Adrian Deevoy
Adrian Deevoy (right, with Sir Bob Geldof) has written since 1978 for a variety of publications including Trouser Press, International Musician, Penthouse, Cosmopolitian, Q Magazine, GQ, The London Times, The LA Times, The Sunday Times, Blender, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, The Times Of India and The Observer. He is perhaps the only writer of his generation to have conducted extensive interviews with Bob Dylan, Prince, Madonna, Freddie Mercury and Mick Karn’s Bestial Cluster.
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Interview by Adrian Deevoy, International Musician & Recording World, October 1983
Here come the Smiths smiling, brandishing their blooms and being hotly pursued by ADRIAN DEEVOY, our very own handsome devil. ...
Bruce Springsteen: The Big Boss Groove
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, International Musician & Recording World, December 1984
AT 35, HE'S still claiming that all the world's a stage and all the men and women merely stage hands. He's still hauling that battered ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, International Musician & Recording World, March 1985
ADRIEN DEEVOY FINDS STRAWBERRY SWITCHBLADE TO BE MORE THAN JUST FLAVOUR OF THE MONTH ...
Scritti Politti: Green Machines
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, International Musician & Recording World, July 1985
"I'D JUST like to say now that I am not a knobist." ...
Paul Hardcastle: Re-Mixed Blessings
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, International Musician & Recording World, November 1985
Paul Hardcastle is a lot more than '19'. He has a recording back catalogue, an album in the pipeline and a huge reputation as a ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, January 1988
THE FIRST time Suzanne Vega says "oral sex" it is most physically disturbing. But you get used to it after a while. Look, she's saying ...
Dexys Midnight Runners, Kevin Rowland: Who The Hell Does KEVIN ROWLAND Think He Is?
Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, April 1988
It's that time again, when the curmudgeonly chairman of Dexys Midnight Runners rejoins the giddy carousel of pop to peddle more intense ideology in a ...
George Michael: The Lone Star State
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, June 1988
His second career is already more succesful than his first. His spry and winning pop songs have a greater-than-average life expectancy. He is uncountably wealthy. ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, October 1988
Stylists have thrown in the towel, promotional persons have blanched, record execs have shed real tears as, over six years, Talk Talk have been increasingly ...
Freddie Mercury, Queen: Freddie Mercury: Bravo Sir Frederick!
Report and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, December 1988
NEVER HAVING been one to opt for the outrageous when the downright preposterous will do, Freddie Mercury concludes his operatic concert by attempting to blow ...
Report and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, January 1989
"BON JOVI... Back To Kick Ass" declare the T-shirts outside the Royal Dublin Society Arena. Below this raunchy statement of intent is the list of ...
David Bowie: Boys Keep Swinging
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, June 1989
Six years since his last convincing album, and with the overblown Glass Spider tour still fresh in the memory, David Bowie has rapidly returned to ...
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 ...
George Michael: Music Review of the '80s: George Michael
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, January 1990
A year and a half on from Wham!'s last concert, George Michael's solo career was ripening nicely as 1988 began. His hugely successful album debut, ...
Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, Ozzy Osbourne, Prince, Sex Pistols: Do I hear £180,000?
Report by Adrian Deevoy, Q, July 1990
Indeed you do... for the guitar Hendrix played at Woodstock. But it's considerably less for a life-size oil painting of Ozzy Osbourne. Adrian Deevoy examines ...
The Stone Roses: Another Early Night
Report and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, July 1990
Stockholm, 4 am: the amateurs are going to bed. Not so the Stone Roses, who are limbering up to go out and dance...like fish. Having ...
George Michael: Strictly No Admittance: The Privatisation of George Michael
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, October 1990
At 19 he was full-time public property — a naively optimistic hit singles machine with a shuttlecock down his shorts. At 24 he emerged as ...
Sinead O'Connor: It's a Tough Old Life
Report and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, December 1990
LA's newest resident, Sinead O'Connor can sit and reflect on a year of dramatic upheaval. Thanks to a Prince-penned single and its arrestingly tear-stained video, ...
Leonard Cohen: Porridge? Lozenge? Syringe?
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, 1991
He's been a poet and songwriter for more than 40 years, but Leonard Cohen still can't find a rhyme for 'orange'. "It drives you mad," ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, January 1991
Loud, powerful, seemingly invincible, the INXS Express comes thundering into yet another city. But this particular journey has not been altogether smooth. Stung by accusations ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, July 1991
IT WAS A MARRIAGE MADE, not in heaven, but in Manchester: the guitar-slinging former Smith and the wispy-voiced singer of New Order, brought together by ...
Cher: Who The Hell Does Cher Think She Is?
Report and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, August 1991
Ladies and gentlemen. You are about to meet a living legend. A goddess. A true star. Any minute now... Well, half an hour, definitely... (Tum-ti-tum ...
Pet Shop Boys: Oh Mister Songwriters!
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, January 1992
What is it like, that magical moment when the creative juices start to flow? Is it one glorious spurt? Or merely a dutiful grind? The ...
George Michael: One Night in New York
Report by Adrian Deevoy, Q, February 1992
In Britain, George Michael is a household name. In the USA, however, he is really well known. To alleviate the pressures of touring there, he ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, May 1992
...But for how much longer? Q accepts an invitation to Cher's bedroom and finds a woman who is troubled with doubt. "I'm not sure where ...
John Phillips, Wilson Phillips, Brian Wilson: Wilson Phillips: Have you finished in there?
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, July 1992
Meet Wilson Phillips: born to the Californian rock aristocracy, raised amid craziness and emotional undernourishment, writing sad songs to parents who were never "there for ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, September 1992
The lighter side of football violence. The death of pop music. Getting the urge for sex. Being racist. The TV star who is "a pig ...
Kylie Minogue: Who The Hell Does Kylie Minogue Think She Is?
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, October 1992
Where is she now, our little smiley gonk in primary colours? She became a saucy siren with eyes that said Come closer, a backside that ...
Neneh Cherry: What Is She Like?
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, November 1992
"Yo! Peace, darlin'!" Three years out of public view, Neneh Cherry returns this month with a rap/rock crossover record, 'Money Love', and an album that's ...
Sinead O'Connor: Crazy Baldhead
Comment by Adrian Deevoy, Q, January 1993
IT'S A PHILOSOPHICAL agenda that would make David Icke vibrate with envy. Consider Sinead O'Connor's current take on the state of play: 96 per cent ...
The Pogues, Shane MacGowan: Shane MacGowan: Crash Course To Oblivion
Report and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, February 1993
Cancel the hearses! Desist with the obituaries! For Shane MacGowan lives, in spite of a heroic chemical intake and his ownership of the Western world's ...
Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones: Who The Hell Does Mick Jagger Think He Is?
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, March 1993
MICK WAS so out of it that I could tell the waiters were scared he'd pass out. His head was so far back and he ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, June 1993
From nowhere, his first LP sold like thermonuclear cakes and he became the most sexy, mouthy, loppy, self-promoting star in pop. Then his second album ...
The Auteurs: San Francisco Bay Blues
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, July 1993
They came, they saw, they left. The Auteurs' maiden voyage to the Americas left more than a little to be desired. "Next time," they warn ...
INXS: Welcome To Our New Direction
Report and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, August 1993
In a fully comprehensive roots-and-reality reacquaintance exercise, INXS are nostalgically experiencing the sights, the sounds, the smells of their earliest days in a series of ...
U2: I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night
Report and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, September 1993
It seemed like such a good idea at the time: serenading Axl Rose; sleeping in an igloo; drinking the swimming pool; licking the promoter; blowing ...
Live Review by Adrian Deevoy, The Times, 6 September 1993
IF THE success of a concert can be gauged by the number of moist and flailing bodies flung ceilingwards during the performance, then Radiohead's only ...
The Lemonheads: Evan Dando: Just Say No… Kinda
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, November 1993
A respectful silence, please, for Evan Dando, Lemonhead-in-chief and arguably the most generously gifted songwriter of his generation: "I'd like to impart this message to ...
The Police: Oh, How We Laughed!
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, November 1993
They were one big happy family. They were brothers by different parents. They were all for one and one for all. Except they weren't. The ...
Elvis Costello: Crimes and Misdemeanours: Elvis Costello
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, January 1994
Elvis Costello stands accused: of committing three grievously over-egged albums; of conspiring with classical quartets; of proceeding in a soundtrackular direction; of masterminding The Wendy ...
Tori Amos, Björk, PJ Harvey: PJ Harvey, Björk, and Tori Amos: Hips. Lips. Tits. Power.
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, May 1994
Well, would you spill their pint? In the last 18 months, Polly Harvey, Björk, and Tori Amos have rogered the charts with their special brew ...
Prince Talks To Q: 'I Am Normal!'
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, July 1994
Pleased to meet you... Hope you've guessed my name. For the first time since God alone knows when, the artist formerly known as Prince talks ...
The Rolling Stones: Ladies and Gentlemen, The Interesting Old Farts
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, August 1994
Mike likes mincing about with the aristocracy. Keith likes taking drugs in his coffin. Mick likes fast songs. Keith likes the slow ones. Mick enjoys ...
The Rolling Stones: Rock'n'roll in-laws
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, September 1994
If Mick and Keith are still regarded as rock'n'roll outlaws, where does that leave Ronnie and Charlie? Adrian Deevoy meets the drone Stones to discuss ...
INXS, Michael Hutchence: Michael Hutchence: The Q 100 Interview
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, January 1995
HOW THE devil are you? ...
Sting: The South Will Rise Again
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, January 1995
It is the biggest dilemma in the caring career of Pop's Very Own Captain Conscience. Sun City: should I stay or should I go? Sting ...
The Stone Roses: Who The Hell Do The Stone Roses Think They Are?
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, March 1995
Their second album took longer to record than the equivalent World War took to wage. Meanwhile, Geffen kept them in golf clubs and "heroin". Last ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, April 1995
Especially Elton John. Cocaine seizures, Martini marathons, curry 'n' cockle blow-outs, condom-free congress, surprising marriages, violent evacuations, rent boys… he's had a few. But that ...
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 ...
Elastica: You're Never Alone With Elastica
Report and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, May 1995
...Elastica. With impeccable Suede, Blur and, ahem, Stranglers connections, 1995's Great British Export-in-waiting put the "New" in New Wave. And, Iggy Pop tells Adrian Deevoy, ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, May 1995
Fabled and reconstructed, the all-new, star-spangled, itinerary-wielding R.E.M. were poised to take on the world. Then Bill Berry took ill. ADRIAN DEEVOY caught the doomed ...
Blur: Stop The Band, I Wanna Get Off!
Report and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, March 1996
Are BLUR really going to the dogs? Behind all the adoring screams, we hear internal bickering, the tell-tale snii-ii-i-iff! of media-centric decadence, a hollow champagne ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, The Big Issue, 11 November 1996
In this world exclusive – his first interview in six years – George Michael talks candidly about dope, death and his sexuality ...
Spice Girls: The Spice Girls: We Have Come For Your Children
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, December 1997
The Spice grip tightens. Nations and markets previously immune to their yelling, pointing, and possibly even their singing, have succumbed. So why are they suddenly ...
Oasis: Put It Next To The Other Three
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, January 1998
What a shoddy old year it's been for Oasis. Only six million copies of Be Here Now shifted. Only voted The Best Act In The ...
Simply Red: Have You Got A Bit Of Manchester In You?
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, June 1998
And if not, would you like some? Beware, ladies, for it is Mick Hucknall, humbled by heartbreak but still hopping on like a russet-headed horny ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, October 1998
She hasn't taken heroin and she won't gossip about Eric Clapton, so what will she do? "People have needs," she tells Adrian Deevoy, darkly. ...
Report by Adrian Deevoy, Q, May 1999
In summer 1998, and to a chorus of indie-kid disapproval, Capital Radio took over London station XFM and, preposterously, put Bob Geldof in the drive-time ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, August 1999
They swear at Prince Charles. They swear at Lionel Richie. They swear and swear and when they don't swear, they drink and admit they're gay. ...
Report and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, November 1999
Sometimes even Q needs a break. Usually this means a week in a prefab on Selsea Bill, but this year Signor Sting – Tuscan summer ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, August 2000
He's hard. He's funny. He flirts dramatically with mental illness and he's back with the best pop music of his life. No argument: the Ferrari ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, August 2001
Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong left home at 15, reckons she's "worth 15 billion pounds", guzzles painkillers and measures hotel swimming pools before she ...
Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne: Ozzy Osbourne: Summer of Love
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Blender, June 2002
Could things be any better for Ozzy Osbourne? His family's TV show, The Osbournes, is a runaway smash, and his traveling metal revue, Ozzfest, is ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Blender, April 2003
She was singing in bars at age eight. She lived for Supertramp. And she married the world's most successful hair-metal producer. So how on Earth ...
Fountains of Wayne: How to Be a Rock Manager for a Day
Report and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Blender, September 2003
EAGER TO LEARN if we have what it takes to make our way in the talent-management industry (sticky fingers, violent tendencies), Blender asked pop maestros ...
Report and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Blender, November 2003
"BLENDER HATES us, man," slurs Dryden Mitchell, Alien Ant Farm's pained singer. This is pretty rich, considering that only this evening we have given him ...
Michael Jackson, Lisa Marie Presley: Lisa Marie Presley
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, GQ, January 2004
ELVIS NEVER came to England. He touched down at a Scottish airfield in 1960 but not once did the King set foot in the green ...
Kylie Minogue: The Tao of Kylie
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Blender, April 2004
AS AN omnipresent international celebrity, Kylie Minogue is no stranger to unfounded gossip, but this one persistent item, as Australians are wont to say, is ...
Morrissey, The Smiths: Morrissey
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, GQ, October 2005
The former Smiths frontman has had "20 very odd years": from indie outsider to LA's least typical expat, via court battles and enjoying self-imposed exile. ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, The Guardian, 23 January 2014
HELLO GEORGE. First things first: what are you wearing? I got my suit on, baby. I like to change things up every now and then. So ...
Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 12 April 2014
She has single-handedly built the template for the modern female rock'n'roller: she has out-partied, out-married and, in many cases, outlived her contemporaries. ...
Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 24 May 2014
Prince William high-fives him. Harry Styles is his wingman at fashion shows. Lewis Hamilton asks him for styling tips ... why everyone wants to know ...
Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 23 August 2014
Jessie J reveals she's quitting Britain because she's fed up with gossip about her sex life... and she's heading to America "where they take me ...
Retrospective and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 30 August 2014
Spandau Ballet had it all – monster hits, screaming girls, ludicrous hair and kilts. Then they spent 20 years fighting over cash. It wasn't until ...
Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 31 August 2014
He's 'OK, wedge-wise'. But this summer the bolshiest man in pop was back on the road with the cash-strapped Boomtown Rats. Event was with him ...
Retrospective and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 11 October 2014
THE SIGNATURE sneer is nowhere to be seen, the rebellious fist, so often raised and pumping, rests limply in his lap. Billy Idol, the wild ...
The Who: "Pete came at me. I knocked him spark out."
Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 25 October 2014
The real reason Roger punched Pete, why he still feels guilty about Keith Moon's death... and his problem with immigration. Pete's heroin overdose, his man-crush ...
Lulu: "I've had the most unbelievable life"
Retrospective and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 28 February 2015
POP STARDOM at 15. Two failed marriages – one to a hard-drinking Bee Gee. An "insane" affair with David Bowie. Turning down Frank Sinatra. Cheating ...
Lionel Richie: "There was something seriously wrong with Michael Jackson. But this is Hollywood"
Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 25 April 2015
The downside of marrying a model half his age. The day he discovered Michael Jackson was as mad as a snake. And why the Ku ...
Rod Stewart: Sir Rod Stewart: "Maggie May? I prefer Theresa May!"
Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 28 May 2017
Wake up, Theresa, I think I've got something to say to you... which is that you may be PM, Mrs May, but you're also "a fair ...
Alice Cooper: Alice's biggest shock of all
Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 18 November 2017
Forget the guillotine, noose and snakes – the master of the macabre's fans will be stunned by his enduring passion for God, golf and marriage ...
Bob Marley & the Wailers, New York Dolls: Bob Harris: Whistle Test is back…
Report and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 10 February 2018
… not with a bang but a WHISPER, as its softly-spoken host Bob Harris recalls being hit by Sid Vicious, paying John Lennon in chocolate ...
Crosby Stills Nash & Young, The Hollies, Graham Nash: Graham Nash
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Mail On Sunday, 21 July 2018
Graham Nash reveals why he's dating a woman half his age after turning his back on his wife, drugs AND his former bandmates ...
Chrissie Hynde, The Pretenders: Chrissie Hynde
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 4 August 2018
Still super-hip (and all lip) at 66, the Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde tells Event why she swears at fans, enrages sex abuse victims… and has swapped ...
Nick Lowe: "Whitney Houston made me a million…"
Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Mail On Sunday, 19 May 2019
How the staggering success of The Bodyguard's soundtrack saved the career of songwriter Nick Lowe. ...
Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah! What a love affair...
Retrospective and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Daily Mail, 13 July 2019
A new film tells the entrancing – and ultimately tragic – story of Leonard Cohen and the muse he always adored... ...
Retrospective and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 3 August 2019
FOR FANS of The Sopranos, Steven Van Zandt will forever be Sil, consigliere — chief adviser — to troubled mob boss Tony Soprano. In reality ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 26 October 2019
MODESTY IS a rarity in rock 'n' roll. But for a hit-writer, producer and rock star, Jeff Lynne displays none of the super-sized ego normally ...
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: How OMD manoeuvred themselves back from the dark
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 16 November 2019
ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES In The Dark aren't bitter, not a bit of it. They have missed out on millions, seen marriages collapse and, at one point, ...
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: How OMD manoeuvred themselves back from the dark
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 16 November 2019
ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES In The Dark aren't bitter, not a bit of it. They have missed out on millions, seen marriages collapse and, at one point, ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 11 January 2020
"Touring with Bowie was a thrill. But I was on a high for weeks after winning gold at the Chelsea Flower Show": Kim Wilde on ...
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