Janet Jackson
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Janet Jackson: Janet Jackson (A&M AMLH 64907)
Review by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 26 March 1983
ALMOST AS if someone had said "Follow that", Mom and Pop Jackson have. Again. Sister Janet is gingerly testing the water with her first album. ...
Janet Jackson: One Girl, Six Famous Brothers, Ten Million "Exotic" Pets...
Interview by uncredited writer, Smash Hits, 21 May 1986
ON THE sleeve of Janet Jackson's new LP, Control, there's a dedication. "Special thanks to Joe and Katherine Jackson for having such a beautiful and ...
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 2 August 1986
"Sorry Lionel, but right now, we're busy with The Human League..." To turn down a job with Mr Richie these days you'd have to be ...
Janet Jackson: This Girl Sleeps With Snakes
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Smash Hits, 27 August 1986
And feeds her llama on bubble sum and lets her giraffe eat all her mum's trees and sends her monkey to school. Oh yes, and ...
Jimmy "Jam" Harris & Terry Lewis
Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, September 1986
FROM 'TENDER LOVE' TO 'NASTY', THEY'RE ALWAYS IN CONTROL ...
Profile and Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, October 1986
"THERE COMES A time in a kid's life when they have to take over. It's hard for the parents to let go – and I'm ...
Janet Jackson: Complete Control
Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 21 March 1987
"WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, I USED TO TALK TO THE ANIMALS... THEY'RE GOOD LISTENERS, AND I ALWAYS FELT THEY UNDERSTOOD." SO SAYS JANET JACKSON, IN ...
Watch Your Heads!! Janet Jackson's About!!
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Smash Hits, 25 March 1987
She seems so calm and dainty, but when the urge overcomes her, you just can't see the sky for grapes!!? Tom Hibbert faces the fruit... ...
Profile and Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 23 April 1987
The Grammy Award-winning producers who made Janet Jackson a 'Nasty' superstar have been turning out lots of hits lately ...
Janet Jackson: Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814
Review by Lloyd Bradley, Q, October 1989
IT'S ALMOST FOUR years since Janet Jackson's last album – Control The Remixes hardly counts – and nearly 12 months since she began recording this ...
Interview by Anthony DeCurtis, Rolling Stone, 22 February 1990
With her last album, Janet declared her independence from her famous family. Now, on Rhythm Nation, she's stepping out and dealing with the real world ...
Janet Jackson/Chuckii Booker: Madison Square Garden, New York
Live Review by Jason Cohen, Sounds, 5 May 1990
EVERYONE from white guys with bad Bon Jovi hair to teenyboppers of every colour and class were out tonight. ...
Janet Jackson: Into Control, Out Of Tunes
Interview by John McCready, The Face, October 1990
JANET JACKSON'S last single, 'Black Cat', was truly mind boggling in its awfulness. Its politely heavy metal styling was really just an excuse for Janet ...
Report by Bruce Dessau, The Guardian, 19 October 1990
JANET JACKSON'S first solo tour has crossed the globe on its way to the UK — not without some hitches. One member of the entourage ...
Janet Jackson: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 27 October 1990
HER ENTRANCE is right out of a Boxing Day magic show. A pedestal rises 20 feet from the lip of the stage and Janet appears ...
Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 2 May 1991
Michael and Janet set new standards for artist deals ...
Report and Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 16 May 1991
The classy, formerly independent label tries for a comeback ...
Big Deals: How Money Fever is Changing the Music Business
Report by Fred Goodman, Musician, January 1992
"IN MARCH of 1985 the band was broke. People were selling their houses. The IRS was calling every day." ...
Jam & Lewis: Flyte of Fantasy Part III
Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 2 February 1993
Jeff Lorez concludes his in-depth report on the tenth anniversary of Jam & Lewis's Flyte Tyme Productions ...
Shep Pettibone: Spontaneous Combustion
Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 27 April 1993
No amount of studio technology can ever compete with the priceless element of spontaneity to set things on fire, says Shep... ...
Review by Mark Rowland, Musician, June 1993
IF PEOPLE get the governments they deserve, as the saying goes, they probably get the pop stars they deserve as well. It's a humbling angle ...
Luscious: Janet Jackson: Janet (Virgin)
Review by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 5 June 1993
IT can be done. Pop music in 1993 can be big, beautiful, frisky, proud, mellow, brash, subtle, motivating, sassy, plush and irresistible. Janet Jackson is ...
Behind Those Sphinx-like Eyes: Janet Jackson
Profile by Barney Hoskyns, The Observer, April 1995
"THIS IS A STORY ABOUT CONTROL," whispered the 19-year-old Janet Jackson at the start of her breakthrough album, Control, in 1986. "It’s all about control, ...
Platinum bland — Janet Jackson: London Arena, Millwall
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 10 April 1995
Janet Jackson's voice may be average, but her dancing is that of a well-drilled athlete ...
Janet Jackson: Sheffield Arena
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 15 April 1995
IN PRINCIPLE, of course, any member of the Jacksons should be the recipient of thunderous applause just for existing: they are, after all, the most ...
Ripply: Janet Jackson: Sheffield Arena, Sheffield
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, June 1995
JANET JACKSON slinks out of the shadows and straddles a chair, legs wide apart. ...
Janet Jackson: Design of a Decade 1986-1996 (A&M)/Luther Vandross: Greatest Hits 1981-1995 (Epic)
Review by Richard Cook, MOJO, December 1995
Hit compilations from ‘80s-into-’90s soul megastars. ...
Janet Jackson: The Velvet Rope (Virgin V2860 £15.99)
Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 3 October 1997
Ballad on the dancefloor: Janet Jackson shows her more sincere side to David Sinclair on The Velvet Rope ...
Brave Heart: Janet Jackson's Velvet Rope
Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, L.A. Weekly, November 1997
ACCORDING TO Ralph Ellison in Shadow and Act, no jazz musician struggled harder to escape the role of grinning minstrel than Charlie Parker, with the ...
Janet Jackson: The Velvet Rope
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, November 1997
THIS TIME, it's raining the spectrum of starfish and streaming with tiger snakes. The last Jacksoness album, 93's janet, was a slink-fest of extraordinary ambition ...
Interview by David A. Keeps, The Face, December 1997
ALL LITTLE JANET WANTED TO DO WAS CLIMB TREES, BANG DRUMS AND "SCRAPE MY ASS". IN SHORT, SHE WANTED TO BE HER BROTHERS. THEN LITTLE ...
Fondle With Care: Janet Jackson: Ahoy, Rotterdam
Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 25 April 1998
IT'S WHEN THE camera catches the screen and doubles her back to infinity. It's when she's frozen silent by the spotlight, in the teeth of ...
The Jackson Fave: Janet Jackson: Ahoy, Rotterdam
Live Review by Angus Batey, Vox, June 1998
"When I was 17 I did what people told me Did what my father said and let my mother mould me But that was ...
Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, Vibe, October 2004
JERMAINE DUPRI maps out the path to Ms. Nipplegate's heart, fights for P. Diddy-style props, and reveals his secret for crafting hits. Michael A. Gonzales ...
Interview by Sheryl Garratt, Grazia, August 2006
THE FAMILY RESEMBLANCE is unmistakable. With her high cheekbones and big brown eyes, Janet Jackson looks eerily like her brother Michael before he began his ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 25 February 2008
THERE IS SOMETHING unbelievably painful about listening to Janet Jackson being sexy – the fine line between saucy and embarrassing being something she's clearly never ...
Review by Carol Cooper, The Village Voice, 26 February 2008
SURE, MADONNA repeatedly toyed with BDSM in her videos, but she never publicly admitted to breast and genital piercings like Miss Jackson did. So, in ...
Janet Jackson: 'I Eat To Fill The Void'
Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, Daily Telegraph, 22 November 2010
With an Oscar-tipped role in Tyler Perry's new film and a handsome young billionaire in her life, Janet Jackson is, finally, 'in a good place'. ...
Janet Jackson: True You: A Journey To Finding And Loving Yourself
Book Review by Michael Gross, The Washington Post, 25 March 2011
JANET JACKSON'S True You boasts alluring packaging: It's printed on the kind of ultra-white paper you rarely see in books anymore, chock-full of photos and ...
Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, 2017
THEY COULD have been rivals in a pop soap opera. Whitney Houston prim and buttoned-up, Janet Jackson frisky and up for anything. Whitney was a ...
Memoir by Paul Wellings, Louder Than War, June 2021
10. The Good, The Bad And The Queen, Rock Against Racism 30th anniversary, Victoria Park, London. 2008 I went to the original RAR gigs and ...
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