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SPRING 2024
Encounters
CREEM’s most infamous interviews.
TALKIN’ BOUT MY D-D-DEDICATION
Roger Daltrey on ten years of the Who.
WAYNE KRAMER: THE FINAL INTERVIEW
The MC5 legend spoke to CREEM just days before his death at 75.
Fun Fun Fun Fun With IGGY!
Here is Iggy Pop, in 1977, not only alive and kicking but out on tour with a new album.
Young, Loud, and Inarticulate
Tom Petty, like rock ‘n’ roll, is here to stay.
BLONDIE Plucks Her Legs!
Deborah Harry, formerly of Hawthorne, New Jersey, sits there.
RITCHIE BLACKMORE CONFESSIONAL
You seem quite satisfied with your image. Yes, quite satisfied.
Records
Deep dives on major and not-so-major albums.
NEW YORK DOLLS: L.U.V ’em or Leave ’em
Personally, I don’t like the cover.
Lou Reed: Brilliance You’d Hate To Get Trapped With
This is the most disgustingly brilliant record of the year.
Led Zep: Getting By On Blood & Iron
This is the first Zep set where they made the mistake of printing the lyrics.
Creedence Clearwater Revised
Halfway into the first cut on this album, I pulled out Hank Williams’ Greatest Hits.
NO EXIT (BURP!)
With this release by primo hardcores Black Flag, we have now reached new levels in the annals of mindlessness.
David Bowie: Swan Dive into the Mung
D-d-d-decadence, that’s what this album’s all about, thematically and conceptually.