Backstage: groupies, riders etc.
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The Beatles: Now You Can Be A Beatle People And Get Right In Here With Them
Overview by uncredited writer, Rave, June 1964
● Just a few people share the Beatles' lives — and their wit, charm, gaiety — because the Beatles can't meet everyone. ● But now YOU ...
Dusty Springfield, P.J. Proby, The Rolling Stones: Stars Come Out At Night On The Scene
Report by Vicki Wickham, Fabulous, 22 May 1965
THE MUSIC has stopped. The stage lights are dimmed. The screaming fans have gone home. What happens to the pop stars when it's all over ...
Report by Dawn James, Rave, July 1965
What is the truth about our stars of pop? How hard do they really work for the fabulous rewards that pop success brings? Are they ...
Donovan, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Sonny & Cher: Why Do Hotels Ban Pop Stars?
Report and Interview by uncredited writer, Disc Weekly, 4 September 1965
WHY DO pop stars get banned from hotels? ...
The Pretty Things: Viv — "It's All Lies"
Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 23 September 1965
'I could sue them' says Viv Prince, about newspaper articles which appeared about him in New Zealand. Norman Jopling reports...' ...
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich, The Hollies, The Mindbenders: Scrubbers – The Facts
Report by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 10 December 1966
ALAN WALSH investigates the WORLD OF THE FEMALE POP FAN ...
Report and Interview by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 30 March 1967
IN THE backstage halflight of the RKO 58th Street Theatre, Peter Townshend awaits his cue. Stagehands pace furiously, shouting orders in bizarre New York-ese. A ...
Gene Pitney: Marriage for the girl with a thousand freckles — Gene And I By Lynn
Interview by Maureen O'Grady, Rave, April 1967
Gene Pitney dashed a million dreams by marrying his childhood sweetheart, Lynn Gayton. Here she talks to RAVE's Maureen O'Grady about what it's like to ...
The Herd, Traffic, The Who: Traffic, The Who, The Herd: Danger: Who At Work!
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 11 November 1967
THE WHO-TRAFFIC-Herd-Tremeloe tour, while proving to be a sell-out attraction, has caused a certain amount of anxiety among those people whose job it is to ...
Groupies: A Story Of Our Times
Special Feature by Tom Nolan, Cheetah, December 1967
The March of Time's issue about teen-age girls is worth seeing in the sense that one might examine with interest a slide of cancer tissue. ...
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Rolling Stone, 20 September 1969
LOS ANGELES — Kim Fowley, the rock and roll missionary and visionary, lives in a room above a garage in Laguna, Calif., with no sheets ...
New-Old Grande Something to See
Report and Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 26 December 1969
THE LATEST word, in the merry-go-round that ballroom promoters have been sending Detroit people on, is good, but still a little confusing. It's confusing In ...
The GTOs: Permanent Damage (Straight/CBS)
Review by Miles, International Times, 27 February 1970
IT'S NOT TOO difficult to reject the spectacle of Hollywood, to drop out, find yourself, re-evalue your ideas, unless you LIVE in Hollywood. What if ...
Creedence Clearwater Revival: In Europe With Creedence
Report by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 18 April 1970
SCARY GERMAN FUZZ-FAN SCENE! ...
The GTOs: Girls Together With Groups Outrageously
Interview by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 4 July 1970
YUP, IT was going to be one of those days. Miss Pamela and Miss Cynderella were in town. Which must be worth a quick Wow! ...
Humble Pie: We May Lose Humble Pie: "We're not having to do the walking on the water bit"
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 10 October 1970
STEVE MARRIOTT PHONES FROM PHILADELPHIA ...
Germaine Greer: A Groupie in Women's Lib
Report and Interview by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, 7 January 1971
LONDON — ON a crazy Sunday afternoon in London, Germaine Greer lolls in the corner of a crowded room with a silver knit flapper's hat ...
Van Der Graaf Generator: Oh What A Boar!
Report by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 20 March 1971
SATURDAY morning. The Van der Graaf Generator truck speeds and wobbles along the motorway, northbound. It's a clear day, around lunchtime, and we're beginning to ...
The Rolling Stones: Goodbye Great Britain: The Rolling Stones On Tour
Report and Interview by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, 15 April 1971
LONDON – "Boogie, Bobby, boogie," Marshall Chess is saying over and over to Bobby Keys in the seat next to him, slamming out the phrase ...
Three Dog Night: Flower Flight to Dallas
Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 13 August 1971
YOU'VE HEARD about "Ship of Fools". Now let me tell you about the "Flower Flight" — a far-too-early plane that flew to Dallas recently for ...
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 2 October 1971
Part two of RITCHIE YORK'S interview in Canada ...
Emerson Lake & Palmer: The Top of Pop: A Rock Fan Writes
Column by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 23 April 1972
THAT FINE dividing line between fan and groupie is often razor thin and rather shaky. I used to admire groupies because they at least broke ...
Alice Cooper: Alice's New Snake – Yvonne Likes Her Work
Profile by Jim Esposito, Rock, 17 July 1972
THERE ARE lots of rumors circulating the rock industry, especially about Alice Cooper. However, the one about Alice having to get rid of his old ...
English Trends in L.A.: Rodney Bingenheimer Makes Good
Report and Interview by Marty Cerf, Phonograph Record, December 1972
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA — Just when we all expected it least, it happened. With our pants down, mouths wide open, Rodney Bingenheimer fulfilled the unknown pledge ...
David Bowie, Cherry Vanilla: Cherry Vanilla: Cherry Sauce
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 21 April 1973
...Or hot gossip from a former skin-flick queen who's been hired to handle David Bowie's publicity machine. ...
The Faces: Yes, All You Rock Fans, Your Idols Love Letters
Interview by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 20 May 1973
IF YOU'VE ever wanted to write to Rod Stewart or any one of the Faces, now's your chance. I don't want to sound like the ...
Report by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 16 June 1973
"I DON'T EVEN like Led Zeppelin," the girl in the black velvet jacket and hotpants said petulantly as she bummed a cigarette off an acquaintance ...
Sweet Little Sixteen making out on Sunset Strip
Report by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 30 June 1973
FROM ROY CARR A KEYHOLE GUIDE TO THE GROUPIES OF L.A. RESEARCH: CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY, NICK KENT ...
David Bowie, Humble Pie, Judge Dread, Slade, Wizzard: The Bouncers
Report by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 30 June 1973
ANDREW TYLER Investigates the growing thuggery in concert halls the world over. And gets points of view from the stars, bouncers and the companies who ...
The Faces, Nazareth: Strangely missing that barrow boy stagger: in Frankfurt with the Faces
Report and Interview by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 4 August 1973
IT'S EARLY Sunday evening and three large Mercedes limousines are skimming through the outskirts of Frankfurt in rather regal convoy. In one, Keith Moon reclines ...
Report and Interview by Stephen Demorest, Circus, February 1974
Being a rock star has its advantages, but the spotlight is usually only big enough for one person. Circus took a behind stage look at ...
Emerson Lake & Palmer: ELP...What? ELP!... What? ELP...
Report and Interview by Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 25 April 1974
LOS ANGELES — Say what you will about the music, Emerson, Lake and Palmer's recently completed four-month American tour was the heaviest rock & roll ...
Alice Cooper: The Mystery Tits
Report by Jim Esposito, Oui, June 1974
FIFTEEN FEET in front of me, Alice Cooper was doing his thing all over an elevated plywood stage. ...
Led Zeppelin: Ten years after — the Rule of Britannia
Memoir by Camille Davis Russo, unpublished, 4 July 1974
ON JULY 4TH, 1976, America will celebrate the 200th anniversary of her independence from Great Britain. Yet the bonds are unbroken, and she's never been ...
Hollywood Special: Elements Of Style
Report by Dave Marsh, Creem, August 1974
I Was Afraid They'd All Be California Girls ...
Led Zeppelin: Zeppelin Robbery
Memoir by Danny Goldberg, Rock Scene, August 1974
24 HOURS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD OF ROCK AND ROLL ...
Elvis Presley: There Is No Truth In the Rumour that Elvis Is Losing His Marbles
Report by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 19 October 1974
ELVIS AARON PRESLEY, one time truck driver and supreme rock-and-roll superstar, has been taking some pains of late to allay a host of false rumours ...
Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page: Led Zeppelin: The Graffiti of the Physical...
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 7 December 1974
...and the Exploration of the Metaphysical. A candid interview with Led Zep. ...
Report by Ed McCormack, Rolling Stone, 2 January 1975
NEW YORK — Elton John's opening words to the audience at Madison Square Garden were: "Hello, New York! Happy Thanksgiving!" ...
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 4 January 1975
OR, CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR... BUT, FOR ROD STEWART, EVERY BLEEDIN' NIGHT (jammy git) Being a crisp resume of three nights in the life ...
Rodney Bingenheimer: The Patron Saint of Teenage
Profile and Interview by John Mendelsohn, Phonograph Record, March 1975
FORGET THE hillside enclaves of those who either can not yet or no longer afford Beverly Hills, and what's left of the San Fernando Valley ...
Alice Cooper, Lou Reed: Nick Kent – A Limey in LA #1: Hey Man, You With A Gwoop?
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 15 March 1975
Speech impediments are the thing in Los Angeles this year. There are quite a lot of naked men jumping out of bushes – whereas more ...
Report by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 5 April 1975
ALSO INCLUDES: The Dog That Ate The Dog That Ate Los Angeles ...
Report by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 12 April 1975
...in a tune-up room on the last night of the Faces' 1975 LA gigs? Why, the closing aria in D from 'il Cavalleria Rusticana', of ...
Led Zeppelin: Under The Hood – A Backstage Chronicle Of The Historic 1975 Tour
Report by Danny Goldberg, Circus, May 1975
THERE WAS an historic purple aura in the clouds that hung over the audience at Madison Square that evening in February. ...
KISS: I Dreamed I Was Onstage With KISS In My Maidenform Bra
Report and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, August 1975
WELL, NOT exactly my idea of the perfect fantasy, but I was curious about life on the other side of the foot-lights. Armed with an ...
Led Zeppelin: The Tour In Progress: Jimmy Plage Files His Report
Interview by Wesley Strick, Circus, 9 June 1977
ROBERT PLANT comes bouncing into the hotel room in satin blouse, second-skin denims and high-heeled sneakers. "We've got a new Jimmy Page," he crows. "He's ...
Rod Stewart: Would you pay 1,000 dollars for Rod Stewart's heart?
Report and Interview by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 29 October 1977
Rosalind Russell finds out the hard way ...
Jerry Lee Lewis: Loud Covenants: Jerry Lee Lewis, God's Garbage Man
Book Excerpt by Nick Tosches, Creem, March 1978
[The following is excerpted from the book, COUNTRY: The Biggest Music In America by Nick Tosches, published by Stein & Day Publishers.] ...
Deep Purple, Judas Priest, Marseille, Squeeze, Whitesnake: Are You A Whore For Rock 'N' Roll?
Report by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 20 December 1979
ROSALIND RUSSELL thinks most of you are ...
The Sex Pistols: Nancy Spungen: If You Knew Nancy…
Book Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 21 January 1984
IF ANYTHING CAN PUT THE LID on the Romeo and Juliet myth that has enshrined Nancy Spungen in the post-punk hagiography, it will be a ...
Jefferson Airplane, The Tubes: Groupies: They're Still Grabbin' for the Stars
Report and Interview by Ben Fong-Torres, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 September 1984
Sweet Spencer,So many feelings I have experienced with you that you have become a part of me. The other day, from out of a heavy, ...
Boomtown Rats: Paula Yates: Superblonde!
Interview by Maureen O'Grady, 19, February 1985
WHEN I WENT round to meet Paula Yates at her Chelsea house, she was in a bit of a tizz. The phone rang every five ...
Book Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 6 April 1985
Whole lotta what? ...
Led Zeppelin: Hammer Of The Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga by Stephen Davis (Wm. Morrow & Co.)
Book Review by Bill Holdship, Creem, October 1985
LEMONS OF THE GODS ...
The Beastie Boys: Keep Taking The Tabloids
Report and Interview by Jack Barron, James Brown, Sounds, 23 May 1987
Must they keep flinging this filth at our pop kids? No, not the brilliant BEASTIE BOYS but the British national press attempting to stir up ...
Yazz: How to Make £25,000 a Night and End Up Skint
Report by Tom Doyle, Smash Hits, 3 May 1989
You call yourself Yazz, charge 3,000 people £8.50 each to come and see your concert and then give it all away to fat sweaty blokes ...
Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages Audio, July 1989
The mould-breaking Chicago groupie on her life from being a star-struck kid to pulling out Jimi's pubes, via being snogged by Andrew Loog Oldham, her discovery of the "hampton", and her ingenious way with dental plaster. Features a "cast" of thousands!
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Cynthia Plastercaster: This Woman Has Handled The Biggest Things In Rock
Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 8 July 1989
Twenty years ago The Plastercasters of Chicago were the most infamous groupies in America. Now, hardened professional CYNTHIA PLASTERCASTER is back with tales of naked ...
Interview by Steve Mascord, Kerrang!, 26 August 1989
Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Neighbours, Rolf Harris (and his Stylophone), Skippy, Rupert Murdoch... these days, there's no escaping the ongoing onslaught of dodgy Australian 'culture'. ...
The Penis De Milo: Cynthia Plaster Claster
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, September 1989
Cynthia was a normal 1960s American teenager, with an abnormal interest in rock musicians. Then, one day in art school, she was told "to make ...
GBH, Haircut 100, Judas Priest, Metallica, Musical Youth: Metallica: Taking the Mick
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 22 December 1990
He's very large, he's very hairy, he's got a massive... motorbike — and he's been soundman to some of the greatest acts in Metal. GBH, ...
Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 23 February 1992
THESE DAYS, rock 'n' roll has become a contact sport. Not all rock 'n' roll, of course. You won't see slam dancing at a Moody ...
Elton John: The Rebirth of Elton John
Interview by Philip Norman, Rolling Stone, 19 March 1992
Drugs, fame and alcohol turned him into a monster. Now, after rehab, he's clean, happy and in love. ...
Groupies: Stars In Their Thighs
Report and Interview by Steven Wells, David Quantick, New Musical Express, 28 March 1992
NME'S LOOK AT THE THINGS THAT GO HUMP IN THE NIGHT ...
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels: Mitch Ryder in the Middle of Nowhere
Report and Interview by Fred Goodman, Musician, June 1992
FOR MOST MUSICIANS, TOURING IS A THOUSAND MILES AWAY FROM LIMOS AND STADIUMS. ...
The GTOs: Pamela Des Barres (1993)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1993
The Girl Together Outrageously looks back with fondness at her time as L.A.'s Queen of the Groupies: the people — Captain Beefheart, Zappa, Gram Parsons, Lowell George, Led Zep; the scenes from the '60s Sunset Strip to Rodney's English Disco, and the transition from free love to corruption and abuse.
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David Bowie: Angie Bowie cuts into the spotlight
Retrospective and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 20 January 1993
WE WERE AT Turner Fisheries – Angela Bowie, David Bowie's famous ex, and I. I nursed two drinks. She ate half a seafood dinner, sent ...
Depeche Mode's Martin Gore and Alan Wilder (1993)
Interview by Steven Daly, Rock's Backpages Audio, Summer 1993
Messrs. Gore and Wilder talk about the stresses of recording their latest album, Songs of Faith and Devotion, and the band's internal dynamics in the studio; the effect that living in L.A. has had on singer Dave Gahan; electronic versus traditional musical instruments. Martin Gore also discusses his songwriting; the band's development from the early days... and fatherhood. Alan Wilder talks about touring, the future of Depeche Mode and his place in the band.
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Report and Interview by Roy Trakin, Musician, February 1994
Collapsing stages in Japan! Elephant farts in Vegas! Eskimo shows in Alaska! A Survey of Abominable Venues and Disastrous Shows! ...
The Rolling Stones: Twilight in Babylon: Adventures with the Rolling Stones
Retrospective by Nick Kent, MOJO, April 1994
THE FIRST THING you need to know about my adventures with the Rolling Stones is that they pretty much all took place once the basic ...
Report and Interview by Lisa Verrico, Vox, August 1994
They rant against rock'n'rollers in leather keks, yet their hotel-trashing, drug-snorting lifestyle is becoming legendary. Are Oasis hypocrites or Britain's most sussed rock band? ...
M People: Elegant slumming now a low dive
Report by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 16 September 1994
The Mercury Music Prize was intended to reward and foster innovation. For a couple of years, all went well — and then M People came ...
Guide by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 25 November 1994
Feeling brazen? Ready to crawl? Caroline Sullivan offers the definitive guide to bum-rushing the show ...
Slash: Who the hell does Slash think he is?
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, April 1995
He is not, let's be frank, a New Man. His feminist credentials beg re-examination. He is rarely accused of not taking drugs, never having it ...
Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, July 1995
It also dines on doubt, nibbles the nerve endings and makes a hell of a mess of your trousers. Stage fright, that least welcome of ...
Cynthia Plaster Caster: Come Up And See My, Er...
Profile and Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 24 August 1995
Caroline Sullivan meets the woman who persuaded Jimi Hendrix to dip his erect member into a jar of gooey pink dental mould. ...
Be gentle with me! Reading & Donington — The Kerrang! Survival Guide
Guide by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 26 August 1995
Are you a festival virgin? Is it your first time? Don't end up face down in a muddy puddle — read the Big K! survival ...
Black Grape, Happy Mondays: Shaun Ryder: Sleazy Ryder
Interview by Lisa Verrico, Vox, October 1995
In the first of a series never, ever to be continued, Shaun Ryder presents his passport to the land of a thousand karma sutra babes. ...
Sleeper: Tourbus Tales: Sleeper
Interview by Lisa Verrico, Vox, October 1995
Please give up this feature for people carrying children or heavy shopping... ...
Oasis: Where Were You... When We Were Getting High?
Report by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 11 November 1995
Last weekend at London's Earl's Court, OASIS played the biggest indoor concerts ever held in this country. PAUL MATHUR brings us all the backstage gossip ...
Ash: Turn Up, Check In, Rock Out!
Report by Steven Wells, Vox, December 1995
These days, most teenagers leave school and sign on. But not ASH – they play loud punk rock, trash hotels and party till they puke. ...
Oasis: C'mon America...Let's Ave Yer! Seven Mental Nights On The Oasis Tourbus
Report by Paolo Hewitt, Select, May 1996
WITHIN FIFTEEN MINUTES of their plane taking off for Kansas, Oasis have assumed battle positions. Liam Gallagher is in the toilet with a couple of ...
Bob Geldof, Michael Hutchence: Paula Yates: She's Daft — But Not Wicked
Comment by Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 29 September 1996
THE QUESTION begs: Is Paula Yates still wearing her 'Little Miss Trouble' T-shirt — or is it wearing her? It has been a tough week ...
Alice Cooper, The Who: Alice Cooper on Keith Moon
Interview by Tony Fletcher, iJamming.net, 12 November 1996
ONE REASON I've been looking forward to getting this site up is to make available some of the interviews I conducted for the Keith Moon ...
Pamela Des Barres: No Holds Barres
Interview by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, 19 December 1996
Carol Clerk reports on the latest book from groupie supreme, Pamela Des Barres ...
Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa: Pamela Des Barres: Supergroupie
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 4 January 1997
Legendary supergroupie PAMELA DES BARRES has toured the dark side of rock'n'roll and lived to tell the tale. But what does she make of young ...
Depeche Mode: Synth and Sensibilities
Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 25 January 1997
Last week Dave Gahan flabbered your collective 'gast with his terrible tale of all-round narcotic foolishness. In the second part of our DEPECHE MODE exclusive ...
Report by Kris Needs, Jockey Slut, February 1997
THE PRODIGY HAVE TAKEN LIVE DANCE MUSIC TO ANOTHER LEVEL, INCORPORATING ROCK ICONOGRAPHY, PARENT-QUAKING HAIR AND A FIERCELY LOYAL AUDIENCE. KRIS NEEDS REPORTS FROM THE ...
Report by Martin Aston, Q, June 1997
Dangerous business, rock'n'roll. One minute, you're having hits, the next, you're taking them. Whether as macho prop or tool of the trade, totin' a gun ...
Going Down Memory Lane with Jenny Fabian
Interview by Tom Hibbert, MOJO, July 1997
BEFORE JENNY FABIAN, groupies hardly existed...well, they probably did, but the general public, ie Mr and Mrs Beswick of Pursey, knew nothing about them (even ...
Coal Chamber, Human Waste Project: Human Waste Project, Coal Chambers: Sister Act
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 14 February 1998
"God, you guys just want dirt!" exclaimed HUMAN WASTE PROJECT'S Aimee Echo when she and COAL CHAMBER'S Rayna saw our frankly filthy Valentine's Day questionnaire. ...
Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page/Robert Plant: Page & Plant: Help! The Aged!
Interview by Sylvia Patterson, New Musical Express, 28 March 1998
Hey! Come back! Haven't you heard? Old blokes are cool, the past is the future and prog rock is back. In fact, the perfect time ...
Report and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Harper's Bazaar, April 1998
Scratch an epic rock god and you'll usually find a cool, inspiring woman who supplied him with lyrics, contacts and style. Now that girl power ...
Lo Fidelity Allstars: Allstars In Their Eyes
Report and Interview by Toby Manning, Jockey Slut, June 1998
LO FIDELITY ALL-STARS ARE TAKING OVER THE ROCK N' ROLL TOILETS OF BRITAIN. TOBY MANNING JOINS WREKKED TRAIN AND CO. ON THE ROAD. ...
Boomtown Rats, The Rolling Stones, Shed Seven: It's an ugly business
Comment by Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 21 June 1998
Pop rant: Why do male rock stars have faces like bags of spanners? ...
Depeche Mode, Primal Scream: Depeche Mode and Primal Scream: The Most Debauched Tour Ever
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, August 1998
Depeche Mode have been touring for almost a year. Drug and alcohol abuse is rife and the group are close to breaking point. The obvious ...
Report by Kris Needs, Jockey Slut, October 1998
IBIZIAN VIRGIN KRIS NEEDS SPENDS A MONTH WITH MANUMISSION AND ENDS UP IN A WHEELCHAIR SURROUNDED BY BUNNY RABBITS. ...
Overview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, December 1998
Stress, nervous exhaustion, clinical depression: a litany of mental maladies lie in wait for the endlessly-gigging, maniacally-drugging, heart-on-sleeve purveyor of rock'n'roll. Phil "Prozac" Sutcliffe dons ...
“...Two Bottles of 1963 Dom Perignon, Six Crack Whores”
Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Hobomedia, 1999
Phill Sucliffe on the Rock Band Rider ...
Emerson Lake And Palmer: ELP: The Unsung Roadie
Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, 1999
Consider this as a picture at an exhibition. A 10,000-seat arena on the afternoon before an Emerson, Lake & Palmer concert; on stage an orderly ...
Secret Knowledge: Kris Needs: I Snogged Debbie Harry
Profile and Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 3 August 1999
If you can't be a rock star, you can always get your kicks by hanging out with them. Kris Needs tells Dave Simpson how it's ...
Limp Bizkit: Send Porn Stars, Funk and Money: The Limp Bizkit Story
Report and Interview by Steven Daly, Rolling Stone, 5 August 1999
"WHO WANTS to speak to me?" Fred Durst regards his cell phone with suspicion. "Adam Sandler?" The Limp Bizkit leader has been chatting with producer ...
The Bay City Rollers: My tartan heart
Retrospective by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 18 October 1999
Caroline Sullivan reflects on the life and love of a teenage Bay City Rollers fan ...
Korn: "I once did coke off The Bible"
Interview by Robin Bresnark, Melody Maker, 17 May 2000
Before Korn's huge shows this week, we got them to tell us their favourite tour stories. It's not all fruit up drummers' arses and drugs. ...
Yo La Tengo: The Belcourt Theater, Nashville
Live Review by Toby Manning, Select, June 2000
COMPLETELY DOMINATING the bare-brick basement that is Yo La Tengo's Nashville dressing room is one of the largest, most gourmet riders ever to grace a ...
Retrospective by Mick Farren, MOJO, July 2000
ON JANUARY 7, 1980, THE BODY OF LARRY WILLIAMS WAS FOUND lying in a pool of blood on the garage floor of his Laurel Canyon ...
Monster Magnet: Prince of Darkness: Monster Magnet's Dave Wyndorf
Profile and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 19 November 2000
"I"VE GOTTA be out there." A warm New Jersey dusk is gradually falling on a idyllic sixties suburbia that still believes whole-heartedly in the concept ...
Jonathan King: Is Jonathan King A Monster, Or Is He Being Monstered?
Comment by Charles Shaar Murray, The Independent, 23 November 2001
PUBLIC MONSTER NUMBER ONE: the space in the media landscape currently occupied by Jonathan King effectively renders him the missing link between Osama bin Laden ...
The GTOs: Girl Together Outrageously: Pamela Des Barres
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, 2002
IN CASUAL DEFIANCE of the fact that her fifty-fifth birthday looms large, the Marchioness Des Barres positively radiates rude good health and an undeniably disarming ...
Average White Band, Sweet: Unmasked: "Mick Tucker" and Other Rock Impostors
Report by Chris Charlesworth, Rock's Backpages, March 2002
I NEVER knew Mick Tucker, Sweet’s drummer, who died last week, but I once met a man who impersonated him, or at least pretended he ...
Film/DVD/TV Review by Chris Campion, Tartan Films, 2003
MORE THAN JUST a nostalgic character study, George Hickenlooper's Mayor Of Sunset Strip is an artfully-constructed meditation on fame that scratches at the surface world ...
Bon Jovi, Cher, KISS: Kiss and Cher: the minder reveals all
Interview by Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, 3 September 2003
For 30 years, Michael Francis has been a bodyguard and fixer to some of rocks least controllable artists. He tells Mick Brown what it takes ...
Gram Parsons: Phil Kaufman on Gram Parsons (2003)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, 7 November 2003
From Mick'n'Keef to Emmylou; from Topanga Canyon to the Joshua Tree: Executive Nanny Phil Kaufman looks back on low lives and high times with Gram Parsons.
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Babyshambles: Pete Doherty And The New Decadence
Comment by Charles Shaar Murray, Independent on Sunday, 6 February 2005
PERHAPS MARC ALMOND put it best: "To me a star is someone who has something extra, and something missing at the same time – ...
Report and Interview by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, May 2005
I HAVE JUST SPENT two weeks on the road with Mötley Crüe. Our sweep through Canada and the US Midwest took in Edmonton, Des Moines, ...
Bob Dylan: Sam Shepard: The Rolling Thunder Logbook
Book Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, July 2005
30th anniversary reprint for a bizarre chronicle of the infamous Dylan tour. ...
The Ramones, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Television: Heaven or Las Vegas: CBGBs closes down
Report by Laura Barton, The Guardian, 8 July 2005
Laura Barton on what the closure of the world's most famous punk-rock club, CBGB's, says about the state of New York's live music scene. ...
Led Zeppelin: Richard Cole on Led Zeppelin (2005)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, 19 November 2005
The legendary Zep tour manager remembers meeting the band, the first US tour, the curious friendship between Bonham and Plant, all things Bron-Y-Aur, life on the road, making Led Zeppelin IV, and Girls Girls Girls!
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Interview by Jon Wilde, Uncut, March 2006
They came from Detroit City but could have leapt from the pages of a DC comic. Thirty years ago, KISS — the biggest and trashiest ...
Ronnie Scott's says goodbye to sticky carpets, hello to decent food and air conditioning
Report and Interview by Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, 24 June 2006
The legendary Soho jazz club has had a long overdue revamp. Robert Sandall reports. ...
Report by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 16 September 2006
What do Pete Doherty, Justin Hawkins and Keane's Tom Chaplin have in common? All have been in rehab recently, some for the first time. But ...
Sleeve notes by Chris Campion, Rev-Ola Records, August 2007
THREE TEENAGE girls are discovered singing along to records in a New York night club by two hotshot managers. They are rushed into a recording ...
Report by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 12 May 2008
Madonna demands 25 cases of Kabbalah water backstage at her gigs, not to mention 12 dozen boxes of strawberries and Yorkshire tea. But what absurd ...
Keith Moon: Moonie On The Pull
Retrospective by Chris Charlesworth, Rock's Backpages, May 2009
IT IS THE prerogative of rock stars to enjoy the attentions of beautiful women to a greater degree than most other men, and among those ...
James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Engelbert Humperdinck, Robert Plant: Backstage in the '60s
Memoir by Chris Welch, Rock's Backpages, 25 July 2009
LIFE BACKSTAGE AT pop shows in the Swinging '60s was always a hoot. Looking back, it's fun to recall how casual and relaxed it all was ...
Frank Zappa, Tom Waits: Frank Zappa's Manager: A Smile On His Lips, And A Pistol Under The Bar
Obituary by Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, 19 March 2010
Mick Brown pays tribute to Herb Cohen, who managed Frank Zappa while maintaining an enthusiasm for music, cheese, confectionery and armaments. ...
Grinderman: On the Road With Grinderman
Report and Interview by Larry Sloman, Spin, 14 December 2010
Ratso Sloman takes SPIN behind the scenes with Nick Cave and his travelling band of merrymakers. ...
Cherry Vanilla: Nymphomaniacs Anonymous
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, March 2011
Whatever happened to the celebrity groupie? Legendary '70s party animal Cherry Vanilla has a few theories. ...
Queen Of Nude Orleans: 1978, October 31
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Classic Rock, October 2011
IT WAS THE aftershow party to end all aftershow parties. The champagne flowed like water, couples coupled under the tables and the entertainment included strippers, ...
Led Zeppelin: Their Satanic Majesties Request: When Led Zeppelin Ruled The World
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Trampled Under Foot' (Faber & Faber), September 2012
By 1973, Led Zeppelin was the biggest rock band on the planet. In this excerpt from Trampled Under Foot, Barney Hoskyns' new oral history of ...
Keith Moon Drives His Car Into a Swimming Pool
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Classic Rock, November 2012
IN 1967, Holiday Inn was the world's largest hotel chain, with nearly 1,000 properties – comprised primarily of roadside motels. ...
Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones: Keith Richards Interviewed
Interview by Jon Wilde, Sabotage Times, 20 June 2013
Long before Johnny Depp based Captain Jack on him, Keith Richards was just the pirate blues chief of the Rolling Stones. And not averse to ...
Led Zeppelin, U2: Dennis Sheehan Talks About Led Zeppelin (and a little bit about U2)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, May 2015
NOTE: This is a transcription of an April 2010 phone interview with Dennis Sheehan – then tour manager for U2 – for my oral history ...
Iron Maiden: Maiden Voyage: Inside Iron Maiden's Book Of Souls Tour
Report and Interview by Johnny Black, Audience, April 2016
SEEN FROM the stage, an Iron Maiden concert is an ocean of Maiden t-shirts, with thousands of devotees proudly displaying various incarnations of the band's ...
Margaret Moser: Queen Of Austin, Is Dancing In The Light
Report and Interview by Joe Nick Patoski, NPR, 22 June 2017
JUNE 18 WAS the beginning of a week-long Open House at Tex Pop, the South Texas Museum of Popular Culture — a storefront wedged between ...
Allan Jones: Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'roll War Stories
Book Review by Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, August 2017
THE AGE OF DEFERENCE had yet to lapse when I joined Melody Maker in 1970. Four years later, when Allan Jones joined the paper, it ...
Madonna: Another view: My night with Madonna (and Sean Hughes)
Memoir by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 20 October 2017
BACK IN THE LATE 1990s I used to run into Sean Hughes all the time at parties. He was a Perrier Award-winning stand-up comedian and ...
Retrospective and Interview by Craig McLean, The Observer, 6 May 2018
Pamela Des Barres had the giants of rock'n'roll in the palm of her hand, as her candid memoir reveals. ...
The GTOs: Miss Christine: The Fast Life of a Rock Legend
Retrospective by Erik Himmelsbach, Alta Journal, 11 December 2018
Christine Frka was a muse to Alice Cooper, a secretary to Frank Zappa, and a member of a pioneering all-girl band. The glamour goddess-icon of ...
Taylor Jenkins Reid: Daisy Jones & the Six
Book Review by Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, March 2019
IN DECEMBER 1972 I found myself in the US reporting for Melody Maker on a Deep Purple tour as it visited Des Moines and Indianapolis. In ...
Obituary by Chris Campion, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2020
MISS MERCY, the effervescent rock 'n' roll superfan who found fame as a member of Frank Zappa's "groupie" girl-group the GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously), died ...
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