Alan Vega
ARTICLES IN LIBRARY
Alan Vega: Collision Drive (Celluloid)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 1981
AS THE mercurial Jukebox Babe starts to makes its steady impact as a 12-inch, here is an even grittier reinterpretation of The Great American Rock ...
Alan Vega: Collision Drive (Celluloid)
Review by Ralph Traitor, Sounds, January 1982
ALAN VEGA'S recent departure into ersatz neo-rockabilly will elicit a variety of responses from his admirers. Some will call it a sell-out, but that's a ...
Interview by Roy Trakin, Creem, February 1984
ONCE UPON A time, in the early '70s, long before currently voguish "new music" outfits like Soft Cell, Yaz and Human League, there was Suicide. ...
Alan Vega: Just a Million Dreams
Review by Lindsay Hutton, Sounds, September 1985
OVER THE years, many lesser talents have taken chapter and verse out of the Vega book, and who can blame them? Not me. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Jeremy Gluck, unpublished, 1988
NOTE: Another unpublished piece for Bucketful of Brains from the prolific pen of Mr Jeremy Gluck, this time on Suicide's Alan Vega, written in 1988 ...
Interview by Chris Campion, Dazed & Confused, July 2002
IT'S TAKEN 30 years for Alan Vega to make the transition from surly street punk and art world agitator to New York institution. Better known ...
see also Suicide
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