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Adam Sweeting discusses Dionne Warwick and the Brill Building with Burt Bacharach's brilliant lyricist Hal David (Rock's Backpages Audio, 1999)
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Features and interviews
Alan Walsh swaps fashion tips with "snappy popster" Billy J. Kramer (Disc, 1964)
The Maker quizzes folk guitar wizard Bert Jansch (Melody Maker, 1965)
The Beat welcomes the chart return of Stevie Wonder (KRLA Beat, 1966)
David Griffiths grabs a backstage chat with the great Fats Domino (Record Mirror, 1967)
Geoffrey Cannon ruminates on the meaning of love songs... and Love's Forever Changes (Guardian, The, 1969)
Part 2 of Chris Welch's mega-interview with Led Zep leader Jimmy Page (Melody Maker, 1970)
John Swenson hears about the Who... and the solo adventures of bassist John Entwistle (Beetle, 1972)
Brian Case brilliantly evokes the short life and times of "spiritual jazz" icon Albert Ayler (New Musical Express, 1974)
Paul Gambaccini catches up with the Stones' Mick Jagger in Germany (Rolling Stone, 1976)
Simon Frith on the Who's Who Are You and the untimely passing of drummer Keith Moon (Village Voice, The, 1978)
Pete Silverton eavesdrops on a bickering Gang of Four (Sounds, 1980)
John Abbey chats with Bernadette Cooper of femme funkateers Klymaxx (Blues & Soul, 1982)
Laura Fissinger befriends former Runaway Lita Ford (Creem, 1984)
Richard Cromelin natters with New Jersey quartet the Smithereens (Los Angeles Times, 1986)
Tony Scherman talks to in-demand engineering brothers Chris and Tom Lord-Alge (Musician, 1988)
Mal Peachey meets unclassifiable Canadian folkies the McGarrigle Sisters (Daily Telegraph, 1990)
Max Bell meets Michael Hutchence and Andrew Farriss of INXS (Vox, 1992)
A sceptical Steven Daly hangs out with the newly rootsified Primal Scream (Rolling Stone, 1994)
At the height of the superclub era, Bethan Cole reports on Basement Jaxx and Nu Brit House (i-D, 1996)
Barbara Ellen meets the Welsh Whirlwind that is Catatonia's Cerys Matthews (Observer, The, 1998)
Part 4 of Robin Bresnark's exhaustive guide to the recorded works of Oasis (Melody Maker, 2000)
Dave Laing and Phil Hardy on eclectic producer/bassist/fusioneer Bill Laswell ('Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music', 2001)
Ben Myers heads to West Hollywood to carouse with British post-hardcore hopes Hell Is For Heroes (Kerrang!, 2002)
Pete Paphides asks Prefab's Paddy about his adolescent love of Stevie Wonder's Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants (MOJO, 2004)
Tom Cox comes round to Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush's 'Don't Give Up' (Sunday Times, 2006)
John Lewis discusses Rough Trade, melting glaciers and more with Jarvis Cocker (Hotline, 2008)
With the assistance of surviving members, Andrew Mueller goes "album by album" through the oeuvre of cult Perth band the Triffids (Uncut, 2010)
Rob Hughes hears about the favourite music, films and books of folk matriarch June Tabor (Word, The, 2012)
Paul Lester reports on a "new wave" of anti-sexist female bands... including Skinny Girl Diet (Independent, The, 2014)
Jamie Atkins hears about Merle Haggard and more from Will Oldham (Record Collector, 2016)
Henry Yates yaks with KISS frontman Gene Simmons (Classic Rock, 2018)
Album & Live Reviews
Norman Jopling sees Duane Eddy at a sparse Saville Theatre (Record Mirror, 1967)
Karl Dallas passes judgement on Joan Baez's (mostly) spoken-word Baptism (Melody Maker, 1968)
Richard Cromelin hugely enjoys the Sir Douglas Quintet, live at the Troubadour (Los Angeles Times, 1971)
Jonh Ingham rates the debut album by the Rowan Brothers (New Musical Express, 1973)
Philip Norman's hilarious take on Barry White, live at London's Albert Hall (Times, The, 1975)
Toby Goldstein considers new albums by (the) Sweet and Pezband (Crawdaddy!, 1977)
Sylvie Simmons barely tolerates Toto, live at the Roxy on Sunset (Sounds, 1979)
Mark Cooper checks out the debut album by Pete Wylie's Wah! (Record Mirror, 1981)
Neil Tennant heads down to London's Embassy Club to catch a p.a. from dance star Sharon Redd (Smash Hits, 1983)
Don Waller falls for Sheila E's Romance 1600 (Los Angeles Times, 1985)
Adam Sweeting judges the Judds, live at the London Palladium (Guardian, The, 1987)
Michele Kirsch succumbs to Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever (New Musical Express, 1989)
Cathi Unsworth sees agit-folkies the Levellers, live at London's Marquee (Melody Maker, 1991)
Richard C. Walls sniffs his way through George Clinton's Hey Man, Smell My Finger (Musician, 1993)
Jason Cohen sees the "London" Suede, live at NYC's Manhattan Center Ballroom (Rolling Stone, 1995)
Brilliant gloom: Caroline Sullivan on Portishead's self-titled sophomore album (Guardian, The, 1997)
"The most pointless debacle I've seen all year": Barbara Ellen evaluates Eminem, live at London's Astoria (Observer, The, 1999)
Ian MacDonald takes a nostalgic stroll along Neil Young's On The Beach (Uncut, 2003)
Phil Sutcliffe reviews the "schizoid double album" that is Foo Fighters' In Your Honour (MOJO, 2005)
The late Andy Gill is thrilled by the "compellingly weird" songs on the White Stripes' Icky Thump (Uncut, 2007)
Robert Sandall sees perennial misfits the Only Ones, live in Sheffield (Sunday Times, 2009)
David Hepworth hails the "hard-won black humour" and "shrugging folk wisdom" of Paul Simon's So Beautiful Or So What (Word, The, 2011)
John Lewis welcomes neo-dubsteppers Disclosure's debut album Settle (Metro, 2013)
Ian Gittins sees EDM "poster boy" Steve Aoki, live at the Brixton Academy (Guardian, The, 2015)
Tim Cooper tackles John Murry's Short History Of Decay (Quietus, The, 2017)
Tony Burke enjoys the musical memoirs of Brummie blues mover 'n' shaker Jim Simpson (Morning Star, 2019)
