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L.A. & Babyface: Reid All About It

Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 9 September 1992

As if to ridicule the cynics who suggested that they'd passed their sell-by date, L.A. & Babyface are back with a bang and leading a two man assault on the music biz. L.A. Reid talks ...

TLC: Crazysexycool (LaFace/Arista): Mary J. Blige: My Life (Uptown/MCA)

Review by Amy Linden, Request, February 1995

WRITER F. SCOTT Fitzgerald once said there are no second acts in American Life, but had he been in the pop-music business, he might have ...

Natural Burn Jillers — TLC: CrazySexyCool (LaFace)

Review by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 13 May 1995

TLC are three Scary Betties if ever we saw 'em. Arsonists, sexual predators and New Jill Swing superstars whose CrazySexyCool is Swingbeat Record Of The ...

Boyz II Men, TLC, Mary J. Blige, Montell Jordan: Budweiser Superfest, Madison Square Garden, New York NY

Live Review by Amy Linden, New York Daily News, 31 July 1995

Budfest: State of the Art Black pop is in fine shape, even if Garden sound isn't ...

TLC: Pretty Young Things

Interview by Carol Cooper, Rolling Stone, 24 August 1995

The women of TLC stay cool under fire ...

TLC: Phoenix from the Flames

Interview by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 11 November 1995

Controversial New Jill megastars TLC are one of the biggest bands on the planet right now... and they're bankrupt. It's a long story, but SIMON ...

Clive Davis: Big Poppa

Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, Vibe, September 1996

The VIBE Q: CLIVE DAVIS, ARISTA RECORDS' LEGENDARY PRESIDENT AND CEO, IS TRULY RUNNING THINGS. THINK NOT? ASK WHITNEY HOUSTON, PUFFY COMBS, TLC, THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G., OR L.A. AND ...

TLC: Fan Mail (LaFace/Arista)

Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 21 February 1999

TLC Takes Care to Adopt Streamlined Approach ...

TLC: Spice Who?

Interview by Amy Linden, The Source, April 1999

THE EXPRESSION "eagerly anticipated" may be one of the most played out in the lexicon of show business. Not because fans don't fiend for new ...

TLC: Civic Center, Hartford CT

Live Review by Evelyn McDonnell, Spin, February 2000

FOR THE PAST decade, TLC have challenged the usual pop-girl predicaments. They sported condom fashions as teenagers, took on their management and record company, addressed ...

Lisa Lopes: Rollercoaster career of a troubled star

Obituary by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 27 April 2002

THE POP world lost one of its most colourful characters yesterday with the death of Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes. ...

TLC: Reheated Left Eye leftovers

Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 8 November 2002

RATHER THAN spell the end of TLC, the death of Lisa Lopes earlier this year in a car accident has meant a bit of a ...

T-Boz: "The doctors told me I wouldn't live to see 40"

Interview by Precious Williams, The Evening Standard, 27 November 2002

She's a member of the famous girl band TLC. Here, T-Boz talks about her daily battle with sickle cell anaemia ...

TLC: 3D

Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, January 2003

Atlanta R&B trio's ill fated fourth album ...

Bling Leaders: TLC: Now & Forever: TLC The Hits (LaFace/Arista) ****

Review by Paul Elliott, Q, November 2003

The sex, sauce and tunes that jump-started R&B ...

TLC's Ooooooohhh... On the TLC Tip

Retrospective and Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, Juicy, February 2012

Before they were a crazy, sexy, cool multi-platinum-selling girl group, TLC was three young women from Atlanta out to prove that their debut album, Ooooooohhh...On ...

TLC Marks 20 Years of CrazySexyCool

Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, Ebony, 18 November 2014

Vintage visionary Michael A. Gonzales speaks with producer Dallas Austin, director Lionel Martin and more about the landmark album ...

see also Lisa Lopes

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