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Interview by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 6 January 1990

Five skinny, lippy punks outta New Jersey are about to become the biggest noise in American rock since Guns N' Roses. Arrogant, controversial, yobbish — ...

Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones: Quincy Jones: The Mighty Quince

Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 17 February 1990

QUINCY JONES, producer of everyone from Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson, is now mixing jazz and hip-hop and working with Jesse Jackson and New Order. ...

Mötley Crüe: Feeling Minnesota

Interview by Steve Mascord, Juke Magazine, 28 April 1990

Mötley Crüe might have kicked their drugs but their chase for the Ultimate Thrill remains relentless. ...

Robert Plant: Zeppelin Man Takes the High Road to Nirvana

Interview by Steve Turner, The Times, June 1990

This month’s tour by Robert Plant, which reaches England tonight, has been his first European jaunt since his days with Led Zeppelin, the band which ...

Electric Boys: Totally Wired

Interview by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 9 June 1990

Electric Boys have been hyped as Zep, Aerosmith, The Beatles and The Stones in one. Paul Elliott shakes up the mixed bag and pulls out ...

Rose Tattoo, Angry Anderson: Angry Anderson

Interview by Steve Mascord, Hot Metal, July 1990

ANGRY ANDERSON is intently thumbing through an English heavy metal magazine. It's the one which described him, following the release of soppy 1988 Neighbours hit ...

Happy Mondays: Afro Divvy Act

Interview by James Brown, New Musical Express, 6 October 1990

Get your hands on your handbags HAPPY MONDAYS are back. After a long hard summer recording in Los Angeles, the ugliest band in Britain have ...

House Of Love, The: The House Of Love: Burning Down The House

Interview by Max Bell, Vox, November 1990

The House Of Love became a house of ill repute as they binged, boozed and vindalooed their way through the tour that never ended, burning ...

Faith No More: Artists Of The Year

Interview by Frank Owen, Spin, December 1990

WHETHER HE'S advising Sassy readers to take drugs, kill babies, and steal everything, or wearing a shirt with multiple images of Jesus Christ jacking off ...

Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin: Jimmy Page

Interview by Nick Kent, Vox, December 1990

In days of yore, communication breakdowns with the press suggested Jimmy Page was a dazed and confused prince of heavy metal. With Zeppelin reissues breaking ...

Guns N' Roses: Slash: Appetite for Reconstruction

Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, December 1990

Access to Excess with Guns N' Roses' Slash ...

INXS: In Extremis

Interview by Steven Daly, Spin, December 1990

After a three-year recording hiatus, INXS are back with X. STEVEN DALY corners the Australian band in a London hotel. ...

Dick Clark: The Beat Goes On

Interview by Jeff Tamarkin, Goldmine, 28 December 1990

THE MOST AMAZING thing about Dick Clark is not that "America's Oldest Living Teenager" still fits that role at age 61. It's not that he's ...

Black Crowes, The: The Black Crowes: Money For Old Strings

Interview by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 26 January 1991

When THE BLACK CROWES went into the studio to record their debut LP their only ambition was to make "a f**king record". Shake Your Money ...

ZZ Top: Recyclopedia Salesmen

Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 26 January 1991

"A cuddly bear-cum-Santa Claus", "the Vesuvius of entertainment" and a man with an unfeasibly pronounced Texan drawl who 'really doesn't care a whole lot in ...

Black Crowes, The: The Black Crowes Go Higher

Interview by Jon Young, Musician, February 1991

The brothers Robinson work it out ...

Public Enemy: Hank Shocklee: Turntable Terrorist

Interview by Mark Kemp, Option, May 1991

WHEN NEW YORK hiphop filtered down from Harlem and the Bronx into the suburbs of Long Island around the turn of the last decade, a ...

Jane's Addiction: The Shocking Truth

Interview by Paul Elliott, Vox, June 1991

"Okay, so we do music from time to time. But we can control it..." Jane's Addiction have cleaned up their habits of late, but just ...

Anthrax, Public Enemy: Anthrax and Chuck D: Noise From The Black Stuff

Interview by Steven Wells, NME, 22 June 1991

Five years after Run DMC's groundbreaking rap reworking of Aerosmith's 'Walk This Way', rock is finally repaying the compliment with ANTHRAX'S astonishing take on Public ...

Roxette's Got the Hook

Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, July 1991

Guilty pleasures are the best kind ...