NEWS
• Phil Ochs, the American anti-war singer, committed suicide last Friday by hanging. A friend said the 35-year-old Ochs had been depressed for a long time and “the words weren’t coming to him any more.” • Nina von Pallandt. of Nina and Frederik and later romantically linked with the hoaxster Clifford Irving, is to marry a South African entertainer, Robert Kirby, this month. “We are leaving for the Kalahari Desert for a quiet stay before our marriage date,” Kirby said in. Cape Town last week. • Alan Longmuir (bass) has left the Bay City Rollers (sob, sob) and is replaced by an Irishman, lan Mitchell, formerly of a band called the Young City Stars. Sounds like their cousins.
• Maddy Prior (of Steeleye Span) and June Tabor are doing concerts in England under the name of the Silly Sisters. • Thanks, 3ZM. for a worth-while session on Roxy music (Monday night).
• Zeppelin's latest album, “Presence,” was given lavish praise by the critics upon its release in Britain last week.
• The Brotherhood of Man won the 21st Eurovision Song Contest in The Hague earlier this month. “Melody Maker.” the British music paper, pictured them as four robots behind microphones.
• Following the reunion of the old Seekers, the New f Seekers have reformed too. Eve Graham, Marty Kristian _[ and Paul Layton are back together, with new guys and girls, one of each. • Howe, Squire, White, Moraz . . . now all of Yes have had solo albums in recent times, with Jon Anderson’s to be released next month. It is called “Olias of Sunhillow” and he calls it “a sort of Noah’s Ark story.” • A Christchurch promoter hopes to get the sensational Alex Harvey Band over here in September. Harvey’s act is said by some to make Alice Cooper’s “Welcome to My Nightmare” show look like a Sunday-school picnic.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34129, 15 April 1976, Page 4
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