THE COUNTRY ISSUE IS OUT NOW!

August 1972

Creem

Mail

MAIL

Dear CREEM: Only lousy letters get printed. This one’s lousy, too, so print it.

The Christgau Consumer Guide

THE CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE

Robert Christgau

Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fleetwood Mac, The Mothers, more

ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS

The Who will be releasing four albums in the next four months.

THE BEAT GOES ON

Ed Ward

I found myself walking down Telegraph Avenue the other day at this ungodly hour in search of the nearest Ticketron, official distributors of tickets for the long-rumored Rolling Stones concert.

Features

Loose As A Goose & Twice As Truthful

Lester Bangs

A Recounting of Some Times in the Season of Dust

LOONEY TOONS

Dave Marsh

What I’m beginning to discover is not only that anything is possible — everything is.

Features

The Beach Boys A Sixties Epic—Part Two

Tom Smucker

The Beethoven Hassle and Wild Honey

Beach Boys Contest

The following ain’t a quiz, exactly.

And So This Is Christmas

Richard Williams

Up on the 17th floor of the St. Regis Hotel in New York City, John Lennon is on his hands and knees, wading through a pile of Presley singles.

Features

A ROCK N ROLL CIRCUS

Dave Marsh

Rod Stewart and the boys rip it up down south.

Letter From Britain

Devil or Angel?

Simon Frith

Yeah, I know that the Rolling Stones double album is the event of the season but I’m still fixated on the B side of their single.

Features

Todd Rundgren Unchained

Ben Edmonds

The first signal of his approach is the abrupt appearance of a small black dog, hauling its thoroughly pregnant belly behind a couch just quickly enough to cause you to disbelieve your eyes.

Features

Wolfman Jack Finally Shows His Face

Tim Tyler

Radiophonic Svengali of Teenage Minds from Bangor to San Diego

Creemedia

MOVIES

Farouk University, Tits, more

SHORT TAKES

JOE EGG: Another fine play becomes an undistinguished movie.

FLASHES

Creemedia

BOOKS

Memoirs Of A Beatnik, One Hundred Years Of Solitude, more

Records

EXILE ON MAIN STREET: THE ROLLING STONES

The title and some of the songs suggest that they are trying to make some sort of statement about America, while some of the other lyrics attest to a new-found feeling of lassitude and uncertainty in the Stones.

ROCK-A-RAMA

Juke Box Jury

Greg Shaw

A great thing is happening. People are learning to do old songs without being self-conscious about it.