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Read Between the Lines: An Interview With Keith Moon
Originally published in Rave, July 1969
Conducting an interview with Keith Moon is rather like running a mental obstacle course with a megalomaniac (his manager’s reference, not mine), with imminent danger to your own person. I have always felt that Moon should be made to wear a placard reading, “Those riding on this machine do so at their own risk.” I also feel that he deserves, along with the Beatles, a monument to testify to his outstanding irreverence for jingoism and “The British Way Of Life.”
The first attempt to tape his interview got me involved in a suicidal drive around the West End with Moon in the guided missile he is disposed to call his car. After the series of cover reverses and three-point turns in the middle of Whitehall, we returned to Track Records where I got a new taped version of “I’m the Face” (the Who’s first abortive record over five years ago) and an exclusive on how he intended to do a drummer’s tour of Sweden with Gary Leeds, where he once had a number one record with “Bucket T” during the Who’s surfing phase!
Paul Simon: Now They All Want Paul Simon Songs!
Originally published in NME, 22 April 1966
The most significant influence in popular music today, since the emergence of that well-known Lennon-McCartney firm, seems to be the mini-sized music-maker Paul Simon, who arrived on a five-day private visit to England last Monday to find no less than three of his songs in the NME Top 20.
They are, of course, the Bachelors’ “Sound of Silence” (4), the Seekers’ “Some Day One Day” (16), and the number he sings with American partner Garfunkel, “Homeward Bound” (15).
Rolling Stone Oldham: Talented, Insulting, Outrageous
Originally published in NME, 5 August 1966
Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham is on the move and as usual with this ubiquitous personality (”the Beach Boys‘ new single is not dedicated to me”) in several directions at once—mostly “up!”
Last Thursday I found an agitated Andrew bouncing about among the packing cases of his outer office in Baker Street, which together with his record company Immediate, were in transit to their more spacious premises in Oxford Street.
Yardbirds Question Time
Originally published in NME, 9 July 1965
The Yardbirds were in no mood for pulling punches when I called on them in their dressing room at the Ready, Steady, Go! studios in Wembley Park. Keith Relf expressed the desire that they should be “the first group to tell the truth” and that he was tired of “watered down interviews which said nothing.”
Ready, Steady, Go! itself has been the subject of a great deal of controversy recently. What do you think of the show?
Marc Bolan: Energy Is What It’s All About
by: Keith Altham
Marc Bolan is ready to take on the world following his incredible success with two maxi singles, “Ride a White Swan” almost indecently closely followed by “Hot Love” put confirmation of his present pop philosophy that ‘energy’ is what it is all about.
“I’ve suddenly tuned into that mental channel which makes a record a hit and I feel at present as though I could go on writing number ones for ever,” said Marc confidently. “Let’s face it: The majority of pop hits that make it are a permutation on the 12-bar blues and I’ve found one that works.
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by: Keith Altham
published: October 1, 2008
in column: Classic Vantage
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