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Seeds, The: 22420 Pacific Coast Highway: Tales of Tim Hudson, Sky Saxon… and Ian Botham

Memoir by Mick Middles, Rock's Backpages, July 2012

STICK-THIN, clad in purple and black. Leather trousers, knee-length boots. Boney, bug-eyed, skank hair, dead face, white cheeks. This strange man was telling me to ...

Perry Farrell, Jane's Addiction: An Offbeat Addiction

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 2 September 1990

Perry Farrell inflames passions and plays for high stakes as he leads Jane's Addiction in its quest for importance ...

Tone Lōc: The Burger King

Interview by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 5 August 1989

Get yourself in shape with Tone Lōc, the monster court jester of rap's ruff, tuff kingdom. Roy Wilkinson chews the fat about girls, grub and ...

Liza Minnelli, Pet Shop Boys: All Eyes Are On Liza

Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 14 August 1989

"My whole life I've sung songs that were written before I was born." But no longer. Liza Minnelli, Oscar-winning superstar, talks to Adam Sweeting about ...

Prefab Sprout: Waxing Lyrical

Profile and Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, 17 October 1990

Prefab Sprout's Paddy McAloon fancies himself as a metaphysical Michael Jackson. Not only does he pride himself on his ability to mix musical genres, he ...

Will to Power: Gimme Back My Bullets: Will to Power shoot for disco Valhalla

Profile by Chuck Eddy, LA Weekly, 17 January 1991

ON NEW YEAR'S Eve, I stayed home and went to bed early, as anybody with respect for planetary alignment and his own safety and disrespect ...

John Lydon

Interview by Steven Daly, Interview, January 1991

RESPLENDENT IN a California combo of fluorescent shorts and suntan, and crowned by a thatch of blond hair, the former Johnny Rotten answers the door ...

Living Colour: Paint It Black

Interview by Paul Elliott, Vox, July 1991

So Elvis is the King of rock'n'roll, huh? Well he don't mean shit to Living Colour as they rap with Paul Elliot about the roots ...

Pete Townshend, Who, The: Pete Townshend: Alive and Kicking

Interview by Pippa Lang, What Hi-Fi?, October 1989

Pete Townshend's zest for gigging is as strong as ever. But so is his passion for the digital trickery of computer composing, as he tells ...

Dr. Dre: Ain't nothing but a gender thang?

Interview by Amy Linden, Request, May 1993

Dr. Dre and writer Amy Linden go one-on-one on sexism and The Chronic. Nobody wins. ...

Tracy Chapman, Jimi Hendrix, Living Colour, Prince, Dan Reed Network: Black Rock

Essay by David Toop, The Face, July 1990

White Rock we know about, but why should the idea of Black Rock be so difficult to comprehend? When Prince says his current tour is rock'n'roll based, he ...

Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: Kurt Cobain: I'm Not Gonna Crack!

Profile and Interview by Michael Azerrad, Vox, July 1992

Poisoned by the chalice of instant success, bedridden with road-rash after a ton of amp-smashingly intense gigs – what's happened to Nirvana's tortured singer and ...

Nirvana: Love Will Tear Us Apart

Report and Interview by Keith Cameron, NME, 29 August 1992

As Nevermind zoomed past Bono & Jacko, so the rumours started: Kurt Is Dead ...Kurt & Courtney & heroin ...As the bulldozers continue to gather ...

INXS: We're Getting There…

Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, January 1991

Loud, powerful, seemingly invincible, the INXS Express comes thundering into yet another city. But this particular journey has not been altogether smooth. Stung by accusations ...

Nirvana: "I Don't Believe In Closing Off Options"

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 8 April 1995

Back in August 1991, NIRVANA were just the latest in a long line of US rock hopefuls. Newly signed to Geffen, Nevermind was about to ...

Nirvana: Inside the Heart and Mind of Kurt Cobain

Interview by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 16 April 1992

FOR NOW, Kurt Cobain and his new wife Courtney Love, live in an apartment in Los Angeles's modest Fairfax district. The living room holds little ...

Boulevard of Broken Dreams: A Trip Down the Sunset Strip

Guide by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, January 1994

SUNSET BOULEVARD: the very name is synonymous with dreams, unrealities, tableaux of palm trees and convertibles in the golden light of southern California. Billy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...