Vanity Fair
Launched in 1983, Vanity Fair is an international magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs, published in New York and with four European editions.
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Interview by Mick Brown, Vanity Fair, April 1988
THERE IS NO finer art in pop music than that of knowing when to disappear. ...
Burt Bacharach, Carole King, Brian Wilson: Pop, In The Name Of Love: Grace of My Heart
Report and Interview by David Kamp, Vanity Fair, October 1996
The soundtrack for Grace Of My Heart, Allison Anders's film a clef about the early-1960s blossoming of artists such as Burt Bacharach, Carole King, and ...
Retrospective and Interview by David Kamp, Vanity Fair, November 2001
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I spent much of 2001 interviewing the songwriters, machers, and artists of the Brill Building era for this oral history. It was the ...
Johnny Cash, Rick Rubin: Johnny Cash and Rick Rubin: American Communion
Retrospective and Interview by David Kamp, Vanity Fair, October 2004
Johnny Cash thought his recording career was over. Then he met legendary producer Rick Rubin. Together, Nashville's Man in Black and the co-founder of Def ...
Babyshambles, Pete Doherty, The Libertines: Kate Moss' Prince Alarming: Pete Doherty
Profile and Interview by Edward Helmore, Vanity Fair, July 2005
IT'S 9 PM AT the Boogaloo in north London and Gerry O'Boyle, the proprietor of this dingy pub, says Kate and Pete are on their ...
The Sugarhill Gang: Hip-Hop Happens: The Sugarhill Gang's 'Rapper's Delight'
Retrospective and Interview by Steven Daly, Vanity Fair, November 2005
Released in 1979, the single 'Rapper's Delight' launched hip-hop as a multi-billion-dollar phenomenon. The opportunistic 15-minute track also revived the career of its producer, a ...
Sly & the Family Stone: Sly Stone's Higher Power
Profile and Interview by David Kamp, Vanity Fair, August 2007
Sly Stone vanished into rumor in the 1980s, remembered only by the great songs ('I Want to Take You Higher', 'Dance to the Music') he ...
Retrospective and Interview by Sheila Weller, Vanity Fair, July 2012
It was billed as "the Summer of Love", a blast of glamour, ecstasy, and Utopianism that drew some 75,000 young people to the San Francisco ...
Lana Del Rey: Rhinestone Maiden
Interview by Edward Helmore, Vanity Fair, December 2012
IT'S BEEN A year and a half since the singer Lana Del Rey hatched fully formed from the pop incubator, like a "gangsta Nancy Sinatra", ...
Lou Reed: A Last Waltz on the Wild Side
Memoir by Ed McCormack, Vanity Fair, 13 January 2014
In an excerpt from his in-progress memoir, former Rolling Stone writer Ed McCormack remembers his friend Lou Reed, and the small theft and turn on ...
The State of the Rock Chick: Individual Style or Manufactured Fashion?
Comment by Rachel Felder, Vanity Fair, 10 April 2014
AS USUAL, this year's Coachella lineup includes a handful of female artists – like Haim, Lorde, and Lana Del Rey – who look as good ...
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