Buffalo gal: NME's James Brown chats with Neneh Cherry in late 1988 and Sheryl Garratt interviews her for The Face in 1996. Plus Neneh talks about her first solo album in almost 20 years with Kate Mossman (2014).

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Motor citizen: Ben Edmonds reviews the MC5's Back in the USA (Fusion, 1970) and relives the band's 1968 run-in with New York City's Motherfuckers (MOJO, 2002). Plus his Creem colleague Susan Whitall pens Ben's obituary for the Detroit News in March 2016.

For the good times: Circus' Jacoba Atlas meets Rhodes scholar turned singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson (1936-2024) in 1970 and Melody Maker's Colin Irwin interviews him (and Rita Coolidge) in 1978. Plus Mitchell Cohen explains how Kristofferson "saved Nashville" for Music Aficionado in 2017.

This charming Manchester: Stephen Dalton looks back on the Haçienda and the scene it spawned (The National, October 2009).

Stubborn kind of fellow: soul purist Dave Godin (right, with Marvin Gaye) looks back with Bill Brewster at Tamla Motown, northern soul and his Deep Soul Treasures compilations (1998).

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