Tom Wolf on the Astronauts: Post-orbital remorse II (cover)

Table of contents:

articles:

• Ray Charles by Ben Fong-Torres
• Max Fledischer by Lslie Cabarga
• Perspectives: Stepin Fetchit's life by Ralph J. Gleason
• Duane Thomas by Wells Twombly

Robert Mitchum (cover)

In this issue:

article:

• Al Green by Ben Fong-Torres
• Max Yasgur: The landlord of woodstock Nation is dead...
• Bobby Vee
• Adam Faith by Paul Flattery
• Gary Glitter
• Nick Gravenites by John Grissim
• Robert Mitchum by Michael McClure
• Bob Dylan in Mexico by Chet Flippo

articles

• The Beatles: Yoko is in; John is out; they'll appeal. and from L.A., Ringo does a session, and three Beatles get together
  
  
• Roger Daltrey: Who's lead singer goes solo by Andrew Bailey
  
  
• Jerry Garcia: Now he's a member of Old and In the Way (too). Thinking about some bluegrass festivals by John Grissim
  
  
• Bruce Springsteen: In the shadow of Bob Dylan; discovered, even, by the man who signed Dylan by Stuart Werbin
  
  
• Persuasions: The masters of acapella sing their way through an interview by Steve Moore
  
  
• Poco: Why is it that after four good years and five good albums, they're only doing good? by Cameron Crowe
  
  
• Press Freedom: Nixon wants "guidelines"; publishers & broadcasters are watching their wallets; who wants to be a reporter? by Timothy Ferris
  
  
• Mark Spitz: The late of Mark and the Seven Masters; of psych, hype & goob tag by Tim Cahill
  
  
• Lance Loud: An American son makes failure a career in New York by Dotson Rader

articles

• Neil Young: His first effort as a moviemaker, Jouney Through the Past, premieres at the US Film Festival, dallas. "Basically," he said, "the film is about me" by Janelle Ellis
  
  
• POW's Festival: You could count on one hand the number of POW's at the " Young People's Welcome Home POW's Rock Festival"; deputies "put the quietus" on the partyby towing away cars
  
  
• John Prine: The Chicago city boy plays a West Virginia coal miners' benefit; they liked the one about the town called paradise by Wayne Slater
  
  
• Slade: They're a big hit in Great Britain, but after tree shows in the US, the jury was still out...and it may never return by Stuart Werbin
  
  
• Toni & Terry: The organic duo from Joy of Cooking searches fror new approaches, Toni By writing, Terry with a new band by Steve Moore
  
  
• Humboldt County: A suspect is fatally shot in the back, and a narcotics agent becomes the first in BNDD history to be charged with homicide by Joe Eszterhas
  
  
• Sonny & Cher: The frontstage & backstage ups & downs of Mr. and Mrs. Bono; a semi-exhilerating tale, but maybe you suspected that ...... by Chris Hodenfield
  
  

articles

• Soul Train: How Dick Clark entered the black market; a battle of two Bandstands; Jesse Jackson to the rescue by Ben Fong-Torres
  
  
• Fat City rock: They came to Stockton to hear music and went away with tear-gassed eyes by Patrick Sullivan
  
  
• Sir Doug's Bust: After an Eastern tour Sahm and band returned to San Antonio, and five of them landed in jail
  
  
• Country Joe: At the California Institution for Women, the sisters consider an appearance by Joe McDonald something special by Judith Sims
  
  
• Wayne Cochran: The Foamingo in Vegas didn't approve of the blues, so the White Knight hit the road by Mike Bourne
  
  
• Swamp Festival: At the Swamp Cabbage Festival in LaBelle, Florida, a bull got loose, Mel Tillis got proud and Vermont Owens won the beard contest by Dan Geringer
  
  
• Other Planets and the possibility of life there, among other things, considered by Carl Sagan of the Mariner Project by Timothy Ferris
  
  
• Party Time for some POW's and the Green Berets who tried to free them; a non-event in San Francisco by Burr Snider
  

articles:

• Watergate: A cartoonist's hideous vision by Ralph Steadman
  
  
• Carole King: Her "little something" for New York packed Central Park, but Faye Dunaway had to take a hike by Stuart Werbin
  
  
• One to One: A TV newsman's personal assiagnment; a benefit show, a mini-telethon and a helping hand
  
  
• Crusader: After 21 years thay're contemporary; but please don't mention jazz-rock by Chet Flippo
  
  
• The Pointers: Four singing sistersin gladrags find a taste of success, sure beats keypunching by Steve Moore
  
  
• John Keen: Once he was a hooligan from the Who's turf; now he's virtually a one man band by Nik Cohn
  
  
• John Fogerty: With no mention of Creedence -or even John Fogerty- he's resurfaced as the Blue Ridged Rangers by Ralph J. Gleason
  
  
• Paul Newman: He heats up Chicago's Union Station, grabs a burger at the Pump Room & deals some sharp words about critics by Grover Lewis
  
  
• Fear & Loathing in the Past: The long-awaited Final Wrap-Up on last year's Presidential Campaign by our National Affairs Editor by Hunter Thompson

J. Geils (cover)

In this Issue:

articles:

• Memo from the sports desk: "When the Buzzards come home to San Clemente" by Raoul Duke
  
  
• Drugola: A US Senator sees a possible "corporate Watergate" and calls for inquiry into the record calls for inquiry into the record business by Ben Fong-Torres
  
  
• BBC Scandal: After a 19th month investigation, Scotland Yard makes arrests in an alleged payola operation by Andrew Bailey and Paul Gambaccini
  
  
• Leon Russell: Filmmaker Les Blank did OK by Clifton Chenier, but Leon Russell was another story by Chet Flippo
  
  
• Gilbert O'Sullivan: He knows he's just a mechanical man; the true stories behind the hit songs by Paul Gambaccini
  
  
• Beale Street: The City of Memphis razes the home of the blues by Walter Dawson
  
  
• Little Feat: One of the great unknown bands relates indignities they've suffered by Steve Moore
  
  
• Alan Price: The ex-animal finds fulfillment as he scores the movie O Lucky Man! by David Rensin
  
  
• Malcolm McDowell: Adventures in the coffee game & since by a man who doesn't believe in luck by Andrew Bailey
  
  
• J. Geils: Blues purists plus showmanship plus dark forces by Timothy Cahill

Elton John (cover) illustration

In this Issue:

• David Bowie: Stardust Rock's premier entity says he's through with live performances by Andrew Bailey and Paul Gambaccini
  
  
• Drugola': Sen Buckley sees attempts to "gag" hi record business inquiry by Ben Fong-Torres
  
  
• Newport Jazz: More than 1000 musicians spend ten days in New York by Robert Palmer
  
  
• Funk Meets Runt: The unlikely alliance of Grand Funk and Todd Rundgren in the studio by Timothy Ferris
  
  
• Everly Brothers: Quitting time for Don and Phil
  
  
• Black Oak Arkansas: The raunch & rollers from the Ozarks at ease on their spread by Chet Flippo
  
  
• Pot Shots: An ex-cop tells how to avoid a bust; an attorney tells how to prevent conviction by George Frazier and Michael Stepanian
  
  
• Elton John: He and Bernie Taupin talk about the ups, down, and in-betweens by Paul Gambaccini
  
  
• Poetry Corner: 100 short takes by 100 American seducers

Let facts be submitted to a candid world (cover)

In this issue:

• A Midsummer Night's Dream, or just a Magnolia Nightmare? Ever since Mary Ann Mobley copped the Big One in Atlantic City, folks in Mississippi have taken their beauty contest seriously . Aspirants stream into Vicksburg, thedir Hattboxes Full of Dreams, and the most unpardonable of all sins is the failure to smile. But the question lingers: Are beauty queens what they used to be?
  
  
• Coup D'Etat!: One bloody month was all it took for Chile's brutal baptism into the world of Pentagon CIA technology by Richard E. Feinberg
  
  
• Liza Minnelli & Ronnie Spector &... Alice Cooper?: Well, why not. Clutching his omnipresent can of Bud, Alice explains how he assembled a dream lineup of "backup chicks" for his new album. Liza witha Z Meets Alice with a C by Stuart Werbin
  
  
• Jethro Tull is off the road and Ian Andereson has plans for a movie, War Child. Ian will play God by Robin Denselow
  
  
• Producer Joe Boyd discusses the three-way democratic system behind the making of the "impressionistic" A Film About Jimi Hendrix by Judith Sims
  
  
• Goodbye David Bowie; leader Ian Hunter declares that Mott the Hoople has found its niche by Gordon Fletcher
  
  
• Bob Marley & the Wailers express themselves on a hot summer's day; Reggae in Beantown by James Isaacs
  
  
• Look out Fanny, here comes Isis, an eight-piece all-woman band by Glenn O'Brien