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Pretenders, The: Pretenders Progress Report: Chambers on the Chaingang

Interview by Iman Lababedi, Creem, June 1983

SENSIBLE. THAT'S the word for Pretenders drummer Martin Chambers. Playing everything from progressive rock to proto-pub-rock professionally since 1967, he's a stolid albeit logical player ...

Men at Work: Cargo (Columbia)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, August 1983

SURE, I LIKE Men At Work too. Doesn't everybody? They seem able to please all the people all the time, even though that's not their ...

A Flock Of Seagulls: Hair Apparent

Interview by John Mendelsohn, Creem, October 1983

SINCE MOVING into it in the autumn of 1982, A Flock Of Seagulls lead singer Mike Score has scarcely seen his new flat in Liverpool ...

Carly Simon: Free, White, & Pushing 40

Interview by Nick Tosches, Creem, January 1984

"Maybe It Was My Big Mouth" ...

AC/DC: And Nothing Can Harm Them!

Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, April 1984

ARE THEY SUPER? My God, they're immense. They're gigantic. They're Jabba the Hutt on the Elvis Diet. They're so big that they're invulnerable to criticism ...

The Bangles: Bangles For Sale

Interview by Iman Lababedi, Creem, June 1985

AT THE CBS building in Manhattan guitarist Susanna Hoffs (all black tights and mini-skirt) explains the Bangles' modus operandi:"It's hard to work keeping your sense of ...

Let's Active's Mitch Easter

Interview by Karen Schlosberg, Creem, August 1985

NORTH CAROLINA has one of the neater state mottos around: Esse Quam Videri, To Be Rather Than To Seem. You might apply that motto to ...

The Smiths: We'll Meat Again

Profile and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, February 1986

"I MUST BE QUITE HONEST," announces Morrissey of the Smiths. "I can understand that people can find me very irritating. And I accept that to ...

The Cure: There Is No Easy Cure

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Creem, March 1986

"LOVE CURES A NIGHTMARE. A vivid recurring nightmare turned Cure leader Robert Smith into a nervous wreck. Now, as the group rockets through the charts, ...

Billy Idol: Nice Day for a New Album

Interview by Kris Needs, Creem, August 1986

LONDON: IT'S three in the morning and a rampant telephone slices the night silence. The caller is in New York, but the line is crystal ...

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: They Need Your Love So Bad!

Interview by Jon Young, Creem, March 1987

ANDY MCCLUSKEY laughs at the memory of The Song that changed the fortunes of Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark. ...

XTC: Celestial Postcards

Interview by Karen Schlosberg, Creem, July 1987

AN UPDATE on the attempted Americanization of XTC. For an eighth full album the trio is told, as reported by stalwart singer/songwriter/guitarist Andy Partridge, to ...

Squeeze: Access All Areas

Interview by Iman Lababedi, Creem, September 1987

Don't Pull That Trigger ...

John Mellencamp: John Cougar Mellencamp: Growing Up In Public

Interview by Bill Holdship, Creem, December 1987

You'd think that John Cougar Mellencamp would be living a rock 'n' roll version of the proverbial life of Riley. ...

Angry Samoans, The: The Angry Samoans: Samoa, Ho!

Profile and Interview by Chuck Eddy, Creem, December 1987

"THE PURPOSE of music as a reflection of the ever-changing nature of the world is to make everything you like seem silly five years later, ...