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George Harrison, Ronettes, The, Phil Spector, Ronnie Spector: Ronnie — the voice that brought Spector back

Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 1 May 1971

BACK in 1963, the Ronettes were three highly-coiffeured teenage girls who swept up the charts on a furious wave of Spector sound. Their lead singer, ...

Jimi Hendrix: 'Black Gold': New Hendrix in Old Tapes

Interview by Ian Dove, Rolling Stone, 26 September 1974

NEW YORK — The archaeological probing of the Hendrix tapes continues. Up in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, at the Shaggy Dog Studios, Alan Douglas — producer, record ...

Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Velvet Underground, The, Frank Zappa: Tom Wilson: The Man Who Put Electricity Into Dylan

Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 31 January 1976

TOM WILSON is an elegant, very tall (6ft 4in) black American, a former Harvard man who talks a little like Bill Cosby but whose pencil-thin ...

Miles Davis, Phyllis Hyman, Stephanie Mills, Mtume, Gary Bartz, Reggie Lucas: Mtume and Lucas on song...

Profile and Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 1 July 1980

Having first met as members of the Miles Davis Band, Mtume & Lucas immediately sparked a mutual creative change which has resulted in a plethora ...

Dennis Bovell: Brain Damaged Goods

Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 15 August 1981

THE FINAL, apocalyptic scenes of Franco Rosso's excellent Babylon are based on a 1976 police raid on Cricklewood's Carib Club during a sound system session ...

Brian Eno, Talking Heads: Eno: The Soul Inside The Shades

Interview by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 24 April 1982

Richard Grabel practises the pussyfoot with Brian Eno, the father of electronic pop. ...

Jimi Hendrix: Alan Douglas Builds A Castle Made of Sand

Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, September 1985

The record producer had Jimi's ear just before the end. Now he's re-packaging it for the masses. As Told To Gene Santoro ...

Jimi Hendrix: Eddie Kramer: The Wizard Of Woof-Woof

Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, September 1985

If Jimi wanted to hear guitar played underwater, Eddie Kramer would turn on the faucet — and get it all down on tape. As told to Gene ...

Jimi Hendrix: Eddie Kramer: The Wizard Of Woof-Woof

Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, September 1985

If Jimi wanted to hear guitar played underwater, Eddie Kramer would turn on the faucet — and get it all down on tape. As told to ...

David Bowie, Chic, Madonna, Nile Rodgers: Nile Rodgers: Sophisticated Funk

Interview by Gene Santoro, Downbeat, September 1985

IN FUNKLAND there are many traditions, only two of which need concern us right now. The first comprises guitarists who could be described as Rhythm ...

Poison, Who, The, Ratt: Eleganza: Our Wacky, Wacky World

Column by John Mendelssohn, Creem, September 1986

IN THE EARLY '70s, we Americans called it glitter and the English glam, but by any other name it would still be mass transvestitism. It's ...

Los Lobos: A Story of Survival

Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, April 1987

YOU CAN'T say Los Lobos is special just because they've been together thirteen years, or because most of the band has known one another since ...

Brian Eno, Harold Budd: Brian Eno: Musical Revolutionary

Interview by Gene Santoro, Pulse!, March 1989

Stellar producer; influential recording artist; pioneering shaper of sound: BRIAN ENO is all of those things and more. ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers, The, Rick Rubin: The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Now That's Blood Sugar Sex Magic!

Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 21 September 1991

After a long series of wrangles with their former record company EMI, the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS are back! They're back with a new Rick ...

John Fogerty, Randy Newman, Prince: Lenny Waronker: All In The Family

Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, July 1994

Warner Brothers President Lenny Waronker is not your Average Corporate Cheese ...

Everybody's A Musician: Interactive CD-ROMS Encourage Listeners To Get In The Act

Essay by Charles Bermant, Chicago Tribune, 20 November 1994

IN 2019, THOSE WHO observe the 50th anniversary Woodstock celebration from the comfort of their own homes probably will have the richer experience. ...

Lenny Bruce, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Jimi Hendrix, Last Poets, The, Bill Laswell, John McLaughlin, Eric Dolphy, Lightnin' Rod: Alan Douglas: Thee Man Who Sold The Underworld

Retrospective and Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, July 1997

Now into his fifth decade at the doors of perception, label boss ALAN DOUGLAS hasworked with many of the century's underground greats, from Lenny Bruce, ...

Big Brother & The Holding Company, Janis Joplin: A Shot From The Heart: Janis and Cheap Thrills

Retrospective by David Dalton, Gadfly, September 1998

IT'S 30 YEARS ago today since Cheap Thrills was released, but as soon as the needle touches the surface of the record (I’m sentimental about ...

My Bloody Valentine

Retrospective and Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, February 2004

Pre-Oasis, My Bloody Valentine were Creation's greatest band. Between 1988 and 1991, they reinvented electric guitar music before vanishing in a haze of white noise. ...

Jimi Hendrix, Who, The, Bob Dylan, Charlotte Church, Paul Simon, Donovan, Kim Fowley, Dubliners, The, Fleetwood Mac, Stooges, The, Lena Zavaroni, David Essex, ABBA, Robbie Williams, Lalo Schifrin: Mike Ross-Trevor: "Are We Rolling?"

Interview by Paul Gorman, The Word, May 2004

In forty years of recording everyone from Dylan and Hendrix to Abba and Lena Zavaroni, a studio engineer sees a lot of strange things. ...