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Natalie Merchant is Lady Goo Goo

Profile and Interview by Robert Sandall, Sunday Times, 26 March 2010

Natalie Merchant sold her house in Hawaii to fund an album of nonsense verse involving 130 musicians. It's the most ambitious project of her career. ...

Van Dyke Parks

Profile and Interview by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 February 2010

Eccentric Van Dyke Parks finally reaches S.F. ...

J.J. Cale Rolls On

Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 24 February 2009

ESCONDIDO — J.J. Cale is enjoying his lunch in a corner booth at Olive Garden, cloaked in the anonymity he's taken pains to cultivate throughout ...

Rufus Wainwright, Ron Sexsmith: The New Romantics: Ron Sexsmith and Rufus Wainwright

Profile and Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Maclean's, June 2001

THEY ARE THE sensitive boys of Canadian pop. Both are acclaimed singer-songwriters, and both are unabashedly emotional. One is gay, with an impeccable musical pedigree, ...

Elton John, Cliff Richard: John Reid, Elton John's Manager: "Welder's Son Who Built A Pop Empire"

Profile and Interview by Ed Jones, The Sunday Times, 8 May 1977

WHILE ELTON John was wowing the pearl-strung punters at last Monday's concert in aid of the Queen's Jubilee Appeal at the Rainbow Theatre, London, John ...

Bunny Sigler: On To A Winning Streak

Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 11 May 1973

THERE ARE honestly very few people within our musical sphere who I really want to interview and who I have missed. But one such person ...

Charles Brown: Honey Dripper: Charles Brown caresses the blues

Profile and Interview by RJ Smith, L.A. Weekly, 31 July 1997

THE MAN locking eyes with you from the cover of Charles Brown's last album is the kind of rogue so elegant he barely cocks his ...

Neil Sedaka Looks Back

Profile and Interview by Johnny Black, Music Week, June 2009

IT'S OBVIOUS to anyone with even a smattering of pop music suss that without Neil Sedaka there would be no 'Breaking Up Is Hard To ...

Destroy All Monsters: Monster Mash

Profile and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 14 July 1979

Giovanni Dadomo talks to Destroy All Monsters. Sounds editor falls for Niagara (geddit) and says, "I think we have a Debbie Harry situation with regards ...

The Rapture: A New York State Of Mind

Profile and Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 6 September 2003

Out of time, ahead of fashion – the Rapture are the real sound of New York. If they can make it there, says Caroline Sullivan, ...

P. F. Sloan: PF Sloan: Rising from 'Destruction'

Profile and Interview by j. poet, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 September 2006

"PF SLOAN was born sometime between midnight and dawn on an inspired evening in 1964," PF Sloan says, from his small Los Angeles apartment. That ...

George McCrae's Last Chance – A Smash

Profile and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 20 July 1974

STRANGE how chance plays its part in the record business. If George McCrae hadn't decided to have one last try at making a hit record ...

Lionel Richie: Crossing the Square

Profile and Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 17 March 1987

The saintly Lionel Richie's co-writer is the Lord. Adam Sweeting reports ...

Boz Scaggs: Wizard of Boz

Profile and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 18 October 2001

LIKE ONE OF his ballad's gently lolling melodies, William Royce "Boz" Scaggs takes an easygoing approach to recording. Never one to give in to a ...

Curiosity Killed The Cat: New Faces: England's Latest Curiosity

Profile and Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 24 September 1987

Teen heartthrobs Curiosity Killed the Cat try to conquer America ...

Joe Cocker: 'U.S.'s Only Culture is Black'

Profile and Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Rolling Stone, 1 March 1969

LONDON – Joe Cocker, the frizzy-haired new idol of the English pop scene, lives modestly in a first floor bed sitter in South Kensington. You ...

Rick Nelson: Ricky Nelson: Now Ricky's Name Change Is Official!

Profile and Interview by Alan Smith, NME, 27 April 1962

'YOUNG WORLD' is probably the last disc by Ricky Nelson you'll see in the NME Charts – but don't panic. At 21 Ricky has no ...

Joe Jackson: "Actually, I quite like landmines"

Profile and Interview by Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, 5 January 2008

Joe Jackson, songwriter and contrarian, talks to Robert Sandall about smoking, Berlin, and his new album. ...

Willie Nelson: The Emperor of Austin

Profile and Interview by Joe Nick Patoski, Zoo World, 18 July 1974

"I WAS LIVING in Nashville," Willie Nelson recalls. "I had just written a song called 'What Can You Do To Me Now?' and the next ...

Joan Jeanrenaud: No strings: Joan Jeanrenaud

Profile and Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 28 February 2002

Joan Jeanrenaud had the classical world at her feet as cellist with the Kronos Quartet. She tells Adam Sweeting how she finds life on her ...