Mary Harron

Joan Baez: The Folk Heroine Mellows With Age

Interview by Mary Harron, Guardian, The, June 1984

In 1959 Joan Baez walked out on stage at the Newport Folk Festival and touched off a wave of adulation that was to reach almost ...

Bee Gees, The: The Bee Gees, Larry Pryce (Panther)

Book Review by Mary Harron, Melody Maker, April 1979

Oh what a boring book we see When Larry practises to Bee Gee ...

Billy Bragg: Captain’s Cabin, London

Live Review by Mary Harron, Guardian, The, 1983

PLACING, a heavy burden on a small but genuine talent, Billy Bragg has been hailed as the next big thing. ...

Clash, The: Clash in NYC - Waiting for Ivan

Report and Interview by Mary Harron, Melody Maker, October 1979

According to reports, it was a hot, dead, airless summer in New York City. With nothing much happening on the local music scene, excitement centred ...

Dead Boys, The: The Dead Boys: Pretty Vicious

Profile and Interview by Mary Harron, Sounds, August 1977

THE DEAD BOYS are part of anew generation at CBGB's, a generation that has finally succeeded in erasing that fine line that divides the cool ...

Bob Dylan: Wembley Stadium

Live Review by Mary Harron, Guardian, The, July 1984

ALL SUMMER, Christians have been performing in football stadiums; first we had Luis Palau, then Billy Graham, and now Bob Dylan. But as it turned ...

Brian Eno: Interview with Brian Eno

Interview by Mary Harron, Punk, Summer 1977

Brian Eno is sitting in Island Records’ Basing Street Studios, London, with a piece of toast in his hand. He is working on an album: ...

Gang of Four: Dialectics Meet Disco

Essay by Mary Harron, Melody Maker, May 1979

This is the year of the second coming of British art-rock – although the new art-rockers won't admit it. MARY HARRON strips away the modish ...

Grace Jones: This Year's Model

Interview by Mary Harron, Smash Hits, September 1980

Mary Harron meets The Height Of Fashion ...

Mekons, The: The Mekons: Blows Against Individuation

Profile and Interview by Mary Harron, Melody Maker, February 1979

The Mekons insist they're just a by-product of confusion. But 'intervention', a.k.a. 'going commercial', looms. ...

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Joy Division, A Certain Ratio, Distractions, The: Factory Records: Food For Thought

Report by Mary Harron, Melody Maker, September 1979

Lots of people thought that Operation Julie was a bit of an anachronism. Who, in the late Seventies, could be dropping all those tabs? It ...

Robert Palmer: Rhythm 'N Clues

Profile and Interview by Mary Harron, Smash Hits, December 1981

One across (Mary Harron) asks the questions. Six down (Robert Palmer) gives the answers ...

Ramones, The: The Ramones

Interview by Mary Harron, Punk, January 1976

RIGHT NOW I AM SITTING BY THE STAGE where Joey Ramone has wrapped his tall languorous body and his long long hands around the microphone ...

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

Report and Interview by Mary Harron, Melody Maker, 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 ...

Velvet Underground: The Lost History of the Velvet Underground: An interview with Sterling Morrison

Retrospective and Interview by Mary Harron, NME, April 1981

THE VELVET Underground were the first avant-garde rock band, and the greatest. ...

Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground: Mo Tucker

Interview by Mary Harron, NME, May 1981

LIKE STERLING MORRISON, Maureen Tucker went in the opposite direction when she left the Velvet Underground in 1971. She moved back to Long Island, became ...

Puppet On A String: Girl Singers Of The Sixties

Essay by Mary Harron, History of Rock, The, 1982

There were no bad girls in British pop music in the early Sixties — certainly nothing to compare with the most daring American girl groups ...