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Interview by Tim Cooper, The Independent, 11 March 2005

Teenage girls can't resist Avril Lavigne's sulky-teen pose. So Tim Cooper decides to let his daughter interrogate the pop princess. ...

Sister Sledge: We Are Family (Entertainment)

Report by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 5 April 1980

Greatest dancer: DANNY BAKER ...

Tangerine Dream: Quiet Please! Musicians Sleeping!

Report and Interview by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 10 March 1990

2019 Note: Tangerine Dream were the first band to play in East Berlin after the fall of the Wall. It had been ten years since ...

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 ...

Nico: The Girl With The Faraway Eyes

Interview by Clinton Walker, The Age, 21 February 1986

THERE IS PERHAPS no world quite so cruel as rock and roll, where youth is everything, and with age comes not maturity but redundancy. Unless ...

Loyle Carner: I believe in yesterday

Profile and Interview by Lisa Verrico, The Sunday Times, 26 February 2017

Losing his stepdad made him the rapper he is today. ...

Morris Day, Time, The: Morris Day: Purple Rain rival who almost stole Prince's thunder

Profile by Simon Price, The Independent, 26 April 2016

On screen, the lead singer of The Time played a scene-stealing version of himself as the Purple One's nemesis. But off screen, their love-hate relationship ...

Beatles, The: Beatles Panned By U.S. Critics

Report by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 10 February 1964

But they wow TV audience and bring out mounted police ...

Jerry Lee Lewis: Echoes: Jerry Lee Lewis

Retrospective by Bill Millar, Record Mirror, 11 March 1972

ON 22nd MAY 1958, an immigration officer manning the desk for TWA flights from New York to London Airport North scratched his head, sighed, picked ...

Throwing Muses: Savage housewife

Interview by Martin Aston, The Independent, 23 June 1989

Kristin Hersh talks to Martin Aston about motherhood, madness and rock'n'roll ...

Kurt Cobain, Manic Street Preachers: A word to the wise: stay away

Essay by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 3 March 1995

The remarkable thing about Richey Edwards's disappearance is not that he's gone, but that more pop stars have not followed him ...

Kim Wilde

Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 11 January 2020

"Touring with Bowie was a thrill. But I was on a high for weeks after winning gold at the Chelsea Flower Show": Kim Wilde on ...

Lewis Capaldi: Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh

Live Review by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 26 March 2020

With his self-deprecating wit and blue-eyed soul, the young Scots chart-topper delights with a celebratory show mined from undiluted misery. ...

Frederick Knight: Success From Out Of Left Field

Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 2 June 1972

REGULAR READERS of B&S will already be more than aware of how we occasionally jump on a record right from when it becomes available in ...

Marianne Faithfull: The Trouble With Marianne: By The Man She'll Marry

Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 27 March 1965

MARIANNE FAITHFULL announced her engagement to Mr. John Dunbar in The Times. Pop singers do not often use The Times to let their friends know ...

Del Shannon, 1934-1990

Obituary by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 22 March 1990

The pioneering rocker takes his own life after waging a losing battle with chronic depression ...

Aphex Twin, µ-ziq, Daniel Pemberton: Up to something in the bedroom

Report and Interview by David Toop, The Times, 29 April 1994

They're hot in the clubs, but low in social skills. David Toop meets techno's bores with attitude ...

Bobby Rydell: Twenty Years Plus Bobby

Profile and Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 23 March 1963

A SIGNIFICANT thing happened to Bobby Rydell when he was five years old. His father took him to see a stage show. And another stage ...

Amp Fiddler, Pete Doherty, Cazals, Simon Bookish: Amp Fiddler: Jazz Café, London; Pete Doherty, Cazalz, Simon Bookish: Stunners International, Great Eastern Hotel, London

Live Review by Simon Price, Independent on Sunday, 9 January 2005

I'd rather be funky than a junkie ...

Spencer Davis Group, Jackie Trent, Vashti Bunyan: Vashti agrees: her last name must go (it's Bunyan)

Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 15 May 1965

VASHTI BUNYAN is the latest in a stream of refined, nicely brought-up, middle-class girls whose well-bred accents have adorned the hit parade since Marianne Faithfull ...