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John Tobler hears the tangled history of Fairport Convention from co-founder Simon Nicol (Rock's Backpages Audio, 1991)
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Features and interviews
Max Jones previews the Spiritual & Gospel package tour (Melody Maker, 1965)
Maureen O'Grady reports on Flower Power (Rave, 1967)
Alan Smith struggles to get much out of 'Israelites' chart-topper Desmond Dekker (New Musical Express, 1969)
Fillmores closing, festival disasters: Lillian Roxon on the rise of the riotous audience (Sydney Morning Herald, the, 1971)
Peter Jones reports from Jamaica on the sessions for the Stones' Goats Head Soup (Record Mirror, 1973)
Roger St. Pierre meets a somewhat less-than-liberated Gloria Gaynor (New Musical Express, 1975)
Susin Shapiro catches up with the elusive J.J. Cale (The Village Voice, 1977)
Sandy Robertson chats with Cheap Trick, backstage at the Reading Festival (Sounds, 1979)
Julie Panebianco reports on the New York fiasco that was the Clash's shows at Bond's International Casino (Boston Rock, 1981)
Don Waller in conversation with "funk gangster" George Clinton (LA Weekly, 1983)
Paul Sexton salutes Colonel Abrams (Record Mirror, 1985)
David Sinclair welcomes the return of Elkie Brooks (The Times, 1987)
Howard Johnson takes tea with W.A.S.P.'s Blackie Lawless (Kerrang!, 1989)
Rob Tannenbaum reports on the challenges of promoting rap in New York City (The New York Times, 1991)
Steven Wells heads to Texas in the company of Stereo MCs (New Musical Express, 1993)
Dave DiMartino meets the Meat Puppets (Musician, 1995)
Neil Mason boards the tour bus to befriend Lo-Fidelity Allstars (Melody Maker, 1997)
Caitlin Moran on the blower to Britney Spears (The Times, 1999)
Ian Penman pays tribute to "rogue" producer-composer-sideman Jack Nitzsche (The Wire, 2000)
Dave Simpson reports on kid-friendly versions of punk classics (The Guardian, 2002)
Alan Clayson tells the story of singer-turned-producer-turned-mogul Michael "Mickie Most" Hayes (unpublished, 2004)
Robin Guthrie recalls the beginning and end of the Cocteau Twins (MOJO, 2006)
Paul Elliott witnesses the unravelling of Amy Winehouse, just about live in Birmingham (MOJO, 2008)
Pete Paphides hears the bruising tales of Ben Drew, a.k.a. Plan B (The Times, 2010)
On the eve of the band's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Alan LIght chats with former Faces Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones (Relix, 2012)
Simon Price hears about the Pretenders, PETA and more from Chrissie Hynde (The Quietus, 2014)
Vivien Goldman on writing the Cherchez La Femme musical with August "Kid Creole" Darnell (The Guardian, 2016)
Simon Reynolds traces the history of Auto-Tune (Pitchfork, 2018)
Jude Rogers discusses radio and Uncut Gems with Daniel Lopatin, a.k.a. Oneohtrix Point Never (The Guardian, 2020)
Album & Live Reviews
Penny Valentine checks out the week's new singles... including Percy Sledge's 'When A Man Loves A Woman' (Disc and Music Echo, 1966)
Philip Elwood listens to Larry Coryell, live at Sausalito's Trident (The San Francisco Examiner, 1968)
Disc is impressed by Black Sabbath's Paranoid (Disc, 1970)
Gary Lucas listens to Family, live at New Haven Arena's last-ever show (Yale Daily News, 1972)
Wayne Robins' expectations are met by Stevie Wonder's Fulfillingness' First Finale (The Village Voice, 1974)
Chris Charlesworth catches Robert Palmer, live at NYC's Bottom Line (Melody Maker, 1976)
Stephen Demorest is unimpressed by the eponymous debut by Generation X (Rock Scene, 1978)
Mark Leviton listens to Al DiMeola, live at the Santa Monica Civic (Music Connection, 1980)
Glam-metal ground zero: Danny "Shredder" Weizmann muses on Riot and Mötley Crüe (LA Weekly, 1982)
Richard Cromelin is entirely convinced by the Minutemen, live at L.A.'s Music Machine (Los Angeles Times, 1984)
Len Brown is unconstrained by Hurrah!'s Boxed (New Musical Express, 1986)
Give up the Day job: Mark Cooper sees Morris Day at Hammersmith (The Guardian, 1988)
Stuart Maconie is transported by a box set of Michael Nyman's Peter Greenaway soundtracks (New Musical Express, 1990)
David Sinclair is riveted by PJ Harvey, live at London's Town & Country (The Times, 1992)
Amy Linden gets up-to-date with Ten City's That Was Then, This Is Now (The New York Times, 1994)
Don Snowden sees Beninese-American star Angélique Kidjo, live at West Hollywood's House of Blues (Los Angeles Times, 1996)
Robin Bresnark isn't ready to update to Garbage's Version 2.0 (Melody Maker, 1998)
Dorian Lynskey is underwhelmed by Joe's "tractor beam of tedium" (The Guardian, 2001)
Andy Gill rolls along with a belated live album from Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue (Uncut, 2003)
Mike Barnes reviews master guitarist Bill Frisell's Richter 858 (The Wire, 2005)
Chris Roberts rushes to the belated defence of Patti Smith's Radio Ethiopia (Uncut, 2007)
Stevie Chick revisits the enervated funk of Sly & the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On (bbc.co.uk, 2009)
Chris Charlesworth is entranced by Gillian Welch (and David Rawlings), live at Brighton's Dome (Rock's Backpages, 2011)
Mark Leviton revels in a Broadway reunion show by Italian white-soulsters the (Young) Rascals (Rock's Backpages, 2013)
Lisa Verrico hears Irish singer-songwriter Hozier, live at the Shepherd's Bush Empire (The Times, 2015)
Pip Williams makes a compelling case for Charli XCX's 'Boys' (The Line of Best Fit, 2017)
Rick Pearson sees arena mainstays Coldplay, downsized for one night at London's Natural History Museum (The Evening Standard, 2019)
Simon Warner is captivated by a new HBO documentary about Tina Turner (unpublished, 2021)
