Jam sessions: Cathi Unsworth puts her questions to Pearl Jam in an icy Manhattan in November 1991. Plus Dave Marsh meets the grunge gods for Musician on the release of 1998's Yield and Eddie Vedder revisits "Seattle's dangerous heyday" with Spin's Will Hermes in 2005.

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What's the story? Siân Pattenden reports on the Blur vs. Oasis "mediathon" for Select in 1995. Plus the acclaimed children's author/illustrator meets MC Hammer and Paula Abdul for Smash Hits in 1991.

The Mellotron man: Circus' Bud Scoppa looks back with Mike Pinder (1941-2024) and his fellow Moody Blues in 1970 and NME's Steve Turner checks in with the sometime "mad monk of Cobham" in 1976.

West End Boys: Steve Pafford lunches at Soho's Groucho Club with Pet Shop Boys' Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant (GAY TIMES, June 2002).

When it's time for leavin': Steve Newton talks to the late Dickey Betts about Gregg Allman (left) and about the Allmans' new album Shades of Two Worlds (July 1991).

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