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Report and Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 12 January 1980

FROM WHERE I'm sitting Chris Stein looks like a chubbier version of Paul Foot, his tousled hair spilling over the thick black frames of his ...

Velvet Underground, The: Pop Art/Art Pop: The Warhol Connection

Report and Interview by Mary Harron, Melody Maker, 16 February 1980

Like to be a galleryPut you all inside my show— David Bowie, 'Andy Warhol' Some people claim that only James Brown can match Andy Warhol's ...

The Psychedelic Furs: Psychedelic Furs: The Furs Cut Is The Deepest

Report and Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, March 1980

"I HATE supporting other bands it sucks." Butler Rep, singer with The Psychedelic Furs, is reflecting on the last few days, which have seen one ...

The Clash Play Revolution Rock

Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, Trouser Press, March 1980

IT'S FOUR days before Christmas. A dark, early evening damp with snow and rain. Immediately south of the Thames, in the inappropriately genteel Victorian suburb ...

Defunkt, Raybeats, The, James Chance, James White and The Blacks: Defunkt, the Raybeats, James Chance: Funky, Punky and Chic

Report and Interview by Roy Trakin, Melody Maker, 15 March 1980

The Raybeats and Joe Bowie's Defunkt are working on New York's newest fusion: a post-No Wave music in which James Chance's punk meets George Clinton's ...

Public Image Ltd.: PiL in Hollywood

Report and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 24 May 1980

HUDDLED ROUND the side with a crowd of disco dancers waiting for their fifteen minutes of fame, watching a fake Doobie Brothers run through their ...

Saxon: See The Light Shining

Report and Interview by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 24 May 1980

...AND WATCH THE SEASIDE PIER SHAKING. GEOFF BARTON REPORTS AS SAXON STORM THE DISNEYLAND SHOWBAR, COLWYN BAY (YES, REALLY). ...

Echo & the Bunnymen Play Hard To Get

Report and Interview by Deanne Pearson, The Face, August 1980

DEANNE PEARSON tries anyway. ...

XTC: Last Exit To Catalonia

Report and Interview by Paul Morley, NME, 20 September 1980

XTC ARE BITING their nails backstage of an open air gig at a soccer ground in the Madrid suburbs – the equivalent of an English ...

Bruce Springsteen Takes It To The River: So Don’t Call Him ‘Boss’, OK?

Report and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, January 1981

ALL THINGS GOOD come to he who waits; he who hesitates is lost. For every stupid cliché there’s another one out there equally stupid that ...

The Clash: Home On The Range

Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, The Face, February 1981

PAUL SIMONON lives in a modest two-room Notting Hill basement flat just north of Ladbroke Grove tube station. ...

Gary Numan, XTC: XTC and Gary Numan: The New English Art Rock

Report and Interview by Roy Trakin, Musician, February 1981

BOTH XTC and Gary Numan express a sense of the new English isolation. Americans seem to like the car-crazy Numan, while the pure British pop ...

Spandau Ballet: Muscle Band

Report and Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 7 February 1981

Go vest, young man. In the studio with Spandau Ballet ...

Girlschool: Black Leather at St Trinians

Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 2 May 1981

GIRLSCHOOL FRENZY GRIPS THE COUNTRY AS ADOLESCENT BOYS DISCOVER THEIR VERY OWN ROCK'N'ROLL SEX SYMBOLS. PAUL MORLEY TAKES A MANLY LOOK AT THIS CRAZY PHENOMENON. ...

Moog On The State Of The Synthesizer

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 1981

IT’S NOT UNUSUAL for a musician to become controversial, but it is rare for a musical instrument to be debated. Robert Moog may have envisioned ...

Echo & The Bunnymen: Long Day's Journey Into Oslo — Tales From A Norwegian Wood

Report and Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 27 June 1981

MAX BELL TRAVELS TO NORWAY WITH THE BUNNYMEN ...

Spandau Ballet Want You To Dance. That's All.

Report and Interview by Iman Lababedi, Creem, August 1981

ON THE DAY that Bobby Sands finally starved himself to death and two hours after Spandau Ballet's first ever press conference I'm in the coffee ...

Rolling Stones, The: Rolling Stones — An Exclusive

Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Record Mirror, 19 September 1981

Invited as a special guest to the farm in Massachusetts where legendary rock 'n' rollers the ROLLING STONES are rehearsing for their first US tour ...

Joan Jett, the Runaway Success

Report and Interview by Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 9 January 1982

Rockville's Blackheart Comes Home to the Bayou ...

Ultravox: Number 1 With A Bullet Train

Report and Interview by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 20 March 1982

HUGH FIELDER goes along for the ride with ULTRAVOX in Japan ...