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Audio Interview
Cliff gets metaphysical with Earth, Wind & Fire mainman Maurice White (Rock's Backpages Audio, 1979)
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Features and interviews
Maureen Cleave is slightly perplexed by brother Phil Everly (Sydney Morning Herald, the, 1962)
Jean Carol drops by Liverpool's Cavern Club (Disc, 1963)
Norman Jopling says hello to Honeycombs singer Dennis D'Ell (Record Mirror, 1965)
Dawn James elicits the pensées of Scott Walker (Rave, 1966)
Alan Smith hears from the other Beatles songwriter, George Harrison (New Musical Express, 1969)
An hilariously outré interview with out-there guitar hero Sonny Sharrock (Melody Maker, 1970)
Geoffrey Cannon discusses Lou Reed at length with, erm, Lou Reed (unpublished, 1972)
Pete Makowski meets Ron and Russ Mael of Sparks (Sounds, 1974)
Robert Duncan shares a beer or five with Bruce Springsteen (Creem, 1976)
Motown war stories: Cliff White meets the latest lineup of the Temptations (Black Music, 1978)
Praxis: A monumental Richard Williams interview with Brian Eno (Melody Maker, 1980)
Geoffrey Himes on dogged Southern Rockers the Marshall Tucker Band (Baltimore Sun, 1982)
Chris Roberts takes an instant dislike to one-hit Motown wonder Rockwell (Sounds, 1984)
Clinton Walker finds himself in a darkened Sydney hotel room with Nico (Age, The, 1986)
Michele Kirsch meets Decline of Western Civilization director Penelope Spheeris (New Musical Express, 1988)
Richard Cromelin telephones Residents "spokesman" Hardy Fox (Los Angeles Times, 1990)
Cathi Unsworth heads to Meadowlands to meet Metallica (Melody Maker, 1992)
J.D. Considine discusses the making of Snoop's Doggystyle with its producer Dr. Dre (Musician, 1994)
Andy Crysell spends time in the insufferable company of superstar techno DJ Josh Wink (New Musical Express, 1996)
Caroline Sullivan reports on the new the M(usic) O(f) B(lack) O(rigin) awards (Guardian, The, 1998)
Dave Laing and Phil Hardy on San Franciscan rap-rockers Faith No More ('Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music', 2001)
Sylvie Simmons revisits the Byrds and drugs with David Crosby (MOJO, 2003)
Max Bell looks back on the tumultuous '60s and '70s with 'Windmills Of Your Mind' one-hit star Noel Harrison (Independent, The, 2005)
Tim Cooper converses with the Kaiser Chiefs and Bond composer David Arnold (Independent, The, 2007)
Johnny Black reports on the marketing of Bruce Springsteen's 'Working On A Dream' (Music Week, 2009)
Kate Mossman meets Brian May and Roger Taylor... and reminisces about her teen infatuation with Queen (Word, The, 2011)
Mitchell Cohen muses on the subject of Burt Bacharach (Rock's Backpages, 2013)
Richard Williams remembers songwriter and soul man Don Covay (Guardian, The, 2015)
Ahead of Son Volt's first visit to New Zealand, Graham Reid "reconsiders" the work of Jay Farrar (elsewhere.co.nz, 2017)
Album & Live Reviews
Jim Payne listens at length to The Explosive Little Richard (Crawdaddy!, 1967)
Keith Altham digs the Beach Boys, live at the London Palladium (New Musical Express, 1968)
John Mendelssohn offers the benefit of the doubt to the J. Geils Band, live at L.A.'s Whisky a Go Go (Los Angeles Times, 1971)
Tony Cummings gives a high five to the Isley Brothers' 3 + 3 (Black Music, 1973)
R.I.P. Daryl Dragon: Joel Selvin catches the Captain & Tennille, live at the Sahara Tahoe (San Francisco Chronicle, 1975)
Bob Spitz passes judgement on Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes' This Time It's For Real (Crawdaddy!, 1977)
Mick Middles' winter of discontent is alleviated by the Buzzcocks, live at Manchester Polytechnic (Sounds, 1979)
Don Waller is disappointed by Chic's Take It Off (Los Angeles Times, 1981)
Mat Snow's heart sinks watching the Passions and Stiff Little Fingers, live in Brixton (New Musical Express, 1983)
Jeffrey Morgan assesses Eurythmics' Be Yourself Tonight (Creem, 1985)
Adam Sweeting prays he doesn't catch Millie Jackson's eye, live at the Hammersmith Odeon (Guardian, The, 1987)
Stuart Maconie praises Prefab Sprout's Protest Songs (New Musical Express, 1989)
Showbiz!! Everett True delights in the Pet Shop Boys, live at Blackpool Winter Gardens (Melody Maker, 1991)
Roy Trakin applauds the new maturity of ex-Replacement Paul Westerberg on 14 Songs (Musician, 1993)
Jim Irvin is unconvinced by the autobiography of Motown boss Berry Gordy (MOJO, 1995)
Caroline Sullivan endures the Dad-rock jammathon that is Paul Weller, live in Crystal Palace (Guardian, The, 1997)
Tom Doyle hails Suede's Head Music (Q, 1999)
Marc Weingarten sees novelist Anne Lamont with Mary Chapin Carpenter, live at UCLA's Royce Hall (Los Angeles Times, 2002)
Mark Paytress raves about Brian Wilson's revisited SMiLE (MOJO, 2004)
Nicky Charlish has never read a '60s history as good as Dominic Sandbrook's Never Had It So Good (Culture Wars, 2006)
Rob Hughes reviews some early recordings by Brooklyn's "otherwordly" folk star Dawn Landes (Uncut, 2008)
Adam Sweeting reviews Rufus Wainwright's All Days Are Nights – Songs For Lulu (Uncut, 2010)
Simon Price surveys the "psych-pop" of Spiritualized's Sweet Heart Sweet Light (Word, The, 2012)
Robert Dean Lurie is somewhat frustrated by Liel Leibovitz's "biography" of Leonard Cohen (Front Porch Republic, 2014)
Graeme Thomson succumbs to the sadness of Emeli Sandé's Long Live The Angels (Mail On Sunday, 2016)
Nick Hasted is thrilled by the political passion of Kamasi Washington's Heaven and Earth (Independent, The, 2018)
