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Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion I (Geffen GEF 24415); Use Your Illusion II (Geffen GEF 24420)

Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 19 September 1991

Appetite for pretension ...

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 21 September 1991

We're talking sublime here. NIRVANA are the greatest band to emerge from the American post-hardcore meltdown since Sonic Youth, they sound nothing like Hüsker Dü ...

Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion I (Geffen)

Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 21 September 1991

THERE'S TWO schools of thought about Guns N'Roses. For some they're "the most dangerous band in the world"; for others, their brand of "danger" is ...

David Bowie: Tin Machine: Versus

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, October 1991

PICTURE THIS: you are in a sex shop in Sydney (for whatever twisted reasons people have for patronising such institutions), and this scholarly-looking gent with ...

Guns N' Roses: Welcome To My Nightmare

Interview by Nick Kent, Vox, October 1991

Guns N' Roses are undoubtably the biggest noises in rock. But for how long? Would you buy two simultaneously released LPs at full price? Will ...

Guns N' Roses: Guns N’ Roses: Wimps ‘R’ Us

Essay by Deborah Frost, Village Voice, 1 October 1991

SMART BOYS DON'T talk about anarchy; stupid boys don't know about it. It's hard to imagine, say, Emma Goldman (who, true, was not really a ...

Soundgarden: Daylight Shrubbery

Interview by Push, Melody Maker, 5 October 1991

With their Badmotorfinger LP being hailed as a classic, SOUNDGARDEN tell PUSH that this is their time ...

Guns N' Roses: The Last Angry White Man

Essay by RJ Smith, LA Weekly, 10 October 1991

A RED STATION wagon slows down in front of Tower Records on Sunset. It nuzzles up near the curb, where a line of people wait ...

Moby: Shave the Whale

Interview by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 26 October 1991

He once sang with Flipper, but now MOBY — aka straight-edge Techno DJ RICHARD MELVILLE HALL — is having a whale of a time out ...

Mötley Crüe: Decade of Dickheadedness

Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 26 October 1991

Grand old dames of Heavy Metal MÖTLEY CRÜE have just signed a record deal worth a cool £35 million. Not bad for a band that ...

Cliff Richard: Who The Hell Does Cliff Richard Think He Is?

Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, January 1992

THIS IS a tricky question, I said, but tell me, Cliff: what is it in your half-a-century bound on earth, in your illustrious career, that ...

Belinda Carlisle: Christmas Crackers

Interview by David Quantick, Vox, January 1992

It may be Christmas but it's the season of no fun for Belinda Carlisle. VOX found her heavy with child, enslaved by her hormones and ...

Soundgarden: Nitro Grunge From Garage Heaven

Interview by Mark Petracca, Cover, January 1992

SO THERE I was in all my silly repute. Yet another late night rock and roll escapade. Same setup: Introduce the magazine, ask some questions, ...

Aerosmith, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Mötley Crüe, Rolling Stones, The: Big Deals: How Money Fever is Changing the Music Business

Report by Fred Goodman, Musician, January 1992

"IN MARCH of 1985 the band was broke. People were selling their houses. The IRS was calling every day." ...

Michael Jackson: The Making Of The King Of Pop

Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 9 January 1992

THE SEVEN DWARFS are singing. Their voices are floating out of speakers hidden among the trees and lush flora surrounding Michael Jackson's mansion in Neverland ...

Smashing Pumpkins: Smells Like Halloween Spirit

Interview by Keith Cameron, NME, 1 February 1992

With Nirvana a copper-bottomed rock phenomenon, the race is on to discover the Next Big Thing amongst America's 'alternative rock' ranks. Despite an acclaimed album ...

Tori Amos: I Wanna Sell You A Tori

Report by Terry Staunton, NME, 8 February 1992

Six months ago she was nobody, today TORI AMOS is well on the way to becoming a household name. The former LA 'rock chick' has ...

Nirvana: Smells like... Bullshit

Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 8 February 1992

Nevermind has been at Number One on the Kerrang! Album Chart for a month. Stateside it's the same plus Double Platinum, and worldwide the video ...

Hole: Belting Out That Most Unfeminine Emotion

Interview by Simon Reynolds, New York Times, 9 February 1992

SUSAN FALUDI, the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, said recently in a magazine interview that "anger is not something that's an ...

The Nymphs: Nymphs: The Asylum Siren

Report and Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 15 February 1992

When singer Inger Lorre first heard Patti Smith, she knew she had to become a rock'n'roll star. When she heard the Velvet's 'Heroin'. She got ...