Original Publication: Newsweek, February 10, 1975 Gil Scott-Heron is a man with a plan. At a time when mindlessness and recycled rockers dominate the hit charts, his Midnight Band’s jazz-based…
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Original Publication: Newsweek – January 13, 1975 Let the glitter fall from your eyelashes, all you Alice Cooper freaks. After you read “Billion Dollar Baby” –taken from the title of…
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“Listen to that!” exclaims Steve Wonder. “I should tape it.” The blind singer’s amazingly acute ears have picked up a telephone conversation across the room where a friend is telling…
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Original Publication: Newsweek – August 26, 1974 Waylon Jennings has traveled most of the back-country roads during his stormy career, breaking the format of the slick Nashville sound and paying…
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Original Publication: Newsweek – June 17, 1974 Sly (Superfly) Stone has always been the badass of the rock world. His wedding last week to 21-year-old Kathy Silva, on the stage…
Read moreOriginal publication: Newsweek, April 22, 1974. Page 67. The city slickers and country bumpkins have had their say in pop music. Now let’s hear it for suburbia. Lately two boys from…
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