Thomas Dolby
ARTICLES IN LIBRARY
Life in the Age of Wireless: Thomas Dolby's State-of-the-Artwork
Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, December 1982
PERHAPS IN another century, Thomas Morgan Dolby Robertson would have been an explorer of science. I imagine him in an antique laboratory like another Thomas ...
Thomas Dolby (with Kevin Armstrong and Matthew Seligman)
Interview by Betty Page, Noise!, 9 December 1982
"THE SPORTILY dressed, slightly oddball young man walked onto the stage. His National Health (Model 232) spex struggled with the glare of the spotlights. Gradually ...
Thomas Dolby: Marquee Club, London
Live Review by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, 9 December 1982
UNTIL THIS series of four shows at London's Marquee, live appearances from the redoubtable Mr Dolby have been rare indeed. He was, apparently, locked up ...
Thomas Dolby: The Appliance of Science
Profile and Interview by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, 2 February 1984
AT THE TENDER age of 25, Thomas Dolby has already established himself as an ingenious and inventive songwriter, performer, producer, synthesizer wizard and video director. ...
Thomas Dolby: The Flat Earth (Parlophone)
Review by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 11 February 1984
ANYBODY WHO'D put Magnus Pyke in one of their videos has to be a gimmick merchant, right? Though Thomas Dolby scored a hit in all ...
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 3 March 1984
Adam Sweeting gets all smoochy with Eighties Renaissance Man THOMAS DOLBY. ...
George Clinton and Thomas Dolby: The Nut & The Nerd
Interview by Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, 20 July 1985
We're known as The Nut and The Nerd say George Clinton and Thomas Dolby, now together as DOLBY'S CUBE. Caroline Sullivan met this unlikely pair ...
Thomas Dolby and the Lost Toy People: Town & Country Club, London
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 7 May 1988
LOOKING LIKE a cross between Elton John and Tom Petty, dressed in top hat and duster coat, Thomas Dolby sauntered onstage like the homecoming hero. ...
Depeche Mode, Wire, Thomas Dolby, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: Rose Bowl, Pasadena CA
Live Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 16 July 1988
WIRE HAVE probably not played to 100,000 people in total as they've skimmed their precious stones across the edges of a strange pop history. And ...
Profile and Interview by Hank Bordowitz, unpublished, 2002
MY WIFE AND two-year-old huddle over my wife’s iMac. Billy, the two year old, giggles uncontrollably as the computer makes boinging and slide-whistle sounds, ...
Godfathers of Pop: Thomas Dolby
Retrospective and Interview by David Burke, Classic Pop, June 2016
BEFORE HE EMERGED as a pioneering figure of electronic music in the 1980s, Thomas Dolby wrote Lene Lovich's single, 'New Toy', appeared on the Thompson ...
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