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Martin Aston talks hard rock with AC/DC's affable six-string genius Angus Young (Rock's Backpages Audio, 1990)
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Features and interviews
Old Harrovians: Peter Jones introduces Mike D'Abo's first combo the Band of Angels (Record Mirror, 1964)
Penny Valentine describes appearing on TV's Juke Box Jury (Disc and Music Echo, 1966)
Turn on, tune in: John Sinclair's polemic on revolutionary underground radio (Ann Arbor Argus, 1969)
Ritchie Yorke talks low-end and Motown with Zeppelin bass man John Paul Jones (New Musical Express, 1970)
Lillian Roxon's week starts in Sausalito with the Rowan Brothers; ends in David Bowie's New York hotel room (New York Sunday News, 1972)
Karl Dallas reports on the Ragtime revival (Melody Maker, 1974)
Philip Elwood remembers Chicago blues great Jimmy Reed (San Francisco Examiner, The, 1976)
On leaving the Whistle Test: Michael Watts listens to whisperin' Bob Harris (Melody Maker, 1978)
Mark Cooper meets the Beat in Chicago (Record Mirror, 1980)
Don Waller assesses latest Brit import ABC (LA Weekly, 1982)
John Abbey obtains the lowdown from bass ace Marcus Miller (Blues & Soul, 1984)
Chris Heath pulls the very best quotes out of his pals the Pet Shop Boys (Smash Hits, 1986)
Rob Tannenbaum hears about the recording of Slow Turning from John Hiatt (Musician, 1988)
Amy Linden in Minneapolis with the rapidly fragmenting Replacements (Spin, 1990)
Steven Wells hangs out in Moscow with thrash-metal men Napalm Death (New Musical Express, 1992)
Caitlin Moran mourns the shocking death of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain (Times, The, 1994)
Andy Crysell meets 'Planet Rock' man Arthur Baker (New Musical Express, 1996)
Sheryl Garratt learns what makes Jools Holland tick (Guardian, The, 1998)
Dorian Lynskey survives a difficult encounter with troubled star Finley Quaye (Select, 2000)
Stevie Chick reports from Austin's South By Southwest fest (Kerrang!, 2002)
Geoff Barton recalls a 1982 Sounds encounter with Robert Plant (Classic Rock, 2004)
Joel McIver catches up with Newcastle's original thrash/black metalheads Venom (Record Collector, 2006)
Robert Sandall hears about new album All I Intended to Be from country-rock queen Emmylou Harris (Sunday Times, The, 2008)
Paul Lester looks back with Paisley Underground girl group turned Top 40 pop stars the Bangles (Record Collector, 2010)
Tony Russell remembers the post-war "queen of country music" Kitty Wells (Guardian, The, 2012)
Peter Stone Brown pays tribute to departed country-music giant Merle Haggard (CounterPunch, 2016)
David Burke asks Jerry Dammers and Jim Kerr about 1988's birthday concert for Nelson Mandela (Classic Pop, 2018)
Guitarist Gary Lucas pays tribute to his blues hero Peter Green (Please Kill Me!, 2020)
Album & Live Reviews
Hugh Nolan is knocked out by Stax-Volt stars Otis Redding, Sam & Dave and more, live at the Finsbury Park Astoria (Disc and Music Echo, 1967)
Philip Elwood isn't entirely convinced by the Beatles' "White Album" (San Francisco Examiner, The, 1968)
Roy Carr wonders about Wishbone Ash but climbs U.S. power trio Mountain, live at London's Rainbow (New Musical Express, 1971)
Dan Nooger moves and grooves to the sound of Manu Dibango's Soul Makossa (Phonograph Record, 1973)
Chris Welch enjoys Elton John, live in his beloved Watford (Melody Maker, 1975)
John Swenson passes judgement on James Brown's Mutha's Nature (Rolling Stone, 1977)
Richard Cromelin suffers an "antiseptic" gig by Toto, live at West Hollywood's Roxy (Los Angeles Times, 1979)
Jim Green breaks down nu-Mods Secret Affair's Behind Closed Doors (Trouser Press, 1981)
Max Bell witnesses Wham!, live at London's Hammersmith Odeon (Times, The, 1983)
Paul Sexton dismisses the debut album by Whitney Houston (Record Mirror, 1985)
Gerrie Lim sees Gene Clark & Carla Olson, live in Santa Monica (LA Weekly, 1987)
Ralph Traitor hears Hoodoo Gurus' Magnum Cum Louder (Sounds, 1989)
Stephen Dalton sees the Shamen, live at the Brixton Academy (New Musical Express, 1991)
Ian Penman doesn't love John Martyn's Couldn't Love You More (Wire, The, 1993)
Amy Linden witnesses an all-star New York line-up featuring R&B stars TLC, Mary J. Blige and Boyz II Men (New York Daily News, 1995)
Neil Kulkarni jumps on the bouncy castle with Coldcut's Let Us Play (Melody Maker, 1997)
Andy Crysell watches Badly Drawn Boy, live at Glasgow's King Tut's Wah Wah Hut (New Musical Express, 1999)
Nick Hasted speaks to its maker in his review of Peter Hammill's "dark, worldly-wise" Clutch (Uncut, 2003)
Andrew Mueller is won over by U2's No Line On The Horizon (Uncut, 2009)
John Robb revels in a set by the Manic Street Preachers, live at Budapest's Sziget festival (Louder Than War, 2011)
Bob Mehr is suitably impressed by Laura Mvula, live at SXSW (MOJO, 2013)
Bud Scoppa on the best of Little Richard's Specialty and Vee Jay recordings (Uncut, 2015)
Jamie Atkins raves about Run the Jewels, live at London's Roundhouse (Record Collector, 2017)
Andrew Stafford is entranced by Kiwi singer-songstress Aldous Harding, live at Sydney's Metro (Guardian, The, 2019)
