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Adam Sweeting in conversation with Rosanne Cash (Rock's Backpages Audio, 2014)
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Features and interviews
Geoffrey Cannon defends the right of teenagers to enjoy "pop music" (New Society, 1963)
Strip clubs? Never go to them! David Griffiths quizzes Cliff Richard (Record Mirror, 1964)
Maureen Cleave is charmed by folk heroine Joan Baez (Detroit Free Press, 1965)
Dawn James talks to Small Face Steve Marriott (Rave, 1966)
Royston Eldridge meets Wet Dreamer Max Romeo (Melody Maker, 1969)
Lon Goddard takes a critical look at the British underground press (Billboard, 1971)
Andrew Bailey hears about the lost years of recovering junkie Marianne Faithfull (Rolling Stone, 1973)
Karl Dallas cruises the autobahn with "synthetic rockers" Kraftwerk (Melody Maker, 1975)
In Part 2 of Dave Schulps' monumental interview, Jimmy Page looks back at the Yardbirds (Trouser Press, 1977)
Mighty real: Cliff White profiles disco icon Sylvester (Smash Hits, 1979)
Geoffrey Himes on the "black rock'n'roll" of Prince and Funkadelic (Baltimore Sun, 1981)
Paul Morley grapples with proto-Trans pop star Marilyn (New Musical Express, 1983)
Ben Fong-Torres meets the post-rehab Natalie Cole (San Francisco Chronicle, 1985)
Rob Tannenbaum hears about the troubled gestation of Def Leppard's Hysteria (Rolling Stone, 1987)
Adam Sweeting transcribes a heavily-italicised interview with super-diva Liza Minnelli (Guardian, The, 1989)
Max Bell visits Brighton to interview Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie (Vox, 1991)
Tom Doyle reports on the recording of Curve's Cuckoo (Melody Maker, 1993)
Dele Fadele has breakfast in the Bowery with Def Jam boss Russell Simmons (New Musical Express, 1995)
From Live Aid to the Michael Hutchence affair: Sean O'Hagan on the decanonization of "Saint" Bob Geldof (Observer, The, 1997)
Stephen Dalton meets Japanese electronicist Cornelius (Uncut, 1999)
Dave Laing and Phil Hardy on the gal that just wanted to have fun... Ms. Cyndi Lauper ('Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music', 2001)
Caitlin Moran recalls her very first Glastonbury festival (Times, The, 2003)
Everett True talks transgression with the legendary Lydia Lunch (Plan B, 2005)
Jon Wilde interviews the reliably outrageous Lily Allen (Uncut, 2007)
Nick Hasted revisits the turbulent birth of Dinosaur Jr's 'Freak Scene' (Uncut, 2009)
Rob Hughes chats to legendary New York scenester/singer/publicist Cherry Vanilla (Uncut, 2011)
Jon Savage looks back on a Rolling Stone encounter 'twixt David Bowie and William Burroughs (Guardian, The, 2013)
Bob Fisher's unpublished sleevenotes for a 3-CD compilation of New Jersey soulsters the Moments greatest hits (unpublished, 2015)
David Burke discusses the British black experience with jazz legend Courtney Pine (All About Jazz, 2017)
Album & Live Reviews
Max Jones says yes to the Reverend Gary Davis' Say No To The Devil (Melody Maker, 1967)
Alan Smith catches Roy Orbison, live at London's Talk Of The Town (New Musical Express, 1968)
John Mendelsohn is uncharacteristically positive in a live review of Neil Young & Crazy Horse (Los Angeles Times, 1970)
Penny Valentine is intrigued by the solo debut from soul songwriter Valerie Simpson (Sounds, 1972)
Harvey Kubernik is impressed by Jeff Lynne's ELO, live at L.A.'s Shrine Auditorium (Melody Maker, 1974)
David Hepworth is entranced by the eponymous Joan Armatrading (New Musical Express, 1976)
Susin Shapiro sees the "last" Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers show at Max's Kansas City (Village Voice, The, 1978)
Giovanni Dadomo sizes up the debut album by the Psychedelic Furs (Sounds, 1980)
Jim Sullivan is blown away by James Blood Ulmer, live in Boston (Boston Globe, The, 1982)
Adam Sweeting doesn't entirely warm to U2's Unforgettable Fire (Melody Maker, 1984)
Richard Cromelin walks this way to Run-D.M.C.'s Raising Hell (Los Angeles Times, 1986)
Barbara Ellen catches the Lydia Lunch-fronted Harry Crews, live at London's Mean Fiddler (New Musical Express, 1988)
Mark Cooper considers Ice Cube's AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (Q, 1990)
Simon Price swoons to Suede, live at Camden's Underworld (Melody Maker, 1992)
Joel Selvin lounges around in Esquivel's Space-Age Bachelor Pad (San Francisco Chronicle, 1994)
Caroline Sullivan enjoys the banter of Chris de Burgh, live at Hampton Court Palace (Guardian, The, 1996)
Andy Gill takes issue with the creative (re)direction on Bonnie Raitt's Fundamental (MOJO, 1998)
Edwin Pouncey praises avant-axemeister Derek Bailey's String Theory (Wire, The, 2000)
Marc Weingarten is wild about support act Slum Village but unconvinced by Afrika Bambaataa (Los Angeles Times, 2002)
Stevie Chick delights in soulful Detroit garage rockers the Dirtbombs, live in Brighton (Plan B, 2004)
Bob Mehr's got live if he wants it: the Rolling Stones at Chicago's United Center (MOJO, 2006)
Andrew Mueller takes George Jones' Grand Tour (Uncut, 2008)
Dorian Lynskey dismisses Christopher Andersen's biography of Mick Jagger (Guardian, The, 2012)
Will Hermes sifts through some re-recorded demos by Stevie Nicks (Rolling Stone, 2014)
Andy Gill loves the "live motherlode" that is the Velvet Underground's Complete Matrix Tapes (Uncut, 2016)
Tim Cooper is impressed by Brigid Mae Power's first London sellout (Louder Than War, 2018)
