Danny Baker
Danny Baker started his career working for seminal punk zine Sniffin' Glue before becoming a receptionist at the New Musical Express. He championed disco and soul and wrote the funniest singles columns in the paper's history. Going to Sea in a Sieve, Danny's autobiography, was published in late 2012.
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Alternative TV: The Image Has Cracked
Review by Danny Baker, ZigZag, July 1978
YOU KNOW them "artists" and "reviewers", they ain't never gonna stop. ...
Alternative TV: ATV: Is As Wonderful
Profile and Interview by Danny Baker, ZigZag, December 1977
I WAS AT ONE of Steve Mick's bi-annual parties, (baffling, rambling affairs – you want to find your long-lost aunt? Come in and prowl around, ...
Blast Furnace & The Heatwaves: The Best Band In The World!
Profile and Interview by Danny Baker, ZigZag, August 1978
"WE LOVE MUSIC...BUT WE HATE THE DISCO SOUND!!!!"Know what? I'll even forgive this band for saying that. ...
Boston: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 20 October 1979
GOAL! ...
Kate Bush: "Wow, Wow, Wow, Amazing, Amazing, Ama—"
Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 20 October 1979
EMI: THREE LETTERS that have come to represent "the enemy" in rock'n'roll's war games. EMI House rambles like a country home with a thousand warrens ...
Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 22 August 1981
Rodgers & Hart... Rodgers & Hammerstein... Rodgers & Edwards... The new age directors of organised rhyme get a witness in DANNY BAKER. ...
Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 4 August 1979
THIS TIME I really feel entitled to smile. ...
Chic: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 20 October 1979
HAVING BEEN present at more disco live shows than any one mortal is entitled to or deserving of, I naturally feared the worst. ...
Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 27 January 1979
THERE WERE so many good singles last year that when it came to deciding what I thought were the best 45s to show out, I ...
Chic, Diana Ross: DIANA stop DIANA stop DIANA stop DIANA
Report and Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 20 September 1980
THE DPRESS CONFERENCE versus YOUR POCKET ...
John Cooper Clarke: Zip Style Method (Epic)
Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 5 June 1982
NO MADNESS IN THIS METHOD ...
Culture Club: Boy George: It's An Odd Boy Who Doesn't Like Sport #1
Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 22 September 1984
"Where can you find pleasure?/Search the world for treasure?/Learn science technology?/Where can you begin to make your dreams all come true?/On the land or on ...
Culture Club: Boy George: It's An Odd Boy Who Doesn't Like Sport #2
Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 29 September 1984
LAST WEEK Boy George recalled his earliest memories and the slow dawning on him that he was apart from his contemporaries in many ways. ...
Overview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 8 December 1979
DANNY BAKER checks out the singles charts. ...
The Darts: One of these Men Is a Fitness Fanatic
Profile and Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 29 September 1979
ALONG A LONELY Somerset lane a man from West 68th St. Manhattan is making good time. Twelve miles behind him and eight to go, he ...
Ian Dury: Danny Baker presents Ian Dury: A Turn For The Verse
Report and Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 8 August 1981
"There's a cock-eyed yellow poodle to the North of Gongapooch There's a little hot cross bun that's turning green, There's a double jointed wop-wop ...
Ian Dury: New Challenge For Esperanto
Report and Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 23 December 1978
JUST OUT of Holland, about ten miles from the Dutch/Belgian border, the coach pulls into the Flemish equivalent of a Motorway Chef. There's four hours ...
Ian Dury: Where Blockheads Dare…
Report by Danny Baker, ZigZag, January 1979
IN 1979 THE music press could well go the way of The Times. Rock'n'roll is all about crucial exhibitions of art, quiet spoken interviews with ...
Report and Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 29 September 1979
THE MUSIC BIZ BLACK AMERICAN STYLE — DANNY BAKER NAMES THE FACES OF FACELESS DISCO ...
Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 25 October 1980
ANY GROUP can only pack so much stuff. The stuff that oils and inspires their moves, greases songs, a magic stuff that flows through a ...
Earth, Wind & Fire: Earth, Wind and Fire: Living On A Met-Plane
Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 21 November 1981
EARTH, WIND & FIRE'S MAURICE WHITE GETS METAPHYSICAL. BRINGING QUESTIONS OF HIS OWN DANNY BAKER ASKS: DO YOU BELIEVE MY FRIEND IN WHAT YOU CLAIM? ...
Elvis Costello: My Aim is True (Stiff SEEZ 3)
Review by Danny Baker, ZigZag, August 1977
I COULD NEVER see the attraction in classical music, all that hanging about between notes, I mean what do people with great classic collections play ...
Brian Eno: An Interview With Brian Eno
Interview by Kris Needs, Danny Baker, ZigZag, January 1978
YOU COULD SAY Brian Eno was pissed off on the day the dynamic Zigzag interviewing team were supposed to be interviewing him. Quite the opposite ...
Report and Interview by Danny Baker, ZigZag, February 1978
AH THE FALL! My mind fell on a quote that was all I knew of the name, something like '...there's hardly another band fit to ...
Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 14 June 1980
The hit factory calls in the new technology ...
Michael Jackson: Wembley Stadium, London
Live Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 8 August 1992
DANNY BAKER was the last man to interview MICHAEL JACKSON before the fences went up and the llamas moved in. Now, some ten years later, ...
Michael Jackson, The Jacksons: The Jacksons: The Great Greenland Mystery
Report and Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 4 April 1981
For years, scientists have been baffled by The Great Greenland Mystery. What is it that makes Greenland the only territory on earth where The Jacksons ...
Millie Jackson: Live And Uncensored
Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 12 January 1980
A COUPLE OF NIGHTS back I was re-discovering Millie Jackson's Caught Up/Still Caught Up albums and wallowing in the ecstasy of what arguably were the ...
Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 13 January 1979
EACH YEAR, when the popularity polls roll around, way down in the best vocalist section we can find Bowie, Dylan and even Cornwall whilst my ...
The Jam: Dies' Ist Der Modernische Welt
Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 17 March 1979
AND IN THE beginning there was darkness. Then, it has been written, the Mood formed the Pistols, Clash, Damned, Stranglers, Vibrators and the Jam and ...
The Knack: Dominion Theatre, London
Live Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 15 March 1980
And they brought their own audience too ...
Kool and the Gang: Kool & The Gang: As One (De-Lite)
Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 2 October 1982
GANG FARE BORE ...
Kraftwerk: The Man Machine (Capitol EST 11728)
Review by Danny Baker, ZigZag, June 1978
Springtime for Kraftwerk ...
Linx: There's a Brand New Dance Going Around... FUNKIN' FOR BRITANNICA — Get Down & Stay Up
Report and Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 15 November 1980
Hi there! I'm Chris Hill, main man and DJ to the sweating legions of British funkateers. NME have asked me to introduce this piece by DANNY BAKER, ...
M: The International Motel Conspiracy
Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 19 January 1980
Deep inside the National Gallery two 'moles' talk of music, muzik, muzak, and other aspects of modern man... DANNY BAKER meets ROBIN SCOTT of M. ...
Madness: The Mad Hatter's TV Party
Report and Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 4 October 1980
THE TV PARTY ...
Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 4 September 1982
I LIVE WITH THE constant nagging worry that my house will soon burn down. ...
Van McCoy, Minnie Riperton Cut Down in Their Prime
Obituary by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 21 July 1979
WHEN LOWELL George died, a kind of half-hearted black joke about 'the season starting' was popular on many lips. In the brief space since his ...
McFadden and Whitehead: The Rise and Rise of McFadden, Whitehead and Ward (Anita)
Report and Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 23 June 1979
EVEN THE Johnny Pearson Orchestra on Top Of The Pops couldn't ruin a song as strong as 'Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now'. ...
Gary Numan: The Pleasure Principle
Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 8 September 1979
AND PEOPLE seethe at the Golden Boy. Let's forget the threadbare rock'n'roll bitch that it's all been done before by 'proper' artists — Bowie this, ...
Robert Palmer: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 8 December 1979
THAT THE Odeon was full for two nights running leads me to think that Robert Palmer's followers form some kind of secret society. I don't ...
Public Image Ltd.: The Odd Combo
Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 16 June 1979
Danny Baker goes on the PiS with PiL ...
Rose Royce: Socio/Political Conscience? Waal, Ah'm Rilly Into Chutney
Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 21 October 1978
"SO HOWS about up at number two, we have the one and only Rose Royce with 'Love Don't Live Here Anymore'...goodness gracious yes..." ...
Live Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 28 October 1978
A NIGHT distinguished for me by the worst support set I've ever heard and the most tuchus-licking tolerant audience ever assembled in one Vaudeville room. ...
Interview by Danny Baker, ZigZag, September 1977
THE ROXY CLUB. Week one. The band bottom of the three playing that night played the night's most exciting set to about 20 people. ...
Sham 69: Pursey's Down The Dogtrack
Report and Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 5 August 1978
Sham 69's leader blows his wages, ponders his role, and has a few larfs. DANNY BAKER goes to see an old mate about a dog. ...
Sister Sledge: We Are Family (Entertainment)
Report by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 5 April 1980
Greatest dancer: DANNY BAKER ...
Donna Summer: Bad Girls (Casablanca)
Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 19 May 1979
I'M SITTING here, the music is actionably loud, the bass is hitting right into the back of my neck, squarebashing on the spot, and – ...
Sylvester: Mighty Real (Fantasy)
Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 16 June 1979
Dead Duck? ...
T. Rex: The Unobtainable T.Rex
Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 20 September 1980
AND SO, it appears, we are on the brink of a new T.Rex faith. Well, as one who defended the Bolanian right at school in ...
Village People: The Annals Of Disco
Report and Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 17 February 1979
DANNY BAKER tests the dancefloor action 1979 from uptown Manhattan to downtown Rotherhithe, interviews THE VILLAGE PEOPLE people, lays on a historical overview of Disco, ...
List of genre pieces
Retrospective by Danny Baker, The Word, February 2004
"The Seventies' attitudes, cultures and repercussions are almost too incredible for a modern youth to imagine" By Danny Baker ...
Essay by Danny Baker, Q, December 1991
EVER SINCE the Medved Brothers published their Fifty Worst Movies Of All Time, it's been a cinch that a similar, meatier job has been going ...
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