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Neneh Cherry: My Top Tunes

Interview by Bill Brewster, Mixmag, October 1992

What's Goin' On — Marvin Gaye ...

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Notting Hill Carnival '83

Report by Vivien Goldman, New Musical Express, 3 September 1983

CARNIVALS ARE crucial — all the best cultures have 'em. But the world has a way of perverting the simplest pleasures, and since 76, Carnival ...

Neneh Cherry: Cherry On Top

Interview by James Brown, New Musical Express, 3 December 1988

After spells in the hyper-trendy but hit-starved Rip Rig And Panic and Float Up CP, NENEH CHERRY is about to burst into the charts with ...

Neneh Cherry: What Is She Like?

Interview by Tom Doyle, Smash Hits, 11 January 1989

She's the new pop sensation that's sweeping the nation! Yeah, even as we speak her corking tune 'Buffalo Stance' is hurtling its way up the ...

Neneh Cherry: A Gap in the Rap

Interview by Lucy O'Brien, The Guardian, 25 January 1989

Neneh Cherry is one of many women invading the hip hop scene ...

Neneh Cherry: Ma Cherry Amour

Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 3 June 1989

NENEH CHERRY is a different style of woman, a popstar determined to be real, not plastic, positive and above all herself. With her single 'Manchild' ...

Neneh Cherry: Raw Like Sushi (Circa)

Review by David Quantick, New Musical Express, 10 June 1989

CHERRY-OH BABY ...

Neneh Cherry: Raw Like Sushi (Circa)

Review by Push, Melody Maker, 10 June 1989

RAW CUTS ...

Neneh Cherry: Raw Like Sushi (Virgin) ***½

Review by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 10 August 1989

TALK ABOUT a sign of the times: Earlier in the decade, Neneh Cherry was a peripheral member of the postpunk warriors the Slits, then played ...

Raw Nerve: Neneh Cherry

Profile and Interview by Simon Witter, Sky, November 1989

In 1989 Neneh Cherry ruled the airwaves, her eclectic dance masterpiece Raw Like Sushi yielding a fistful of UK chart smashes. She also caused havoc ...

Neneh Cherry: Mother Superior

Profile and Interview by Mark Cooper, Q, December 1989

OUTSIDE NENEH CHERRY'S modest terraced house in West London's Kensal Green, four bursting rubbish sacks jostle for attention by the front door. Round the back, ...

Neneh Cherry: Send In The Clowns

Interview by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 9 December 1989

After the huge trans-Atlantic success of 'Buffalo Stance', NENEH CHERRY has established herself as one of the Pop world's most creative and exciting mainstream acts. ...

So you think you know everything about Neneh Cherry?

Interview by Chris Heath, Smash Hits, 13 December 1989

(WELL YOU DON'T... as Chris Heath discovers) ...

Neneh Cherry: Strictly personal

Interview by Helen Mead, i-D, January 1992

No product-pushing, no image-making, no small talk: Neneh Cherry talks personal about AIDS, life and the death of her friend. ...

A Life In The Day Of . . . Neneh Cherry

Interview by Simon Witter, The Sunday Times, 20 September 1992

Born of a West African father and a Swedish mother, Neneh Cherry, 28, takes her name from the American jazz trumpeter Don Cherry, whom her ...

Neneh Cherry: Homebrew (Circa)

Review by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 24 October 1992

CHERRY BOMB ...

The raw and the cooking: albums from Neneh Cherry and Betty Boo

Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 24 October 1992

Two rap divas unveil new albums, with mixed success ...

Neneh Cherry: What Is She Like?

Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, November 1992

"Yo! Peace, darlin'!" Three years out of public view, Neneh Cherry returns this month with a rap/rock crossover record, 'Money Love', and an album that's ...

War Child

Report and Interview by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 9 September 1995

IAN WATSON talks to the bands who are contributing to the Help album and how this project compares to pop's last major charity initiative, the ...

Neneh Cherry

Interview by Sheryl Garratt, The Face, September 1996

WHEN NENEH CHERRY was a toddler, she met Miles Davis. She remembers his gravelly growl of a voice, and recalls him opening his trumpet case ...

Spirited: Neneh Cherry: Man (Hut) ***

Review by Mark Cooper, Q, October 1996

Neneh Cherry: she deserves better. ...

Cherry Picker — Neneh Cherry: Shepherds Bush Empire, London

Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 12 December 1996

Caroline Sullivan on the sultry charms of Neneh Cherry at Shepherds Bush Empire ...

Swedish R&B: Home Brew

Report and Interview by Amy Linden, Vibe, May 2000

In the urban global village, SWEDEN is holding its own — pumping out some of today's most popular chart-topping teen R&B tunes and boasting its ...

Neneh Cherry: Unsung Hero/ine

Retrospective by Don Snowden, Rock's Backpages, March 2012

THE ORIGINAL TITLE for this piece was "Ticked Off at a Tick". The reason being that I spent more than a few years operating under ...

Neneh Cherry: "I feel like I've woken up"

Interview by Rob Hughes, Daily Telegraph, 6 June 2012

Singer Neneh Cherry, who releases her first album in 16 years later this month, feels like she has woken up from a weird sleep, she ...

Neneh Cherry and RocketNumberNine: Pavilion Theatre, Manchester

Live Review by Rob Hughes, Daily Telegraph, 5 July 2013

NOT KNOWING what's coming can work both ways. In keeping with Manchester International Festival's remit of unveiling original and provocative new work, Neneh Cherry and ...

Neneh Cherry: Blank Project (Smalltown Supersound)

Review by Rob Young, The Wire, February 2014

NENEH CHERRY's re-emergence as a solo artist has been a long, gradual process.  ...

Neneh Cherry: "People ask me where I've been for 18 years…"

Report and Interview by Kate Mossman, The Observer, 23 February 2014

On the cutting edge of pop in the '80s and '90s, the singer paved the way for today's sassy female stars. Now she's back with her ...

Neneh Cherry Talks Her Weird Punk-Pop-Jazz Trajectory, and the New Blank Project

Interview by Richard Gehr, Spin, 24 February 2014

A JAZZ EXPERIMENTALIST in her teens and a pop star in her twenties, Neneh Cherry has enjoyed a career unlike any other singer of her ...

see also Rip Rig and Panic

see also Don Cherry

see also Eagle-Eye Cherry

see also Mabel

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