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James Brown

James was on the staff of NME in the late '80s and later launched Loaded and Jack magazines and the website Sabotage Times.

Sabotage Times

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Beastie Boys, The: The Beastie Boys: Keep Taking The Tabloids

Report and Interview by Jack Barron, James Brown, Sounds, May 1987

Must they keep flinging this filth at our pop kids? No, not the brilliant BEASTIE BOYS but the British national press attempting to stir up ...

Nick Cave, Fall, The, Pogues, The, Shane MacGowan: Mark E Smith, Nick Cave & Shane MacGowan: The Three Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

Interview by James Brown, Sean O'Hagan, NME, February 1989

For its second pop summit of the year, NME lent SEAN O'HAGAN and JAMES BROWN £10 each to buy SHANE MACGOWAN, MARK E SMITH and ...

Cult, The: Love Remembered: The Cult

Retrospective and Interview by James Brown, Sabotage Times, February 2010

TOM VAGUE, writer/historian, Ladbroke Grove: ...

Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu, The: The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu: Feeling The Pinch

Interview by James Brown, Sounds, May 1987

Who the hell has ever illegally sampled and mixed James Brown with AC/DC, Dave Brubeck with Led Zeppelin, Abba with The Fall, Samantha Fox with ...

My Bloody Valentine: The Bleedin' Heart Club Band

Interview by James Brown, Sounds, March 1987

MY BLOODY VALENTINE are bloody brilliant. But are they bloody incestuous or true champions of pure bloody pop? Bloody JAMES BROWN gets so high on ...

Primal Scream: Bobby Gillespie and Primal Scream

Retrospective and Interview by James Brown, Sabotage Times, February 2010

Primal Scream are the last great band of the original Creation Records roster, still rocking on, un-interrupted by break-ups or break-downs. James Brown gets down ...

Tony Wilson: One Man and a Music Factory

Interview by James Brown, Sounds, February 1987

In the first of a special series on the men and women behind the scenes of the music business JAMES BROWN talks to TONY WILSON, ...

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