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Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 14 January 1989

As a columnist for Billboard and The Village Voice, Nelson George has been America's most incisive commentator on the changing face of black music culture. ...

Rich Kids, The, Slik, Ultravox, Midge Ure, Visage: The Midge Ure Story

Interview by Chris Heath, Smash Hits, 12 February 1986

He's had a hand in almost every type of pop group imaginable: he was number one in 1976 with "teenybop" group Slik, almost become singer ...

Martine McCutcheon, Barbara Windsor: Albert Square dancing

Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 26 March 1999

EastEnders is having a right old knees-up at the moment. Caroline Sullivan talks to Martine McCutcheon about her million pound record deal and, below, finds ...

Alexander O'Neal: Alexander The Great conquers Britain!

Interview by Roger St. Pierre, Blues & Soul, 25 March 1986

In a year when a little chap with a royal handle put Minneapolis on the musical map, it was an ex-football star, originally from Mississippi, ...

Adamski: Spaced cadet

Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 22 September 1990

EVERYONE WANTS A PIECE of Adamski's skinny ass right now. So crammed is his schedule, I'm eventually made to feel very lucky indeed to be ...

T Bone Burnett: Just Plain Folks

Interview by David Gans, Record, January 1984

T-Bone Burnett makes a case for himself as a regular guy ...

Special AKA, The, Specials, The: The Special AKA: The Skars Have Healed

Interview by Tony Fletcher, Jamming!, March 1984

"WHO IS he anyway?" enquires one of the tastelessly coiffeured punkettes of Jerry Dammers as the main man poses for photos in Soho's Chinatown. Jerry ...

Bryan Ferry, Madonna: Pat Leonard: The Madonna Method

Interview by Alan di Perna, Musician, May 1988

PRODUCING BRYAN FERRY AND ARRANGING MADONNA IN THE WORLD OF HIGH-STAKES HIGH-TECH ...

Howard Jones: Keeping Up with the Joneses

Interview by Helen Fitzgerald, Melody Maker, 8 October 1983

Helen FitzGerald finds reasons to believe in the musical integrity of synth-pop wiz, HOWARD JONES ...

Beloved, The: The Beloved: They Wanna Be Loved

Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 27 January 1990

THE BELOVED may have started life as dodgy New Order copyists with that ubiquitous Peel session under their studded leather belts, but now they're Dance ...

Poison: Scarred but Smarter

Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 31 October 1991

With their devils, of more accurately CC DeVille, exorcised, POISON are ready to add thoroughbred musicianship to mass popularity. With a new guitarist, Richie Kotzen, ...

Faithless: "It's not just fucking chirpy nonsense"

Interview by Andy Crysell, Muzik, October 1998

FAITHLESS are back, bigger, better and bolder than before. They say God is a DJ. He's probably a Faithless fan ...

Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones, The: Mick Jagger — Bad Joke Into Social Lion

Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 February 1966

MAUREEN CLEAVE talks to the voice of the Stones ...

Antony & the Johnsons: Antony and the Johnsons

Interview by Stephen Dalton, The Times, October 2008

ONSTAGE AT Harlem's fabled Apollo Theatre, Antony Hegarty cuts an imposing figure. Swept along by a 20-piece orchestra, New York City's reigning demi-monde diva sobs ...

Marlena Shaw : Marlena Shaw: Let's Hear It For The Good Guys (and Gals!)

Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 20 July 1976

"Who Is This Bitch, Anyway?" Hey man, we're not being abusive...that was the title of Marlena Shaw's breakthrough album and serves to introduce this background ...

Alison Krauss, Cox Family, The: Alison Krauss: Music That's Timeless

Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Country Music, April 1994

It's the timelessness of bluegrass that appeals to Krauss, but hers is a bluegrass that's different, one that combines elements of the past, the present ...

Beatles, The, Rolling Stones, The, Who, The: Naked Eye: An Interview with Ethan Russell

Interview by Steve Matteo, Long Island Pulse, 26 October 2009

PHOTOGRAPHER ETHAN Russell prefers to let his pictures do his talking. In a rare interview, the only photographer to do an album cover for the ...

J.J. Cale: No Name, No Number, No Pack Drill

Interview by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, July 1994

HE IS THE MOST unrecognizable man in pop music; success, it seems, comes to him only when he wants it. And a major part of ...

Jimi Hendrix: An experience

Interview by Val Wilmer, Downbeat, 4 April 1968

THERE'S NO experience that compares to the first time the blues get to you. The hairs on your neck stand up and an uncanny churning ...

Billy Corgan: "I Like To Fuck With People": Billy Corgan interviewed

Interview by Julian Marszalek, Gigwise, 12 October 2017

Julian Marszalek talks to Billy Corgan about his new solo album, Ogilala, how Rogers Waters has inspired a potential Smashing Pumpkins reunion, the death of ...