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Patto: This Wonderful Life

Retrospective and Interview by Harry Shapiro, MOJO, September 2001

Four friends, one a guitar genius, some art-blues loonery — life was good for '70s underdogs Patto. Then came illness, car wrecks and squalor. Harry ...

Dick Heckstall-Smith

Interview by Harry Shapiro, Blue Print, August 2001

Dick Heckstall-Smith: the unbearable lightness of being...or how one of the great unsung giants of jazz inspired a blues album, by Harry Shapiro ...

Peter Green: Now Play On…

Interview by Harry Shapiro, Blue Print, June 2000

"I've never been on a plantation but I have been on a kibbutz." Peter Green completes the Robert Johnson songbook, tours with John Mayall and ...

Chicken Shack: Stan Webb: What Can A Poor Boy Do?

Interview by Harry Shapiro, Blue Print, March 2001

Stan Webb has every right to be cynical about the music business and how the sharks in suits come on strong as your best friend ...

Heroin: The Secret Drug Of The'90s

Report by Tom Doyle, Q, December 1999

It offed grunge. It killed Britpop. It claimed actual human lives. Heroin began the '90s as a retro drug with insalubrious associations. It ended the ...

Eric Clapton: The Odyssey: The Making Of Eric Clapton

Retrospective and Interview by Harry Shapiro, MOJO, March 1994

Of all the legends of the land of Greece, few are as epic and ill-starred as the tale of Eric Clapton, his five mates and ...

Beatles, The, Black Grape, Boy George, Paul McCartney, Oasis, Rolling Stones, The: ...And The Arrest is History: Great Rock'n'Roll Drug Busts Through the Ages

Retrospective by Stuart Bailie, New Musical Express, 25 January 1997

Liam Gallagher's caution for possession of cocaine is the latest in a long line of rock'n'roll drug busts. STUART BAILIE remembers those other pop stars ...

Jimi Hendrix: So who killed Jimi Hendrix?

Book Excerpt by Philip Norman, 'Wild Thing' (Weidenfeld & Nicholson), 5 August 2020

50 years after musician's death, Philip Norman tracks down the key players to tell the definitive story of one of rock's most tantalising mysteries - ...

Fleetwood Mac, Peter Green: Peter Green: The Supernatural

Retrospective and Interview by Harry Shapiro, MOJO, May 1994

PETE MOODY Former bass player with The Grebbels – "We were support band to The Yardbirds at the Crawdaddy and Peter used to come along ...

Beatles, The: When Acid Reigned

Retrospective by Harry Shapiro, MOJO, Summer 2007

Hippies tripped, tabloids raged and police cheered as Engelbert Humperdinck's Jan '67 hit, 'Release Me' became the real theme tune for the Summer of Love. ...

The Mekons, Strawberry Switchblade: Strawberry Switchblade/The Mekons: ICA, London

Live Review by Bill Black, Sounds, 20 October 1983

WAS THIS an ICA Rock Week or a DeMob works outing? ...

Jack Bruce: Monkjack

Review by Harry Shapiro, MOJO, October 1995

IF I WERE CASTAWAY alone on a desert island, my luxury item would be Jack Bruce's voice — the perfect backdrop to the many moments ...

Robin Thicke: Who is Robin Thicke?

Comment by Ian Gittins, Virgin Media Music, 25 July 2013

WHATEVER YOUR thoughts on its icky sexist video of gyrating, semi-naked models, it is impossible to deny that the lascivious R&B throb of Robin Thicke's ...

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Sleevenotes by Phil Sutcliffe, Universal Records, July 1999

"We were hell-bent on what we did. I didn’t care if I lived or died but for the band." – Paul Rodgers ...

Psychedelia: The 100 Greatest Classics

Guide by Jon Savage, MOJO, June 1997

Back by public demand, and even more mind-expanding, Jon Savage takes a trip through psychedelia’s golden years to compile the ultimate six-hour flashback. ...

Anthony DeCurtis: Populist at Large

Interview by Steven Ward, rockcritics.com, November 2000

ANTHONY DECURTIS never liked the rock writing of Lester Bangs. He never read Creem. After 20 years, DeCurtis still writes for Rolling Stone and still loves and defends ...

D'Angelo, Raphael Saadiq: Soul Searching

Comment by Amy Linden, The Source, June 2002

I BLAME D'ANGELO. ...

Jimi Hendrix: Brother From Another Planet

Retrospective by Kris Needs, Record Collector, October 2010

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1970: It's all over the evening news that Jimi Hendrix has died at the age of 27. "JIMI HENDRIX DEATH RIDDLE" bellow ...

Derek & The Dominos: The Prince Of Love… Or How The Recording Of 'Layla', Clapton's Ode To Forbidden Love, Made Victims Of Derek And The Dominos

Retrospective by Harry Shapiro, MOJO, January 2001

IMAGINE THIS story: a world-famous guitarist decides to form a band where nobody is supposed to know it's him. While it's coming together, he falls ...

Truth Hurts: Truthfully Speaking

Review by Amy Linden, The Source, August 2002

STEVIE WONDER once declared that love's in need of love today. It's a beautiful notion, but one that eludes much of the current R&B. Case ...


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