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Patti Smith: A Portrait of the Young Woman as an Artist

Interview by Stephen Demorest, Sounds, 21 January 1978

  BACK IN THE '60s, when much of America was getting high on mind-altering drugs, Patti Smith never touched a pill, and never puffed a joint ...

Jeffrey Lee Pierce: impurely an entertainer

Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 25 January 1986

JEFFREY LEE PIERCE is a nice man when he's sober but when he's got three fingers in his mouth he's a scream. JACK BARRON held ...

Kevin Ayers: Golden Ayers

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 6 March 1976

IN HIS last, rather desperate sounding album, Kevin Ayers really hit the nail on the head. In the middle of the first song, weightily titled ...

Stephen Stills: Stills – From Fish Bowl To Pleasure Dome

Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 16 August 1975

THE KANSAS City Holiday Inn is not the kind of place you would want to call home. Situated right off an interstate highway, the rooms ...

Nils Lofgren

Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 1 May 1976

"I'M A ROMANTICIST for life," Lofgren says, sprawled on the bed of his third floor room at Swingo's Celebrity Motel. "Three years ago I wanted ...

Eric Clapton: Give Me Strength

Interview by Steve Turner, Sounds, 19 February 1977

Meg and George Patterson's cure for heroin addiction ...

Suicide, Alan Vega: Alan Vega: Journey Through America 1985 — Part One

Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 23 November 1985

During the '70s ALAN VEGA switched New York on to a different wavelength. Ten years on, and he's seemingly blown a fuse with a 'commercial' ...

The Rods: Where's The Wimmin?

Interview by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 27 February 1982

Do The Rods live up to their name? Geoff Barton gets their measure. WARNING: this feature may cause offence to supporters of Rock Against Sexism. ...

King Sunny Ade: Sunny Side Of The Beat

Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 28 August 1982

Edwin Pouncey meets the 'Minister Of Enjoyment' and monarch of juju music KING SUNNY ADE ...