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Audio Interview
John Tobler discusses Phil Spector, Bruce Springsteen and more with country-folk bard John Prine (Rock's Backpages Audio, 1992)
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Features and interviews
Who's Ringo's seeing? Mike Grant reports on all things Merseybeat (Rave, 1964)
Richard Green discusses the Who's 'My Generation' with its composer Pete Townshend (Record Mirror, 1965)
Loraine Alterman on Janis Ian's controversial 'Society's Child'... plus chats with Jimmy Ruffin and the Supremes (Detroit Free Press, 1966)
A Pop "Think-in" with the marvellous Charlie Watts (Melody Maker, 1967)
Geoffrey Cannon ruminates on the relationship 'twixt rock 'n' religion (Guardian, The, 1969)
Phil Symes talks hits 'n' romance with 'Band of Gold' chart-topper Freda Payne (Disc and Music Echo, 1971)
Loraine Alterman puts her questions to the "rhymin'" Paul Simon (Melody Maker, 1973)
David Hancock traverses Kilburn & the High Roads with lead singer Ian Dury (Record Mirror, 1975)
Dave Marsh talks to Stig Anderson, the man behind ABBA (Rolling Stone, 1977)
Sylvie Simmons gets the scoop on the Sabbath break-up from Ozzy Osbourne (Sounds, 1979)
Jim Sullivan on the phone to Roberta Flack (Boston Globe, The, 1981)
J. Kordosh meets Molly Hatchet mainman Dave Hlubek (Creem, 1983)
Adam Sweeting discusses Fables of the Reconstruction with R.E.M. (Guardian, The, 1985)
Richard Cook befriends Bon Jovi in Mansfield, Massachusetts (Sounds, 1987)
Barbara Ellen has a chat with "Deborah" Harry (and Chris Stein) (New Musical Express, 1989)
Alan Light listens to the street wisdom of rapper Kris "KRS-One" Parker (Rolling Stone, 1991)
Kodwo Eshun recalls Lightnin' Rod's 1973 blaxploitation classic Hustler's Convention (Wire, The, 1993)
Lisa Verrico natters with Noel Gallagher about the making of Oasis' Definitely Maybe (Vox, 1995)
Steven Daly in the studio with Texas and, erm, the Wu-Tang Clan (Face, The, 1997)
Marc Weingarten chats with Steve Malkmus and Scott Kannberg of Pavement (Los Angeles Times, 1999)
Dorian Lynskey elicits the fave tracks (and otherwise) from kaleidoscopic Kelis (Select, 2001)
David Hemingway on the enduring influence of German techno ancestors Kraftwerk (Record Collector, 2003)
Robert Sandall sits down with ex-Spice Girl and "woman on a mission" Geri Halliwell (Sunday Times, The, 2005)
Daryl Easlea's sleevenotes for two non-Blockheads albums by Ian Dury (unpublished, 2007)
Luke Turner's long and wonderful interview with Pet Shop chaps Neil and Chris (Stool Pigeon, The, 2009)
James Medd meets maverick guitarist Marc Ribot (Word, The, 2011)
Alan Light hangs out in New York with a reunited Soundgarden (MOJO, 2013)
Pip Williams discusses What Went Down wiith Foals' Yannis Philippakis (Coup De Main, 2015)
Lois Wilson speaks to former Kink and "molten riff pioneer" Dave Davies (MOJO, 2017)
Geoffrey Himes meets ever-so-literary Dubliners Fontaines D.C. (Paste, 2019)
Album & Live Reviews
Guest reviewer Paul McCartney on Hendrix's 'Purple Haze' and other new singles (Melody Maker, 1967)
Not enough "writhing": Ann Moses sees Jimi Hendrix, live at the Anaheim Convention Center (New Musical Express, 1968)
Lon Goddard on the "bloodshot emotion" of Frank Sinatra's Watertown (Record Mirror, 1970)
Ray Fox-Cumming admires Mott The Hoople's All The Young Dudes (Disc, 1972)
Happy Traum is "stoned to his soul" by Van Morrison, live at New York's Felt Forum (Rolling Stone, 1974)
Rob Partridge checks out a pair of Willie Nelson reissues (Melody Maker, 1976)
Richard Williams passes judgement on George Benson, iive at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (Times, The, 1978)
Nick Kent picks up on Robert Palmer's Clues (New Musical Express, 1980)
Mark Leviton sees the pre-Bangles Bangs, live at Al's Bar (Music Connection, 1982)
Laura Fissinger hears Battle Hymns For Children Singing by Brit "fashion 'n' dance" duo Haysi Fantayzee (Creem, 1984)
Sean O'Hagan witnesses an all-too-short set by George Jones, live at the Wembley Country Festival (New Musical Express, 1986)
Chris Welch catches Supertramp, live at the Royal Albert Hall (Kerrang!, 1988)
Evelyn McDonnell hears the tolling of the Chills' Submarine Bells (Spin, 1990)
Ian Gittins is unconvinced by Infinite Guitarist Michael Brook, live at London Zoo's Aquarium (Melody Maker, 1992)
Michele Kirsch is wowed by Kathy Mattea's Walking Away A Winner (Vox, 1994)
Paul Moody sees the Sultans of Ping FC, live at Paris' Le Zenith (New Musical Express, 1996)
Marc Weingarten takes the elevator to Massive Attack's Mezzanine (Los Angeles Times, 1998)
Holly George-Warren reaches for nouvelle vague analogies in her review of the Go-Betweens' comeback album (Rolling Stone, 2000)
Jim Sullivan sees Bryan Ferry, live at Boston's Orpheum Theatre (Boston Globe, The, 2002)
Chris Roberts is dazzled by Flaming Lips, live at the Hammersmith Apollo (Uncut, 2004)
Lois Wilson hails the reissue of an eponymous 1971 debut album by former Action singer Reg King (MOJO, 2006)
Paul Elliott parses four DVDs of live, Morse-era Deep Purple (Classic Rock, 2008)
Gavin Martin tips his hat to the "unaffected individuality" of Lissie's Catching A Tiger (Uncut, 2010)
James Medd muses on the role of the violin on new albums by Andrew Bird and the Dirty Three (Word, The, 2012)
Simon Price salutes Do to the Beast, the Afghan Whigs' first album in 16 years (Q, 2014)
Stephen Dalton loves Lianne La Havas, live at the Albert Hall (Times, The, 2016)
Dave Simpson is slayed by a "blend of intense rhythms and sarcastic banter" as he watches neo-postpunks Shame, live in Leeds (Guardian, The, 2018)
Jasper Murison-Bowie at the dystopian cyberpunk fairground: electro-swingers Caravan Palace, live in Brixton (Rock's Backpages, 2020)
