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Grace Jones: Bond Age Woman: Grace Jones

Interview by Richard Cook, NME, 22 June 1985

First only a face, then an image, a singer and now a film actress, GRACE JONES has always been A Star. RICHARD COOK interviews her ...

The Datsuns: The Big Noise from Down Under: The Datsuns

Interview by Joss Hutton, Rock's Backpages, October 2002

THE UK SEEMS to be going underground rock ‘n’ roll ker-razy at the moment, what with the success of The White Stripes and The Hives, ...

XTC: The X-Factor: Andy Partridge

Interview by Bruce Pollock, Guitar, January 1986

"WE CALL IT BILLY Bolts or Billy Bolt Upright. I just sort of sit up and become this person Billy Bolt. You lust get into ...

Bob Mould, Husker Du: Off the Underground Wall: Husker Du's Bob Mould

Interview by Bruce Pollock, Guitar, July 1987

IN A ROCK 'N' ROLL world seemingly littered with spandex sheep, Bob Mould is a definite character, from his solid, Midwestern farmboy semi-crew and lumpen ...

Neneh Cherry: A Life In The Day Of . . . Neneh Cherry

Interview by Simon Witter, Sunday Times, 20 September 1992

Born of a West African father and a Swedish mother, Neneh Cherry, 28, takes her name from the American jazz trumpeter Don Cherry, whom her ...

Warrant: Up To Date With The Down Boys

Interview by Metal Mike Saunders, BAM, 18 September 1992

AS GOOD A place as any to start here might be with a letter I wrote to an unnamed Pacific Northwest fanzine editor on January ...

Ted Nugent: Divorce, Ted Nugent Style

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 19 May 1979

TED NUGENT (Hammersmith Odeon, second house): "There can come a time when you baby turns to you and says 'I'm splittin'' and you're so sad ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Fall: Before and after the Fall

Interview by Mat Snow, NME, 3 November 1984

"I THINK the difference is in the mechanical sounds of our time. Like the sound of the airplane in the '40s was a rmoooooaaaahhhhhhhh sound ...

The Darling Buds: Move Over Darlings

Interview by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 23 April 1988

SOWING SEEDSSO WE WON'T compare them to a summer's day, then. Summer days are the longest, the most languorous. The Darling Buds are flecked with ...

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 ...

Fun Lovin' Criminals: Lock, Stock & One Smokin' Criminal

Interview by Dan Gennoe, Flipside, 1999

From the mean streets of New York to the palm trees of Hawaii, Flipside talks herbs, pasta, cocktails, garlic and garbage with Fun Lovin' Criminal ...

Captain Beefheart: A Candid Conversation With Beef The Chief: The Don Van Vliet Interview

Interview by Rick McGrath, The Georgia Straight, 1971

This interview was found in the vaults by Harold Colson, an ace Librarian at the University of California at San Diego. Harold is researching the Stones ...

Proclaimers, The: The Proclaimers: Devolution Will Not Be Televised

Interview by Robin Gibson, Sounds, 3 September 1988

What are THE PROCLAIMERS — Proddie libs, camp Stalinists or just a pair of swotty geeks? ROBIN GIBSON finds that ugly is only skin deep, and if ...

Sugarcubes, The: The Sugarcubes: First Love Last Rites

Interview by Robin Gibson, Sounds, 7 May 1988

The ink fresh on a US record deal, and their debut LP, Life's Too Good, just out, the big money beckons for resolute indie artists ...

Shack: Talking Heads

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 15 May 1999

This is a story of highs and lows. Of drug addiction, of long lost albums, wasted opportunities and ultimately — perhaps — much deserved success. ...

Del Fuegos, The: The Del Fuegos: Rockers On A Roll

Interview by Jim Sullivan, Globe Magazine, 26 July 1987

HOW THE DEL FUEGOS CREPT OUT OF THE BASEMENT TOWARD A BIG-TIME DREAM ...