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John Tobler talks to younger sibling Phil about the Everly Brothers (Rock's Backpages Audio, 1983)
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Features and interviews
Chris Welch takes tea with Sonny & Cher (Melody Maker, 1965)
Derek Taylor in impassioned defence of the drug-busted Rolling Stones (Disc and Music Echo, 1967)
Alan Smith hangs out in London with West Coast boogie merchants Canned Heat (New Musical Express, 1968)
Following the deaths of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, Lillian Roxon reports on hard drugs in rock (Sydney Morning Herald, the, 1970)
Phil Symes is taken there by Pops Staples (Disc, 1972)
John Swenson gets a Fusion manifesto from Chick Corea (Zoo World, 1974)
Richard Cromelin in conversation with Bob Seger (Los Angeles Times, 1976)
Robert Duncan fantasises about the aftermath of KIϟϟ (Rock Scene, 1978)
Ronnie Gurr hangs out in Holland with Motörhead (Record Mirror, 1980)
Johnny Black meets the men behind the new phenomenon of the pop video (Smash Hits, 1982)
Don Waller meets the Time's Morris Day (LA Weekly, 1984)
Chris Heath's encounter with absurd Austrian Falco (Smash Hits, 1986)
Len Brown listens to punk-folk politicos The Men They Couldn't Hang (New Musical Express, 1988)
Holly Gleason talks turkey with country star Travis Tritt (Hits, 1990)
Nicholas Jennings has a natter with Pakistan's Qawwali master Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Toronto Star, 1992)
Jon Young discusses The Red Shoes with its maker Kate Bush (Musician, 1994)
Caitlin Moran predicts the demise of boy bands like Take That (Times, The, 1996)
Tony Scherman is vexed at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's exclusion of legendary session musicians (New York Times, The, 1998)
Mike Barnes learns about "the curious universe of outsider music" from WFMU's Irwin Chusid (Wire, The, 2001)
Precious Williams hears about "skimpy outfits" and superstardom from Norah Jones (New York Magazine, 2003)
Dave Simpson speaks to Hayseed Dixie's Guardian-reading Barley Scotch (Guardian, The, 2005)
Deanne Stillman remembers her friend the L.A. metal DJ Tawn Mastrey (L.A. Observed, 2007)
Kandia Crazy Horse is seduced by the Californian dreamin' of Jonathan Wilson's Gentle Spirit (San Francisco Bay Guardian, 2009)
Alan Light reports on Danger Mouse's spaghetti-western supergroup Rome (Relix, 2011)
Kate Mossman meets Midlands-born MC Lady Leshurr (Guardian, The, 2013)
Carl Wiser hears about Rags & Classics, Rockpile and more from Dave Edmunds (Songfacts, 2015)
Geoffrey Himes hears from African-Americana star Valerie June (Paste, 2017)
David Burke rewinds through the filmic and televisual c.v. of rock'n'roll wildman Jerry Lee Lewis (Vintage Rock, 2019)
Joel McIver remembers House DJ/producer legend Erick Morillo (Guardian, The, 2020)
Album & Live Reviews
Beat Instrumental admires the Walker Brothers' Portrait (Beat Instrumental, 1966)
Philip Elwood sees Jethro Tull and the MC5, live at the Fillmore West (San Francisco Examiner, The, 1969)
Richard Green takes a safari around Wings' Wild Life (New Musical Express, 1971)
Jim Esposito trudges through a Florida swamp to see the Allman Brothers, Edgar Winter... and Roxy Music! (Rock, 1973)
Wayne Robins ducks Bad Company's Straight Shooter (Village Voice, The, 1975)
Barry Cain sees Kenny Rogers and Crystal Gayle, live in Dublin (Record Mirror, 1977)
Stephen Demorest is at right-angles to Blondie's Parallel Lines (Rock Scene, 1979)
Betty Page sees cult Athenians Pylon, live at London's Moonlight Club (Sounds, 1981)
Pop vs. Jazz? J.D. Considine passes judgement on Al's Jarreau (Musician, 1983)
David Sinclair witnesses Bobby Womack at Hammersmith Odeon (Times, The, 1985)
Sean O'Hagan admires the fire in That Petrol Emotion's Babble (New Musical Express, 1987)
Racism on show: Richard Cromelin sees Stones support acts Living Colour and Guns N' Roses (Los Angeles Times, 1989)
Points deducted for homophobia: Dele Fadele on Tippa Irie's Original Raggamuffin (New Musical Express, 1991)
Amy Linden witnesses an evening of "thrusting pelvises" headlined by LL Cool J and Naughty by Nature (New York Daily News, 1993)
Lisa Verrico is consumed by Therapy?'s Infernal Love (Vox, 1995)
Caroline Sullivan sees Soul Coughing, live at Bristol's Fleece and Firkin (Guardian, The, 1997)
Andy Crysell considers Jay-Z's Volume 2... Hard Knock Life (New Musical Express, 1999)
Dave Simpson sees poppified folkie Eliza Carthy, live in Manchester (Guardian Unlimited, 2000)
Will Hermes hears the "supremely dainty-ass achievement" that is Beck's Sea Change (Spin, 2002)
Johnny Black reviews a batch of reissues by Japanese electropop trailblazers Yellow Magic Orchestra (MOJO, 2004)
Pete Paphides listens to London MC Derek "Sway" Asafo's This is my Demo (Times, The, 2006)
Lucy O'Brien hears the soulful, street-wise debut by Tottenham chanteuse Adele (MOJO, 2008)
Bob Ruggiero reviews Joel McIver's biography of fraternal Nashville renegades Kings Of Leon (Houston Press, 2010)
John Calvert sees rapper Angel Haze, live in super-hip Hoxton (Quietus, The, 2012)
Frances Morgan hears lost music by avant-psychedelicists Chrome (Wire, The, 2014)
Andrew Stafford approves of former Bad Seed Mick Harvey's return to the songs of Serge Gainsbourg (Guardian, The, 2016)
Stevie Chick hails the return-to-form that is Van Morrison's Prophet Speaks (Metro, 2018)
Jude Rogers is impressed by the autobiography of icy electro-pop star Gary Numan (Observer, The, 2020)
