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Ace Strong on ‘How Long’
Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, Rolling Stone, June 1975
THOUGH IT SOUNDS like a song about a stale love affair, ‘How Long’ is the story of an English band struggling to stay together. ...

ARTICLES IN LIBRARY

Ace: Five Aside (Anchor)
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, December 1974
Tex Comer (bass guitar), Fran Byrne (drums). Bam King (rhythm guitar), Phil Harris (lead guitar), Paul Carrack (organ, piano). Producer John Anthony. ...

Ace: Five-A-Side
Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, April 1975
WHILE IT'S TEMPTING at first listening to lump Ace's first album with the Average White Band's AWB and then to make broad statements about the advent ...

Ace: Five-a-Side
Review by Wayne Robins, Rolling Stone, May 1975
FROM THE LOOK of its album cover, Ace is a band of five frustrated English football players who, like Rod Stewart, turned to music to compensate ...

An Ace Album
Review by Gene Sculatti, Creem, June 1975
Ace: Five-A-Side ...

Pub Rock: Grass Roots On the Other Side of the Fence
Overview by Bud Scoppa, Crawdaddy!, October 1975
IN BRITAIN DURING the late '60s and early '70s, while rock 'n roll was being transformed into Big Business, a network of bands sprang up that ...

Ace
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, December 1975
PHIL HARRIS, OF Ace, suddenly perked to attention on the edge of his chair and made a compassionate plea. "We love Britain, 'onest," he craved. "It ...

Graham Parker: Southampton University, Southamption
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, NME, January 1976
YOU CAN PICTURE the scene – it's the same one that goes down on the first night of every major college tour; equipment trouble, late arrivals, ...

Ace: It's An Ace Life In The Low-Key Whacky World Of Los Angeles
Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, January 1977
SEVEN OF US leave the Ace ranch in Hidden Valley and go late night cruisin' in drummer Fran Byrne's '69 Pontiac. Fran heads for ex-Chilli Willi ...

see also Paul Carrack

see also Mighty Baby