Paul Morley
A living legend of pop scribery, Morley made his name on the NME of the late '70s and early '80s before becoming a broadcasting staple and the author of Nothing and Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City. Some of his most splendid interviews were collected in Ask, now sadly out of print.
227 articles
List of articles in the library
Buzzcocks, Eater: The Buzzcocks, Eater: Holdsworth Hall, Manchester
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 2 October 1976
YOU CAN count on Manchester to be 48 months behind apparent national trends. Like, reggae is largely frowned upon: crunching hard rock bands employing predictable ...
Lone Star, Mott The Hoople: Mott, Lone Star: Salford University, Manchester
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 16 October 1976
…and here's what they fought to save you for: MOTT ...
The Doctors Of Madness: Live in Manchester
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 6 November 1976
THE DOCTORS of Madness have shot disjointed from dissident Velvet Underground empty emotions and heavy-eyed exasperation, the Bowie of Diamond Dogs admission that conventional revolution ...
David Essex: Manchester Palace, Manchester
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 13 November 1976
CLEAN ROCK from the super slick, sadly lackadaisical David Essex Band at the plush Manchester Palace is a harmless way to waste a few hollow ...
Buzzcocks: Band on the Wall, Electric Circus, Manchester
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 27 November 1976
MANCHESTER MADMEN ...
Fabulous Poodles: UMIST, Manchester
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 4 December 1976
PURE, UNDISGUISED entertainment from a crackerjack fun quartet of sly, sleazy, 'appy crups who played like the Beatles never happened — a major reason why ...
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 25 December 1976
THREE DANCE bands playing the Electric Circus for the second time in ten days. They're back because the Circus is one of the very few ...
Buzzcocks: Teen Rebel Scores £250 From Dad
Profile by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 5 February 1977
This feature bears the New Wave Seal of Quality ...
Marc Bolan, T. Rex: Marc Bolan: Son Of Magical Pouting Panache
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 19 March 1977
Yep, Here we go again. But this time it promises to be different. BOLAN MARC TWO makes his come-back on tour with The Damned, and ...
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 9 April 1977
These young chaps have an album out soon. It would be strange if they didn't ...
Supertramp: Even In The Quietest Moments (A&M)
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 30 April 1977
SUPERBLAND ...
Report by Paul Morley, Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 11 June 1977
This band has fans. Lots of them. They sold out the Free Trade Hall and surprised even the promoter. PAUL MORLEY asks why, PAUL RAMBALI ...
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 18 June 1977
THERE IS undoubtedly a great deal of refining and cleaning to be done on Buzzcocks' material before the album they can so definitely record comes ...
Buzzcocks, Howard Devoto, The Fall: Manchester: They Mean It Maaanchester
Overview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 30 July 1977
MANCHESTER as a Rock and Roll town just didn't use to exist. It fed dutifully off London, and there were frequent visits from groups to ...
Little Feat: Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 6 August 1977
FEAT HEAD OFF FOR FRAMPTON ZONE?!! ...
Wayne County & The Electric Chairs: Wayne County: Electric Circus, Manchester
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 6 August 1977
UPSTAIRS IN THE tiny Electric Circus dressing room Wayne County fussily fumbles and fidgets; he's got to look just right. He's wearing a crisp fawn ...
Marc Bolan, T. Rex: Marc Bolan: A Fan's Tribute
Comment by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 24 September 1977
IT'S DULLY strange — just a few fast days after reading and hearing the effect on so many lives that Presley's 'Heartbreak Hotel' had — ...
Magazine: This Man Is Not A Minor Writer!
Profile and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 8 October 1977
For a start he's dispensed with words! ...
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 12 November 1977
JIMMY PURSEY bursts upon you. He is a natural. A natural natural. Distortion in the media can colour reputations wrongly, especially the reputation of fulsome ...
The Ramones, The Rezillos: Market Hall, Carlisle
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 24 December 1977
THE WORD used all day was surreal. ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Siouxsie and the Banshees: A World Domination By 1984 Special
Profile and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 14 January 1978
This is Siouxsie and the Banshees/They are patient/They will win/In the end. ...
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 18 February 1978
999 ARE A heavy-pop quartet signed favourably to United Artists. They are, in effect, on the verge of some kind of breakthrough. A likeable bunch ...
Big In Japan: From Little Idiots Big Idiots Do Grow
Profile and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 25 February 1978
"BIG IN JAPAN...BIG IN JAPAN...BIG IN JAPAN..." ...
The Subway Sect: Bernard Rhodes Great Unknowns Payola Special
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 4 March 1978
SUBWAY SECT have been together in some form or another since the semi-legendary 100 Club punk festival in September 1976. The line-up on that date ...
Devo: Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 18 March 1978
SUDDENLY.....Devo! ...
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 1 April 1978
ARTHUR RIMBAUD, the late 19th Century French poet who dreamt of 'recreating life through his words' and whose work helped inspire poetic Symbolism, Dadaism and ...
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 20 May 1978
EDGAR FROESE reflects on days of hope and dissipation, and wonders why the photographer's hiding behind a pillar. ...
The Flamin' Groovies: Rafters, Manchester
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 27 May 1978
ABOUT BEFORE 12.15...I don't want to talk about it. ...
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 3 June 1978
DROPPING INTO 1977 was 'easy'. ...
Alternative TV: The Image Has Cracked
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 24 June 1978
MARK PERRY has been a confused person and, through that, confusing. ...
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 24 June 1978
Power, Pomp, Purity, Pretention, Popularity... The RUSH Problem ...
Alternative TV: The World At Once…Dateline: Stonehenge
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 29 June 1978
I FOUND myself re-reading Colin Wilsons' prodigal slice of philosophical mythmaking The Outsider the other week. During the time I spent submerging myself gleefully into ...
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 8 July 1978
Goodbye To Rock And All That (For Another Year At Least) ...
The Prefects, The Subway Sect: The Prefects, Subway Sect: A Tale Of Two Bands
Profile by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 15 July 1978
TWO GROUPS, both of whom have to some extent followed their instincts. Prefects have always been aware of the area they were aiming for; Subway ...
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 22 July 1978
WITH HER first album for six years, Annette Peacock softens the fabric. Glancing curiously and greedily at the rhythms and advantages at the tip of ...
Profile and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 22 July 1978
MANCHESTER, 1977: the picture of a period stutters erratically to a docile completion. The picture is inconclusive, blotchy, but considering circumstances the best possible. ...
Buzzcocks: Rock Against Racism's Carnival Of The North: Chaos & Concern
Report by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 22 July 1978
THE ANTI-NAZI LEAGUE and Rock Against Racism were formed specifically as a reaction against racism. ...
The Rezillos: Can't Stand The Rezillos
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 22 July 1978
FINALLY, AFTER telling wrangles, we have Can't Stand The Rezillos, 13 quick cuts lustily shot through with cheap culture combinations. Tanners, annuals, Stan Lee, beatpunk ...
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 2 September 1978
DEBBIE HARRY: a few more brisk calculations in the dry equation, and she will be a star. A household name. An object. An illusion. Well ...
Joy Division: Band On The Wall, Manchester
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 9 September 1978
THOSE FAMILIAR with this young quartet. mainly through their excitable appearance on the "Short Circuit" pretty package, and to a lesser extent with their self ...
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 16 September 1978
I AM A commentator in a Consumers' Guide. This week I guide you towards entertainers The Fall, as I always have done. ...
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 16 September 1978
YES, YES, YES — BUT SO WHAT? ...
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 30 September 1978
"YOU CAN touch the magic tonight," claimed guitarist Eric Stewart. ...
Profile and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 30 September 1978
How to almost drown your way to a name and fame ...
Penetration: Moving Targets (Virgin)
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 14 October 1978
THIS YEAR A LINE formed. At one end Penetration, and from there through Joy Division, The Mekons, The Slits, The Fall, The Passage, The Pop ...
Wayne County & The Electric Chairs: Music Machine, Camden Town, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 14 October 1978
OCTOBER SEES the inevitable recognition of two of the greatest rock'n'roll performers of all time — Bette Midler and Wayne County who, even before Wayne ...
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 21 October 1978
The Pop Group/Nico/Linton Kwesi Johnson/Cabaret Voltaire: Electric Ballroom, London ...
The Lurkers: Strange Daze In Sheffield (Or Maybe Halifax)
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 28 October 1978
SOMEONE MUST have been spreading lies about me, for without doing anything wrong I was told to write a feature about The Lurkers. The Man ...
Captain Beefheart: Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 4 November 1978
OUR FRIEND makes its long overdue appearance, a record of fragments that has a bewildered Beefheart crawling out of the messes of '74/'75 and trying ...
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 4 November 1978
CABARET VOLTAIRE appeared first. A trio, I caught the final 20 minutes of their performance, and was fairly absorbed. ...
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 4 November 1978
JIMMY PURSEY'S Ulysses – a day in the life of 'a working class kid'. A shrug of the shoulders. ...
Status Quo: If You Can't Stand The Heat
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 4 November 1978
WHAT IS beyond Status Quo, I often wonder? What is beyond tracks with titles such as 'I'm Givin' Up Worryin'', 'Gonna Teach You To Love ...
Steel Pulse: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 4 November 1978
THE RAINBOW Theatre seemed a poor venue for Steel Pulse's Big London Gig, but reconsidering during this performance, it was probably second choice only to ...
Santana: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 11 November 1978
A THREE-NIGHT sell out for sluggish pop group Santana is apparently natural and predictable but seems entirely ludicrous. They function, they churn, they exist – ...
Steve Reich: Music For 18 Musicians
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 11 November 1978
A MAJOR new work by Steve Reich, a 42-year-old composer and performer from New York. Music For 18 Musicians was conceived in May 1974 and ...
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 18 November 1978
IT'S GOOD to hear that Oregon's music remains pure and fresh despite the possible clumsy patronage of a large label. Using a number of combinations ...
Flying Lizards: Penseur in Patchy Light: David Cunningham…
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 25 November 1978
is either a 3-time loser looking for a way out, OR......An entrepreneurial polymath looking for a way in. ...
Howard Devoto, Magazine: Howard Devoto: Calm And Confusion
Interview by Paul Morley, Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 2 December 1978
WERE YOU a wimp at school?I wouldn't say I was a wimp. I think I did get bullied. ...
Olivia Newton-John: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 9 December 1978
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN'S last night of an eight-week trundle through Japan, Australia and Europe was pretty poor. ...
The Subway Sect: War Poet of The Modern World
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 9 December 1978
Old conceptions justifiedTradition stays in tuneYou make guitars talk informationThat tells you what to doThe lines that hit meAgain and againAfraid to take a strollOff ...
Boomtown Rats: Today: Top Of The Pops, Tomorrow: The World
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 16 December 1978
The Day After: Top Of The Pops Again ...
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 23 December 1978
DIPPING LUSTFULLY and deep into your public pocket, the simulated and soiled Gruppo Sportivo transparently dart from nursery rhyme tinsel to uncivilised sexual slang with ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: In Defense of Siouxsie and the Banshees
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 23 December 1978
"Have a competition in the NME. In less than a hundred words, what do they get out of Siouxsie and the Banshees?" (Siouxsie Sioux) ...
Gang of Four, The Jam: The Jam, Gang of Four: Music Machine, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 6 January 1979
DOZING AT the back of the lower layer of the multi-tiered Music Machine I couldn't help wondering what it is to be charming, chillingly nostalgic ...
Joy Division, The Passage, Spherical Objects: New Stirrings On The North-West Frontier
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 13 January 1979
The Underground sticks its Collective head overground to explain how the rest of the world went wrong. Please fasten your safety helmets now. Words: PAUL ...
Kevin Coyne: Music Of A Different Coyne
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 3 February 1979
And my message to the people Is don't tie me to the steeple Don't put me with the stocks and in your market square. ...
Stiff Little Fingers: Inflammable Material (Rough Trade)
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 10 February 1979
I WAS HARDLY expecting it but...even more so than Never Mind The Bollocks – which turned out to be comedy – much more so than ...
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 3 March 1979
RACE TODAY magazine/organisation, acknowledging the central importance of Manchester in the struggle of black people, launched their northern campaign with a fund raising "Creation For ...
Velvet Underground: 1969 Velvet Underground Live (Mercury)
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 3 March 1979
THE VELVETS, specifically Lou Reed – maybe even this 'invisible' live double – say more about rock'n'roll, its implications and complications, than anyone else. ...
Earth Wind and Fire: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 10 March 1979
WOW!!! SHEER excellence!!! You weren't there? You are square!!! (you thought it was the other way round? You still living to those snobby chic guidelines? ...
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 10 March 1979
THIS IS the diligently prepared and acutely-self conscious follow-up to that shaky first collection which naturally ended everyone's excited and premature self-congratulation over a singularly ...
Graham Parker And The Rumour: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 14 April 1979
WHILE NO ONE was looking, Graham Parker has nimbly and single-mindedly stepped through his inner tangles and finally balanced purpose with expression and also brought ...
Lou Reed: I Love It When You Talk Dirty
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 21 April 1979
WHY DOES SUCH A MAN LIVE? ...
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 28 April 1979
WHAT WE have here is James Osterberg in control. What we have here is the cunning Osterberg using the sensual Iggy, isolating personal standards and ...
Ted Nugent: The Nugent Interview
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 5 May 1979
IT'S APPROACHING midnight, and in an empty, echoey dressing room, so bright it seems to have no ceiling, deep in the lifeless body of an ...
The Undertones: The Undertones (Sire)
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 5 May 1979
"So you think you're so clever/you're never in doubt". ...
Wayne County & The Electric Chairs: Things Your Mother Never Told You (Safari)
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 5 May 1979
THRASHING SUSPICIONS against all considered expectations, this is a mobile and intimidating masterpiece. ...
The Cure: Three Imaginary Boys (Fiction)
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 12 May 1979
AAAH! MORE alert and anguished young men chalking up more sanctioned and sanctimonious marks. Do not applaud them. ...
Penetration in Five Easy Stages
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 19 May 1979
ONCE UPON a time there was an impetuous eight-year-old girl living in a dark Durham corner and influenced greatly by the fashionable doings of a ...
The Undertones: The Reluctant Debutantes
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 26 May 1979
"When the group first started I suppose it's like a phase, y'know, ye want to be a fireman or ye want to be a policeman. ...
Ian Dury And The Blockheads: Ludwigshafen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 2 June 1979
IMAGINE THE tattiest curtain material, maybe the type your gran's got covering an old sofa; a couple of awful patterns flung together to make a ...
Ian Dury: The Ian Dury Interview
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 2 June 1979
"Beetroot juice and prune juice help the regular of the bowels...""If somebody's looking at me with rapture all over their face I want to throw ...
Tubeway Army: Looking Through Gary Numan's Eyes
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 9 June 1979
THE LIST went something like: 2.00pm – Jackie, 2.30pm – My Guy, 3.15pm – Patches, 4.00pm – Record Mirror, 4.45pm – Smash Hits, 5.30pm – ...
Nick Lowe, Rockpile: Nick Lowe: Whatever Gets You Through The Daze
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 30 June 1979
I'VE LOST track of time, but Lew Lewis and Reformer are on stage at Hemel Hempstead Pavilion blowing base boogie that the Hemel Hempstead audience ...
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 14 July 1979
IT'S OUT of the blue and into the black. A place is left somewhere behind where the front pages of the daily newspapers comment hysterically ...
Squeeze: Fun City Sweet Hearts
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 21 July 1979
I'M JUST about to make the name change official; my new name is to be Paul Pop. You're the first to hear about it. ...
Angelic Upstarts: Teenage Warning (Warner Brothers)
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 11 August 1979
NEWCASTLE'S Upstarts are already, for obvious and not so obvious reasons, being prepared by the vulture voyeurs as the successors to Sham. I'm not sure ...
Report by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 11 August 1979
EVENTS LIKE KNEBWORTH, the promoter Freddy Bannister had wanly predicted in Saturday's Guardian, cannot continue for much longer. The reasons for the inevitable decline and ...
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 18 August 1979
Something Like The Best ...
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 25 August 1979
THE MIDDLE OF the evening and it's getting quite dim. The Who are playing a new song; at least, I take it to be a ...
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 1 September 1979
AS THE Slits sing-song: don't take it seriously. ...
Nils Lofgren: Rock 'n' Roll's Great Lost Hero
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 15 September 1979
ONE: FINGERNAILSNILS LOFGREN is a small man with a lovely face. One chocolate brown eye is smaller, almost lazier, than the other; this gives his ...
Patti Smith: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 15 September 1979
WEDNESDAY WAS an unusual day. ...
The Clash: Clash Take The Fifth
Report by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 22 September 1979
WHEN THE CLASH is in Chicago, there's enough people there to suggest America is waking up, even if the band still fall the wrong side ...
Bruce Springsteen: The Springsteen Syndrome
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 6 October 1979
Musicians United For Safe Energy: Madison Square Garden, NYC ...
Buzzcocks: Hey Mac Are You Some Kind Of Limey Pop Star?
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 6 October 1979
SAT RANDOMLY around a small table are four young men each with dark hair. When they grin, their faces show they see things differently. ...
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 13 October 1979
Details: The Scene ...
The Adverts: Cast Of Thousands
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 20 October 1979
THE ADVERTS, with unforeseen stamina, have substantially matured since their early days. No longer can technical inadequacy or limited vocabulary be criticisms – just the ...
The Clash: The Fastest Gang In The West
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 20 October 1979
DETAILS: THE FIFTH MEMBER Micky Gallagher turned up in Boston. Four or five dates into the Clash itinerary and The Blockheads' jumpy Irish keyboardist slips ...
The Jam: The Revolution Will Start When Paul Weller Has Supped His Pint
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 3 November 1979
"I WOULDN'T say I'm a very articulate person, but I seem to be able to articulate when I write lyrics..." ...
The Skids: A Loser's Quest For Survival
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 1 December 1979
"I'm going to lose. It's like admitting defeat before I start. But I'm going to do as much as possible in that period before I ...
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 8 December 1979
ADAM AND The Ants and Throbbing Gristle are shadowy extremes, lurking in dark corners, lethargically scratching through their overscrubbed private parts, grinning sweetly at anyone ...
U2/Soul Boys: Moonlight Club, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 1980
TWO NEWCOMERS playing in NW6 either side of the Xmas go slow. Plenty of gaps in the gathering for the U2 show, but of the ...
Pink Military: Post-Modernist Pop Music
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 12 January 1980
HOW WAS IT in Liverpool last year? "Liverpool has been great! It really has. All these ace bands coming through. A lot of the best ...
The Pretenders: Only A Hobo Only A Star
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 26 January 1980
THE PRETENDERS are number one, top of the pops. But where there's 'Brass' there's sadness and Chrissie Hynde regrets some of the changes and new ...
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 16 February 1980
Are Japan just a bunch of pretty boy remnants of glamrock. Or do they know something that the rest of rock 'n' roll is yet ...
Joy Division: University Of London, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 16 February 1980
I DIDN'T KNOW which way to turn. In every corner of the second floor of the anonymous university building there seemed to be some group ...
U2 Can Make it in the Rock Business
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 22 March 1980
"BUT CAN YOU trust it?!" Bono, the insurgent, irrepressible singer for Dublin quartet U2, finishes making a hard point using a typically animated gesture. I ...
Pete Townshend: Empty Glass (Atco)
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 26 April 1980
WHAT IS the trouble with these song and dance men who have had their day but won't admit it? They get above themselves, as Parsons ...
The Associates: The Affectionate Punch
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 16 August 1980
RUMOURS have been dripping down from Scotland about a diverse horde of determined post Skids/S. Minds/Scars groups all ready to shift our attention. Positive Noise, ...
A Certain Ratio: Failed CSE Rock!
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 6 September 1980
WE LEAVE the grubby Hulme human hutch where some members of A Certain Ratio live. The view from this particular section of hutches is not ...
Ultravox: Forever And Ever Ultravox
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 13 September 1980
WHEN GARY NUMAN was talking to the press every day of the week, unsurely basking in the cold sunshine of a sudden fame, a lot ...
Gillan, Tygers of Pan Tang: Gillan: Glory Road; Tygers Of Pan Tang: Wild Cat
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 13 September 1980
IN OTHER music papers, Heavy Metal has been irresponsibly ghettoised. Melody Maker, Sounds, Record Mirror all have their HM specialists who drily serve a facile, ...
Simple Minds: Empires and Dance
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 13 September 1980
I'M DANCING as fast as I can! Empires And Dance, an LP of terror-songs, vigilance and vanity, starts with 'I Travel', one of the great ...
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 20 September 1980
The squalor show goes on ...
Marc Bolan, Tyrannosaurus Rex: The NME Consumers' Guide To Marc Bolan, part 1
Retrospective by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 20 September 1980
INDEPENDENT TELEVISION are currently repeating five shows from the three year old Marc series. Marc Bolan was star in and presenter of a pop show ...
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 20 September 1980
XTC ARE BITING their nails backstage of an open air gig at a soccer ground in the Madrid suburbs – the equivalent of an English ...
Marc Bolan, T. Rex: The NME Consumers' Guide To Marc Bolan, part 2: The Rise And Fall Of Bolanmania
Retrospective by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 27 September 1980
BOLAN WENT electric and it was deemed, astoundingly, that he'd 'sold out'. For wanting to reach young people with vibrant pop music at a time ...
The Associates: Boys Keep Scoring
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 27 September 1980
THERE'S SOMETHING a little odd about Billy Mackenzie. When he was younger, he says, his friends used to think that he was crazy. Mental. ...
Josef K: Four shadows in search of a sunny day
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 4 October 1980
Paul Morley talks to Josef K, a soul group who define the alienation effect, it says here. ...
Orange Juice: The Sneer That Says Wish You Were Here
Profile and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 4 October 1980
THERE'S SOMEONE knocking on my door. A loud rap. I'm woken up with a start. I open the door. ...
The Teardrop Explodes: Kilimanjaro
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 4 October 1980
OF COURSE putting four singles on an LP is cheating, even if two are re-done. And the cover's pretty bad as well. But if you're ...
Au Pairs: Every Home Should Have Four
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 11 October 1980
"THE TROUBLE with conversations like this," declares Pete, nodding sagely, knitting his eyebrows, as he refers to the complex peculiarities of a pop group who ...
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 18 October 1980
THE PASSAGE have been a part-time group, on an interminably unfashionable label, whose agitating, pent-up seven inches have disappeared into the nowhere. With the disquieting ...
Toyah Wilcox: The Girl Who Would Be King
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 25 October 1980
When Toyah Willcox talks, it's like a time-bomb ticking over...and Toyah's time gets closer every second. So what does make Toyah tick? Paul Morley sounds ...
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 25 October 1980
I LOVE U2. I worry about U2. Hearing their debut single 'Out Of Control' and seeing them play in Ireland, I fell for their undismayed ...
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 8 November 1980
ROCK'S FAVOURITE SITUATION COMEDY RETURNS TO YOUR PAGES AND STAGES. SCRIPT: PAUL MORLEY ...
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 13 November 1980
THIS COULD BE a starkly calculated cash in on the seamier, dreamier trends and tendencies of these our favourite post-punk days. Certainly its approach to ...
Killing Joke: The Killing Of Brother Paul
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 15 November 1980
IF I HAD heard how Jaz had let Youth know that I'd arrived, I wouldn't have bothered with the interview. Photographer Ray Stevenson told me ...
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Men Of Mystery And Imagination
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 22 November 1980
ANDY McCLUSKEY and I are the last two of the Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark party left in the Edinburgh hotel bar. ...
Cabaret Voltaire: The Heart and Soul of Cabaret Voltaire
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 29 November 1980
CATCH A TRAIN into the dark depths of the North again. Flee the wonderland. A million miles away from London town, the conditioning centre where ...
ABC, Essential Bop, Restricted Code: Bristol Bop! Glasgow Pop! It's As Easy As ABC!
Profile and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 20 December 1980
LEMON SUCKING refers to the practice of sucking in the cheeks to affect the 'rock'n'roll' wasted look. Chewing, or neck bending, refers, I would suppose, ...
Joy Division, New Order: New Order: Heaven, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 14 February 1981
THE HAUNTING OF HEAVEN ...
Bush Tetras: Taking Liberties from New York, Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 28 February 1981
BUSH TETRAS will be a New York legend. They steal/save/ARE the show. They pile disorientating meditative repetition upon sparse improvisation upon tangled rhythms upon inscrutable ...
The Raybeats: Taking Liberties from New York, Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 28 February 1981
THE RAYBEATS, uniformed and partly choreographed, the second on. Greeted by a small crowd huddled at the front of the seatless stalls, they are brave, ...
Grateful Dead: What A Long Predictable Trip It's Become
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 28 March 1981
This Week The Grateful Dead trucked back into Britain. In America they're more successful than ever – and even Jerry Garcia can't work out why. ...
Girlschool: Black Leather at St Trinians
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 2 May 1981
GIRLSCHOOL FRENZY GRIPS THE COUNTRY AS ADOLESCENT BOYS DISCOVER THEIR VERY OWN ROCK'N'ROLL SEX SYMBOLS. PAUL MORLEY TAKES A MANLY LOOK AT THIS CRAZY PHENOMENON. ...
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 16 May 1981
ABRACADABRA! ABC show up in London. Another banal crew of slight white boys clumsily revising their dance style for the sake of summer attention? A ...
Soft Cell: Would we soft-soap you about... Soft Cell
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 23 May 1981
(1) We Intend to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy end tearfulness. ...
Japan: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 30 May 1981
Heaven must have scent you ...
Interview by Paul Morley, The Face, June 1981
POSITIVE Noise play at Cabaret Futura, and I think that they're the best group who've yet played there. What a range, I think, what reserves. ...
Motorhead: No Sleep Til Hammersmith (Bronze)
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 13 June 1981
AXES ON their shoulders, blood on their palms, grease in their hair, gaps in their teeth, something or nothing on their mind, squeezing the universe ...
Duran Duran: Ice Cream the Body Electric!
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 25 July 1981
Teenybop takes a trite turn for the better. Paul Morley compares socks with DURAN DURAN ...
ABC: Now a name to drop. Soon a major part in the party.
Profile and Interview by Paul Morley, The Face, August 1981
I HOLD in my hand three letters... ...
Stimulin: Moonlight Club, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 1 August 1981
TO HAVE and het up! The sweat poured out of them! Stimulin aren't stupid, to put it wildly. Stimulin are no charity — see them, ...
Interview by Paul Morley, The Face, September 1981
Grey, industrial, oppressive, weird? Wrong, say the Sheffield stylists. Wrong, says our ace showbiz reporter. PAUL MORLEY (words) attempts to demystify Cabaret Voltaire's drab legend. ...
Gary Numan: Dance (Beggars Banquet)
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 5 September 1981
"These New Romantics are oh so boring I could swear I've been there once or twice before" ('Moral') ...
Heaven 17: Penthouse and Pavement (BEF/Virgin)
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 19 September 1981
YES, THERE'S plenty of use! Sometimes you can wonder why you're so enthalled by pop's maze: it would be easy to break out in that ...
Grace Jones: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 17 October 1981
GRACE: UNFAVOURED ...
The Human League: Dare (Virgin)
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 17 October 1981
SURPRISE! ...the love of human MOR-als ...
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 21 November 1981
Once upon a record there was a wonderful land where nothing nasty happened and sad beautiful boys lived... ...
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 2 January 1982
Paul Morley meets the drunk white rabbit and a bully who looks in the mirror to ask why their narcissistic pop has suddenly been blessed with credibility ...
The Subway Sect: Subway Sect: Vic the Vague
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 9 January 1982
A PIECE ON VIC GODARD BY PAUL MORLEY SAUCILY ENTITLED VIC THE VAGUE. Paul says: "I wish to be referred to at the heading of this ...
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 16 January 1982
DO YOU believe in Adam Ant? ...
Fad Gadget: Fadfoolery and Frank Confessions
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 23 January 1982
Paul Morley encounters Frank Tovey on the verge of failure, and Fad Gadget on the point of hysteria. So why is this a succesful combination? ...
Modern Romance: The Venue, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 30 January 1982
THERE WAS one thing that happened over the weekend that really made me realise just how deep down into the rotten scabby depths some people ...
Haircut 100: Kilburn National, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 6 February 1982
One Hundred reasons to be cheerful ...
Simple Minds: Celebration (Arista)
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 6 February 1982
DEAR JIM, ...
Altered Images: The Altered State Of Pop Art
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 13 February 1982
Altered Images: Hammersmith Palais, London ...
Depeche Mode: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 20 February 1982
FAST FORWARD TO THE FUTURE! ...
Theatre of Hate: Woodville Hall, Gravesend
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 27 February 1982
LAST OF THE GREAT EAR-OS! ...
Haircut 100: Sunshine Superboy
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 13 March 1982
I ASK NICHOLAS Heyward, the singer with Haircut 100, if he thinks that he is a lucky boy. He allows me a look so cheeky, ...
Bauhaus: Breaking Down The Walls Of Art-Ache
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 20 March 1982
"When we heard that you were going to interview us, we came up with two possibilities: a, being physical violence, and b, being a reasoned ...
Bow Wow Wow: Empire Ballroom, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 27 March 1982
DANCING BLOW, 1-30! ...
Tina Turner: Past The Point Of No Returner
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 17 April 1982
Tina Turner: Hammersmith Odeon, London ...
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 24 April 1982
(LOVELY!) ALTHOUGH people are snobby about just about everything except disease, I can think of no one who is snobby about the great and not ...
Todd Rundgren: Utopia in Woodstock: Todd Rundgren
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 24 April 1982
IF I AM THE LAST writer about pop music of any standing, Alfred G. Aronowitz was the first. He was matchmaking, twitching and joking from ...
Culture Club: The Boy's Own Club
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 1 May 1982
PAUL MORLEY MEETS A BOY CALLED GEORGE — FORMER MODEL, BOW WOW WOW SINGER AND NOW FOUNDER OF A NEW MUSICAL EXPERIENCE, THE CULTURE CLUB. ...
Iron Maiden: The Metal Masquerade
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 8 May 1982
THE UNSMILING but unthreatening Iron Maiden are being photographed in the bright white tiled shower room of a compact sports stadium in Offenbach, near Frankfurt ...
The Associates: Sulk (Associates/WEA/Beggars Banquet etc.)
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 15 May 1982
BUTTERFLY BAWLS ...
Essay by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 5 June 1982
NEW ORDER REVISED. BY PAUL MORLEY — WHO JUST COULDN'T RESIST THE... ...
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 3 July 1982
LOVE'S THEME, YOUR MAGIC SPELL IS EVERYWHERE ...
ABC, Buggles, Dollar, Yes: Trevor Horn: Clever Trevor!
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 3 July 1982
TREVOR HORN IS A ROARING SUCCESS. HE WAS BUGGLES, PLAYED WITH YES, GAVE DOLLAR THEIR HITS AND HAS NOW PRODUCED ABC AND THEIR DEBUT LP, ...
Simple Minds: New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 18 September 1982
ONETHIS RECORD is something of a glow. Whatever your preference you will find it memorable and instructive. Find its qualities and fix your place. Be ...
Southern Death Cult: The Last Tribe
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 2 October 1982
Post punk comes the last tribe, SOUTHERN DEATH CULT, a Bradford group who attack the centralisation of media and political power in London. PAUL MORLEY ...
The Associates, Billy Mackenzie: Disassociate!: The Associates
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 9 October 1982
THE WHIPPETS have pissed on the carpet of Chris Parry's Office. Billy Mackenzie grins, a little wickedly; there's a nice little stain that should be ...
ABC: The Power of the Imagination
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 25 December 1982
MARTIN FRY, a shy but conspicuous grammar school boy from Bramall, Stockport, shuffles into the bookshop where I sell second hand records. He buys the ...
The Human League: Phil Oakey's Five Minute Plan
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 8 January 1983
WHEN PHIL Oakey was a hospital porter, people used to be dying all around him, and he somehow became immune. It didn't upset him more ...
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 15 January 1983
THE PAUL MORLEY PROFILES — NUMBER FOUR IN A SERIES OF FOUR... Dieter Meier is an international traveller and eccentric, a performance artist and ...
Pete Townshend: The Unimportance Of Being Townshend
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 12 March 1983
BEFORE I begin my latest erratic arrangement I must state my position, of which I'm certain. I have never thought that if Peter Townshend cut ...
David Bowie: Milton Keynes Bowl
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 9 July 1983
WHO'S PUSHING back there, someone shouts, as another poor girl falls to her knees, tangled up inside blue breathless bodies. Probably Bowie — today's turn, ...
Cocteau Twins: The Cocteau Twins: Twindrops Keep Falling On My Head
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 10 December 1983
Robin and Elizabeth are the Cocteau Twins. They live together in London's Muswell Hill and have created an enormously successful musical partnership. PAUL MORLEY attempts ...
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 24 December 1983
Prince or showgirl? Paul Morley tussles with Marilyn on a soft sofa and wonders if the seduction of pop has a more explicit meaning. ...
Essay by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 18 February 1984
PAUL MORLEY, the man who took FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD to Number One, takes a long day's journey into night where he wonders whether he ...
Marillion: Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back Into The Water
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 28 April 1984
Along comes megajaws FISH, big fry with heavy rockers Marillion in search off "a clash off the titans"...in other words, a confrontation with NME. Shy, ...
John Lydon, Public Image Ltd: John Lydon: This Is What You Get
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 8 February 1986
THIS IS the beginning of an interview with the John Lydon who has drunk seven cans of Red Stripe lager, after breakfasting on oysters. ...
Simply Red: Punk in Manchester: Oh, How We Laughed
Essay by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 15 February 1986
BE OFF with you! Little Red, it is said, is not happy at the hollow allegations that suggest he has 'sold out' by leaping from ...
Sigue Sigue Sputnik: Starry-Eyed & Laughing
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 8 March 1986
YOU FIND yourself reading about them...It's been a long day, and it isn't over yet. The two juiciest members of Sigue Sigue Sputnik – pronounced ...
Interview by Paul Morley, Blitz, April 1988
Paul Morley interviews Morrissey, whose first solo album, Viva Hate, is released this month. ...
Waxing Lyrical: The Rock Press
Essay by Paul Morley, Time Out, 4 October 1988
As the monochrome music press got lost in the technicolour '80s, and good- looking glossies took over colourful music writing, one thing was sure: just ...
The Associates, Billy Mackenzie: Billy Mackenzie: Pop's Great Outsider
Obituary by Paul Morley, The Guardian, 27 January 1997
AN ANARCHIC Bassey, a sinister Pavarotti, a monstrous madcap Bowie, even when he was at his most obscure, his most difficult and extreme, there was ...
Live Review by Paul Morley, Uncut, July 1997
HOWDY. America is always new. The world is always new. Go ask Beck. If you can catch him! ...
Review by Paul Morley, Uncut, July 1997
HELLO. It seems that I am meant to give Radiohead's new album – their "other" album, their brainwashed nerve-scathed translunar completely assumed third masterpiece where ...
The Prodigy: The Fat Of The Land
Review by Paul Morley, Uncut, August 1997
CHRIST ALMIGHTY. It moves vertically through salted pressures with a head that can see sideways. It is red in tooth and claw. It swoons and ...
Pet Shop Boys: Savoy Theatre, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, Uncut, September 1997
Neil Tennant: vaudevillian existentialist? ...
Howard Devoto, Magazine: Howard Devoto: Shot By Both Sides
Interview by Paul Morley, Uncut, November 2000
AND THEN, in 1976, when Howard Devoto was 24, he wrote and recorded four fast songs with the group Buzzcocks, and they became the EP ...
Retrospective and Interview by Paul Morley, Uncut, February 2001
I AM A LITTLE nervous as I approach Viv Albertine's house. She was a Slit. For anybody of a certain age who has a penis ...
Air: Mild is the wind…:Air: 10,000 Hz Legend (Virgin) **½
Review by Paul Morley, Uncut, June 2001
Follow-up proper to Moon Safari features Beck on two tracks ...
Interview by Paul Morley, Uncut, August 2001
After he left Roxy Music in 1973, Brian Eno became a key figure in the development of electronic music – in the nineties, NME ...
Luke Haines: The Oliver Twist Manifesto
Review by Paul Morley, Uncut, September 2001
Solo debut from sometime Auteur, Black Box Recorder and Baader Meinhof pop terrorist. ...
Profile and Interview by Paul Morley, Uncut, July 2002
HIS FIRST GROUP, ORANGE JUICE, MIXED TOGETHER VELVETS GUITARS AND CHIC RHYTHMS. THEN, 15 YEARS AFTER THEIR HEYDAY, EDWYN COLLINS HAD A MONSTROUS WORLDWIDE SOLO ...
Buggles: Trevor Horn: Vast Cities Of Sound
Profile by Paul Morley, Daily Telegraph, 10 November 2004
Trevor Horn, one of pop music's great ministers of sound, celebrates 25 years of recording wizardry this week. And it all started with The Buggles, ...
Bob Dylan: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, Sunday Telegraph, June 2005
A NIMBLE, SECRETIVE Bob Dylan stares deep into the nowhere he's come from under the brim of a showman's black bolero. He seems to be ...
Gorillaz: Manchester International Festival, Opera House, Manchester
Live Review by Paul Morley, Sunday Telegraph, 6 November 2005
Paul Morley watches Damon Albarn's cartoon band come alive ...
The White Stripes: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, Daily Telegraph, 13 November 2005
Paul Morley watches The White Stripes at the Hammersmith Apollo and is blown away by their impeccably skewed greatness ...
Interview by Paul Morley, Observer Music Monthly, December 2005
1: IN A VAST penthouse suite on top of a hotel that could be anywhere in the world overlooking a city that seems to shimmer ...
Morrissey: The Last Temptation of Morrissey
Interview by Paul Morley, Uncut, May 2006
With Steven Patrick re-anointed St Morrissey following reviews for his latest album Ringleader Of The Tormentors, can Uncut's journalist, a devilishly nosey fellow Mancunian, tempt ...
Review by Paul Morley, The Observer, 21 May 2006
The style-mag favourites walk the irony tightrope with their airy electro-pop. Paul Morley applauds from the stalls ...
Sleeve notes by Paul Morley, Domino Records, July 2006
...and then there was Josef K, a four piece group who formed for a number of reasons. These are some of the reasons: ...
Arcade Fire: Keep the Faith: The Arcade Fire
Profile and Interview by Paul Morley, Observer Music Monthly, 18 March 2007
Love, death, religion, war: Arcade Fire explore such epic themes in so thrilling a fashion that critics, fans and their rock star peers find themselves ...
Sparklehorse: Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, Sunday Telegraph, 10 June 2007
STOP ME if you've heard this one before. It's a story about Sparklehorse, the one mind band who play a short, bitter-sweet set at the ...
Obituary by Paul Morley, The Guardian, 13 August 2007
Record label boss and broadcaster with twin passions: music and Manchester. ...
Comment by Paul Morley, The Observer, 31 October 2009
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, but I decided that I would not watch this particular series of The X Factor, because I thought, I'll get ...
Lonelady: Paul Morley's showing off … Lonelady
Profile and Interview by Paul Morley, The Guardian, 22 January 2010
Paul Morley meets Warp's new Mancunian signing Lonelady, who he would never tip as the next big thing, but might, for those missing a certain ...
Comment by Paul Morley, The Guardian, 28 May 2010
To Paul Morley's left, '80s Chicago dance DJ Marshall Jefferson. To his right, Orlando from up-and-coming producers Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. Can Morley find the ...
David Bowie: Station to Station: The importance of David Bowie
Essay by Paul Morley, Financial Times, 3 September 2010
HOW MUCH DO you like David Bowie? You will have to like him a lot to want to spend more than £80 on a deluxe ...
Retrospective by Paul Morley, The Guardian, 29 October 2010
PAUL MORLEY re-introduces Heaven 17 as they dive into the nostalgia circuit. ...
Profile by Paul Morley, The Guardian, 29 October 2010
IT'S ALREADY POSSIBLE to read so much about slippy, trippy new boy-meets-girl pop group Summer Camp in that online otherworld where this kind of hyper-smart, ...
McFly: Paul Morley's showing off McFly
Profile by Paul Morley, The Guardian, 26 November 2010
Paul Morley describes McFly's ascent from guitar-toting teeny-boppers to 'entertainment hosts' for the multimedia generation. ...
Interview by Paul Morley, The Guardian, 26 November 2010
Paul Morley steps into the sleepy, mysterious, terrifying world of LA rock band Warpaint. ...
Paul Morley's Showing Off ... Alex Ross
Comment by Paul Morley, The Observer, 12 December 2010
Paul Morley readies himself for a gladiatorial clash of the critics with New Yorker music writer Alex Ross. ...
Comment by Paul Morley, The Observer, 13 February 2011
THE VOTING ACADEMY for this year's Brit awards is made up of 1,000 specially invited members from across the UK music industry: music critics, music ...
Charlie Haden: Paul Morley On Music: Charlie Haden
Comment by Paul Morley, The Observer, 24 April 2011
Amazon has made critics of us all. But how does that bode for the professional critic? ...
Kraftwerk: Autobahn at Tate Modern
Live Review by Paul Morley, Daily Telegraph, 7 February 2013
WHEN I SAW Kraftwerk 38 years ago, as much as they were about the future, I didn't think they would actually make it into the ...
Jake Bugg, Harry Styles: So Jake Bugg is authentic and Harry Styles is a fake? I don't think so…
Comment by Paul Morley, The Observer, 3 March 2013
In the great fabricated conflict between Jake Bugg and Harry Styles, it's the perversely sophisticated One Direction star who really represents what's left of pop. ...
The Rolling Stones will reign supreme until there is a new counterculture
Comment by Paul Morley, The Observer, 31 March 2013
The new generation is blocked from moving on creatively, not only by the baby boomers but also their own inertia. ...
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