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Goodbye to love: John Tobler looks back in depth with Richard Carpenter (Rock's Backpages Audio, 1989)
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Features and interviews
A sceptical Maureen Cleave meets the high-minded Peter, Paul and Mary (The Evening Standard, 1963)
Chris Welch hangs on to the coat-tails of a barnstorming James Brown (Melody Maker, 1966)
Pete Johnson hears about Vegas, and kitchen plans, from Mama Cass Elliott (Los Angeles Times, 1968)
Alan Smith meets songwriters Errol Brown and Tony Wilson of Hot Chocolate (New Musical Express, 1970)
Going solo: Andrew Tyler catches up with horn-blower Dick Heckstall-Smith (Disc, 1972)
Judith Sims enjoys the company of Maria Muldaur (Rolling Stone, 1974)
Ed Jones investigates the collapse of the college rock circuit (Melody Maker, 1976)
John Abbey gets the P-Funk story from George Clinton (Blues & Soul, 1976)
Wayne Robins discusses The Last Waltz with the Band's Robbie Robertson (Newsday, 1978)
John Tobler talks to Jeff Beck (New Music News, 1980)
Mick Sinclair gets the raw material from Felt (Sounds, 1982)
Karen Schlosberg catches up with Tracey Ullman (Creem, 1984)
Brian Case on the ragged life of the great Art Pepper (Melody Maker, 1986)
Gene Santoro elicits the musical philosophy of Henry Threadgill (Pulse!, 1988)
No Anthonys: David Nathan talks to Tony! Toni! Toné!'s Dwayne Wiggins (Blues & Soul, 1990)
On psychedelics and dance: Helen Mead meets the Shamen's Colin Angus (i-D, 1992)
Dele Fadele digs deep with Massive Attack (New Musical Express, 1994)
A transcript of Andy Gill's 1994 interview with rapper Ice-T (Rock's Backpages, 1994)
David Sinclair befriends Alanis Morissette (The Times, 1996)
2 Kool 2 Be...: Bob Ruggiero interviews Lucinda Williams (Houston Press, 1998)
Jeff Calvin meets Austin bluesman W.C. Clark (Blues Revue, 2002)
A transcription of Adam Sweeting's 2004 interview with guitarist Slash (Rock's Backpages, 2004)
John Lewis explores the history of musicians at art schools (London Calling: High Art and Low Life Since 1968, 2008)
Stephen Dalton talks to Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner about the last days of Joy Division (Uncut, 2010)
Alan Light hears about a Hurricane Sandy fundraiser from Neil Young (MSN.com, 2012)
Michael Simmons visits Jorma Kaukonen's Psylodelic Gallery (Huffington Post, 2013)
Mitchell Cohen explores early '70s live soul albums (Music Aficionado, 2016)
Adrian Deevoy hears about Kim Wilde's highs and lows (Event Magazine, 2020)
David Burke starts at the beginning of the Beatles story with The Quarrymen (Vintage Rock Presents The Beatles: The Early Years, 2022)
Album & Live Reviews
Pete Johnson sees former Rising Son Taj Mahal at LA's Ash Grove (Los Angeles Times, 1967)
Paul Nelson chooses not to participate in the Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet (Hullabaloo, 1969)
Philip Elwood is richly entertained by an East Bay performance from Zydeco king Clifton Chenier (The San Francisco Examiner, 1971)
Richard Williams toasts along to Big Youth's Screaming Target (Melody Maker, 1973)
Miles at London's Nashville to catch salsa supremo Héctor Lavoe (New Musical Express, 1975)
Stephen Demorest won't be chasing Thin Lizzy's Johnny the Fox (Circus, 1977)
A sceptical David Hepworth sees Rachel Sweet play Dingwalls (Sounds, 1979)
John Abbey can't get enough of Luther Vandross' Never Too Much (Blues & Soul, 1981)
Cath Carroll at Manchester's Haçienda to see Violent Femmes (New Musical Express, 1983)
Less art, please: Paul Sexton reviews Teena Marie's Starchild (Record Mirror, 1985)
Paul Mathur is appalled by live Jesus & Mary Chain (Melody Maker, 1987)
Jeff Lorez in underwhelmed by Biz Markie's The Biz Never Sleeps (Blues & Soul, 1989)
Ian Watson is invigorated by EMF at the Marquee (Melody Maker, 1991)
James Hunter obtains great joy from P.M. Dawn's The Bliss Album...? (Rolling Stone, 1993)
John L. Walters previews Bill Frisell playing Buster Keaton (The Guardian, 1994)
Keith Cameron in Glasgow to see teen throbs East 17 (New Musical Express, 1995)
James Hunter fizzes to U2's Pop (Spin, 1997)
Paul Sexton braves tear gas at the Brixton Academy to see R&B lads Dru Hill (The Times, 1999)
Lisa Verrico is deeply disappointed by Busta Rhymes' It Ain't Safe No More (The Times, 2003)
Jon Newey is blown away by Jeff Beck at Ronnie Scott's (Jazzwise, 2007)
Rob Hughes heralds The Delines' The Imperial (Uncut, 2019)
Stephen Dalton catches electro-pop collective Caribou live in Brixton (The Times, 2021)
