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Pet Shop Boys: Oh Mister Songwriters!

Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, January 1992

What is it like, that magical moment when the creative juices start to flow? Is it one glorious spurt? Or merely a dutiful grind? The ...

Pet Shop Boys: Our Back Catalogue Is 25 Years Of Social Commentary

Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 19 March 2009

Julian Marszalek meets pop renaissance man Neil Tennant to talk Potemkin, production and pop ...

Pet Shop Boys: What Does It Take To Make These Men Happy?

Interview by Chris Heath, Smash Hits, 26 February 1986

A NUMBER ONE RECORD? GETTING ON THE COVER OF SMASH HITS? LOTS OF LOVELY MONEY?  WELL, THEY'VE HAD ALL THAT AND THEY STILL LOOK LIKE ...

David Bowie: Loving the Alien

Interview by Steve Pafford, Record Collector, January 2007

As David Bowie turns 60 on 8 January, Neil Tennant from Pet Shop Boys talks about his lifelong obsession with the man who fell to ...

Garbage: Return of the Muck!

Interview by Steven Wells, NME, 21 March 1998

Take some scary spiders, a few mad mutts, a sound akin to the Pet Shop Boys on downers and, er, eye of Shirley Manson, and ...

Dusty Springfield: Brand New Dusty

Interview by Jon Savage, The Observer, 12 February 1989

She was the beehive who buzzed to the top of the Sixties pops and faded into the California sunset in the Seventies. The Press proved ...

Dusty Springfield: Scandal In The Wind

Interview by Len Brown, NME, 25 February 1989

"IT'S AMAZING when you consider how many people have croaked. Looking back at some of those old Ready Steady Go! Shows, 'Jesus, she's croaked, where's ...

Mel & Kim, Pet Shop Boys: Phil Harding and Ian Curnow: Production Lines

Interview by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 4 February 1989

PAUL MATHUR TALKS TO PHIL HARDING AND IAN CURNOW, KEYWORKERS IN THE SAW HIT FACTORY ...

Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Interview by Tom Hibbert, Smash Hits, 12 March 1986

"A lot of people are going to hate Sigue Sigue Sputnik," says their bass player and boss Tony James. "Because we're not into being miserable ...

Al Stewart: A British Eccentric Finds A House In Bel Air — And A Home

Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 10 March 1989

SINGER-SONGWRITER Al Stewart has a theory about why he'll never sell as many records as Lionel Richie or Billy Joel. ...

Suede: Dream On

Interview by Jon Savage, MOJO, January 1994

They were suburban loners who saw the potential for beauty inside the tawdry and extravagant. Together they won attention and success. As Suede step into ...

Arthur Baker, New Order: Arthur Baker: Legends of Arthur

Interview by Sean O'Hagan, New Musical Express, 9 January 1988

What do current chart hits by New Order and Wally Jump Junior have in common with a new House version of John Coltrane's masterpiece 'A ...

The Darling Buds, The House Of Love, The Wonder Stuff: The House of Love, The Darling Buds and The Wonder Stuff: Tomorrow Belongs To Us

Interview by Len Brown, NME, 7 January 1989

AT THE DAWN OF 1989 I'm confronted by Guy House Of Love Chadwick, Andrea Darling Bud and Miles Wonder Stuff. The first, an anorexic Brian ...

Killers, The: The Q Interview: Brandon Flowers: "I refuse to say, Fuck Bush."

Interview by William Shaw, Q, March 2007

The Killers man: practising Mormon, condom salesman, insists upon washing his own underpants ...

Tanita Tikaram: All Grown Up with Nowhere to Go?

Interview by Max Bell, Vox, March 1991

TANITA TIKARAM DOESN'T think she is famous and can't bear to call herself a celebrity. ...

Rufus Wainwright: A Year Of Living Judy Garland

Interview by Andrew Purcell, The Independent, 14 February 2007

THERE IS AN anecdote that Rufus Wainwright enjoys telling about his childhood fascination with Judy Garland. "I wanted to be Dorothy – on good days," ...

Right Said Fred: Testicle Dept

Interview by Keith Cameron, NME, 14 March 1992

DATELINE, NEW YORK. Right Said Fred have just topped the US charts with 'I'm Too Sexy' and their witty, zippy video squeezes itself gingerly into ...

Goldfrapp: Manure Rather Than Manicure

Interview by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 25 January 2008

After past glam excesses, Goldfrapp are turning to nature for inspiration. Jude Rogers heads for their country retreat and hears why they are English eccentrics ...

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: They Need Your Love So Bad!

Interview by Jon Young, Creem, March 1987

ANDY MCCLUSKEY laughs at the memory of The Song that changed the fortunes of Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark. ...

Deee-Lite: Trio De Janeiro

Interview by James Brown, NME, 9 February 1991

Pop music isn't all lying around the pool with GUNS N'ROSES, frugging with PRINCE and getting pissed (on) with the MONDAYS. Except, that is, in ...