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Profile by Kris DiLorenzo, Grooves, February 1979

SOME PEOPLE call the Rolling Stones the world's greatest rock & roll band, but there are probably just as many fans who think that title ...

Bon Jovi

Report and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, January 1989

"BON JOVI... Back To Kick Ass" declare the T-shirts outside the Royal Dublin Society Arena. Below this raunchy statement of intent is the list of ...

Cliff Richard: Cliffstory

Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Music Week, September 2008

CLIFF RICHARD has been the most constant companion of British pop fans since 1958, but he remains one of the most enigmatic and controversial figures ...

Todd Rundgren: In Todd We Trust

Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 15 June 1990

FOLLOWERS OF Todd Rundgren may not get as much publicity as Deadheads, but the loyal legions that flock to Rundgren's concerts – particularly in the ...

Lulu: Back For More

Retrospective and Interview by Dave Thompson, Goldmine, 1 April 1994

SHE DOESN'T do it deliberately, she says, but you can set your watch by Lulu, and the most surprising thing is, she still takes everyone ...

The Beatles: The Birth of Beatlemania: The Fab Four on Tour, 1963

Book Excerpt by Martin Creasy, 'Beatlemania!' (Omnibus), March 2011

NOTE: Martin Creasy spent two years tracing the trajectory of the Beatles' UK tours, interviewing scores of people who in some way connected with John, ...

Culture Club In The Land Of The Rising Sun

Report by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, 19 July 1984

Culture Club in Japan are very big news INDEED. They're the most popular British pop group. They fill massive stadiums. There are Girl Georges everywhere. ...

The Crusaders: It's A Street Life In The Crusaders

Profile and Interview by Max Bell, NME, 22 September 1979

IT'S THE MID-1950s in Houston, Texas, east of Galveston Bay and west of the River Colorado, and some of the local folks are having themselves ...

George Jones, Tammy Wynette: Stand By Your Ex: George Jones and Tammy Wynette

Interview by Mark Cooper, MOJO, October 1995

Wait till I get you home...to Splitsville, Tennessee, where George Jones and Tommy Wynette have resided since the classic song D.I.V.O.R.C.E. came true following perhaps ...

The Strawbs: Ten Years of the Strawbs: From Donegan to Dali in Five Easy Stages

Interview by Jerry Gilbert, ZigZag, September 1975

THROUGH A ten-year period that has seen them frequently under-rated, and a time when they probably least deserved it the subject of mass adulation, the ...

Curtis Mayfield: The Original Superfly Guy

Interview by Robert Gordon, Q, July 1993

Curtis Mayfield is a full-scale genius. First with the Impressions, and afterwards with his solo stuff, he defined, then redefined, the sound of black America. ...

Pete Townshend: What Came Next: Pete Townshend Goes It Alone

Sleevenotes by Ira Robbins, Who Came First, August 1992

As spiritual epiphanies go, Pete Townshend's public acknowledgment of his personal rebirth was made with remarkable understatement for a major celebrity. ...

Mercury Rev: Jonathan Donahue's Dark Dream

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 11 August 2001

TWO AND A half years ago, American mavericks Mercury Rev thought their career was pretty much over. For the band's two Catskills-based mainstays – singer/guitarist ...

The Dream Syndicate: Medicine Men: The Dream Syndicate

Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 14 July 1984

INSIDE THE Mission Theatre in sunny Santa Barbara we’ve got trouble. With less than an hour to go before The Dreams Syndicate take the stage, ...

Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell: A Crown Jewel of a Show: King Bob and Queen Joni

Essay by Al Aronowitz, The Blacklisted Journalist, 1 March 1999

I REALLY WOULDN'T know what to say to Bob Dylan if I bumped into him again. I suppose I could talk about our one-time mutual ...

Del Amitri: The Del Amitri Story

Retrospective and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Record Collector, October 1998

IT'S ALWAYS BEEN something of a thankless task, being a member of Del Amitri. Put bluntly, in spite of launching their prestigious career from the ...

Booker T & The MGs: The Backroom Boys: Booker T & the MGs

Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, August 2001

IF EVER THERE WAS a piece of music that deserved the epithet "timeless", it’s Booker T. & the MGs’ ‘Green Onions’. The most basic of ...

Cat Stevens in the Talk-In

Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 22 May 1971

You're very rare in music today in that you managed to virtually disappear for two years when you were ill and then came back ...

Led Zeppelin: All Loud On The Western Front: How Zep Conquered The World

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, May 2003

With the release of the sensational DVD and the fearsome live How The West Was Won, LED ZEPPELIN are back in our midst as purveyors ...

Ian McLagan, The Small Faces: All Ian McLagan's Rage

Interview by Ian Fortnam, bol.com, April 2000

IAN MCLAGAN’S CV reads like a veritable who’s who of rock ‘n’ roll. Over the course of his 54 years the Hounslow-born keyboard player ...