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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 ...

Gene Clark: The Soulful Return Of Gene Clark

Profile and Interview by Mick Brown, Sounds, 24 January 1976

WHILE ROGER McGuinn plays with his electronic toys in his Hollywood mansion and makes records that are mere shadows of his past work; while David ...

Sound Of Silence: The Rise Of The Compact Disc

Report by Jack Barron, Sounds, 13 December 1986

You don't have to be a classical fanatic or yuppie stadium rock lover to appreciate compact disc – the quiet revolution has hit the indie ...

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 ...

Barclay James Harvest: Waiting For The Cherry Harvest

Profile and Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 4 August 1973

A COUPLE of years ago I chanced to review an album by a band which transformed a flirting relationship into something of a commitment. The ...

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 ...

Detective: Watching The Detective

Profile and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 18 March 1978

LOS ANGELES is a city full of Englishmen and Anglophiles. British bands don't play here any more, they live here. Londoners hanging out at the ...

Angel: Angels With Tarty Faces?

Report and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 3 June 1978

ANGEL: 'The boys come because the girls come...our audience is anywhere from 8 to c-cup.' ...

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. ...

Alien Sex Fiend, Marc Almond, Bauhaus, Birthday Party, The, Nick Cave, Cult, The, Cure, The, Fields Of The Nephilim, Flesh For Lulu, Mission, The, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction: Exit The '80s — Goth: Bats Out Of Hell

Overview by Cathi Unsworth, Sounds, 23 September 1989

It's been the decade of the goth — but, somewhere along the line, the innovation of the Birthday Party, the Banshees and the Sisters gave ...

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. ...

David Essex: Roll On For The Main Attraction

Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 20 September 1975

JUST OFF the Fulham Road, round the corner from an old cinema that Manticore have converted into a hollow rehearsal hall, David Essex sits in ...

Power Pop part 1: Suddenly, Everything Is Power Pop!

Overview by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 11 February 1978

A BRAND NEW YEAR and a brand new word for the media to fool about with, eh? What's it all about then, this Power Pop ...

Iron Maiden: Unleashed With The Beast

Report by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 28 August 1982

CORPUS CHRISTI lies humid and unhurried under a scorching Texas sun. The shining orb's efforts to reduce the populus to mobile blobs of molten jelly ...

Newtown Neurotics

Profile and Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 29 January 1985

"LAYDEEZ AND gentlemen, will you please take your seats for Dick Whittington now, the show starts in five minutes," wheezes a voice from the Tannoy ...