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Steven Daly discusses Bilingual (and plenty more besides) with Pet Shop chap Neil Tennant (Rock's Backpages Audio, 1996)
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Features and interviews
June Harris profiles Gene Pitney (Disc, 1963)
Where have all the songsmiths gone? Alan Walsh meets Cilla Black (Melody Maker, 1965)
Loraine Alterman meets the McCoys, Bobby Goldsboro and Norma Tanega (Detroit Free Press, 1966)
The Mirror says hello to Jimi Hendrix (Record Mirror, 1967)
Tony Leigh hears about life with (and minus) the Four Seasons from frontman Frankie Valli (KRLA Beat, 1968)
Geoffrey Cannon spends time with Wavy Gravy and the Great Medicine Ball caravan (New Society, 1970)
Roy Carr discusses life after Duane Allman's death with guitarist Dickey Betts (New Musical Express, 1972)
Caroline Boucher meets the statuesque Stacia, dancer with Hawkwind (Disc, 1974)
Michael Watts has dinner cooked for him in Connecticut by Laura Nyro, back from a three-year silence (Melody Maker, 1976)
Saturday Rock, Sunday Country: Joe Nick Patoski reports on the Texxas [sic] World Music Festival (Rolling Stone, 1978)
Dave McCullough puts the questions to Pere Ubu's David Thomas and Mayo Thompson (Sounds, 1980)
Jim Sullivan in conversation with Kim 'Kids in America' Wilde (Boston Globe, The, 1982)
Sean O'Hagan receives some home truths from reggae star Johnny Osbourne (New Musical Express, 1984)
John Mendelsohn offers a brief history of transvestism in rock (Creem, 1986)
New Ageism: Richard Cromelin speaks to David Sylvian (Los Angeles Times, 1988)
Mark Sinker meets fearless free-jazzers Melvin Gibbs and Sonny Sharrock in NYC (Wire, The, 1990)
Push celebrates a decade of Manchester's Haçienda (Melody Maker, 1992)
Tony Scherman meets rising bluegrass star Alison Krauss (New York Times, The, 1994)
Nicholas Jennings has a good natter with Ladysmith Black Mambazo's late Joseph Shabalala (Toronto Star, 1996)
Chris Roberts in conversation with Crispian Mills and fellow members of Kula Shaker (Vox, 1998)
Sean O'Hagan checks into Wim Wenders' Million Dollar Hotel with U2's Bono (Observer, The, 2000)
Andy Gill discusses the political fallout from 9/11 with Steve Earle (Independent, The, 2002)
Fred Dellar revisits the madness surrounding Marvin Gaye's last live performance in Britain (MOJO, 2004)
Lois Wilson celebrates 50 years of doo wop and soul with the Dells' Chuck Barksdale (Record Collector, 2006)
Robert Sandall profiles renaissance Britpopper Damon Albarn (Sunday Times, The, 2008)
John Lewis heads to Forest Hill to interview Dizzee Rascal (Hotline, 2009)
Johnny Black reports on "a year in the life" behind the BRIT awards (Music Week, 2010)
Gene Sculatti lovingly recalls pop annus mirabilis 1962 (Rock's Backpages, 2012)
Joe Nick Patoski reminisces with Willie Nelson's bad-ass pal and long-time drummer Paul English (Oxford American, 2014)
Bob Ruggiero hears about "the Captain" and the "bizarre misery" of Toni Tennille (Houston Chronicle, 2016)
David Burke looks back on the glory days of Echo & the Bunnymen with Ian McCulloch (Classic Pop, 2018)
Laura Barton discusses "synths, rock anthems, mental health and motherhood" with Sharon Van Etten (Observer, The, 2019)
J.D. Considine marks the approaching 100th anniversary of jazz genius Charlie Parker's birth (Downbeat, 2020)
Album & Live Reviews
Karl Dallas hails Roy Harper, live at St. Pancras Town Hall (Melody Maker, 1968)
The Mirror in a spin over Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle (Record Mirror, 1969)
Phil Symes is overwhelmed by Shirley Bassey, live at Bristol's Colston Hall (Disc and Music Echo, 1971)
Michael Watts dismisses (Art) Garfunkel's Angel Clare (Melody Maker, 1973)
Richard Cromelin is wowed by the Wailers, live at West Hollywood's Roxy (Los Angeles Times, 1975)
John Swenson loves the eponymous solo debut by Patti LaBelle (Rolling Stone, 1977)
Dave McCullough witnesses the debut UK gig by Dublin four-piece U2 (Sounds, 1979)
Jim Green muses on Monsters of Rock and Motörhead's Ace of Spades (Trouser Press, 1981)
Richard Williams is moved on up by Curtis Mayfield, live at London's Commonwealth Institute (Times, The, 1983)
Sandy Robertson reserves a box seat for Mötley Crüe's Theatre Of Pain (Sounds, 1985)
Sean O'Hagan sees Hothouse Flowers, live in Limerick (New Musical Express, 1987)
Roy Wilkinson considers Schoolly D's Am I Black Enough For You (Sounds, 1989)
Adam Sweeting tolerates Sting, live at the Hammersmith Odeon (Guardian, The, 1991)
John Swenson is surprisingly polite about Billy Ray Cyrus' It Won't Be the Last (Rolling Stone, 1993)
"God looked me in the eye": Simon Price witnesses Prince a.k.a. 0(+>, live at London's Astoria (Melody Maker, 1995)
Richard Cromelin listens to Ani DiFranco's Living in Clip (Los Angeles Times, 1997)
Stevie Chick is blown away by Macy Gray, live at London's Embassy Rooms (New Musical Express, 1999)
Charles Shaar Murray digests Howard Sounes' biography of Bob Dylan (MOJO, 2001)
John Aizlewood appraises the best of "soul-kissed" reggae icon Ken Boothe (Q, 2003)
Chris Ingham sees Francophile jazz "re-assembler" Madeleine Peyroux, live in Edinburgh (MOJO, 2005)
Rob Hughes hears a Sermon from the Rev. Rickie Lee Jones (Uncut, 2007)
Iman Lababedi isn't quite buying Bright Eyes, live at Radio City (Rock NYC, 2011)
Bob Ruggiero evaluates Evelyn McDonnell's biography of L.A. girl-rockers the Runaways (Houston Press, 2013)
Jamie Atkins approves of deluxe editions of two hip hop masterpieces by Public Enemy (Record Collector, 2015)
David Bennun is endlessly amused by the mischievous wit of the Becker-less Steely Dan, live at London's O2 (Guardian, The, 2017)
