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Texas: New Morning, Paris

Live Review by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 24 June 1989

I DON'T know if I can get across to you just how depressing it is to be standing, sweating in a tiny Parisian jazz club ...

Good News From Texas

Interview by Max Bell, GQ, August 1997

SHARLEEN SPITERI was free-climbing in the Cuillin Hills on the Isle of Skye a year ago, when she made two uncharacteristic blunders. Firstly, she fell ...

Beauty and the Beats: Texas meet the Wu-Tang Clan downtown

Report by Steven Daly, The Face, December 1997

It's the pop story of '97, the most unlikely end to a weird year: Texas collaborating with the Wu-Tang Clan. First, a Scottish rock band ...

Texas

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, 1999

Sharleen Spiteri is foaming in retrospect. "I don’t like lies, I don’t like bullshit," she affirms, her fist impressing the point on the arm of ...

Texas

Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001

Eddie Campbell; Ally McErlaine; Johnny McElhone, b. 31 October 1968, Glasgow, Scotland; Stuart Kerr, b. 16 March 1963, Glasgow (replaced by Richard Hynd); Sharleen Spiteri, ...

Sharleen Spiteri

Profile and Interview by Ian Watson, The Scotsman, September 2003

SHARLEEN SPITERI is talking about Pop Idol. It's a subject that's been on her mind a lot recently and, judging by the look on her ...

Play Misty For Me: Sharleen Spiteri On Being A Mum and the Dubious Future of Texas

Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 17 October 2003

SHE COUNTS Madonna – and Stella McCartney and her dad Sir Paul – among her friends, while Debbie Harry sends her old stage clothes to ...

Texas: SWG3, Glasgow

Live Review by Peter Ross, The Times, 17 December 2019

SHARLEEN SPITERI had a question. "Does everyone remember 1989?" The cheer suggested that, yes, the Glasgow crowd did. Which was just as well. Texas were ...

see also Sharleen Spiteri

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