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Category: Musician Interviews

October 24, 1974 Musician Interviews

Sweet City Woman: The Stampeders’ Rock & Roll Dream

The Stampeders spent years struggling in a little town in western Canada before becoming one of the country’s biggest bands and scoring a major worldwide hit with “Sweet City Woman.”

September 26, 1974 Musician Interviews

Bob Neuwirth: Have Guitar, Will Hustle

Bob Neuwirth can be a bit unsubtle. On the one hand, he emphasizes that he doesn’t want to be known

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September 4, 1974 Musician Interviews

Betty Everett: The Reluctant Pop Star

Quitting her professional singing career has apparently been foremost in Betty Everett’s mind ever since she made her debut single

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August 21, 1974 Musician Interviews

An Interview with Spencer Dryden: The Beat Behind Jefferson Airplane and New Riders of the Purple Sage

Drummer Spencer Dryden, who died of colon cancer in 2005, played a role in 50s rock, then joined Jefferson Airplane

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July 18, 1974 Musician Interviews

Money, That’s What I Want: A Candid Interview with Miles Davis’s Ex-Wife

Betty Mabry met Miles Davis in 1967 and married him the following year. They divorced a year after that but as Wikipedia

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July 17, 1974 Musician Interviews

Searching for the Piano Man: A Brief Early Interview with Billy Joel

Right after I heard Billy Joel’s Piano Man album for the first time, I phoned a representative of his record

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