Richard Riegel
Richard Riegel decided he wanted to be a rock critic too, after reading Lester Bangs's manifesto "James Taylor Marked for Death" in 1972. Two years later, Riegel was writing for the great Bangs himself, at CREEM Magazine. A terminal Midwesterner, Riegel continued to do most of his rockwriting in the pages of CREEM, for years after Lester had departed for the green fields of Gotham. Along the way Riegel has also had his music pieces published in the Village Voice, Harp, Launch, Real Groove, the Washington Post, New York, Phonograph Record Magazine, Who Put the Bomp?, and his own Loose Palace fanzine, among other periodicals. As none of those gigs ever quite kept the wolf from the family door, Riegel also put in 30 years as a caseworker and quality control reviewer for the public welfare department, from which he was finally sprung by the Clinton/Gingrich "reform" in 1998. Riegel continues to reside with his wife, Teresa, in Cincinnati, Ohio, though he considers Columbus and Cleveland cooler cities on the whole.
True-story trivia note: In several incidents in recent years, strangers on the street have told Mr. Riegel that he looks "just like Andy Warhol!" Riegel is not bothered by the supposition that his naturally-achieved platinum locks evidently resemble Andy's funky wig, as he's gratified that if he has to resemble a celebrity, at least it's Warhol, someone whose artistry he's always admired. Riegel feels that if random passersby instead told him he resembled certain other celebs – e.g., Bruce Willis, Carol Channing – then an extreme makeover would be the only honourable way out.
Steven Ward's 2001 interview with Riegel
111 articles
List of articles in the library
Aerosmith: Draw The Line (Columbia)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, March 1978
PAINT BY NUMBERS FOR DEAF MUTES ...
Aerosmith: Get Your Wings (Columbia)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, August 1974
MGM RECORDS wasn't necessarily misguided in its big Bosstown hustle of 1968, they just flubbed up and signed the wrong bands. Why would you want ...
Allman Brothers Band, Wet Willie: Allman Brothers, Wet Willie: Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati, Ohio
Live Review by Richard Riegel, Phonograph Record, March 1973
DON'T KNOW how it is up in those choice stageside seats you pro critics reputedly get your asses greased with, but auditing a rock concert ...
Amon Düül (I & II): Amon Duul II: Made In Germany (Atco)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, January 1976
NO ONE BUT this X-th generation German-American seems to have remarked on the profound ironies of Kraftwerk's recent boast that they're the first German pop ...
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, July 1982
HOW FITTING to confront this record at the same moment the Royal Navy is steaming toward the Falklands, in the last-hurrah hard-on of Tory imperialism. ...
Memoir by Richard Riegel, unpublished, May 2009
NOTE: I wrote this mini-memoir for one of the neo-Creem projects of recent years, but it wasn't used. ...
Lester Bangs: 'Let It Blurt'/'Live' (Spy 45)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, February 1980
Lester Bangs Walks It Like He Talks It ...
Lester Bangs: Liberation Critic
Essay by Richard Riegel, Throat Culture, 1990
JAMMED INTO that soft-sided suitcase of guilts I've carried with me into my forties is the dull-but-persistent ache that I "owed" Lester Bangs a letter ...
Stiv Bators, The Dead Boys: Old Dead Boys Never Die, They Just Get Spayed Away
Report by Richard Riegel, Creem, October 1982
LONDON/NEW YORK — One-time Dead Boy vocalist/ scartissue-monger Stiv Bators married his beloved, one Anastasia, on May 1st in London, thus breaking the dog-collared hearts ...
The Beatles: 1962-1966, 1967-1970 (Apple)
Review by Richard Riegel, Phonograph Record, July 1973
Author's Note, 2009: This review of "the red and blue albums" generated the first-ever hate mail from a reader in my rock-critical career. He wasn't ...
The Beatles: We Can Work It Out: The Ten Most Over- & Underrated Beatles Songs
Comment by Richard Riegel, Real Groove, December 1996
The Ten Most Underrated Beatles Cuts (Arranged Chronologically) ...
Pat Benatar: Crimes of Passion (Chrysalis)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, December 1980
YOU'VE PROBABLY heard much of this album on the radio already, maybe you've gone ahead and bought it (I see that the album's now #5 ...
Pat Benatar: Hot L Baltimore's (Not Just) For Children: Nice Girl Finishes First & Demands Recount
Report by Richard Riegel, Creem, November 1981
COLUMBIA, MARYLAND, is a "planned community" nestled among scads of functional greenery, midway between Baltimore and Washington D.C. Columbia was laid out according to the ...
Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley: Hey Conductor You Must: Rock'n'Roll Iconoclasm In America
Essay by Richard Riegel, Loose Palace, Spring 2000
2006 Author's note: I wrote the following piece in the summer of 1993 on assignment for Rob O'Connor's Throat Culture magazine, after I had suggested ...
Billy Joel: The Nylon Curtain (Columbia)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, January 1983
REVENGE OF THE SUBURBS ...
Black Oak Arkansas: Street Party (Atco)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, November 1974
H.L. MENCKEN once wrote that he could toss an egg out the window of a Pullman car anywhere in America and splatter a yokel. It's ...
Blondie: Eat To The Beat (Chrysalis)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, January 1980
TOUCHED BY YOUR PRESENTS, DEARS ...
Blue Öyster Cult: Spectres (Columbia)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, January 1978
THE BLUE Öyster Cult have been able, in the past few years, to abandon their critic-induced anxieties about striving on as the vanguards of N.Y. ...
Bow Wow Wow: When the Going Gets Tough The Tough Get Going (RCA)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, July 1983
PERSONALLY, I never lost a minute's sleep over 15 1/2-years-old-and-semi-nude Annabella's supposed exploitation at the hot little hands of Malcolm McLaren when he was pushing ...
Jim Carroll: The Jim Carroll Band: Catholic Boy (Atco)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, February 1981
JIM CARROLL'S the latest word pusher (as in prose, poetry, you know, the pen-meets-paper thing) to cross the art-will-be-convulsive-or-not-at-all line, into the authentically electric seizures ...
Cheap Trick: An Afternoon Of Reality Therapy With Rick Nielsen & Cheap Trick
Report and Interview by Richard Riegel, Creem, July 1979
"IT'S LIKE I always tell people," says Rick Nielsen, "'I'm not a conservative, I'm a realist'." ...
Cheap Trick: At Budokan (Epic)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, May 1979
CHEAP TRICK are encouraging evidence of a new fluidity beneath the rigid fragmentation of today's pop music scene; they're proto types of the nouveau ironic ...
Cheap Tricksters Deny Plans For Global Conquest
Report and Interview by Richard Riegel, Creem, December 1979
Term Mass Invasion A "Dream Police Action" ...
The Clash: Give 'Em Enough Rope (Epic)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, March 1979
FUTURE SHOCK NOW (If You Want It) ...
Elvis Costello and the Attractions: Trust (Columbia)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, May 1981
"ACCESS" IS a word that has never tripped lightly off Elvis Costello's devilishly silver tongue. As in "Access All Areas," rockbiz parlance for an unlimited ...
The Dead Boys: Dead Boys Tell No Tales (Under An Hour, That Is)
Report and Interview by Richard Riegel, Creem, February 1979
FIVE MINUTES into my first-ever meeting with the Dead Boys, and already I have an angle, a metaphorical hook for my story on the band: ...
Destroy All Monsters: Bogart's, Cincinnati OH
Live Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, July 1980
We Almost Lost Detroit – Part 2 ...
Report and Interview by Richard Riegel, Creem, March 1979
(Investigative Reporter Dances The Poot) ...
Bob Dylan: More Of An Outlaw Than You Ever Were? (Hold The Mayo On The Golden Globe Awards)
Essay by Richard Riegel, Creem, March 1982
During the '70s, Dylan got swept up into those overblown, superstarred ships of fools which claimed so many promising prophets from the '60s. ...
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, October 1980
I NEVER bothered buying Bob Dylan's landmark albums when they were released, in the frantic 1960s. All my friends then already had all the albums, ...
Electric Light Orchestra: Discovery (Jet)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, September 1979
THE ELECTRIC Light Orchestra was a shaky proposition from the beginning, as far as this hard-boiled Yank observer was concerned. Roy Wood's announced intention of ...
Bryan Ferry: Bête Noire (Reprise)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, March 1988
BRYAN FERRY was easier for a common clod like me to take back in the 1970s, when his precocious elegance and studied world-weariness were contained ...
Foreigner: Inside Information (Atlantic)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, April 1988
LONG-TIME Foreigner fans should open this album's gatefold jacket very slowly (if at all), as the double-spread group photo within confirms that Our Boys are ...
Peter Frampton: I'm In You (A&M)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, September 1977
FRAMPTON: "I'm In You"CALL THE EXORCIST! ...
J. Geils Band: Juke Joint Jimmy in Midlife Crisis: GEIL-itis Still Got a Hold on Me
Report by Richard Riegel, Creem, July 1980
DON'T ASK ME where we were going, as I can't remember now, but I know it was the Saturday morning before the Sunday evening J. ...
Girlschool: Staying After Girlschool
Report and Interview by Richard Riegel, Creem, May 1984
GIRLSCHOOL MEMBERS Kim McAuliffe and Gil Weston flash me quick smiles as we're introduced in their road manager's hotel room, and I'm relieved to note ...
The Good Rats: Good Rats: From Rats To Riches (Passport)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, July 1978
ACCORDING TO the liner notes, the Good Rats recorded this new set in just two weeks last fall. Never mind that this was their first ...
Daryl Hall & John Oates: Private Eyes (RCA)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, December 1981
I GOTTA HAND it to these guys. Just a few years back, if the merest snatch of any of their biggies – 'She's Gone' was ...
The Human League: Fascination! (A&M)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, September 1983
BACK IN THEIR serious-artiste days, before they shed the future Heaven 17 to go POP! with capital P's, the Human League used to attempt to ...
Human Switchboard: Deft Mutants in a Telephone Booth: Human Switchboard at Walnut Hills, Dayton
Live Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, August 1981
DAYTON, OH -- "Maximum Occupancy: 110" says the sign high up on the wall of the Walnut Hills Bar, and by a conservative estimate, I'd ...
Hüsker Dü: Not Bohemia, But Estonia!
Interview by Richard Riegel, Creem, June 1986
"HÜSKER DÜ" is Danish for "Do you remember?," and I do, I recall very clearly my meeting with the guys from the rock band of ...
Billy Idol: Rebel Yell (Chrysalis)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, March 1984
BILLY IDOL has designated the respective sides of the single-pocket Rebel Yell as "3" and "4," in the same big numerals he used for "1" ...
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, February 1980
SOME DAYS it's fun being a real Midwesterner trying to make it in the art rackets; the powers on the good-taste-is-timely Coasts already have you ...
The Jam: In the City (Polydor)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, November 1977
ANARCHY IN the U.K.? You ain't heard nothing yet — just wait till the Sex Pistols wake up to the realization that they pissed away ...
The Jesus & Mary Chain: Darklands (Warner Brothers)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, February 1988
IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS... ...
Elton John: Blue Moves (Rocket)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, February 1977
Elton Cops Some ZZZ's ...
The Kinks: Thank You for the 1/288th of the Day, Ray!
Memoir by Richard Riegel, Real Groove, April 1997
BACK IN OUR mid-1960s adolescence, my friend B. entertained a magnificently huge crush on Dave Davies of the Kinks. We were young Yanks in thrall ...
The Knack: Knuking The Knack Inside Their Own Reactor
Report and Interview by Richard Riegel, Creem, April 1980
Connubial Alliance Invades the Heart Of the Beast ...
Report by Richard Riegel, Creem, January 1980
PACKS FEW FACTS, JACK (BUT STACKS OF TRACKS PUT THE PAX ON FLACKS' YAKS) ...
Kraftwerk: Radio-Activity (Capitol)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, February 1976
DOES ANYBODY out there remember 1962's top ten screamer, 'Telstar', by the Tornadoes? I really loved it at the time. Not only was it one ...
John Lennon: Shaved Fish (Apple)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, March 1976
DID Y'EVER notice how each of the former Beatles has enjoyed a successive season in the sun as the rock critics' fave Fab Four survivor? ...
The Lords Of The New Church: I Just Wanna Testify
Report by Richard Riegel, Creem, April 1983
IT'S LIKE a scene from a Lisa Robinson rock novel, here at Swingo's Hotel in downtown Cleveland. The lobby's a baroque mishmash of fake 18th-century ...
Love: Forever Changes(Elektra/Rhino)
Review by Richard Riegel, The Village Voice, 16 April 2001
LOVE'S THIRD ALBUM mystified both the band's ardent fans and the scene's founding rockwriters almost from the day it appeared in November 1967. ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: One More From the Road (MCA)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, December 1976
LYNYRD SKYNYRD: Does Their Conscience Bother THEM? ...
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, July 1984
MADNESS WARNED us as long ago as 1979 that they intended to "move with the times" as new pop fashions scudded across that fickle London ...
Mahogany Rush: Strange Universe (20th Century)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, October 1975
Rrring! "Hey, Paul, get the phone, will ya?" Rrring! ...
C.W. McCall: Wilderness (Polydor)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, July 1976
LET'S FACE it. 'Convoy' was probably the one moment of pure inspiration C.W. McCall's adcopy-blighted brain will ever enjoy, and those fans hoping for a ...
John Mellencamp: John Cougar: XR-7's Entire Midwest Metropolis
Report by Richard Riegel, Creem, December 1980
Renegade Stories Down Thru the Years: ...
John Mellencamp: Cuttin' Heads (Columbia)
Review by Richard Riegel, The Village Voice, 5 December 2001
ROBERT ZIMMERMAN wanted to emulate Woody Guthrie, while John Mellencamp aspired to be the next-to-last David Bowie, and here they are at fateful birthdays 60 ...
The Members: Members of Punk-Reggae Wedding Claim Not Always Bridesmaids
Profile and Interview by Richard Riegel, Creem, May 1983
WE'RE DOWN in Bogart's new dressing room, a concrete-block bunker beneath the stage, and as I retrieve a Budweiser from the tub on the amenities ...
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, August 1983
SURE, I LIKE Men At Work too. Doesn't everybody? They seem able to please all the people all the time, even though that's not their ...
Van Morrison: Beautiful Vision (Warner Bros.)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, June 1982
AND REMEMBER, CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS ...
Motörhead: Loving Them Like Reptiles
Report and Interview by Richard Riegel, Creem, June 1985
MOTÖRHEAD ARE so fucking LOUD my ears are already bolting for the door so they can hop a bus and flee home to the security ...
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, July 1985
THIS ALBUM'S not bad, but it could have been a lot better. Alison Moyet, as you may recall, graced our airwaves back in 1982-83 with ...
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, June 1984
IF YOU DON'T already have a crush on Nena Kerner for the sweetly tumbling gutturals of her vocals, and the sexiness of her hands-in-pockets stride, ...
Live Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, September 1980
Be Real Kraut For Me, Baby! ...
Ted Nugent: Little Miss Dangerous (Atlantic)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, July 1986
ONE DOESN'T usually associate the terms "pedestrian" and "boring" with an ignoble savage who poses for liner photos with particles of small-quadruped flesh stuck between ...
Yoko Ono: Season Of Glass (Geffen)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, October 1981
YOKO ONO'S first post-John album has been out a month or so as I write this, but you'd never know that from tuning into your ...
Ozzy Osbourne: Blizzard Of Ozz (Jet)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, July 1981
THIS MAY be a little hard for Cliff Richard to take, but his fellow Xian, Ozzy Osbourne, has by now become the English Elvis Presley. ...
Parliament: Funkentelechy vs. The Placebo Syndrome (Casablanca)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, March 1978
AND SO it came to pass that Parliament-Funkadelic became the Great Black Hope of all the honky rock critics, became the champion musical force that ...
Robert Plant: Shaken'n'Stirred (Es Paranza)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, September 1985
AS LUCK WOULD have it, just a couple nights ago I tuned in Radio 1990 and caught the ever-photogenic Mr. Plant, who was being grilled ...
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, June 1977
LET'S SEE, 1977 minus 1973 is four; it's been four whole years since Iggy and the Stooges' milestone Raw Power was released. Four years can ...
Iggy Pop: Metallic J.C.'s Consciousness-Raising Wrap Session
Report by Richard Riegel, Creem, May 1979
TURIN, ITALY – In a surprise announcement this week, it was revealed that the so-called "Shroud of Turin," long believed to be the cloth in ...
Iggy Pop: World's Most Forgotten Boyo Discovered Performing Alternative Service For The Bourgeoisie
Comment by Richard Riegel, Creem, March 1981
COMING, ON your own TV, sometime around 1986: A loud, but dry, staccato male voice opens the commercial: "Do you remember those thrilling days when ...
Quarterflash: Quarterflash (Geffen)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, February 1982
BET IF YOU'RE like me, you made your definitive acquaintance with Quarterflash via the magic of radio. Sure, I received my album right off, but ...
The Ramones: Leave Home (Sire)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, May 1977
ROCK CRITIC or not, your reviewer resides in the Midwest, and doesn't make it up to Noo Yawk any too often (last such trek occurring ...
Ratt: Ratt (Time Coast/Atlantic)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, April 1985
RATT BETWEEN THE LIPS ...
Lou Reed: NYC Man -The Ultimate Lou Reed Collection
Review by Richard Riegel, Harp, July 2003
FOR "QUINTESSENTIAL New Yorker" Lou Reed, the irony he's directed toward his fans has often been less subtle patronization than his hectoring middle finger thrust ...
REO Speedwagon: Good Trouble (Epic)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, October 1982
FROM OUT OF THE STEREOS OF BABES ...
Paul Revere & the Raiders: Punks Just Keep Getting Harder to Find
Report and Interview by Richard Riegel, Creem, November 1979
MIDDLETOWN, OHIO – As the car clanks over the first peak of the Screaming Eagle rollercoaster, poised to begin its exhilarating hurtle downward, I have ...
Robert Plant: The Principle Of Moments (Atlantic)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, November 1983
BACK IN THOSE firebrand days when I foolishly believed that the Ramones and Sex Pistols could overturn the whole rock establishment, I often felt that ...
The Rolling Stones: Some Girls (Rolling Stones Records)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, September 1978
STONES FIND MOSS RETARDANT ELIXIR ...
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, December 1982
ROMEO VOID'S Debora Iyall has said that her band's name "means there are not romantic notions here — and there shouldn't be; we are about ...
Brian Setzer: The Knife Feels Like Justice (EMI America)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, June 1986
...AND THE DISH RAN AWAY WITH THE SPOON ...
Siouxsie & the Banshees: The Scream (Polydor)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, September 1979
SIOUXSIE OF the Banshees was a tantalizing pledge of the coming New Wave Millennium, when her photo began appearing in U.S. fanzines in early 1977. ...
Grace Slick: Welcome To The Wrecking Ball (Grunt)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, April 1981
THIS ISSUE will be hitting the stands a week or two after Valentine's Day, so I won't be too remiss in telling Grace Slick that ...
The Smiths: Meat Is Murder (Sire)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, June 1985
EVEN THOUGH I happen to think that this group's debut disc was one of the best albums of 1984, I'm afraid that they may be ...
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, September 1976
NAH, I DON'T blame Bruce Springsteen a bit. I woulda done the same if I'd been in his Beatle boots. With all the vultures of ...
The Specials: More Specials (Chrysalis/2-Tone)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, March 1981
SO HOW would you like to be sitting on top of the Specials' 2-Tone global music empire right about now? You can bet it's a ...
Sting: The Dream Of The Blue Turtles (A&M)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, October 1985
O SOLO STINGO ...
The Stray Cats: Stray Cats: Rant N' Rave With The Stray Cats (EMI America)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, December 1983
SETZER, SETZER, LEND ME YOUR COMB ...
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, February 1977
NOPE, I WON'T deny it, I've liked Styx since I first heard their 'Lady' single. The ferocious chords of that tune crashed out with a ...
Supertramp: ...Famous Last Words... (A&M)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, April 1983
MANY' FINE nouns come to me whenever I think of Supertramp, and most of the printable ones can be found in the section of my ...
Sweet: Give Us A Wink (Capitol)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, May 1976
I SEE HERE in this clipping that Sweet lead singer Brian Connolly got his throat kicked in during a pub brawl in London in 1974. ...
Thin Lizzy: Tramping the Celt Belt with Thin Lizzy
Report by Richard Riegel, Creem, October 1978
LONDON, ENGLAND – So I've journeyed 4000 miles across the sea, made my pilgrimage to the cradle of the modern rock 'n' roll era, just ...
The Thompson Twins: Thompson Twins: In The Name Of Love (Arista)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, September 1982
"THEY DON'T KNOW what to call us/'Cause we don't have a name" croons an anxious Tom Bailey, in the Thompson Twins' 'Perfect Game'. ...
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, September 1976
JUST WHAT is going down here, huh? The defining images of our pop heroes seem destined for ever-shorter useful lives, as though we're accelerating toward ...
The Marshall Tucker Band: Long Hard Ride (Capricorn)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, September 1976
IT COULD BE that the emerging stylistic identities of the various Southern rock bands derive as much from their differing geographic origins as from the ...
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, May 1983
JERRY MATHERS' days as TV's beloved Beaver were numbered the second his voice began to crack and change, and U2's new War may force similar ...
Van Halen: 5150 (Warner Bros.)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, August 1986
THERMOS HUNT CONTINUES! ...
Van Halen: Van Halen (Warner Bros.)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, June 1978
LET ME TELL you about dinosaurs. No, "dinosaurs" may be too harsh a term, even if Van Halen-style rockers do find their evolutionary fulfillment in ...
Wall of Voodoo's Off Sound Track Betting
Profile and Interview by Richard Riegel, Creem, August 1983
Caricatures Shown Not Intended To Depict Artemia Salina ...
X Spots the Mark: Raw Chemicals With a Spoon
Interview by Richard Riegel, Creem, February 1984
AS I ENTER Billy Zoom's Cincinnati motel room, I glance at the usual rockband-on-tour pile of black leather jackets, but I also take note of ...
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, May 1984
MUMMER MARKS XTC's psychic retreat to the band's native village of Swindon, where folk are rough and still near to the earth. The women wear ...
Yazoo: Yaz: Upstairs At Eric's (Mute/Sire)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, March 1983
"YAZ," ARE really "Yazoo," and still go by that name in the U.K. and Europe, but for North American consumption they had to drop the ...
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, April 1977
AS POWER trios go, Grand Funk are no longer a trio, and not nearly so powerful as their obstinate primitivism once made them seem. Yet ...
List of genre pieces
Creem: Censored by a Futurist!
Memoir by Richard Riegel, Rock's Backpages, 24 April 2009
CREEM SUFFERED ITS first bankruptcy in August 1985, a little over ten years after I'd begun writing regularly for the magazine. ...
MTV: Behind The Scenes (MTV Special Program)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, January 1984
MTV Or Not MTV ...
Louise holds a handful of rain...
Retrospective by Richard Riegel, Rock's Backpages, 6 June 2012
VERY GLAD TO see Louise Criscione as the featured rockwriter in the "Almost Famous" spot on RBP's front page this week, as I'd meant to ...
Where Did (My) Zeitgeist Go?: A Life in Rock Writing
Comment by Richard Riegel, Rock's Backpages, 18 April 2012
I'VE JUST FINISHED reading Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism, by my old friend and former Village Voice editor Chuck Eddy, ...
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