GONZO WEEKLY #181

Gonzo Magazine #181

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Beatles, Neil Nixon, Elton John, KLF, Bill Drummond, Bob Calvert, John Russell, Star Wars, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!

This issue features Neil Nixon tells us about his new book covering the Myths and Legends of The Beatles, we talk to 4th Eden about his new Atmospherik Mekanisms  project, Alan talks to John Russell, guitar improviser extraordinaire, John remembers the Bob Calvert Tribute Concert, Doug muses on Elton John’s finest hour and Biffo asks Star Wars actors whether they had ever smuggled a possum inside their costumes, and there are radio shows from Strange Fruit and Mack Maloney, Friday Night Progressive, and as it was full moon last week, Canterbury Sans Frontières. We also have the latest installment of the saga of Xtul, and columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons ouyside zoos(OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have escaped from captivity, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!

This issue features:

Bill Drummond, The Who, Octopus Syng, Radiohead, David Bowie, Corky Laing, Mountain, Marillion, Arthur Brown, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mac Maloney's Mystery Hour, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Phil Ryan, Lars Olof «Olle» Gustaf Ljungström, Doug Raney, The Beatles, Osibisa, Billy Cobham, Wayne Kramer at the Pink Fairies,  Al Stewart, The RAZ Band, The Flying Burrito Bros, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Rick Wakeman, Neil Nixon, Elton John, John Russell, Alan Dearling, 4th Eden, Martin Eve, Roy Weard, Bob Calvert, John Brodie-Good, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Xtul, Elvis, Barbra streisand, Abba, Nikola Tesla, ArcAttack, William Burroughs, Ocelon

                                                                                    

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

Issue 180 (Beltane)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo179.html

Issue 179 (Gregg Kofi Brown)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo179.html

Issue 178 (Viv Stanshall)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo177.html

Issue 177 (David Gilmour)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo176.html

Issue 176 (Joey Molland and The Raz Band)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo176.html

Issue 175 (Larry Sanders)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo175.html

Issue 174 (Keith Emerson)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo174.html

Issue 173 (Pink Fairies action figures)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo173.html

Issue 172 (4th Eden)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo172.html

Issue 171 (Keith Levene)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo171.html

Issue 170 (Wildman Fischer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo170.html

Issue 169 (Wildman Fischer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo169.html

Issue 168 (Wakeman/Bowie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo168.html

Issue 167 (Paul Kantner)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo167.html

Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo166.html

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