Lesley White
Born in London. First job in 1982 was emptying the bins, manning reception and editing the Intro pages of The Face. I got it by hanging around Brighton clubs and interviewing any performer who stood still long enough to be asked a question, and bombarding the great Nick Logan with the written-up interviews. In the end he couldn’t take it any more. From there it’s been 30 years of downhill all the way, interviewing actors, writers, prime ministers, via some of the titles listed below. I live in Northwest London, with a husband and a ten year-old son.
Elle, Tatler, Arena, Frank, Marie Claire, Red, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, The Mail On Sunday, The Sunday Times 1991 -2012, Mr Porter
16 articles
List of articles in the library
UB40: "UB40 is just a normal bunch of blokes. But people ask us heavy political questions"
Interview by Lesley White, Sounds, 20 March 1982
LESLEY WHITE is one of them ...
Report and Interview by Lesley White, The Face, May 1982
IN CASE YOU'RE still wondering, Vince Clarke's amicable departure from Depeche Mode was motivated by nothing less than that time honoured and truly honourable ideal: ...
Haircut 100: Haircut One Hundred
Interview by Lesley White, The Face, June 1982
Fashion à la Haircut is the cult of the cleancut, the art of the casual towel, the incidental bow tie and the perpetual smile... ...
Interview by Lesley White, The Face, August 1982
According to Joe Bowie, only his trombone and his funk-jazz band Defunkt stand between him and the imminent nuclear apocalypse. LESLEY WHITE talks to the ...
Dexys Midnight Runners: Fact And Fiction
Interview by Lesley White, The Face, September 1982
THE FACE turned down an offer to interview Kevin Rowland earlier in the summer because of unacceptable preconditions which were later withdrawn. Last in line ...
Interview by Lesley White, The Face, September 1982
Suitably softened up by his workout with four year-old Twinkle, IMAGINATION'S extrovert frontman picks himself up off the floor for an interview with LESLEY WHITE ...
The Human League: The Face Interview: Phil Oakey
Interview by Lesley White, The Face, December 1982
I MET UP with Phil Oakey one wet Sheffield Wednesday afternoon over coffee and a Tupperware box of assorted chocolate biscuits, in the Formica-finished kitchen ...
Robert Palmer: Some Guys Have All The Hits
Interview by Lesley White, The Face, March 1983
It's hard to be a superstar in today's tough musical world. Caught for a long time between ever-changing trends, ROBERT PALMER finally found his blue-eyed ...
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 ...
Interview by Lesley White, The Face, September 1983
CARMEL MCCOURT is a stylish blonde singer of 24 with a voice as dark as she is fair, as strange as she is straightforward. She ...
Gwen Guthrie: Soul and Substance
Interview by Lesley White, The Face, October 1983
Despite all the changes in black music, it's still possible to start in the church and end up in the charts. Maybe that's one of ...
The Pretenders: Leather Wears Better Than Dreams
Profile and Interview by Lesley White, The Face, February 1984
In the last two turbulent years, Chrissie Hynde has had a baby by the man who once personified for her the rock and roll myth, ...
Profile and Interview by Lesley White, The Face, April 1984
Sophisticated jazz, Silk Cut and Jersey. That's Sade Adu. The girl can't help it. The torches have been lit. Profile Lesley White ...
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 ...
Boy George, Culture Club: Boy George: Boy On Fire
Interview by Lesley White, The Face, December 1984
The friendly but frozen smile of Boy George has been served up, like a cake fresh from the refrigerator, all over the media. It has ...
Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Holly Go Lightly
Interview by Lesley White, The Face, June 1989
AS LUNCH DATES with professionally outrageous people go, mine with Holly Johnson — upstairs and upstairs again at L'escargot — was an affair of studied ...
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