Vogue
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 23 different national and regional editions.
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Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Vogue, May 1982
The Human League are widely acknowledged as this minute's perfect pop group. The following is an account of their perfectly romantic rise in the charts. ...
Report by Cynthia Rose, Vogue, 1986
Aginners, glyphies, rednecks, rattlesnakes, conjunto, honky-tonk and wheatberry pancakes: Austin is the cultural nexus of Texas. ...
Patti LaBelle: On Her Own: Patti Labelle
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, 1987
PATTI LABELLE HAS seen it all – lived through every phase of black American pop from the doo-woppy girl groups of the early 1960s to ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, 1987
WENDY Melvoin and Lisa Coleman go back a long way. Years before they were members of Prince's group, The Revolution, they were growing up as ...
Michael Jackson: The Madness of Michael
Profile by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, December 1987
"A LOT OF PEOPLE misunderstand me," says Michael Jackson in the spoken intro to his number one hit 'I Just Can't Stop Loving You'. "That's ...
Prefab Sprout: The Enchanter: Paddy McAloon
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, 1988
PADDY McALOON is an anomalous figure in the British Pop climate of the late '80s. One of our precious few songwriters of any worth, he ...
Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle: Women Soul Singers
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, 1990
FOR ALL THE LEGENDARY kings of soul music, the Sam Cookes and Otis Reddings and Marvin Gayes, the true spirit of this great black American ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, November 1990
OF ALL THE survivors from the heady early-'80s days of LA’s "Paisley Underground", Mazzy Star’s David Roeback appears to command the most respect in rock’s ...
Babes in Toyland: Angry Young Women
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, 1991
ROCK AND ROLL is being hijacked by angry girls with electric guitars. Tired of playing airbrushed pop dollies for salivating male voyeurs, women on ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, March 1991
CHRIS ISAAK IS almost too perfect a package. With his iconic, Elvis-meets-Jimmy Dean looks immortalised on an album cover by Bruce Weber, he is a ...
Report and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, October 1991
THERE IS NOTHING quite like Momus in British pop. The alter ego of one Nicholas Currie, right, a pale Scotsman of Presbyterian origin who dwells ...
Lou Reed: Cool Hand Lou: The Transformations of Lou Reed
Comment by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, February 1992
SINCE THE RELEASE of Growing up in Public in 1980, Lou Reed has pretty much grown up in private. In 1981 he not only ...
Joe Ely, Dwight Yoakam: The Other Country
Report and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, October 1992
YOU KNOW THE country boom has gone too far when stadium-busting hat acts like Garth Brooks start wearing those clamp-on microphones sported by Madonna and ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, November 1992
ONE IS swayed by Suede. For all their foppish airs and graces, their teasing glam-rock quotes, there is a real meat to their music which ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, 1993
IF THERE WERE any justice in the world, Robyn Hitchcock would be an English cult hero. But it's the very English middle-class-ness of the man ...
Arrested Development: Rural Revolution: Arrested Development
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, February 1993
THE NAME suggests a grungy Midwest punk band, but Arrested Development is actually a black rap family based in Atlanta. Like the "Native Tongue" groups ...
Transvision Vamp, Wendy James: Wendy In Neverland: Life After Vamping
Report and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, March 1993
IT WAS ALL looking so good for Wendy James in the spring in 1991: endless magazine covers, review copies of The Little Magnets Versus the ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, May 1993
ANYONE WHO remembers Maria McKee whooping it up with her country-rock band Lone Justice back in the ‘80s will concur with Deacon Blue's verdict that ...
Ike & Tina Turner, Tina Turner: Bassett's boomtime
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, September 1993
Angela Bassett's astonishing portrayal of Tina Turner in the film What's Love Got to Do With It reveals her as an actress who can shimmy, shake and ...
Penelope Spheeris: See You at the Bank, Dude!
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, December 1993
Like the subjects of her forthcoming film The Beverly Hillbillies, she went from a poor Southern background to become a Hollywood hotshot. Barney Hoskyns meets ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, February 1994
BRITISH POP remains supremely unvexed by the anxieties of influence. Just as Suede brazenly lifted their pouting nuances from the right Glam heroes, so 24-year-old ...
Lyle Lovett: Lone Star: Lyle Lovett
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, March 1994
IT'S HARD to believe, but this is Julia Roberts’s first ever appearance on The Tonight Show, the live American chat show to end all chat ...
Nick Kent: The Write Stuff: Nick Kent
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, June 1994
FOR ANY CALLOW, maladjusted youth growing up in the early-to-mid-‘70s with the New Musical Express as his bible, Nick Kent was unquestionably the coolest rock ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, October 1994
FEW ROCK artists making their debuts have been greeted with such an avalanche of acclaim as thundered down on Liz Phair last year. Her double-album-length ...
All The Young Dudes: The Return of Glam Rock
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, September 1998
YOU COULD argue that glam – glamour, from an old Scottish word meaning "a haze in the air" – was always intrinsic to pop music. ...
Marianne Faithfull: Rock Steady
Report and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, March 2002
ON A DAMP December afternoon in bucolic Buckinghamshire, a legendary female icon of the '60s is leading her Noughties counterpart down the garden path. Literally. ...
Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg: Creme Anglaise: Jane Birkin
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, May 2003
THE REMAINS of an English breakfast stand on a table, and several bags are strewn around the room – one of them a well-worn example ...
Patti Smith: On Mapplethorpe and more: Patti Smith
Profile and Interview by Edward Helmore, Vogue, March 2010
WITH THE POSSIBLE EXCEPTION of her hero Bob Dylan, no one has perfected the look of the downtown bohemian poet as comprehensively as Patti Smith. ...
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