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Comment by Deborah Frost, Village Voice, 1 November 1983

DEF LEPPARD is a band that's been greeted with total indifference by everyone except the four million and counting people who bought their third album. ...

The Replacements: 'I Feel Lonely In A Crowd'

Interview by Blake Gumprecht, Matter, December 1983

'I don't think our talent is our strong suit. I think, I don't know how to put it, it's our spirit if anything.' – Paul ...

MTV snaps up video rights

Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, August 1984

SAN FRANCISCO — Rock-video fans who don't get their MTV — and that means seventy-five percent of the country's households — were at the losing ...

Replacements, The: Going Down With the Replacements

Special Feature by RJ Smith, The Village Voice, 11 December 1984

Not a Bunch of Loads ...

Bull Moose Jackson: A Bull Moose Party

Profile by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 30 December 1984

Personnel: Jackson, vocals, backed by the Flashcats: Cindy Sotak, vocals, guitar; Dave Kent, vocals, guitar; Pete Loria, trumpet; Phil Brontz, saxophone; Jim Fanning, bass; Carl ...

Run DMC

Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 9 March 1985

Run DMC are two New Yorkers who set their raps to a raw rock backdrop and talked their way up the charts. Paolo Hewitt meets the ...

Ratt: Ratt (Time Coast/Atlantic)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, April 1985

RATT BETWEEN THE LIPS ...

Lone Justice: A Tale Of The New West

Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 18 May 1985

EIGHT YEARS on and it's official — we are no longer bored with the USA. ...

Mötley Crüe: White Noise: How Heavy Metal Rules

Essay by Deborah Frost, The Village Voice, 18 June 1985

IT'S FRIDAY NIGHT at L'Amour, Rock Capital of Brooklyn (well, that's what it says on the awning). The smell is smoke and damp, black lipstick ...

Mötley Crüe: Theatre of War

Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 8 August 1985

HOWARD JOHNSON goes beyond the Pain barrier with MÖTLEY CRÜE. ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers, The: The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Freaky Styley (EMI America/Enigma)

Review by Ira Robbins, Rolling Stone, 24 October 1985

AFTER NEARLY two decades of racial division, popular music is in the midst of an overdue and exciting (if modest) effort to integrate itself. One ...

Beastie Boys, The, LL Cool J: The Beastie Boys, LL Cool J and Def Jam: Escape From New York

Interview by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 8 February 1986

New York's superhip Def Jam label has burst upon the Great British Public via a distribution deal with CBS. Frank Owen, tireless beatbox gumshoe, endured ...

HEAVY: The i-Diot's Guide to Heavy Metal

Guide by Kathryn Flett, i-D, March 1986

Here in i-D land it is easy for us to glide gracefully through life with nothing more to worry our fabulously coiffured heads about than ...

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. ...

Mantronix: Mantronix: The Album (10)

Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 22 March 1986

NOISE NEVER never never annoys you know. Mantronix go for the paintstripper approach, burning away electro's lesser indulgences and leaving hard core hip hop of ...

Ted Nugent: The Mouthtrap

Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, April 1986

HOWARD JOHNSON was once a fan of TED NUGENT, but no longer. In a hard-hitting, no-nonsense feature, our stone-hearted scribe claims that the Motor City ...

Run DMC: Run-D.M.C.: Raising Hell (Profile)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 1986

RUNNING ON FULL ...

David Lee Roth, Van Halen: David Lee Roth: Foul-Mouthed Reagan Shocks The World

Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, June 1986

IT'S FITTING THAT here in this unjust world, where rock stars regularly slander one another openly, where newspapers often present one and only one side ...

Aerosmith Still Walk It Their Own Way

Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, June 1986

STEVE AND JOE are sitting around just like two of the boys, sprawled across the cushioned seats of a Warner Bros, conference room and distractedly ...

Sonic Youth: Noise: Sonic Youth

Interview by Cath Carroll, New Musical Express, 21 June 1986

SONIC YOUTH chortle to CATH CARROLL on the expressway to your hearts. ...