Time Out
Time Out was initially a weekly listings magazine first published in London in 1968. Since then the publishers have established international editions in major world cities.
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Profile and Interview by Pete Paphides, Time Out, 20 December 1995
SOMETIMES IT'S hard to know where the marketing stops and the music begins. When Tori Amos's record company launched her first album, Little Earthquakes in ...
Profile and Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, 22 January 1992
Some songwriters wash their dirty linen in public. Tori Amos dries hers there as well. Nick Coleman dodges the rows of hanging knickers to meet ...
Interview by John Lewis, Time Out, 4 April 2006
FIONA APPLE was born in New York in 1977. She has since recorded with Johnny Cash, dated Paul Thomas Anderson and David Blaine, been a ...
Interview by Chris Salewicz, Time Out, 5 July 1984
That Aswad are The Greatest Reggae Band In The World is the principal theme of Island Records' campaign to give the London-born trio the commercial ...
Tony Bennett: The Art Of Romance (Columbia)
Review by John Lewis, Time Out, October 2004
FOR NEARLY 50 years, Bennett seems to have straddled two careers. ...
Steve Beresford, David Gray, Guillemots, Courtney Pine: London's musical instrument shops
Guide by John Lewis, Time Out, June 2008
J Reid & Sons "WE DON'T GET many high-class customers up here in the badlands," laughs proprietor John Gregory. It's probably because they wouldn't expect to ...
Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, November 1993
Kate Bush – what's she like, eh, with her wailing voice, whimsical words and penchant for throwing wild Terpsichorean shapes? Suitably intrigued by her new ...
David Byrne: The Head Boy Talks
Profile and Interview by Roy Trakin, Time Out, 28 November 1980
CENTRAL PARK, end of summer, 1980. The Talking Heads are playing to a crowd of over 5000 people who are literally overflowing a converted ice-skating ...
The Clash: A Clash Of Interests
Profile and Interview by Miles, Time Out, 15 December 1978
Will success spoil Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Topper Headon and Joe Strummer? Miles chronicles the decline of a movement and the rise of a rock ...
Donald Fagen, Steely Dan: Donald Fagen: Dan Dare
Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, 12 May 1993
Back in the '70s, Steely Dan grabbed the American Dream by the throat with their deceptively soft rock. Now singer Donald Fagen is back, giving ...
David Sylvian, Robert Fripp: Robert Fripp, David Sylvian: Double Edge
Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, 30 June 1993
Guitar hero meets cool synth dude on The First Day, a new album by Robert Fripp and David Sylvian. They should go together like a ...
Marvin Gaye: Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye by David Ritz
Review by Chris Salewicz, Time Out, 8 July 1985
The anguished life of Marvin Gaye ended on April 1, 1984, at the home in Los Angeles he had bought for his parents, when a ...
Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, June 1989
"Sometimes I wonder if you love me the way you say you do... Sometimes I just fold my arms and say... weeeee-eeeeh awooooah!" ...
Profile and Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, October 1992
BOOM BOOM boom boom – gonna shoot you right down… The blues is always the blues, even when it's advertising copy. Right off your feet. ...
Joe Jackson: Soul Searching: Joe Jackson
Interview by Chris Salewicz, Time Out, 5 April 1984
Joe Jackson used to be just another angry British rocker. Now he makes music that wouldnt seem out of place in an up-market New York ...
Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones: Quincy Jones
Interview by Robin Eggar, Time Out, June 1988
The Jackson and Jones alliance has seen the transformation of a bubble-gum singer into the greatest musical phenomenon of his era. ...
Michael Jackson: Promoting Michael Jackson: The Jackson Fivers
Report by Nick Coleman, Time Out, 27 November 1991
A new Michael Jackson album is not just a piece of plastic. It's a media event. Last week the Jackson publicity circus hit town to ...
Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, 27 January 1993
California smile, insolent mouth, articulate manner — Mick Jagger is an 'interesting bunch of guys' and each one still has the edge. But is he ...
Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, 18 August 1993
From Sly and Robbie to Mick Jagger and Public Image, record producer Bill Laswell's client list is as varied as the sounds he pulls out ...
Profile and Interview by Pete Paphides, Time Out, 18 March 1995
IT'S BEEN a long ascent for Kirsty MacColl. Over 15 years, she's toiled away unassumingly in pursuit of that elusive beast, the perfect pop song. ...
Shane MacGowan: Roamin' Catholic
Interview by Pete Paphides, Time Out, 22 September 1994
It's a long way to Tipperary. Ask Shane MacGowan, who staggered out of The Pogues to spend two years exploring his home town and re-examining ...
Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, 25 September 1993
American singer-songwriter Aimee Mann, is "better than just about everyone", but she's only now clawing her way to success. Nick Coleman takes her to dinner ...
Profile by Nick Coleman, Time Out, 1 May 1991
The famous pants balloon around the stage as MC Hammer delivers his message about faith, dope and clarity. The world's best-selling rapper arrives in London ...
Michael McDonald: Behind the Mike
Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, 8 April 1987
Though he's forsaken Doobies for duets, Michael McDonald's still basking in sunshine and success. Nick Coleman gets him on a bad line. ...
Van Morrison: Live at the Grand Opera House, Belfast
Review by Rob Steen, Time Out, February 1984
VAN MORRISON'S second live recording, following a decade after his state-of-the-art It's Too Late To Stop Now, was recorded last year in his home town, ...
Lee "Scratch" Perry: Madman or Genius?
Interview by John Lewis, Time Out, June 2002
As the Jamaican dub pioneer curates his Meltdown Festival at the South Bank, John Lewis travelled to deepest Switzerland to ask him about Prince Charles, ...
Profile and Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, 17 October 1990
Prefab Sprout's Paddy McAloon fancies himself as a metaphysical Michael Jackson. Not only does he pride himself on his ability to mix musical genres, he ...
Report by Pete Paphides, Time Out, 15 March 1995
Prince has always been a bit weird, but lately he seems to have lost it completely. He's changed his name to 0+>, declared war on ...
Interview by Pete Paphides, Time Out, 11 October 1995
Captain's log, chartdate 1995: Pulp, Britpop's most militant misfits, are set to trounce rivals with a new zeitgeist-friendly album of caustic lyrics, hum-me tunes and ...
Profile and Interview by Pete Paphides, Time Out, 5 November 1997
It's hard to believe, but only four years ago no one really knew who Radiohead were. Now, with OK Computer lodged firmly in the Top ...
Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones: Keith Richards: Grin Reaper
Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, July 1990
YOU CAN look Keith Richards in the eye and ask him if he's spent all his adult life divorced from reality. He stops, inclines his ...
Shonen Knife: Naughty But Knife
Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, 18 November 1992
Their songs have titles like 'Flying Jelly Attack' but Shonen Knife claim it's all serious stuff. As London succumbs to a Japanese arts invasion, Nick ...
Wayne Shorter: Barbican, London
Sleeve notes by John Lewis, Time Out, 29 March 2003
Featuring Wayne Shorter — tenor and soprano saxes Danilo Perez — piano John Patitucci — double bass Brian Blade — drums ...
Sigue Sigue Sputnik: Hope Against Hype
Interview by Mal Peachey, Time Out, 8 March 1989
Sigue Sigue Sputnik were the biggest hype of the '80s, their huge hairstyles and huger lies sweeping all before them — until the backlash. Mal ...
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes: Southside Johnny Lyon: Greetings From Asbury Park
Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, February 1992
Unlike his old buddies Bruce Springsteen and Little Steven, Southside Johnny Lyon has forsaken the trappings of rock stardom for clapboard houses and the smell ...
Lisa Stansfield: Singing The Booze
Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, 13 October 1993
She speaks as she finds, does Lisa Stansfield. Over in Dublin cutting her third album, So Natural, she lays it on the line about heavy ...
Report and Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, September 1993
Twenty years ago Steely Dan hooked white suburban America with their deceptively comfy rock classics. And even today they can shift 15,000 Madison Square Garden ...
Interview by Chris Salewicz, Time Out, 1982
A DECADE AFTER The Police pioneered pop punk, Sting's latest solo album explores Jung's theories of sexuality and is dedicated to the memory of his ...
Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, 2 December 1992
After the sheer brilliance of their debut album, The Sundays have delivered a follow-up, Blind, which is... not quite so fabulous. Nick Coleman goes to ...
Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, 1992
Fourteen years after they split, New York's noo-wave punksters Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd have repaired Television. Nick Coleman is electrified by their new album. ...
The The: Matt Johnson: A Master Of All Trades
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, Time Out, December 1983
WHAT DO YOU DO when you're a brilliantly talented songwriter and musician but have no locks, pretty frocks or "weird" image, an uncooperative record company ...
Report and Interview by Mark Cooper, Time Out, 8 February 1989
LUTHER VANDROSS' popularity has firmly established him as the King of Soul. His songs of love and loneliness have sold millions, and now his only ...
Tom Waits: A Seventies Storyteller With Fifties Beat Style
Profile and Interview by Mick Houghton, Time Out, 1976
"I WAS BORN at a very young age in the back seat of a yellow cab in Murphy Hospital parking lot. I had to pay ...
Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, May 1992
Until 'Walk The Dinosaur', the funky, cosmic pop of Was (Not Was) remained a cult. Now they've reached the giddy heights of supporting Dire Straits, ...
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