Richard Green
Richard "The Beast" Green wrote extensively for the NME in the late '60s and early '70s. He died some years ago. If anyone knows of the whereabouts of his family or executors of his estate, please contact us.
225 articles
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The Hollies: Through? Not The Hollies!
Report and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 2 October 1964
LOTS OF PEOPLE said that the Hollies were through because they were taking too long issuing another record. So the Manchester group agreed "We're Through" ...
The Moody Blues: Moody Blues: The Moody Gimmicks
Report and Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 26 December 1964
IF THE POSTMAN rat-tat-tats on your front door during the next few days and delivers a round parcel, and you should happen to be a ...
Billy Fury: Billy's Horse — A Film Star Now!
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 23 January 1965
AS STANLEY Holloway would say, "Wiv a little bit of luck" Billy Fury should be better off by quite a few quid in three months' ...
Marianne Faithfull: Is Marianne Kidding?
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 27 February 1965
IS MARIANNE Faithfull kidding? A lot of people have been asking that question since she had a hit with 'As Tears Go By', starting doing ...
Profile by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 6 March 1965
FOUR YOUNG Mods caused a disturbance in a Soho club the other night in which several hundred people were involved. The police were not called ...
The Walker Brothers: The Boy Scout Group
Profile and Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 13 March 1965
A FORD Thunderbird hot rod and an Austin Healey smashed into each other in Hollywood — and that was the beginning of the Walker Brothers. ...
The Yardbirds: 'We'll Play More Pop'
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 20 March 1965
"RHYTHM AND blues is becoming what trad became and we are going to change some of our numbers." ...
Chuck Jackson: "White Artistes Don't Have The Soul For Blues"
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 3 April 1965
says CHUCK JACKSON to RICHARD GREEN ...
The Who: The Group That Slaughters Their Amplifiers...
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 3 April 1965
WITH A name like The Who, any group is bound to attract a certain amount of attention. But anyone who has watched The Who at ...
The Moody Blues: "How the Beatles Helped Us" say the Moody Blues
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 10 April 1965
IT WAS time for a little straight-from-the-shoulder-type talking when the Moody Blues sat down. They had a few things they wanted to get off their ...
Them: The Session That Started It All...
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 1 May 1965
ONE RECORDING session. Approximately four or five hours work. That was all it took to produce two smash hits for Them. ...
Burt Bacharach, Manfred Mann: Bacharach helps the Manfreds
Report and Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 8 May 1965
RICHARD GREEN TALKS TO THE MANFRED MEN ...
Report and Interview by Richard Green, Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 8 May 1965
DYLAN NOW is big business! He ambles and shambles (apparently) through a business that needs his sort of way-out personality. He parries questions, mumbles inconsequently, ...
Screaming Lord Sutch: Sutch — The First Of The Long Hairs Keeps On Rocking
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 8 May 1965
DAVID, LORD Sutch. Third Peer of the Realm of Rock. Profession: Horror singer. Interests: Monsters, werewolves, torture, rock 'n' roll. Ambitions: To star in a ...
The Animals, Alan Price: Animal Change — Full Story
Report and Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 15 May 1965
WHILE ALAN Price was relaxing at home in Newcastle, Dave Rowberry, the man who is taking his place with the Animals, was working hard rehearsing ...
Bob Dylan, Donovan: Bob Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home
Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 15 May 1965
DONOVAN REVIEWS NEW DYLAN ALBUM! RM Exclusive by Richard Green ...
The Who: 'Their Pop-Art Disc is like Fly Paper!' says WHO manager KIT LAMBERT
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 12 June 1965
IT NOW seems that whenever a solo singer, pop group, orchestra and what have you decides to do something a bit different, that is taken ...
Report and Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 26 June 1965
BUDDING songwriters, your troubles are over! No longer need you sweat and toil with difficult words and lyrics. Stop sending letters to John Lennon now. ...
Marianne Faithfull: Marianne's World Of Dreams
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 24 July 1965
SMUGGLING WINE and cigarettes into England, a pirate TV and radio station, houses in Italy and the Greek Islands. What a strange combination, but all ...
The Beatles: Help! (Parlophone)
Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 24 July 1965
THIS ALBUM could easily be titled "The Many Moods Of The Beatles". Showcased in fourteen tracks are ballads, rock and roll, folk, country and western ...
Sonny & Cher: A Day With Sonny & Cher
Report and Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 14 August 1965
"I'M SHATTERED, man," drawled Sonny as he shuffled into the hall of his Knightsbridge flat a 9.30 a.m. "What did I have to get up ...
Live Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 14 August 1965
RICHMOND RAVE-UP! ...
The Rolling Stones: Out Of Our Heads (Decca)
Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 21 August 1965
The Moodies talk about the Stones ...
Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 28 August 1965
SONNY & CHER — THEIR FIRST GREAT L.P.! ...
Zoot Money: "We're The Greatest"
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 11 September 1965
SAYS ZOOT MONEY TO RICHARD GREEN ...
The Yardbirds: Yardbirds 'Phone from a Raving Party
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 18 September 1965
THE YARDBIRDS call Richard Green from the States ...
Live Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 21 October 1965
WHEN EIGHT blues artistes leap about a stage, blowing harmonicas, thumping drums and piano, playing guitars and singing and shouting their song, it is impossible ...
Live Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 30 October 1965
THE GREAT LET DOWN or what happens when a top group don't turn up... ...
The Who: "The Guy Who Sings 'My Generation' — Well, He's Supposed To Be Blocked"
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 6 November 1965
THREE WEEKS, two cancelled photo sessions, one broken lunch date and half an hour late, Pete Townshend pushed his nose round the door of my ...
The Sir Douglas Quintet: Sir Douglas Rave-Up With Dylan & Jones!
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 13 November 1965
THREE O'CLOCK in the morning in New York and most of the inhabitants were asleep in their beds. Down in Greenwich Village, a night club ...
The Beatles: Rubber Soul (Parlophone)
Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 11 December 1965
(Pssst... here's someone who actually DISLIKES the new Beatles LP. It's RM's Richard Green...) ...
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 1 January 1966
Said Barry Ryan about Jonathan King ...
Dee Dee Warwick, Dionne Warwick: Dee Dee Warwick: 'Dionne encouraged me to go solo' says Dee Dee
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 8 January 1966
TWO SISTERS used to do the backing tracks on other people's records. Then one of them made her own discs and became a star. Her ...
Live Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 22 January 1966
Gospel joy at Fairfield ...
Stevie Wonder: Stevie Credits Stones For His Hit...
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 5 February 1966
THOUGH THEY may not know it, the Rolling Stones are getting a large share of the credit for the success of Stevie Wonder's 'Uptight'. It ...
Brian Jones, The Rolling Stones: Rolling Stones: Brian Wants To Swap His Rolls For A Mini!
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 12 February 1966
A SHRILL whistle cut down a Chelsea mews and Brian Jones appeared at the door of his house. I parked my Volkswagen next to his ...
The Yardbirds: Folk Fan Sam hopes to Convert other Yardbirds!
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 26 February 1966
ALMOST EXACTLY a year ago, Keith Relf told me that the Yardbirds would play more pop music and less of the r-and-b that had made ...
The Small Faces: Small Talk with the Small Faces
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 26 February 1966
Steve and Plonk say some 'nice' things to the RM ...
James Brown, Tom Jones: Tom Jones: Brown's LP Lacks Live Excitement
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 5 March 1966
Opines TOM JONES in this exclusive feature ...
James Brown: Ready Steady Go! (Rediffusion Television)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 19 March 1966
AND TELE VIEWER RICHARD GREEN SAYS... ...
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 2 April 1966
"...used to think we were purists when we smashed guitars. But we were more commercial then than we are now" (Keith Moon) ...
The Rolling Stones: Aftermath (Decca)
Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 16 April 1966
The smash LP of the year? ...
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 30 April 1966
IF THE WHO are still the leaders of fashion that they were a few months ago, Henry V hairstyles look like coming back — Pete ...
Bob Dylan: You Name Something, and I'll Protest About It Said Bob Dylan
Report by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 14 May 1966
BOB DYLAN stuck his head through the window, placed his foot on the window ledge and — from outside — asked: "Is anyone in here?" ...
Johnny Cash — The C&W Legend Also Beloved By Rockers
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 21 May 1966
JOHNNY CASH has become almost a country and western legend in the twelve years that he's been recording. Rock 'n' roll fans in this country ...
The Animals: Animalisms (Decca)
Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 21 May 1966
A ROCKIN' ANIMALS LP! ...
Crispian St. Peters: Chelsea (The Football Team) versus Crispian St. Peters
Report and Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 11 June 1966
STRANGE BLEATING noises from the rear of a Comet, vague attempts to chat up the stewardess and an almost non-stop barrage of olives and pieces ...
The Yardbirds: Guess What! "I Can't Play a Sitar Properly" says Jeff Beck
Report and Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 11 June 1966
NOW THAT Mr. Ravi Shankar is actually in the country, all those funny little Indian shops that flog sitars are in for a good time. ...
Crispian St. Peters: Follow Me (Decca)
Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 25 June 1966
IF IMITATION IS THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY, THEN JUDGING BY HIS FIRST LP CRISPIAN ST. PETERS MUST BE ELVIS' BIGGEST FAN... ...
The Yardbirds: The Yardbirds (Columbia)
Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 23 July 1966
THE YARDBIRDS wrote all the numbers themselves, so they've got the right kind of material here. All the tracks have been produced well and there's ...
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 30 July 1966
AND IN THE beginning there was Georgie Fame. At least, that more or less how it was for Rik Gunnell. Disregarding the seventh day of ...
The Beatles: Revolver (Parlophone)
Review by Richard Green, Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 30 July 1966
WELL, THIS is it! The latest Beatle LP, aptly called Revolver. The production that blokes like RM's Tony Hall, having been granted advance whispers of some of ...
Solomon Burke: America the Brave...
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 6 August 1966
...crashes back with half of the top fifty and some of the most advanced musical ideas. Now soul King Solomon tells of a seamier side ...
Cream: Eric Clapton: 'I'd Say George Harrison Was Good But I Feel It's Paul Telling Him What To Do'
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 13 August 1966
ERIC CLAPTON was walking down the Charing Cross Road, carrying a copy of Revolver and heading for a restaurant used as a hangout for musicians ...
Live Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 22 October 1966
HYSTERIA FOR HOLLIES ON TOUR ...
Cream: If You're Puzzled Why The Cream Did 'Wrapping Paper' Read This >
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 5 November 1966
"WE DID IT because we didn't want people to put us into a category straight away. We play soft numbers on stage, maybe we'll change ...
Jimi Hendrix: Sex, Gimmicks, And Jimi
Report and Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 14 January 1967
TWO ELECTRIC guitars continued happily emitting sounds as Jimi Hendrix left the stage at Bromley Court Hotel last week. Considering the number of indignities the ...
Live Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 11 March 1967
ORBISON THE STAR ...
The Beatles, Manfred Mann, Klaus Voormann: Klaus Voorman: Mann Talk
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 30 September 1967
EVER SINCE the days of '5-4-3-2-1', Manfred Mann has been improving. Until it has now reached the stage where it can either change it's style ...
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 17 December 1967
THE BIRTH of the Traffic was this year after months of planning and searching and getting themselves together. ...
The Foundations: Foundation Clem Reveals Popland's 'Black Spots'
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 9 March 1968
MENTION SCOTLAND to Clem Curtis and he grimaces. Mention Ireland and you get an "Oh man" reply, with an anguished expression. But mention Amsterdam and ...
Jeff Beck: What Do The Fans Want From Me? Pleads Jeff Beck
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 9 March 1968
TO THOSE who remember the raving old days at the Richmond Crawdaddy with "geezers" hanging from the rafters in ecstasy whenever Eric "Slowhand" Clapton did ...
Live Review by Keith Altham, Richard Green, New Musical Express, 6 April 1968
Concert review by Keith Altham ...
Reparata & the Delrons: Sets of Three
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 13 April 1968
'Captain' hit big surprise for Reparata ...
Bobby Goldsboro: Before 'Honey' I Had Almost Given Up Hope, Says Bobby Goldsboro
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 4 May 1968
HIT AFTER HIT has been written by Bobby Goldsboro, but for other people as far as Britain is concerned. His own songs have taken him ...
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap: Union Gap Play Only Own Songs On Stage
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 22 June 1968
THE SUPREMES, the Animals and Union Cap have one thing in common — they all now feature the name of their lead singer before that ...
Sly & the Family Stone: Clubs Give Sly And Family First Hit
Profile by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 27 July 1968
ANOTHER example of discotheques and clubs turning a little-known group into a hit outfit comes in the shape of Sly and the Family Stone who ...
Tommy James & The Shondells: The Chart Toppers Phone NME From New York
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 27 July 1968
TOMMY JAMES and the Shondells are going into the studios this week to record some new Beatle songs and one of them may be their ...
O.C. Smith: Tired But Amiable O.C
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 3 August 1968
THE COLOUR problem in America is, of course, far worse than it is here. Pop music, however, has alleviated some of the tension, according to ...
Richard Green Takes You Out To An In-Party! At The Revolution In London
Report by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 3 August 1968
GO DOWN TO the Revolution, we thought. Take a photographer and get some pictures of the star names. And what a night we picked! It ...
Live Review by Keith Altham, Richard Green, New Musical Express, 17 August 1968
STARS, SUNSHINE and a SHAMBLES ...
Sly & the Family Stone: Topless Dancers Drove Me Out says Sly of the Family Stone
Profile and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 7 September 1968
TOPLESS DANCERS and the resultant craze in San Francisco became so too much for a young musician that he left his job, became a record ...
Report by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 7 September 1968
Observe four old young men known just as Traffic/Suffer their tedious setting the stage/Then hark to their magical music and live it/And when the fuzz ...
Fleetwood Mac, John Mayall: Mayall Helps Mac Break Into Singles
Report by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 14 September 1968
ACE BLUESMAN John Mayall went to a concert given by super ace bluesman B.B. King in America, took a tape recording of it and later ...
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 14 September 1968
GREAT TRAFFIC LP ...
The Nice: Richard Green goes afloat with Nice
Report and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 21 September 1968
And nearly goes down with them! ...
Report and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 5 October 1968
IT IS VERY unlikely that the Editor will send me to Biafra to cover the war for the NME or that I shall be asked ...
Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (Dir. Don Pennebaker)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 16 November 1968
Evil genius? Volatile? Merciless? Hydra headed Monster? Film shows other side of Bob Dylan ...
Joe Cocker: Hit Single Was Just A Fluke
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 30 November 1968
New LP is much more important he tells RICHARD GREEN ...
Love Sculpture: Amen's Andy Tipped Love Sculpture
Profile and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 7 December 1968
AMEN CORNER'S Andy Fairweather-Low has recently been bending my ear about a Welsh trio called Love Sculpture who, he felt sure, were going to be ...
Booker T & The MGs: Booker T. puts hits before tours
Profile and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 25 January 1969
SOUL is a much maligned word which tends to bring a sneer to the lips of the musical cynics, probably because there has been so ...
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 25 January 1969
LULU IS finding that twenty four hours are not enough to cope with her string of commitments which includes a television series, the Eurovision Song ...
Hair: Not a Show for the Sqeamish — for Audience or the Cast!
Report and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 1 February 1969
WHATEVER the Lord Chamberlain may have thought about Hair, its message and content, the cast agree on one thing — it is not a shocking ...
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 29 March 1969
NME's Richard Green talks to their producer, Bob Johnston ...
Junior Walker & the All Stars: Junior Walker: A Hit For Junior — Because He Couldn't Sit Still
Profile and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 19 April 1969
AROUND THE Tamla Motown offices, Junior Walker became something of an oddity. Instead of sitting around, biding his time like the rest of the artists, ...
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 26 April 1969
Island Records boss CHRIS BLACKWELL talks to Richard Green ...
The Pretty Things: Tamla invest in Pretty Things
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 10 May 1969
ONE OF the most astounding pieces of news recently has been the signing by Tamla Motown of the Pretty Things, a group famed for its ...
The Who: Tommy (Track stereo 613 013/4; 76s 1d)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 24 May 1969
WHO'S SICK OPERA ...
Otis Redding: Bound To Be A Big Hit: Otis Redding: The Dock Of The Bay (Atco)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 7 June 1969
IT'S ALMOST a waste of time to review an Otis Redding album: everybody already knows how great he was. ...
The Lovin' Spoonful: Revelation: Revolution '69 (Kama Sutra)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 7 June 1969
MY, HOW THE Spoonful have changed since the days of John Sebastian and the lunatical Zalman Yanovsky. ...
The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger Talks To NME About The New Stone, The Ex Stone, And Two Albums
Report and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 14 June 1969
"WE'D KNOWN for a few months that Brian wasn't keen; he wasn't enjoying himself and it got to the stage where we had to sit ...
Sam & Dave: Sam and Dave: Double Trouble (Atlantic)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 14 June 1969
ANYONE who's ever seen Sam and Dave on stage will appreciate just how hard the dynamic duo work. ...
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 21 June 1969
ZEPPELIN FLY HIGH ...
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 28 June 1969
NOBODY REALLY expects anything connected with the Who to be quite normal, but with Thunderclap Newman, Pete Townshend has come up with a gem. Apart ...
The Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson: Love, Respect Binds The Beach Boys
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 28 June 1969
By RICHARD GREEN — the sixth Beach Boy ...
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 5 July 1969
RICHARD GREEN says ROCKING NICE HIT ...
Billy Preston: Billy's a Natural
Profile by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 12 July 1969
IF EVER there was a "natural" for the charts, Billy Preston's 'That's The Way God Planned It' — which enters this week at No. 19 ...
Desmond Dekker: Sister's Fall Inspired Des' 'It Mek'
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 19 July 1969
AS A CHANGE from Which came first, the chicken or the egg? — which came first, the 'Israelites' or the 'It Mek'? ...
The Beach Boys: Beach Boy Mike Would Love To Convert You
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 26 July 1969
Richard Green Tries A Spot Of Meditation ...
Johnny Cash: At San Quentin (CBS mono and stereo 63629; 37s. 6d )
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, August 1969
CASH RECORDS SMASH IN JAIL ...
The Isley Brothers, John Peel: Isleys and Peel 'Do Their Thing'
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 2 August 1969
THERE IS no obvious connection between John Peel and the Isley Brothers. Both are in a different "bag," yet both have one thing in common ...
Conway Twitty: Darling, You Know I Wouldn't Lie (MCA mono and stereo MUP 386; 37s 6d.)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 23 August 1969
COUNTRY TWITTY ...
Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg: Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg: Jane Sighs Her Way To Charts!
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 23 August 1969
IT'S ALL VERY well for people to scream and shout that the BBC won't play their records enough, thus giving them no chance of becoming ...
The Nice: Nice (Immediate mono and stereo IMSP 026; 38s. 6d.)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 23 August 1969
NICE WORK AND YOU CAN GET IT ...
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 6 September 1969
200,000 roar approval including John, George, Ringo and wives! But Dylan didn't quite sink Isle of Wight, reports Richard Green ...
Jethro Tull: Ian Anderson Wrote Music For Next Tull Album On U.S. Tour
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 6 September 1969
MOST GROUP members, when they visit America, spend all their spare time looning about clubs and generally having a rare old time. Not so Ian ...
Cher: 3614 Jackson Highway (Atco mono and stereo 228 026; 37s 6d)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 13 September 1969
WITH THREE Bob Dylan songs, one by Steve Stills and another by Otis Redding and Steve Cropper, Cher has a pretty good mixture — and ...
Profile and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 20 September 1969
Hard life of the legendary folk star ...
Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg: At Home with Sounds of Love star Jane
Report by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 27 September 1969
IT'S ALL VERY well to have a public image of a fun-loving, "anything goes" girl about town, but in private life things can be very ...
Chicken Shack Full Of Clucking Sounds
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 27 September 1969
STAN WEBB was grinning evilly as he strode into a pub, but no maniacal deeds were going through his mind, he was just dead chuffed ...
The Nice: Nice: Good Music & Showmanship Is Their Formula For Success
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 27 September 1969
MUSICAL COMPETENCE and showmanship rarely go hand-in-hand. At least, if they do, one often takes precedence over the other and the overall effect is one ...
Ten Years After: Ssssh (Deram mono and stereo DML 1052, 37s 6d)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 27 September 1969
TEN YEARS AFTER VERY ADVANCED ...
Jerry Lee Lewis: Sings The Country Music Hall Of Fame Hits Vol. 1 and 2 (Mercury)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 11 October 1969
Jerry Lee's good examples ...
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 11 October 1969
KINKS WITH POP OPERA ...
The Nice: A Nice A Week: 1 — Keith Emerson Wants Classical Music To Survive
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 1 November 1969
ONE OF the highspots of Keith Emerson's career occurred only a fortnight ago, when the Nice played with the London Symphony Orchestra at Croydon's Fairfield ...
John Mayall: Turning Point (Polydor mono and stereo 583 571; 37s 6d)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 1 November 1969
MAYALL MINUS DRUMS ...
Report and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 1 November 1969
JUST HOW firm a hold reggae is taking on the charts is demonstrated this week by the arrival in the NME Top Thirty of three ...
Joe Cocker, Leon Russell: Leon's 'Lady' lucky for Joe Cocker
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 15 November 1969
Transatlantic interview by RICHARD GREEN ...
Gene Vincent, The Wild Angels: Gene Vincent, Wild Angels, the Nashville Teens: Palladium, London
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 29 November 1969
BACK 12 YEARS WITH ROCKER GENE VINCENT ...
Joe Cocker: Joe Cocker! (Regal Zonophone stereo SLRZ 1011, 37s. 5d.)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 29 November 1969
CREDIT TO ALL FOR JOE COCKER'S U.S. LP ...
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 29 November 1969
THE PERSONABLE Mr. Gaye is in top form on this album, which teams him up with Mary Wells, Kim Weston and Tammi Terrell. Marvin has ...
Mighty Baby: Mighty Baby (Head stereo playable mono. HDLS 6002. 39s. lid.)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 29 November 1969
MIGHTY BABY comprises five young men who have been playing in various groups for a number of years and who have now combined to produce ...
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 29 November 1969
THIS ALBUM is obviously a collection or the group's newest recordings, as the sound has changed out of recognition. Gone has the rock and roll ...
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 29 November 1969
GREAT STONES ALBUM! Declares RICHARD GREEN ...
Elvis Presley: From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis (RCA)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 6 December 1969
PRESLEY FANS WANT TO SPEED UP ISSUE OF THIS ...
Jimmy Cliff: Jimmy Cliff (Trojan stereo TRLS 16; 37s. 5d.)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 13 December 1969
JIMMY CLIFF has done well out of reggae after a couple of years without much activity and he's following up his hit, 'Wonderful World, Beautiful ...
Crosby Stills Nash & Young: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 10 January 1970
SUPER CONCERT! ...
Taste: On The Boards (Polydor stereo 583 083. 37s 6d).
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 10 January 1970
IF MY memory serves me correctly, Taste is an Irish group I first saw playing in Harrods Way In boutique a few months back. The ...
David Ackles: Subway To The Country (Elektra stereo EKS 74060; 39s 11d)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 17 January 1970
DAVID ACKLES seems to have a preoccupation with gloom, doom and disaster when writing songs, but it usually turns out that numbers written in that ...
The Bar-Kays: Soul Finger (Atco stereo 228 030; 37s 6d)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 17 January 1970
THE INFLUENCE that Booker T. and the MG's have had on this five-piece outfit is obvious, but the Bar-Kays haven't quite got it together in ...
The Nice: RICHARD GREEN spends a hectic weekend with NICE In Paris
Report by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 31 January 1970
WHAT DO you have to do to have 'Granada' sung in your left ear by three Spaniards at 5.30 on a Sunday morning and a ...
Top Of The Pops: Are These The Two Most Frighteningly Powerful Men In Pop?
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 7 February 1970
PROBABLY ONLY one in a thousand teenagers have the vaguest ideas who Mel Cornish and Stanley Dorfmann are, but in the pop record business they ...
Byron Lee & The Dragonaires: Byron Lee is Jamaican Idol
Profile by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 14 February 1970
RELATIVELY unknown in this country, except to West Indians, Byron Lee is one of Jamaica's biggest attractions. In fact, he is to the Jamaicans what ...
Profile by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 14 February 1970
IT'S ALL very well to go round saying pigs can't fly, but who can honestly say that they expected to see Lee Marvin in the ...
The Nice: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 14 February 1970
NICE VERSATILITY IS LIMITLESS ...
Johnny Cash: Johnny Cash — The Man, His World, His Music (Dir. Robert Elfstrom, Verité Production)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 21 February 1970
DON'T MISS THIS JOHNNY CASH FILM advises RICHARD GREEN ...
Rod Stewart: An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down (Vertigo stereo VO4; 37s 6d)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 21 February 1970
ROD IN TOP FORM ...
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 21 February 1970
Rockin' Ronnie ...
Ronnie Hawkins: Mid-Rock Man Hawkins Found John & Yoko Silent Guests
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 28 February 1970
JOHN LENNON spent several days as a guest at Ronnie Hawkins' secluded country house in Canada prior to, during and following the peace concert. Yoko ...
Frank Zappa: Hot Rats (Reprise stereo RSLP 6356; 40s 8d)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 7 March 1970
WIDE RANGE FROM ZAPPA ...
Chicago: Chicago (CBS stereo 66233; 49s 11d)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 14 March 1970
TOO MUCH SOUNDS SAMEY ...
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Willy And The Poor Boys (Liberty stereo LBS 83338; 38s 7d)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 14 March 1970
CREEDENCE REALLY IS A ROCK BAND ...
Hank Williams Jr.: Hank Williams, Jr.: Live At Cobo Hall (MGM stereo MGM-CS- 8116; 37s. 5d.)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 14 March 1970
IT WOULD be silly to try and compare Hank Junior with his late father, so a review must be done with a completely open mind. ...
Profile by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 14 March 1970
WHAT HAVE Spooky Tooth, Traffic, King Crimson, Free, Renaissance, Blodwyn Pig, Jethro Tull, Fairport Convention, Nick Drake and Fotheringay in common? They all are, or ...
The Nice: Nice and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 14 March 1970
NICE UNITE CLASSIC AND POP FANS ...
Syd Barrett: Syd Speaks Out — At Last!
Report and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 14 March 1970
IT WOULDN'T BE as far-fetched as it sounds to say that what Bo Diddley was to the rock and roll scene, Pink Floyd were to ...
Renaissance: They Want You To Listen
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 21 March 1970
FOR PURELY personal reasons I think the nicest thing about Renaissance is Jane Relf, but as as a music journalist I must own up and ...
Taste: Trio Gives Taste More Challenge
Report and Interview by Richard Green, Melody Maker, 25 March 1970
TASTE ARE JUST starting to become a very hot property in England and on the continent, already having conquered the Irish fans. All the trappings and ...
Taste: Trio Gives Taste More Challenge
Profile and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 28 March 1970
TASTE ARE just starting to become a very hot property in England and on the Continent, already having conquered the Irish fans. All the trappings ...
Black Sabbath Have Nothing To Do With Spooks! says Lead Guitar Tony
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 4 April 1970
A NUMBER of pop groups seem to have decided that it's the in-thing these days to meddle in black magic and present their version of ...
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 25 April 1970
ROCKERS TAKE OVER FOR A NIGHT ...
Blodwyn Pig: Blodwyn's Mixed Audiences Means They Sometimes Get Mobbed
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 2 May 1970
AND THEY LIKE IT, ADMITS JACK LANCASTER ...
The Who: Live At Leeds (Track stereo 2406 001; 42s 6d).
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 16 May 1970
BRILLIANT WHO ...
Woodstock (Dir. Michael Wadleigh, Warner Bros.)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 23 May 1970
WOODSTOCK — BEST FILM EVER MADE ABOUT POP ...
Buck Owens And His Buckaroos: Tall Dark Stranger (Capitol stereo E-ST 212; 39s 11d)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 30 May 1970
BUCK OWENS is regarded very highly by country-and –western people, performers and customers alike, and his albums sell consistently well. Unfortunately, he has never had ...
Amen Corner, Fair Weather: Fair Weather: Andy Pleads, Don't Scream At Me Any More
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 30 May 1970
WHEN DOZENS of emotional young girls screamed and hysterically rushed the stage in a vague attempt to grab hold of Andy Fairweather Low, the singer ...
Christine Perfect/McVie: For Christine, Hard Work Hasn't Made Perfect
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 30 May 1970
HARD WORK is not always rewarded, as Christine Perfect is unfortunately finding out. Since leaving Chicken Shack to spend more time with her husband, Fleetwood ...
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 30 May 1970
PEACEFUL FESTIVAL OF GOOD MUSIC ...
The Nice: Five Bridges (Charisma, stereo CAS 1014; 39s 11d)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 30 May 1970
End of Nice ...
Various Artists: Woodstock (Atlantic, stereo 2663001; 150s)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 30 May 1970
Monster albums from Woodstock ...
Taste, Toe Fat: Lyceum, London
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 6 June 1970
London likes raving Taste ...
Audience, Van Der Graaf Generator: Van Der Graaf Generator, Audience: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 6 June 1970
CONCERT SUCCESS OF TWO GROUPS ...
The Who: Who Rehearsed Live Album During American Tour
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 13 June 1970
KEITH MOON, a little more serious these days, talks to RICHARD GREEN ...
Roger Miller: Roger Miller 1970 (Mercury stereo 6338 001; 30s. 11d.)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 27 June 1970
BECAUSE ROGER Miller is such a good songwriter it's odd that only one of the tracks here is his own composition. It would be much ...
Diana Ross Doesn't Miss Supremes
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 4 July 1970
DIANA ROSS is a supremely confident person. She has progressed from being a member of just another Tamla Motown group called the Supremes, to making ...
John Entwistle, The Who: John Entwistle: I Nearly Quit Top Of The Pops
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 4 July 1970
A bass player who objects to being ignored by TV cameras: That's John Entwistle of the Who. He told his troubles to NME's Richard Green ...
Humble Pie: NME Crashes in on Stevie...
Review and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 18 July 1970
...to do a track-by track on Humble Pie latest album ...
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 1 August 1970
WHATEVER analytical terms are used by people in attempting to define Traffic's music, however many superlatives are attached to the group and among the hundreds ...
Traffic: John Barleycorn Must Die (Island stereo ILPS 9116; 39s 11d)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 1 August 1970
THE FIRST Traffic album for far too long consists of a mere six tracks. This is not a bad thing though because each one is ...
Deep Purple: Rock Album Solved Deep Purple Rift
Report and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 22 August 1970
RECORDING AN album of rock did Deep Purple a lot more good than most people realize. It solved a lot of personal problems that arose ...
Blodwyn Pig: Why Mick Decided He Had To Jilt Blodwyn
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 22 August 1970
THE VARIOUS antics of Mick Abrahams ceased to amaze me months ago. The lad is a natural comedian with a wide range of goonish voices ...
Bread Aim to be One of the World's Top Five Groups
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 29 August 1970
DAVID GATES FLIES IN AND CHATS TO RICHARD GREEN ...
Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs and Englishmen (stereo A&M SP 6002; 59s. 11d.)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 5 September 1970
Fantastic, fiery Cocker ...
Sly & the Family Stone: Sly Slips The Questions
Interview by Roy Carr, Richard Green, New Musical Express, 12 September 1970
Put to him by Richard Green and Roy Carr ...
The Mothers of Invention: Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 12 September 1970
IF YOU'RE A Frank Zappa fan eagerly awaiting the album with the new line-up, don't be fooled into thinking that Weasels Ripped My Flesh is ...
Eric Burdon, War: Eric Burdon & War: Hyde Park, London
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 19 September 1970
BURDON AND WAR: BEST LIVE BAND WE'VE EVER SEEN ...
Black Sabbath Win Struggle Against Black Magic Tag
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 26 September 1970
BY RICHARD GREEN WHO ALSO REVIEWS PARANOID LP ...
Obituary by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 26 September 1970
A tribute by Richard Green, who once worked with him ...
Deep Purple: Single Success Puzzles Deep Purple
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 26 September 1970
3 months to make chart, but now, by leaping 15 places it's the week's fastest climber ...
The James Gang, The Who: The James Gang: They lift audience to 'pow' level
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 10 October 1970
WE BORROW THE JAMES GANG FOR TOUR WITH WHO ...
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 24 October 1970
DYLAN'S NEW LP NOT UP TO EXPECTATIONS — but it's still good! ...
Black Sabbath: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 31 October 1970
PAGANINI WOULD turn in his grave if he even thought that a group like Black Sabbath were playing at the Royal Festival Hall, and if ...
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 21 November 1970
ANYONE WHO still thinks that Emerson Lake and Palmer are a cheap imitation of the Nice should give this album a spin and be proven ...
The Move: Looking On (Fly, FLY 1; 39s 11d)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 19 December 1970
MOVE PACK IN SEVEN ROCKERS FOR FLY DEBUT ...
McGuinness Flint — We're Not Out To Prove Anything
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 16 January 1971
THE FURTHEST thing from the minds of members of McGuinness Flint when they first started recording was to release a single, they felt that their ...
Eric Burdon, War: Burdon Led The Wildest War Party In Paris
Report and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 23 January 1971
FOR ONCE, the fashion writers have got it right — women's shorts are catching on, in Paris at least. And while the birds are gettin' ...
Eric Burdon, War: Eric Burdon & War: The Black-Man's Burdon (Liberty stereo LDS 84003/4. 69s)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 30 January 1971
Burdon whips up a storm ...
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 13 February 1971
OVER THREE hundred fans queued for their money back at Brighton's mammoth Big Apple on Saturday night when promoter Brian Mason announced that War would ...
Twink: Think Pink (Polydor Standard stereo 2343 032; £1.49)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 20 February 1971
A MOST ODD offering from the boisterous Twink who is known to almost all and sundry as one of the Pink Fairies' two drummers. For ...
Lynn Anderson: Pssst! Don't tell the British that Lynn sings Country!
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 20 March 1971
SUCH IS THE stigma attached to country music by a large number of people in Britain that before Lynn Anderson left America she was warned ...
Deep Purple, Ian Gillan: Deep Purple: commercial without compromise
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 27 March 1971
FOR DEEP Purple fans the end of an era is approaching. After late April or May, familiar numbers like 'Speed King', 'Child In Time' and ...
Jimi Hendrix: The Cry Of Love (Track stereo 2408 101 £2.40)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 27 March 1971
Not the best Hendrix ...
Olivia Newton-John, Toomorrow: Olivia Newton John: Olivia Emerges from Shambles of Toomorrow
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 27 March 1971
"EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it! James Bond man launches new supergroup! Toomorrow tipped for the top!" Remember all that carry-on a few months ago ...
Eggs Over Easy: Meet the Band: Eggs Over Easy
Profile and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 10 April 1971
WHEN AN invitation to a cultural evening at the American Embassy dropped on my desk my first thought was that someone was playing a merry ...
Deep Purple: A compromise in five parts
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 24 April 1971
RICHIE BLACKMORE talks to RICHARD GREEN ...
The Byrds: ? — Time with the Byrds
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 8 May 1971
conducted by Richard Green ...
Deep Purple: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 8 May 1971
THIS COULD easily be a review consisting entirely of superlatives, but it wouldn't be so easy to understand unless you were actually at the Roundhouse ...
Black Sabbath: Following Recent Sensational London Concert Black Sabbath Admit...
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 8 May 1971
...U.S. tour got us together we're into some nice things now ...
Emerson Lake & Palmer: Emerson, Lake And Palmer: Tarkus (Island I LPS 9155; £2.15)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 12 June 1971
'ELP OUR EARDRUMS ...
Deep Purple, Rupert Hine: Deep Purple Celebrate Year In LP Chart
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 19 June 1971
"I'M VERY proud of In Rock. We knew it was going to sell because we'd done six months of concerts and we knew it would ...
Deep Purple: Iceland Gives Deep Purple (and our Richard Green) a Hot Reception!
Report by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 26 June 1971
There may be snow on peaks but there's fire down below! ...
Black Sabbath: Simple and Basic
Interview by Richard Green, Hit Parader, July 1971
"ONE OF the biggest problems with the music scene today is the kids that try to read things into songs." ...
Interview by Richard Green, Hit Parader, July 1971
POP SNOBBERY. According to Ian Gillan, of Deep Purple, it's when groups get so selective in their attitude towards work that they cut their dates ...
Bread: Manna (Elektra EKX 74086; £2.15).
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 10 July 1971
BREAD AN OPEN QUESTION ...
The Edgar Broughton Band: Edgar Broughton Band: Edgar Broughton Band (Harvest SHVL 791; £2.40)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 10 July 1971
Lighter Broughton ...
Humble Pie: America Makes a Cookin' Pie, Britain the Humble Crumble
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 24 July 1971
STEVE MARRIOTT in U.S. talks to RICHARD GREEN ...
The James Gang: James Gang Ride On Their Own
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 24 July 1971
IT WAS through the auspices of Pete Townshend that the James Gang toured Britain with the Who last year. They made some impact, but suffered ...
The Moody Blues: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (Threshold THS5; £2.19)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 24 July 1971
FROM STAR TREK TO THE POWER OF LOVE ...
Black Sabbath: Master Of Reality (Vertigo 6360 050; £2.30)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 14 August 1971
BLACK SABBATH were rightly pleased when, at their Royal Albert Hall concert a few months ago, they were presented with a gold disc for sales ...
Rory Gallagher: The Influences Behind His Unique Guitar Playing
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 21 August 1971
HARDLY a day goes by without someone or other phoning the NME and saying: "I've got the next Hendrix" or "My band's gonna blow your ...
Deep Purple: Too Much Work — But It's Not For The Money
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 11 September 1971
RICHARD GREEN talks to DEEP PURPLE'S RITCHIE BLACKMORE ...
Deep Purple: Guildhall, Portsmouth
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 18 September 1971
LITTLE DID the capacity crowd at Portsmouth Guildhall on Monday night know just how new Deep Purple's opening number 'Highway Star' really was. On the ...
Terry Reid: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 18 September 1971
OH, WHAT a good 'un Terry Reid has become. I hadn't seen him for something over a year until his Queen Elizabeth Hall concert last ...
Report by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 25 September 1971
Sun Records have Cash, Presley, Jerry Lee, Carl Perkins tapes locked in vault ...
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 25 September 1971
THE LEGEND that has grown up around Johnny Cash got its first in-person airing in Britain for three years at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on ...
Peter Frampton, Humble Pie: Not So Umble Pie
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 2 October 1971
Frampton Always Been The Odd Man Out ...
The Carpenters, Labi Siffre: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 2 October 1971
MUSICALLY THE Carpenters are a very pleasing group and the selection of numbers they played at their Royal Albert Hall concert on Friday were well ...
John Sebastian, The Who: The Who: Surrey University, Guildford
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 16 October 1971
OO'S GOT THE most exciting stage act in the world, then? The 'Oo, that's 'oo. And 'ow do I know? 'Cause I know all about ...
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 6 November 1971
COULD THE BEACH BOYS actually be doing a Moody Blues? The whole theme of this is: the world might be in a pretty dismal state ...
Slade: How Slade's image caused them bovver
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 13 November 1971
THE SKINHEAD era worked two ways on Slade — who had become the first group of the skinhead kind. It brought them to the attention ...
Wings: Wild Life (Parlophone PCS 7142; £2.15)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 20 November 1971
TWO SIDES OF McCARTNEYS ...
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 27 November 1971
THE REASON I have for linking these two albums together is to try to demonstrate the right way and the wrong way to do it. ...
B.B. King, Freddie King: B.B. King and Freddie King: Kings Of The Blues
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 11 December 1971
Two bluesmen who have become living legends talk about their careers and the state of the blues today. And B.B. King and Freddie King both ...
Grand Funk Railroad: E Pluribus Funk (Capitol EA-SW 853; £2.40)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 18 December 1971
NOT ENOUGH FUNK! ...
Deep Purple: Machine Head (Purple)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 1 April 1972
Purple: what we've got is a lot ...
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