GQ
GQ is a monthly magazine published internationally and focusing on fashion, style, and culture for men.
35 articles
List of articles in the library
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 ...
Jackson Browne: The Return of the Pretender
Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, GQ, November 1993
The politics on Jackson Browne's new album are strictly interpersonal. ...
Anthrax, Garth Brooks, Gin Blossoms, KISS, The Lemonheads, Toad the Wet Sprocket: Kiss Off
Report and Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, GQ, January 1994
As the nation turns its lonely eyes to the Seventies for inspiration, they alight fondly on Kiss, who were stupider and crasser than anyone — ...
Body Count, Ice-T: Ice-T: Sold on Ice
Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, GQ, March 1994
Never at a loss for words, gangsta rapper Ice-T has taken the literary plunge and produced a provocative manifesto, modestly titled The Ice Opinion ...
Cassandra Wilson: A Diva's Progress
Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, GQ, July 1994
When jazz singer Cassandra Wilson gave in to her secret taste for pop music, she seduced a whole new audience ...
Interview by David Toop, GQ, June 1996
NOTE: This is the "director's cut" version of an interview published by GQ in 1996. ...
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 ...
Michael Jackson, Lisa Marie Presley: 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 ...
Retrospective and Interview by Paul Gorman, GQ, March 2015
BEHIND THE BROWN columnar façade of the New York University archives on Washington Square South in Greenwich Village resides The Fales Library, repository of the ...
Willie Nelson: Willie and the Weed Factory
Profile and Interview by Chris Heath, GQ, 31 August 2015
Marijuana's state-by-state march toward full legalization would never have happened without Willie Nelson. He's 82 now, and he's spent nearly half his life as America's ...
The Smiths: How The Smiths Pioneered Normcore
Retrospective by Chris Heath, GQ, 20 September 2015
They were the original normcores – a band of outsiders who took pains to dress as though they’d found their clothes at a rummage sale. ...
Nick Cave: The Love and Terror of Nick Cave
Profile and Interview by Chris Heath, GQ, 27 April 2017
For four decades, Nick Cave has been at the edge of music, putting his spin on everything from punk rock to lovesick ballads – much ...
Stormzy is the star the world was waiting for
Profile by Dorian Lynskey, GQ, October 2017
He's the showman his scene's been waiting for and grime's thunderous hit-maker is setting the record with guts and grace. ...
How The Face Launched the 21st Century
Retrospective by Paul Gorman, GQ, 9 November 2017
OVER THE SUMMER of 1988, editor/publisher Nick Logan — hands-down the greatest British magazine innovator of our time — seriously contemplated shuttering his independently published ...
Noel Gallagher: Who Built the Moon?
Review by Jude Rogers, GQ, 28 November 2017
AS ROCK AND ROLL'S elderly hounds go, few are as fun to kick as Noel Gallagher. Bend the leg and let's go: he's the ultimate ...
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, ...
The Beatles, Paul McCartney: The Untold Stories of Paul McCartney
Interview by Chris Heath, GQ, 11 September 2018
He's as famous and accomplished as a man can be. He could just stay home, relax, and count his money. But Paul McCartney is as ...
Iggy Pop Still Wants to Be Somebody
Retrospective and Interview by Chris Heath, GQ, 21 October 2019
From the sound of the Stooges to his raw, norm-shattering displays of masculinity, Iggy Pop has been a cultural pioneer for a generation. Now he's ...
Madness: An exclusive interview with Madness to mark 40 years of Absolutely
Retrospective and Interview by Stevie Chick, GQ, 24 December 2020
To mark the 40th anniversary of Madness' sophomore album, Absolutely, Stevie Chick spoke to Chris Foreman and Lee Thompson, who recall their experiences during the ...
back to LIBRARY
