Roy Hollingworth
Roy Hollingworth was a regular reviewer and writer for Melody Maker in the '70s. He later relocated to New York and began a parallel life as a singer, later leading the band Roy & the Rams. Roy died in London in March 2002.
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52 articles
List of articles in the library
Allman Brothers Band: The Allman Brothers Band: Allman Brothers at the Fillmore East (Atlantic)
Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 18 September 1971
QUESTION: GIVEN 76 minutes 26 seconds of the day to do sweet flaming all, what would you do (a) attend one and a bit funerals ...
Syd Barrett, MC5: Syd Barrett: The Madcap returns
Report by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 4 March 1972
SYD BARRETT'S new band, Stars, made their strange debut at Cambridge Corn Exchange last week. Roy Hollingworth reports... ...
Bette Midler: The Shape (40-22-36) Of Things To Come
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 17 February 1973
Roy Hollingworth meets the divine Miss Midler ...
Blind Faith, Family, Traffic: Ric Grech: Traffic's One Big Happy Family
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 10 October 1970
IT WAS good to see Ric again. We talked in melancholic tones of hazy days when gangster Grech, cigarette hanging from his lips, pumped out ...
Colin Blunstone: Like a choirboy with soul
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 4 March 1972
COLIN BLUNSTONE is possibly the best singer around. There are reasons. There have to be. ...
David Bowie: Carnegie Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 7 October 1972
Can Bowie save New York from boredom? ...
David Bowie: Cha...Cha...Cha...Changes — A Journey with Aladdin
Report and Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 12 May 1973
CHARING CROSS STATION, London, 9.10 pm: And when he arrived they screamed and they cried, and they rushed, and gushed forth and beat their feverish ...
Bread: Central London Polytechnic, London
Live Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 19 September 1970
IT WOULD be totally unfair to deal harsh criticism on Bread's ludicrous first ever British appearance, at the Central London Polytechnic, on Friday night. Ludicrous, yes ...
James Brown: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 20 March 1971
The clockwork king of soul? ...
Eric Burdon, War: War: Carrying A Heavy Burdon For Peace
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 3 October 1970
EIGHTEEN MONTHS ago in Los Angeles, Eric Burdon, six coloured guys, and a Danish harp player declared war on everything detrimental to mankind, except flesh ...
The Byrds: Byrd Watching (part 1)
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 8 May 1971
Roger McGuinn: into the mystic ...
The Byrds: Colston Hall, Bristol
Live Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 8 May 1971
A PINCH of snuff, the eucalyptus stabs the eye. McGuinn fastens the tin and slips it into his suit pocket. The rest of the guy's ...
Walter/Wendy Carlos: The Walter Carlos Sonic Boom
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 23 September 1972
"There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if man had ears; The Earth is ...
Climax Blues Band: Climax Chicago Blues Band: A Lot of Bottle (Harvest)
Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 19 December 1970
THERE LIES on this album one of the most exciting, imaginative guitar solos I've heard for a long time from Pete Haycock on 'Seventh Son', ...
Leonard Cohen: Cohen, Cohen, Gone: Leonard Cohen
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 24 February 1973
"LET'S sing a song, boys. . . . This one has grown old and bitter"– fragment from Songs of Love and Hate ...
Leonard Cohen: Songs Of Love And Hate
Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 2 January 1971
LEONARD COHEN in a deeper emotional trough than he's ever been in, more hypnotic, more melancholic than ever, and without doubt the least musical stuff ...
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 5 September 1970
LEONARD COHEN, man or myth, or what? He's a dreamer, but as he says his dreams are only products of real things, and fact. Basically ...
Leonard Cohen: The Cohen songs you'll never hear
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 4 March 1972
A remarkable interview with LEONARD COHEN... by Roy Hollingworth ...
The Dixie Flyers, Rita Coolidge: The Dixie Flyers
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 15 May 1971
THEY'VE BEEN called the best rhythm section in the States — don't ask me who called them that, but I figure the guy who did ...
Derek & The Dominos: Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (Polydor)
Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 12 December 1970
Beauty and boredom from Eric ...
Carole King, Danny Kortchmar, The Fugs, James Taylor, Jo Mama: Danny Kootch: Danny Boy
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 24 July 1971
YOU GET this sweaty little record company office and you're issued with the regulation afternoon tea or coffee. Danny Kootch looks suitably bloated by both ...
Rory Gallagher: Music For Belfast: Rory Gallagher
Report and Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 8 January 1972
BELFAST GOT A rock'n'roll concert on New Year's Day in the City's notorious Ulster Hall. Heading the bill was Rory Gallagher. It was the first ...
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 5 September 1970
Rock's most influential guitarist on music, drugs, politics, and his plans for a new big band ...
The James Gang: Home James: The James Gang
Report and Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 14 August 1971
IT'S USUAL procedure to interview Americans as they come into the country – not as they're going out. ...
Johnny Winter: Johnny Winter And... (CBS)
Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 17 October 1970
OH YES! Great stuff, funky, pumpy, loud and brash and damned uncouth — which is the way R&B should be played. ...
The Kinks, Sly & the Family Stone, Edgar Winter: The Kinks: Thank you for the days, Ray
Report by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 21 July 1973
ROY HOLLINGWORTH adds a sad chapter to the Kinks chronicle ...
Led Zeppelin: City Hall, Newcastle
Live Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 9 December 1972
ROY HOLLINGWORTH reports as Led Zeppelin open their giant British tour... ...
Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 9 October 1971
All we need is Lennon ...
Bob Marley & the Wailers: Crystal Palace Bowl, London
Live Review by Roy Hollingworth, New Music News, 14 June 1980
AS MARLEY got more and more into it, a controlled zombie look-alike waded slowly, mechanically, into the pond until the fetid, oily liquid washed heavily ...
Rick Nelson: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 4 March 1972
RICK NELSON at London's Royal Albert Hall on Monday is going to go down as one of the more curious events of the year. Curious ...
New York Dolls: The New York Dolls: Music in a Doll's House
Report by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 24 November 1973
From America MM previews the New York Dolls, who start a British tour this week ...
Live Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 16 January 1971
PATTO ARE better than most rock bands for two reasons – they play without any sense of snobbery (no boring ego jams), and secondly because ...
Report by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 21 October 1972
New York Report by Roy Hollingworth ...
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 17 March 1973
...is the title of Roxy Music's sensational second album. Roy Hollingworth presents an exclusive preview with comments from Roxy's Bryan Ferry. ...
Stone The Crows: Maggie Rings The Bell
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 24 October 1970
Roy Hollingworth talks to the girl with the hottest new voice in rock... ...
Stone the Crows: Fire and soul from the Crows' nest
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 5 September 1970
AFTER JULIE Driscoll and Christine Perfect, who is going to be the next British female blues singer? Tiresome, boring question? Not anymore because her name ...
The Stooges: Fun House (Elektra).
Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 26 December 1970
NEXT TO GRAND Funk Railroad, this is the worst album I've heard this year. In truth it's a muddy load of sluggish, unimaginative rubbish heavily ...
Taste Split: Background To A Bust Up — How Taste Went Sour
Report and Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 17 October 1970
Exclusive report from Ireland on the break-up of a mighty successful band by Roy Hollingworth ...
Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 26 December 1970
T. Rex goes funky ...
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 13 February 1971
MARC BOLAN, teased, stimulated and tempted by the midday wine, looned around in the rain and stood in humorous mood viewing the vast hulk of ...
T. Rex: Will America Learn To Love Marc Bolan?
Report by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 23 September 1972
T. REX are making another attempt to win the hearts of young America. But it don't come easy, as MM's Roy Hollingworth reports... ...
Ike & Tina Turner: What You Hear is What You Get (United Artists)
Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 18 September 1971
Torrid Tina ...
Van Der Graaf Generator: Melody Maker Band Breakdown: Van der Graaf Generator
Report and Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 1 May 1971
If it's Thursday, it must be Ormskirk. ...
Van der Graaf Generator: Not so much a band, more a meeting place
Special Feature by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 1 May 1971
THERE'S A Sopwith Camel perched on Peter Hammill's piano, or maybe it's an SE5. I can't see too clearly, because Peter's way down in the ...
Van Der Graaf Generator: Oh What A Boar!
Report by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 20 March 1971
SATURDAY morning. The Van der Graaf Generator truck speeds and wobbles along the motorway, northbound. It's a clear day, around lunchtime, and we're beginning to ...
Tony Joe White: This Here, Y'all, Is Tony Joe
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 5 September 1970
PEOPLE OFTEN ask what it's like to interview pop stars. Well like most things in life, there are the good times, and the bad times, ...
Wishbone Ash: Lucky Breaks For Wishbone
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 13 Fall 1971
JOHN PEEL: "I heard Wishbone Ash for the first time, and haven't been so impressed with a relatively new band for a long time. Their ...
Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 2 October 1971
WELL, AS you may have guessed, a lot of us have fallen in love with this little band, and there are a load of reasons ...
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 7 August 1971
STEVE UPTON of Wishbone Ash. What sort of audience did he think the band had? ...
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Bill Graham: The Man The US Kids Love To Hate
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 14 November 1970
BREAKFAST at London's Savoy Hotel with Bill Graham. The man, who has the high cheekbones and thick mouth of an American Indian, and the thundering ...
Frank Barsalona Is Probably Rock's Most Successful Agent. His Wife Says It's Because He Really Cares
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 7 October 1972
IT'S SUPER being a rock 'n' roll mogul. ...
Report by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 7 October 1972
MAX'S KANSAS City stands on Park Avenue South, with 17th Street, New York City, downtown enough to be not so bright, and far less peopled. ...
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