It’s All Downhill on ‘Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow’
Rainbow is billed as a “totally new musical spectrum” for Blackmore, a founder of and former lead guitarist for Deep
Uriah Heep’s ‘Return to Fantasy’ Offers More of the Same
Uriah Heep’s bagful of studio gimmickry and David Byron’s hard-hitting vocals help give this ninth group release its commercial appeal.
David Cassidy Shoots for the Hip
Trying to leave his teen-idol image behind him, David Cassidy garnered backup on this LP from such rock luminaries as
Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ Is a Classic
Bruce Springsteen greeted 1974 with one foot planted firmly in the promised land, the other still stuck in the backstreets.
Two Masters: ‘Sam Cooke Interprets Billie Holiday’
One of these days, everybody’s going to discover Sam Cooke, and then maybe they’ll make a movie about him, too.
An Interview with the Righteous Brothers
(Bill Medley and the late Bobby Hatfield talk about Phil Spector, their early hits, and their reunion in my 1975
