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Shirley Bassey: Shirley, These Gowns Are Just Great!

Report and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 19 January 1963

TOMORROW (Friday) Shirley Bassey will appear at a special concert in Washington before President Kennedy to mark the anniversary of his inauguration, the first time ...

Joe Brown: Joe Gets Boot!

Report and Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 17 August 1963

JOE BROWN has really put his foot in it this time. ...

The Beatles: Part III Of 'The Year Of The Beatles': It's Like Living It Up With Four Marx Brothers

Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 19 October 1963

EACH BEATLE differs so much from the other Beatles that it's odd they get on so well together. They like each other best. "We are ...

Billy J. Kramer: Billy Has An Eye For Pop Fashion

Interview by Alan Walsh, Disc, 29 February 1964

BILLY J. KRAMER, rated one of Britain's snappiest popsters dresswise, was talking to me about his wardrobe. We were in Liverpool, where Billy was relaxing ...

Mod Fashions: Way-Outspoken

Readers' Letters by uncredited writer, Rave, May 1964

I STOPPED being Mod two months ago because it was getting played out. Manufacturers started to put out trash to youngsters of 12, telling them ...

The Who: The High Numbers: How High Will These Numbers Go?

Profile and Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 11 July 1964

HAILED AS "the first authentic mod record," four hip young men called the High Numbers are out right now with 'I'm the Face', backed with ...

The Kinks: 'You Really Got Me' Was a Jazz Song! Say the Kinks

Profile and Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 4 September 1964

'YOU REALLY Got Me', the Kinks third disc and first hit is now number 2 in the charts. But the story behind it is strange ...

The Beatles on Wax

Report by Sylvia Stephens, Fabulous, 3 October 1964

I FOUGHT my way past the body of Napoleon lying in state, having already paid my respects to Nelson dying at Trafalgar, turned my head ...

In A Mellotone: Hoods and Rocks

Essay by Michael Lydon, Yale Daily News, 10 December 1964

THERE IS A phrase current in Long Island high schools, that fertile spawn of teen age norms, which describes someone as a "'54", meaning a ...

Francoise Hardy sets the trend: With-It Ones Go After That Natural Look

Report by uncredited writer, Rave, January 1965

FRANCOISE HARDY'S a darling. With her natural good looks, long, swinging hair and super slim figure, she's the doll that all the boys dream about ...

The Pretty Things: The Things Hit Back!

Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 20 February 1965

ONE ACCUSATION that can't be levelled against the Pretty Things is that they're dull. In fact this wild-sounding, and equally wild-looking group are one of ...

Mick Jagger: Chrissie Shrimpton: Girl in the Middle

Interview by Jean-Marie, Rave, July 1965

Girl In A Girl's World: Chrissie Shrimpton is the girl in the middle. Her boyfriend is Mick Jagger — a top star, her sister is ...

The Who: The Price of Pop Art — The Who Count the Cost

Report by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 28 August 1965

THE WHO stand firmly for pop art. By their terms, pop art means how they behave and dress both on and off stage. On stage, ...

The Rolling Stones, Sonny & Cher: Eskimo Boots: The Stars And Kooky Garb: Do Clothes Make The Man?

Report by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 11 September 1965

DO CLOTHES really make the man? Are they that important? Or are they merely for decoration? ...

The Byrds, Sonny & Cher: Beat Music Background: Carnaby Street — New Way To Shop

Report by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 18 September 1965

WHILE ENGLAND has its huge department stores with multiple floors crammed with everything from needles and thread to tuxedos and minks, it also boasts a ...

Cilla Black, Sandie Shaw, Dusty Springfield: Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, Sandie Shaw: Under the Hair Drier!

Report and Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc, 13 November 1965

What DO DUSTY, SANDIE and CILLA talk about when they're trapped? ...

An ordinary girl, Cathy, and that's why she succeeds

Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 December 1965

CATHY McGOWAN'S career is based, when you come do think of it, on her very ordinariness. Most people get their jobs because of an ability ...

The Supremes: The Chic-est Girls In Show Business

Report by Jane Heil, Hit Parader, May 1966

WELL, OF COURSE, their sound: Supreme, tops, five in a row if you're keeping score. But LOOK at them! I mean, those are three swell-looking ...

The Beatles: Beatle LP Cover Banned

Report by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 2 July 1966

THE BEATLES have turned out the most nauseating album cover ever seen in the U.S. The jacket [of yesterday and Today — RBP Ed] is ...

Yoko Ono: Ono-Woman Show

Report by uncredited writer, International Times, 14 September 1966

AT INDICA Gallery from November 9 to 22, there will be a one-man show of Instruction Paintings by Yoko Ono, photographed above performing her Cut ...

The Beatles, Manfred Mann, Klaus Voormann: Klaus Voorman: Klaus Must Choose

Interview by Kevin Swift, Beat Instrumental, May 1967

"I ENJOY my life in music", said Klaus Voorman, opening a discussion on his dual-talent career. He's a brilliant artist, an outstanding musician. How does ...

The Mamas and The Papas, The Velvet Underground: Mama Cass: Andy Warhol And the Big Bird — Pop Pope Casts Cass

Report by Danny Fields, Hullabaloo, May 1967

SHE HAD ALWAYS BEEN FASCINATED WITH HIM... AND HE HAD ALWAYS WANTED TO MEET HER ...HULLABALOO SAW THEM TOGETHER, SAW HER POSING, SAW HIM FILMING ...

Twiggy: A Mini-Everything

Profile and Interview by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 6 May 1967

NEW YORK – The world's most in-the-news model, Britain's seventeen year old Twiggy, arrived at Kennedy International Airport to a horde of newsmen and photographers ...

Switching On: It All Depends On Where You're Going

Guide by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 15 July 1967

or What To Wear To A Love-In ...

Terry Knight & the Pack, Lulu, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels, The Temptations, Tammi Terrell: Britain's Lulu Looks at America and the Hemlines

Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 4 August 1967

TO US LULU is the name of a comic strip character, but to the British Lulu is the name of an adorable 18-year-old pop singer. ...

The Beatles, Manfred Mann, Klaus Voormann: Klaus Voorman: Mann Talk

Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 30 September 1967

EVER SINCE the days of '5-4-3-2-1', Manfred Mann has been improving. Until it has now reached the stage where it can either change it's style ...

Light Shows: Adventure Into Experimental Living

Report and Interview by Jacoba Atlas, KRLA Beat, 24 February 1968

THERE'S A revolution happening; happening on all levels of society. From the streets to the museums people are talking about new trends, new ways of ...

The Beatles, George Harrison: Beatle Wife Pattie Sets Up Shop...

Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 3 August 1968

PATTIE BOYD, a regular customer of the Chelsea Antique Market, changed sides of the counter last week when she opened her own stall there. ...

John Lennon, Yoko Ono: John, Yoko, Kyoko Get Trimmed

Report by Ritchie Yorke, Rolling Stone, 21 February 1970

AARLBORG, DENMARK — Tuesday, January 13th, had been a normal winter's day in this small city in the northern Jutland province of Denmark. It had ...

Notes to the Institute, By Stanley Mouse

Profile by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 17 October 1970

STANLEY MOUSE, better known to poster art lovers as just plain Mouse, has a show of his works at the Detroit Institute of Art. In ...

We Are Normal and We Want Our Freedom

Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, March 1971

HOW UNSPEAKABLY fantastic it was to see the TAMI Show, again, the other evening, for the first time since its original release in 1965! ...

John Lennon, Iggy Pop: Sounds Of The Seventies: Portrait Of A Naked Iggy

Report and Interview by Mike Jahn, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 1971

ONE DAY late last December I came home and found this message on the tape recorder that answers my telephone when I'm not home: "This is ...

David Bowie: Clothes Make the Bowie

Profile by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 20 February 1972

WHEN I WAS in England recently, a lot of excitement seemed to be about David Bowie, a singer-songwriter, who, in the past, has managed to ...

David Bowie: The Elvis Of the Seventies

Comment by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 18 June 1972

IT WAS just after the Elvis concert and David Bowie and I were sitting in his suite at the Park Lane Hotel (that's where record ...

Joe's Lights: Many Hands Make Lights Work

Profile and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 2 September 1972

A look at the people behind the glitter. Caroline Boucher meets JOE'S LIGHTS, one of the best creative light shows around today ...

Roxy Music: City Hall, Newcastle

Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 18 November 1972

IT'S DEFINITELY a chic wasteland at the Newcastle City Hall. There wasn't even a platform boot in sight when I went down there to see ...

Soul, Man: Taki 183 Fights the Bugaloo Boulevards to a Draw

Report by Vernon Gibbs, Crawdaddy!, June 1973

BACK IN THE bugaloo boulevards of my youth, there were diddyboppers who roamed the midnight streets. They were haunters of alleys and pool halls, riders ...

The Nudie Look

Profile and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 27 October 1973

Los Angeles Report by Chris Charlesworth ...

Jan & Dean: Dean Torrence (1973)

Interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages audio, 12 November 1973

From high school in the late '50s to Kittyhawk Graphics in the '70s, Dean Torrence looks back at his partnership with Jan Berry: early hits such as 'Baby Talk'; being managed by Lou Adler, with Herb Alpert; the L.A. indie labels Dore and Challenge; the evolution of surf music, and collaborations with the Beach Boys from 'Surf City' to 'Barbara Ann'; surf boards, cars and fashions; Jan's accident, and going back to school to become a graphic designer; recording Brian Wilson's 'Vegetables', and the Legendary Masked Surfers album with Terry Melcher and Bruce Johnston.

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Elton John, Marc Bolan, The Rolling Stones, Roxy Music, Slade, Sweet: Fashion: The Politics of Flash

Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 6 April 1974

NICK KENT traces the Rise and Fall of The Satin Jacket...and generally walks it like he talks it into the land of 'Rock Chic.' ...

The Rolling Stones: Rock Dreams: Teen Fantasies as Art

Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 11 April 1974

Artist Guy Peellaert and Rock Dreams, artwork of rock icons in fantasized situations ...

Hollywood Special: Elements Of Style

Report by Dave Marsh, Creem, August 1974

I Was Afraid They'd All Be California Girls ...

Soul (Style): Baggy Trousers Will Not Be Admitted

Report by Bob Fisher, New Musical Express, 11 January 1975

THE STYLISTIC rivalry between soul fans in the North and South of England has been well publicised. But what magazine odes to regional soul tend ...

Shades

Essay by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 10 July 1976

WHEN ALL AROUND YOU is brown, burnt, pink or peeling and you're tired of squinting in the glare it's time to consider... ...

Twiggy: Royal Festival Hall, London

Live Review by Fred Dellar, New Musical Express, 24 July 1976

I GUESS they popped the champers at Phonogram after this glitzy shindig at the Home of Fest. For hadn't Mike Harding, had 'em clutching at ...

The Sex Pistols, Siouxsie & The Banshees: The (?) Rock Special (#2): The Audience

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 9 October 1976

"I didn't even know the Summer of Love was happening. I was too busy playing with my Action Man."— Sid Vicious ...

Richard Hell, Patti Smith, Television: Victor Bockris goes to the Airport with Robert Mapplethorpe

Interview by Victor Bockris, New York Rocker, December 1976

SATURDAY OCTOBER 16th 2P.M. Robert Mapplethorpe is going to California on a T.W.A. flight. I am arriving at his fifth floor Bond Street studio loft ...

White punks on deadline

Interview by Ed McCormack, Rolling Stone, 10 March 1977

"Nobody wants to see Punk grow up" ...

Eleganza: It's Manic Panic In The Apple

Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, January 1978

GINA, SNOOKY and Tish didn't know what to expect when they opened Manic Panic, but they sure found out fast. First, there was the phone terrorist. ...

Patti Smith: A Portrait of the Young Woman as an Artist

Interview by Stephen Demorest, Sounds, 21 January 1978

  BACK IN THE '60s, when much of America was getting high on mind-altering drugs, Patti Smith never touched a pill, and never puffed a joint ...

William Burroughs, Mick Jagger: Table talk

Report by Victor Bockris, Tatler, 1980

Victor Bockris fails to entertain Jagger, Warhol and Burroughs ...

The Frontier Ethic of Anti-Fashion

Overview by Cynthia Rose, The Virgin Yearbook, 1980

THOUGH THE dictionary defines it as "the prevailing customs and usages of upper-class society, especially in dress", fashion is really a way to re-spell thievery. ...

The Velvet Underground: Pop Art/Art Pop: The Warhol Connection

Report and Interview by Mary Harron, Melody Maker, 16 February 1980

Like to be a galleryPut you all inside my show— David Bowie, 'Andy Warhol' Some people claim that only James Brown can match Andy Warhol's ...

Pete Frame: The Man Behind the Trees

Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 15 March 1980

FIRST, I suppose, I should declare an interest. I get thanked for my help three times in Pete Frame's Rock Family Trees (Omnibus £3.95) and ...

Grace Jones: This Year's Model

Interview by Mary Harron, Smash Hits, 4 September 1980

Mary Harron meets The Height Of Fashion ...

Visage: Stranger In Town

Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 6 December 1980

THE MINUTE I walked in the joint, I could see he was a man of distinction, a real big spender... king of the nighttime jungle, ...

Fab 5 Freddy: In Praise of Graffiti: The Fire Down Below

Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 24 December 1980

  JOHN LINDSAY hated graffiti. He vowed to wipe it off the face of the IRT, and allocated $10 million to its obliteration. But the application ...

Vivienne Westwood: Rich pickings at the World's End

Interview by Jon Savage, The Face, January 1981

Let It Rock, Sex, Seditionaries...Anarchy t-shirts and bondage straps. VIVIENNE WESTWOOD’S new collection is called World’s End. She talked about it to JON SAVAGE. ...

The Mo-dettes: Mo-dettes: Mini Metro

Interview by Deanne Pearson, Trax, 11 February 1981

Mix, Match 'n' Make-Up On The Fashion Underground ...

Visage: …And Their British Guru, Steve Strange

Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 27 July 1981

SOMETIMES, confides Steve Strange, weeks go by when he doesn't buy any clothes. ...

Visage: One Hump or Two: Steve Strange Walks a Mile For a Camel

Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, October 1981

STEVE STRANGE — fashion plate, leader of alternative dance band Visage and all-around creative British person — debarked from his rented camel in front of ...

Adam & The Ants, Grace Jones, Spandau Ballet: Mirror, Mirror On The Wall... What Aspect Of 1981 Does It Pain You Most To Recall?

Essay by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 19 December 1981

Overdressed twits taking Polaroids of one another in posey little clubs? Or the stern soapbox caterwauling of commentators who got themselves into a blue funk about everyone else's ...

How Music Changed The Look Of American Youth

Essay by Cynthia Rose, The History of Rock, 1982

BY 1962, ROCK'N'ROLL was no longer the pressing issue it had appeared in the days of Teddy Boys and juvenile delinquency. Music had given way ...

Peppermint Pop: Music, Art And The New York ‘In-Crowd’

Retrospective by Cynthia Rose, The History of Rock, 1982

The Twist was a phenomenon of a commercial musical culture which, ever since its early boom in the mid-Fifties, had been looked down upon by ...

Bop Art

Essay by Glenn O'Brien, Artforum, February 1982

1) From Atlantis to the Jazz Loft MUSIC WAS probably the first art. You could run with it and take it up a ...

The Byrds, The Rolling Stones: Rock Fashion: Lace Fop to Costume Ball Chic

Guide by John Mendelssohn, Musician, August 1982

An informal survey of the great movements in rock fashion, those cyclical variations on the theme of outraging mom and dad. ...

Blue Rondo a la Turk: Camden Palace, London

Live Review by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 8 September 1982

THE CAREER of Blue Rondo a la Turk illustrates vividly the perils of too close an association with style. Maligned by critics for the cut ...

Visage: Strange Ways

Interview by Maureen O'Grady, 19, November 1982

THE TALL white house in Notting Hill Gate had three doorbells. All, however, were nameless, not giving away any clues who lived there. ...

Letter from Britain: The Beautiful And The Damned Hit Pay Dirt

Report by Cynthia Rose, Creem, April 1983

'RECESSION ROCK' on the radio (cf. 'My City Was Gone', 'Allentown' or 'Out of Work') may call forth condemnations from America's urban mayors — many, ...

The Style Council: The State of the Nation's dress by Paul Weller

Interview by Lesley White, The Face, April 1983

"I SUPPOSE PEOPLE find it difficult to penetrate me," offers the pale young man in the white mac, "they're not sure whether I'm really deep ...

A Flock of Seagulls, Aerosmith, Culture Club, Mötley Crüe: Eleganza: Dress for Excess

Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, July 1983

Eleganza returns! This one-time fave fab fashion column, as you may know, oozed away slowly in the past few years for "reasons" we don't need ...

Joan Jett, The Thompson Twins: Eleganza: Sneer & Sneer Again

Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, August 1983

IF I NEVER glimpse another Rock 'n' Roll Bad Boy sneering at me on my television screen, trying to impress me with how unashamedly wicked ...

Adam & The Ants, Cliff Richard, Josie Cotton, Prince: Eleganza: The Best-Dressed List

Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, September 1983

THERE ARE absolutes in fashion. For instance, flare-legged trousers are absolutely more flattering to the vast majority of people than straight-legged trousers, since they make ...

A Flock Of Seagulls: Hair Apparent

Interview by John Mendelsohn, Creem, October 1983

SINCE MOVING into it in the autumn of 1982, A Flock Of Seagulls lead singer Mike Score has scarcely seen his new flat in Liverpool ...

Berlin, Missing Persons, Mötley Crüe: Eleganza: Got Pizzazz (If You Want It)

Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, October 1983

IN THE MONTHS since its resuscitation, several hundred readers have written this column to ask what they should do with their hair. Would that Eleganza ...

Sex Pistols: Jamie Reid

Interview by Jon Savage, The Face, October 1983

FOR SOMEONE whose work has graced millions of record sleeves and influenced a whole generation, Jamie Reid’s personal profile is not the highest. This is ...

The Gun Club: Eleganza: Daughters Of Darkness

Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, November 1983

NATURE ABHORS a vacuum, but Eleganza adores someone who dares to dress with panache, elan, and all the other French nouns that mean pizzazz. You might not ...

Adam & The Ants: Adam Ant: from Punk Reject to Prince Charming

Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1984

AS THE '70s drew to a close, the British pop scene seemed distinctively lacking in glamour. Punk rock had made way for a ‘new wave’ ...

A Flock of Seagulls, Daryl Hall, Rod Stewart: Eleganza: Hairy Monsters (In Need Of Sleep)

Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, January 1984

A COUPLE OF issues back, Eleganza admitted that it was at a loss for what to tell you to do with your hair. Wear it ...

Sade: Queen of Style

Interview by Deanne Pearson, No. 1, 18 February 1984

SADE INSTRUCTS DEANNE PEARSON IN THE ART OF THE FEMME FATALE ...

Psychedelic Art: Flashing Back

Essay by Glenn O'Brien, Artforum, March 1984

Standing in line at the bank: what if this were on TV? What if we were all on mescalin?– Michael Brownstein, from '43 Cents a ...

Ian Dury: Well Hung

Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, The Face, April 1984

Ian Dury's verdict on the nation's art heritage ...

Mods: The Resurrection Of Chad

Report by Lesley White, The Face, June 1984

For two days the town slept uneasily, anticipating events prophesied by dark whispers in the roadside inns. As the pilgrims gathered by their tents, huddled ...

Philip Sallon

Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, July 1984

Pausing only to change from one outrageous outfit to the next, PHILIP SALLON has hosted a mad whirl of parties that unite youth tribes in ...

ZZ Top: Top Hat and Tales

Interview by Max Bell, No. 1, 12 January 1985

STAR WEARS: Those sharp-dressed men ZZ Top explain the art of mix'n'matching Fila tracksuits, tuxedos and 14-inch beards. ...

Andy Warhol: The Face Interview

Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, March 1985

"I HAVE NOTHING to say – read my books" is Andy Warhol's standard riposte to most would-be interviewers.  ...

David Bowie, Twisted Sister: Eleganza: David Bowie & Dee Snider: The Bizarre Passions They Can't Control!

Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, March 1985

A LOT OF you younger readers who think that Boy George didn't invent rock 'n' roll androgyny believe that Prince did, or Michael Jackson, or ...

Duran Duran, Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Warhol: The Face Interview

Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, March 1985

"I HAVE NOTHING to say — read my books" is Andy Warhol's standard riposte to most would-be interviewers. David Yarritu — a former assistant of ...

Matt Bianco, Blue Rondo A La Turk, Madness, Spandau Ballet, Wham!: Chris Ruocco: A Stitch In Times

Interview by Deanne Pearson, No. 1, 2 March 1985

Chris Ruocco makes the striking stage outfits of many of today's top pop stars. Deanne Pearson talks to the tailor whose creations turn up on ...

Amanda Lear: Queen Lear

Review and Interview by Jane Solanas, New Musical Express, 24 August 1985

Amanda Lear, ex-model, disco star and androgynous friend of the famous, has revealed all about her 15-year dalliance with Surrealist painter, Salvador Dali. Jane Solanas ...

Duran Duran: Style Counsel

Report and Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 2 September 1985

ADAM SWEETING investigates the selling of a pop star package ...

Debbie Harry and Andy Warhol: Parallel Lives

Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 11 January 1986

FRANK TALK WITH DEBBIE ...

Savage Cool

Overview by Jon Savage, i-D, February 1986

Jon Savage is one of the arch voices of our time, a blithe spirit with a vicious tongue and a wicked pen: dedicated, deadly and ...

Poison, Ratt, The Who: Eleganza: Our Wacky, Wacky World

Column by John Mendelssohn, Creem, September 1986

IN THE EARLY '70s, we Americans called it glitter and the English glam, but by any other name it would still be mass transvestitism. It's ...

Talulah Gosh: Ladybirds & Start-Rite Kids

Report by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 27 September 1986

Is there more to jumble-sale chic than saving precious pennies? Simon Reynolds thinks so and spots an asexual revolution unfolding within the indie scene. So ...

Grace Jones: Inside Grace Jones

Interview by Gene Santoro, Pulse!, February 1987

A Story About Film, Fashion and Fresh New Sounds. ...

Savage Pencil: With Lead In His Pencil

Interview by Cathi Unsworth, Sounds, 3 September 1988

SAVAGE PENCIL has turned his art to original biker movies. CATHI UNSWORTH savours his hellraising Angel Dust ...

Homeboy Fashion

Report by Frank Owen, Spin, October 1988

WITH A defiant swagger, home-boy style '88 says, "Say it loud, I'm fake and I'm proud." Gucci may be good, but fake Gucci is what's ...

Jean-Paul Gaultier: Club Couture

Interview by Sean O'Hagan, New Musical Express, 28 January 1989

After years of being afforded the status of pop star in his native France, fashion designer JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER has gone and done it his way ...

Holly Johnson: What does Holly Johnson get up to on his days off?

Report and Interview by Tom Doyle, Smash Hits, 26 July 1989

★ Well he potters around posh art galleries with his pals, he browses round the odd with-it clothes shop, and he has a spot of ...

Yes: Roger Dean

Essay by Johnny Black, Q, November 1989

Any self-respecting Yes album used to feel naked without a fantasy cover by artist Roger Dean. It seems only fitting, then, that he has done ...

Michael Bolton

Interview by Siân Pattenden, Smash Hits, 21 March 1990

★ He's got a weedy ballad that's taken the charts by storm! ★ He's got a hairdo from hell! ★ He's got millions of ...

A Hard Graff For A Piece Of The Action

Report and Interview by Cynthia Rose, The Observer, 22 April 1990

Cynthia Rose says in Europe they know the writing's on the wall. ...

Eurythmics, Annie Lennox: Annie Lennox: Who's That Girl?

Profile and Interview by Lucy O'Brien, Select, February 1991

Never afraid to experiment and shock, Annie Lennox has paraded a succession of challenging images during the last decade — from androgynous hedonist to caring ...

Grateful Dead: Poster Artist Rick Griffin Dies

Obituary by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 3 October 1991

RICK GRIFFIN, one of the creators of the psychedelic poster art that originated in San Francisco during the mid-Sixties, died on August 17th of severe ...

Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine: Carter USM: Stars of the Singlets Market

Report by Bruce Dessau, The Guardian, 21 May 1992

Never mind the music, it's the T-shirt that counts these days. Bruce Dessau reports ...

Pink Floyd: Storm Thorgerson: Daily Departures From Reality

Interview by Martin Aston, Q, December 1992

"I LIKE PICTURES that don't necessarily have an explanation off pat," Storm Thorgerson says of the beguiling, often outlandish record sleeves that cemented the ...

RuPaul: The World According to RuPaul

Interview by David A. Keeps, Details, March 1993

Singer, supermodel, and trans-American success story ...

Where now for Manchester?

Report by John Robb, i-D, April 1993

Three years ago Manchester was famous for flares, clubs and the Happy Mondays. Now it's guns, drugs and violence. How accurate is the city's media ...

The Beatles: Astrid Kirchherr

Profile and Interview by Graham Reid, The New Zealand Herald, 1994

AT 55, ASTRID Kirchherr still loves rock music and listens to it every day: The Beatles, the Doors, Bowie... "and Prince, he's such a genius ...

The Beatles and Astrid Kirchherr: They Loved Stu Yeah Yeah Yeah

Report and Interview by John Harris, New Musical Express, 2 April 1994

They weren't always old men owning half of Scotland and giving all their money to spiritual motor racing gurus. On the eve of a Beatles ...

The Beastie Boys: We Clamorous Beasties

Interview by Ted Kessler, New Musical Express, 21 May 1994

The Beastie Boys, icons to the sunstruck, tattooed youth of California have set up every American boy's dream empire — clothes, fanzine, record label and ...

Brand New Heavies, Corduroy, Galliano, Jamiroquai, The James Taylor Quartet: Galliano: Sandals Messiahs

Report and Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 28 May 1994

Five years ago GALLIANO was just a sticky Mediterranean drink. Now they're a band on the verge of major success, spearheading the movement that's the ...

Russell Simmons: Hip Hop's Top Dog

Profile and Interview by Frank Broughton, i-D, September 1994

With faith in the power of undiluted black culture, Russell Simmons harnessed the sound of the underground and turned hip hop into a billion dollar ...

Naomi Campbell: "It's good to be a baby elephant"

Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, November 1994

Huh? Naomi Campbell — looker, actress, pugilist and girlfriend of the famous — has now turned her manicured hand to pop music. And novel writing. ...

Remembering Rock Dreams: Guy Peellaert and Nik Cohn

Retrospective and Interview by Paul Rambali, MOJO, March 1995

DO YOU STILL have a copy of Rock Dreams? If you were a rock fan in the early ‘70s, when it was first published, you ...

Chic, Rattle and Roll

Overview by Lucy O'Brien, Vox, April 1995

From models to mods, designer girlfriends to X Girl, it's a fine thread between fashion and rock 'n' roll. VOX explores the world of pop ...

Club Flyers: Just An Illusion

Comment by Sheryl Garratt, The Face, February 1996

Nice flyer, shame about the club: Sheryl Garratt on the art of parties. ...

Album covers: New tricks up their sleeve

Interview by Susan Corrigan, The Guardian, 18 March 1996

The LP cover is once again regarded as an art form. Susan Corrigan meets the designer largely responsible ...

A Murder In Clubland?

Report by Frank Owen, The Village Voice, 25 June 1996

Looking for Angel: Did King of Club Kids Michael Alig really Kill Angel Melendez? Or is it all a hoax? By Frank Owen ...

Iggy Pop, Sex Pistols: Last of the Mohicans

Report by Susan Corrigan, The Guardian, 26 June 1996

On Sunday, the punks were rocking again. But what on earth were they wearing? ...

Bis, Sarah Cracknell, Elastica, Garbage, Shampoo, Sleeper: The Young Pretenders

Report by Susan Corrigan, The Guardian, 17 July 1996

Susan Corrigan talks to the teenagers with stars in their eyes. ...

ZZ Top: Crazy 'bout a kitsch-dressed man

Interview by Andy Gill, The Independent, August 1996

ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons has reconnected his blues roots with African rhythm. Can he really be giving up trash in the interests of good taste, ...

Tupac Shakur: Sprayers for a lost soul

Report by Vivien Goldman, Daily Telegraph, 14 December 1996

The murder of rap star Tupac Shakur in September has brought the simmering rivalry between two New York graffiti artists to a head. Vivien Goldman ...

Nirvana, Oasis, Pulp, Sex Pistols: True Brits

Interview by Jon Savage, The Guardian, 20 December 1996

A young New York painter looks like becoming "the first artist of Britpop". Jon Savage on how Elizabeth Peyton's portraits of Jarvis, Liam and Noel ...

The Beatles: Copyright: Pepper corn

Interview by Caroline Boucher, The Observer, 23 March 1997

ONE OF the most famous album covers of all time is about to become the subject of bitter legal wrangling. Peter Blake, 64, designed the ...

Nico, The Velvet Underground: Name Game: Billy Name

Interview by Jon Savage, The Guardian, 25 April 1997

At Andy Warhol's Factory everybody wanted to be a star. Everyone except Billy Name. He designed the Factory, curated it, soothed the egos of Warhol's ...

Acid Brass, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, The KLF, Manic Street Preachers, Georgina Starr: Pop Art

Report and Interview by Susan Corrigan, i-D, August 1997

Blur and Damien Hirst? Pet Shop Boys and Sam Taylor-Wood? No doubt about it, pop stars dabbling in art is a bad idea. But what ...

Paul McCartney: Linda McCartney: How Rock 'n' Roll Saved Our Lives

Retrospective by David Dalton, Gadfly, August 1998

I FIRST MET Linda McCartney at the Scene on West 46th Street. A hip little grotto in a cellar, it was run by the cool ...

Beck, Al Hansen, and the new Art Rock

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, World Art, September 1998

LAST MAY, "Beck and Al Hansen: Playing With Matches" opened at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. This fall and winter the exhibition can be ...

Lloyd Johnson: Aloha From Noting Hill

Profile and Interview by Paul Gorman, MOJO, May 1999

GLAD-RAGS: Britain's premier rock'n'roll tailor has dumped leather'n'denim for the typically tropical. ...

The Donnas: 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 ...

Flat Eric: Eric Idol

Interview by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 28 August 1999

He's got no ears and is a fetching shade of yellow. Who cares?! Just one of his fuzzy little paws is more rock'n'roll than all ...

Mullet of Kintyre, anyone?

Comment by Tom Cox, The Guardian, 11 December 1999

ONE OF the best Christmas presents you could buy for the 80s obsessive in your life this year is The Mullet: Hairstyle of the Gods, ...

The Life and Work of Basquiat

Essay by Victor Bockris, Gadfly, May 2000

Somebody once asked who Andy Warhol reminded me of. My answer, Muhammad Ali, tickled the artist so much that he used the statement in a ...

Jimi Hendrix: Public Image Unlimited

Essay by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2000

Hendrix the black radical. Hendrix the glam dandy. Hendrix the icon. Hendrix the man. ...

Sigur Rós: Desolation Angels: Icelandic music

Report and Interview by Rob Young, The Wire, January 2001

Spearheaded by Sigur Rós, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and the Kitchen Motors collective, Iceland’s hardy children of nature are proving stubbornly resistant to the World Rock ...

The Dark Visions Of Raymond Pettibon

Profile by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, 4 August 2001

Raymond Pettibon first got our attention with startling flyers for Black Flag shows. These days he's seen in the galleries and museums. ...

The Rolling Stones: Imaging The Stones: John Van Hamersveld

Book Excerpt by John Van Hamersveld, Rock's Backpages, 11 August 2001

John Van Hamersveld was one of the key poster artists of the psychedelic rock era in Los Angeles. He was also the man to whom ...

Jefferson Airplane: Flying High with the Jefferson Airplane: How John Van Hamersveld created the cover of Crown of Creation

Book Excerpt by John Van Hamersveld, Surfadelic: From Surf Saga to Artist 64-74, 20 October 2001

DECEMBER 31st, 1967: The Winterland Ballroom. San Francisco. Bill Graham's The Doors concert this evening. I'm checking out the show backstage with The Family Dog ...

Billy Childish: One In The Eye For The Fakes

Profile and Interview by Richard Cabut, 3ammagazine.com, 2003

Richard Cabut interviews painter, poet, novelist, musician, green-tea drinker and all-round dyslexic genius Billy Childish, as a retrospective exhibition opens in London. ...

The Army’s Mystery Pop Artist

Report by Paul Gorman, MOJO, 2003

THE UNEARTHING IN central London of a series of stunning images of rock icons from the early ‘70s has sparked a search for a mystery ...

Radiohead: The Story Of Tchocky

Report and Interview by Ian Gittins, Q, Summer 2003

ON FEBRUARY 27, 2002, Radiohead designer Stanley Donwood mounted the stage at the Staples Center, Los Angeles, to receive a Grammy for "Best Recording Package" ...

The Capri-Collared Shirt: King's Road and the birth of British punk in the late '70s

Memoir by Paul Gorman, 3ammagazine.com, 2004

IN 1973 ONE of my older brothers, Timothy, started work at a shop called Domidium in the Kings Road, just ahead of the curve of ...

The Million-Pound Mod: John Stephen

Obituary by Paul Gorman, unpublished, February 2004

JOHN STEPHEN – who died on February 1 aged 69 – was the "£1m Mod" who was a vital element in the look of the ...

Andy Warhol: Colour Me Pop

Retrospective by David Dalton, MOJO, March 2004

When innocent English teens David and Sarah Dalton met Andy Warhol in 1961 their eyes were opened to a whole new world of pop culture ...

Jonathan Ive: The Father Of Invention

Report and Interview by Sheryl Garratt, The Word, March 2004

In a world where computer technology is a religion and its curvy iconography is changing everything, a shy 37-year-old Englishman is the newly-elected High Priest. ...

Papa Wemba: Pop Star, People Smuggler, Jailbird, Demagogue – and all in a coat that cost £15,000

Report and Interview by James Fox, Sunday Telegraph, 14 August 2004

James Fox looks at the bizarre life of world music star Papa Wemba. ...

Spandau Ballet's Bible: How I Played My Part in Inventing the New Romantics

Memoir by Beverley Glick, beverleyglick.com, 2005

Here is the second extract from my memoir Hit Girl: My Bizarre Double Life in the Pop World of the Eighties. It is September 1980 and, ...

The Art Of Storm Thorgerson

Interview by Christine Natanael, crushermagazine.com, 2005

FOR AS FAR BACK as I can remember, I have been enraptured by album cover art. In the days before the small format of the ...

Bob Dylan: Sally Grossman: The Lady In Red

Interview by Edward Helmore, MOJO, February 2005

Sally Grossman adorned the Bringing It All Back Home sleeve, then cooked breakfast for the entire population of Woodstock. Edward Helmore hears her story. ...

Britney Spears: Under The Covers: Britney

Guide by Todd L. Burns, Stylus, 1 February 2005

The Queen of Pop? Since 1999’s …Baby One More Time, Britney has quickly elevated herself to pop royalty via a conflicting series of psycho-sexual messages ...

The Prodigy: Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned

Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), March 2005

AFTER A SEVEN year wait for the follow up to 1997's The Fat of the Land and more than a decade on from the career-transforming ...

John Cage, Keith Rowe: Seriously funny

Comment by David Stubbs, The Wire, June 2005

David Stubbs on discovering that humour and music do mix ...

Kraftwerk: "Kraftwerk Are The Catalyst"

Interview by Simon Witter, MOJO, September 2005

The band's art guru and oldest friend, EMIL SCHULT, gives a view from inside the Kraftwerk project. As told to Simon Witter. ...

Brian Eno: Containing Spontaneity

Interview by Ken Scrudato, Filter, October 2006

NOT JUST a few otherwise sophisticated human beings would likely feel less uneasy naked and unarmed in Northern Afghanistan than present in a room when ...

Tool: When A Special Package Becomes The Standard

Report by Larry Jaffee, Mediaware, Summer 2006

MUSIC INDUSTRY executives are usually quick to blame slacking CD sales on pilferage through illegal downloads. Rarely do major label types take any kind of ...

Psychedelic Album Artwork

Overview by Richie Unterberger, MOJO, March 2007

"I SAW THIS face looking up at me out of the trashcan. It was a woman. It looked like a flamenco dancer staring at me. ...

RZA, Wu-Tang Clan: Wu-Tang Clan: Putting the record straight

Interview by John Lewis, Metro, 10 December 2007

The hunger has returned: Wu-Tang Clan, with group leader RZA are back and ready to rule the hip hop world again with new album 8 ...

Barney Bubbles

Book Excerpt by Paul Gorman, 'Reasons To Be Cheerful' (Adelita), 2008

DESPITE HIS WISH for anonymity, Barney Bubbles' profile was rising high in 1978 on the back of the graphic wit, invention and clarity delivered over ...

Pet Shop Boys: Pop Into Art: Post-Punk Aesthetics Revisited

Essay by Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, May 2008

"Girls, Boys, Art, Pleasure"– Chris Lowe, Pet Shop Boys, 'Paninaro 95' ...

Big Brother & The Holding Company: R. Crumb: So Last Century

Report and Interview by Larry Jaffee, The Word, 12 September 2008

The world of R. Crumb – where every record sleeve wishes it was still 1920. ...

Guy Peellaert: The man who invented rock and roll

Comment by David Hepworth, The Word, 20 November 2008

I'VE ONLY JUST noticed that Guy Peellaert died the other day. Lots of people have never heard his name but the fact remains that, rightly ...

Grace Jones: Grace Under Pressure: Grace Jones

Interview by John Doran, The Stool Pigeon, December 2008

PLAYING BACK MY phone interview with Grace Jones, I notice that at the start of the transcript while I'm waiting for someone to pick up ...

David Bowie, The Rolling Stones: Guy Peellaert, 1934-2008

Obituary by Ken Hunt, The Guardian, 29 January 2009

Belgian artist most famous for his rock dreamscapes ...

Little Richard's Look

Memoir by John Pidgeon, Rock's Backpages, 5 May 2009

I AM NINE years old, watching Don't Knock The Rock in High Wycombe's Rex cinema, when I make a connection between music and the way ...

David Bowie: The making of 'Starman'

Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, June 2009

In 1972 this space-age hit — and an onstage "electric blow job" — turned Ziggy and his Spiders From Mars into megastars. "But the outfits... ...

Tom Wilkes, 1939-2009: Legendary Designer of Posters and Album Covers

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, July 2009

Tom Wilkes, legendary poster and album cover designer (Monterey Pop, the Rolling Stones' original Beggars Banquet, Neil Young's Harvest, Janis Joplin's Pearl, George Harrison's All ...

Aimee Mann: Cover Me – Aimee, Gail and the illustrators

Special Feature by Martin Colyer, Varoom!, Winter 2009

Video promos and downloads have diminished the value of sleeve art in the eyes of music companies, and illustration doesn't fit their brand-building approach to ...

Laurie Anderson: All her own invention

Report and Interview by John L. Walters, Eye, Summer 2010

Graphic design's recent concerns have for decades been at the heart of Laurie Anderson's practice. ...

Brian Jones, Keith Richards: Anita Pallenberg: 1967 and all that

Interview by Paul Gorman, Paul Gorman Is, 27 January 2011

A COUPLE OF years back I interviewed Anita Pallenberg — who celebrated her birthday yesterday — for MOJO magazine. ...

Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Unholy: Aubrey Powell on Led Zeppelin

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, March 2011

NOTE: This is a transcription from an interview that Hipgnosis co-founder Aubrey Powell gave me in March 2011, for Trampled Under Foot, my 2012 oral ...

Charlotte Gainsbourg: Eternal Ingénue: Charlotte Gainsbourg on Her Latest Stylish Role

Interview by Bethan Cole, The Independent, 9 July 2011

The daughter of Anglo-French musical royalty, Charlotte Gainsbourg was destined to be a performer — and now she's in the hottest arthouse film of the ...

The Album Cover Art Of Studio One Records (Soul Jazz)

Book Review by Mike Atherton, Echoes, December 2011

WITHOUT STUDIO ONE there would still have been reggae music, but it might well have developed differently. ...

Talk Talk: James Marsh

Retrospective by Wyndham Wallace, Upon Paper, October 2012

"Breathe on me, eclipse my mind. It's in some kind of disarray." ('Chameleon Day') ...

The Origins Of The Tits Tee

Retrospective by Paul Gorman, Rock's Backpages, February 2013

MALCOLM MCLAREN'S adaptation of the infamous Tits t-shirt is one of punk's most familiar designs, as applied by he and Vivienne Westwood to shirts sold ...

David Bowie: Who is David Bowie? A Guide to the V&A retrospective

Report by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 16 February 2013

As a blockbuster exhibition, David Bowie is, gets under way at the V&A, Sean O'Hagan dissects the pop icon's influences – and reveals the ideas ...

David Bowie: Highlights of David Bowie Is: V&A, London

Review by Kate Allen, Rock's Backpages, 25 March 2013

I'VE NEVER been a Bowie-phile, but after visiting the David Bowie is exhibition at the V&A last week, it's difficult not to feel as though such ...

Jimi Hendrix: Linda Keith: "How I helped to make Jimi Hendrix a rock'n'roll star"

Retrospective and Interview by Edward Helmore, The Observer, 14 September 2013

Linda Keith lent a young blues player a guitar belonging to her boyfriend, Keith Richards – and the rest is history. In a rare interview, ...

AR Kane, Bauhaus, Belly, The Birthday Party, Bon Iver, The Breeders, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Lush, M/A/R/R/S, Modern English, The National, The Pixies, Red House Painters, This Mortal Coil, Throwing Muses, Xmal Deutschland: 4AD Records: Labelled with Love

Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, Classic Pop, November 2013

A new book, Martin Aston's Facing The Other Way, tells the story of a label that scored just a single number one hit during the ...

David Bowie: David Bowie is: V&A, London

Review by Nicky Charlish, Culture Wars, 9 November 2013

Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke, The Man Who Fell to Earth, the man of seemingly endless identity changes. David Bowie has been ...

Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s: V&A, London

Review by Nicky Charlish, Culture Wars, 21 December 2013

WHEN WE LOOK at a product of physical design – a building, say – we don't usually think about the influences which went into its ...

Tinie Tempah: The Most Stylish Man In Music

Interview by Sheryl Garratt, Daily Telegraph, 25 March 2014

From the outset, rapper Tinie Tempah was determined to stand out from the crowd. He talks to Sheryl Garratt about the evolution of his style ...

The State of the Rock Chick: Individual Style or Manufactured Fashion?

Comment by Rachel Felder, Vanity Fair, 10 April 2014

AS USUAL, this year's Coachella lineup includes a handful of female artists – like Haim, Lorde, and Lana Del Rey – who look as good ...

The Eagles: Boyd Elder: Encounters of the Southwestern Kind

Report and Interview by Stephen K. Peeples, stephenkpeeples.com, 31 March 2015

A close encounter with the artist who created the skull art for Eagles' One of These Nights and Their Greatest Hits. ...

Gram Parsons: The Read: Mr Gram Parsons

Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Mr. Porter, April 2015

Narcotics, Nudie Cohn suits, and the Rolling Stones – we pay homage to the fiercely talented founder of alternative country, whose untimely demise was as ...

The Jam: À la mod: how the Jam and mod style transcended fashion

Retrospective by Paul Gorman, The Guardian, 12 August 2015

A new exhibition of the Jam at Somerset House proves that the mod look, from Carnaby Street to Uniqlo, is the gift that keeps on ...

The Smiths: How The Smiths Pioneered Normcore

Retrospective by Chris Heath, GQ, 20 September 2015

They were the original normcores – a band of outsiders who took pains to dress as though they’d found their clothes at a rummage sale. ...

The Clash: Paul Simonon: The Clash's Ace of Bass

Retrospective and Interview by James Medd, The Rake, August 2017

Without him, The Clash would still have been a great band, but with him they became iconic. Paul Simonon was built for rock 'n' roll and ...

Prince: My Name Is Prince: O2, London

Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 27 October 2017

I HADN'T anticipated the sudden pang of sadness as I walked in and saw all those gaudy, gloriously naff outfits. My eyes went straight to ...

Paul Gorman: The Story of The Face

Book Review by Andy Beckett, The Guardian, 1 November 2017

This huge, rich book is a celebration not only of the style bible but of London, Manchester and Liverpool in the late 20th century. ...

Rhythm & Reaction: The Age of Jazz in Britain: Two Temple Place, London

Review by John L. Walters, Eye, 25 February 2018

Rhythm & Reaction gets under the skin of a British love affair with American jazz 27 January — 22 April 2018 ...

When Eurovision came to town

Report and Interview by Tim Cooper, Little Atoms, 12 July 2018

In 1993, as war raged in the Balkans, the Eurovision circus descended on the tiny Irish town of Millstreet. It was with the emergence of ...

Marvin Gaye: Inner Sleeve: Marvin Gaye's I Want You (Tamla)

Comment by Michael A. Gonzales, The Wire, August 2018

This month's artwork chosen by Michael A Gonzales. Cover painting by Ernie Barnes ...

The Eagles, Bobby Fuller Four, The : (No) AMF, Boyd Elder: Texas "Artlaw" Dead at 74

Memoir by Stephen K. Peeples, stephenkpeeples.com, 30 October 2018

LEGENDARY TEXAS multi-media fine artist and rock 'n' roll "artlaw" Boyd Elder, who spent a lifetime expressing his artistic vision with often flagrant disregard for convention ...

Cab Calloway, August Darnell, Gene Krupa: Time Machine: June 1943 – L.A.'s Zoot Suit Riots

Retrospective by Fred Dellar, unpublished, February 2020

CAB CALLOWAY was something of a superstar by 1943. A would-be Harlem Globetrotter, he'd had that possible career nixed by his big sister Blanche, who ...

Nick Kent, Malcolm McLaren, Sex Pistols, Midge Ure: I Was (Almost) a Teenage Sex Pistol: David Harrison

Book Excerpt by Paul Gorman, 'The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren' (Constable), April 2020

IN 1975, THE regular customers at Sex – the fetish boutique operated at 430 King’s Road by Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood – included David ...

Pink Floyd, Throbbing Gristle: Gotta Stem The Evil Tide: Pink Floyd and Throbbing Gristle

Retrospective and Interview by Daryl Easlea, unpublished, 2021

THROBBING GRISTLE became a cause celebre in October 1976, with their Prostitution Exhibition at the ICA. Tory MP Nicholas Fairbairn called the noise terrorists "Wreckers ...

Lady Gaga: Lady Gucci is just the latest guise of the ever transmutable Lady Gaga

Profile by Edward Helmore, The Guardian, 8 December 2021

Pop singer, activist, art installation, actor, Stefani Germanotta has taken on many faces ...

Sex Pistols, X-Ray Spex: Oh Bondage! Up Yours

Retrospective by Paul Gorman, MacGuffin, August 2022

AS SIMULTANEOUS SYMBOLS of subjugation and liberation, chains were co-opted in the bricolage approaches to the hundreds, if not thousands, of individualistic identities — in ...

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