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Interview by Amy Linden, XXL, May 2000

NEW YORK CITY'S Central Park South is a mixture of dyed-in-the-wool, Waspy Manhattan mega bucks and the glitz of the nouveau notorious. Side by side ...

Lush: Automobile For The People

Interview by Caitlin Moran, Melody Maker, 18 June 1994

LUSH are back! Cue multiple VATs and strawberry daiquiris. But no! Lush's hard-drinking, hard-socialising days are behind them. They've gone all introspective and solemn. And, ...

MGMT: Coming Up

Interview by Dorian Lynskey, Q, June 2010

They're the button-pushing psychedelic pranksters who count Paul McCartney and Jay-Z among their admirers. Step into the weird, wired world of MGMT. ...

Moloko: These Boots Are Made For Walkin'…

Interview by Lucy O'Brien, Q, September 2000

…and today they're going to walk all over Q. For she is Roisin Murphy and they are Moloko, the Euro-chart topping Lee 'n' Nancy who ...

Zwan: Who's Laughing Now?

Interview by Keith Cameron, Q, August 2003

Billy Corgan, actually. Kick-starting Zwan has given the former alpha goth misery guts a new zest for life. Or was it New Order's relentless piss-taking? ...

Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Chain Reaction

Interview by Max Bell, No. 1, 4 August 1984

Frankie Goes To Hollywood are what's been happening while we've been away. They've been at Ho. 1 with 'Two Tribes' and at No.2 with 'Relax'. ...

Skid Row: Skid Gloves

Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 19 August 1989

Are not what latest American Metal sensations SKID ROW use when doing their tour bus washing up — nor when they're cranking out their particularly ...

Enya: Clannad's Little Sister Sails Away

Interview by Michael Azerrad, Musician, May 1989

ENYA IS sitting in Geffen Records' New York offices, looking a bit perplexed. "People in the British press were referring to me as...'beat.' Something about ...

Supergrass: Super Fly Guys

Interview by Susan Corrigan, i-D, May 1997

TWO YEARS AFTER RIDING THEIR CHOPPERS TO NUMBER ONE, BRITPOP'S BOY WONDERS ARE BACK WITH A 'DIFFICULT' SECOND ALBUM ABOUT POWER, CORRUPTION AND POST-ADOLESCENT ANXIETY. ...

Little Feat Keeps On Truckin'

Interview by David Rensin, Crawdaddy!, June 1973

I WANT TO talk on the grass in the sun. Lowell George wants to be interviewed while sitting in the cockpit of a movie prop ...

Judy Collins: The Liberation of Judy Collins

Interview by Robin Katz, Sounds, 7 June 1975

JUDY COLLINS is a liberated lady who feels that the feminist movement's mistake has, in many cases, been to isolate itself. She sees her job ...

Speedy J: Follow The Speeder

Interview by Push, Muzik, May 1997

DON'T MENTION the war. Unless you are in Rotterdam. Because if you are in Rotterdam, you really should know that on 14 May 1940, a ...

Blue Oyster Cult: Blue Oyster's Buck Dharma

Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, January 1976

DONALD "BUCK Dharma" Roeser is the lead guitar player in the New York based band, Blue Oyster Cult, a driving and loud outfit which has ...

R.E.M.: Really Exciting Music

Interview by Jon Young, Trouser Press, August 1983

ARE YOU tired of constantly being told how this or that band is the new greatest wonder? Of course you are. Unfortunately, superlatives have a ...

Fashiøn Meet Zeus And Tarzan

Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 27 February 1982

An Heroic encounter narrated by Betty Page ...

50 Cent: From The Firing Line To The Firing Range

Interview by Angus Batey, The Guardian, 1 October 2008

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson is in a strangely revealing mood as he discusses working with De Niro and Pacino, how getting shot harmed his record ...

The Bee Gees: The Tide Has Turned

Interview by Stephen Demorest, Circus, 31 January 1977

From Their Home on the Isle of Man, the Bee Gees Return ...

Ian Dury, Chaz Jankel: Ian Dury and Chaz Jankel: Teeth and Smiles

Interview by Mike Stand, The Face, September 1981

IAN DURY is in prime form. He is just back from a short holiday in Greece and is, if not exactly bronzed, then distinctly off-white, ...

Brian Eno: Everything You'd Rather Not Know About Eno

Interview by Chrissie Hynde, New Musical Express, 2 February 1974

IT WAS WITH a certain apprehensive curiosity that I first noticed the brown lace-up shoes. He displayed a normalcy that I just couldn't trust. After ...

Ted Nugent: Tough Nugies

Interview by Robert Duncan, Circus, 26 October 1976

Ted Tells Tales Of Sin & Salvation ...