May 1971
CONTENTS
Dear CREEM: I suppose you fuckers are proud of yourselves.
ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
Jonh Ingham
Ann Arbor whizzes, the SRC, are now formerly SRC. Their new nom de roll is Blue Scepter.
Wilderness Road
Abe Peck
The New Improved Midwestern Boogie Band
Judy Garland is dead but the memory of Briann Jones lives in all of us
John Mendelsohn
But the memory of Brian Jones lives in all of us.
Features
Will success spoil the Frut?
David Marsh
Being a Compendium of Rockicrucian Wisdom, Investigation of An Old Wives Tale, a delving Into the Mystic Musical Secrets Therein Contained and A Reiteration of Aesthetic
WE ARE NORMAL
John Mendelsohn
Put on your gladest gladrags, friends and neighbors, and join me in bellowing exuberant hallelujahs.
One Year After The Breakup
Donald Jennings
Sex is not a question, but an answer. Love is not a question, but an answer.
LOONEY TOONS
Dave Marsh
Yes, friends, ? and the Mysterians have re-formed and they’re better 'n' ever if only because of a lack of competition.
Features
Dead Lie the Velvets Underground R.I.P.
Lester Bangs
Long Live Lou Reed
FILM
Jack Hafferkamp
The kid with the wings is Brewster McCloud.
BOOKS
Huey Newton called George Jackson, “The greatest writer of us all.”
Records
RECORDS
THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD – DAVID BOWIE - MERCURY SR 61325 Somehow it seems that it is during my occassional moments of paranoid fantasy that all the strange social phenomena that the media-systems funnel into my (and your) sensibilities drift together to form a disturbing, but somehow coherent whole.