Gianfranco Callieri

The ‘Mats made it all wrong: they were too drunk when it happened to perform on important occasions, too great when the executives of record companies didn’t leave home, unable to shoot a decent video (Bastards Of Young’s is the only legendary one, one single freeze-frame on the

In the wonderful booklet that comes with Keep An Eye On The Sky, the most comprehensive compilation of the semiminal (though often overlooked) Big Star, there’s an in-depth article where Bob Mehr gathers comments from fans, friends and famous supporters of the group. Among them there’s Peter Holsapple,

Even though he’s often considered as a possible American answer to the impetuous British Invasion of the Beatles, Kinks, Stones, Yardbirds, Who, Dave Clark Five etc, and in spite of a group who mockingly called him “Sir”, well stating once again that such an unpenitent hippie like Doug Sahm

After the recording sessions of Blue Suede Shoes (’73), Johnny Rivers (John Ramistella) decides to tour Europe with the same stellar rockin’ band that backed him up on the album. Larry Carlton and his guitar are missing (replaced by Johnny himself) but there are the acoustic licks and the harmony

In 1970 the fabulous seventies were just gone and not just because of a mere matter of dates: it was the idea of confining the world and its stories in the few minutes of a song that was ending. Instead, the world was welcoming the rise of the Me-Generation and

If the world had been a fair place, and sadly we know it’s not or at least we can identify justice only in the vest of a spoiled lady, the recent reissues of the first three record by Dirk Hamilton would have benefited of a wide echo on papers