#status quo
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THIS WEEK we’re featuring – for one week only – exclusive audio ofBob Marleytalking to Karl Dallas the day after the Wailers played a legendary show at London’s Lyceum on 18th July, 1975. Hear the interview for free till Friday, then read the Melody Makerpiece that resulted from it – along with Vivien Goldman’s account of dropping in on Bob in Jamaica four years later.
The week’s featured writer (and our next podcast guest) is Miles Marshall Lewis, whose biography of the brilliant Kendrick Lamaris published this week. Miles’ Ebony review of To Pimp a Butterfly is revisited here, as is a 2013 interview with Wynton Marsalis… who just happens to be the week’s new audio interviewee (in a 1996 conversation with Tony Scherman). By way of bidding farewell to Alan LancasterandGeorge Frayne IV, we’re also offering 1976 interviews with Status Quo and Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen.
Subscribers can, of course, access the 50+ new articles added to the RBP library, including:
- Robert Shelton reviewing the Byrds @ Village Gate in 1966
- Ronnie Hawkinsin hot water with former charges The Band in 1969
- John Morthland in New Orleans with the Ohio Players in 1981
- Sandy Robertson meeting “Hollywood’s prince of darkness” Warren Zevonin 1985
- Phranc onbeing an “all-American Jewish lesbian folk singer” in 1991
- New RBP recruit Mark Rozzo lauds “ultimate cult album”Big Star Third/Sister Loversin 1993
- And, from 2015, David Toop revisiting Coltrane’s classic Love Supreme…
We sick and tired of-a your ism-schism game
Dying ‘n’ going to heaven in-a Jesus’ name…
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Bidding farewell on RBP
PILE DRIVERS — Melody Maker’s Harry Doherty looks back at the beginning of Brit boogie stalwarts Status Quo with the band’s bassist Alan Lancaster, 1949-2021andStreet Life’s Mick Brown meets Country Rock ‘n’ Western Swing airman George “Commander Cody” Frayne IV, 1944-2021in 1976…
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1980’s denim cut off.
Besides, Lord Vetinari represented stability. It was a cold and clinical kind of stability, but part of his genius was the discovery that stability was what people wanted more than anything else.
He’d said it to Vimes once, in this very room, standing at this very window: “They think they want good government and justice for all, Vimes, yet what is it they really crave, deep in their hearts? Only that things go on as normal and tomorrow is pretty much like today.”
Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
Life is just a big less exciting “Stick to the Status Quo” musical number.
Some Nikki Sixx onstage.
Mötley Crüe - Theatre of Pain era.
Everything is relative.
i’ve decided to private all my gif packs ! if you’ve already saved them, you can keep them, just please remember to give credit if you edit and/or redistribute them :)
IN PROGRESS
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