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The Tubes: What is Our Role in the Universe?

Profile and Interview by Mick Farren, NME, 29 October 1977

These young people are pondering the question that has perturbed all the great philosophers since time immemorial and beyond: WHAT'S the barbed wire doing over ...

Orange Juice: From A Postcard To A Postage Stamp

Interview by Chris Bohn, NME, 2 October 1982

HATE – WITHOUT wanting to sound faddish about such a thing – is once more where the heart is. ...

Bobby Womack: The Great Provider

Interview by Paolo Hewitt, NME, 28 September 1985

"They call me a living legend/But I'm just a soldier who's been left behind/And now my heart can't take it/My feet won't make it/I'm the ...

Deep Purple: Purple, Introducing The…Err…Unknown Mr. Coverdale

Report and Interview by Tony Stewart, NME, 29 September 1973

PURPLE RECORDS took the press down to Clearwell Castle on the Welsh-English border last week to meet their new singer boy. The name of this ...

Kilburn & The High Roads: Kilburn and the High Roads: Hardened Criminals Plan Big Break-Out

Report and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, 1 September 1973

AT LEAST, THAT'S THE WAY THEY LOOK. BUT THEY'RE GOING TO BE BIG: NICK KENT ON THE ROAD TO SUCCESS WITH KILBURN AND THE HIGH ...

Simple Minds: Strangers In A Strange Land

Interview by Tony Stewart, NME, 17 February 1979

SIMPLE MINDS were fidgety as they sat around the kitchen table, some of them exhaling long streams of cigarette smoke while the others rattle boiled ...

The Christians: Rock On Commie: The Christians In East Berlin

Report and Interview by Len Brown, NME, 1 August 1987

WHERE AM I? The hotel receptionist says, "Have a nice day". There's Gershwin muzak in the lift. There's Sade on the radio. There's no bugging ...

Rick James: Blowing Out Tinsel Town

Interview by Lloyd Bradley, NME, 10 April 1982

Not So Long Ago:THERE WAS a time when nearly everybody in the world owned a Motown record. Motown was like a baby's security blanket, warm, ...

The Clash: Yes It's Strummer In The City

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 30 June 1979

HOT TOWN! Strummer in the city: walks into the Kings Road pub that serves as his temporary local while he's staying in Fulham dead on ...

Steve Miller

Profile and Interview by John Tobler, NME, 22 May 1976

"I WASN'T disturbed by having a hit – I was exhausted! Before The Joker became successful we'd done 220 concerts in the previous year. Then ...

Patti Smith, Television: Punk in New York: Blitzkreig Bop

Retrospective and Interview by Mat Snow, NME, 15 February 1986

"And one fine morning she turns on a New York-station / And doesn't believe what she hears at all / She started dancing to that ...

Ringo Starr: Everyone One Of Us Has All We Need…

Interview by Bob Woffinden, NME, 12 April 1975

SOMETIMES your friendly neighbourhood interviewer is allowed to conduct his interview in a small room with only the interviewee and a tape, recorder for company. ...

Frankie Miller: The Everything's-Coming-Up-Roses-For-Frankie Miller Headline

Report and Interview by Bob Woffinden, NME, 16 July 1977

ONLY SOMEONE as talented as Frankie Miller could have afforded to be so profligate with his gifts. He's a survivor, sure, but it's been a ...

Genesis, Peter Gabriel: The Re-Genesis Of Peter Gabriel

Report and Interview by Tony Stewart, NME, 1 October 1977

For someone who once accepted the Noble Order Of The Pension Book, this chap is rather lively. TONY STEWART saw him knocking out audiences at ...

Bananarama: Mean Streaks and True Confessions

Interview by Susan Williams, NME, 28 April 1984

WHACKING THROUGH the poster-rack at Woolworths. Staring back at the faces of the semi-famous packaged like slabs of bacon. ...

The Cult: Bill and Ian's Excellent Adventure

Report and Interview by Steven Wells, NME, 15 February 1992

Free-wheelin' through the Deep South, peddling their Bible Of Dangerous Rawk to innocent kids and getting chased by magnum-toting sheriffs...Yeah, THE CULT are still up ...

The Police: The Long Yarn Of The Lore

Interview by Nick Kent, NME, 1 September 1979

ALONGSIDE THE habitually garish or else just plain boring film posters that currently besmear the walls of London, the advert for Quadrophenia stands out like ...

Bobby Womack: BLAM! Bobby Womack Calls The Shots

Interview by Cliff White, NME, 27 March 1976

CLIFF WHITE hits the floor and runs the tape as the soul veteran pulls the trigger. ...

Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.: The Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.: To Live And Die In L.A.

Report and Interview by Paolo Hewitt, NME, 17 March 1990

The Devoux brothers have learned the rules of survival the hard way. In LA there are now 92,000 gang members, and mercy is not in ...

Apache Indian: Big Bhangra Theory

Interview by Steven Wells, NME, 23 January 1993

He's been called the voice of Asian youth, the pop Gandhi and a politician but, according to APACHE INDIAN, his music just reflects the sound ...