PLASTIC LETTERS: Missives from a Veteran Music Consumer

I read in the late '70s Talking Heads described as a bubblegum Velvet Underground and still think that was only because a journalist saw...

The Kinks returned from a tour of Asia. Ray had new songs and the label needed more product. The band piled into the studio with Shel Talmy ...

1975 and The Who had had a year. They toured the massive Quadrophenia, appeared in and rearranged Tommy for the big screen (effectively rere...

"It is the summer of the night," begins producer and manager Andrew Loog Oldham's back cover spiel. It continues in the style ...

How this intro has never been used to introduce a bad guy in a movie, I'll never know. The big grumbling guitar chords descending, slow ...

The common wisdom about David Bowie's '70s career is that he chameleon-ed his way through a parade of characters with stunningly dif...

Retrospection tells stories that were not known to the participants at the time. A backward look compels the stories, though. Until The Beat...