Talk Talk
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Duran Duran/Talk Talk: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Neil Tennant, Smash Hits, 7 January 1982
A LOT OF headbands and scarves in the audience tonight: red silk scarves tied around bushy barnets; thin chiffon numbers screwed round youthful necks; Palestinian ...
Report and Interview by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, 18 August 1982
BIT OF AN abrasive character, this Mark Hollis from Talk Talk. Halfway through our chat, I innocently mention that they're often compared to Duran Duran, ...
Talk Talk: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by William Shaw, Smash Hits, 4 June 1986
WHAT A SCRUFF Mark Hollis is! Talk Talk's singer and songwriter is wearing a tatty old pair of jeans, his shirt isn't tucked in and ...
Talk Talk: Spirit of Eden (Parlophone)
Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 17 September 1988
ONCE UPON A TIME Talk Talk were a "pop" band, now they're a law unto themselves, unconstrained by narrow ideas of "what will sell". Lead ...
Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 24 September 1988
TALK TALK, OF COURSE, DON'T. Ever since their initial, spurious labelling as a constituent of bosun Le Bon's "New Romantic" master race, the ironically titled ...
Talk Talk: Spirit Of Eden (EMI)
Review by Mark Cooper, Q, October 1988
TALK TALK'S fourth LP is the kind of record which encourages marketing men to commit suicide. ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, October 1988
Stylists have thrown in the towel, promotional persons have blanched, record execs have shed real tears as, over six years, Talk Talk have been increasingly ...
Profile and Interview by Andrew Smith, International Musician & Recording World, November 1988
The Spirit of Eden LP is both a logical step and a radical departure for TALK TALK. Andrew Smith thinks it may prove controversial... ...
Review by Betty Page, Vox, October 1991
BACK IN 1981, Talk Talk were a laughing stock. Branded "the new Duran Duran", their melancholy pop was largely ignored. They survived the '80s by ...
Interview by Cliff Jones, Melody Maker, 26 October 1991
For every minute of music you hear on TALK TALK'S new album, Laughing Stock, there's an hour of music abandoned. CLIFF JONES talks to MARK ...
Interview by Betty Page, Vox, November 1991
Mark Hollis takes minimalism to its limit with a one-note solo on Talk Talk's new album, Laughing Stock. Still, a solo, like life, is what ...
Interview by Jim Irvin, unpublished, 1998
MARK HOLLIS' self titled debut album was, at one point, going to be a Talk Talk album entitled Mountains Of The Moon, but somewhere between ...
Profile and Interview by Rob Young, The Wire, January 1998
As the prime mover behind Talk Talk, Mark Hollis threw off the shackles of a pop existence to create the bleakest, yet most lyrical orchestral ...
Interview by Chris Ingham, MOJO, February 1998
Why all-acoustic this time? ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, April 2000
THE MUSICAL JOURNEY undertaken by Talk Talk, from centre-right pop to the far, fan left of post-rock, remains unique in music history. ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Observer Music Monthly, 20 June 2004
THE SELF-REINVENTION of Mark Hollis was one of the more startling musical events of the late '80s. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, March 2006
IT WENT ALMOST unnoticed at the time, but in the midst of the big-haired pomp, regimented razzle and bloated clatter which characterised so much music ...
How Talk Talk Spoke To Today's Artists
Retrospective by Ben Myers, The Guardian, 28 February 2011
IN HIS WEIGHTY 2010 TOME Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music, Rob Young charted a century's worth of musicians who helped define British folk. In ...
Laugh? I Nearly Died: The Story of Talk Talk's Laughing Stock
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 12 September 2011
A triumph of art over commerce or ruthless, selfish exploitation? On the 20th anniversary of its release, Wyndham Wallace looks at the complex story behind ...
Talk Talk: The Party's Over/It's My Life/The Colour Of Spring/Spirit Of Eden
Review by Stuart Maconie, The Word, April 2012
It was only when Talk Talk dropped the pop and headed into the ether that they created the template for serious modern rock. ...
Retrospective by Wyndham Wallace, Upon Paper, October 2012
"Breathe on me, eclipse my mind. It's in some kind of disarray." ('Chameleon Day') ...
Review by Jude Rogers, bbc.co.uk, 14 January 2013
If magic in music exists, it is here, and never-ending. ...
Classic Album: Talk Talk's Spirit Of Eden
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, Classic Pop, November 2013
Twenty five years ago, Talk Talk's fourth album was spurned upon its release, lasted only five weeks in the British charts and led the band ...
A sacred voice: Mark Hollis sang the English gospel
Comment by Graeme Thomson, The Guardian, 26 February 2019
Talk Talk began as '80s synth-pop stalwarts, but Hollis developed not only what became known as post-rock, but his own transcendent music. ...
Retrospective by Chris Roberts, Prog, 4 January 2020
A look at the career of the late Talk Talk frontman who died in 2019... ...
see also Mark Hollis
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