JOHN MARTYN: Over The Rainbow
(Island) Dry if deft handling of the famous song.
John appeared in Pop Quiz twice as a panel member in a BBC show called Pop Quiz, hosted by Mike Read. The quiz was about pop and rock & roll music since 1955.
60 minutes solo set.
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John is filmed and interviewed during the recording of Sapphire, at Compass Point studios, Nassau, Bahamas
90 minutes.
Concert at short-lived club named Henry Afrikas simultaneously broadcast on FM radio.
01 Jun 1983
Long hailed as one of our finest acoustic guitarists, John Martyn has changed over to all-electric instruments. We set out to find why. Photos by Geoff Dann. Words by Max Kay.
John appeared in Pop Quiz twice as a panel member in a BBC show called Pop Quiz, hosted by Mike Read. The quiz was about pop and rock & roll music since 1955.
23 Apr 1983
More Sweat From The Hot Guitar
By the time Friars started up in June 1969 Martyn was already a force to be reckoned with and was probably too big to play our little Friars venue in Walton Street. In the end it took over 12 years to finally get John Martyn to Friars but the wait proved more than worth while as anyone who came to his superb Friars debut in October 1981 will testify.
19 Apr 1983
In Concert at Bradford
Uni in the Communal Building
John Martyn + Guests
01 Mar 1983
Rolling Stone magazine described John Martyn's music as 'jazz-tinged pop-folk', neatly encapsulating the problems that Martyn poses for ardent music categorisers and critics who always seem to flounder when faced with such an original musician. There has been a jazz element in John Martyn's music ever since his second album, The Tumbler (1968); the folk element is even older and more deeply entrenched; and such a loose, all-embracing term as pop could just about be applied to anything he has done since the late Sixties.
