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Beach Boys, The, Taj Mahal: How Goes It Underground?

Report and Interview by Tom Nolan, Los Angeles Times, 18 February 1968

IT WAS A big day for me, for I had just met Andrew Oldham, the brains behind the Stones. He was very thin and he ...

Happy Mondays: Homage to Catatonia

Report and Interview by Jack Barron, NME, 31 March 1990

It's just another manic HAPPY MONDAYS, as the Manc scuzz bags-made-good wreak havoc in a nab-it-all frenzy through Europe on their way back to a ...

Dire Straits: A Poor Man's Guide To That First Million

Report and Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 9 June 1979

ROY CARR gives DIRE STRAITS a lesson in market forces. But M. Knopfler Inc. need no telling. ...

Patti Smith Is Innocent, OK?

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 29 May 1976

Jonh Ingham, on the other hand, is guilty. Six days it took him to get us this piece. SIX DAYS! The Patti-Smith-crazy Sounds staffers were ...

Arrows: Golden Arrows

Report and Interview by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 8 May 1976

NEVER IN THE history of rock 'n' roll has it been more difficult for bands to get the exposure they need to break big and ...

The Pogues, Shane MacGowan: Shane MacGowan: Crash Course To Oblivion

Report and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, February 1993

Cancel the hearses! Desist with the obituaries! For Shane MacGowan lives, in spite of a heroic chemical intake and his ownership of the Western world's ...

Inspiral Carpets: Wish you were here

Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, July 1990

It’s a sun-kissed "no-lose situation" for Inspiral Carpets. Surfing on the stupendous sales of their shock-the-vicar T-shirt selection, and equipped with a user-friendly record deal ...

Robert Plant: Last of the Red-Hot Rock Stars

Report and Interview by Deborah Frost, Spin, September 1993

"CAMION! CAMION!" comes the cry from the front seat of the rented Mercedes wagon. "I don't have time to die!" ...

Kurt Cobain: Suicide Blond

Report and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, August 2005

Gus Van Sant befriended Kurt Cobain during his rise to global stardom. Now the director has made a film based on the grunge superstar's harrowing ...

Guns N' Roses: Didn't You Used To Be Axl Rose?

Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, July 2001

When the reclusive Guns 'N Roses star re-emerged last year, even old band mates didn't recognise him. After a decade of hiring and firing, an ...

Cars, The: A View From The Edge: The Cars Don't Get Easily Amused

Report and Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, May 1982

ELLIOT EASTON tells a dinnertime story to entertain his tablemates in Madison, Wisconsin — most of Nick Lowe's band and a reporter. Seems that one ...

Jerry Lee Lewis: Killer Takes All: Jerry Lee Lewis Keeps On

Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, Creem, January 1987

"I THOUGHT [tonight's show] was the best damn show you ever seen in your whole life," Jerry Lee Lewis says to me, after a Boston ...

James Last: Last of the MORicans

Report and Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 21 February 1976

Forget that Kaspar Hauser. JAMES LAST – or "Hansi" if you prefer – is the real Enigma of modern Germany. TONY STEWART investigates. ...

Lightning Seeds, The: Three Lions '98: They Shoot, They Roar!

Report and Interview by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 16 May 1998

Eng-er-land, Eng-er-land, Eng-er-land! Oh yes, we're gonna win the World Cup. Why? Because FRANK SKINNER, DAVID BADDIEL & IAN BROUDIE have updated Three Lions' — ...

Flowered Up: Crocus Pocus

Report and Interview by Push, Melody Maker, 18 April 1992

TRUST FLOWERED UP to come up with the name "Debauchery" for the unofficial launch party for their new single, 'Weekender'. And trust them to take ...

Brides of Funkenstein, The, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Funkadelic, Parliament: George Clinton & The Funk Mob

Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Unicorn Times, May 1979

GARY SHIDER and Mike Hampton held the stage at the Capital Centre in the fiercest rock'n'roll guitar duet in any local hall recently. Shider's fingers ...

David Bowie: Cha...Cha...Cha...Changes — A Journey with Aladdin

Report and Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 12 May 1973

CHARING CROSS STATION, London, 9.10 pm: And when he arrived they screamed and they cried, and they rushed, and gushed forth and beat their feverish ...

Malcolm McLaren, Sex Pistols, The: The Great Pistols Movies Fiasco

Report and Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 29 July 1978

VIVIEN GOLDMAN ON THE 'OFFICIAL' MOVIE WHICH STILL ISN'T FINISHED — AND THE BRILLIANT ONE MALCOLM WONT LET YOU SEE ...

Supersuckers, Sick & Wrong, Earth, Six Finger Satellite, Green Magnet School: Sub Pop: Espresso Way To Your Skull

Report and Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 18 July 1992

Smells like (oh yes) caffeine spirit! Brash, thrashy, bursting with attitude, irony and a shameless desire to make a mint out of countless 'intellectual redneck' ...

Doors, The: The Doors: The Shaman As Superstar

Report and Interview by Richard Goldstein, New York, 5 August 1968

"Morrison's eyes glow as he discusses the Apollonian-Dionysian struggle for life's force. It's an easy guess which side he's on." "The shaman... he was a man ...