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Patti Smith: Patti Cracks Noggin, Raps On Regardless

Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 5 February 1977

Patti sounds plaintive, fragile, over the transatlantic wire. If you can imagine a voice sounding wan, you're near the mark. Reason being — "A swan ...

Charlatans, The (UK): The Charlatans

Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 1990

NOTE: This was the band’s first interview in the national music press. ...

Schoolly D: Schoolly-D: Slap Happy

Interview by Mat Snow, Sounds, 30 May 1987

Reformed gangster and self-made record tycoon, SCHOOLLY-D is in town to promote his new album Saturday Night. MAT SNOW admires his jewellery ...

Jackie Wilson: "I'm a singer not a writer," says Jackie Wilson

Interview by Robin Katz, Sounds, 7 June 1975

'JACKIE Wilson Said' is a song by Van Morrison from the St. Dominic's Preview album. Jackie Wilson said he hasn't met Van Morrison yet to ...

The Doctors of Madness

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 20 December 1975

PORTSMOUTH Poly wasn't Saturday night's top hotspot by any means, but then it seemed as well hidden as El Dorado. Still, an evening's pleasure topped ...

Pop Will Eat Itself: Would You Let Your Sister Date One Of These Guys?

Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 6 December 1986

Brash, wild and loudmouthed, POP WILL EAT ITSELF may be the rock noise of 1986 but are they ideologically sound? JACK BARRON looks behind their ...

Penetration: The Future Is Female

Interview by Jon Savage, Sounds, 17 December 1977

ACCELERATION DON'T go to my head...London – a module, self-contained, trapped in an ever-accelerating time/style warp: a week seems like a month in our brave ...

Penetration: Going Underground

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 5 April 1980

SO YOU'RE learning to write music, Pauline – how's it done then? ...

Mantronix: 'Tronik Boom!

Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 11 July 1987

More than merely another hip hop outfit, Manhattan's MANTRONIX are breaking new ground with their brand of hardcore confusion. JACK BARRON meets CURTIS "MANTRONIK" KAHLEEL ...

Bill Bruford, Genesis: Bill Bruford: Have Drum Will Travel

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 10 April 1976

IT WAS IN the unlikely setting of the Una Billings School of Dancing's basement that the partnership which will be titillating the timpani of drum ...

Sniff 'N' The Tears: A Change Of Art

Interview by David Hepworth, Sounds, 10 March 1979

SNIFF 'N' THE TEARS, not a band to be sneezed at says DAVID HEPWORTH ...

The Bee Gees: Back on course with the Bee Gees

Interview by Charles Bermant, Sounds, 9 August 1975

BARRY GIBB IS pleased. It is a good season for ‘the Bee Gees (Barry and his brothers, Maurice and Robin) whose new Main Course album ...

Meat Loaf: Meatloaf: Meat The Wife

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 8 September 1979

WHAT'S SO FUNNY ABOUT MEAT LOAF AND UNDERSTANDING? QUIPS SANDY ROBERTSON ...

Fatal Microbes, Honey Bane: Fatal Microbes: Femme Fatale

Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 19 April 1980

A BOOZER IN beautiful down-town Stepney is the rendezvous and despite London Transport I manage to arrive at the right time on the right day ...

Attak: Shock Taktics

Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 9 October 1982

SLOPING OFF the Inter-City at Manchester Piccadilly, I was suddenly overcome by a torrid tinge of terror. ...

Clerical Error: Expresso Bongo

Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 8 May 1982

VIEWERS OF LWT'S London Programme were recently treated to a sneak preview of a band I'd wager we'll be seeing a lot more of on ...

The Business: Minding Their Own

Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 27 February 1982

'The winter of discontent is nearing/Thatcher's got trouble with her hearing/The voices of millions are going unheard/I'd try to laugh if it wasn't so absurd/This ...

10cc: Big Boys Don't Cry

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 21 February 1976

TENSE SI SI: That's just to prove I speaka da lingo but it's also true about my interview with 10cc. ...

Suicide: A Matter Of Life And Death

Interview by Ralph Traitor, Sounds, 21 January 1989

It’s midweek, midday, underneath Times Square, aboard a filthy express subway train. ...

The Ramones: "We’re Just Very Mean, Very Angry People. We’re the Real Thing." The Ramones get to Phil Sutcliffe

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 31 December 1977

I walked through Carlisle in a mild drizzle musing on some crafted phrases about the castle, the airy market-town streets, the cool shower of country ...