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Interview by Jim Irvin, The Word, September 2007

AS THE 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd's debut album, Piper At the Gates Of Dawn rolls around, it's interesting to ruminate on what became of ...

Peter Frampton: Leader Of The Pack

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Sounds, 19 June 1976

'Show Me The Way' pleads PETER FRAMPTON but he sure knows where he's going now. RICHARD CROMELIN reports. ...

Bryan Ferry, Roxy Music: Bryan Ferry

Interview by Nick Kent, NME, 19 January 1974

"I TELL ya, mate, just wait till Bryan Ferry gets onstage – 'is face is goin' to look like a fuckin' cancered lung". ...

Sham 69: Jimmy Pursey: The People's Champ

Interview by John Pidgeon, Melody Maker, 7 April 1979

JIM POPS down the betting shop to bung twenty quid on a 10-1 shot in the 3.10 at Newbury, so I give his records the ...

Marillion: Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back Into The Water

Interview by Paul Morley, NME, 28 April 1984

Along comes megajaws FISH, big fry with heavy rockers Marillion in search off "a clash off the titans"...in other words, a confrontation with NME. Shy, ...

Culture Club: Boy George: It's An Odd Boy Who Doesn't Like Sport #1

Interview by Danny Baker, NME, 22 September 1984

"Where can you find pleasure?/Search the world for treasure?/Learn science technology?/Where can you begin to make your dreams all come true?/On the land or on ...

Aztec Camera: I'm Gonna Live Forever

Interview by Paolo Hewitt, NME, 7 January 1984

SCARCE ON the ground these past months, Roddy Frame is the new Boy Wonder, a precocious 19 year old currently calling all the shots. ...

The Strawbs' Dave Cousins

Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 22 January 1972

Can you talk, first of all, about the early days of the Strawbs, how you came together and so on. ...

Marc Almond: Revenge Of The Sleazebag

Interview by Don Watson, NME, 8 September 1984

AS LONDON swelters, there's one back alley in Soho's underarm narrow enough to escape the sun's onslaught. Damp and dingy it seems to seep moisture ...

Brian Eno: Eno: Extra Natty Orations

Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 5 February 1977

"I was trying to think of some inventions, so I tried to think of what I needed. But I don't need anything. That's the difficulty, ...

The Undertones: A Better Mousetrap: The Undertones Beat A Path To America’s Door

Interview by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, September 1980

Back in the primordial '70s, a rash of groups moved into the British 45 charts to occupy the places formerly inhabited by the Beatles and ...

Lou Reed In Cloning Sensation!

Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 6 May 1978

PETE SILVERTON goes to Philadelphia to borrow a book from Lou Reed (That's not what it said on his expenses — Ed.) ...

The Strawbs: An interview with Dave Cousins

Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 13 April 1974

DAVE COUSINS is one of the few musicians whom one can interview repeatedly and always come back with a fresh slant or a new revelation. ...

Boy George, Culture Club: Boy George: Bohemian!

Interview by Cynthia Rose, Creem, June 1984

Were they rebels? Were they artists? Were they outcasts from society? They were all of these. They were the Bohemians. These bohemians, Mr. and Mrs. ...

Elton John: A Million Dollar Friendship: An Interview with Gus Dudgeon

Interview by Jon Tiven, Circus Raves, August 1975

NARY A POTENTIOMETER breathed a word at the Caribou Ranch high in the Rocky Mountains. And the baffles relaxed as the massive array of equipment ...

Brian Eno: Eno: The Man Who

Interview by Paul Morley, Uncut, August 2001

After he left Roxy Music in 1973, Brian Eno became a key figure in the development of electronic music – in the nineties, NME ...

Adam & The Ants: Adam Ant: The Song Of Injun Adam

Interview by Chris Salewicz, Creem, June 1981

Or: What's A Picnic Without Ants? ...

Elton John

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 26 January 1974

THERE WAS a curious smell in the Belle Vue Hall, Manchester. ...