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Lou Reed: The Prince of Darkness Lightens Up
Interview by Ben Fong-Torres, GQ, September 1986
I NEVER SAW the Velvet Underground during their five-year lurch through the New York music scene. From 1965 to 1970 I was on the left ...
Chris Isaak: Teen Idol or Tin Elvis?
Profile and Interview by Ben Fong-Torres, GQ, April 1987
CHRIS ISAAK, whose first album, Silvertone, drew clusters of stars from critics at the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and many points in between, ...
Report by Ben Fong-Torres, GQ, April 1987
AMONG THE many mini-debates raging in the record business is the future of the 45-revolutions-per-minute single. It was born in 1949, came to life by ...
Interview by Max Bell, GQ, August 1997
SHARLEEN SPITERI was free-climbing in the Cuillin Hills on the Isle of Skye a year ago, when she made two uncharacteristic blunders. Firstly, she fell ...
Interview by Max Bell, GQ, February 1998
And so's my brother... but not for long. After four years of tours, scraps, hits and hedonism, Liam and Noel Gallagher are settling down, buying ...
Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Neil Young, Stephen Stills: CSNY: Love The Ones You're With
Profile by Barney Hoskyns, GQ, April 2000
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - the ultimate rock supergroup - have been through the wars since first teaming up in 1969. Now the Woodstock ...
Radiohead: Exit Music: Can Radiohead save rock music as we (don’t) know it?
Profile by Barney Hoskyns, GQ, October 2000
THE POSTERS on the ancient streets of Arles give little away. Sting is playing soon in Marseille, and coming up is a "Super Big Reggae ...
Radiohead: All Hail Yorkie Boy: Radiohead
Profile and Interview by Will Self, GQ, July 2003
IN THE MEDIEVAL trench that’s Turl Street in Oxford, Thom Yorke, the city’s most famously and aggressively diffident son, rocks back and forth in his ...
Lisa Marie Presley, Michael Jackson: Lisa Marie Presley
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, GQ, January 2004
ELVIS NEVER came to England. He touched down at a Scottish airfield in 1960 but not once did the King set foot in the green ...
Interview by Dan Gennoe, GQ, July 2004
MARTINA TOPLEY-BIRD'S debut album, Quixotic, has been a long time coming. So long in fact, that it's become the stuff of myth, with rumours of ...
Brian Wilson - Beach Boy, Pop Visionary, Wounded Soul
Profile and Interview by Mick Brown, GQ, November 2004
IN THE LATE SIXTIES, Brian Wilson used to practice Transcendental Meditation. There, in the purple and gold silk Arabian tent that he had installed in ...
Coldplay: My Travels With Oxfam: Chris Martin's Ghana Diary
Report by Sheryl Garratt, GQ, August 2005
Day 1: Accra ...
Profile and Interview by Robert Sandall, GQ, October 2005
ON THE DAY that GQ meets up with Bob Geldof, the man looks as though he's just finished fighting off a gang of ineffectual stylists. ...
Morrissey, The Smiths: Morrissey
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, GQ, October 2005
The former Smiths frontman has had "20 very odd years": from indie outsider to LA's least typical expat, via court battles and enjoying self-imposed exile. ...
The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Interview by Robert Sandall, GQ, June 2006
Sex, drugs and a fatal overdose: the history of Red Hot Chili Peppers reads like a crash course in overindulgence. Here, in their own words, ...
Profile by Robert Sandall, GQ, August 2008
ROCK STARS were never supposed to be regular guys, though that's the way most of the ones who stick around usually end up. It's hard ...
Report and Interview by Frank Broughton, GQ, 8 November 2012
As the fallout from the Jimmy Savile abuse allegations continues, dance music historian Frank Broughton asks whether the next revelations may be his connections to ...
Dr. Feelgood, Wilko Johnson: Caught in the glare: Wilko Johnson has no regrets
Profile and Interview by Dorian Lynskey, GQ, December 2013
Dr Feelgood's electric axeman refashioned R&B and cleared a path for punk during a life less ordinary. ...
Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry: New Skin
Comment by Dorian Lynskey, GQ, January 2014
Reinvention can make or break our pop princesses ...
The Beatles: Derek Taylor: The Fifth Beatle
Retrospective by Jon Savage, GQ, 20 May 2018
He was the proto multi-hyphenate, serving as press officer, PA and confidante to the Beatles while still finding time to master journalism, launch the Byrds, ...
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