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Melody Maker had said months in advance of the album, " If there's one band that promises to return rock to us, it's Radiohead ".
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During the 1930s and early 1940s, Alston created illustrations for magazines such as Fortune, Mademoiselle, The New Yorker, Melody Maker and others.
" Bowie declared himself gay in an interview with Michael Watts in the 22 January 1972 issue of Melody Maker, a move which coincided with the first shots in his campaign for stardom as Ziggy Stardust.
McLean told Melody Maker magazine in 1973 that Tapestry was an album by someone previously concerned with external situations.
In February 1980, Melody Maker qualified the same band as " masters of this gothic gloom ".
Surfer Rosa gained the Pixies acclaim in Europe ; both Melody Maker and Sounds gave Surfer Rosa their " Album of the Year " award.
Biblical violence is a theme of Doolittles " Dead " and " Gouge Away "; Francis told a Melody Maker interviewer, " It's all those characters in the Old Testament.
This album got the band some attention from the press ( namely NME, Sounds and Melody Maker ), and dropped most of their reliance upon the Theory of Obscurity.
Perfect received a Melody Maker award for female vocalist in both 1969 and 1970.
This scene was dubbed " The Scene That Celebrates Itself " by Melody Maker.
The music press viewed the scene around Camden Town as a musical centre ; frequented by Britpop groups like Blur, Elastica, and Menswear, Melody Maker declared " Camden is to 1995 what Seattle was to 1992, what Manchester was to 1989, and what Mr Blobby was to 1993.
It achieved the rare feat of both NME and Melody Maker " Single Of The Week " status in the same week.
Rave reviews in English press such as NME and Melody Maker, plus overseas record sales persuaded Psyche that it might be worth their while to try their luck in Europe.
Grunge attracted media attention in the United Kingdom after Pavitt and Poneman asked journalist Everett True from the British magazine Melody Maker to write an article on the local music scene.
Haley continued to tour for the next year with a succession of new sax players, but his popularity was waning again and his 1976 performance in London was critically lambasted by music media such as Melody Maker.
As Jonh Wilde summarised in Melody Maker in 1989: " At the end of a strange year for pop music, Marillion appeared in November 1982 with " Market Square Heroes ".
In December 1982, Smith remarked to Melody Maker, " Do The Cure really exist any more?
Melody Maker praised the album as " psychedelia that can't be dated ", while pondering, " I've yet to meet anyone who can tell me why The Cure are having hits now of all times.
Smith was ecstatic about Gallup's return and declared to Melody Maker, " It's a group again.
Wakeman appeared on the front page of Melody Maker soon after, which called him " Tomorrow's Superstar ", and composed the theme music to the television show Ask Aspel.
Melody Maker made " O. U " a single of the week alongside " The Drowners " by Suede, another prominent new band.
The NME described Cocker's actions as a " great publicity stunt " which was " creative, subversive and very, very funny ", while Melody Maker described Cocker as, " arguably the Fifth Most Famous Man In Britain " and suggested he should be knighted.
* HawkFanFare – Melody Maker review, 19 May 1973
" When asked to explain her intentions in a 1991 Melody Maker interview, Sadier responded that " Basically I want to change the world.
Melody Maker: 26-27.
Jim Walker, a Canadian student newly arrived in the UK, was recruited on drums, after answering an ad placed in Melody Maker.
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The Broadway Melody ( 1929 ) had a show-biz plot about two sisters competing for a charming song and dance man.
The Righteous Brothers had several other Spector-produced hit singles in 1965, including " Just Once in My Life ", " Unchained Melody " ( originally the B-side of " Hung on You "), and " Ebb Tide ".
It was a follow-up of sorts to the successful The Broadway Melody, which had been released in 1929, although, beyond the title and some music, there is no story connection with the earlier film.
The first film director in was Herbert Wilcox, completing London Melody with Anna Neagle, portions of which had already been filmed at Elstree Studios before a fire there halted production.
And Melody Maker had us as the best band in the world.
By the early 1970s NME had lost ground to the Melody Maker as its coverage of music had failed to keep pace with the development of rock music, particularly during the early years of psychedelia and progressive rock.
Melody Maker was more enthusiastic early on, largely through the efforts of Everett True, who had previously written for NME under the name " The Legend !").
The same year saw the closure of the Melody Maker ( which officially merged with the NME ) and many speculated the NME would be next as the weekly music magazine market was shrinking-the monthly magazine Select, which had thrived especially during Britpop, was closed down within a week of Melody Maker.
" However, Too Pure provided little promotion for the single and critics claim that " Melody Maker had more to do with the success of the " Dress " single than Too Pure Records.
Suede appeared on Melody Maker's cover before they had a record out ...
Melody Maker preferred the more staid term The Scene That Celebrates Itself, referring to the habit that the bands had of attending gigs of other shoegazing bands, often in Camden, and often moonlighting in each other's bands:
Critics and fans alike had panned the album ( although the first single off the album, " Black Nite Crash ", was awarded " single of the week " by weekly music magazine Melody Maker ).
Kember was regularly described in the music papers, incorrectly, as the " leader " of Spacemen 3, although he had not helped in this portrayal: in the Melody Maker article referred to above, Kember had stated: " This band is my design and the rest are totally into it.
From 1940 to 1956, Autry had a huge hit with a weekly show on CBS Radio, Gene Autry's Melody Ranch.
At the same time, Belew had been tapped by both Talking Heads and their producer Brian Eno to add guitar solos to several tracks on their new album Melody Attack ( eventually renamed Remain in Light ).
In a November 1971 interview with Chris Charlesworth of Melody Maker, McCartney admitted his decision had also been based on Klein's involvement: a Beatles reunion, he said, would have been " an historical event ", for which " Klein would have taken the credit ".
It was championed by Melody Maker, who proclaimed on its front cover in 1995 that it was a " future pop explosion " that had " executed " Britpop, and including bands Orlando, Plastic Fantastic, Minty, Viva, Sexus, Hollywood, Dex Dexter.
During the early 1970s, Clark had chart singles on both sides of the Atlantic with: " Melody Man " ( 1970 ); " The Song Of My Life " ( 1971 ); " I Don't Know How To Love Him " ( 1972 ), " The Wedding Song ( There Is Love )" ( 1972 ) and " Loving Arms " ( 1974 ).
His biography noted that he had previously appeared in " Burnt Cork and Melody " and " The Hullabaloo.
Soon afterward, Keith's wife Melody, whom he had married in 1973 and was also Jewish, also became a Christian believer in Jesus.
" Hellman had gotten no recognition for some of her earlier projects, although she was the principal author of The Westerner ( 1934 ) and a principal contributor to The Melody Lingers On ( 1935 ).
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