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John Tobler meets Martin Rev and Alan Vega of Suicide (Rock's Backpages Audio, 1978)
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Features and interviews
Nick Jones hears about post-Clapton life from the Yardbirds' Paul Samwell-Smith (Melody Maker, 1965)
Vicki Wickham and others look back at soon-to-axed pop-TV classic Ready, Steady Go! (Disc and Music Echo, 1966)
Maureen O'Grady meets retired gas fitter Joe Cocker (Rave, 1968)
Lillian Roxon profiles the future Blue Oyster Cult, a.k.a. the Stalk-Forrest Group (Sydney Morning Herald, the, 1970)
Glenn O'Brien gets tight with Al Green (Interview, 1972)
Rosalind Russell reports on Nobby Clark's departure from the Bay City Rollers (Disc, 1974)
Ken Barnes rounds up the Outlaws (Phonograph Record, 1976)
Barry Cain takes a New York tour in the company of Blondie and the Shangri-Las (Record Mirror, 1978)
Amy Linden gets some answers from the Gang of Four (Damage, 1980)
Julie Panebianco grabs a chat with the all-instrumental Raybeats (Boston Rock, 1982)
Deanne Pearson flies to Barbados to speak to Eddy Grant (No. 1, 1984)
Chris Heath gently mocks Go West (Smash Hits, 1986)
Jack Barron visits Stonehenge with the JAMS and Gary Glitter (New Musical Express, 1988)
Tony Fletcher reports on the UK's "indie dance" scene (Spin, 1990)
Paul Elliott puts his reader's questions to Rush's Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson (Kerrang!, 1992)
Bill Wasserzieher profiles venerable white blues man John Hammond Jr. (Southland Blues, 1994)
Chris Welch remembers former Animals bassist turned Jimi Hendrix manager Chas Chandler (The Independent, 1996)
Will Hermes heads to Athens, Ga., to interview Olivia Tremor Control and the Elephant 6 collective (Rolling Stone, 1998)
Ian Penman meets rejuvenated art-punks Wire (The Wire, 2000)
Adam Sweeting has a chat with Factory Records impresario Tony Wilson (The Guardian, 2002)
Harvey Kubernik looks back at the troubled Phil Spector sessions for the Ramones' End of the Century (MOJO, 2004)
Kandia Crazy Horse on the "nu sincerity" of John Legend, Jonny Lang, Gnarls Barkley... and Robin Thicke! (San Francisco Bay Guardian, 2006)
Sheryl, meet Sheryl: S. Garratt in conversation with S. Crow (Daily Telegraph, 2008)
Caroline Boucher recalls eating brown rice with Marc Bolan (The Observer, 2010)
Barney Hoskyns on the psychogeography of popular music (unpublished, 2012)
Jude Rogers learns about the soundtrack to the life of Robert Wyatt (The Observer, 2014)
Frances Morgan meets sound sculptress Klara Lewis (The Wire, 2016)
Graeme Thomson hears about Dylan and Taylor Swift from soon-to-retire folk empress Joan Baez (Mail On Sunday, 2018)
Ian Winwood looks back on Pyromania and Hysteria with Def Leppard (Daily Telegraph, 2020)
Album & Live Reviews
Penny Valentine hails Jimi Hendrix, live at London's Saville Theatre (Disc and Music Echo, 1967)
Richard Green gives it up for duets collection Marvin Gaye and his Girls (New Musical Express, 1969)
Philip Elwood reviews Elvin Bishop and the Allman Brothers, live at Winterland (The San Francisco Examiner, 1971)
Dan Nooger crowns the Pink Fairies' Kings of Oblivion (The Village Voice, 1973)
Giovanni Dadomo sees a legendary Lyceum show by Bob Marley & the Wailers (Record Mirror, 1975)
Max Bell selects the correct single from the debut album by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (New Musical Express, 1977)
Garry Bushell sees the Beat and headliners the Human League, live at London's Lyceum (Sounds, 1979)
Paul Sexton is fairly indifferent to Aretha Franklin's Love All The Hurt Away (Record Mirror, 1981)
"Direct from Las Vegas on autopilot": Richard Williams reviews Tom Jones, live at the Royal Albert Hall (The Times, 1983)
Jeffrey Morgan isn't exactly animated by Bob Dylan's Real Live (Creem, 1985)
Gerrie Lim enjoys an L.A. show by Alex Chilton (LA Weekly, 1987)
Bob Stanley's head swirls to the sound of Swing Out Sister's Kaleidoscope World (Melody Maker, 1989)
Caroline Sullivan sees inimitable hip hop duo Salt-N-Pepa, live at Hammersmith Odeon (The Guardian, 1991)
Amy Linden hears Bell Biv DeVoe's Hootie Mack (The New York Times, 1993)
Paul Moody sees Britpop also-rans Menswear, live at Preston University (New Musical Express, 1995)
David Sinclair is impressed by All Saints' debut album (The Times, 1997)
"Best British band since the Clash": Steven Wells adores Asian Dub Foundation, live at London's Forum (New Musical Express, 1999)
Eric Weisbard assumes Rufus Wainwright's Poses (Spin, 2001)
Nick Hasted sees a splendidly ranting Patti Smith, live at Shepherd's Bush Empire (Uncut, 2003)
Tim Cooper considers Garbage, live at London's Scala (The Independent, 2005)
Lisa Verrico reviews indie-popsters Ghosts, live at London's Water Rats (The Times, 2007)
Andrew Muller locates the true birth of "indie rock" in his revisiting of R.E.M.'s "deathless" debut album Murmur (Uncut, 2009)
Richard Williams reviews John Szwed's biography of field-recordist supreme Alan Lomax (The Guardian, 2011)
Simon Price passes judgement on Leonard Cohen, live in Brighton, and Nine Inch Nails' set at Reading Festival (The Independent, 2013)
Pip Williams hears Foals' What Went Down (The Line of Best Fit, 2015)
Andy Gill is quietly thrilled by Joe Henry's Thrum (The Independent, 2017)
Stephen Dalton sees Little Simz, live in Birmingham (The Times, 2019)
