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Interview by Emma Warren, The Face, February 1997

ANYONE WHO'S ever found themselves propelled on to the middle of the dancefloor as soon as the twisted "wah wah" strains of 'Da Funk' hit ...

Simon & Garfunkel: What friendship means to Simon and Garfunkel

Interview by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 7 June 1969

THE INFLUENCE of today's rock musicians is a very real one, and Paul Simon is a songwriter who reflects the times and society we live ...

Frank Ifield: Aussies? Squares?

Interview by June Harris, Disc, 30 January 1960

The fans get a better deal down under says FRANK IFIELD, Australia's Tommy Steele, now making a name for himself over here ...

Charlatans, The (UK): Oh no! It's the Inspiral Carpets!! Except it's really... The Charlatans

Profile by Siân Pattenden, Smash Hits, 13 June 1990

Hopeless football teams! Floppy haircuts! Accommodating trousers! A psychedelic oil-lamp situation! It's the story of how five blokes from Northwich got famous! And — oh ...

Paul Weller: The Roundhouse, London

Live Review by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 19 March 2012

Julian Marszalek greatly enjoys witnessing Weller wind up the Mod hardcore as he brings new LP Sonik Kicks to London ...

Bruce Springsteen: Got Live If You Want It? Bruce Springsteen On Stage, 1968-2005

Essay by Rod Tootell, Rock's Backpages, July 2008

Rod Tootell asks how well-served the Boss has been by his official live recordings – and nominates his Top 20 tracks. ...

Bill Bruford, Genesis: Bill Bruford

Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 1 May 1976

ARE YOU quite sure that you're definitely not joining Genesis full-time? ...

Robert Johnson: Unravelling the Legend of Robert Johnson

Retrospective by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 19 June 1971

JERRY GILBERT looks at Robert Johnson, greatest of the Delta bluesmen ...

DIG THIS! Fave Raves and Rabid Enthusiasms for February 2002

Review by Various Writers, Rock's Backpages, February 2002

GIG OF THE MONTH ...

INXS: Michael Hutchence 1960-1997

Obituary by Andrew Mueller, Vox, January 1998

THAT MICHAEL HUTCHENCE should fail to reach his 40th birthday is, perhaps, no surprise in itself – his career was distinguished by a wholehearted subscription ...

Beatles, The, George Harrison: How A Beatle Lives Part 3: George Harrison — Avocado With Everything…

Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 18 March 1966

GEORGE HARRISON is 23, the youngest Beatle and the least well-known. He isn't one of the two who sing and he isn't Ringo; indeed some ...

Rage Against The Machine: Livid In The Material World

Interview by Steven Wells, NME, 13 February 1993

From Comershop to Consolidated, politics is most emphatically back on the pop agenda. And throwing up the high-wire act between semtex and spandex to beat ...

Neil Sedaka Looks Back

Profile and Interview by Johnny Black, Music Week, June 2009

IT'S OBVIOUS to anyone with even a smattering of pop music suss that without Neil Sedaka there would be no 'Breaking Up Is Hard To ...

Destroy All Monsters: Monster Mash

Profile and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 14 July 1979

Giovanni Dadomo talks to Destroy All Monsters. Sounds editor falls for Niagara (geddit) and says, "I think we have a Debbie Harry situation with regards ...

Paul Weller: "Be Mutton Dressed As Ram!"

Interview by Jude Rogers, The Word, April 2012

Curmudgeonly theorist, phone-hacked serial dad, raffish poster-boy for inquisitive middle age — Paul Weller gives himself a good talking-to ...

Blur: Diary of an LP

Interview by Tom Doyle, Melody Maker, 14 May 1994

BLUR's Parklife is selling by the truck load, has loads of fabulous tunes on it and is really very good. TOM DOYLE talks to producer ...

The Pogues, Shane MacGowan: Shane MacGowan: It's A Long Way From Tipperary

Retrospective by Ian Fortnam, Vox, January 1998

AS PUNK PASSION dissipated and died, choking on its own irrelevance, a generation of serial venters were suddenly deprived of its primal, therapeutic effect. The ...

Ritchie Valens: The Young Singer Who Pioneered Chicano Rock

Retrospective by Martin Hawkins, The History of Rock, March 1982

WHEN ROCK'N'ROLL first stopped calling itself rhythm and blues in the mid Fifties, it became a young man's game. Teenage performers like Ritchie Valens began ...

Elvis Presley: Memphis Still Sings The Blues

Report by Michael Gray, Daily Telegraph, 10 August 2002

MEMPHIS IS ONLY technically in Tennessee. In psychic reality, it's the capital of Mississippi. Everyone who lives there knows it. What this 50 per cent ...

David Bowie: Low

Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, February 1977

WELL, THIS IS probably the strangest thing Bowie has ever recorded. First listen was a real shock...and I've come to expect surprises from this bloke. ...