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Womack and Womack: Womack & Womack: Soul Dispatches & Gospel Truths From The Funky Front Of Love Wars

Interview by J.D. Considine, Musician, May 1984

CECIL AND Linda Womack are sitting on a couch in their home near Philadelphia while Micah, their youngest, plays with a pull-toy on the floor. ...

Womack and Womack: Womack & Womack: Love Wars (Elektra 60293)

Review by Mitchell Cohen, High Fidelity, May 1984

THE MEN and women that Cecil and Linda Womack portray on Love Wars almost never want the same thing at the same time which makes ...

Bobby Womack: The Poet II (Motown ZL72205)

Review by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 5 May 1984

JUST SO'S brother Cecil and sister-in-law Linda don't get all the crossover kudos... the love wars in the Womack family start here, and Bobby's gonna ...

Marvin Gaye: Trouble Man: Marvin Gaye 1939-1984

Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 10 May 1984

Long before the shooting, Marvin Gaye's life had become a nightmare of drugs, debts and family discord ...

Bobby Womack: A New Hit Proves It's Not Over Yet For The Man Who Wrote 'It's All Over Now'

Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 21 June 1984

LOS ANGELES — Bobby Womack is happy. The forty-year-old singer currently finds himself with a hit album (The Poet II) and single ('Love Has Finally ...

Bobby Womack: The Poet II (Beverly Glen)

Review by J.D. Considine, Record, July 1984

NOMINALLY A sequel to 1981's The Poet, this is less a second helping of that album's personal expressiveness than a second side of Bobby Womack. ...

Ry Cooder: Cooder at the Movies

Interview by Don Snowden, Musician, 28 February 1985

"A MOVIE SCORE is probably the last refuge of abstract music," remarks Ry Cooder in the spartan foyer of a Hollywood sound studio. "You can't ...

Ry Cooder

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Philadelphia Inquirer, 17 May 1985

ARMS FOLDED across his chest, Louis Malle stares stoically across the Hollywood soundstage as the last scene of Alamo Bay, his new film set against ...

Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones: Keith Richards: An English Werewolf in London

Interview by Mat Snow, NME, 22 February 1986

WHAT BECOMES a legend most? So exactly how I'd imagined it was the scene that I wouldn't have dared make it up. Before we enter, ...

The Rolling Stones: Dirty Work

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 29 March 1986

IN THE 1970s, The Rolling Stones were a distinctly unlovely proposition: fronted by a jet-setter and a junkie and churning out a series of tedious ...

Sam Cooke: The Man And His Music

Review by Andy Gill, NME, 26 April 1986

I SUPPOSE any Sam Cooke record is a gift from God, even an LP which fundamentally belies its title in the way this album does. ...

Keith Richards, Rolling Stones, The: Keith Richards Shares His Songwriting Secrets

Interview by Bruce Pollock, Guitar, July 1986

LIKE A POLITICIAN ON THE PODIUM, whistle-stopping across the boondocks on a flatbed, Keith Richards has his share of timeless bromides, comfortable answers his tongue ...

Freddie Jackson, Alexander O'Neal, Teddy Pendergrass, Luther Vandross: Who Took the Heart out of Soul?

Comment by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 2 February 1987

As London prepares for more streamlined sophistication, Adam Sweeting wonders what happened to the sweat and suffering ...

Bobby Womack: The Mystery Man

Profile and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, March 1987

NEW YORK CITY 1985. The Rolling Stones are holed up in the studio cutting tracks for Dirty Work, their first album under their new deal ...

Anita Baker

Interview by Dave Rimmer, Q, March 1987

THAT RESTLESS, relentless and often quite ridiculous search for the Next Big Thing has to be the longest-running game in pop. When Anita Baker's album, ...

Living In A Box: Boxing clever

Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 2 May 1987

They came from nowhere to take the Top Ten by storm. But who were the mystery men of LIVING IN A BOX? Were they black? ...

Terence Trent D'Arby: Madman or Genius?

Interview by Sylvia Patterson, Smash Hits, 17 June 1987

"Em, both probably," pipes Sylvia Patterson ...

Sly & The Family Stone: Sly Stone: Stone Free

Profile by Simon Witter, i-D, January 1988

Sly Stone, one of the first and greatest international black superstars, has survived unimaginable amounts of sex and drugs to be with us today. As ...

Nelson George: Soul Destroyer

Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 14 January 1989

As a columnist for Billboard and The Village Voice, Nelson George has been America's most incisive commentator on the changing face of black music culture. ...

Johnny Marr: What Is Johnny Marr Playing At?

Report by Len Brown, NME, 27 May 1989

SINCE THE SMITHS split in 1987, MORRISSEY has gone on to bigger if not necessarily better things, while JOHNNY MARR has been living the 'have ...