Terence Trent D'Arby
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Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, The Sunday Times, 1987
WHEN Terence Trent D’Arby’s very first single was released four months ago, it became difficult to open a magazine or turn on the television without ...
Terence Trent D'Arby: Tel-star
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 28 February 1987
Plenty of others have made the same journey from gospel to soul, via boxing; rather fewer have taken detours through the Army of the Rhine ...
Terence Trent D'Arby: Intimate Details
Interview by Max Bell, No. 1, 21 March 1987
Name: Terence Trent D'Arby. It's completely Anglophile. Terence is English, Trent is Scottish and Darby is Irish. I added the apostrophe. ...
Terence Trent D'Arby: Madman or Genius?
Interview by Sylvia Patterson, Smash Hits, 17 June 1987
"Em, both probably," pipes Sylvia Patterson ...
Review by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 10 July 1987
WITH HIS usual flourish of verbal arrogance, Terence Trent D'Arby has already proclaimed his LP the most outstanding debut of the '80s. Fine. The only ...
Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 18 July 1987
Exciting find ...
Terence Trent D'Arby: Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby (CBS 450911 I)
Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 18 July 1987
TERRY TRENDY D'Arby is the kind of artists most record companies only dream of signing. He's pretty; he's charming, but arrogant; he's smooth; he's sexy; ...
Terence Trent D'Arby: Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby
Review by Mark Cooper, Q, August 1987
HERALDED AS THE NEW crown prince of soul, Terence Trent D'Arby already has Britain at his feet courtesy of 'If You Let Me Stay', his ...
Terence Trent D'Arby: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 1 August 1987
LIP UP, TERRY! ...
Terence Trent D'Arby: Storm in a T-Shirt; Prince: Prince of Darkness
Report by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 1 August 1987
"RACIST" D'ARBY T-SHIRT ROW... DEMONIC PRINCE IS "SATAN'S TOOL"... STEVEN WELLS INVESTIGATES ...
Terence Trent D'Arby: The Great Contender
Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 1 August 1987
TERENCE TRENT D'ARBY isn't modest. But, as he's quick to point out, he has very little to be modest about. Two hit singles, a number ...
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, September 1987
"I'M VERY, VERY self-critical. I'm very critical of others, but I'm also very critical of my own work and there's no-one that could possibly put ...
The G.I. Blues of Terence Trent D'Arby
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 26 September 1987
TERENCE TRENT D'ARBY reveals the dark side of his pre-pop star life: the army experience that nearly crushed him, and the realisation that a square ...
Terence Trent D'Arby: Roxy, Los Angeles
Live Review by Gerrie Lim, L.A. Weekly, 9 October 1987
THE EVENING before our 6.1 rumble, somebody new rolled into town and left his mark more indelibly than all the debris in Whittier. ...
Spook Shopping The Terence Trent D'Arby Way
Report by William Shaw, Smash Hits, 21 October 1987
What do pop stars do when they're suddenly quite rich? If they're called Terence Trent D'Arby they buy lots of compact discs, loads of books ...
Terence Trent D'Arby: Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby (Columbia)
Review by Jon Young, Musician, November 1987
YOU CAN'T call Terence Trent D'Arby shy. On his audacious, uneven debut, this extroverted youngster co-produces, writes most of the tunes and sings 'em in ...
Terence Trent D'Arby: Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby (Columbia)
Review by Richard C. Walls, Creem, February 1988
HERE'S THE scam, or rather the situation. D'Arby, a black American gone to England, has had an enormous success among the Brits — number one ...
Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 7 September 1989
Terence Trent D'Arby has a new album on the way. He also has a clearer idea of his role in the world, as Adam Sweeting ...
Terence Trent D'Arby: Neither Fish Nor Flesh
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, November 1989
"PEOPLE, LISTEN to me," announces Terence Trent D'Arby over the intro of 'I Don't Want To Bring The Gods Down', "this is not a film, ...
Terence Trent D'Arby: Citi Club, Boston MA
Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 20 December 1989
Terence Trent D Arby, pretender to the throne ...
Terence Trent D'Arby: The Marquee, London
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 10 January 1990
IT'S ALWAYS a lark to be able to see major-ish artists in small settings, and perhaps we should be grateful to all the people who ...
Terence Trent D'Arby: The World, New York NY
Live Review by Terry Staunton, New Musical Express, 13 January 1990
THERE'S A nice little joke doing the rounds of the London headquarters of CBS in Soho Square, which goes something like this:"Knock knock.""Who's there?""Terence.""Terence who?""That's ...
Mandela's Day — The Journey To Freedom
Report and Interview by Ted Mico, Melody Maker, 28 April 1990
TWO YEARS AGO, THE POP WORLD TURNED OUT IN FORCE TO CELEBRATE HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY AND DEMAND HIS RELEASE FROM PRISON. ON EASTER MONDAY, NELSON ...
Nelson Mandela Tribute Concert, Wembley Stadium, London
Live Review by Robert Sandall, Rolling Stone, 31 May 1990
WHILE THE black south African leader Nelson Mandela was still in jail, his seventieth birthday, in June 1988, inspired the starriest gathering of rockers since ...
Symphony For The D'Evil: Terence Trent D'Arby: Symphony Or Damn (Columbia)
Review by Chas de Whalley, Vox, June 1993
BY RIGHTS, of course, Terence Trent D'Arby should have achieved superstar status years ago. That he hasn't is entirely his own fault. ...
Terence Trent D'Arby: Symphony Or Damn: The Tension Inside The Sweetness (Columbia)
Review by Mat Snow, Q, June 1993
SO MUCH for "that difficult third album". Being a precocious kind of guy, Terence Trent D'Arby cleared that hurdle one album early, 1989's Neither Fish ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, June 1993
From nowhere, his first LP sold like thermonuclear cakes and he became the most sexy, mouthy, loppy, self-promoting star in pop. Then his second album ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Rolling Stone (Germany), 1995
SITTING ON a four-poster bed framed by blood-red curtains, Terence Trent D’Arby sucks on a huge bottle of Evian water and talks. And talks and ...
Honey and Sandpaper: Sam Cooke's disciples
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, January 1995
The deep and enduring influence of Mr Soul. ...
The Q 100 interview: Terence Trent D'Arby
Interview by Tom Doyle, Q, January 1995
HOW THE devil are you? ...
Terence Trent D'Arby: Not Just a Comeback. A Reinvention.
Interview by Amy Linden, The New York Times, 13 August 1995
TERENCE TRENT D'Arby is explaining, for what may be the umpteenth time, why he lopped off his dreadlocks in favor of a close-cropped peroxide coif. ...
Where Are They Now: Terence Trent D'Arby
Report and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, Summer 2001
ONCE THE snake-hipped future of soul, Terence Trent D'Arby never quite capitalized on the enormous publicity that greeted his arrival in the mid-'80's, nor the ...
Terence Trent D'Arby: Forum, London/David Gray: NEC Arena, Birmingham
Live Review by Simon Price, Independent on Sunday, 1 December 2002
Terry's all gold – even though his name is now Buddhist Jesus II ...
Sananda Maitreya (The Artist Formerly Known As Terence Trent D'Arby)
Interview by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Believer, June 2007
Choices for black men with long hair: Afro Dreds Perm That's it! ...
"I was killed when I was 27": the curious afterlife of Terence Trent D'Arby
Interview by Kate Mossman, New Statesman, 9 October 2015
Terence Trent D'Arby's 1987 debut album sold a million copies in three days. The music press went mad for him. Where was there to go ...
Terence Trent D'Arby: Neither Fish Nor Flesh
Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, soulhead, 21 October 2015
EVERY COUPLE OF years some former fan-turned-journalist comes along to rattle the fame cage of singer/songwriter/producer Sananda Francesco Maitreya, the man who used to be ...
Why Terence Trent D'Arby became Sananda Maitreya: "It was that or death"
Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 5 October 2017
In 1987, his debut album saw him hailed as a rival to Michael Jackson and Prince — but then his star crashed and burned. He ...
see also Sananda Maitreya
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