Category Archives: Disc and Music Echo 1967-1972

Disc & Music Echo, June 7, 1969

Posted on June 12, 2019 by dhvinyl

Quite why Ray Coleman chose me, the pop kid, to help launch EMI’s new progressive rock Harvest label, I can’t remember, but a young (26) reporter does what he’s told. I don’t expect you to attempt to read the copy, … Continue reading →

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50 years ago in the Music Industry 18 – Disc & Music Echo, 1967-1972

Posted on December 15, 2018 by dhvinyl

Life, a lack of articles I could physically copy from my bound volumes, and a lack of articles generally (maybe one of the down-sides of being Assistant Editor at the time) has resulted in this ongoing series having had a … Continue reading →

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50 years ago in the Music Industry 17 – Disc & Music Echo, 1967-1972

Posted on September 2, 2018 by dhvinyl

One year after the launch of Radio 1, editor Ray Coleman in his infinite wisdom thought I was the man to assess and grade the DJ’s who were there during that first year. Here’s the piece – I’ll highlight some … Continue reading →

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50 years ago in the Music Industry 15 – Disc & Music Echo, 1967-1972

Posted on April 22, 2018 by dhvinyl

  With “Tina-the Musical” having opened to sensational reviews this week, strangely appropriate that this interview, of which I am ashamed to admit I have absolutely no memory, pops out of the annals of Disc, April 27, 1968.     … Continue reading →

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50 years ago in the Music Industry 14 – Disc & Music Echo, 1967-1972

Posted on April 15, 2018 by dhvinyl

If I can claim anything in my six years as a “journalist” (inverted commas as I was really little more than a local reporter and music paper ‘hack’) it was playing my part in trying to save the pirate radio … Continue reading →

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50 years ago in the Music Industry 13 – Disc & Music Echo, 1967-1972

Posted on April 3, 2018 by dhvinyl

Although I vividly remember P.J. Proby coming to Maidstone Agricultural Hall probably in 1964, when he performed inside the wrestling ring and arbitrarily split his velvet pants towards the end, I have no recollection of this interview. Strange as it … Continue reading →

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50 years ago in the Music Industry 13 – Disc & Music Echo, 1967-1972

Posted on March 18, 2018 by dhvinyl

First it was Tom and Engelbert, later it was Gilbert O’Sullivan, but in between came an unlikely and on the largish size American, Solomon King, to be adopted by Gordon Mills  and put into his stable, and who, for a … Continue reading →

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50 years ago in the Music Industry 12 – Disc & Music Echo, 1967-1972

Posted on January 2, 2018 by dhvinyl

The Love Affair were an unlikely hit band, but at the turn of 1967-68 they came out of nowhere to have a No. 1 hit with a song that in America had charted by Robert Knight – the Atlantic was … Continue reading →

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50 years ago in the Music Industry 11 – Disc & Music Echo, 1967-1972

Posted on December 22, 2017 by dhvinyl

Looking for articles with my by-line, I chanced upon this, written pretty much 50 years ago. I’d forgotten all about it, but then Bob Farmer – who has completely disappeared with no Google trace – wrote it, not me! Some … Continue reading →

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50 years ago in the Music Industry 10 – Disc & Music Echo, 1967-1972

Posted on October 13, 2017 by dhvinyl

Even before journalism and 30 years in the music business I had in my small way been a huge supporter of the off shore British “pirate” radio stations largely sited in the North sea either on converted ships or wartime … Continue reading →

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