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Charlatans, The (UK): The Charlatans: Glory Days

Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 22 December 1990

1990 could well go down in the rock almanac as the year The Charlatans stole the initiative from The Stone Rose. While the figureheads of ...

Debbie Harry, The Wind in the Willows: The Wind In The Willows

Interview by uncredited writer, World Countdown News, 1967

FORMED ALMOST a year ago, The Wind in The Willows is a seven-member group from the New York area playing their own particular kind of ...

Soft Cell: Bedsitting with Soft Cell

Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 12 November 1981

‘BEDSITTER’? I’M not knocking it, but the table in Marc Almond’s Leeds bed-sitting room probably said more on the subject than the complete lyric of ...

Chic: Back to Bass: Bernard Edwards

Interview by Don Snowden, Bass Player, 29 April 1991

"I THINK 'GOOD TIMES' is the song we're remembered most for," said Bernard Edwards of the reunited Chic. "We were a commercial band and a ...

Jim Carroll: A Nod Of Approval: The music and poetry of Jim Carroll

Interview by Gerrie Lim, Orange County Review, June 1986

"I'VE ALWAYS CONSIDERED myself a poet first," Jim Carroll says, his slightly cracked voice resounding clearly over the phone from New York. "That's what brings ...

The Rowan Brothers: Rowan Brothers: Somewhat Glam And Slightly Teenage

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, March 1973

"THE BROTHERLY Loverlies" – kind of catchy, isn't it? That's what one of the teen mags called the Rowan Brothers when it tossed them to ...

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 ...

Crosby Stills Nash & Young: "Deja Vu Again"

Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 29 October 1999

THERE'S NO MISTAKING the portly middle-aged man with the walrus moustache beached on a sofa at the Dorchester hotel, plucking the chords of Neil Young's ...

Jimmy Cliff: Hail Reggae's Lost King

Interview by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 5 September 2003

MANY PEOPLE THINK Bob Marley stole his crown. But it was Jimmy Cliff who gave reggae to the world, when he starred in and wrote ...

Arthur Lee: 10 Questions for Arthur Lee

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, June 2002

On your recent US warm-up date you asked, "What did the monkey say after the pitbull bit off his tail?" ...

The Beach Boys: Stepping Out Of The Surf

Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 21 December 1974

LOS ANGELES; "Last week in Vancouver we sold out the Canadian National Exhibition Hall twice. We had 17,500 for each show and over 5,000 additional ...

Nas: Ticket To Scribe

Interview by Dele Fadele, NME, 29 June 1996

Having adopted the moniker of one Pablo Escobar, NAS ESCOBAR set about creating vivid lyrical depictions of life in his native New York tenement slums. ...

PJ Harvey: Kicking Against The Pricks

Interview by Martin Aston, Spin, November 1992

Twenty-two-year-old Polly Harvey fronts this year's most raved-over new group, PJ Harvey. Martin Aston gets bewitched and bewildered. ...

Moloko: I Should Moloko

Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 10 May 1996

Jarvis Cocker predicts big things for them. Rock'n'roll bible The Independent called them Britain's best new band. Clearly, the dizzyingly eclectic MOLOKO can't fail ...

John "Jellybean" Benitez: Jellybean Benitez: 'Bean Meanz Bizness

Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 19 March 1991

IF YOU were of the opinion that Jellybean Benitez, one of the mainstays of the East Coast club scene for the last decade, lives and ...

Joan Baez: "Don't re-live the sixties"

Interview by Jude Rogers, The Word, May 2012

Martin Luther King support act, first folk superstar, Downton Abbey obsessive — Joan Baez offers a little steely-voice sagacity ...

Kelly Rowland: Beyond The Call of Booty

Interview by Paul Elliott, Q, June 2003

You're one third of chart-blitzing girl trio Destiny's Child, but what comes next? If you're Kelly Rowland, a Number 1 single, Top 10 album and ...

Big Star, Alex Chilton: Alex Chilton: Alex's Wild Years

Interview by Martin Aston, Melody Maker, 2 November 1985

If anybody can really claim to be a living legend, ALEX CHILTON is the guy. From the Box Tops to Big Star to the booze, ...