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Spizz: Athletico Spizz 80: Back Into The Future

Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 28 June 1980

IN VOGUE BUT OUTDATED 'ATHLETICO SPIZZ 80 ARE THE NEW BORING OLD FARTS' — A SHOCK CLAIM FROM DAVE McCULLOUGH ...

Interview by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 3 December 1977

"LIVING in Bloomington," considers Rich Stim, "Is like living in a hermetically sealed mayonnaise jar." And you might be excused thinking he was talking out ...

Supertramp On a Bum Trip

Interview by Steven Rosen, Sounds, 15 May 1976

SUPERTRAMP HORNMAN and funnyman John Helliwell gazed longingly out the A&M Records publicity office window at the burgundy Dino Ferrari. ...

King Kobra: Snakes Alive

Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Sounds, 8 June 1985

King Kobra: one big boa, or more bite than venom? Steffan Chirazi bares his fangs and finds these ...

The Fatback Band: Ain't No Such Thing As We Don't Sounds BAAAD

Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 6 March 1976

"WHEN WE get a groove we hate to quit!" shouted out Bill Curtis. His voice carried over inexorable waves of sound, cookin', stampin', and gettin' ...

The Stone Roses: Trunk Call — Romancing The Stone

Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 23 January 1988

Are THE STONE ROSES the likeliest lads in Manchester to step into the huge void left by the implosion of The Smiths? JOHN ROBB reports ...

Bernard Purdie: Purdie's School of Drumming

Interview by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 26 April 1975

Pete Makowski talks to top American session drummer Bernard Purdie ...

Wayne County & The Electric Chairs: Wayne County: A Transexual In Transit

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 26 August 1978

KCHUNK. NOTHING. Kchunk. Cherry Vanilla, bare tits with orange peel between her legs. Kchunk. Transomething Jackie Curtis in 1969, glittered eyes. Kchunk. Patti Smith, youthful ...

Creedence Clearwater Revival: Swamp Rock That Wasn't

Interview by Royston Eldridge, Sounds, 31 October 1970

The SOUNDS Talk-in — JOHN FOGERTY of Creedence Clearwater Revival: an exclusive interview by Royston Eldridge ...

Janis Ian: The Ugly Duckling That Laid A Golden Egg

Interview by Robin Katz, Sounds, 5 June 1976

'I am a swan!' sez Janis Ian. 'Right!' sez Robin Katz. ...

Cramps, The: The Cramps: Rockabilly Retardation

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 9 June 1979

THE SOUND OF SOUTHERN CULTURE FALLING APART IN A BLAZE OF PICKUPS ...

Bachman-Turner Overdrive: The business of being Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Interview by Toby Goldstein, Sounds, 10 April 1976

Toby Goldstein finds there's nothing original with Randy Bachman ...

Cheap Trick: Portrait of a Tragic Figure

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 15 September 1979

SANDY ROBERTSON analyses CHEAP TRICK ...

Laurie Anderson: Looney Spoons and Merrie Melodies

Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 26 June 1982

The Super Adventures of Laurie Anderson ...

Michael Schenker

Interview by Phil Bell, Sounds, 19 September 1981

The Thinking Man's Schenker SCENE: Our capital's glorious, raz-ama-dazzling West End. Twenty-five feet across a spacious apartment in Chrysalis' head office, the other side of a ...

Replacements, The: The Replacements: Replacing Lost Energy

Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 27 June 1987

For a group whose songs are so openly confessional, THE REPLACEMENTS' public image remains a closed book. JACK BARRON attempts to penetrate the facade of the Minneapolis boogie ...

Samson: The Sound of Silent Thunder

Interview by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 16 August 1980

Why did Samson's drummer decline to speak to Sounds? Was it because Deaf Barton had mislaid his hearing aid and he was afraid of being ...

Diamond Head: Gem'll Fix It

Interview by Phil Bell, Sounds, 8 May 1982

INKING THE dotted line with major record company MCA has instigated no dramatic transformation in lifestyle for Stourbridge's stealthiest grafters, Diamond Head. ...

Mike Oldfield: The Nu(de) Mike Oldfield

Interview by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 2 December 1978

IF THE Moslem New Year in 1961 fell on June 15 and Haley's Comet will become visible again on February 9, 1986 then the new ...

The Faces, The Rolling Stones, Ronnie Wood: Ron Wood: Cast Your Fate To The Wind, The Faces, Or The Rolling Stones

Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 24 January 1976

THE MINI-CAB DRIVER was confused. "Ron Wood," he kept repeating all the way to Richmond. The name was familiar but it's origin was a mystery. ...