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Bob Dylan photos by Gloria Stavers
Bob Dylan releases his new album "Tempest" today, 50 years after the release of his first album. Around that time, Gloria did a photo shoot with Bob in Central Park. Here are a couple of pics from...
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Gloria Stavers with The Doors at Stony Brook (1967)
On this day in 1967, The Doors and Tim Buckley performed in the gymnasium of The State University of New York at Stony Brook. The audience of 3,000 people (800 over the venue's stated capacity)...
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Gloria Stavers on the John Lennon "Jesus" controversy
In the summer of '66, Danny Fields (the subject of the upcoming documentary "Danny Says") was managing editor at Datebook magazine. Danny was responsible for reprinting the London Evening Standard...
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Gloria Stavers Was Born On This Day In 1927
Gloria would be 85 years old today, and so it's a special day to remember a woman who contributed so significantly to our pop culture history and encouraged a generation of young people to pursue their...
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Cliff Richard "It's All In The Game" liner notes by Gloria Stavers
Gloria was an early champion of Cliff Richard's, but despite her enthusiasm Cliff never became a top 16 Magazine fave, nor did he achieve the same massive success here as he did in England. Cliff did,...
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GeeGee Recommends! (December '64)
"GG recommended LPs this outing include the following: Make Way For Dionne Warwick on Sceptor (You'll Never Get To Heaven is on this); The Animals on MGM; Clyde McPhatter's Live At the Apollo on...
View ArticleDave Brubeck (Dec. 6, 1920 - Dec. 5, 2012)
In one of those strange coincidences, just minutes after I posted GeeGee's fave LPs of December 1964 I read that one of those artists, jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, had passed away. If...
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Davy
It's hard to believe that a year has passed since the world lost Davy Jones. Artful Dodger that he was, he left us on a day that doesn't even exist this year. As Monkees fans gather in New Jersey to...
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"16 Magazine" Readers Remember Gloria Stavers
Today is the 30th anniversary of Gloria's death. On April 1, 1983, the world lost a pioneer in pop culture journalism and a true innovator in the publishing world. Most significant to all of us, the...
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Gloria Stavers is Officially Editor-in-Chief of 16 Magazine (April '64)
April 1964 was a milestone for Gloria and 16 Magazine. Although she had been given editorial control of the magazine in 1957 (little more than a year after she was hired as clerical help by owner...
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"We Are The Stars" (including Gloria Stavers) by Lillian Roxon
In the June 1971 issue of Crawdaddy, Lillian Roxon put forth her belief that many of the men and women who wrote about rock stars had more charisma than their subjects. The author of 1969's "Lillian...
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Ray Manzarek photo by Gloria Stavers in Billboard Magazine
To honor Ray Manzarek after his passing on May 20, The Warner Music Group placed a full page ad in Billboard Magazine. The entire page is too large for me to scan, but it is this photo with...
View ArticleGeeGee's Recommendations! (February '65)
"My very fave group, gospel singers called THE STAPLES, have just signed with Epic Records. Can't wait till their first recording is released ... Here is a partial list (there are just too many LPs to...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Dave Clark on Gloria Stavers
"It was on the DC5's first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show that Gloria Stavers turned up, pen in hand, 1,000-watt charm turned on.(Dave Clark) 'It was after that first Sullivan appearance that 16...
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