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Duane Eddy, Jerry Lee Lewis: Jerry Lee Lewis, Duane Eddy: Live in Margate

Live Review by Cliff White, NME, 18 November 1978

WHEN A promoter carts a journalist and photographer off to the opening night of a European tour he obviously wants to get a suitably rave ...

Philip Rambow: Whatever Happened To Philip Rambow?

Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 25 November 1978

Whatever happened to Philip Rambow? A year ago it finally seemed that his time was imminent. ...

Simple Minds: Strangers In A Strange Land

Interview by Tony Stewart, NME, 17 February 1979

SIMPLE MINDS were fidgety as they sat around the kitchen table, some of them exhaling long streams of cigarette smoke while the others rattle boiled ...

Brian Jones, The Rolling Stones: Brian Jones: 28, February 1944 — 3 July, 1969

Retrospective by Nick Kent, NME, 30 June 1979

Ten Years after his death, a re-appraisal of the life and times of the Rolling Stone who was crushed by success ...

Nick Lowe, Rockpile: Nick Lowe: Whatever Gets You Through The Daze

Report and Interview by Paul Morley, NME, 30 June 1979

I'VE LOST track of time, but Lew Lewis and Reformer are on stage at Hemel Hempstead Pavilion blowing base boogie that the Hemel Hempstead audience ...

The Clash: Yes It's Strummer In The City

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 30 June 1979

HOT TOWN! Strummer in the city: walks into the Kings Road pub that serves as his temporary local while he's staying in Fulham dead on ...

The Crusaders: It's A Street Life In The Crusaders

Profile and Interview by Max Bell, NME, 22 September 1979

IT'S THE MID-1950s in Houston, Texas, east of Galveston Bay and west of the River Colorado, and some of the local folks are having themselves ...

The Fall: All Fall Down

Interview by Ian Penman, NME, 5 January 1980

JUST ABOVE my typewriter on the mantlepiece is an eye-catching tube of 10 orange flavoured effervescent tablets. Each tablet contains 1g orange flavoured concentrated Vitamin ...

The Skids: Schizophrenia On Skid Row

Report and Interview by Ian Penman, NME, 1 November 1980

"I've no desire to push myself into being a media figure. I'm quite happy with my cameras and my wife and my guitars."– Stuart Adamson ...

Echo & The Bunnymen: Welcome To The Bunnyhouse

Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 22 November 1980

WHEN ECHO And The Bunnymen end their British tour with a date at Liverpool University, the Mad Hatter photographer (Joe Stevens) and I travel up ...

Spandau Ballet: Talking Threads: Spandau Ballet

Profile and Interview by Paul Rambali, NME, 29 November 1980

Five young men from Islington make a short story shorter about the ballet-hoo surrounding the group most likely to – Spandau Ballet. ...

Jim Carroll: The Jim Carroll Band: Catholic Boy (Atco)

Review by Cynthia Rose, NME, 31 January 1981

BLOND, FLESHLY-FACED and 30 years old, Jim Carroll was slated for status as a rock poet back in '71. Meant to be the other half ...

Kid Creole & The Coconuts: Coconut Kid as Cruise Caruso: Kid Creole

Interview by Paul Rambali, NME, 23 May 1981

KID CREOLE And The Coconuts release their second long player, title Fresh Fruit In Foreign Places, in a couple of weeks' time. A 12-song 'concept ...

Bob Marley & the Wailers: Bob Marley's Final Return Home

Report by Vivien Goldman, NME, 30 May 1981

King of Reggae laid to rest in Jamaica ...

U2: A Dreamboat Named Desire

Report and Interview by Richard Cook, NME, 27 February 1982

"THEY WENT right through it. Took out every sock. Squeezed every tube of toothpaste. Then this guy says to me 'You – come with me. ...

Rick James: Blowing Out Tinsel Town

Interview by Lloyd Bradley, NME, 10 April 1982

Not So Long Ago:THERE WAS a time when nearly everybody in the world owned a Motown record. Motown was like a baby's security blanket, warm, ...

Laurie Anderson: Big Science

Review by Chris Bohn, NME, 24 April 1982

AS A PERFORMER, Laurie Anderson is little short of phenomenal: a slight Chaplinesque figure, she's as much vaudeville as she is artist, in that she's ...

The Rolling Stones: Tiers Are Not Enough

Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 3 July 1982

The Rolling Stones: Wembley Stadium, London ...

Human Switchboard, Scientific Americans: Scientific Americans: Load And Go!; Human Switchboard: Coffee Break and other ROIR tapes

Review by Cynthia Rose, NME, 14 August 1982

TIME FOR another recharge from my choice in chutzpah-driven indies: Neil ‘Let’s Get This Party Started’ Cooper’s Reach Out International Records (ROIR). Former booking agent ...

The Associates, Billy Mackenzie: Disassociate!: The Associates

Interview by Paul Morley, NME, 9 October 1982

THE WHIPPETS have pissed on the carpet of Chris Parry's Office. Billy Mackenzie grins, a little wickedly; there's a nice little stain that should be ...