![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He was an early harbinger of the Judee Sill revival and managed to score a trip to Germany for an extremely rare interview with the reclusive Florian Fricke of Popol Vuh.Īfter Sounds, where he'd risen to the post of features editor, he was a talent scout for Southern Music, associate editor/film critic at Penthouse (where he spent a lot of time eating sandwiches with naked girls), and his writing appeared everywhere from NME to Record Mirror to Sexadelic to The Lancet to Starlog to Mojo, Fenris Wolf etc, etc. First in the UK to discover and interview REM, Meat Loaf and Madonna, he covered big names such as Brian Wilson, Mick Jagger, Kim Fowley, Warren Zevon, Frank Zappa, Tom Petty and Lou Reed. He spent a decade there trumpeting his passion for a wide range of music, especially L.A. Hooking up with the other local wild boy Alex Fergusson in a bedroom band called the Nobodies (later included on a Pete Frame rock family tree) they finally decided to split for London.įergusson became a respected guitarist with Alternative TV and later in Psychic TV, while Sandy's Patti Smith-inspired arty fanzine got him a gig at rock weekly Sounds. Surely the only person there to buy Fun House by The Stooges on the day of release in 1970, he did a special on the Velvet Underground on local radio and had wanted to be a rock hack since childhood. Sandy Robertson is the great great great grandson of Victorian astronomer James Scott and grew up in Renfrew, Scotland, "cradle of the Stuarts". ![]()
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