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Sheryl Crow: Why Sheryl Crow is starting over

Profile and Interview by Sheryl Garratt, Daily Telegraph, 26 January 2008

Battling cancer and adopting a child led Sheryl Crow to reassess what is important in life. No longer concerned with what people think, she has ...

Alice Cooper: Alice through the looking glass

Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 12 January 1974

Shep Gordon worked for firm making clothes for the dead... Now he manages the killer himself, Alice Cooper. Gordon talks to MM New York writer ...

Brian Wilson — Grin and bear it

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, The Guardian, 23 January 2004

WHEN BRIAN WILSON had his nervous breakdown in the 1960s, he was working on a concept album called Smile. His fellow Beach Boys dismissed it ...

Loretta Lynn: "If you're good to the ghosts, they'll be good to you."

Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, March 2016

WELCOME TO HURRICANE MILLS, the second-most-haunted house in Tennessee and, for the past 50 years, home of the supematurally gifted Loretta Lynn. Here, the Queen ...

Slade: Melody Maker Band Breakdown: Slade

Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 4 March 1972

  UNLIKE MANY of the groups currently enjoying chart success with hit singles, Slade have been in the game a long time. ...

Brass Construction: The Brains Behind Brass Construction

Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 24 May 1977

B&S SuperEd, John Abbey, goes a-rappin' with BC's Superleader, Randy Muller... ...

Janelle Monáe: "I'm a time traveller. I have been to lots of different places"

Interview by Kate Mossman, The Guardian, 30 June 2013

She's an android-dating style queen who's been compared to Bowie. Is the R&B singer the saviour of pop? ...

Nice, The, Davy O'List: Davy O'List

Interview by David Cavanagh, Uncut, February 2014

Davy O'List was in with the in-crowd — a prog prodigy in The Nice, a founder of Roxy Music, the proud owner of Judy Garland’s ...

Tim Hardin: Black Sheep Boy

Retrospective by Graeme Thomson, Uncut, March 2016

50 years on from his debut, Uncut considers the extraordinary music and harrowing life story of Tim Hardin. A tale of blood, arson, rooftop chases, ...

Goodbye Young Lovers (wherever you are)

Retrospective by Jon Savage, The Face, March 1982

Jon Savage laments the Sixties attitudes still stubbornly enshrined in television's coverage of pop: "Boom Time is over and its children must shape up." ...

Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Velvet Underground, The, Frank Zappa: Tom Wilson: The Man Who Put Electricity Into Dylan

Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 31 January 1976

TOM WILSON is an elegant, very tall (6ft 4in) black American, a former Harvard man who talks a little like Bill Cosby but whose pencil-thin ...

Joe Jackson: Don't Look Back in Anger

Retrospective and Interview by David Burke, Classic Pop, February 2019

JOE JACKSON doesn't strike you as someone who's all that bothered about anniversaries, preferring to remain in the present rather than return to the past. ...

Iron Maiden: Run For The Pils!

Report and Interview by Phil Bell, Sounds, 20 February 1982

The flanning of Iron Maiden: report by PHILIP BELL ...

Prince: Slave To The Rhythm

Report by Pete Paphides, Time Out, 15 March 1995

Prince has always been a bit weird, but lately he seems to have lost it completely. He's changed his name to 0+>, declared war on ...

Rolling Stones, The, Bill Wyman: 20 Years On Bill Wyman Prepares To Tell It Like It Was...

Interview by Maureen O'Grady, 19, January 1985

ROLLING STONES CONCERTS PROVOKE VIOLENCE AND RIOTS... STONES RECORD BANNED BY RADIO STATIONS... STONES ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF ASSAULT AND DESTRUCTION... STONES ARRESTED FOR OBSCENE ...

Mötley Crüe: Crüesin' and Blüesin'

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 20 February 1982

"FIRST YOU got to cut it real jaggedy. And you need this stuff." ...

Lush: From Despair to Mayfair

Interview by John Harris, New Musical Express, 4 June 1994

Beneath the all-quaffing, lager-frenzied, dreamy-weamy indie muso LUSH there's a band bristling with resentment, heartbreak and anger. Visiting MIKI BERENYI's nightmare childhood and EMMA ANDERSON'S ...

Can: The Making of Tago Mago

Retrospective and Interview by Max Bell, Classic Rock, April 2011

SUMMER 1971. The five members of Can are huddled around a bottle of wine and a stereo suitcase Revox A77 tape recorder, listening to the ...

David Crosby: Scared Straight

Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 16 January 1987

THE FIRST thing you notice is the twinkle in his eyes. That is the clearest signal that David Crosby is, indeed, back among the living. ...

Music Magazines: The Real Rock ‘n’ Roll Underground

Overview by Greg Shaw, Creem, June 1971

DO YOU EVER get so sick of the latest Leon Russell or Ten Years After album that you switch off the FM radio in disgust ...