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Barney Hoskyns talks Laurel Canyon and more with former Warner Bros. boss Joe Smith (Rock's Backpages Audio, 2003)
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Features and interviews
June Harris on the blower to Bobby Vee (Disc, 1962)
Peter Jones on the "chicks" flying high in the charts, including Millie, Cilla Black and Gigliola Cinquetti (Record Mirror, 1964)
Keith Altham greets the Kinks at London Airport (New Musical Express, 1965)
A Beat-reading Supremes fan rails against "repulsive" hippies (KRLA Beat, 1967)
Royston Eldridge discusses 'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da' with Marmalade (Melody Maker, 1968)
Predictably grumpy: Richard Green meets Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore (New Musical Express, 1971)
Richard Goldstein's fond tribute to Australian-in-New-York rock scribe Lillian Roxon (New York Times, The, 1973)
Part 2 of Robin Katz's exhaustive interview with folk-rock siren Judy Collins (Sounds, 1975)
Dave Marsh finds worthy successors to the MC5 and New York Dolls in the Sex Pistols (Rolling Stone, 1977)
Phil Sutcliffe survives a raucous encounter with AC/DC (Sounds, 1979)
Richard Cromelin reports on L.A. supermarkets banning Rolling Stone's John Lennon memorial issue (Los Angeles Times, 1981)
Richard Riegel spends a Cleveland evening with Stiv Bator(s) of Lord of the New Church (Creem, 1983)
Paolo Hewitt searches for the soul of Luther Vandross (New Musical Express, 1985)
On the 10th anniversary of the King's death, Mat Snow visits Elvis Presley's Graceland (Sounds, 1987)
Lucy O'Brien on the Creature(s) comforts of Siouxsie Sioux (Guardian, The, 1989)
Jim Sullivan celebrates the enduring grunge of Neil Young's loyal sidekicks Crazy Horse (Boston Globe, The, 1991)
Tough questions, anodyne answers: Tom Doyle fails to provoke Boyz II Men (Smash Hits, 1993)
Lisa Verrico interviews emergent superstar DJs the Chemical Brothers (Vox, 1995)
Dance of death: Peter Silverton tells the sobering story behind the Village People's gay anthem 'YMCA' (Observer, The, 1997)
Andy Crysell hitches a crazy ride to the Homelands fest with Regular Fries (New Musical Express, 1999)
The Faber Encyclpoedia entry on jazz-rock guitar genius John McLaughlin ('Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music', 2001)
Richard Williams marks the passing of blue-eyed soul Brit Robert Palmer (Guardian, The, 2003)
Everett True has a long backstage chat with Franz Ferdinand (Plan B, 2005)
Ahead of Led Zeppelin's mighty O2 reunion, Alan Light puts some questions to Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones (MSN.com, 2007)
Robert Sandall on "America's other first couple": Beyoncé and Jay-Z (Sunday Times, The, 2009)
David Hepworth discusses songwriting with Paul Simon (Word, The, 2011)
Bob Ruggiero looks back on the Zombies with singer Colin Blunstone (Houston Press, 2013)
David Laing's overview of the genre Pete Townshend dubbed "Power Pop" (I Like Your Old Stuff, 2017)
Album & Live Reviews
"Wolliphant" or "ephus"? The Four Tops partake in a Blind Date with this week's new singles (Melody Maker, 1966)
John Mendelssohn enjoys an evening at L.A.'s Magic Circus headlined by Joe Cocker and Big Mama Thornton (Los Angeles Times, 1969)
Geoffrey Cannon wakes up to Bob Dylan's New Morning (Guardian, The, 1970)
Bowie on backing vox: Ray Fox-Cumming catches "young dudes" Mott the Hoople, live at Guildford's City Hall (Disc, 1972)
Fred Dellar basks in Thelma Houston's Sunshower (New Musical Express, 1974)
Richard Cromelin is slightly unconvinced by the Meters, live at the Troubadour (Los Angeles Times, 1976)
Richard C. Walls checks out Chet Baker's You Can't Go Home Again (Creem, 1978)
Mick Brown is impressed by Robert Palmer, live at London's Dominion (Guardian, The, 1980)
Richard Cook is turned off by Thomas Dolby's The Golden Age Of Wireless (New Musical Express, 1982)
Geoffrey Himes witnesses a typically flamboyant live show by Elton John (Baltimore Sun, 1984)
Mark Rowland rather approves of Miles Davis' Tutu (Musician, 1986)
Edwin Pouncey is pounded into submission by Henry Rollins, live at London's Mean Fiddler (New Musical Express, 1988)
Caroline Sullivan is slightly deflated by Monie Love's Down To Earth (Smash Hits, 1990)
Richard Cromelin is distinctly taken with New Country chanteuse Trisha Yearwood, live in Santa Ana (Los Angeles Times, 1992)
Andrew Mueller detects old problems on the Violent Femmes' New Times (New Musical Express, 1994)
Ian Watson sees Sebadoh, live at London's King's College (Melody Maker, 1996)
Lucy O'Brien listens to MC Lyte's Badder Than B-fore (Q, 1998)
Toby Manning is lukewarm on the "not terribly New Forms" that is (Roni Size's) Reprazent's In the Mode (Select, 2000)
Richard Gehr rounds up a bunch of Funkadelic reissues (Blender, 2002)
Paul Lester talks to Spirit's 81-year-old former drummer Ed Cassidy and reviews the amazing Spirit of '76 (Uncut, 2004)
David Hepworth offers a money-back guarantee if you aren't wowed by cult songsmith Willie Nile's Streets Of New York (Word, The, 2006)
Andrew Mueller listens to Lucinda Williams' love-struck Little Honey (Uncut, 2008)
John Calvert passes judgement on a solo offering from the Pixies' Black Francis (Quietus, The, 2010)
Andy Gill embraces the Roots-produced Betty Wright – The Movie (Independent, The, 2012)
Jamie Atkins welcomes Sharon Van Etten's "defiantly wounded, melodically gorgeous" Are We There (Record Collector, 2014)
Jude Rogers revels in the "electrifying voice" and "sense of fun" displayed by Björk, live at London's Royal Albert Hall (Guardian, The, 2016)
David Burke delights in Dionne Warwick, live at Birmingham's Town Hall (Classic Pop, 2018)
Colin Harper looks back with folk-guitar legend John Renbourn and singing partner Dorris Henderson (Guardian, The, 2019)
