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Desmond Dekker, John Holt, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Dandy Livingstone: Reggae... The Hits You Never Hear

Report by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 21 July 1973

Scores of reggae records sell enough copies to qualify as pop hits. But you won't see them on the charts and you won't hear them ...

EMI: Saturday Night Beneath The Corporate Umbrella

Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 2 June 1979

MUSIC, FILMS TV, HOTELS, RESTAURANTS, MEDICINE, WEAPONS...HOW A GIANT RECORD COMPANY NOW EXTENDS INTO EVERY AREA OF LIFE – AND DEATH. ...

Residents, The, Snakefinger: Ralph Records: Surrealism a Go Go

Retrospective and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, September 1980

Waiting for art talent scouts? There are no art talent scouts. Face it, no one will seek you out. No one gives a shit. — ...

Keith Jarrett, Arvo Pärt, Pat Metheny, Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy, Art Ensemble of Chicago: Manfred Eicher: Elegant, Crystalline, Mysterious or Enervated, Chilly, Morose?

Interview by Richard Cook, The Wire, January 1988

In this rare interview, Europe's leading label boss explains exactly what ECM stands for. ...

ROIR

Overview by Push, Melody Maker, 23 June 1990

To mark their 10th anniversary, the famous cassette label ROIR has released a compilation album featuring artists like Television, MC5 and The Buzzcocks. PUSH reports. ...

Marc Almond, Soft Cell, The The: The Bizzare Adventures of Stevo

Interview by Paul Sexton, Select, February 1991

Bank managers chase after him, record company chiefs live in fear of him trashing their offices, but STEVO somehow manages to survive, along with one of the most ...

No More Heroes?

Report by Sean O'Hagan, The Face, March 1991

Where have all the pop stars gone? Artists like Elvis Presley or The Beatles are the record company ideal, showing steady sales year after year. ...

Aerosmith, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Mötley Crüe, Rolling Stones, The: Big Deals: How Money Fever is Changing the Music Business

Report by Fred Goodman, Musician, January 1992

"IN MARCH of 1985 the band was broke. People were selling their houses. The IRS was calling every day." ...

Richard Branson: The Virgin King

Special Feature by Fred Goodman, Vanity Fair, May 1992

With the unprecedented $1 billion sale of Virgin Records, British mogul Richard Branson said good-bye to the last major independent label in the world and ...

Boyz II Men, Toni Braxton, TLC, Bobby Brown: L.A. & Babyface: Reid All About It

Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 9 September 1992

As if to ridicule the cynics who suggested that they'd passed their sell-by date, L.A. & Babyface are back with a bang and leading a two man assault on the music biz. L.A. Reid talks ...

MTV v the Majors

Report by Fred Goodman, Musician, June 1994

FOUR BIG RECORD COMPANIES WANT A VIDEO CHANNEL OF THEIR OWN ...

Animals, The, Jeff Beck, Herman's Hermits, Hot Chocolate, Mickie Most: Mickie Most (1997) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages transcripts, May 1997

This is a transcript of Johnny's audio interview with Mickie. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

HMV: Going out of style

Retrospective and Interview by Damon Wise, MOJO, May 2000

After nearly 80 years, HMV's flagship store is closing down. Damon Wise bids farewell to shellac discs, fancy uniforms and free smokes. ...

Aaliyah, Tori Amos, Phil Collins, Foreigner, Fountains of Wayne, Genesis, Debbie Gibson, INXS, Jewel, Lemonheads, The, Stevie Nicks, Robert Plant, Kid Rock, Skid Row, Stone Temple Pilots, Pete Townshend, Hootie and the Blowfish: The Soul in the Machine: Whatever Happened to Atlantic Records?

Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, What'd I Say, 2001

"UNFORTUNATELY, we’re running a big business here now," Ahmet Ertegun confessed to author Gerri Hirshey in 1982. "And it sort of ... well, it drives ...

Sylvia Robinson, Sugarhill Gang, The: Sugar Hill Records: Here's To You, Mrs Robinson

Retrospective by Angus Batey, Mojo Collections, Winter 2001

She took Motown as her blueprint and signed the first all-female rap group. But, as Angus Batey discovers, Sylvia Robinson and the Sugarhill mob spent ...

ZZ Hill, Dorothy Moore, Fern Kinney, Johnnie Taylor, Bobby Bland: Malaco Records: The Last Soul Label

Report and Interview by Mike Atherton, Echoes, 2002

JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, has been a music town for over half a century. In the early 1950s, Lillian McMurry's Trumpet label made Sonny Boy Williamson into ...

Johnny Clarke, Desmond Dekker, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Max Romeo, Derrick Morgan: Working Like Trojans

Report and Interview by Mike Atherton, Record Collector, July 2003

Mike Atherton delves into the revitalised world of the renowned reggae label Trojan. ...

Johnny Pacheco: Latin Swing's Last Lion: 
Johnny Pacheco Returns to the New York His Salsa Once Changed

Profile and Interview by Carol Cooper, The Village Voice, 20 January 2004

DAPPER, CHARISMATIC, and 68 years young, Johnny Pacheco is one of New York's cultural lions, a Juilliard alumnus who revolutionized the way Afro-Latin swing, a/k/a ...

Sugarhill Gang, The: 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 ...

P. Diddy

Interview by Alan Light, Elle, October 2006

"THERE HE IS! There he is!" ...