Richard Hawley
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Audio interviews
Interview by Maureen Paton, Rock's Backpages audio, 13 October 2006
On a taxi ride to Monsal Head in the Peak District National Park, Hawley talks about his style; the enchanted lyre and other obscure instruments; his singing voice; his Sheffield home and background, his family, and not wanting the rock star lifestyle; becoming a songwriter; being born with a cleft palate and hair lip, and learning to sing from his mother.
File format: mp3; file size: 44.4mb, interview length: 46' 14" sound quality: *** (background noise)
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Richard Hawley: Richard Hawley
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, July 2001
Former Pulp guitarist makes dynamic debut with mini-album of spectral ballads ...
Richard Hawley: Late Night Final
Review by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 21 January 2002
WARNING: WHAT you are about to experience contains not a hint of irony or pessimism, skepticism or half-truths, denial or doubt. ...
Review and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, February 2003
Big easy listening on second full-length album from Sheffield songsmith ...
Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, September 2005
IMAGINE BRITPOP never happened. No Pulp, no Longpigs, no exuberant resurgence in literate guitar pop. ...
Richard Hawley: From Sheffield….to Eternity!
Profile and Interview by Paul Moody, Uncut, September 2007
It's taken 25 years for Richard Hawley to be celebrated as the "Sheffield Sinatra". But how did Pulp, death and a diet of "Grolsch and ...
Richard Hawley: Truelove's Gutter
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, November 2009
A THIRD consecutive album named after a lost corner of his beloved Sheffield hometown might suggest it's business as usual for Hawley, but the lush ...
Richard Hawley: Standing At The Sky's Edge
Review by Stuart Maconie, The Word, May 2012
It's trippy up north. Richard Hawley has made a full-blown, widescreen psychedelic rock album — and it's a masterpiece. ...
Richard Hawley: Standing at the Sky's Edge
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, May 2012
"… AND THIS ONE'S for all the men in the house." Yes, after a decade of seducing career couples with the Roy Orbison stylings of ...
Poems In People: An Interview with Richard Hawley
Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 20 October 2014
With his first three solo albums due for reissue, Richard Hawley talks them over with Julian Marszalek in an in-depth interview taking in pop music, ...
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