Search Results

The Pretty Things: Still As Strong As Bo Diddley's Guitar Arm

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, NME, 24 March 1973

FEEL THE svelte red leather. Take in the expensive walnut dashboard surrounding the precision instruments; the speedo flicking between 70 and 80. Experience the full ...

Joe Cocker, Leon Russell: Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by Ann Moses, NME, 2 May 1970

COCKER SURVIVES AND TRIUMPHS ...

ZZ Top: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Simon Witter, NME, 1 November 1986

WHERE IS Tushmobile? On the basis of this show I'd guess it got lost somewhere in the mix. Lord knows I've waited to see ZZ ...

Duran Duran: Arena (Parlophone)

Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 17 November 1984

AND THE APHIDS CRIED/THROUGH THE DRIFTING HAZE/"NAFF LP, LADS!" ...

Yes: Chris Squire - Interview

Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 7 June 1975

I'M HUNTING THROUGH the cartridges in the glove compartment of Chris Squire's '63 Rolls Royce as we head out of Liverpool towards the M62 and ...

Yes

Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 7 June 1975

There is no mention of brown rice on this page. Persian rugs and health food in general? Well, OK...yeah, but not in any harmful quantity. ...

Bon Jovi: Don't Mention The Hair!

Interview by Steven Wells, NME, 17 June 2000

Tousled, crimped and teased to perfection, how can NME not mention poodle rock's most celebrated barnet? So Bon Jovi, hair we go! ...

New Order: Substance (Factory)

Review by Len Brown, NME, 15 August 1987

WE CHUCK words at New Order. Words like funereal and ethereal and classical and awesome. ...

Robert Wyatt: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London

Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 14 September 1974

EVEN THOUGH the gig was due to start at 8.30, Drury Lane had started to clog up with earnest-looking hippies nearly two hours before the ...

The Rolling Stones: Advance Warning of New Meisterworks Department

Report by Miles, NME, 16 July 1977

Stones: Got Duff Chord Changes If You Want THE ROLLING STONES — even Bill and Charlie — have all been in New York this ...

Tom Waits: The Skid Row Drunk Goes Legit: Tom Waits live in New York

Live Review by Mick Farren, NME, 1 December 1979

BECAUSE of circumstances too dumb to relate here and now, I had never seen Tom Waits doing a live show, unless, of course you count ...

The Rap Machine Turns You On

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 11 December 1982

Various: Rapped Uptight (Sugarhill) ...

Al Green: Higher Plane (Hi/PRT)

Review by Andy Gill, NME, 3 April 1982

OH, HAPPY man...You can tell Al Green is truly saved from a quick glance at the cover, from the way his Daz-white shirt blue-airbrushes its ...

Mike Oldfield: Tom Newman: The Man Who Taped the Tubular Bells

Interview by Fred Dellar, NME, 8 February 1975

WHEN IT COMES to tape, who better to talk to than the guy who did the 2,000 over-dubs on Tubular Bells, engineer Tom Newman? ...

Leiber and Stoller: Jerry Leiber And Mike Stoller: By Royal Appointment

Interview by Roger St. Pierre, NME, 15 February 1975

THE SCENE IS the Dorchester Hotel, one of the last vestiges of Britain's Imperial splendour and we've just been refused admission to the restaurant for ...

David Bedford

Interview by Max Bell, NME, 27 September 1975

"THE THING ABOUT concept albums is that they're never done successfully except mine of course," So speaks modest avant garde composer David Bedford, Virgin luminary ...

Independents Day Revisited

Report by Paul Rambali, NME, 5 August 1978

Last September, in our extraordinarily collectable NME Collectors Issue, we looked at the seemingly unstoppable explosion of independent record labels. Times change, though. Rebels become ...

Jeff Beck: Beck Looks Back (part 2)

Interview by Nick Kent, NME, 4 November 1972

Beck, Page and bad vibes ...

The Beat, Fleetwood Mac: The US Festival: Us & Them

Report by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 25 September 1982

That Woz the Fest that Woz! Barney Hoskyns takes a bite of the rotten Apple and hangs his head in despair ...

Bob Seger: The Michigan Marvel

Interview by Andy Gill, NME, 12 November 1977

ON THE covers of several of Bob Seger's albums there's this curious production credit to "Punch". ...