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Crazy Horse, Neil Young: Crazy Horse: Who Is Neil Young's Band, Anyway?

Interview by Dave DiMartino, Musician, November 1987

DOES CRAZY Horse have day jobs or something? These guys have played on the Neil Young records most people swear by. From 1969's Everybody Knows ...

Schoolly D, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, MC Breeze, Master Vic and Exotic Don, Cash Money and MC Marvellous, Steady B, Cool C, Jewel-T, Lord Supreme and DJ Groove, Yvette Money, DJ Bones and Malika Love: Philly Busters: The Rappers That Ate New York

Report and Interview by John McCready, New Musical Express, 7 November 1987

After ten years in the shadow of New York Flash and Cool, Philadelphia is fast becoming the City of Brotherly Rap. A new generation of ...

Little Richard (1987)

Interview by Roy Trakin, Rock's Backpages Audio, 18 November 1987

Little Richard, on the 'phone, talks about race, religion, Good Works, the original giants of rock'n'roll, and Prince and Michael Jackson

File format: mp3 File size: 20.3mb Interview length: 22 minutes 13 seconds Sound quality: **

Rock & Advertising: The Selling Of A Revolution

Report by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 4 December 1987

Madison Avenue Buys A Big Piece Of The Rock: How The Ad Industry Takes Your Favorite Songs And Turns Them Into Jingles For Toothpaste, Tennies ...

Billy Squier: Fanfare For the Common Man: Billy Squier Blows His Horn

Interview by Mark Dery, Winner, Winter 1987

MARK DERY LISTENS ...

Chuck Willis: The Great Chuck Willis

Sleevenotes by Pete Grendysa, Official Records, 1988, 1988

OF ALL THE artists brought into prominence by Atlantic Records in the mid-1950's, Chuck Willis had perhaps the most potential to become a great Soul ...

LL Cool J: Rap – A Storm In A Teacup

Report and Interview by Lloyd Bradley, Q, January 1988

WITH WORLDWIDE sales of his second album, Bigger And Deffer, approaching the three million mark (50,000 in Britain) three times more than the last David ...

T'Pau: "I was always a bit of a Tragedy-Drawers"

Interview by Sylvia Patterson, Smash Hits, 13 January 1988

How can this possibly be? Carol Decker from T'Pau is renowned for her "feistiness", being sick in her cowboy boots etc., and yet she's "terrified ...

Frank Zappa: Frank Generation

Profile by Richard Gehr, Village Voice, 17 February 1988

If I may be so crass as to adjudge a rock icon by his fans, I'd say Frank Zappa might have a demographics problem. Admittedly, ...

Bruce Springsteen: Tougher Than Most: Bruce Springsteen's Tunnel of Love tour

Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 24 March 1988

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN'S 'Tougher Than the Rest' is a sombre, unforgiving song typical of his recent Tunnel of Love album. It describes love not as an ...

Morrissey: Wilde Child

Interview by Paul Morley, Blitz, April 1988

Paul Morley interviews Morrissey, whose first solo album, Viva Hate, is released this month. ...

Living Colour's Vernon Reid (1988)

Interview by Mark Sinker, Rock's Backpages audio, April 1988

Vernon Reid talks about Living Colour signing to Epic Records; about his other projects and producing other acts; the state of Black music in America; the life and death of disco; the importance of Prince; his early days with Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society and Defunkt; the Black Rock Coalition; negative energy, drugs and racism; and the clichéd perceptions of African-Americans.

File format: mp3; file size: 78.9mb, interview length: 1h 22' 12" sound quality: ***

Big Daddy Kane, MC Shan, Biz Markie: Cold Chillin' Records: The Big Chill

Interview by Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, 16 April 1988

COLD CHILLIN' HAVE COMPILED A ROSTER TO CHALLENGE DEF JAM'S HIP HOP SUPREMACY. CAROLINE SULLIVAN MEETS A TRIO ON THE WAY TO THE TOP ...

KRS-One, Boogie Down Productions: KRS-1, Boogie Down Productions: By All Means Necessary (Jive US Import)

Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 30 April 1988

LOVE AND BULLETS ...

Bryan Ferry, Madonna: Pat Leonard: The Madonna Method

Interview by Alan di Perna, Musician, May 1988

PRODUCING BRYAN FERRY AND ARRANGING MADONNA IN THE WORLD OF HIGH-STAKES HIGH-TECH ...

Al Green (1988) [transcript]

Transcript of audio interview by Simon Witter, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 1 May 1988

This is a transcript of Simon's interview. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Morrissey: Viva Morrissey

Review and Interview by Len Brown, Spin, June 1988

Lyricist extraordinaire, celibate aesthete, charismatic bigmouth, the former Smiths frontman returns for tea & sympathy ...

Randy Travis (1988)

Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages Audio, June 1988

The First Gentleman of New Country talks about being on the road, his North Carolina roots, the New Country boom, his youthful indiscretions, and the nature of country music.

File format: mp3; file size: 36mb, interview length: 39' 22" sound quality: ***

Leonard Cohen's Nervous Breakthrough

Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, July 1988

"I THINK IF I HAD ONE OF THOSE GOOD VOICES, I WOULD HAVE DONE IT COMPLETELY DIFFERENTLY," Leonard Cohen ruminates. "I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE SUNG ...

Pink Floyd: A Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Interview by Simon Witter, NME, 9 July 1988

No band has ever been simultaneously as popular and as hated as Pink Floyd. Their latest album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason, has spawned three ...