THE MYSTERIOUS BARD: PETE BROWN’S JOURNEY FROM THE BEATS TO CREAM
Before Beatlemania and the British Invasion, Pete Brown was one of the UK’s few professional poets who made...
1960’s
1960’s
‘OUR KID’: MIKE MCCARTNEY CAPTURES THE EARLY BEATLES ON FILM
Paul McCartney’s younger brother, Michael, had a front row seat during the early days of the Quarrymen and...
RUTH UNDERWOOD: A MOTHER OF INVENTION
An integral part of Frank Zappa’s band the Mothers of Invention, Ruth Underwood stayed mostly in the background...
ARTHUR BROWN’S CRAZY WORLD: TIME HAS COME FOR KINGDOM COME
Arthur Brown, after announcing to the world, in 1969, “I am the god of hellfire…,” climbed the charts...
IT’S THE TIME OF THE SEASON FOR COLIN BLUNSTONE & THE ZOMBIES
The Zombies were part of the first British Invasion, along with the Beatles, the Stones, et al. What...
FRED NEIL: THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS LIFE
In 1969, as his most famous song, ‘Everybody’s Talkin’”, was dominating pop charts, Fred Neil (1936-2001) was working...
THE KRAY TWINS: A COUPLE OF LIKELY LADS IN SWINGING LONDON
Reg and Ron Kray were the OTHER Glimmer Twins of the Swinging Sixties in London. Notorious gangsters, murderers...
HOW HOLLYWOOD HANDLED THE HIPPIES, PART II: BIKERS, BAD TRIPS, LOVE-INS
Hollywood brass had discovered bikers long before the hippies (see Brando in The Wild One, 1953) but they...
MARISKA VERES: BEYOND ‘VENUS’ AND SHOCKING BLUE
One scene in the miniseries The Queen’s Gambit was all it took to put the Dutch rock band...
LET THE SUNSHINE IN: THE ENDURING MYTHS OF HAIR
Aquarius, the astrological sign, begins tomorrow, Jan. 20, and runs through Feb. 19. It is generally regarded as...
RICHARD THOMPSON: WHY DON’T THEY KNOW?
The supremely talented guitarist, writer and singer of both grimly funny and beautifully romantic songs, co-founder of Fairport...
SETTING THE NIGHT ON FIRE: AN INTERVIEW WITH MIKE DAVIS
Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear and, most recently, Set the Night on Fire:...
IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY: THE ORIGINAL LINDA LAFLAMME REMEMBERS
It’s A Beautiful Day, with their soaring, unforgettable “White Bird,” were an anomaly among bands of the San...
TULI KUPFERBERG: THE RIGHT-NOW ART AND WORDS OF A FUG
By the time Tuli Kupferberg formed the Fugs with Ed Sanders in 1964, he was already a longtime...