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Interview by Caitlin Moran, Select, May 1998

All-singing? All-dancing? You're joking. By rights, Cornershop should be basking in their new-found celebrity — instead, Tjinder and Ben are either crying into their pints ...

Adele

Profile and Interview by Jude Rogers, The Gentlewoman, Spring 2011

2011 saw a perfect start for Adele Adkins, a British singer with incredible international appeal. When her second album was released in January, it went ...

Shaft: The Remake

Retrospective by James Maycock, Untold, 2000

How The 2000 Movie Capitalized On The Original's Reputation ...

Paul Brady: Making Tracks For A Rock Station

Interview by Ken Hunt, Folk Scene, November 1982

(ED. NOTE: The interview upon which some of the following article was based is an edited version of one conducted for, but as yet unpublished ...

Bob Dylan: More Of An Outlaw Than You Ever Were? (Hold The Mayo On The Golden Globe Awards)

Essay by Richard Riegel, Creem, March 1982

During the '70s, Dylan got swept up into those overblown, superstarred ships of fools which claimed so many promising prophets from the '60s. ...

Daryl Hall: Sensitive, Solvent and Soulful: Daryl Hall

Interview by Kathryn Flett, i-D, December 1986

On the psychoanalyst's couch with Daryl Hall. The lean and leonine one gets garrulous and holds forth — Rock N' Soul, the true story, Socio-Politics, Religion, Art. ...

Sum 41: Menace To Sobriety

Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 15 February 2003

As they headline their first UK arena tour, party monsters Sum 41 insist drugs and sex are off the menu. Happily, gambling, boozing and hanging ...

Human League, The: LADIES, GENTS, ANDROIDS, MUTANTS & BIOTRONS A BIG HAND For The Human League

Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 12 July 1980

THE HUMAN LEAGUE ADVENTURE IS JUST BEGINNING. The first slide appears on the top left-hand screen. It is rapidly flanked by another: A LONG TIME AGO IN ...

Bucks Fizz: Let's Get Fizzical

Interview by Ian Birch, Smash Hits, 13 May 1982

Few groups ever survive thee Eurovision Song Contest. Bucks Fizz haven't justsurvived, they've flourished. Their UK record sales are topped only by The Human League. Ian Birch ...

David Bowie: Fifty Ways To Love Your Bowie: Half a Ton of Fave Daves

Guide by William Higham, Rock's Backpages, October 2002

WITH THE Bard of Beckenham on a critical high right now (and yes, new album Heathen IS his best in years), it seems an opportune ...

Beatles, The: The Beatles and Hamburg

Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, Winter 2012

THE BEATLES may have come from Liverpool, England – but they were made in Hamburg, Germany. That, at least, is the view of Allan Williams, ...

All Saints: Saint Misbehavin'!

Interview by Robin Bresnark, Melody Maker, 7 February 1998

If you believe the tabloids, ALL SAINTS are a bunch of tune-nicking, three-in-a-bed romping, manager-bashing, Spice Girl wannabes. But is that bollocks? We join the ...

Nina Hagen: The Euro Woman Cometh

Profile and Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 9 June 1979

THE LOBBY OF Blake's Hotel in Kensington is a hive of useless activity. As I walk through the open glass doors with the just-so scrolling ...

Bon Iver: "I'm really confused right now"

Profile and Interview by Laura Barton, The Guardian, 9 June 2011

Bon Iver's first album brought Justin Vernon success beyond his comprehension. With his hugely anticipated second album out soon, Laura Barton asks – can he ...

Independent Promotion: The Inside Story

Report and Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 24 April 1986

IT WAS GOING to be easy money. The cash would be sent, each week, in an unmarked brown paper envelope to the home of the ...

Trainspotters: Sad All Over

Report by Bethan Cole, Mixmag, December 1995

Trainspotting, eh? We all do it, to one extent or another. But there are people who go that little bit further. People who take it to extremes. Who let collecting, buying ...

Inside the Payola Scandal

Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 14 January 1988

ROLLING STONE has uncovered details of alleged cash payoffs — payola — to radio-station personnel by the operation of the California-based independent promotion man Joe Isgro. ...

Paul Anka's enduring work has ranged from Sinatra to Nirvana

Interview by Jim Sullivan, Cape Cod Times, 1 August 2015

"I'M 98 YEARS OLD!" he crows on the phone. Not quite; he's 74. But he's still going strong, singing with an orchestra Friday at the ...

T'Pau: Springsteen in a Split Skirt

Interview by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 26 November 1988

Still reeling from 15 rounds with Steven Wells, T'Pau's Carol Decker now faces the ultimate challenge — five Bimbo-detecting questions posed by Gimlet-eyed airhead-hater BARBARA ...

Guns N' Roses, N.W.A.: At a Loss for Words

Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 31 May 1990

Record-industry acceptance of stickering is already having a chilling effect ...