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Adam Sweeting talks songs and politics with Jackson Browne (Rock's Backpages Audio, 2014)
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Features and interviews
Nick Jones meets the Young Rascals (Melody Maker, 1966)
Maureen O'Grady hears about "raving birds" from the reborn Tremeloes (Rave, 1967)
Alan Smith untangles the multiple identities of Harlem Shufflers Bob & Earl (New Musical Express, 1969)
Robert Greenfield meets acid guru Timothy Leary in Algiers (Rolling Stone, 1970)
Caroline Boucher meets a deluded Screaming Lord Sutch (Disc, 1972)
David Hancock profiles "Disco Sex" Emperor Barry White (Record Mirror, 1974)
Roy Carr meets new gal on the CBGBs block Debbie Harry (New Musical Express, 1976)
Harvey Kubernik hears how the Bee Gees captured America (Melody Maker, 1978)
Don Snowden salutes jazz maverick Ornette Coleman (LA Weekly, 1980)
Hugh Fielder puts his questions to Peter Gabriel (Sounds, 1982)
Graham K. Smith meets ZTT signing Propaganda (Record Mirror, 1984)
Adam Sweeting meets dance music entrepreneur Morgan Khan (The Guardian, 1986)
Michael Goldberg reports on the drug bust of Mötley Crüe manager Doc McGhee (Rolling Stone, 1988)
Davis Quantick takes a train to Manchester in the company of the B-52s (New Musical Express, 1990)
Paul Elliott discusses beards with ZZ Top's Dusty Hill (Kerrang!, 1992)
John Harris meets Mercury Prizewinners M People (New Musical Express, 1994)
Caitlin Moran puts her argument that pop lyrics aren't poetry (The Times, 1996)
Steven Daly talks to Tori Amos (Rolling Stone, 1998)
David Kamp presents an oral history of New York's legendary hit factory the Brill Building (Vanity Fair, 2001)
John Harris wonders if it's all over for Oasis (The Guardian, 2005)
John Lewis discusses sneakers, film scores and Jose Feliciano with the Wu Tang Clan's RZA (Metro, 2007)
Lois Wilson reports on the return of postpunk's feminist "game-changers" the Raincoats (MOJO, 2009)
John Harris lauds the singing of Simply Red's Mick Hucknall (The Guardian, 2011)
Paul Zollo discusses Sunken Condos and more with Donald Fagen (American Songwriter, 2013)
Lisa Verrico speaks to pop star Carly Rae Jepsen (The Sunday Times, 2015)
Tony Cummings pays tribute to departed gospel/R&B singer Lavine Hudson (Cross Rhythms, 2017)
Don Armstrong tells the history of female music writers from the '30s to the '50s (Music Journalism History, 2019)
Tim Cooper remembers Basement 5's "long-forgotten" single 'The Last White Christmas' (Louder Than War, 2020)
Album & Live Reviews
The legendary review: Robert Shelton sings the praises of the young Bob Dylan, live at Gerde's Folk City, NY (The New York Times, 1961)
Too much! Disc digs the debut album by Quicksilver Messenger Service (Disc and Music Echo, 1968)
Slick, smooth: Mark Plummer doesn't much care for Santana, live at London's Hammersmith Odeon (Melody Maker, 1971)
Roy Carr dismisses the blaxploitative nature of Marvin Gaye's Trouble Man (New Musical Express, 1973)
Penny Valentine loves Little Feat and Allen Toussaint, live at NYC's Little Theatre (Record Mirror, 1975)
Dave Marsh delves deep into Jackson Browne's The Pretender (Rolling Stone, 1977)
Garry Bushell loves support act the Specials more than he likes Lyceum headliners Gang of Four (Sounds, 1979)
Julie Panebianco inspects the bouquet that is PiL's Flowers of Romance (Boston Rock, 1981)
Paul Sexton sees the post-Lionel-Richie Commodores, live at Hammersmith (Record Mirror, 1983)
Sean O'Hagan has little time for Richard Thompson's Across A Crowded Room (New Musical Express, 1985)
Richard Cromelin catches Cyndi Lauper, live at L.A.'s Universal Amphitheatre (Los Angeles Times, 1987)
Danny Weizmann is appalled by Sir Mix-A-Lot's Beepers video (LA Weekly, 1989)
Ngaire Ruth is treated to an early glimpse of PJ Harvey, live at Hampstead's White Horse (Melody Maker, 1991)
Tec-9's and Glocks? Really? Amy Linden ducks L.L. Cool J's 14 Shots to the Dome (The New York Times, 1993)
John Harris on the grim baggage that accompanies Hole, live at London's Virgin Megastore (New Musical Express, 1995)
David Sinclair enters the Spice Girls' Spiceworld (The Times, 1997)
Tom Cox isn't remotely taken with teen R&B star Brandy, live at the Royal Albert Hall (The Guardian, 1999)
Barbara Ellen gets stuck into Britney Spears' Oops!… I Did It Again (The Times, 2000)
Will Hermes reviews UK grime compilation Run the Road Volume 2 (Spin, 2006)
Paul Lester catches Japanese cyberpunks Yellow Magic Orchestra, live at the Royal Albert Hall (The Guardian, 2008)
Jude Rogers reviews Rihanna's Rated R (bbc.co.uk, 2009)
John Lewis listens to Sigur Ros's "spartan, undecorative" Valtari (Metro, 2012)
Graeme Thomson considers Snowbird's Moon (Uncut, 2014)
Chris Roberts reviews a reissued live album by former Yes keyboardist Tony Kaye's band Badger (Prog, 2016)
Graeme Thomson falls for Fleet Foxes, concluding a global tour in Glasgow (Mail On Sunday, 2018)
