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Audio Interview
Andy Gill hears about Mark Lanegan and Ballad of the Broken Seas from Isobel Campbell (Rock's Backpages Audio, 2005)
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Features and interviews
Peter Jones grabs a backstage chat with Cliff Richard and Hank Marvin (Record Mirror, 1963)
A Q&A with 'Rescue Me' hitmaker Fontella Bass (New Musical Express, 1965)
Quitting the Manfreds: Dawn James meets Paul Jones (Rave, 1966)
What larks! Eden hears about producing the Monkees from Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart (KRLA Beat, 1967)
Move over mop-tops, here come the beggars: Geoffrey Cannon on how how the Stones surpassed the Beatles (Partisan Review, The, 1969)
Roy Carr comes up against the strutting ego of Jonathan King (New Musical Express, 1971)
Phil Symes gets the lowdown on Philly fillies First Choice (Disc, 1973)
David Hancock meets Queen's Freddie Mercury (Record Mirror, 1975)
John Swenson rivetingly reports on a Beach Boys bust-up (Rolling Stone, 1977)
Sandy Robertson enjoys an L.A. rendezvous with ascendant singer-songwriter John Hiatt (Sounds, 1979)
Paul Sexton shares a pint with Brit funkateers Freeez (Record Mirror, 1981)
Jim Sullivan pays homage to Cream producer (and Mountain-eer) Felix Pappalardi (Boston Globe, The, 1983)
Geoffrey Himes meets the Neville Brothers in New Orleans (Baltimore Sun, 1985)
Mark Cooper in conversation with Chris Isaak (Guardian, The, 1987)
Tom Doyle interviews the absurd and entirely fraudulent Milli Vanilli (Smash Hits, 1989)
Edwin Pouncey looks back at the "Tex-adelia" of the 13th Floor Elevators and their ilk (Vox, 1991)
David Sinclair gets a very personal tour of London from one David Bowie (Rolling Stone, 1993)
Stephen Dalton journeys into the heart of Trip Hop (Vox, 1995)
Steven Wells enjoys being shouted at by Kenickie's Lauren Laverne and Marie du Santiago (New Musical Express, 1997)
Tom Cox quaffs a pint or three with Guided by Voices' Bob Pollard (Guardian, The, 1999)
An encylopaedic entry on Trent Reznor's Nine Inch Nails ('Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music', 2001)
Ted Kessler tells the hair-raising story of the Libertines' rise and fall (New Musical Express, 2003)
Sylvie Simmons sits down in a rainy L.A. with the guero that is Beck (MOJO, 2005)
James Medd hears about the autobiographical A Bit of a Blur from Britpop-bassist-turned-Cotswolds-farmer Alex James (Word, The, 2007)
John Lewis discusses Sam Cooke, Will Oldham and more with country-soul queen Candi Staton (Hotline, 2009)
Alan Light hears about Songwriter (and So Beautiful or So What) from Paul Simon (MSN.com, 2011)
Bob Ruggiero discusses drugs, John Lennon and Tricia Nixon's birthday party with the Turtles' Howard Kaylan (Houston Press, 2013)
Pip Williams talks fizzy drinks and police brutality with "firecracker personality" Vince Staples (Coup De Main, 2015)
David Burke looks back on the hard blues life of 'Hound Dog' gal Big Mama Thornton (Vintage Rock, 2017)
Don Snowden rhapsodizes about a near-lifelong love of the late Dr. John (Rock's Backpages, 2019)
Album & Live Reviews
Norman Jopling enjoys a bill topped by Chuck Berry, live at London's Finsbury Park Astoria (Record Mirror, 1964)
The Mirror marvels at The Sandie Shaw Supplement (Record Mirror, 1968)
Michael Watts is much taken with the MC5, live at London's Roundhouse (Melody Maker, 1970)
Roy Carr takes us track-by-track through the Rolling Stones' Exile On Main Street (New Musical Express, 1972)
Dave DiMartino is bowled over by Willie Dixon & his Chicago All-Stars, live in East Lansing (Michigan State News, 1974)
Bud Scoppa is delighted by Boz Scaggs' Silk Degrees (Phonograph Record, 1976)
Richard Cromelin catches the disco-era Grace Jones, live at L.A.'s Whisky a Go Go (Los Angeles Times, 1978)
Dave McCullough is untransported by the Human League's Travelogue (Sounds, 1980)
Mark Leviton listens to Foreigner, live at the Inglewood Forum (Music Connection, 1982)
Cynthia Rose is intrigued by Robert Quine and Fred Maher's Basic (New Musical Express, 1984)
Jim Sullivan taps his feet to Trouble Funk, live at Boston's Paradise Theater (Boston Globe, The, 1986)
Betty Page is arrested by Sam Brown's Stop! (Record Mirror, 1988)
Howard Johnson sees Steve Earle, live at London's Town & Country club (Kerrang!, 1990)
Paul Elliott samples Faith No More's Angel Dust (Vox, 1992)
Caroline Sullivan reviews Diana Ross, live at Birmingham's NEC (Guardian, The, 1994)
Dele Fadele gallivants around Grant Lee Buffalo's Copperopolis (New Musical Express, 1996)
Marc Weingarten is pleasantly surprised by Grateful Dead remnants the Other Ones, live in Southern California (Rolling Stone, 1998)
Dorian Lynskey digs Kelis' Kaleidoscope (Q, 2000)
Ted Drozdowski sizes up a collection of late-period tracks by Sam Cooke (Boston Phoenix, The, 2002)
Rob Hughes raves about the Jack-White-produced Van Lear Rose and talks to Loretta Lynn (Uncut, 2004)
Robert Sandall reviews the '60s music memoir that is Joe Boyd's White Bicycles (Sunday Times, The, 2006)
Lisa Verrico witnesses a lethargic Brixton set by the Kooks (Times, The, 2008)
David Quantick decodes a "deluxe edition" of the Cure's America-conquering Disintegration (Uncut, 2010)
John Calvert attempts to answer the question "What are Death Grips?" (Quietus, The, 2012)
Terry Staunton very much takes to Marianne Faithfull's Give My Love To London (Uncut, 2014)
Jamie Atkins considers Kendrick Lamar's "vaults-emptying" untitled unmastered (Record Collector, 2016)
Andy Gill considers Calexico's California-recorded Thread That Keeps Us (Independent, The, 2018)
