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Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 20 May 1979

THE TRADITION of American musicians and artists going to Britain or the European continent in search of more responsive audiences is a venerable one. Spirits ...

Band, The: A big-time goodbye for The Band

Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 30 April 1978

THERE WAS nothing small-time about The Last Waltz. It was a concert held in San Francisco a year ago last Thanksgiving to mark the final ...

Cheap Trick: Portrait of a Tragic Figure

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 15 September 1979

SANDY ROBERTSON analyses CHEAP TRICK ...

Fleetwood Mac: Making Mirage

Interview by Sam Sutherland, High Fidelity, October 1982

The current quintet's long-awaited fifth album may be its last with Ms. Nicks ...

B.B. King: Background To A Living Legend

Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 25 June 1971

B.B. KING is the undisputed King of the Blues – fact! Every press release in existence on B.B. will tell you that he is a ...

Bernard Fowler, Sly & Robbie: Sly & Robbie: Hand in Glove

Interview by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 10 August 1985

Paul Mathur, scribe about town, ambles on down to the Kensington Hilton to meet Jamaica's supreme rhythm team, SLY DUNBAR and ROBBIE SHAKESPEARE. Rock, reggae ...

Visage: One Hump or Two: Steve Strange Walks a Mile For a Camel

Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, October 1981

STEVE STRANGE — fashion plate, leader of alternative dance band Visage and all-around creative British person — debarked from his rented camel in front of ...

Lemonheads, The: The Lemonheads: It's Not So Tough Being Beautiful

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 7 November 1993

Yes, Evan Dando, head Lemonhead, was one of People magazine's 50 most beautiful people. That's no reason to pity him, because his band is burning ...

Laurie Anderson: Looney Spoons and Merrie Melodies

Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 26 June 1982

The Super Adventures of Laurie Anderson ...

Nicky Hopkins

Interview by Harold Bronson, Zoo World, 25 October 1973

ALTHOUGH NICKY Hopkins' bouts with more than casual illness are no secret, the British pianist has one of the more prolific careers as a session ...

Powderfinger: Band Of The Year

Interview by Jeff Apter, Rolling Stone (Australia), April 2001

POWDERFINGER ARE THE Rolling Stone 2000 Music Award heroes. The results are in and thousands of you voted for them. Powderfinger are Band Of The ...

Redd Kross: L.A. Confidential: Life In The Fast Lane With Redd Kross's Jeffrey & Steven McDonald

Interview by Joss Hutton, Bucketful of Brains, 1996

I said to a friend of mine "Hey, great! Redd Kross have got a new album coming out!"She said "The girl band?" ...

Hüsker Dü: Dü You Believe In Magic?

Interview by Richard Grabel, NME, 25 April 1987

Hüsker Dü, major-label guys, zoom on with their finest LP yet and an affirmation of their world view. RICHARD GRABEL is still a true believer ...

Aerosmith, Joe Perry: Joe Perry: Joe Perry Project Takes Off

Interview by Dave Zimmer, Creem, August 1980

My brand new ship is stellar boundTo search out a place I've never foundWhere I go only time will tellThere's a lot of space betweenHeaven ...

Mariah Carey: Butterfly Kisses... Or In Bed With Mariah!

Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 23 September 1997

Jeff Lorez flies to LA, does a spot of celeb-spotting and then spends a couple of hours interviewing Mariah Carey in bed on the subject ...

Rick James: Stone City Burns

Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, December 1981

While Rick James & all his Women laugh... ...

New Order

Interview by Paul Rambali, The Face, July 1983

SOMEWHERE ON the southern outskirts of Manchester there is a graveyard. Next to the graveyard is a rehearsal room where the four members of New ...

Gillian Welch: A Kind Of Bluegrass

Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, September 2003

Don't be fooled by her old-time country music and rural folk imagery. Gillian Welch is no mountain girl… ...

Fela Kuti: The Republic Of Kuti

Interview by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 3 December 1983

FELA KUTI gives Lynden Barber a lecture in African culture. ...

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 ...