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Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers, Patti Smith, The Ramones, Richard Hell, Television: New York: Plug in to the Nerve-ends of the Naked City

Report by Nick Kent, NME, 27 March 1976

In downtown Manhattan the rock 'n' roll war rages on as potential crown princes of Punkdom battle for recognition.. NICK KENT interprets the action ...

The Rolling Stones: Advance Warning of New Meisterworks Department

Report by Miles, NME, 16 July 1977

Stones: Got Duff Chord Changes If You Want THE ROLLING STONES — even Bill and Charlie — have all been in New York this ...

Bob Seger: The Michigan Marvel

Interview by Andy Gill, NME, 12 November 1977

ON THE covers of several of Bob Seger's albums there's this curious production credit to "Punch". ...

Patti Smith: A Woman's Place…

Report and Interview by Paul Morley, NME, 1 April 1978

ARTHUR RIMBAUD, the late 19th Century French poet who dreamt of 'recreating life through his words' and whose work helped inspire poetic Symbolism, Dadaism and ...

Independents Day Revisited

Report by Paul Rambali, NME, 5 August 1978

Last September, in our extraordinarily collectable NME Collectors Issue, we looked at the seemingly unstoppable explosion of independent record labels. Times change, though. Rebels become ...

Devo: In the Terminal Zone

Report and Interview by Paul Morley, NME, 14 July 1979

IT'S OUT of the blue and into the black. A place is left somewhere behind where the front pages of the daily newspapers comment hysterically ...

The Crusaders: It's A Street Life In The Crusaders

Profile and Interview by Max Bell, NME, 22 September 1979

IT'S THE MID-1950s in Houston, Texas, east of Galveston Bay and west of the River Colorado, and some of the local folks are having themselves ...

The Jam: The Revolution Will Start When Paul Weller Has Supped His Pint

Interview by Paul Morley, NME, 3 November 1979

"I WOULDN'T say I'm a very articulate person, but I seem to be able to articulate when I write lyrics..." ...

Tom Waits: The Skid Row Drunk Goes Legit: Tom Waits live in New York

Live Review by Mick Farren, NME, 1 December 1979

BECAUSE of circumstances too dumb to relate here and now, I had never seen Tom Waits doing a live show, unless, of course you count ...

The Fall: All Fall Down

Interview by Ian Penman, NME, 5 January 1980

JUST ABOVE my typewriter on the mantlepiece is an eye-catching tube of 10 orange flavoured effervescent tablets. Each tablet contains 1g orange flavoured concentrated Vitamin ...

Roy Orbison

Interview by Penny Reel, NME, 20 December 1980

"I MADE my first money at a medicine show. I didn't know there were such things except in movies or in films until I was ...

The Fall: The Wit And Wisdom Of Mark Smith

Interview by Andy Gill, NME, 10 January 1981

DID YOU KNOW?That Andy Gill discovered all these pearls of wisdom – and more – while talking to The Fall. ...

James Brown: Prisoner Of Love Meets The Prisoners Of Hate

Report and Interview by Michael Goldberg, NME, 11 April 1981

"Those black kids ain't ever seen a black president – and they won't ever see one. This country is no better off than it was ...

Velvet Underground: The Lost History of the Velvet Underground: An interview with Sterling Morrison

Retrospective and Interview by Mary Harron, NME, 25 April 1981

THE VELVET Underground were the first avant-garde rock band, and the greatest. ...

Motorhead: Scumbags Over USA

Report and Interview by Mick Farren, NME, 6 June 1981

Mick Farren and Motorhead Lemmy, long time partners in slime and former Ladbroke rogues, meet up in a bar in Passaic, New Jersey, to discuss ...

Ian Dury: Danny Baker presents Ian Dury: A Turn For The Verse

Report and Interview by Danny Baker, NME, 8 August 1981

"There's a cock-eyed yellow poodle to the North of Gongapooch There's a little hot cross bun that's turning green, There's a double jointed wop-wop ...

The Stray Cats: Tattoo Vous?

Interview by Paul Rambali, NME, 14 November 1981

LES STRAY CHATS RENDEZVOUS WITH LES HELLS ANGELS. PAUL RAMBALI PUTS ON A TRANSFER TATTOO FOR A ROCKABILLY EXCURSION TO PARIS. ...

U2: A Dreamboat Named Desire

Report and Interview by Richard Cook, NME, 27 February 1982

"THEY WENT right through it. Took out every sock. Squeezed every tube of toothpaste. Then this guy says to me 'You – come with me. ...

Al Green: Higher Plane (Hi/PRT)

Review by Andy Gill, NME, 3 April 1982

OH, HAPPY man...You can tell Al Green is truly saved from a quick glance at the cover, from the way his Daz-white shirt blue-airbrushes its ...

Mighty Movers of Mombassa

Report by Richard Cook, NME, 18 September 1982

The New African Music: part two. Continuing our musical trek... to Mombassa, where we meet Mazembe — the voice of Kenya, and discover the talk ...