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Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers: Chuck Brown: Take The Money And Go-Go

Interview by Sean O'Hagan, NME, 4 April 1987

CHUCK BROWN'S in Britain to stick up the go-go scene with his pioneering blast of bum-pin'. But as SEAN O'HAGAN finds out, he didn't get ...

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 ...

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, ...

Ronnie Lane: Can Rock Survive The Holocaust?

Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 17 January 1976

RONNIE LANE'S up in town today. Been up from the farm in Monmouthshire for about a week now. ...

Eddie & The Hot Rods: Tasty, Urban Tension Classics…

Interview by Max Bell, NME, 3 April 1976

MAX BELL says, "Kids, you gonna drive me to drinkin'. If you can't get next to HOT ROD thinkin'" ...

The Triffids: Roses, Knives, Dead Bodies

Interview by Mat Snow, NME, 5 January 1985

MAT SNOW hails the twisted poetry of THE TRIFFIDS while the rest of us wonder — do all the great new bands come from Australia, ...

The Fall: All Fall Down

Interview by Ian Penman, NME, 5 January 1980

JUST ABOVE my typewriter on the mantlepiece is an eye-catching tube of 10 orange flavoured effervescent tablets. Each tablet contains 1g orange flavoured concentrated Vitamin ...

Eels: The Freak Shall Inherit The Earth

Interview by Steven Wells, NME, 1 March 1997

The EELS are the band currently treating Britain to the joys of geek power with their hit single, 'Novocaine For The Soul'. And leading their ...

The Fania All Stars: The Fania All-Stars: It's Skinny [OLÉ] It's Dangerous [OLÉ OLÉ] And It Drinks Cheap Spanish Wine...

Overview by Miles, NME, 14 February 1976

With a rose clenched between his teeth, the man they call EL MILES infiltrates the heady, exotic world of the Strand Lyceum, where trousers are ...

U2: A Dreamboat Named Desire

Report and Interview by Richard Cook, NME, 27 February 1982

"THEY WENT right through it. Took out every sock. Squeezed every tube of toothpaste. Then this guy says to me 'You – come with me. ...

Culture Club: The Culture Vultures Gather

Interview by Gavin Martin, NME, 30 April 1983

THE YOUNG girl walks hesitantly through the foyer of the Dominion Theatre; amidst all the colour and excitement she strikes an uncertain, rather nervous figure. ...

Groupies: Stars In Their Thighs

Report and Interview by Steven Wells, David Quantick, NME, 28 March 1992

NME'S LOOK AT THE THINGS THAT GO HUMP IN THE NIGHT ...