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Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Music Life, 17 November 1991

THE PLUSH CONRAD HOTEL at Chelsea Harbour has for some reason (maybe it's the copious amount of Moet & Chandon champagne in the minibar!) become ...

Iron Maiden: Welcome To The Machine: Iron Maiden

Interview by Simon Witter, NME, 12 March 1988

MUCH AS WE may laugh at the blustering antics of its ambassadors, HM is no joke. As a kind of musical Rollerball, exorcising taboos and ...

Guns N' Roses: Colt Heroes

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 11 June 1987

"KNOW WHAT I want to do? Really want to do? Go over to Japan and pollute it. I'm not talking about drugs, I'm talking about ...

Guns N' Roses: Days Of Guns N' Roses

Interview by Bill Holdship, Spin, May 1988

In which our reporter discovers that L.A.'s reputed bad boys are good-bad, but they're not evil. ...

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. ...

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) ...

Kid Rock: At Last! Could Kid Rock Be The Saviour Of Rock? Oops. Sorry.

Report and Interview by Steven Wells, NME, 9 October 1999

"HEY, SCATLAND! R U ready for some medal!? How many of you guyz are gonna getta 'shag' tonite!?" ...

Poison: Cat Scratch Fever

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, RAW, 7 March 1989

They say 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn'. Or at least POISON do in the title of their current hit single. And certainly the Los Angeles ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Beastie Boys, The, Johnny Cash, LL Cool J, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The, Slayer, Rick Rubin: Rick Rubin: The Buddha of Suburbia

Interview by RJ Smith, Details, July 1993

Rick Rubin built a recording empire from a dorm room at NYU. With Def American Recordings, he's taken the sound of the streets to the ...

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." ...

Kiss: The Day the Earth Stood KISS

Report and Interview by Robert Duncan, Creem, January 1977

OR THE GENERAL TAKES ON THE BAT LIZARD AND THE PIRATE DOG by Robert Duncan W.L.A.O.R.G.K.* ...

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. ...

Iron Maiden: Don't Fear The Reaper

Interview by Geoff Barton, Classic Rock, January 2004

THERE ARE dead bodies lying on trestle tables in the midst of the tangled scaffolding and controlled chaos that represents Iron Maiden's rear of stage ...

Chuck E… So Addictive: Voice Music Editor in His Second rockcritics.com Interview

Interview by Steven Ward, rockcritics.com, March 2002

ROCK CRITIC Chuck Eddy. Love or hate? Let us count the ways… ...