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Echo & The Bunnymen: Echo And The Bunnymen: A Promise of Rock Re-Born

Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 20 February 1982

THE DAY AFTER THIS venerable paper's hardcore readers have enjoyed their brief, communal moment of glory in the polls, all-round prize guys Echo And the ...

Sylvester: Woofers And Tweeters

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 25 September 1982

HAD I BEEN expecting some shimmering trans-sexual diva to sweep into the room like a hostess into her salon, the rotund, maternal figure who welcomed ...

Echo & The Bunnymen: Porcupine (Korova)

Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 22 January 1983

PERHAPS IT WAS inevitable, even decreed in some heaven up "there". Maybe it’s just the third time unlucky. But if Porcupine isn’t good it isn’t ...

Kim Fowley: Tycoon of Trash: The Life And Grimes Of Kim Fowley

Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, LA Reader, June 1983

"Only the mice and the great ones are happy when I arrive" ...

The Angry Samoans: The Angry Brigade: Angry Samoans

Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 11 June 1983

ONE OF the singular charms of Back From Samoa by L.A.'s Angry Samoans is that it's over before you even realise you've put it on ...

Paul Young: No Parlez

Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, August 1983

SIMPLY FOR not being Kevin Rowland or Paul Weller or Martin Fry, Paul Young fully deserves his Number One. And 'Wherever' is more than a ...

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. ...

The Police: Nottingham City Hall

Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 7 January 1984

RICHARD COOK’S extraordinary vision of The Police (NME, 2nd Dec.) prompts one to reconsider the profound difference between The Police – those awful sing-a-long-a-suicides ‘So ...

Barry Manilow: Opium of the Missus

Essay by Barney Hoskyns, Marxism Today, April 1984

IF BARRY Manilow’s career is on the wane, you’d never have guessed it from last summer’s grandiose Concert At Blenheim Palace, when 40,000-odd pilgrims, preponderantly ...

Wah!: The Mighty Wah!: Waaaugh!

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 8 September 1984

WHAM! The door opens and it's Wah! The mighty WAH! There he is! ...

Little Richard (1985) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 5 March 1985

This is a transcript of Barney's audio interview with Little Richard. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Luther Vandross (1989) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages transcripts, March 1989

This is a transcript of Barney's audio interview with Luther. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Luther Vandross: What A World For The Lonely Kind: Luther Vandross

Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 28 March 1989

LUTHER VANDROSS is the pre-eminent mainstream soul performer of the 1980s. As a singer, songwriter and producer he is – with the possible exception of ...

Ronettes, The, Ronnie Spector: Ronnie Spector (1991) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 13 February 1991

This is a transcript of Barney's audio interview with Ronnie. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Boulevard of Broken Dreams: A Trip Down the Sunset Strip

Guide by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, January 1994

SUNSET BOULEVARD: the very name is synonymous with dreams, unrealities, tableaux of palm trees and convertibles in the golden light of southern California. Billy ...

Little Feat, Factory, The: Little Feat: The One That Got Away

Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, July 1994

OK, SO THERE aren't many of them, but Little Feat's 1975 show at the Rainbow Theatre was one LEGENDARY GIG EVERYONE SAYS THEY SAW that ...

Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, The: A Dark Prince at Twilight: Lou Reed

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, March 1996

THE DAY DOES not begin auspiciously. The first flakes of a snowstorm descend as I open the curtains in my hotel room, adding yet another ...

The Orb: Orbiting The Orb

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Request, May 1997

"DOCTOR" ALEX Patterson, overlord of the Orb and revered godfather of the genus Ambient Techno, would like another brandy and ginger, if you don’t mind. ...