SOUNDS
Sounds was a long-term UK weekly pop/rock music newspaper, published from 10 October 1970 to 6 April 1991. It was produced by Spotlight Publications (part of Morgan Grampian), which was set up by Jack Hutton and Peter Wilkinson, who left Melody Maker to start their own company. Sounds was their first project, a weekly paper devoted to progressive rock and described by Hutton, to those he was attempting to recruit from his former publication, as “a leftwing Melody Maker”. (More from Wikipedia)
My recollection is that I first encountered Kim Fowley when I found the above album, Living in the Streets. The cover is a pastiche of photos and text that are taken from an interview published in 1977 in Sounds magazine. The interview continues onto the back cover; a pull quote that is given there proclaims: “I am the Dorian Gray of rock ’n’ roll. If you saw me physically, you wouldn’t believe I was as old as I am, and I’ve never aged.”
As if that were not enough to catch my attention, the list of dozens of bands and musicians mentioned in the interview that is also given on the cover includes one of my very favorite bands, the Pink Fairies.
(January 2015/1)
