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Marilyn Manson: The Nightmare Before Christmas

Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 19 December 1998

The season of goodwill may be upon us, but one man has come to vomit on your festive cheer. Fresh from wrecking his hotel room, ...

Jay-Z: True Playa

Interview by Andy Crysell, Muzik, February 1999

Jay-Z samples the musical Annie, raps about champagne and has just spent five weeks at the top of the American album charts, and he still ...

Will Oldham, Bonnie Prince Billy: Prince of Darkness

Interview by Gavin Martin, Uncut, March 1999

WILL OLDHAM is supposed to be the Mr Misery of new country. So what's he doing on GLR trying to persuade Sean Hughes that Aerosmith ...

Jeff Beck: The Jeff Beck Interview

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, April 1999

WHEN JEFF BECK WALKS INTO A PUBLIC SPACE, PEOPLE TURN and stare. They're seeing a fit-looking 50-something with stubble and an archetypal rock'n'roll haircut, wearing ...

Dom Phillips: An Interview

Interview by Bill Brewster, unpublished, 25 May 1999

NOTE: This interview with the former Mixmag editor, murdered in the Amazon in June 2022 with his friend and activist Bruno Pereira, was conducted as ...

Donnas, The: Hot Style: The Donnas

Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 29 May 1999

ALL THE best bands look great. Whether it was the Sex Pistols in their safety pins or Kurt Cobain throwing on a plaid shirt and ...

Kid Rock: Ghetto Superstar

Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 16 October 1999

Currently America's hottest property, KID ROCK has spent the last 12 months shagging porn stars, witnessing depraved sex acts and earning more money than he ...

Oasis: Titanic!

Interview by Paul Lester, Uncut, March 2000

OASIS, if you hadn't noticed, have just resurfaced. But will they sink or swim? After the druggy excesses of Be Here Now, following the departure ...

Royal Trux: Tramps Like Us

Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, September 2000

Pound for pound, the trailer park noise symphonies of Royal Trux out-weird everything this side of Ornette Coleman and The Grateful Dead. Edwin Pouncey travels ...

Aerosmith: We Have Ways Of Making You Talk

Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, May 2001

AEROSMITH HAVE JUST BEEN INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK'N'ROLL HALL OF FAME. WE ASKED MAIN MAN STEVEN TYLER ABOUT 25 YEARS ON THE EDGE, NEW ALBUM ...

Britney Spears: Squeaky Clean

Interview by Paul Elliott, Q, December 2001

Britney Spears ponders hot chocolate and drugged reptiles from Australia. ...

Kid Rock: Cash For Questions

Interview by Paul Elliott, Q, January 2002

You probed him about his ex-Radio 1 DJ namesake, dissing Radiohead and whether his mucky mouth ever upset his old mum. He responded with the ...

From Hard Rock to Rock of Ages: Former Hit Parader Writer, Father Charley Crespo

Interview by Steven Ward, rockcritics.com, February 2002

BACK IN THE '70s and '80s, Charley Crespo frequented the rock clubs of New York and New Jersey gathering info for his fan-obsessed dispatches for ...