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Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Sunday Times, 20 February 2011

Queen are 40 this year — and to celebrate, they're reissuing their first five albums. Brian May and Roger Taylor talk to us about Bowie ...

Marianne Faithfull: Keeping The Faith

Interview by Ethlie Ann Vare, Elle, July 1990

MARIANNE FAITHFULL WAS ONE OF THE MOST RAVISHING ICONS OF THE SIXTIES AND A CELEBRATED ROCK CASUALTY OF THE SEVENTIES. NOW, AT 43, SHE IS ...

Last Poets, The, Lightnin' Rod, Jalal Mansur Nuriddin: Jalal Nuridden:The Verse Is Yet To Come

Interview by Chris Roberts, Sounds, 29 September 1984

LAST POET Jalal Nuridden recites to Chris Roberts ...

Terence Trent D'Arby: Yeau!

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, September 1987

"I'M VERY, VERY self-critical. I'm very critical of others, but I'm also very critical of my own work and there's no-one that could possibly put ...

John Lee Hooker: The Voodoo Guru

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, February 1990

ON 74TH & BROADWAY, the Gotham fog freezes your lungs with every breath, but inside the Beacon Theatre, Van Morrison has just spent something under ...

ZZ Top: Welcome To Weirdsville…

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, November 1990

ROBERT CRAY'S favourite ZZ Top story: the last time the Robert Cray Band played San Antonio, Billy Gibbons called up and requested tickets. Come show-time, ...

David Bowie: Tin Machine: Versus

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, October 1991

PICTURE THIS: you are in a sex shop in Sydney (for whatever twisted reasons people have for patronising such institutions), and this scholarly-looking gent with ...

Ciccone Youth: Youth Programming (Bastards)

Interview by Jack Barron, NME, 10 September 1988

THE LAST THING I remember before unconsciousness descended like a gun-butt to the head was Thurston Moore's evil grin and his instruction, "Relax, nothing bad ...

Queen: The Hard Life of Brian: Brian May

Interview by Ian Fortnam, unpublished, April 1998

It's quite a spread – set in the majestic, green sward Jerusalem of the Home Counties' stockbroker belt, and surrounded by idyllic gardens painstakingly landscaped ...

Patti Smith: Breaking The Shackles Of Original Sin

Interview by Paul Rambali, NME, 16 September 1978

The White Niggah, Biblical Obsession, and The Mutant Army witnessed at Cardiff – where discussions encompass the sexiness of Prince Charles and the pressures of ...

Brothers Johnson: The Brothers Johnson

Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, November 1979

'PLATINUM' IS THE perfect word to precede 'record' when you’re a musician today. And with a three-for-three tally, the Brothers Johnson are decorating their walls ...

The Monkees: Instant Replay: Does Anyone Dare Remember The Monkees?

Interview by Harold Bronson, Coast, 1 September 1971

Here we come, Walkin' down the street.We get the funniest looksFrom everyone we meet. ...

George Clinton: Putting On The Atomic Dog

Interview by John Morthland, Creem, July 1983

GEORGE CLINTON hunkers down into the couch in the conference room of Capitol's Manhattan offices, pours himself a tall noontime glass of orange juice, and ...

Sting Has No Answers

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Creem, March 1988

HELL, AT LEAST he's trying. Plenty have called him pretentious – quoting Shakespeare to drunks, diddling Jung, sporting philosophers and musicians like designer accessories – ...

Little Richard: A Bizarre Interview With The Amazing, Self-Styled King Of Rock 'N' Roll

Interview by Danny Holloway, NME, 18 November 1972

HE CALLS HIMSELF the Georgia Peach, the Bronze Liberace and the King of Rock and Roll. Little Richard calls himself a lot of things. Some ...

Bee Gees, The: The Bee Gees: Forgive and Forget

Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, June 1989

They made the parquet-pounding record that launched the jacket-shedding dance that gave birth to the thing they call Disco. And for this appalling misdemeanor The ...

Johnny Winter, McCoys, The: Johnny Winter Speaking

Interview by Royston Eldridge, Sounds, 17 October 1970

THE IDEA of Johnny Winter, Texan albino, blues guitarist and underground legend, working with the McCoys, bubble-gum lightweights sold on their teenage looks, would have ...

John's Children, Jet (UK): Andy Ellison Talks About John's Children, Marc Bolan, Jet, Psychedelics, Etc., Etc.

Interview by Dave Schulps, Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press, February 1976

DS: WAS JOHN'S Children your first band? ...

Manassas, Stephen Stills: Stephen Stills: The Loner

Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 11 March 1972

Step aside, open wide. It's the loner. ...

Blondie: At last, a genuine artistic (well, it ain't sexist) pic of Debbie Harry in Sounds &...

Interview by Jane Suck, Sounds, 4 February 1978

I'M ALLOWED to say that a bomb dropped on my head whilst walking round the corner from Covent Garden Tube station to meet the band, ...