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Interview by Mark Sinker, NME, 7 March 1987

"I pre-empted the Doctor Martens thing, you know." ...

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 ...

Was (Not Was): Disco Infernal

Interview by Mark Sinker, NME, 30 April 1988

WHIPPED CREAM ON A BARBED WIRE PIE ...

Ozzy Osbourne: Big Oz I Love You

Interview by Steven Wells, NME, 13 May 1989

Why does MR OSBOURNE bite the heads off small animals? Ozzy can. Get it? Is Oz a fat geriatric bastard who'd be better off playing ...

Phil Collins: Ugly Bald Bastard Speaks (to Phil Collins)

Interview by Steven Wells, NME, 3 March 1990

• He leaves the toilet seat up! He does stuff in the privacy of his own house! He's worth 22 million! He's not a rich ...

Mercury Rev: Nice Merc If You Can Get It

Interview by Dele Fadele, NME, 4 January 1992

THE FRIDAY afternoon rendezvous with Mercury Rev isn't quite going as planned. Police have cordoned off a large stretch of Harrow Road, West London because ...

Rage Against The Machine: Livid In The Material World

Interview by Steven Wells, NME, 13 February 1993

From Comershop to Consolidated, politics is most emphatically back on the pop agenda. And throwing up the high-wire act between semtex and spandex to beat ...

Paul Weller: Woking Back To Happiness: Paul Weller

Interview by Paul Moody, NME, 13 May 1995

It’s taken over a decade, but with his new album PAUL WELLER has finally gone back to his roots, the part of his life that ...

Elvis Costello: They Think It's All Covers... Er, It Is Now!

Interview by Terry Staunton, NME, 20 May 1995

After 18 years of being either a sneering young turk or cumudgeonly old bugger, ELVIS COSTELLO has decided it's time for a change – he's ...

Elvis Costello: A Good Year For The Composer

Interview by Keith Cameron, NME, 29 June 1996

HE IS THE Music Man, he comes from down your way. And he can play. Oh, he can play pretty much anything you care to ...

Nas: Ticket To Scribe

Interview by Dele Fadele, NME, 29 June 1996

Having adopted the moniker of one Pablo Escobar, NAS ESCOBAR set about creating vivid lyrical depictions of life in his native New York tenement slums. ...

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 ...