Rock Goes To College (1)
Solo acoustic performance at Reading University audience, with a rare Anna rendition.
Introduced by Pete Drummond, broadcast 20 October 1978.
Solo acoustic performance at Reading University audience, with a rare Anna rendition.
Introduced by Pete Drummond, broadcast 20 October 1978.
10 Jun 1978
THE SUMMER series of concerts at the London Regents Park open air theatre continue this Sunday (June 11) with John Martyn
The release of One World was supported with various kind of advertisements. These series of one column ads are original in their approach and ran in several leading music magazines, mostly on the same day (22 April 1978).
Left to right:
Ad #1 was published in Melody Maker, #2 also Melody Maker.
Ad #3 is pulled from Sounds while #4 was found in the New Musical Express.
The text goes
"Here's just a couple of tracks to woo yah... there's six more on 'One World' that'll really wow ya!
Martyn's fifties trad jazz phrasing weaves its way through a sweet little riff on this pleasurable but forgettable snoozecruise.
01 Feb 1978
All right, I'll come clean, never heard London Conversation. But, I remember when summer seemed primal and pagan and hearing John Martyn spinning out a thread of gently-crackpot whimsey called Sing A Song Of Summer from the album The Tumbler on Johnny 'Guru' Peel's show 1) way back sometime then and snaffling a copy of that artifact with all due schoolboy speed.
Please God, let it be number one.
NOW this is a beauty. At first appearances, One World is not standard Martyn fare - glossy cover and a slick production job. But it's a very warm, full-sounding album, feels synonymous with an armchair before an open fire, somewhat stoned, keeping the cold winter at bay.
24 Jan 1978
THE release of One World, coupled with John Martyn's second appearance in Nottingham this year, seemed good reason to renew a slight acquaintance with the man, by the way of an interview for this tome. Tempting as it is to devote the music pages' entire space to Mr Martyn, discretion prevails, so what follows is a match-of-the-day edited highlights, with commentary left to a minimum.
Solo acoustic set recorded 9 January at Maida Vale 4 studio.
56 minutes.
Solo special with audience at Collegiate Theatre London.