AlizarinStag,I have some articles from the 70s, perhaps not the exact ones used by Raoult58, but nonetheless from the time of Cockney Rebel's heyday. I would be happy to photocopy them and send them to you: How will I get them to you? I am total rubbish with a computer and don't have a scanner, printer or whatever I may need. Tell me how I can help if you/re interested.

May I suggest clicking on the link from this site to Peter J H's siite. There are many articles there

Ray Smith wrote:
I have! That's the problem dear Ray, I've happily READ those all to death! I devoured them back when I had internet at home like a hungry little monster. They were just great. I'm insatiable. I got some off ebay, too!


cockneyrebel1 wrote:
My email is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Message me and I can give you my snail mail address. That would be just amazing, and give me something to look forward too!!

I'm like you Ali i find all those old Music Paper reports really interesting.A lot of the reports at the time were quite favourable towards the live concerts.Some of the songs the band perform make you want to step back in time 35 years and be there! There's also a lot of personal attacks on Steve which probably incited him to play up the part of being a 'rock and roll star' and wind the hacks up at the NME even more.It's probably of no help to you but a good starting point to reading the music papers is the British Library in London.Fancy another plane journey??!!!

Mr Raffles wrote:
In theory me and a friend should be going back next year, and probably including a stop in London. I can just see me dragging him to another country to go through old paper articles!

Ana,I think you will find either now or in the very near future a digitalised version of nearly everything owned by the British Library online - www.bl.uk