@peterstanfield.bsky.social
Author of “Dirty Real: Exile on Hollywood & Vine with the Gin Mill Cowboys”; “Pin-Ups 1972: Third Generation Rock n Roll”, etc. linktr.ee/peterstanfield
#thewho play Vancouver March 1968
18.09.2025 16:04 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
To mark my survey in Ugly Things #69 of the 1973 debates in the British press about the relative merits of THEM and Van Morrison, I've put on my blog the full text of Lester Bangs’ sleeve notes www.peterstanfield.com/blog #lesterbangs #them #vanmorrison
26.08.2025 07:18 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I don’t know the question but I wholeheartedly agree with your answer
01.08.2025 09:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Farewell . . .
23.07.2025 07:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
T-Shirts Optional – Led Zeppelin, Orlando, Fla (1971)
#LedZeppelin
It was a typical Saturday night at the Ludlow Garage. . .
Standing in the rear was a tall girl wearing a black leather motorcycle jacket and blue levis and a look of utter boredom. #flamingroovies
MC5 . . . working the press – London 1970.
Couple of hitherto unknown, to me at least, interviews with the band. Visit my blog for the lowdown, link in profile
#MC5
Add to that Marc’s reply!!!
02.07.2025 10:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New blog post on Music Now 1970 and the paper’s coverage of T. Rex on the cusp
Link in my profile
#marcbolan #trex
Got the Summertime Blues? Let Pete Townshend disabuse you . . .
01.07.2025 12:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Moving Like a Crazy Caterpillar Fed on Pep Pills . . . The Yardbirds at the Crawdaddy.
New blog post, link in profile
#TheYardbirds #yardbirds
“. . . no getting out from under insurance”
17.05.2025 13:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Marvellous
16.05.2025 06:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'The Most Blueswailing . . .' earned a top review in yesterday's Wall Street Journal. The Financial Times has yet to knock at my door . . . Thank you @wesleystace.bsky.social Full review is posted on my blog, link in my profile @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
#TheYardbirds #yardbirds
Check out Boris Karloff in this rare 1949 radio adaptation of a Cornell Woolrich story. For commentary, see the April 20 blog entry on krutnik.com.
youtu.be/1WxH1LhhFIM?...
Hard on Shindigs! heels is an equally wonderful 4star review from Daryl Easley for Record Collector #theyardbirds #yardbirds @reaktionbooks.bsky.social #daryleaslea
19.04.2025 10:19 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Fantastic 4star review from Grahame Bent for @shindig_magazine #theyardbirds #yardbirds @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
19.04.2025 10:13 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Tony Blackburn Sings the Yardbirds. . . New blog post; link in profile . . .
14.04.2025 12:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Who were never above appropriating a good tune when need demanded. Moon and Entwistle’s ‘In the City’, b-side of ‘I’m a Boy’, is one of dubious provenance that’s nevertheless worth a whistle test.
New blog post: www.peterstanfield.com/blog
#thewho @thewhothismonth.bsky.social
Seventeen magazine (March 1965) covers the ‘Young London Look’ and, as the ace faces of the City, the Who play their part. Much more of this in my blog: www.peterstanfield.com/blog
#thewho @thewhothismonth.bsky.social
Derek Berwin's fabulous 1965 photo of the Who that was used to illustrate Fabulous magazine's January 1966 Pop Art themed issue. More of the contents can be seen on my blog: www.peterstanfield.com/blog
#thewho #popart
Just in . . . 8/10 review in Classic Rock by Claudia Elliott . . . 'a thoroughly birdmerizing yardmerizing treat'
#theyardbirds #yardbirds
Once in the library there is no escape. . .
30.03.2025 14:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A bit of marginalia: John Gabree’s World of Rock and the Yardbirds Little Games album
www.peterstanfield.com/blog
Oh yes, oh yes!
25.03.2025 15:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stuz Bearcat Drive, standing on the corner is the Sweet Jane retirement home for evil mothers
01.03.2025 11:57 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Just started reading this (@peterstanfield.bsky.social /
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social).
No.1 with a bullet!!! Payola for sure
#yardbirds @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
Four Star Mojo review by the wonderful Mark Paytress who knows . . . #yardbirds #markpaytress @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
18.02.2025 12:53 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
