Music Week
Music Week is a trade paper for the UK record industry. Founded in 1959 as Record Retailer, it adopted its present title in 1972. Music Week now also provides a website of daily news, features, record release listings and UK sales, airplay and club charts.
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Crowded House: In With The In-Crowd
Interview by Julian Henry, Music Week, 6 July 1987
THE ARRIVAL of Crowded House in the UK charts with their debut single, 'Don't Dream It's Over' (Capitol), comes three years after the demise of ...
Paul Johnson: HMV Oxford Street, London
Live Review by Julian Henry, Music Week, 13 July 1987
HE'S BEEN called "the most promising new singer of the decade" by London listings mag Time Out and it's a description Paul Johnson's debut CBS ...
Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction: Town & Country Club, London
Live Review by Julian Henry, Music Week, 18 July 1987
THE RECENT penetration of the top 30 by the debut Zodiac Mindwarp single, 'Prime Mover', was one of the more pleasing events in this year's ...
Interview by Penny Reel, Music Week, 14 January 1989
Penny Reel prowls Miller’s Terrace with Super Cat ...
Interview by Julian Henry, Music Week, 9 December 1989
"IT TOOK me about 35 minutes to write the words to 'Wild Thing' and about an hour to write 'Funky Cold Medina'. It was easy." ...
Interview by Martin Aston, Music Week, 1990
IF BRIAN ENO, Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, David Sylvian and Tears For Fears have anything in common, you wouldn't instantly think of American avant-garde composer/trumpeter ...
Report and Interview by Paul Gorman, Music Week, 1995
CHER'S NEW ALBUM It's A Man's World may well have the most apt, albeit ironically stated, title of the year. For her first project for ...
Report and Interview by Paul Gorman, Music Week, 1995
THE CRITICAL AND commercial disappointment which has greeted David Bowie's output since the crossover success of 1983's Let's Dance would have forced a less adventurous ...
Nick Heyward, Terry Hall: Godfathers of Britpop? Terry Hall and Nick Heyward
Report and Interview by Paul Gorman, Music Week, 1995
FOR ARTISTS WHO came to prominence during the early '80s boom in British music, the dramatic rise in popularity of the clutch of homegrown acts ...
Report and Interview by Paul Gorman, Music Week, 1995
HE’S BACK IN BLACK...again. And, as ever, he means business. Johnny Cash, the original rock'n'roll spectre lets loose the leashes with new album Unchained, covering ...
Sonic Youth Clean Up Their Act: Washing Machine
Review and Interview by Martin Aston, Music Week, 1995
TRUST A BUNCH of New York art-rockers to contemplate jeopardising their increasing popularity by changing their name to Washing Machine, but that's what Sonic Youth, ...
Jah Wobble: Ex-Punk Turned Musical Innovator
Report and Interview by Paul Gorman, Music Week, 4 November 1995
AS HE POINTED out on the song 'Becoming Closer To God' last year, Jah Wobble is "far more than a long-lost anagram" these days. ...
Report and Interview by Paul Gorman, Music Week, 1996
ENSCONCED INSIDE her specially built Aigle Studio in the swish Dublin suburb of Dalkey, Enya pauses to explain why she chose this particular location, with ...
Catatonia: Welsh Pioneers Come Into Their Own
Report and Interview by Paul Gorman, Music Week, 1996
THESE DAYS, when it seems you can't throw a stick in the music industry without hitting a Welsh act, Catatonia are in the unusual position ...
Finley Quaye: Well-Connected Hopeful
Report and Interview by Paul Gorman, Music Week, 1996
HE'S JUST TURNED 23, he's talented and he's handsome. He claims that Tricky's his nephew, Iggy Pop visits him in the studio and A Guy ...
Iggy Pop: Doggie Style: Iggy Pop
Interview by Paul Gorman, Music Week, January 1996
IT’S BEEN SAID before but bears repeating once Iggy Pop is witnessed at the close quarters of his cramped bedroom in London’s Halcyon Hotel: If ...
Spice Girls: Taking On The Britboys: Spice Girls
Report and Interview by Paul Gorman, Music Week, April 1996
JUST WHEN BOYS with guitars threaten to rule pop life – Damon's all over Smash Hits, Ash are big in Big! and Liam can't move ...
Björk: Post-Post: Bjork goes Homogenic
Interview by Paul Gorman, Music Week, 1997
"I LOVE MY job sometimes," cackles Bjork down the line from Miami. ...
David Bowie: Happy Birthday, David Bowie!
Report and Interview by Paul Gorman, Music Week, January 1997
THERE'S NOTHING the media loves more than an anniversary and David Bowie's 50th birthday on January 8 offered ample opportunity for career retrospectives and dissections ...
Guide by Bill Brewster, Music Week, 2004
1. Black Box – 'Ride On Time' (Deconstruction/1989) Sampled: Loleatta Holloway's 'Love Sensation' ...
The Cure, Oasis, Pulp, T. Rex: Top 5 Unforgettable Glastonbury Moments
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Music Week, May 2007
1. 19-20 September 1970: The very first Glastonbury It was a triumph of faith over common sense. Having snuck in for free to the Bath Festival ...
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Music Week, September 2008
CLIFF RICHARD has been the most constant companion of British pop fans since 1958, but he remains one of the most enigmatic and controversial figures ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Music Week, October 2008
JUDGED BY A JURY of his peers, Roy Orbison would almost certainly be found unanimously guilty of being the greatest singer and live performer of ...
Report and Interview by Johnny Black, Music Week, January 2009
THE FIRST PUBLIC airing of 'Working On A Dream', the title track from The Boss’s upcoming 24th album took place during Barack Obama’s massive rally ...
Black Sabbath: None More Black: Black Sabbath
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Music Week, March 2009
"IT'S BEEN described as the heavy metal Holy Grail," says Steve Hammonds, Catalogue Consultant for Universal Music, "and it's been a labour of love to ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Music Week, 25 April 2009
IN THE WORDS of the jazz legend who founded it, Ronnie Scott's club has always been, "just like home … filthy and full of strangers." ...
Profile and Interview by Johnny Black, Music Week, June 2009
IT'S OBVIOUS to anyone with even a smattering of pop music suss that without Neil Sedaka there would be no 'Breaking Up Is Hard To ...
a-ha: Even Better than Spinal Tap
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Music Week, September 2009
FOR 25 YEARS, Norway's pop gods have harboured a deep, dark secret that even the most dedicated News Of The World smut-sleuth would never have ...
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Music Week, December 2009
SURELY, BY NOW, there should be a commemorative blue plaque on the central reservation of Princess Avenue in Liverpool's Toxteth. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Music Week, January 2010
ON A CLEAR DAY, from the roof of the Shaftesbury Theatre, you can gaze out over London's West End theatreland, and listen for the echoes ...
The Bee Gees: Fifty Years Of The Brothers Gibb
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Music Week, January 2010
ON DECEMBER 28, 1957, Manchester skiffle combo The Rattlesnakes first earned money from their ability to sing in harmony with a ten-minute slot at the ...
A Year In The Life Of The Brits
Report and Interview by Johnny Black, Music Week, March 2010
The BRIT Awards is, of course, a one-night-only affair. However, anyone paying attention to the ease with which the whole production flows, the clarity of ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Music Week, March 2010
THE BRIT Awards, about to celebrate its 30th anniversary, has become a cherished national institution, a must-see annual celebration of the most successful, enduring and ...
Interview by Johnny Black, Music Week, April 2010
NECESSITY, THEY say, is the mother of invention, and no-one knows that better than Alvin Stardust. ...
Profile and Interview by Johnny Black, Music Week, June 2010
IN THE COURSE of twenty years in the music business, Brian Kennedy has been there and done that. He's won awards, published two best-selling novels, ...
Report by Johnny Black, Music Week, June 2010
LESS THAN a year ago Robbie Williams was being written off by the nation's critics, but this month has seen him honoured with an Outstanding ...
The Beach Boys, Culture Club: Steve Levine
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Music Week, June 2010
ACHIEVING THE perfect mix and getting the balance right are essential skills for any record producer but, with a glittering career which has spanned 35 ...
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Music Week, July 2010
"I CAN LOOK back now," reflects Phil Collins, "and see how annoying I must have been to people in the '80s and '90s." ...
Report and Interview by Johnny Black, Music Week, February 2011
IN HIS 50TH YEAR in the music business, Tony Christie is at the top of his game. ...
Mike & The Mechanics: Mike and the Mechanics
Profile and Interview by Johnny Black, Music Week, April 2011
WHO CAN SAY what might have happened if mother nature had endowed Mike Rutherford with a voice as distinctive as his Genesis partners Phil Collins ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Music Week, June 2011
ANYONE LOOKING for a dream come true probably wouldn't start in a hole in the ground in the remote hinterland of Cornwall. Nevertheless, that's what ...
James Brown: Cliff White, 1945-2018
Obituary by Paul Sexton, Music Week, 30 January 2018
CLIFF WHITE, one of the UK's leading journalistic authorities on soul music and a Grammy winner for his work on James Brown's Star Time box ...
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