Mail On Sunday
The Mail on Sunday, first published in 1892, is the sister paper to the Daily Mail, and is Britain's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper.
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David Byrne: The True Story of David Byrne
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Mail On Sunday, 1986
THERE'S SOMETHING faintly forbidding about David Byrne. Oh, he's friendly enough, sitting over the table of a discreet suite at Blake's Hotel in Kensington for ...
Dwight Yoakam: Hillbilly Hipster
Interview by Cynthia Rose, Mail On Sunday, 12 April 1987
DWIGHT YOAKAM was eight years old when he wrote his first song: an American lament patterned after those of 1940s blue mountain balladeers the Stanley ...
Wet Wet Wet: Adult Charm of a Little Pellow Talk
Interview by Mal Peachey, Mail On Sunday, 4 March 1990
Mal Peachey talks to the wise old men of Wet Wet Wet ...
Sinead O'Connor: The Enemy Within Sinead O'Connor
Interview by Mal Peachey, Mail On Sunday, 11 October 1992
Revealed ... the childhood terrors that drove one of our hottest female pop stars to tear up a photo of the Pope live on American ...
Cockney Rebel, Steve Harley: Steve Harley: How I Survived, by the Cocaine Rebel
Interview by Mal Peachey, Mail On Sunday, 2 May 1993
ONCE STEVE Harley had it all. Every song he wrote was a hit, every friend he made was famous and every lover was a fashion ...
ABBA: Why ABBA Can Never Return
Interview by Mal Peachey, Mail On Sunday, 23 May 1993
EXCLUSIVE: EUROPE'S POP VETERAN SITS BACK AND WATCHES HIS CHILDREN WATCH HIM ON TV Mal Peachey on a legend that will not be Björn again ...
Comment by Mal Peachey, Mail On Sunday, 6 June 1993
POP MUSIC has always been a hit or myth affair. This week Britain has been witness to two of its finest myths, both born 25 ...
Billy Joel: Christie Put The Kid In Billy Joel
Interview by Mal Peachey, Mail On Sunday, 25 July 1993
POP SUPERSTAR Billy Joel, husband of supermodel Christie Brinkley, sits in his favourite restaurant in the fashionable Hamptons district, east of New York. ...
Sting: I Ask The Questions by Sylvie Simmons: Sting
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Mail On Sunday, 1996
STING – pop star, actor, philisopher , father, Rover car salesman and generally all-round bit of a god – is trying to steal my job. ...
Donovan: I Ask The Questions: Donovan
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Mail On Sunday, 1996
THE CURLY hair’s still there, the elfin face, incense wafts about the room, but there is something amiss. That’s it: Donovan is wearing a suit. ...
Meat Loaf: I Ask The Questions: Meat Loaf
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Mail On Sunday, 1996
A DUSTY abandoned cinema in London. There are cobwebs and chandeliers. There is a large man on a balcony in a tuxedo and American tan ...
Profile and Interview by Simon Garfield, Mail On Sunday, July 1997
"THEY TAKE A vein from your leg, and chop it up four times." Rick Parfitt, the big-haired, blond singer-guitarist with Status Quo for the past 30 ...
Alanis Morissette: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by David Bennun, Mail On Sunday, June 2001
SAY WHAT YOU like about Alanis Morissette – and I intend to – there's no denying the girl can belt it out. Alone among the ...
Queen: Brixton Academy, London *
Live Review by David Bennun, Mail On Sunday, 2005
"CAN YOU BELIEVE," says Brian May, "that we're doing this?" ...
Babyshambles: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by David Bennun, Mail On Sunday, February 2005
FOR THE BENEFIT of readers in Turkmenistan, I should explain that Babyshambles is the band led by former Libertine Pete Doherty — a man whose ...
Babyshambles: Down In Albion (Rough Trade)
Review by David Bennun, Mail On Sunday, November 2005
WELL, here comes a record more laden with baggage than an Andalucian pack mule. ...
The Stranglers: Whatever Happened To The Heroes
Interview by Jon Wilde, Mail On Sunday, 30 July 2006
JEAN-JACQUES BURNEL is happily reminiscing about his days on punk's frontline with The Stranglers. "The one thing I couldn't stand was the spitting," he says. ...
John Lydon: An Interview with John Lydon
Profile and Interview by Jon Wilde, Mail On Sunday, January 2007
JOHN LYDON CERTAINLY knows how to make an entrance. Within ten seconds of being introduced, he's already demonstrated his full armoury of trademark gestures. ...
Foo Fighters, Nirvana: Monster of Rock: Dave Grohl
Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, Mail On Sunday, 16 September 2007
DAVE GROHL IS TIRED. Pulling a back-crunching, jaw-cranking comedy stretch, he twists, grits his immaculate white teeth and let's out a little squeak. Finished, he ...
Retrospective and Interview by Jon Wilde, Mail On Sunday, Spring 2007
"THIRTY YEARS of getting away with it," is how vocalist Suggs describes the pop career of Madness. "Thirty years of good-hearted mischief and a little ...
Joss Stone: Joss Stick: Joss Stone
Interview by Dan Gennoe, Mail On Sunday, 2008
JOSS STONE is smoking a fag. Crouched on the pavement outside the BBC's Maida Vale studio, a grey cardigan pulled around her, a skinny roll-up ...
Velvet Revolver: And Now Let's Go Over to the Leather Report: Velvet Revolver
Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, Mail On Sunday, March 2008
IF THERE'S A definition of a rock star, Scott Weiland is it. The ever-present Aviator sunglasses; the hip-jutting swagger; the slow croak of an LA ...
Alicia Keys: The Girl's On Fire: Why Alicia Keys Is Such Hot Poperty
Interview by Angus Batey, Mail On Sunday, 30 June 2008
Alicia Keys is red hot right now: Prince wants to be her towel roadie, Dylan wrote a song about her, and Halle Berry head-hunted her ...
Neil Sedaka: New York's Rock'n'Roll Rhapsody
Overview by Philip Norman, Mail On Sunday, 7 July 2008
NEW YORK HAS inspired so much of the greatest popular music ever written. London may have its chirpy Cockney ditties like 'Underneath the Arches', and ...
Take That: Stadium of Light, Sunderland *****
Live Review by David Bennun, Mail On Sunday, May 2011
YOU CAN TELL it's a chilly evening in Tyne and Wear. Some of the women even have their shoulders covered. It's the first night of ...
Ed Sheeran: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by David Bennun, Mail On Sunday, October 2011
A FOUNDING MYTH of modern music has Robert Johnson, that most occult and eerie of early bluesmen, meeting the Devil at a Mississippi crossroads one ...
Review by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, 4 September 2016
THE LAST TIME we heard from KT Tunstall, she was struggling with the double whammy of a broken marriage and the death of her father. ...
Ronan Keating: SECC Clyde Auditorium
Live Review by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, 24 September 2016
IT'S LADIES' NIGHT down by the River Clyde. There's a run on prosecco at the bar; tumbleweed is blowing through the deserted Gents. ...
Emeli Sandé: Long Live The Angels
Review by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, 12 November 2016
"I FELL IN LOVE with fear, Oh God forgive me," sings Emeli Sandé halfway through her second album. She doesn't sound fearful, though. Terrifically glum, ...
Review by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, 30 April 2017
WHAT DO YOU do when you can no longer write the kind of songs that made you beloved in the first place? If you're Blondie, almost ...
Elton John, Neil Sedaka: Neil Sedaka on Elton John and more
Retrospective and Interview by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, 10 June 2017
Elton John loved his songs so much that he rescued him from the recording wilderness. So why did Neil Sedaka, creator of 'Oh! Carol' and ...
PJ Harvey: Playhouse, Edinburgh
Live Review by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, 13 August 2017
THERE'S NO NEED to ask how PJ Harvey takes her coffee. From the all-black dress code and shadowy stage lighting to the dense, dusky music, ...
Review by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, 13 January 2018
A 20-YEAR-OLD Cuban-American with Mexican roots, Camila Cabello's lineage may not be to the taste of Donald Trump, but she at least grabbed the ear ...
Joan Baez, Bob Dylan: Joan Baez
Interview by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, 24 March 2018
She's the queen of the '60s protest song, who helped make her lover Bob Dylan famous. Now, as she prepares for her farewell tour, Joan ...
Live Review by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, 22 April 2018
Dua's great Lipa forward: the charismatic pop star du jour proves herself to the hangar born on the opening night of her first arena tour. ...
Plan B: Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose (Atlantic)
Review by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, 6 May 2018
LAST TIME we heard from Ben Drew, six years ago, he was the Poet Laureate of Broken Britain, listing the London riots, crack addiction and ...
Camila Cabello: O2 Academy, Glasgow
Live Review by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, 9 June 2018
Cabello launches the opening night of her tour like a woman hell-bent on cramming every idea she's ever had into 80 frantic minutes. ...
Crosby Stills Nash & Young, The Hollies, Graham Nash: Graham Nash
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Mail On Sunday, 21 July 2018
Graham Nash reveals why he's dating a woman half his age after turning his back on his wife, drugs AND his former bandmates ...
Fleet Foxes: Kelvingrove Bandstand, Glasgow
Live Review by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, 11 August 2018
As their 15-month global tour comes to an end, Fleet Foxes seem reluctant to say farewell and delight Glasgow with their strikingly beautiful noise ...
Live Review by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, September 2018
THERE IS no better time for Matt Johnson to revivify The The after 20 years. The themes of his Eighties and early Nineties material feel ...
Prince: Piano And A Microphone 1983
Review by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, 8 September 2018
We already knew Prince was a genius, but worth-the-wait posthumous release Piano And A Microphone 1983 deepens our understanding of why. ...
Shania Twain: SSE Hydro, Glasgow
Live Review by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, 29 September 2018
Shania Twain's empowering Friday night anthems have accrued a certain gravitas in the age of #MeToo, as her surprisingly meaty tour proves. ...
Mumford & Sons: SSE Hydro, Glasgow
Live Review by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, 24 November 2018
Mumford & Sons are 21st-century boys these days, with new album Delta continuing their self-conscious plunge into progress... but are they playing against their strengths? ...
Nick Lowe: "Whitney Houston made me a million…"
Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Mail On Sunday, 19 May 2019
How the staggering success of The Bodyguard's soundtrack saved the career of songwriter Nick Lowe. ...
The Beatles: Mark Lewisohn: Why I can't just ...Let It Be!
Interview by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, 13 July 2019
The world's foremost authority on the Beatles, Mark Lewisohn, reveals why he'll stop at nothing to complete his definitive history of the band. ...
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