The Case of The Cock-Sure Groupies
Report and Interview by Ellen Sander, The Realist, November 1968
THE CHORDS come flooding out of the amplifiers like a tonal wave, swelling to an impossible amplitude, blaring, ringing, pounding. A broad beam of noise is ...

Alice Cooper: Alice's New Snake – Yvonne Likes Her Work
Profile by Jim Esposito, Rock Magazine, July 1972
THERE ARE lots of rumors circulating the rock industry, especially about Alice Cooper. However, the one about Alice having to get rid of his old boa ...

Led Zep in L.A.
Report by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, June 1973
"I DON'T EVEN like Led Zeppelin," the girl in the black velvet jacket and hotpants said petulantly as she bummed a cigarette off an acquaintance in ...

Alice Cooper: The Mystery Tits
Report by Jim Esposito, Oui, June 1974
FIFTEEN FEET in front of me, Alice Cooper was doing his thing all over an elevated plywood stage. ...

Nancy Spungen: If You Knew Nancy…
Book Review by Cynthia Rose, NME, January 1984
IF ANYTHING CAN PUT THE LID on the Romeo and Juliet myth that has enshrined Nancy Spungen in the post-punk hagiography, it will be a new ...

The Penis De Milo: Cynthia Plaster Claster
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, September 1989
Cynthia was a normal 1960s American teenager, with an abnormal interest in rock musicians. Then, one day in art school, she was told "to make a ...

Fear Eats The Soul
Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, July 1995
It also dines on doubt, nibbles the nerve endings and makes a hell of a mess of your trousers. Stage fright, that least welcome of backstage ...

Going Down Memory Lane with Jenny Fabian
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Mojo, July 1997
BEFORE JENNY FABIAN, groupies hardly existed...well, they probably did, but the general public, ie Mr and Mrs Beswick of Pursey, knew nothing about them (even though ...

ELP: The Unsung Roadie
Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, 1999
Consider this as a picture at an exhibition. A 10,000-seat arena on the afternoon before an Emerson, Lake & Palmer concert; on stage an orderly row ...

Rock'n'Roll Drives You Mad
Overview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, 1999
Of late, all over the shop, rock stars have been cracking up under the strain with varying degrees of dignity. Among those going under – temporarily, ...

“...Two Bottles of 1963 Dom Perignon, Six Crack Whores”
Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Hobomedia, 1999
Phill Sucliffe on the Rock Band Rider ...

Larry Williams
Retrospective by Mick Farren, Mojo, July 2000
ON JANUARY 7, 1980, THE BODY OF LARRY WILLIAMS WAS FOUND lying in a pool of blood on the garage floor of his Laurel Canyon home, ...

Is Jonathan King A Monster, Or Is He Being Monstered?
Comment by Charles Shaar Murray, The Independent, November 2001
PUBLIC MONSTER NUMBER ONE: the space in the media landscape currently occupied by Jonathan King effectively renders him the missing link between Osama bin Laden and ...

Girl Together Outrageously: Pamela Des Barres
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, 2002
IN CASUAL DEFIANCE of the fact that her fifty-fifth birthday looms large, the Marchioness Des Barres positively radiates rude good health and an undeniably disarming beauty ...

Unmasked: "Mick Tucker" and Other Rock Impostors
Report by Chris Charlesworth, Rock's Backpages, March 2002
I NEVER knew Mick Tucker, Sweet’s drummer, who died last week, but I once met a man who impersonated him, or at least pretended he used ...

AUDIO: Phil Kaufman remembers Gram Parsons (2003)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, November 2003
From Mick'n'Keef to Emmylou; from Topanga Canyon to the Joshua Tree: Executive Nanny Phil Kaufman looks back on low lives and high times with Gram Parsons. ...

Pete Doherty And The New Decadence
Comment by Charles Shaar Murray, Independent on Sunday, February 2005
PERHAPS MARC ALMOND put it best: "To me a star is someone who has something extra, and something missing at the same time – flawed ...

Mötley Crüe's Titty-Cam
Report and Interview by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, May 2005
I HAVE JUST SPENT two weeks on the road with Mötley Crüe. Our sweep through Canada and the US Midwest took in Edmonton, Des Moines, Omaha, ...