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  • And So It Began: Remembering the First Issue

    by Paul WilliamsMay 14, 2008Comments (0)

    The first issue of the first American rock music magazine was printed on Sunday, January 30, 1966, in a basement in Brooklyn, New York, on the Qwertyuiop Press mimeograph belonging to and operated by Ted White, a science fiction fan (and writer and editor). The date on the masthead was February 7, because the 17-year-old founder unreasonably intended it to be a weekly magazine (read more)

  • Rick Danko: Infectious Joy and Non-Showbiz Charisma

    by Jeff WilsonApril 30, 2008Comments (17)

    Smiling so hard his face must have hurt, Danko had a boyish, wide-eyed, let’s-get-this-party-started look in his eyes as he approached the mic. And he was dressed to impress, wearing black dress slacks, shiny hard-soled shoes, and a bright red button-down shirt (read more)

  • Rediscovering Rock and Roll, A Journey: Chapter Three

    by Paul WilliamsApril 9, 2008Comments (1)

    What kind of a fan am I today? In some ways I’m unchanged, and I still look for and sometimes find in the music exactly whatever it was I hungered after when I was 16 (proof that the world is a passionate place; a friend in the lonely night; release for my anger, confusion, idealism, desire fear and love). (read more)

  • Blues ’66, Part Two: John Lee Hooker and the Butterfield Blues Band

    by Paul WilliamsDecember 12, 2007Comments (2)

    Originally published in Issue #6 of Crawdaddy! John Lee Hooker, of Clarksdale, Mississippi, and Detroit, Michigan, is one of America’s best-known blues singers. He sings and plays in an intensely personal style that is neither Chicago nor Delta; he has performed in almost every club and recorder for practically every blues label in the world. (read more)

  • John Peel's Perfumed Garden

    by Mick BrownAugust 29, 2007Comments (5)

    There is no need to ask where John Peel was in the summer of love. Anybody with enough brain-cells left to recall the era will know that it was Peel who provided the soundtrack. Peel's programme “The Perfumed Garden”, broadcast on the pirate station Radio London, was the chrome-plated megaphone of destiny for the anthems, (read more)

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