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Thomas Dolby: Has The Man of a Thousand Faces Spread Himself Too Thin?

Interview by Alan di Perna, Musician, May 1989

1. OPEN ON long shot of Hollywood skyline. Grimy fog and half-hearted drizzle give the city the mean, seedy look it always has when the ...

Primal Scream: "We're heavier than Guns n' Roses... We're loose and loaded delinquent rockers."

Interview by Siân Pattenden, Smash Hits, 21 March 1990

Yikes! They're so tough! Practically all of Primal Scream have been in prison! They think they're dead sexy! They don't wash their hair! And they ...

Ken Scott

Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, July 1990

FOR OVER 25 years, English-born Ken Scott has been in recording studios working with the legends of rock. Throughout the Sixties and Seventies, Scott was ...

Primal Scream

Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 1 June 1991

BOBBY GILLESPIE reckons that his new single, 'Higher Than The Sun', will revolutionise pop in the Nineties in the same way as the Pistols' 'Anarchy ...

The Beatles, Ringo Starr: Who The Hell Does RINGO STARR Think He Is?

Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, June 1992

He was The Lovable One who cracked his daft mop-top jokes for The Queen. The Fab With The Big Nose who you could take home ...

Harry Nilsson

Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, August 1993

2010 note: Harry Nilsson succumbed to heart failure and died on January 15, 1994, less than six months after this interview took place. ...

Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks: Stevie Nicks

Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, July 1994

SINCE SHE FIRST EXPLODED ON THE ROCK SCENE IN 1975 AS THE SEDUCTIVE FOCAL POINT OF FLEETWOOD MAC, STEVIE NICKS HAS BEEN AS MUCH AN ...

La's, The: There He’s Gone: Lee Mavers

Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 15 April 1995

Simple as. When Lee Mavers talks, in that cracked-up Mersey drawl of his, he talks. ...

Pulp: Cocker The North

Interview by Max Bell, Vox, May 1995

Jarvis Cocker, the only kid in his Sheffield classroom who wore lederhosen, didn't have a girlfriend till he was 19. Now he's a pin-up and ...

Garbage: Litter from America!

Interview by Steven Wells, Vox, April 1996

SAN FRANCISCO: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas is being projected onto the fire curtain while the stage is being prepared for Garbage. The soundless ...

Elliott Smith: Something Happened: Elliott Smith's real-life blur

Interview by James Hunter, L.A. Weekly, May 1997

BORED BY stories, interested in the unruliness of things. Portland's Elliott Smith is a singer-songwriter suspicious of singer-songwriter certainties. Angles, hypotheses, probabilities, lucid emotions arising ...

Radiohead: It's true, things can only get better

Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 13 June 1997

Radiohead's Thom Yorke looked around, saw what a mess we're in, wrote about it on an album called OK Computer... ...

Texas: Good News From Texas

Interview by Max Bell, GQ, August 1997

SHARLEEN SPITERI was free-climbing in the Cuillin Hills on the Isle of Skye a year ago, when she made two uncharacteristic blunders. Firstly, she fell ...

Oasis: “Of course, me and Liam had a row about it...”

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, September 1997

Seventy-two minutes. Twelve tracks. No co-credits. Noel Gallagher talks Phil Sutcliffe through Oasis's third magnum opus, Be Here Now. ...

Elliott Smith: Interview Transcript

Interview by Neil Mason, unpublished, June 1998

I'D BEEN TO SEE Elliott Smith's first UK show a week earlier, can't recall where, but it was clearly enough to get me back a ...

Elliott Smith: Acoustic Splendour

Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 27 June 1998

CATEGORIES and pigeonholes and genres. They sure make our job easier. Everyone fits neatly in somewhere. Elliott Smith isn't too sure. ...

Smashing Pumpkins: The Smashing Pumpkins: From Genesis to Revelation

Interview by Caitlin Moran, Select, July 1998

The Smashing Pumpkins have built themselves a truly biblical myth. Now, Select offers them the chance to rip it up. Result? A 15-point fandango starring ...

Invisible Jukebox: Ken Kesey

Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, September 1998

Every month we play an artist or musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge ...

Cast: Calm Down, Calm Down!

Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 24 April 1999

Cast's John Power may be older, cutting down on the 'chong' and, um, less frantic but, don't worry, he can still talk bollocks for England... ...

Alice Cooper Gets Brutal

Interview by Ian Fortnam, bol.com, May 2000

WAY BACK in the post-Woodstock doldrums of the early 1970s, Alice Cooper erupted out of Phoenix, Arizona, and immediately consigned the wilting bouquet of navel-gazing ...