Daily Mirror
The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper.
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Mick Jagger: My old mate…Mick the Monster
Memoir by Keith Altham, Daily Mirror, 23 July 1993
KEITH ALTHAM'S unique association with Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones has been established over 30 years. As a journalist and broadcaster he completed more ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 29 February 2002
DO YOU EVER get the feeling that the British music industry runs on a slightly unimaginative copycat pattern? ...
Marc Bolan, T. Rex: Marc Bolan 25 Years On
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Daily Mirror, September 2002
A MONTH before the tragic car crash that killed him on September 16, 1977, a 29-year-old Marc Bolan told fellow pop star Steve Harley: "I'd ...
Super Furry Animals: Rings Around Cardiff: Super Furry Animals
Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 2003
TEN YEARS INTO their magnificent career, Cardiff’s Super Furry Animals are indisputably Britain’s indie-rock kings. ...
Blue (UK): Blue: Guilty... as Charged
Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 31 March 2003
THE BOYS IN BLUE have become the biggest pop band in Britain by providing a little something for everyone. With the title and cover of ...
Run-DMC: Run DMC: The Best of Run DMC
Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 5 April 2003
Run DMC inspired a generation to turn hip-hop into a multi-billion dollar industry, says GAVIN MARTIN ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 1 August 2003
THE IDEA THAT death sells is hardly a new one. Elvis Presley and Jim Morrison have been the reigning kings of beyond-the-grave rock for years. ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 15 August 2003
THE RELEASE OF his 1975 classic album On The Beach – out for the first time on CD last month – underlined Young's key place ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 29 August 2003
WHEN THE Charlatans' frontman Tim Burgess moved out to Los Angeles from his native Manchester, it was inevitable that a solo album would eventually follow. ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 5 September 2003
GAVIN MARTIN welcomes back the gentle giant of soul who has a liking for calling his albums Seal. ...
Robert Palmer: Might As Well Face It, He Was Fantastic: Robert Palmer, R.I.P.
Obituary by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 27 September 2003
ROBERT PALMER was a multi-talented musical heavyweight who allowed his love of the high life to guide his career. ...
Profile and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 6 October 2003
SIAN EVANS juggles being a mum with fronting THE FAST-RISING DANCE TRIO. ...
Texas: Play Misty For Me: Sharleen Spiteri On Being A Mum and the Dubious Future of Texas
Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 17 October 2003
SHE COUNTS Madonna – and Stella McCartney and her dad Sir Paul – among her friends, while Debbie Harry sends her old stage clothes to ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 17 October 2003
YOU HAVE TO have some sympathy for the Strokes. The poor little rich kids from New York emerged fully formed four years ago and were ...
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 17 October 2003
TRAVIS HAVE BEEN REBORN AFTER SELF DOUBT AND A SERIOUS INJURY TO DRUMMER NEIL PRIMROSE. BY GAVIN MARTIN ...
Retrospective and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 7 November 2003
IT IS NOW over 30 years since New York art student Chris Stein met former beautician and Bunny Girl Deborah Ann Harry and became the ...
David Bowie: MEN Arena, Manchester
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 19 November 2003
DAVID BOWIE is the most celebrated chameleon in Britrock history, but what was so dramatic about his homecoming gig was the absence of theatrical trappings. ...
Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks: Stevie Nicks: Confessions Of A Rock Chick
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 21 November 2003
CURLED UP on the sofa at Fleetwood Mac's Los Angeles rehearsal studios, Stevie Nicks looks every inch the ageing rock chick survivor. At her feet ...
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 28 November 2003
IT IS 22 YEARS since the number one single 'Don't You Want Me' turned The Human League from underground Sheffield electro boffins into champions of ...
Black Eyed Peas: Give Peas Peas A Chance
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 12 December 2003
HOW THEIR ANTI-WAR SONG AND A FAMOUS FRIEND HELPED BLACK EYED PEAS HIT THE JACKPOT. BY GAVIN MARTIN ...
Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 2 January 2004
IN THEIR 10 years together, Basement Jaxx have sold more than two million albums, won a Brit Award for Best Dance Act and generally been ...
Kelis: Ice Queen Kelis Blows Her Cool
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 16 January 2004
KELIS IS BACK WITH A SAUCY ALBUM AND A BAD ATTITUDE ...
Motörhead: 25 And Alive – Live At Brixton ***
Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 16 January 2004
EARLY DURING this concert – recorded in 2000 to celebrate 25 years of Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister's favourite band – the music stops. "If you aren't ...
Comment by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 16 January 2004
Mirror music critic Gavin Martin mourns the demise of the humble music cassette. ...
The Brits: D-Day – The Music Died
Report by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 18 February 2004
IT WAS the British music industry's D-Day, with The Darkness, Dido, Duran Duran and even Daniel "personality bypass" Bedingfield sweeping the board. ...
Comment by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 12 November 2004
As voting closes on the UK Music Hall of Fame, Gavin Martin chooses his top artists from each of the past five decades. ...
Franz Ferdinand, Keane, Scissor Sisters, Joss Stone, The Streets: More Originality Please: The BRITS
Report by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 10 February 2005
THE BRITS Awards Panel must be relieved that their 25th Anniversary coincided with a revival in the fortunes of new UK music makers. ...
Pink Floyd Tear Down Their Wall
Retrospective by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 14 June 2005
IT IS THE rock reunion no one believed we would ever see – including the band members. Pink Floyd, who endured one of the most ...
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 4 July 2005
Gavin Martin rates the event's top acts. ...
Paul McCartney: American Airlines Stadium, Miami
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 19 September 2005
Mirror Music Critic GAVIN MARTIN's verdict on Sir Paul's dire US tour. ...
Paul McCartney: Macca Has Strength To Beat His Blues
Comment by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 18 May 2006
THE INNER STRENGTH that has helped Paul McCartney triumph over adversity and career setbacks will help him cope with his separation from Heather Mills. ...
Dirty Pretty Things: Barat's Home: Dirty Pretty Things
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 7 July 2006
THE LAST TIME I met Carl Barât he was, by his own admission, in the middle of a deep depression. Carl's relationship with Pete Doherty ...
Snow Patrol: Run For Cover: Snow Patrol
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 21 July 2006
HE IS KNOWN as indie rock’s Mister Nice Guy. But despite selling two million albums, Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody remains a charisma-free zone. ...
Catatonia, Cerys Matthews: The return of Cerys Matthews
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, August 2006
CERYS MATTHEWS, Britpop's very own Princess of Wales is back. The former Catatonia singer escaped to a new home in Nashville at the start of ...
James Brown: Black and Proud: James Brown, 1933-2006
Obituary by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 26 December 2006
GODFATHER OF SOUL James Brown, who died of heart failure yesterday aged 73, was a member of a very select group of performers who truly ...
Pet Shop Boys: The Pet Shop Boys
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 25 May 2007
THE PET SHOP Boys have been one of the most successful pop duos ever produced in this country. Twenty-one years into their career Chris Lowe ...
Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 14 September 2007
THEY WERE THE Invisible Band who rose to become the nation's favourites. Hits such as 'Why Does It Always Rain On Me?' prepared the way ...
Madness: Nutty Boys talk turkey
Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 30 November 2007
THREE MEMBERS OF Nutty Boy legends Madness are in the basement of their favourite North London boozer, The Constitution. Singer Suggs, guitarist Chris Foreman and ...
The Chemical Brothers: Chemical Brothers: Chemical Romance
Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 7 December 2007
WHILE MANY OF their 1990s superstar DJ peers have fallen by the wayside, the Chemical Brothers remain a phenomenal British success story. Duo Ed Simons, ...
Led Zeppelin: Led Zep back on UK stage for 1st time in 27 years
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 11 December 2007
IT'S BEEN A LONG time since they rock and rolled. But here at last are Led Zeppelin back on a British stage again for the ...
James Blunt: The Universal Soldier
Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 14 December 2007
OFFICER JAMES BLUNT, pocket-sized former Captain in the Life Guards regiment and 12 million-selling global superstar, clambers out of the car carrying his guitar case. ...
Comment by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 14 December 2007
SIMON COWELL may not be, as Neil Tennant claimed, a "pop Satan", but he certainly isn't a pop Santa either. In fact, to Simon's already ...
Shane MacGowan: Exclusive: Pogues' Shane Tells How He Made It To 50
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 24 December 2007
Smoking, drinking and partying keep me alive ...
Special Feature by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 28 December 2007
GIGS OFTHE YEAR LOU REED: Hammersmith Apollo, London Critically mauled on its original release, Berlin – Reed’s 1973 masterpiece of drug-addled despair, emotional and physical breakdown – ...
The Feeling: To the Manor Born
Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 11 January 2008
WHEN IT CAME to recording the follow-up to their million-selling smash debut album Twelve Stops And Home, The Feeling did it in style. ...
Profile and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 18 January 2008
AFTER THREE ALBUMS as Mull Historical Society, Colin MacIntyre has decided to head out on his own and his new album, The Water, will be ...
Fatboy Slim's cooking up another monster festival by Loch Ness
Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 1 February 2008
HE IS THE original funk soul brother and superstar DJ, the presiding expert in showing dance-floor filling crowds the world over how to have it ...
The Levellers: Radical heroes: The Levellers are celebrating 20 years together
Retrospective and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 29 February 2008
INSPIRED BY PUNK and folk, and named after a radical 17th-Century collective, the Levellers became synonymous with a huge underground anti-authority movement, supporting green issues ...
The Eagles: Eagles: O2 Arena, London
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 21 March 2008
KINGS OF '70s Californian rock, the Eagles last night commenced a five-date run at London's O2 by proving their glories do not just reside in ...
Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 2 May 2008
LED ZEPPELIN singer and insatiable rock 'n' roll warrior Robert Plant bounds into his management office in North London brandishing a new CD. "Look at ...
Simple Minds: Still Going for Gold
Retrospective and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 23 May 2008
IT IS 30 YEARS since Glaswegian teenagers Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill formed Simple Minds. In the years since, they have scaled the heights of ...
Bruce Springsteen: RDS Arena, Dublin
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 24 May 2008
AT THE FIRST SHOW of Springsteen's European tour, anticipation was at fever pitch for the return of the man they still call the Boss. And ...
Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 13 June 2008
LAST YEAR, THE Subways hit crisis point. The Welwyn Garden City three-piece were flying high after their 2005 debut Young For Eternity attracted celebrity fans ...
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 17 June 2008
THE FREE GIG at London's Brixton Academy was packed out with fans and celebs who'd won a ballot to be one of the 4,000 people ...
Seth Lakeman on James Blunt, Raving and Marriage
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 3 July 2008
Seth Lakeman talks about his foot-stomping fourth solo album ...
Bloc Party Refuse to Rest on Their Laurels 10 years On
Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 16 January 2009
SITTING ON THE band's tour coach, while waiting to check into their Las Vegas hotel, Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke is wearing baggy jeans that ...
Friendly Fires: Burning Ambition: Friendly Fires
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 30 January 2009
LAST YEAR, Friendly Fires' self-titled debut album marked them out as one of the most exciting and danceable new bands in the country. They'd certainly ...
The Killers: Brandon Flowers is Blooming
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 13 February 2009
IT IS FIVE HOURS before showtime and the Killers’ frontman Brandon Flowers, kicking back in his South Carolina hotel room, is in relaxed, confident and ...
Review and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 17 April 2009
How the trio escaped their demons to make a great album ...
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 1 May 2009
SHE IS BEST KNOWN as the sweet-voiced colleen who found international fame accompanying Irish star Damien Rice on record and on stage. ...
Marilyn Manson: Interview With Marilyn Manson: Oddball Rocker Is Stirring Up Trouble
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 5 June 2009
IN A HOTEL SUITE overlooking London's exclusive Park Lane, Marilyn Manson is making merry. ...
Interview by Paul Elliott, Daily Mirror, 12 June 2009
THEY ARE CURRENTLY the hottest band on the planet after their fourth album Only By The Night took up residency at the top of the ...
Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 26 June 2009
DOVES ARE THE great survivors of Manchester Rock. Jimi Goodwin and brothers Jez and Andy Williams were schoolpals in Wilmslow and, since joining together as ...
Paolo Nutini's album is now the third-best seller of the year
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 30 October 2009
HIS TRANSFORMATION from coffee table crooner into a genre-crossing folk 'n' soul-charged free spirit has been one of the most slyly successful rebranding exercises of ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 20 November 2009
THE SHOWBIZ SCANDAL OF THE YEAR was given a public face this Spring as pictures leaked out of the injuries Robyn Rihanna Fenty had sustained ...
Ke$ha is young and lives fast, but she is serious about one thing — her songs
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 27 November 2009
THE UK POP SCENE is about to be invaded by wild child Ke$ha and her debut single 'Tik Tok'. The 22-year-old LA-born, Nashville-raised daughter of ...
Shakira Wants to Fight Poverty and Offer Escapism
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 4 December 2009
SHAKIRA'S THE 50 million-selling pocket-sized Colombian superstar whose high-profile charity work, runaway international success and eye-boggling performances comprise a perfect combination of brain power and ...
Marina and The Diamonds: The Family Jewels ***
Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 19 February 2010
TO MAKE IT in the modern day pop world requires ruthless determination and unfettered self-interest. ...
Lissie Maurus is full of true rebel country spirit
Profile by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 2 April 2010
ONE OF THE YEAR'S TRUE FINDS, Lissie Maurus maintains the flame for the true rebel country spirit with her finely-etched songs and smokey vocals. Raised ...
Ellie Goulding: New star Ellie Goulding has her name up in lights
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 2 April 2010
THIS YEAR, Ellie Goulding has already been anointed with the Critics' Choice Award at the Brits and, in just three weeks of release, her polished ...
Professor Green: Alive Till I'm Dead
Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 16 July 2010
YOUNG EAST LONDONER Stephen Paul Manderson, aka Professor Green, has already had a rocky career. A recording apprenticeship with Mike 'The Streets' Skinner's label The ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 27 August 2010
WITH HER LARGER-THAN-LIFE presence, and naughtier than sin songs, Katy Perry's position as the candy-craving gal from the American dream factory appears unassailable. ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 12 November 2010
Rihanna gives Lady Gaga a run for her money with sassy new album ...
Black Eyed Peas: The Black Eyed Peas: The Beginning
Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 26 November 2010
Welcome to spinal rap ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 25 March 2011
IN THE YEAR she turns 30, Britney Spears is not about to upset the formula that has seen her sell an eye-watering 100 million albums. ...
Cee Lo Green: Southern Comfort: Cee Lo Green Arrives To Charm His British Fans
Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 25 March 2011
ON THE HEATED terrace of his London hotel, Cee Lo Green, the extra-large sized tattooed love god and Lady Killer extraordinaire is in his element. ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 1 April 2011
FEW TALENTS have bridged the gap between the pop mainstream and underground club culture in recent years with the ease and confidence of Kathleen Brien. ...
PJ Harvey: Polly Harvey reflects on a career marked by exploration and taking chances
Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 15 April 2011
SAT IN THE ornate lounge room of a salubrious London hotel, Polly Jean Harvey apologises that she's finishing off a mouthful of nuts. With her ...
Bootsy Collins: King of the funk bass is back with a solo album
Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 22 April 2011
LOUNGING IN A London hotel suite dedicated to the memory of his childhood hero Jimi Hendrix, Bootsy Collins grins to reveal a gold incisor implant. ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 7 October 2011
Every so often an album comes along that not only justifies its hype but outweighs it. ...
Kelly Clarkson is going from strength to strength — and doesn't care if people think she's a lesbian
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 27 January 2012
The American Idol winner on her family upbringing and why she's happy to be single ...
Speech Debelle Inspired by Tupac on Second Album
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 3 February 2012
In the two years since Speech Debelle won the Mercury Prize for her debut album Speech Therapy, she has seen her life turn around. ...
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 6 July 2012
Fusing her background in dance, theatre, Lady GaGa-esque cabaret and singing in burlesque clubs, Fall To Grace is Paloma at her best ...
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 12 October 2012
In the era of autotuned idols, the appeal of a unflashy young man and his heartfelt songs obviously strikes a universal chord ...
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 25 2013
Widespread delirium will ensue when Muse touch down at Glastonbury tomorrow ...
Lou Reed, Velvet Underground: Lou Reed Dead: The Day I Interviewed Velvet Underground's Auteur
Memoir by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 27 October 2013
The Velvet Underground may have sold few records during their lifespan but Lou's songs with them became a potent inspiration ...
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