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Jim Sullivan tries hard not to antagonise the irascible Ginger Baker (Rock's Backpages Audio, 2015)
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Features and interviews
Peter Jones reports on a Mancunian conquest of America featuring Herman's Hermits, Freddie & the Dreamers and Wayne Fontana (Record Mirror, 1965)
Alan Smith catches up with Georgie Fame (New Musical Express, 1965)
A disapproving Dawn James survives a tricky encounter with the Who (Rave, 1966)
Tom Nolan meets the "company freaks" behind L.A.'s new rock "underground" (Los Angeles Times, 1968)
Chris Welch reports on the rise of Reggae (Melody Maker, 1969)
Nancy Lewis reports on the final night of New York's Fillmore East (New Musical Express, 1971)
Robin Katz confers with 'Mrs. Jones' man Billy Paul (Disc, 1973)
Geoff Barton meets a somewhat downbeat Olivia Newton-John (Sounds, 1975)
John Swenson hears about Lowell George's gradual disengagement from Little Feat (Rolling Stone, 1977)
Sandy Robertson sojourns through California in the company of AOR deities Journey (Sounds, 1979)
Richard Cromelin discusses the new 'Ghost Town' with the Specials' Jerry Dammers (Los Angeles Times, 1981)
Laura Fissinger is riveted by Australian pop-rock quintet Divinyls (Creem, 1983)
Fred Schruers talks to Madonna, Rosanna Arquette and director Susan Seidelman about the making of Desperately Seeking Susan (Rolling Stone, 1985)
Howard Johnson meets absurd metal men Manowar (Kerrang!, 1987)
Sean O'Hagan survives a tetchy encounter with rapper Just-Ice (New Musical Express, 1989)
Southbound with rockin' Ronnie Hawkins: Tony Scherman transcribes the reminiscences of Robbie Robertson (Musician, 1991)
Expert witness David Toop examines the implications of putting music on trial for obscenity (Wire, The, 1993)
Andrew Smith is bemused by the Stateside success of Brit grungers Bush (Guardian, The, 1995)
Steven Daly meets "multiplatinum Pollyanna" Jewel in San Diego (Details, 1997)
Steffan Chirazi reports on San Francisco's electronica scene (San Francisco Chronicle, 1999)
Dave Laing & Phil Hardy on Jeff Lynne's post-Move ensemble the Electric Light Orchestra ('Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music', 2001)
Max Bell talks to Todd Rundgren about the Nazz anthology Open Our Eyes (Uncut, 2003)
Stevie Chick chews the fat with Nirvana survivor and Foo Fighter Dave Grohl (MOJO, 2005)
Ian Fortnam recalls a day out at 1978's Rock Against Racism carnival in Hackney (Classic Rock, 2007)
John Lewis checks in with Elbow's Guy Garvey (Hotline, 2009)
James Medd meets artist/boffin/producer Thomas Dolby (Word, The, 2011)
Daryl Easlea hears from singer Barrie Masters about pub-rock protopunks Eddie & the Hot Rods (Spectrum Records, 2012)
Dave Laing pays tribute to chart-topping '50s star Patti "the Singing Rage" Page (Guardian, The, 2013)
Bob Mehr meets late-blooming blues-soul man Robert Finley (Commercial Appeal, The, 2016)
Jude Rogers discusses coal, Brexit and more with her Welsh compatriots Public Service Broadcasting (Guardian, The, 2017)
Jamie Atkins talks about Wilco and Uncle Tupelo with Jeff Tweedy (Record Collector, 2019)
Album & Live Reviews
Norman Jopling checks out new Motown singles by the Supremes and the Isley Brothers (Record Mirror, 1967)
Chris Welch pops his fingers to Lionel Hampton, live at London's Hammersmith Odeon (Melody Maker, 1969)
Rob Partridge approves of Soft Machine's Third (Record Mirror, 1970)
Ray Fox-Cumming reviews not-so-young dudes Mott The Hoople, live at Brighton's Top Rank (Disc, 1972)
Fred Dellar finds himself in Doug Sahm's Groover's Paradise (New Musical Express, 1974)
Richard Williams is impressed by Kool and the Gang, live at the Hammersmith Odeon (Times, The, 1976)
Harry Doherty headbangs to a live album by AC/DC (Melody Maker, 1978)
Mick Middles effusively praises the Fall, live at Manchester Polytechnic (Sounds, 1980)
Lloyd Bradley considers new funk albums by Bootsy Collins and Captain Sky (New Musical Express, 1982)
Geoffrey Himes is overwhelmed by Patti LaBelle, live at Baltimore's Lyric Opera House (Baltimore Sun, 1984)
Roy Trakin digs the "playfulness" of Bob Dylan's Knocked Out Loaded (Musician, 1986)
Don Waller witnesses Tony Joe White, live at L.A.'s Club Lingerie (Los Angeles Times, 1988)
Stephen Dalton is faintly underwhelmed by Volume 3 of Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares (New Musical Express, 1990)
Simon Price is more than persuaded by Prince & the New Power Generation, live in Hamburg (Melody Maker, 1992)
Michele Kirsch considers the eponymous debut album by Canadian country gal Shania Twain (Vox, 1994)
Richard Cromelin is impressed by Me'Shell Ndegéocello, live at L.A.'s Whisky (Los Angeles Times, 1996)
Paul Elliott checks out Fugazi's fifth album End Hits (Q, 1998)
David Toop reviews a biography of tango legend Astor Piazzolla (Wire, The, 2000)
Adam Sweeting pours scorn on Does This Look Infected?, the second album by "infant metal" quartet Sum 41 (Guardian, The, 2002)
Lisa Verrico sees the Darkness stealing the show during the Brit Awards (Times, The, 2004)
Dan Gennoe gets off on the MOR pop of Orson's Bright Idea (dotmusic.co.uk, 2006)
Andrew Mueller talks to Patterson Hood and delights in Drive-By Truckers's Brighter Than Creation's Dark (Uncut, 2008)
Robert Sandall reviews Mark Ribowsky's biography of Motown genius Stevie Wonder (Sunday Times, The, 2010)
Jamie Atkins submits to Swans' To Be Kind (Record Collector, 2014)
Lois Wilson listens to the Smithsonian Folkways Collection of recordings by "human jukebox" Leadbelly (MOJO, 2015)
David Bennun investigates The 1975's Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships (Metro, 2018)
