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Eurythmics, Eddi Reader: Eurythmics: Haçienda, Manchester

Live Review by Cath Carroll, New Musical Express, 19 March 1983

THE CHOIR are one of those support acts guaranteed never to outshine the headliners; a Playwright For Today's idea of a Top Rock Band. Strident, ...

Bananarama: Banana'd

Interview by Lloyd Bradley, New Musical Express, 7 May 1983

LIFE IS A BANANADRAMA FOR THIS BUNCH OF GIRLS. LLOYD BRADLEY UNZIPS A SOB STORY. ...

David Bowie: Milton Keynes Bowl

Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 9 July 1983

WHO'S PUSHING back there, someone shouts, as another poor girl falls to her knees, tangled up inside blue breathless bodies. Probably Bowie — today's turn, ...

Talking Heads: All Mouth and Trousers!

Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 27 August 1983

TALKING HEADS ARE BURNING DOWN THE MOTIONS AND BEING WILLINGLY DRAGGED INTO THE ROCK MACHINE. A TONGUE-TIED DAVID BYRNE SQUEAKS UP FOR HIMSELF. BARNEY HOSKYNS ...

Suicide, Alan Vega: Alan Vega: '77 Suicide Strip

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 10 September 1983

A VEGA PERSPECTIVE ON GHOST RIDERS, KUNG-FU COWBOYS, AYLER WAILERS AND LIFE AFTER SUICIDE. ...

Barry Manilow: There's Nose Business Like... Barry Manilnose. The Fairy Prince Holds Court at Blenheim Palace.

Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 10 September 1983

BARNEY HOSKYNS GOES BARMY OVER THE MUSAK MONSTER AT BLENHEIM. ...

T Bone Burnett: T-Bone Steak, Rattle and Roll

Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 7 January 1984

November 21. A cool, inky evening in Fort Worth, Texas – the kind of town where a lonesome moan from the Mystery Train still pierces ...

Lloyd Cole: What's All The Commotion About?

Interview by David Quantick, New Musical Express, 12 May 1984

LLOYD, I asked, are you in love? ...

Gary Glitter, Marillion, Nazareth, Status Quo, John Dowie: John Dowie: Finborough Arms, London; Status Quo, Nazareth, Marillion, Gary Glitter: Milton Keynes Bowl

Live Review by Susan Williams, New Musical Express, 4 August 1984

QUO: A NATION MOURNS ...

Culture Club, Adele Bertei: Adele Bertei: Contorted Into Culture

Interview by Don Watson, New Musical Express, 29 September 1984

This is ADELE BERTEI, the new one in that Club. DON WATSON files the scoop. ...

Jesus & Mary Chain, The: Jesus & Mary Chain: Chapter, Verse and Worse

Interview by Biba Kopf, New Musical Express, 16 February 1985

Nine months in the making, the far from immaculately conceived Jesus And Mary Chain, from Glasgow, have alternately been heralded as new messiahs or dismissed ...

Luther Vandross: Labours Of Love Made Easy

Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 6 April 1985

LUTHER VANDROSS used to sing jingles for Kentucky Fried Chicken. Now he licks his voice round painful love lyrics. PAOLO HEWITT hears his confessions about ...

Bob Geldof: Live Aid: Transmission Of Mercy

Comment by Don Watson, New Musical Express, 20 July 1985

JUST ABOUT the time that the 70,000 in the centre of the mediarena were filing, as instructed, towards the exits, I was emerging from the ...

Amanda Lear: Queen Lear

Review and Interview by Jane Solanas, New Musical Express, 24 August 1985

Amanda Lear, ex-model, disco star and androgynous friend of the famous, has revealed all about her 15-year dalliance with Surrealist painter, Salvador Dali. Jane Solanas ...

Annette Peacock: Colour Tails: Annette Peacock: I Have No Feelings (Ironic)

Review by Fred Dellar, New Musical Express, 20 February 1986

NOTHING YOU CAN pin down here. Nothing you safely stick a label on and file for easy access. ...

Pet Shop Boys: Suburban Stardom

Essay by Don Watson, New Musical Express, 7 June 1986

England swings to the yawning sound of the suburbs, where Dynasty kids dream of escape and fortune. DON WATSON reflects on the hit and myth ...

David Bowie, Nona Hendryx: Feyenoord Stadium, Rotterdam, Holland

Live Review by Lucy O'Brien, New Musical Express, 6 June 1987

CACKY ACTOR ...

Nona Hendryx: Let's get metaphysical

Interview by Lucy O'Brien, New Musical Express, 20 June 1987

NONA HENDRYX, ex of Labelle, has called her new LP Female Trouble — but LUCY O'BRIEN finds she's now a "big gun" having "big fun", ...