The National
The National is a government-owned English-language daily newspaper published in Abu Dhabi since 2008. It is also available online.
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Aerosmith: Ain't No Stopping Aerosmith
Profile and Interview by Stephen Dalton, The National, 1 November 2012
FOUR DECADES AGO, no sane person would have put money on Aerosmith still being alive in 2012, never mind still touring the globe and filling ...
Report and Interview by Stephen Dalton, The National, July 2010
MUCH LIKE his music, a conversation with Richard Paul Ashcroft quickly expands into a freeform voyage to the outer limits of the astral perimeter. Back ...
Interview by Stephen Dalton, The National, April 2009
IF THERE was a manual that rock bands could follow to guarantee long-term success, Depeche Mode would probably fail every test. During three decades together ...
Profile and Interview by Stephen Dalton, The National, October 2010
ONE OF THE MOST exciting breakthrough artists of 2010, Flying Lotus has been hailed as the Jimi Hendrix of his generation. Besides his own genre-blurring ...
Report and Interview by Stephen Dalton, The National, July 2008
THERE IS a certain grim irony to the news, announced last week, that Metallicas latest album Death Magnetic will be released in September in a ...
Robert Plant, Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara
Interview by Stephen Dalton, The National, April 2009
A LIGHT BREEZE of mellifluous music wafts from behind the half-open door of a long, low, bunker-like building nestled deep in the English countryside. Inside ...
Frank Sinatra lived a life of extremes sparked by his quest for fame
Comment by Pat Kane, The National, 12 December 2015
IT'S EASY for me to define who the two most important men in my life are: my father and Frank Sinatra. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Stephen Dalton, The National, September 2009
TWENTY YEARS AGO, the Stone Roses felt like an unstoppable force of nature. These four baggy-trousered young moptops from Manchester were adored all over Britain, ...
Profile and Interview by Stephen Dalton, The National, October 2010
THE GREAT LOST BOY of British music, Adrian "Tricky" Thaws has been on an exotic, erratic musical odyssey since he first added whispered raps and ...
Review by Stephen Dalton, The National, February 2009
THE LAUNCH OF a U2 album always feels bigger than a mere musical event and inevitably stirs up fierce critical friction. ...
Profile by Stephen Dalton, The National, September 2009
WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA branded rapper Kanye West a "jackass" for his one-man stage invasion at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York last Sunday, ...
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