The San Francisco Chronicle’s report of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s death on August 27th 1990. I was in London at the time and remember learning of it in the stock room at Virgin, Oxford...
Status Quo NME Ad ...
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The first seven Quo albums are just great, especially Hello and Blue for You. They were a band I got into at a very early age. I met Rossi and Parfitt about 10 years ago over a drink at the House of Blues in Hollywood and they’re like a comedy double act....
Top 20 Albums –...
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Top 20 album chart from Disc Magazine. Osibisa! Groundhogs!...
The Who at The Rainb...
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The first show the Who played with Kenney Jones and Rabbit. The review is positive, but it also refers to what used to be called BOFs in the UK at that time – Boring Old Farts. It was punk rock time, and I think that the UK weeklies had a dilemma about whether to dessert the great rock...
Lindisfarne and Gene...
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I love both bands, and think that the term “crucial tours” is even better. Times were more serious, but what’s wrong with...
The Who Music Weekli...
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A few of the huge number of Who articles in the collection. These are from 1978 and cover the release of Who Are You, the forthcoming Quadrophenia movie and their return to lives show – all just before the death of...