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John Tobler rounds up surviving Doors trio Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger and John Densmore (Rock's Backpages Audio, 1983)
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Features and interviews
On the eve of his British tour, Max Jones chats to a monosyllablic Bob Dylan (Melody Maker, 1965)
Maureen O'Grady goes where the Action is (Rave, 1966)
Michael Lydon talks to Johnny Cash in Texas (The New York Times, 1969)
Richard Williams checks in with former Love drummer "Snoopy" Pfisterer (Melody Maker, 1971)
The second of Lillian Roxon's two reports from the Rolling Stones' Australian tour (New York Sunday News, 1973)
Kevin Allen keeps on truckin' with Eddie Kendricks (Record Mirror, 1975)
Mick Brown drops in on a recording session by gargantuan Greek Demis Roussos (Rolling Stone, 1977)
Ian Penman meets the crew at the beating heart of Rough Trade Records (New Musical Express, 1979)
Betty Page discusses cults with Department S (Sounds, 1981)
Ian Birch says hello to Hall & Oates in freezing Poughkeepsie, NY (Smash Hits, 1983)
Deanne Pearson meets pop's tailor-to-the-stars Chris Ruocco (No. 1, 1985)
David Nathan enjoys a natter with jazz-soul "songstress" Anita Baker (Blues & Soul, 1987)
Adam Sweeting discusses the Stones with a slightly sloshed Keith Richards (The Guardian, 1989)
Tom Doyle longs to know about Kylie Minogue's love life (Smash Hits, 1991)
Amy Linden reports on P-Funk's keyboard deity Bernie Worrell as he joins the Letterman band (New York Daily News, 1993)
Paul Elliott has a drink or several with Reef (Kerrang!, 1995)
Paul Sexton meets Mariah Carey (The Times, 1997)
Tom Cox attends an excruciating playback and media-only show by The Artist Formerly Known as Prince (The Guardian, 1999)
Larry Jaffee hears about Palm Pictures from former Island supremo Chris Blackwell (Medialine, 2000)
Tim Cooper talks to the foreign stars who play for expats in London (The Independent, 2006)
Andria Lisle listens in on a conversation between Mick Hucknall and his vocal mentor Bobby "Blue" Bland (MOJO, 2008)
Alex Ogg talks about Talk Talk Talk with brothers/Psychedelic Furs Richard and Tim Butler (The Quietus, 2010)
Alan Light hears about the new Americana from Neil Young (MSN.com, 2012)
Phil Sutcliffe on how David Bowie "saved the day" at Live Aid (Q, 2013)
Bob Ruggiero discusses the history of southern rock with author Scott B. Bomar (Houston Press, 2014)
Wayne Robins revisits Oasis's What's the Story? (Copper, 2020)
Album & Live Reviews
Beat Instrumental digs a live album by the Four Tops (Beat Instrumental, 1967)
Lon Goddard sees Scott Walker, Terry Reid & the Love Affair live (Record Mirror, 1968)
Disc disappears up Rod Stewart's Gasoline Alley (Disc and Music Echo, 1970)
They've got a friend: Philip Elwood rates Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway, live in Berkeley (The San Francisco Examiner, 1972)
Colin Irwin salutes Steeleye Span's Now We Are Six (Melody Maker, 1974)
Barry Cain sweats to the sound of AC/DC, live at London's Hammersmith Odeon (Record Mirror, 1976)
Cliff White passes indulgent judgement on Johnny Guitar Watson's Funk Beyond The Call Of Duty (New Musical Express, 1978)
Richard Cromelin catches an unlikely L.A. show by Sheffield's Cabaret Voltaire (Los Angeles Times, 1980)
Mark Leviton loves the Angry Samoans' ultra-snotty Back From Samoa (Music Connection, 1982)
Richard Cook is mesmerised by Miles Davis, live at London's Festival Hall (New Musical Express, 1984)
Byron Coley's fabulously vulgar "review" of Madonna's True Blue (LA Weekly, 1986)
Simon Reynolds is pretty savage about the Darling Buds, live at Fulham's Greyhound (Melody Maker, 1988)
Arthur Baker's dozen: Stephen Dalton won't post bail for the Criminal Element Orchestra's Locked Up (New Musical Express, 1990)
David Sinclair is unconvinced by En Vogue, live in Hammersmith (The Times, 1992)
Richard Cromelin takes the measure of the Rollins Band's Weight (Los Angeles Times, 1994)
Paul Moody reviews the Boo Radleys at the Kilburn National (New Musical Express, 1996)
Tom Cox welcomes a reissue of the Jungle Brothers' seminal Straight Out Of The Jungle (The Guardian, 1998)
Rob Hughes revels in the fourth album by Giant Sand's "twisted country cousin" the Band of Blacky Ranchette (Uncut, 2003)
Sylvie Simmons sees Little Richard et al., live at Austin's SXSW festival (MOJO, 2004)
Gavin Martin welcomes ex-Creedence leader John Fogerty's Revival (Uncut, 2007)
Stevie Chick praises Popular Songs, the twelfth album by Yo La Tengo (bbc.co.uk, 2009)
Luke Turner is disappointed by the "blues homage" that is Chris Rea's Santo Spirito Blues (bbc.co.uk, 2011)
Jamie Atkins likes Low's Ones And Sixes (Record Collector, 2015)
Andrew Stafford applies the word "masterpiece" to the eponymous Jen Cloher (The Guardian, 2017)
David Bennun declines to succumb to the "heart-on-sleeve power-balladeering" of Lewis Capaldi's debut album (Metro, 2019)
