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David Johansen, New York Dolls: Funky (But Chic): David Johansen At Point Blank

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 2 December 1978

RIGHT BETWEEN the eyes, pilgrim. Yeah, he does look like Lee Marvin. In walks the supposed progenitor of all this punko nonsense, ex-New York Doll ...

Cheap Trick: At Budokan

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 2 December 1978

THE TRICK experience, but hardly cheap at £8.50 a shot. Even so, it's worth it, as is evidenced by the fact that Flyover in Hammersmith ...

Starz: Coliseum Rock

Review by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 13 January 1979

THANKFULLY, AFTER their last atrocious album Attention Shoppers (ugh! That's worse than Olias Of Sunhillow for an LP title), this fourth Starz disc finds the ...

Ted Nugent: Going Beyond the Threshold of Pain

Interview by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 3 March 1979

"A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO I WAS TOO LOUD," ADMITS TED NUGENT. GEOFF BARTON LISTENS AGHAST ...

Toto: A Growth Industry For Modern People

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 10 March 1979

A TOTO/SANDY ROBERTSON MULTI PLATINUM FINANCIAL READOUT ...

Aerosmith

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 7 July 1979

ENCAPSULATED VERSION: five-piece group from as near to Boston as matters bust their balls and abuse their bodies digging their way out of the grime ...

Van Halen Makes Your Day Go Away

Report and Interview by David Hepworth, Sounds, 7 July 1979

DAVID HEPWORTH GOES TO HALEN BACK (NEWCASTLE, ACTUALLY) ...

The Barracudas: Hanging Ten in West London

Profile and Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 1 September 1979

SERIOUSLY, WOULD you expect even one of the skinheads who inhabit the feral slums of Ladbroke Grove to have the slightest notion of the origins ...

Kim Fowley, Helen Reddy: Sandy Robertson's Hollywood Confidential

Report by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 1 September 1979

"On my first visit to Los Angeles I was conventionally prepared for almost anything except for what it really looked like – a quite beautiful ...

Van Halen: Women And Children First (Warners) *****

Review by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 5 April 1980

VAM! BLAM! KAPOW! SPLAT! ...

UFO: The Only Way To Travel

Report by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 28 June 1980

THUNDER SPREADS across the weathered visage of Selecter's dumpling coach driver Tennessee Roman Reynolds. He thumps the breakfast table like he's an SPG man working ...

Aerosmith, Joe Perry: Joe Perry: I've Done It All

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 5 July 1980

'I've been through millions of dollars I've wrecked expensive cars. I've done it all!' ...

Mötley Crüe: Crüesin' and Blüesin'

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 20 February 1982

"FIRST YOU got to cut it real jaggedy. And you need this stuff." ...

Cockney Rejects: The Wild Ones (NEMS pre-release)****

Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 19 June 1982

Flairs and riffers ...

The Rods: Pack Men

Profile and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 21 August 1982

WIMP ROCK. Every time you turn on the radio out here, there it is, hitting your ears with all the strength and power of a ...

Rox: Big Teezers

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 11 September 1982

"KIDS LOSE interest fast," mused the boy as the tots in the playground drifted back to their balls and rollerskates, having assimilated and dispensed with ...

Rush: Adrenalin Rush

Report and Interview by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 18 December 1982

PETE MAKOWSKI finally delivers the goods on RUSH ...

Mötley Crüe: Masters of Disaster

Interview by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 1 March 1986

PAUL ELLIOTT confronts MÖTLEY CRÜE, men with a taste for reckless living, sexual weirdness and putting bounties on making it with gummy old grannies. ...

Run DMC: Hit And Run

Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 20 September 1986

As the RUN DMC tidal wave breaks over the British coastline and the country reels to its knees, it's maybe time to ponder the principles ...

Guns N' Roses: Raising Hell in the City of Angels

Interview by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 4 April 1987

Over on L.A.'s Santa Monica Boulevard, rock renegades GUNS N' ROSES are having a ball. PAUL ELLIOTT parrys shots with L.A.'s scuzziest scumbags. ...