2007 Magazine of the Week #11

This week we take a look at the April 1978 issue of CREEM, featuring a cover story on THE SEX PISTOLS.

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There's lots of gossip in "Rock 'n' Roll News:

"More marital merry-go-rounds: Mr. and Mrs. Jagger appear to be travelling on different astral planes now; Mick with Jerry Hall (Bryan Ferry's ex-sweetie) while Bianca has cut in on Princess Margaret's waltz with young Roddy Llewellyn."

And this:

"Those alimony checks can be hell: Bob Dylan's having a mighty hard time lining up a band for his tour since the offered wage is only 300 dollars a week. Only? How about an official keeper of the dewrags, Bob?" .

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In "The Beat Goes On" we learn that "The Kids Are Alright" is just the first in a series of projects planned by The Who to make use of their new $700,000 film complex in Shepperton".

In Simon Frith's "Letter From Britain", he contrasts Sid Vicious with Paul McCartney, and has this to say about Paul (and his recent huge hit "Mull Of Kintyre"):

"You've got to hand it to old Paul. While Rod is puking his way around the airways and Mick is running off with Bryan Ferry's missus and David Bowie is kidnapping his own son and Elton John is speculating in hair, McCartney is working quietly and efficiently at being the People's Beatle."

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There's "Eric Clapton: Return of the Reluctant Hero", "Queen's Royal Flush", and Robert Christgau's "Punk Guide: A Consumer Manual To New Wave Wax".

And there's a review of Dylan's film "Renaldo and Clara" ("despite its excesses of length and false heroics, Renaldo and Clara is not the ego-tripping nightmare most critics have made it out to be").