Phil Bell - Legal News and Review Radio Show
Phil Bell
Phil Bell was still two months shy of his sixteenth birthday when he got himself noticed past Alan Lewis, editor of Sounds, in March 1981, just as the legendary weekly was reaching its apex. Presenting the 18-carat enthusiasm of a teenage stone fan, he became a popular freelancer for the side by side three years, through a aureate age of hard rock – this was the time of the "New Wave of British Heavy Metallic" – interviewing and reviewing many new and older rock and prog acts in the UK and abroad. His work was also featured in Kerrang!, Noise and International Musician.
Nonetheless, with editors unwilling to allow Phil'south changing tastes to be reflected in his commissions (he was now listening to African music and the Talking Heads), at just 18 he decided to follow in the footsteps of Bob Geldof and Chrissie Hynde. Phil quit writing in 1984 to focus on his ain take on pop civilization, and went on the circuit with his own hugely unsuccessful (of course, criminally underrated) pop-rock band, the Dice Club, before hearing 'Limited Yourself' propelled him on into a love thing with bawdy funk.
In the London scene of the early on-mid '90s. he then developed a reputation equally a monster rhythm guitar actor – Michael Jackson's guitarist David Williams even described him as "a seriously funky dude." He toured Europe twice, once every bit guitarist for one of the earliest British alive hip-hop acts, Brothers Like Outlaw, and also for singer Leena Conquest, whilst his own bands achieved little victories; the Filberts (including well-known thesps Charlie Creed-Miles and Dexter Fletcher) tin can be seen in the 1994 film Glastonbury –The Movie; Vibe Tribe released material on legendary all-live groove label Boogie Back and headlined regularly at Camden'due south Jazz Café; and as half of the Afropeans, one runway, 'Afropean Wonderland' with contributions from Astrid Gilberto's band, came out. These bands opened for many R'n'B, Jazz and rap legends: Roy Ayers, Lonnie Liston-Smith, Herbie Hancock. Guru and Arrested Development and others.
However, feeling his literary muscle was atrophying, Phil then redefined himself equally Phil "Sweetness Pea" Bellko, songwriter /solo artist and has since been alternating gigging with recording his debut album – for the past 17 years really. Information technology'south not quite ready however. Meanwhile he keeps the wolf from the door by teaching (by and large little) people the geetar in the e'er soulful London Civic of Camden.
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AC/DC: For Those About To Yawn: AC/DC: For Those About To Rock (Atlantic K50851) ***
Review by Phil Bell, Sounds, 5 December 1981
WHEN I humbly volunteered to undertake this venture, I knew total well what a pasting I'd exist letting myself in for. Pitting my feeble opinion ...
Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne: Blackness Sabbath: Mob Rules (Vertigo) ****/Ozzy Osbourne: Diary Of A Madman (Jet) ****
Review by Phil Bell, Sounds, 5 December 1981
IN THE BLACK CORNER, Sabbath. In the white corner, their sworn antagonist, Ozzy Osbourne. Or vice versa. ...
Budgie: The Neb Goes On
Interview by Phil Bong, Sounds, 19 December 1981
Phillip Bong takes a squawk on the wild side with HM survivors Budgie ...
Cheetah: The Venue, London
Alive Review past Phil Bell, Sounds, 24 July 1982
BOING, boing, boing, boing… Cor what a pair! ...
Def Leppard, More: The Luxury Of Real Fur: Def Leppard/More than: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review past Phil Bell, Sounds, 8 August 1981
SUBTLE Equally THE brain-scalding squeals of a skewered pig on the barbecue, roasting alive. Ass-kickin', rabble-rousin', cantlet-splittin', difficult-livin', ever givin'. More had the ear-ringin' toned ...
Diamond Head: "We are the natural successors to Zeppelin"
Interview by Phil Bell, Sounds, 25 July 1981
THIS ASSIGNMENT begins in suburban Stourbridge, definitely not the R'north'R upper-case letter of the world, but a peaceful abode place satellite to Birmingham, England's second city, ...
Diamond Head: Precious stone'll Set up It
Interview by Phil Bell, Sounds, 8 May 1982
INKING THE dotted line with major record company MCA has instigated no dramatic transformation in lifestyle for Stourbridge's stealthiest grafters, Diamond Head. ...
Electric Gypsies: Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves
Interview past Phil Bell, Sounds, 2 October 1982
This p-p-p-p-Characteristic is a ber-ber-ber-tour per-per-per-p-p-Bernie Torme'due south Electrical ch-ch-ch-Gypsies. ...
Electric Sun: Solar Flair
Interview by Phil Bell, Sounds, 27 March 1982
I DAY by the seaside. A menacing ocean rears up and surges landward. Cruel winds lash our locks into matty rastafarian entanglement. Doomy clouds are giving ...
Peter Gabriel: Tales Of The Gilt Monkey
Interview past Phil Bong, Sounds, 1 October 1983
Philip Bell discovers the shocking truth behind Peter Gabriel ...
Gillan: Metropolis Hall, Sheffield
Live Review past Phil Bong, Sounds, 5 December 1981
THIS IS the bass thespian. His dinner jacket'southward splattered with a multiplied spectrum of colour. A Dulux hoarding on legs. Or maybe he walked under ...
Sammy Hagar: Continuing Hampton (Geffen) ***½
Review by Phil Bell, Sounds, 9 January 1982
Sammy gets his Hampton caught ...
Sammy Hagar: Hagar The (non quite and so) Horrible
Interview past Phil Bell, Sounds, 23 January 1982
Philip Bell meets the untypically reticent human behind that Standing Hampton ...
Iron Maiden: Run For The Pils!
Report and Interview by Phil Bell, Sounds, 20 February 1982
The flanning of Iron Maiden: report by PHILIP Bong ...
Fe Maiden, The Rods: Mark Of The Animate being: Atomic number 26 Maiden/The Rods: Queensway Hall, Dunstable
Live Review by Phil Bell, Sounds, half-dozen March 1982
BEEN A LONG Time since the Queensway Hall's played host to such an uncouth, freakin' gang of insuffisticates equally the Rods. ...
Jethro Tull: Wrapped Up Tight
Interview by Phil Bell, Sounds, xv September 1984
THE SMELL of success? For this interview, not the sparse atmosphere of air-conditioned record company offices, nor the sterile tang of a posh hotel suite. ...
Judas Priest: Screaming For Vengeance ****
Review by Phil Bell, Sounds, 3 July 1982
Vengeance is mine ...
Krokus: Hammersmith Odeon
Live Review by Phil Bong, Sounds, 27 February 1982
UNLIKE LEGIONS of musical kompatriots, Krokus have zilch to bear witness. Nobody in the kamp has tempted fate by kontroversially shooting their mouth off most anything, ...
Magnum: Hunt The Dragon
Review past Phil Bell, Sounds, 27 February 1982
CHASE THE ALBUM. "Hither's a track from our new album, out on September twelfth," quoth magazine-estic Bob Catley . . . at Reading Festival, 1980. So, ...
Marillion: The Dial Inn, Glasgow
Live Review by Phil Bell, Sounds, 22 May 1982
Marking MY WORDS. Critics volition asphyxiate and chuckle en haemorrhage masse. Merely when action's sizzling at grass roots level, to apathetically ignore information technology would be ...
Marillion: Sob Standard: Marillion: Script For A Jester's Tear (EMI) *****
Review past Phil Bong, Sounds, 12 March 1983
Anticipated? Trivial over a twelvemonth has elapsed since Marillion were first propelled into the public eye by your fave rock weekly. What with X Russell, ...
Riot (V): Anarchism: Fire Down Nether
Review past Phil Bong, Sounds, 15 August 1981
YESSIRREE, THEM rich yankee dudes comfy smokin' their tabbacy'ed exhaust pipes in those croccy-skinned swivel-chairs sure am gonna be mighty peeved when they get that ...
Michael Schenker
Interview by Phil Bell, Sounds, 19 September 1981
The Thinking Human being'southward Schenker SCENE: Our capital'south glorious, raz-ama-dazzling West End. 20-five feet across a spacious apartment in Chrysalis' head office, the other side of a ...
The Scorpions: Manchester Apollo
Live Review past Phil Bell, Sounds, 24 April 1982
APOLLO was conspicuously the operative term as German language blitzkreig '82 mode blasted off. ...
The Scorpions: Lord of the Stings
Interview by Phil Bell, Sounds, 5 Dec 1981
PHILIP Bell makes buddies with Scorpions' skinsbeater HERMAN RAREBELL ...
Sparse Lizzy: Renegade
Review past Phil Bell, Sounds, 19 December 1981
PAGE ONE, question i How the hell do you go almost an anatomical analysis of an album when y'all know y'all beloved it, but shouldn't, ...
UFO: Mechanix (Chrysalis CHR 1360)
Review by Phil Bong, Sounds, 30 January 1982
Y Viva Espanner ...
Vardis: Playing Information technology Strait
Interview by Phil Bell, Sounds, 9 May 1981
Information technology WAS WITH a considerable caste of lingering dubiety that I ventured beyond the chimney-potted horizons of the far west from my humble North London ...
Yes: Yesterday and Today
Interview by Phil Bell, Sounds, 26 November 1983
Phil Bell gives the nod to the reformed, revitalised Yes ...
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