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Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, September 1981

"Young Americans listen when I say/There's people putting us down/I know they say we've gone lazy/To tell you the truth we've seen better days/Don't need ...

J. Geils Band: Return Of The Hard-Drivin' Man

Interview by Max Bell, NME, 19 May 1979

"I'm a creature of the night. I don't wake up till it gets dark. D'ja wanna drink?" PETER WOLF of the J. GEILS BAND is ...

Skid Row: The Wild One

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 — ...

Metallica: The Rise of an Egotist

Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 8 August 1992

METALLICA started out as renegade Thrash bandits, but they've sold almost 10 million copies of their self-titled fifth album. They are now touring American stadiums ...

Guns N' Roses: The Last Angry White Man

Essay by RJ Smith, LA Weekly, 10 October 1991

A RED STATION wagon slows down in front of Tower Records on Sunset. It nuzzles up near the curb, where a line of people wait ...

Mötley Crüe: Decade of Dickheadedness

Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 26 October 1991

Grand old dames of Heavy Metal MÖTLEY CRÜE have just signed a record deal worth a cool £35 million. Not bad for a band that ...

Keith Richards: How to be Keef: A User's Guide

Guide by Nick Coleman, Independent on Sunday, 9 July 2006

WHAT GOES through the mind of a rock colossus as he falls from a coconut tree? Depends on your rock colossus, of course. So let's ...

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 ...

Sheryl Crow: The Education of Sheryl Crow

Interview by Dave DiMartino, Musician, September 1994

The long strange trip of an overnight success ...

TLC: Phoenix from the Flames

Interview by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 11 November 1995

Controversial New Jill megastars TLC are one of the biggest bands on the planet right now... and they're bankrupt. It's a long story, but SIMON ...

Fool Britannia

Essay by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 15 January 1994

Is the current wave of Little Englandism just a mask for the fact that Brit rock is becoming increasingly irrelevant? STEVEN WELLS looks at the ...

Ted Nugent: The Continuing Adventures Of Loudman Part 3: Ted Tunes Up

Report and Interview by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 15 January 1977

FEATURING GEOFF BARTON AS KID REPORTER, STARRING TED NUGENT AS LOUDMAN ...

Who, The: The Who: Barclays Centre, Brooklyn

Live Review by Ira Robbins, Rock's Backpages, 15 November 2012

I'VE BEEN AFFECTED in many ways by the thousand-plus rock concerts I've attended over the years. Not all of my reactions have been pleasant, and ...

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. ...

Morrissey

Interview by James Medd, Esquire, June 2004

From his unlikely hideout on the West Coast of America, pop's Greatest Living Englishman has emerged triumphant with his first album in seven years. "Pop ...

Paul Johnson: Revelation from Paradise

Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 17 January 1987

No one illustrates the depth and talent of UK soul more than PAUL JOHNSON, who's arrived at the doorstep to fame via gospel singing. Will ...

Mötley Crüe, Vince Neil: Crüe Love Don't Last

Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 9 May 1992

When the news broke in February that VINCE NEIL had 'parted ways' with seminal LA rockers MÖTLEY CRÜE, many thought it was a publicity stunt. ...

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. ...

Ramones, The, Dictators, The, Television: The Punk Rock Machine

Report and Interview by Lester Bangs, Screw, November 1976

IT'S A WARM New York night in the spring of 1976, and there are a lot of places that the press moguls who publish, edit, ...