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The Bay City Rollers: Inside the Bay City Rollers' Camp

Interview by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 13 September 1975

"WHEN ANYONE slates us, you can bet they’ve never heard our own stuff – Derek is a brilliant drummer" ...

10cc, Donna Summer, Jane Birkin, Max Romeo, Serge Gainsbourg: Banned — Why?: What Turns Censors On…

Report by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 21 February 1976

It's Donna Summer at the moment, but the Beatles, Stones even Lena Horne have all run into radio censorship. So this week, MM examines that ...

Kiss: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 22 May 1976

MAN, KISS HAD everything; every single effect in the book. They had a perfect lighting system; dry ice; smoke bombs; a fire-eater; a huge lighted ...

Peter Frampton: How Frampton Came Alive

Profile and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 10 July 1976

WHAT WAS it about the Fifties that encouraged the birth of so much talent? Was it the result of H-bomb testing or increased sunspot activity ...

Queen

Profile and Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 18 September 1976

BRIAN MAY remembers Queen's first-ever free gig well. It was in London, five years ago, when the band invited 120 people along to a lecture ...

Pink Floyd: Empire Pool, London

Report and Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 26 March 1977

GLC fuck-ups at Empire Pool ...

Suicide: Suicide (Red Star RS1, import)

Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 21 January 1978

Suicide is a solution ...

Tom Waits: Guess You're Waits

Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 29 April 1978

FORGIVE the blasphemy, but I reckon God must have been way out of his little box when he deposited Tom Waits among us. Mr. Waits ...

Smokie: Exiles On The Reeperbahn

Report and Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 16 September 1978

LAST NIGHT, IN Hamburg, Smokie played to 6,000 people and tonight they'll repeat the process in the fishing port of Kiel. It brings to an ...

James Brown: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, 2 December 1978

The Sex Machine winds down ...

Marvin Gaye: The Meek Shall Inherit... The Bankruptcy Court

Report and Interview by Vivien Goldman, Melody Maker, 6 January 1979

RING out the trumpets! Roll out the carpets! Marvin Gaye’s released his first studio album for two years! I’m tempted to add, Bring On The ...

Misty In Roots: Misty: Survival in Jah glory

Report and Interview by Vivien Goldman, Melody Maker, 5 January 1980

Survival's the operative-word in Misty's case. Harassed for their prominent role in the Southall immigrant community, in and out of the magistrates' courts, you'd think ...

Fela Kuti: The Republic Of Kuti

Interview by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 3 December 1983

FELA KUTI gives Lynden Barber a lecture in African culture. ...

Marvin Gaye 1939-1984

Obituary by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 7 April 1984

With the death of MARVIN GAYE, black music lost one of its most eloquent voices. Colin Irwin documents a brilliant but tempestuous career. ...

Mick Jagger, Redskins, The: The Tube: Thank God It's Friday

Interview by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 23 February 1985

MALCOLM GERRIE is the man behind Tyne Tees' groundbreaking pop TV show The Tube. Lynden Barber went to Newcastle to investigate the programme and its ...

Bernard Fowler, Sly & Robbie: Sly & Robbie: Hand in Glove

Interview by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 10 August 1985

Paul Mathur, scribe about town, ambles on down to the Kensington Hilton to meet Jamaica's supreme rhythm team, SLY DUNBAR and ROBBIE SHAKESPEARE. Rock, reggae ...

Fela Kuti: Brixton Academy, London

Live Review by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 29 November 1986

COSTUME DRAMAS ...

Run DMC: Homeboy's Home Truths

Interview by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 23 May 1987

ON THE EVE OF THEIR BRITISH TOUR, RUN DMC EXPLAIN TO FRANK OWEN THE STRENGTH OF SILENCE, THE POWER OF GOOD EXAMPLE AND THE WAY THE HISTORY ...

Anthrax, Bon Jovi, Ronnie James Dio, Metallica, W.A.S.P.: Bon Jovi/Dio/Metallica/Anthrax/W.A.S.P.: Monsters Of Rock, Castle Donington

Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 29 August 1987

MATALLIC KO ...

Morrissey: Songs of Love and Hate, Part 2

Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 19 March 1988

"Did that swift eclipse torture you?/A star at 18 and then – suddenly gone/down to a few lines in the back page/of a teenage annual/oh ...