET SHOT down for this. I mean, who am I, P.W., a mere mortal of 25, irrevocably bound to one ...
Wolfman Jack: What’s Happenin’, Jack?!
Interview by Pete Wingfield, Let It Rock, January 1974
WAS HE BLACK? Was he white? Was he young? Was he old? Was he human? Until the seventies he was just a disembodied croak, howling ...
Sly & the Family Stone: Sly Stone: Small Talk
Review by Pete Wingfield, Let It Rock, November 1974
BY SLY'S SLUGGISH standards, it's not that long since the last album, Fresh; maybe married life has given him a creative surge. ...
Profile by Pete Wingfield, Let It Rock, March 1975
BEHIND THE front line of acknowledged soul stars, the Stevies, Arethas, Al Greens of the day, has always lurked a second league of creative talent; ...
Smokey Robinson: A Quiet Storm
Review by Pete Wingfield, Let It Rock, September 1975
COULD THIS BE Smokey's What's Going On – the album to elevate him, like Marvin Gaye, from a singles-orientated soul veteran to an across-the-board contemporary ...
B.B. King: BB King: The Las Vegas Tax Deductible Blues
Interview by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, 28 October 1978
PETE WINGFIELD played with B.B.King seven years ago, on one of the guitarist's less celebrated albums. They met up again last week – only this ...
Isaac Hayes: Chronicle/For The Sake Of Love
Review by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, 18 November 1978
IT'S MY CONTENTION that, whatever bizarre circumstances caused the flurry of lawsuits circulating round Isaac Hayes prior to the demise of Stax Records, and the ...
James Brown: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, 2 December 1978
The Sex Machine winds down ...
Review by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, 2 December 1978
THIS IS AN important album for the Jacksons – now five again, with a small letter at least, Jermaine's defection having been balanced by lil' ...
Dr. John, Lloyd Price: Ace Records: Dealing Aces Vols. 1 and 2
Review by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, 13 January 1979
THESE TWO volumes, together with the indispensable Huey "Piano" Smith and the Clowns collection in the same series (Ace CH 9) represent the first time ...
Albert Collins: Ice Pickin' (Sonet)
Review by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, March 1979
IN THE game of guitar-hero one-upmanship during the blues boom days of the mid-late Sixties, Albert Collins' was the name to zap 'em with. Through ...
Earth Wind and Fire: Earth, Wind & Fire: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, 10 March 1979
PITY THE poor reviewer covering a show of the astonishing calibre of Earth, Wind & Fire's weekend extravaganza at the Empire Pool. ...
Live Review by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, 17 March 1979
Diddley grandaddy ...
Live Review by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, 28 April 1979
"HOW CAN we refuse? We don't do this often — we're studio cats, you know what I mean!... ...
Narada Michael Walden: Awakening (Atlantic)
Review by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, 19 May 1979
SERENE MR WALDEN, Sri Chinmoy disciple and erstwhile drummer with the all-clad-in-white Mahavishnu Orchestra, surely knows which side his cosmic bread is buttered. Seems like ...
Bobby Womack: Roads Of Life (Arista)
Review by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, 26 May 1979
THE FORTUNES of gravel-voiced soul vet Bobby Womack have taken a dip of late. ...
Review by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, 26 May 1979
Steve Cropper/Pop Staples/Albert King: Jammed Together (Stax 3009) Booker T & The MGs: Time Is Tight — The Best Of… (Stax STX 3007) The Emotions: ...
Patti LaBelle: It's Alright With Me (Epic)
Review by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, June 1979
I GUESS it's all of eighteen years since I first heard 'Down The Aisle' by Patti Labelle and the Bluebelles – and when I put ...
Bootsy Collins: Bootsy's Rubber Band: This Boot Is Made For Fonk-n (Warners)
Review by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, 7 July 1979
THE WORLD'S zaniest bass-player is back, whatever the truth of reports about a nervous breakdown; or, as he tells us himself: "I dug the concern ...
The Sugarhill Gang: The Venue, London
Live Review by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, 1 March 1980
FLASHBACK: October 5, '79, at Barry's Stereo, a small midtown Manhattan record outlet that specialises in those mammoth portable stereo cassette-radio jobs that half the ...
Chic, Diana Ross: Diana Ross: Diana (Motown STMA 8033)
Review by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, 21 June 1980
WITH THE combined forces of the Chic Organization Ltd on the record, and with all the songs written, arranged, and produced by the Organization's Dynamic ...
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