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John Tobler learns about Slash magazine, Phast Phreddie and more from the Gun Club's Jeffrey Lee Pierce and new guitarist Jim Duckworth (Rock's Backpages Audio, 1983)
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Features and interviews
Fellow pop stars offer their opinions on the Rolling Stones (Beat Instrumental, 1965)
Disc learns about the crank calls being made to Madeline Bell and Dusty Springfield (Disc and Music Echo, 1967)
Tony Barrow profiles so-called "quiet Beatle" George Harrison (Melody Maker, 1968)
Mike Gormley hears the story of psychedelic poster artist Stanley Mouse, in his own words (Detroit Free Press, 1970)
Lillian Roxon drops in on Dionne Warwicke, at home in Maplewood, New Jersey (New York Sunday News, 1972)
Nick Tosches' acerbic profile of country icon Dolly Parton (Village Voice, The, 1974)
Chris Charlesworth in conversation with Bonnie Raitt (Melody Maker, 1976)
Barry Cain gets a rise out of disco deity Sylvester (Record Mirror, 1978)
Mark Williams meets about-to-break L.A. girl band the Go-Go's (LA Weekly, 1980)
J.D. Considine hears of changes afoot in the musical direction of Genesis (Musician, 1982)
Max Bell meets Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Holly Johnson, on tour in America (No. 1, 1984)
Toby Goldstein talks to PiL's belching John Lydon (Creem, 1986)
Chris Heath hears about a few of Kylie Minogue's favourite things (Smash Hits, 1988)
Stephen Dalton discusses 'Doin' the Do' with Betty Boo (New Musical Express, 1990)
David Toop meets Anglo-Indian princess Sheila Chandra (Times, The, 1992)
Paul Zollo hunts down Grant Lee Buffalo (Musician, 1994)
Jarvis rising: Andy Gill profiles Pulp (Q, 1994)
Dave Simpson meets Messrs. Marr and Sumner of super-duo Electronic (Guardian, The, 1996)
Steven Wells meets "hot-blooded hetero rawk muthas" Korn, holed up in a Dallas hotel (New Musical Express, 1998)
Edwin Pouncey meets "galactic guitarist" Tisziji Muñoz (Wire, The, 2000)
Adam Sweeting meets eccentric "microstar" John Otway (Guardian, The, 2002)
Kieron Tyler discusses Traffic, Blind Faith and Vivian Stanshall with Steve Winwood (MOJO, 2004)
Everett True obtains a rare audience with '80s enigmas Young Marble Giants (Plan B, 2006)
Paul Lester hears about 40 years of songs and productions from Todd Rundgren (Record Collector, 2008)
Jack Barron talks to former members of French psych-prog freaks Gong (Record Collector, 2010)
Rob Hughes ascertains the fave music, films and books of former Bow Wow Wow singer Annabella Lwin (Word, The, 2012)
Bill DeYoung meets married banjo innovators Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn (Connect Savannah, 2014)
Stranger to stranger: Alan Light puts a few questons to Paul Simon (MOJO, 2016)
David Burke marks the return of '80s 'Breakout' stars Swing Out Sister (Classic Pop, 2018)
Wyndham Wallace meets returning cult heroes It's Immaterial (Guardian, The, 2020)
Album & Live Reviews
Penny Valentine witnesses riotous scenes as the Walker Brothers top a pop bill at East Ham's Granada (Disc and Music Echo, 1966)
Philip Elwood is revived by the Grateful Dead's Live/Dead (San Francisco Examiner, The, 1969)
Richard Cromelin gets into the (Western) swing with Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, live at L.A.'s Ash Grove (Los Angeles Times, 1971)
Andrew Tyler checks into Procol Harum's Grand Hotel (Disc, 1973)
Vernon Gibbs is perversely fascinated by Led Zeppelin, live at Madison Square Garden (Village Voice, The, 1975)
Roy Carr packs his trunk and boards Emmylou Harris' Luxury Liner (New Musical Express, 1977)
Garry Bushell applauds the eponymous debut by white disco diva Alicia Bridges (Sounds, 1979)
Paul Morley reviews New York neo-instrumentalists the Raybeats, live at London's Rainbow (New Musical Express, 1981)
Betty Page likes the final album release by Brit-funksters Linx (Record Mirror, 1983)
David Sinclair is pleasantly "jolted" by funkateers Cameo, live at the Hammersmith Odeon (Times, The, 1985)
David Quantick delights in the company of the compilation that is Randy Newman's Lonely At The Top (New Musical Express, 1987)
Bob Stanley sees Hurrah! in Scotland (Melody Maker, 1989)
Steven Wells wallows in the unrepentant filth that is 2 Live Crew's Sports Weekend (New Musical Express, 1991)
A towering pillar of nothingness: Jim Sullivan endures AOR bores Asia, live at Boston's Paradise (Boston Globe, The, 1993)
Richard Cromelin muses on the solo debut by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore (Los Angeles Times, 1995)
Robin Bresnark raves about Radiohead, live at Bridlington Spa (Melody Maker, 1997)
Johnny Cigarettes is sneeringly dismissive of Stereolab's Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night (New Musical Express, 1999)
Simon Reynolds enters laptop "mope-rockers" Hood's Cold House (Spin, 2001)
Nick Hasted is flattened by the power of Lift To Experience frontman Josh T. Pearson, solo and live in London (Uncut, 2003)
Dave Simpson sees "gypsy punks" Gogol Bordello, live in Manchester (Guardian, The, 2005)
Bud Scoppa revisits the two albums made by supergroup the Traveling Wilburys (Uncut, 2007)
John Doran appreciates the spirit of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Minehead (Quietus, The, 2009)
Rob Hughes sees Rickie Lee Jones, live in Manchester (Daily Telegraph, 2011)
Terry Staunton is impressed by Mick Harvey's Four (Record Collector, 2013)
Jamie Atkins gives a rave review to Richard King's record-shop memoir Original Rockers (Record Collector, 2015)
Jude Rogers shakes a folkie leg to Judy Dyble and Andy Lewis' Summer Dancing (Guardian, The, 2017)
Andrew Stafford watches a documentary about the Chills' Martin Phillipps (Guardian, The, 2019)
