Fashion, art and design
216 articles
Shirley Bassey: Shirley, These Gowns Are Just Great!
Report and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 19 January 1963
TOMORROW (Friday) Shirley Bassey will appear at a special concert in Washington before President Kennedy to mark the anniversary of his inauguration, the first time ...
Report and Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 17 August 1963
JOE BROWN has really put his foot in it this time. ...
The Beatles: Part III Of 'The Year Of The Beatles': It's Like Living It Up With Four Marx Brothers
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 19 October 1963
EACH BEATLE differs so much from the other Beatles that it's odd they get on so well together. They like each other best. "We are ...
Billy J. Kramer: Billy Has An Eye For Pop Fashion
Interview by Alan Walsh, Disc, 29 February 1964
BILLY J. KRAMER, rated one of Britain's snappiest popsters dresswise, was talking to me about his wardrobe. We were in Liverpool, where Billy was relaxing ...
Readers' Letters by uncredited writer, Rave, May 1964
I STOPPED being Mod two months ago because it was getting played out. Manufacturers started to put out trash to youngsters of 12, telling them ...
The Who: The High Numbers: How High Will These Numbers Go?
Profile and Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 11 July 1964
HAILED AS "the first authentic mod record," four hip young men called the High Numbers are out right now with 'I'm the Face', backed with ...
The Kinks: 'You Really Got Me' Was a Jazz Song! Say the Kinks
Profile and Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 4 September 1964
'YOU REALLY Got Me', the Kinks third disc and first hit is now number 2 in the charts. But the story behind it is strange ...
Report by Sylvia Stephens, Fabulous, 3 October 1964
I FOUGHT my way past the body of Napoleon lying in state, having already paid my respects to Nelson dying at Trafalgar, turned my head ...
In A Mellotone: Hoods and Rocks
Essay by Michael Lydon, Yale Daily News, 10 December 1964
THERE IS A phrase current in Long Island high schools, that fertile spawn of teen age norms, which describes someone as a "'54", meaning a ...
Francoise Hardy sets the trend: With-It Ones Go After That Natural Look
Report by uncredited writer, Rave, January 1965
FRANCOISE HARDY'S a darling. With her natural good looks, long, swinging hair and super slim figure, she's the doll that all the boys dream about ...
The Pretty Things: The Things Hit Back!
Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 20 February 1965
ONE ACCUSATION that can't be levelled against the Pretty Things is that they're dull. In fact this wild-sounding, and equally wild-looking group are one of ...
Mick Jagger: Chrissie Shrimpton: Girl in the Middle
Interview by Jean-Marie, Rave, July 1965
Girl In A Girl's World: Chrissie Shrimpton is the girl in the middle. Her boyfriend is Mick Jagger — a top star, her sister is ...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 7 August 1965
As my friend in Hollywood wrote in advance of their coming: "This is no Nina and Frederik deal, I assure you." ...
The Who: The Price of Pop Art — The Who Count the Cost
Report by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 28 August 1965
THE WHO stand firmly for pop art. By their terms, pop art means how they behave and dress both on and off stage. On stage, ...
The Rolling Stones, Sonny & Cher: Eskimo Boots: The Stars And Kooky Garb: Do Clothes Make The Man?
Report by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 11 September 1965
DO CLOTHES really make the man? Are they that important? Or are they merely for decoration? ...
The Byrds, Sonny & Cher: Beat Music Background: Carnaby Street — New Way To Shop
Report by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 18 September 1965
WHILE ENGLAND has its huge department stores with multiple floors crammed with everything from needles and thread to tuxedos and minks, it also boasts a ...
Report and Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc, 13 November 1965
What DO DUSTY, SANDIE and CILLA talk about when they're trapped? ...
An ordinary girl, Cathy, and that's why she succeeds
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 December 1965
CATHY McGOWAN'S career is based, when you come do think of it, on her very ordinariness. Most people get their jobs because of an ability ...
The Supremes: The Chic-est Girls In Show Business
Report by Jane Heil, Hit Parader, May 1966
WELL, OF COURSE, their sound: Supreme, tops, five in a row if you're keeping score. But LOOK at them! I mean, those are three swell-looking ...
The Beatles: Beatle LP Cover Banned
Report by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 2 July 1966
THE BEATLES have turned out the most nauseating album cover ever seen in the U.S. The jacket [of yesterday and Today — RBP Ed] is ...
Report by uncredited writer, International Times, 14 September 1966
AT INDICA Gallery from November 9 to 22, there will be a one-man show of Instruction Paintings by Yoko Ono, photographed above performing her Cut ...
The Beatles, Manfred Mann, Klaus Voormann: Klaus Voorman: Klaus Must Choose
Interview by Kevin Swift, Beat Instrumental, May 1967
"I ENJOY my life in music", said Klaus Voorman, opening a discussion on his dual-talent career. He's a brilliant artist, an outstanding musician. How does ...
Report by Danny Fields, Hullabaloo, May 1967
SHE HAD ALWAYS BEEN FASCINATED WITH HIM... AND HE HAD ALWAYS WANTED TO MEET HER ...HULLABALOO SAW THEM TOGETHER, SAW HER POSING, SAW HIM FILMING ...
Profile and Interview by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 6 May 1967
NEW YORK – The world's most in-the-news model, Britain's seventeen year old Twiggy, arrived at Kennedy International Airport to a horde of newsmen and photographers ...
Switching On: It All Depends On Where You're Going
Guide by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 15 July 1967
or What To Wear To A Love-In ...
Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 4 August 1967
TO US LULU is the name of a comic strip character, but to the British Lulu is the name of an adorable 18-year-old pop singer. ...
Saying it with flowers and cash
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 5 September 1967
From LILLIAN ROXON, in New York ...
The Beatles, Manfred Mann, Klaus Voormann: Klaus Voorman: Mann Talk
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 30 September 1967
EVER SINCE the days of '5-4-3-2-1', Manfred Mann has been improving. Until it has now reached the stage where it can either change it's style ...
Guide by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 2 December 1967
Christmas is here — and so are thousands of visitors from all parts of Britain and the world to see the lights and sights of ...
Light Shows: Adventure Into Experimental Living
Report and Interview by Jacoba Atlas, KRLA Beat, 24 February 1968
THERE'S A revolution happening; happening on all levels of society. From the streets to the museums people are talking about new trends, new ways of ...
The Beatles, George Harrison: Beatle Wife Pattie Sets Up Shop...
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 3 August 1968
PATTIE BOYD, a regular customer of the Chelsea Antique Market, changed sides of the counter last week when she opened her own stall there. ...
Profile by Michael Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 4 January 1969
A TAROT deck is a pack of colorful picture cards through which some people claim one can find the key to the "wisdom of the ...
The Beatles: John Lennon is likely to go bald says Beatle hairdresser Leslie Cavendish
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 26 April 1969
ONE DAY three years ago one of Leslie Cavendish's clients asked him if he would cut her boyfriend's hair. She was Jane Asher, he was ...
Jeff Dexter: Jeff thinks it's funny: "Even with a beard they call me Madam"
Interview by Ray Connolly, The Evening Standard, 20 December 1969
A HALF-DEAD fly cruised slowly and miserably around Jeff Dexter's ash blond shoulder-length hair and made its unhappy way towards me. Dexter must have read ...
John Lennon, Yoko Ono: John, Yoko, Kyoko Get Trimmed
Report by Ritchie Yorke, Rolling Stone, 21 February 1970
AARLBORG, DENMARK — Tuesday, January 13th, had been a normal winter's day in this small city in the northern Jutland province of Denmark. It had ...
Notes to the Institute, By Stanley Mouse
Profile by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 17 October 1970
STANLEY MOUSE, better known to poster art lovers as just plain Mouse, has a show of his works at the Detroit Institute of Art. In ...
We Are Normal and We Want Our Freedom
Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, March 1971
HOW UNSPEAKABLY fantastic it was to see the TAMI Show, again, the other evening, for the first time since its original release in 1965! ...
John Lennon, Iggy Pop: Sounds Of The Seventies: Portrait Of A Naked Iggy
Report and Interview by Mike Jahn, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 1971
ONE DAY late last December I came home and found this message on the tape recorder that answers my telephone when I'm not home: "This is ...
David Bowie: Clothes Make the Bowie
Profile by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 20 February 1972
WHEN I WAS in England recently, a lot of excitement seemed to be about David Bowie, a singer-songwriter, who, in the past, has managed to ...
David Bowie: The Elvis Of the Seventies
Comment by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 18 June 1972
IT WAS just after the Elvis concert and David Bowie and I were sitting in his suite at the Park Lane Hotel (that's where record ...
Joe's Lights: Many Hands Make Lights Work
Profile and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 2 September 1972
A look at the people behind the glitter. Caroline Boucher meets JOE'S LIGHTS, one of the best creative light shows around today ...
Roxy Music: City Hall, Newcastle
Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 18 November 1972
IT'S DEFINITELY a chic wasteland at the Newcastle City Hall. There wasn't even a platform boot in sight when I went down there to see ...
Soul, Man: Taki 183 Fights the Bugaloo Boulevards to a Draw
Report by Vernon Gibbs, Crawdaddy!, June 1973
BACK IN THE bugaloo boulevards of my youth, there were diddyboppers who roamed the midnight streets. They were haunters of alleys and pool halls, riders ...
Profile and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 27 October 1973
Los Angeles Report by Chris Charlesworth ...
Jan & Dean: Dean Torrence (1973)
Interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages audio, 12 November 1973
From high school in the late '50s to Kittyhawk Graphics in the '70s, Dean Torrence looks back at his partnership with Jan Berry: early hits such as 'Baby Talk'; being managed by Lou Adler, with Herb Alpert; the L.A. indie labels Dore and Challenge; the evolution of surf music, and collaborations with the Beach Boys from 'Surf City' to 'Barbara Ann'; surf boards, cars and fashions; Jan's accident, and going back to school to become a graphic designer; recording Brian Wilson's 'Vegetables', and the Legendary Masked Surfers album with Terry Melcher and Bruce Johnston.
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Elton John, Marc Bolan, The Rolling Stones, Roxy Music, Slade, Sweet: Fashion: The Politics of Flash
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 6 April 1974
NICK KENT traces the Rise and Fall of The Satin Jacket...and generally walks it like he talks it into the land of 'Rock Chic.' ...
The Rolling Stones: Rock Dreams: Teen Fantasies as Art
Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 11 April 1974
Artist Guy Peellaert and Rock Dreams, artwork of rock icons in fantasized situations ...
Hollywood Special: Elements Of Style
Report by Dave Marsh, Creem, August 1974
I Was Afraid They'd All Be California Girls ...
Soul (Style): Baggy Trousers Will Not Be Admitted
Report by Bob Fisher, New Musical Express, 11 January 1975
THE STYLISTIC rivalry between soul fans in the North and South of England has been well publicised. But what magazine odes to regional soul tend ...
Essay by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 10 July 1976
WHEN ALL AROUND YOU is brown, burnt, pink or peeling and you're tired of squinting in the glare it's time to consider... ...
Twiggy: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Fred Dellar, New Musical Express, 24 July 1976
I GUESS they popped the champers at Phonogram after this glitzy shindig at the Home of Fest. For hadn't Mike Harding, had 'em clutching at ...
The Sex Pistols, Siouxsie & The Banshees: The (?) Rock Special (#2): The Audience
Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 9 October 1976
"I didn't even know the Summer of Love was happening. I was too busy playing with my Action Man."— Sid Vicious ...
Report and Interview by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 27 November 1976
Dustbin liners, carrier bags, PVC, fishnet tights, lurex cardigans. They get you in at the Lacy Lady in Ilford ...
Richard Hell, Patti Smith, Television: Victor Bockris goes to the Airport with Robert Mapplethorpe
Interview by Victor Bockris, New York Rocker, December 1976
SATURDAY OCTOBER 16th 2P.M. Robert Mapplethorpe is going to California on a T.W.A. flight. I am arriving at his fifth floor Bond Street studio loft ...
Interview by Ed McCormack, Rolling Stone, 10 March 1977
"Nobody wants to see Punk grow up" ...
Eleganza: It's Manic Panic In The Apple
Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, January 1978
GINA, SNOOKY and Tish didn't know what to expect when they opened Manic Panic, but they sure found out fast. First, there was the phone terrorist. ...
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 ...
William Burroughs, Mick Jagger: Table talk
Report by Victor Bockris, Tatler, 1980
Victor Bockris fails to entertain Jagger, Warhol and Burroughs ...
The Frontier Ethic of Anti-Fashion
Overview by Cynthia Rose, The Virgin Yearbook, 1980
THOUGH THE dictionary defines it as "the prevailing customs and usages of upper-class society, especially in dress", fashion is really a way to re-spell thievery. ...
The Velvet Underground: Pop Art/Art Pop: The Warhol Connection
Report and Interview by Mary Harron, Melody Maker, 16 February 1980
Like to be a galleryPut you all inside my show— David Bowie, 'Andy Warhol' Some people claim that only James Brown can match Andy Warhol's ...
Pete Frame: The Man Behind the Trees
Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 15 March 1980
FIRST, I suppose, I should declare an interest. I get thanked for my help three times in Pete Frame's Rock Family Trees (Omnibus £3.95) and ...
Grace Jones: This Year's Model
Interview by Mary Harron, Smash Hits, 4 September 1980
Mary Harron meets The Height Of Fashion ...
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 6 December 1980
THE MINUTE I walked in the joint, I could see he was a man of distinction, a real big spender... king of the nighttime jungle, ...
Fab 5 Freddy: In Praise of Graffiti: The Fire Down Below
Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 24 December 1980
JOHN LINDSAY hated graffiti. He vowed to wipe it off the face of the IRT, and allocated $10 million to its obliteration. But the application ...
Vivienne Westwood: Rich pickings at the World's End
Interview by Jon Savage, The Face, January 1981
Let It Rock, Sex, Seditionaries...Anarchy t-shirts and bondage straps. VIVIENNE WESTWOOD’S new collection is called World’s End. She talked about it to JON SAVAGE. ...
The Mo-dettes: Mo-dettes: Mini Metro
Interview by Deanne Pearson, Trax, 11 February 1981
Mix, Match 'n' Make-Up On The Fashion Underground ...
Visage: …And Their British Guru, Steve Strange
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 27 July 1981
SOMETIMES, confides Steve Strange, weeks go by when he doesn't buy any clothes. ...
Visage: One Hump or Two: Steve Strange Walks a Mile For a Camel
Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, October 1981
STEVE STRANGE — fashion plate, leader of alternative dance band Visage and all-around creative British person — debarked from his rented camel in front of ...
Essay by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 19 December 1981
Overdressed twits taking Polaroids of one another in posey little clubs? Or the stern soapbox caterwauling of commentators who got themselves into a blue funk about everyone else's ...
How Music Changed The Look Of American Youth
Essay by Cynthia Rose, The History of Rock, 1982
BY 1962, ROCK'N'ROLL was no longer the pressing issue it had appeared in the days of Teddy Boys and juvenile delinquency. Music had given way ...
Peppermint Pop: Music, Art And The New York ‘In-Crowd’
Retrospective by Cynthia Rose, The History of Rock, 1982
The Twist was a phenomenon of a commercial musical culture which, ever since its early boom in the mid-Fifties, had been looked down upon by ...
Essay by Glenn O'Brien, Artforum, February 1982
1) From Atlantis to the Jazz Loft MUSIC WAS probably the first art. You could run with it and take it up a ...
The Byrds, The Rolling Stones: Rock Fashion: Lace Fop to Costume Ball Chic
Guide by John Mendelssohn, Musician, August 1982
An informal survey of the great movements in rock fashion, those cyclical variations on the theme of outraging mom and dad. ...
Blue Rondo a la Turk: Camden Palace, London
Live Review by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 8 September 1982
THE CAREER of Blue Rondo a la Turk illustrates vividly the perils of too close an association with style. Maligned by critics for the cut ...
Interview by Maureen O'Grady, 19, November 1982
THE TALL white house in Notting Hill Gate had three doorbells. All, however, were nameless, not giving away any clues who lived there. ...
Letter from Britain: The Beautiful And The Damned Hit Pay Dirt
Report by Cynthia Rose, Creem, April 1983
'RECESSION ROCK' on the radio (cf. 'My City Was Gone', 'Allentown' or 'Out of Work') may call forth condemnations from America's urban mayors — many, ...
The Style Council: The State of the Nation's dress by Paul Weller
Interview by Lesley White, The Face, April 1983
"I SUPPOSE PEOPLE find it difficult to penetrate me," offers the pale young man in the white mac, "they're not sure whether I'm really deep ...
A Flock of Seagulls, Aerosmith, Culture Club, Mötley Crüe: Eleganza: Dress for Excess
Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, July 1983
Eleganza returns! This one-time fave fab fashion column, as you may know, oozed away slowly in the past few years for "reasons" we don't need ...
Joan Jett, The Thompson Twins: Eleganza: Sneer & Sneer Again
Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, August 1983
IF I NEVER glimpse another Rock 'n' Roll Bad Boy sneering at me on my television screen, trying to impress me with how unashamedly wicked ...
Adam & The Ants, Cliff Richard, Josie Cotton, Prince: Eleganza: The Best-Dressed List
Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, September 1983
THERE ARE absolutes in fashion. For instance, flare-legged trousers are absolutely more flattering to the vast majority of people than straight-legged trousers, since they make ...
A Flock Of Seagulls: Hair Apparent
Interview by John Mendelsohn, Creem, October 1983
SINCE MOVING into it in the autumn of 1982, A Flock Of Seagulls lead singer Mike Score has scarcely seen his new flat in Liverpool ...
Berlin, Missing Persons, Mötley Crüe: Eleganza: Got Pizzazz (If You Want It)
Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, October 1983
IN THE MONTHS since its resuscitation, several hundred readers have written this column to ask what they should do with their hair. Would that Eleganza ...
Interview by Jon Savage, The Face, October 1983
FOR SOMEONE whose work has graced millions of record sleeves and influenced a whole generation, Jamie Reid’s personal profile is not the highest. This is ...
The Gun Club: Eleganza: Daughters Of Darkness
Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, November 1983
NATURE ABHORS a vacuum, but Eleganza adores someone who dares to dress with panache, elan, and all the other French nouns that mean pizzazz. You might not ...
Obituary by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 26 November 1983
BARNEY BUBBLES — who, sadly, took his own life last week — was every bit as influential as those creative performers for whom he designed ...
Adam & The Ants: Adam Ant: from Punk Reject to Prince Charming
Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1984
AS THE '70s drew to a close, the British pop scene seemed distinctively lacking in glamour. Punk rock had made way for a ‘new wave’ ...
A Flock of Seagulls, Daryl Hall, Rod Stewart: Eleganza: Hairy Monsters (In Need Of Sleep)
Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, January 1984
A COUPLE OF issues back, Eleganza admitted that it was at a loss for what to tell you to do with your hair. Wear it ...
Interview by Deanne Pearson, No. 1, 18 February 1984
SADE INSTRUCTS DEANNE PEARSON IN THE ART OF THE FEMME FATALE ...
Psychedelic Art: Flashing Back
Essay by Glenn O'Brien, Artforum, March 1984
Standing in line at the bank: what if this were on TV? What if we were all on mescalin?– Michael Brownstein, from '43 Cents a ...
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, The Face, April 1984
Ian Dury's verdict on the nation's art heritage ...
Mods: The Resurrection Of Chad
Report by Lesley White, The Face, June 1984
For two days the town slept uneasily, anticipating events prophesied by dark whispers in the roadside inns. As the pilgrims gathered by their tents, huddled ...
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, July 1984
Pausing only to change from one outrageous outfit to the next, PHILIP SALLON has hosted a mad whirl of parties that unite youth tribes in ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 21 July 1984
IN THE perfect world all men look like this. Art-wrecko cherubs squeezed into dead black cow, statuesque as mannequins in Fredericks of Hollywood's fetish department, ...
Interview by Max Bell, No. 1, 12 January 1985
STAR WEARS: Those sharp-dressed men ZZ Top explain the art of mix'n'matching Fila tracksuits, tuxedos and 14-inch beards. ...
Andy Warhol: The Face Interview
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, March 1985
"I HAVE NOTHING to say – read my books" is Andy Warhol's standard riposte to most would-be interviewers. ...
Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, March 1985
A LOT OF you younger readers who think that Boy George didn't invent rock 'n' roll androgyny believe that Prince did, or Michael Jackson, or ...
Duran Duran, Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Warhol: The Face Interview
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, March 1985
"I HAVE NOTHING to say — read my books" is Andy Warhol's standard riposte to most would-be interviewers. David Yarritu — a former assistant of ...
Matt Bianco, Blue Rondo A La Turk, Madness, Spandau Ballet, Wham!: Chris Ruocco: A Stitch In Times
Interview by Deanne Pearson, No. 1, 2 March 1985
Chris Ruocco makes the striking stage outfits of many of today's top pop stars. Deanne Pearson talks to the tailor whose creations turn up on ...
Review and Interview by Jane Solanas, New Musical Express, 24 August 1985
Amanda Lear, ex-model, disco star and androgynous friend of the famous, has revealed all about her 15-year dalliance with Surrealist painter, Salvador Dali. Jane Solanas ...
Report and Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 2 September 1985
ADAM SWEETING investigates the selling of a pop star package ...
Debbie Harry and Andy Warhol: Parallel Lives
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 11 January 1986
FRANK TALK WITH DEBBIE ...
Overview by Jon Savage, i-D, February 1986
Jon Savage is one of the arch voices of our time, a blithe spirit with a vicious tongue and a wicked pen: dedicated, deadly and ...
Poison, Ratt, The Who: 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 ...
Talulah Gosh: Ladybirds & Start-Rite Kids
Report by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 27 September 1986
Is there more to jumble-sale chic than saving precious pennies? Simon Reynolds thinks so and spots an asexual revolution unfolding within the indie scene. So ...
Grace Jones: Inside Grace Jones
Interview by Gene Santoro, Pulse!, February 1987
A Story About Film, Fashion and Fresh New Sounds. ...
Savage Pencil: With Lead In His Pencil
Interview by Cathi Unsworth, Sounds, 3 September 1988
SAVAGE PENCIL has turned his art to original biker movies. CATHI UNSWORTH savours his hellraising Angel Dust ...
Report by Frank Owen, Spin, October 1988
WITH A defiant swagger, home-boy style '88 says, "Say it loud, I'm fake and I'm proud." Gucci may be good, but fake Gucci is what's ...
Jean-Paul Gaultier: Club Couture
Interview by Sean O'Hagan, New Musical Express, 28 January 1989
After years of being afforded the status of pop star in his native France, fashion designer JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER has gone and done it his way ...
Holly Johnson: What does Holly Johnson get up to on his days off?
Report and Interview by Tom Doyle, Smash Hits, 26 July 1989
★ Well he potters around posh art galleries with his pals, he browses round the odd with-it clothes shop, and he has a spot of ...
Essay by Johnny Black, Q, November 1989
Any self-respecting Yes album used to feel naked without a fantasy cover by artist Roger Dean. It seems only fitting, then, that he has done ...
Interview by Siân Pattenden, Smash Hits, 21 March 1990
★ He's got a weedy ballad that's taken the charts by storm! ★ He's got a hairdo from hell! ★ He's got millions of ...
A Hard Graff For A Piece Of The Action
Report and Interview by Cynthia Rose, The Observer, 22 April 1990
Cynthia Rose says in Europe they know the writing's on the wall. ...
Report and Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 26 July 1990
Black capes, death fixations, Shelley recitals and an infinite supply of doom and gloom. Caroline Sullivan visits the haunts of the original Gothfathers to see ...
Eurythmics, Annie Lennox: Annie Lennox: Who's That Girl?
Profile and Interview by Lucy O'Brien, Select, February 1991
Never afraid to experiment and shock, Annie Lennox has paraded a succession of challenging images during the last decade — from androgynous hedonist to caring ...
Grateful Dead: Poster Artist Rick Griffin Dies
Obituary by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 3 October 1991
RICK GRIFFIN, one of the creators of the psychedelic poster art that originated in San Francisco during the mid-Sixties, died on August 17th of severe ...
Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine: Carter USM: Stars of the Singlets Market
Report by Bruce Dessau, The Guardian, 21 May 1992
Never mind the music, it's the T-shirt that counts these days. Bruce Dessau reports ...
Pink Floyd: Storm Thorgerson: Daily Departures From Reality
Interview by Martin Aston, Q, December 1992
"I LIKE PICTURES that don't necessarily have an explanation off pat," Storm Thorgerson says of the beguiling, often outlandish record sleeves that cemented the ...
RuPaul: The World According to RuPaul
Interview by David A. Keeps, Details, March 1993
Singer, supermodel, and trans-American success story ...
Report by John Robb, i-D, April 1993
Three years ago Manchester was famous for flares, clubs and the Happy Mondays. Now it's guns, drugs and violence. How accurate is the city's media ...
Profile and Interview by Graham Reid, The New Zealand Herald, 1994
AT 55, ASTRID Kirchherr still loves rock music and listens to it every day: The Beatles, the Doors, Bowie... "and Prince, he's such a genius ...
The Beatles and Astrid Kirchherr: They Loved Stu Yeah Yeah Yeah
Report and Interview by John Harris, New Musical Express, 2 April 1994
They weren't always old men owning half of Scotland and giving all their money to spiritual motor racing gurus. On the eve of a Beatles ...
The Beastie Boys: We Clamorous Beasties
Interview by Ted Kessler, New Musical Express, 21 May 1994
The Beastie Boys, icons to the sunstruck, tattooed youth of California have set up every American boy's dream empire — clothes, fanzine, record label and ...
Report and Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 28 May 1994
Five years ago GALLIANO was just a sticky Mediterranean drink. Now they're a band on the verge of major success, spearheading the movement that's the ...
Russell Simmons: Hip Hop's Top Dog
Profile and Interview by Frank Broughton, i-D, September 1994
With faith in the power of undiluted black culture, Russell Simmons harnessed the sound of the underground and turned hip hop into a billion dollar ...
Naomi Campbell: "It's good to be a baby elephant"
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, November 1994
Huh? Naomi Campbell — looker, actress, pugilist and girlfriend of the famous — has now turned her manicured hand to pop music. And novel writing. ...
Remembering Rock Dreams: Guy Peellaert and Nik Cohn
Retrospective and Interview by Paul Rambali, MOJO, March 1995
DO YOU STILL have a copy of Rock Dreams? If you were a rock fan in the early ‘70s, when it was first published, you ...
Overview by Lucy O'Brien, Vox, April 1995
From models to mods, designer girlfriends to X Girl, it's a fine thread between fashion and rock 'n' roll. VOX explores the world of pop ...
Comment by Sheryl Garratt, The Face, February 1996
Nice flyer, shame about the club: Sheryl Garratt on the art of parties. ...
Album covers: New tricks up their sleeve
Interview by Susan Corrigan, The Guardian, 18 March 1996
The LP cover is once again regarded as an art form. Susan Corrigan meets the designer largely responsible ...
Report by Frank Owen, The Village Voice, 25 June 1996
Looking for Angel: Did King of Club Kids Michael Alig really Kill Angel Melendez? Or is it all a hoax? By Frank Owen ...
Iggy Pop, Sex Pistols: Last of the Mohicans
Report by Susan Corrigan, The Guardian, 26 June 1996
On Sunday, the punks were rocking again. But what on earth were they wearing? ...
Bis, Sarah Cracknell, Elastica, Garbage, Shampoo, Sleeper: The Young Pretenders
Report by Susan Corrigan, The Guardian, 17 July 1996
Susan Corrigan talks to the teenagers with stars in their eyes. ...
ZZ Top: Crazy 'bout a kitsch-dressed man
Interview by Andy Gill, The Independent, August 1996
ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons has reconnected his blues roots with African rhythm. Can he really be giving up trash in the interests of good taste, ...
Tupac Shakur: Sprayers for a lost soul
Report by Vivien Goldman, Daily Telegraph, 14 December 1996
The murder of rap star Tupac Shakur in September has brought the simmering rivalry between two New York graffiti artists to a head. Vivien Goldman ...
Nirvana, Oasis, Pulp, Sex Pistols: True Brits
Interview by Jon Savage, The Guardian, 20 December 1996
A young New York painter looks like becoming "the first artist of Britpop". Jon Savage on how Elizabeth Peyton's portraits of Jarvis, Liam and Noel ...
The Beatles: Copyright: Pepper corn
Interview by Caroline Boucher, The Observer, 23 March 1997
ONE OF the most famous album covers of all time is about to become the subject of bitter legal wrangling. Peter Blake, 64, designed the ...
Nico, The Velvet Underground: Name Game: Billy Name
Interview by Jon Savage, The Guardian, 25 April 1997
At Andy Warhol's Factory everybody wanted to be a star. Everyone except Billy Name. He designed the Factory, curated it, soothed the egos of Warhol's ...
Acid Brass, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, The KLF, Manic Street Preachers, Georgina Starr: Pop Art
Report and Interview by Susan Corrigan, i-D, August 1997
Blur and Damien Hirst? Pet Shop Boys and Sam Taylor-Wood? No doubt about it, pop stars dabbling in art is a bad idea. But what ...
Paul McCartney: Linda McCartney: How Rock 'n' Roll Saved Our Lives
Retrospective by David Dalton, Gadfly, August 1998
I FIRST MET Linda McCartney at the Scene on West 46th Street. A hip little grotto in a cellar, it was run by the cool ...
Beck, Al Hansen, and the new Art Rock
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, World Art, September 1998
LAST MAY, "Beck and Al Hansen: Playing With Matches" opened at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. This fall and winter the exhibition can be ...
Lloyd Johnson: Aloha From Noting Hill
Profile and Interview by Paul Gorman, MOJO, May 1999
GLAD-RAGS: Britain's premier rock'n'roll tailor has dumped leather'n'denim for the typically tropical. ...
The Donnas: Hot Style: The Donnas
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 29 May 1999
ALL THE best bands look great. Whether it was the Sex Pistols in their safety pins or Kurt Cobain throwing on a plaid shirt and ...
Interview by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 28 August 1999
He's got no ears and is a fetching shade of yellow. Who cares?! Just one of his fuzzy little paws is more rock'n'roll than all ...
Comment by Tom Cox, The Guardian, 11 December 1999
ONE OF the best Christmas presents you could buy for the 80s obsessive in your life this year is The Mullet: Hairstyle of the Gods, ...
Essay by Victor Bockris, Gadfly, May 2000
Somebody once asked who Andy Warhol reminded me of. My answer, Muhammad Ali, tickled the artist so much that he used the statement in a ...
Jimi Hendrix: Public Image Unlimited
Essay by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2000
Hendrix the black radical. Hendrix the glam dandy. Hendrix the icon. Hendrix the man. ...
Sigur Rós: Desolation Angels: Icelandic music
Report and Interview by Rob Young, The Wire, January 2001
Spearheaded by Sigur Rós, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and the Kitchen Motors collective, Iceland’s hardy children of nature are proving stubbornly resistant to the World Rock ...
The Dark Visions Of Raymond Pettibon
Profile by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, 4 August 2001
Raymond Pettibon first got our attention with startling flyers for Black Flag shows. These days he's seen in the galleries and museums. ...
The Rolling Stones: Imaging The Stones: John Van Hamersveld
Book Excerpt by John Van Hamersveld, Rock's Backpages, 11 August 2001
John Van Hamersveld was one of the key poster artists of the psychedelic rock era in Los Angeles. He was also the man to whom ...
Book Excerpt by John Van Hamersveld, Surfadelic: From Surf Saga to Artist 64-74, 20 October 2001
DECEMBER 31st, 1967: The Winterland Ballroom. San Francisco. Bill Graham's The Doors concert this evening. I'm checking out the show backstage with The Family Dog ...
Billy Childish: One In The Eye For The Fakes
Profile and Interview by Richard Cabut, 3ammagazine.com, 2003
Richard Cabut interviews painter, poet, novelist, musician, green-tea drinker and all-round dyslexic genius Billy Childish, as a retrospective exhibition opens in London. ...
Report by Paul Gorman, MOJO, 2003
THE UNEARTHING IN central London of a series of stunning images of rock icons from the early ‘70s has sparked a search for a mystery ...
Eric Clapton, Pavement, The White Stripes, Frank Zappa: The Record Doctor: Paul Smith
Interview by Pete Paphides, Observer Music Monthly, October 2003
In his continuing quest to improve the musical tastes of the stars, Record Doctor visits the godfather of British fashion. ...
Radiohead: The Story Of Tchocky
Report and Interview by Ian Gittins, Q, Summer 2003
ON FEBRUARY 27, 2002, Radiohead designer Stanley Donwood mounted the stage at the Staples Center, Los Angeles, to receive a Grammy for "Best Recording Package" ...
The Capri-Collared Shirt: King's Road and the birth of British punk in the late '70s
Memoir by Paul Gorman, 3ammagazine.com, 2004
IN 1973 ONE of my older brothers, Timothy, started work at a shop called Domidium in the Kings Road, just ahead of the curve of ...
The Million-Pound Mod: John Stephen
Obituary by Paul Gorman, unpublished, February 2004
JOHN STEPHEN – who died on February 1 aged 69 – was the "£1m Mod" who was a vital element in the look of the ...
Retrospective by David Dalton, MOJO, March 2004
When innocent English teens David and Sarah Dalton met Andy Warhol in 1961 their eyes were opened to a whole new world of pop culture ...
Jonathan Ive: The Father Of Invention
Report and Interview by Sheryl Garratt, The Word, March 2004
In a world where computer technology is a religion and its curvy iconography is changing everything, a shy 37-year-old Englishman is the newly-elected High Priest. ...
Papa Wemba: Pop Star, People Smuggler, Jailbird, Demagogue – and all in a coat that cost £15,000
Report and Interview by James Fox, Sunday Telegraph, 14 August 2004
James Fox looks at the bizarre life of world music star Papa Wemba. ...
Spandau Ballet's Bible: How I Played My Part in Inventing the New Romantics
Memoir by Beverley Glick, beverleyglick.com, 2005
Here is the second extract from my memoir Hit Girl: My Bizarre Double Life in the Pop World of the Eighties. It is September 1980 and, ...
Interview by Christine Natanael, crushermagazine.com, 2005
FOR AS FAR BACK as I can remember, I have been enraptured by album cover art. In the days before the small format of the ...
Bob Dylan: Sally Grossman: The Lady In Red
Interview by Edward Helmore, MOJO, February 2005
Sally Grossman adorned the Bringing It All Back Home sleeve, then cooked breakfast for the entire population of Woodstock. Edward Helmore hears her story. ...
Britney Spears: Under The Covers: Britney
Guide by Todd L. Burns, Stylus, 1 February 2005
The Queen of Pop? Since 1999’s …Baby One More Time, Britney has quickly elevated herself to pop royalty via a conflicting series of psycho-sexual messages ...
The Prodigy: Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), March 2005
AFTER A SEVEN year wait for the follow up to 1997's The Fat of the Land and more than a decade on from the career-transforming ...
John Cage, Keith Rowe: Seriously funny
Comment by David Stubbs, The Wire, June 2005
David Stubbs on discovering that humour and music do mix ...
Kraftwerk: "Kraftwerk Are The Catalyst"
Interview by Simon Witter, MOJO, September 2005
The band's art guru and oldest friend, EMIL SCHULT, gives a view from inside the Kraftwerk project. As told to Simon Witter. ...
Brian Eno: Containing Spontaneity
Interview by Ken Scrudato, Filter, October 2006
NOT JUST a few otherwise sophisticated human beings would likely feel less uneasy naked and unarmed in Northern Afghanistan than present in a room when ...
Tool: When A Special Package Becomes The Standard
Report by Larry Jaffee, Mediaware, Summer 2006
MUSIC INDUSTRY executives are usually quick to blame slacking CD sales on pilferage through illegal downloads. Rarely do major label types take any kind of ...
Overview by Richie Unterberger, MOJO, March 2007
"I SAW THIS face looking up at me out of the trashcan. It was a woman. It looked like a flamenco dancer staring at me. ...
RZA, Wu-Tang Clan: Wu-Tang Clan: Putting the record straight
Interview by John Lewis, Metro, 10 December 2007
The hunger has returned: Wu-Tang Clan, with group leader RZA are back and ready to rule the hip hop world again with new album 8 ...
Interview by Scott McLennan, Attitude (Australia), Fall 2007
IT'S JUST GONE one o'clock in the afternoon as Nathan Followill reclines on his farmhouse porch in Lebanon, Tennessee, but here in Australia's it's a ...
Book Excerpt by Paul Gorman, 'Reasons To Be Cheerful' (Adelita), 2008
DESPITE HIS WISH for anonymity, Barney Bubbles' profile was rising high in 1978 on the back of the graphic wit, invention and clarity delivered over ...
Pet Shop Boys: Pop Into Art: Post-Punk Aesthetics Revisited
Essay by Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, May 2008
"Girls, Boys, Art, Pleasure"– Chris Lowe, Pet Shop Boys, 'Paninaro 95' ...
Big Brother & The Holding Company: R. Crumb: So Last Century
Report and Interview by Larry Jaffee, The Word, 12 September 2008
The world of R. Crumb – where every record sleeve wishes it was still 1920. ...
Guy Peellaert: The man who invented rock and roll
Comment by David Hepworth, The Word, 20 November 2008
I'VE ONLY JUST noticed that Guy Peellaert died the other day. Lots of people have never heard his name but the fact remains that, rightly ...
Grace Jones: Grace Under Pressure: Grace Jones
Interview by John Doran, The Stool Pigeon, December 2008
PLAYING BACK MY phone interview with Grace Jones, I notice that at the start of the transcript while I'm waiting for someone to pick up ...
David Bowie, The Rolling Stones: Guy Peellaert, 1934-2008
Obituary by Ken Hunt, The Guardian, 29 January 2009
Belgian artist most famous for his rock dreamscapes ...
Memoir by John Pidgeon, Rock's Backpages, 5 May 2009
I AM NINE years old, watching Don't Knock The Rock in High Wycombe's Rex cinema, when I make a connection between music and the way ...
David Bowie: The making of 'Starman'
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, June 2009
In 1972 this space-age hit — and an onstage "electric blow job" — turned Ziggy and his Spiders From Mars into megastars. "But the outfits... ...
Tom Wilkes, 1939-2009: Legendary Designer of Posters and Album Covers
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, July 2009
Tom Wilkes, legendary poster and album cover designer (Monterey Pop, the Rolling Stones' original Beggars Banquet, Neil Young's Harvest, Janis Joplin's Pearl, George Harrison's All ...
Aimee Mann: Cover Me – Aimee, Gail and the illustrators
Special Feature by Martin Colyer, Varoom!, Winter 2009
Video promos and downloads have diminished the value of sleeve art in the eyes of music companies, and illustration doesn't fit their brand-building approach to ...
The Beatles, The Doors, Motörhead, The Ramones, The Rolling Stones: Merch
Retrospective and Interview by James Medd, The Word, May 2010
Could the iconography of rock outlive the music? James Medd looks at the enduringly profitable trade in signs, symbols and signifiers ...
Laurie Anderson: All her own invention
Report and Interview by John L. Walters, Eye, Summer 2010
Graphic design's recent concerns have for decades been at the heart of Laurie Anderson's practice. ...
Brian Jones, Keith Richards: Anita Pallenberg: 1967 and all that
Interview by Paul Gorman, Paul Gorman Is, 27 January 2011
A COUPLE OF years back I interviewed Anita Pallenberg — who celebrated her birthday yesterday — for MOJO magazine. ...
Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Unholy: Aubrey Powell on Led Zeppelin
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, March 2011
NOTE: This is a transcription from an interview that Hipgnosis co-founder Aubrey Powell gave me in March 2011, for Trampled Under Foot, my 2012 oral ...
Charlotte Gainsbourg: Eternal Ingénue: Charlotte Gainsbourg on Her Latest Stylish Role
Interview by Bethan Cole, The Independent, 9 July 2011
The daughter of Anglo-French musical royalty, Charlotte Gainsbourg was destined to be a performer — and now she's in the hottest arthouse film of the ...
The Album Cover Art Of Studio One Records (Soul Jazz)
Book Review by Mike Atherton, Echoes, December 2011
WITHOUT STUDIO ONE there would still have been reggae music, but it might well have developed differently. ...
Retrospective by Wyndham Wallace, Upon Paper, October 2012
"Breathe on me, eclipse my mind. It's in some kind of disarray." ('Chameleon Day') ...
Retrospective by Paul Gorman, Rock's Backpages, February 2013
MALCOLM MCLAREN'S adaptation of the infamous Tits t-shirt is one of punk's most familiar designs, as applied by he and Vivienne Westwood to shirts sold ...
David Bowie: Who is David Bowie? A Guide to the V&A retrospective
Report by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 16 February 2013
As a blockbuster exhibition, David Bowie is, gets under way at the V&A, Sean O'Hagan dissects the pop icon's influences – and reveals the ideas ...
David Bowie: Highlights of David Bowie Is: V&A, London
Review by Kate Allen, Rock's Backpages, 25 March 2013
I'VE NEVER been a Bowie-phile, but after visiting the David Bowie is exhibition at the V&A last week, it's difficult not to feel as though such ...
Jimi Hendrix: Linda Keith: "How I helped to make Jimi Hendrix a rock'n'roll star"
Retrospective and Interview by Edward Helmore, The Observer, 14 September 2013
Linda Keith lent a young blues player a guitar belonging to her boyfriend, Keith Richards – and the rest is history. In a rare interview, ...
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, Classic Pop, November 2013
A new book, Martin Aston's Facing The Other Way, tells the story of a label that scored just a single number one hit during the ...
David Bowie: David Bowie is: V&A, London
Review by Nicky Charlish, Culture Wars, 9 November 2013
Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke, The Man Who Fell to Earth, the man of seemingly endless identity changes. David Bowie has been ...
Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s: V&A, London
Review by Nicky Charlish, Culture Wars, 21 December 2013
WHEN WE LOOK at a product of physical design – a building, say – we don't usually think about the influences which went into its ...
Tinie Tempah: The Most Stylish Man In Music
Interview by Sheryl Garratt, Daily Telegraph, 25 March 2014
From the outset, rapper Tinie Tempah was determined to stand out from the crowd. He talks to Sheryl Garratt about the evolution of his style ...
The State of the Rock Chick: Individual Style or Manufactured Fashion?
Comment by Rachel Felder, Vanity Fair, 10 April 2014
AS USUAL, this year's Coachella lineup includes a handful of female artists – like Haim, Lorde, and Lana Del Rey – who look as good ...
The Eagles: Boyd Elder: Encounters of the Southwestern Kind
Report and Interview by Stephen K. Peeples, stephenkpeeples.com, 31 March 2015
A close encounter with the artist who created the skull art for Eagles' One of These Nights and Their Greatest Hits. ...
Gram Parsons: The Read: Mr Gram Parsons
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Mr. Porter, April 2015
Narcotics, Nudie Cohn suits, and the Rolling Stones – we pay homage to the fiercely talented founder of alternative country, whose untimely demise was as ...
The Jam: À la mod: how the Jam and mod style transcended fashion
Retrospective by Paul Gorman, The Guardian, 12 August 2015
A new exhibition of the Jam at Somerset House proves that the mod look, from Carnaby Street to Uniqlo, is the gift that keeps on ...
The Smiths: How The Smiths Pioneered Normcore
Retrospective by Chris Heath, GQ, 20 September 2015
They were the original normcores – a band of outsiders who took pains to dress as though they’d found their clothes at a rummage sale. ...
The Clash: Paul Simonon: The Clash's Ace of Bass
Retrospective and Interview by James Medd, The Rake, August 2017
Without him, The Clash would still have been a great band, but with him they became iconic. Paul Simonon was built for rock 'n' roll and ...
Prince: My Name Is Prince: O2, London
Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 27 October 2017
I HADN'T anticipated the sudden pang of sadness as I walked in and saw all those gaudy, gloriously naff outfits. My eyes went straight to ...
Paul Gorman: The Story of The Face
Book Review by Andy Beckett, The Guardian, 1 November 2017
This huge, rich book is a celebration not only of the style bible but of London, Manchester and Liverpool in the late 20th century. ...
Rhythm & Reaction: The Age of Jazz in Britain: Two Temple Place, London
Review by John L. Walters, Eye, 25 February 2018
Rhythm & Reaction gets under the skin of a British love affair with American jazz 27 January — 22 April 2018 ...
Report and Interview by Tim Cooper, Little Atoms, 12 July 2018
In 1993, as war raged in the Balkans, the Eurovision circus descended on the tiny Irish town of Millstreet. It was with the emergence of ...
Marvin Gaye: Inner Sleeve: Marvin Gaye's I Want You (Tamla)
Comment by Michael A. Gonzales, The Wire, August 2018
This month's artwork chosen by Michael A Gonzales. Cover painting by Ernie Barnes ...
The Eagles, Bobby Fuller Four, The : (No) AMF, Boyd Elder: Texas "Artlaw" Dead at 74
Memoir by Stephen K. Peeples, stephenkpeeples.com, 30 October 2018
LEGENDARY TEXAS multi-media fine artist and rock 'n' roll "artlaw" Boyd Elder, who spent a lifetime expressing his artistic vision with often flagrant disregard for convention ...
Cab Calloway, August Darnell, Gene Krupa: Time Machine: June 1943 – L.A.'s Zoot Suit Riots
Retrospective by Fred Dellar, unpublished, February 2020
CAB CALLOWAY was something of a superstar by 1943. A would-be Harlem Globetrotter, he'd had that possible career nixed by his big sister Blanche, who ...
Book Excerpt by Paul Gorman, 'The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren' (Constable), April 2020
IN 1975, THE regular customers at Sex – the fetish boutique operated at 430 King’s Road by Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood – included David ...
Rashied Ali: Once Upon A Time In Williamsburg
Retrospective by Val Wilmer, The Wire, June 2020
In the early 1970s a number of progressive artists, musicians and activists came together to build a bridgehead for the black avant garde in a ...
Pink Floyd, Throbbing Gristle: Gotta Stem The Evil Tide: Pink Floyd and Throbbing Gristle
Retrospective and Interview by Daryl Easlea, unpublished, 2021
THROBBING GRISTLE became a cause celebre in October 1976, with their Prostitution Exhibition at the ICA. Tory MP Nicholas Fairbairn called the noise terrorists "Wreckers ...
Bryan Ferry: An imperceptible dream: Bryan Ferry at 75 + live in Holland & New Zealand
Memoir by Steve Pafford, stevepafford.com, 26 September 2021
BRYAN FERRY has turned 75. ...
Lady Gaga: Lady Gucci is just the latest guise of the ever transmutable Lady Gaga
Profile by Edward Helmore, The Guardian, 8 December 2021
Pop singer, activist, art installation, actor, Stefani Germanotta has taken on many faces ...
Sex Pistols, X-Ray Spex: Oh Bondage! Up Yours
Retrospective by Paul Gorman, MacGuffin, August 2022
AS SIMULTANEOUS SYMBOLS of subjugation and liberation, chains were co-opted in the bricolage approaches to the hundreds, if not thousands, of individualistic identities — in ...
Kanye West reportedly showed explicit photos to employees at Adidas
Report by Edward Helmore, The Guardian, 23 November 2022
RAPPER AND DESIGNER created "toxic environment" by sharing images of Kim Kardashian and his own sex tapes, Rolling Stone reports ...
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