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Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 25 November 1978

PERSPECTIVE. THE Clash are heroes (but not mine). ...

Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 12 January 1980

LONDON CALLING? It hardly covers the situation. Every is-or-was punk fan in the country must be quietly slavering to see the Clash film and apprehensive ...

Penetration: Anarchy In County Durham

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 18 June 1977

MICK JONES of the Clash, leading philosophers of the New Wave, has said that he couldn't play but for the vacuum-pack pressures of the tower ...

Penetration: Newcastle

Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 21 May 1977

"TURN OFF the music – we want to play," R the bassist yelled at the DJ and, before you had time to chuckle at the ...

Vintage Trouble

Profile and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, August 2011

"THEY shake until they break bones, whack their bodies around," hollers slick-suit, sweat-soaked soul-rock frontman Ty Taylor, talking up the effect Vintage Trouble have on ...

Faulty Towers: Miles Copeland’s New Wave

Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 15 September 1979

MILES COPELAND is prone to saying things like "cracking America and the world is a big job and we're going to have to work really ...

Led Zeppelin: Knebworth Park, Hertfordshire

Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 18 August 1979

WELL. I quite like them. ...

Don McLean: Prime Time

Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 7 January 1978

COULD IT be that protest singers are about to make a comeback? It makes sense – after the glitter and the head-banging punk came out ...

Coldplay, George Michael, Kylie Minogue, Ms Dynamite, Justin Timberlake: British Pop Acts Raise The Anti

Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, 22 February 2003

Celebrity dissent grows during U.K.'s music awards, as Coldplay's singer and Ms Dynamite protest an Iraq war. ...

The Police, Stewart Copeland: Stewart Copeland

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, December 2009

YOU'D THINK Stewart Copeland might have taken a break after the Police reunion tour — 158 gigs, 921,000 paying customers, $297 million gross. ...

Manic Street Preachers: Northgate Arena, Chester

Review and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, 1999

"It’s quite corny," James Dean Bradfield allows, reflecting on Manic Street Preachers' September tour of the towns that rock forgot. "I just remember where we ...

Tygers of Pan Tang: Tygers, Tygers, Burning Bright

Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 10 January 1981

The TOPT are even better with new singer JOHN DEVERIL, claims PHIL SUTCLIFFE ...

The Police: We Could Have Said: 'This Sting Is Bigger Than Both Of Us.' Or Even: 'Band Of Copeland Glory,'

Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 16 June 1979

...but instead you'll be relieved there are no Police puns in this headline ...

Graham Parker: You Can't Be Too Strong

Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 24 March 1979

THE HOSPITALITY room backstage at Newcastle City Hall welcomed me like a cold echo. A table load of cellophane-covered salads and the muffled sound of ...

The Jam: The Making of The Jam: The Men Behind The Scenes

Retrospective and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 19 July 1980

THE JAM: it's a family affair. A family of blood and/or loyalty, stick-together adhesion and sense of common purpose you might expect to come ...

Top Of The Pops: Down The Pan?

Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, November 1991

Top Of The Pops has been the BBC's flagship music show for 27 years. But it's facing problems: stale format, falling teenage population, and public ...

Yes: Credibility Regained (Or: Rich Superstars Make Good Album sensation!)

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 16 July 1977

GOVERNMENT HEALTH WARNING: this feature does not contain any references to "punk’ or ‘new wave" ...

Bush: Breaking America

Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, 1999

Phil Sutcliffe checks out the history of British bands making it, and failing to make it, in the USA, and looks at the example of ...

Eurythmics: Annie Lennox: Just Think...

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, February 1988

...about the group she formed with the acid-drenched folk-strumming minstrel who proposed to her in a vegetarian restaurant. And the calamitous demise. And the legal ...

Wet Wet Wet: Going For Broke

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, March 1988

They signed a record deal and – two years, four producers and £600,000 later – released an LP. Wet Wet Wet had to sell a ...