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April 16, 1975 Book Reviews

Charlie Gillett’s ‘Making Tracks’ Takes You Inside the Music Buisness

Charllie Gillett, author of the classic rock history The Sound of the City, has produced an equally definitive companion volume.

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February 26, 1975 Book Reviews

‘Janis Joplin: Her Life and Times’ Disappoints

You don’t need to know that this book hit the stands only six months after Janis died to guess that

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December 18, 1974 News & Comment

David Bowie on the Tube

David Bowie made his first talk-show appearance the other night on the Dick Cavett Show and, though the singer apparently

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December 12, 1974 Musician Interviews

An Interview with Tommy James: I Think I’m All Grown Now

Reclining in a chair regal enough for a man who has sold 35 million records, Tommy James seems relaxed and

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November 7, 1974 Musician Interviews

Nektar’s Dream: Food for Five Senses

Outside St. Louis’s Ambassador Theater, throngs of teenagers approach the ticket window where, one by one, they are waved away.

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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.”

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Newly available: A paperback North American edition of Dylan on Dylan, Japanese editions of Lennon on Lennon and Dylan on Dylan, and a Spanish edition of Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen.

Coming soon: Spanish editions of Lennon on Lennon and Dylan on Dylan and an Italian edition of Dylan on Dylan.

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