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Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 18 April 2012

Seventeen years ago, Maxinquaye made Tricky an unlikely pop star, and made him angry and unhappy. Now, though, he and Martina Topley-Bird are ready to ...

David Bowie, Thomas Dolby, Peter Gabriel, Heart, Elvis Presley, Residents, The, Todd Rundgren: Are We Making Art Yet? Music in the age of interactive entertainment

Report by Alan di Perna, Musician, June 1994

MUSIC, OF course, has always been interactive. People dance to it, make love to it, sing along with the lyrics and figure out the chord ...

Cathy Dennis, Janet Jackson, Madonna: Shep Pettibone: Spontaneous Combustion

Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 27 April 1993

No amount of studio technology can ever compete with the priceless element of spontaneity to set things on fire, says Shep... ...

U2: Another Time: The inside story of U2's very first record

Retrospective and Interview by Chas de Whalley, Record Collector, 1 September 2004

I FIRST MET U2's manager Paul McGuiness sometime in February 1979. He was on a trip to London doing the rounds of the record companies ...

Brian Eno, Talking Heads: Brian Eno: Energy Fails The Magician

Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 12 January 1980

After spending the last decade redefining rock music, all Brian Eno wants now is an honest job of work and a place to lay his ...

Jimi Hendrix, Who, The, Bob Dylan, Charlotte Church, Paul Simon, Donovan, Kim Fowley, Dubliners, The, Fleetwood Mac, Stooges, The, Lena Zavaroni, David Essex, ABBA, Robbie Williams, Lalo Schifrin: Mike Ross-Trevor: "Are We Rolling?"

Interview by Paul Gorman, The Word, May 2004

In forty years of recording everyone from Dylan and Hendrix to Abba and Lena Zavaroni, a studio engineer sees a lot of strange things. ...

Dion, Phil Spector: Phil Spector: He's A Rebel

Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 31 May 1975

THE OCCASION is Professor Phil Spector's guest lecture at the Sherwood Oaks Experimental College record-producing seminar. Last time Phil talked at the school was in ...

Suzi Quatro, Sweet: Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman: The Dynamic Duo Of Plastic Pop

Interview by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 2 June 1973

Nicky Chinn is an ex-public schoolboy, Mike Chapman a one-time waiter. Together they're... The Dynamic Duo Of Plastic Pop ...

Lou Reed's New Deco-Disk: Sledgehammer Blow to Glitterbugs

Report and Interview by Larry Sloman, Rolling Stone, 27 September 1973

NEW YORK — At 10 AM on a muggy New York morning, in Studio A of the Record Plant, a slight, dark, intense young man ...

Ralph MacDonald: The Percussive Roots Of Ralph McDonald

Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 11 April 1978

Ralph's new album traces his musical roots from Africa to the Islands and America. Here he talks about his dual roles as artist and producer, ...

Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club: Tom Tom Club's Chris Frantz On David Byrne, Brian Eno And Lee 'Scratch' Perry

Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 3 June 2009

Julian Marszalek speaks to the Tom Tom Club and Talking Heads mainstay Chris Frantz ...

Giorgio Moroder, Donna Summer: Song from the Future: The Story of Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder's 'I Feel Love'

Retrospective and Interview by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 29 June 2017

Forty years after its release, the ingenious studio gurus behind the robot-funk masterpiece talk about how it came to be. ...

Charlatans, The (UK): Rockfield: Searching For Console Rebels

Report and Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 11 May 1996

Rockfield: you know, the legendary Welsh studio where Oasis, the Roses, Iggy et al record amid scenes of mayhem. Sort of. Well, it seems Bebop ...

Dave Stewart: Sweet Sonic Dream Mixes Are Made of Dave Stewart

Interview by Mike Mettler, The Sound Bard, 10 February 2016

HE'S A MAN who's been everywhere and done it with everyone, and lived to tell the tales. He's Dave Stewart, the production wizard best known ...

Hall & Oates, Revillos, The, Rolling Stones, The, Roxy Music, Bruce Springsteen, Who, The: Bob Clearmountain: Making the hard stuff look easy

Interview by Alan di Perna, Musician, July 1990

BOB CLEARMOUNTAIN exudes a calm, deliberate air as he moves around the cluttered interior of a recording truck parked outside L.A.'s Universal Amphitheatre. Politely negotiating ...

Animals, The, Jeff Beck, Donovan, Herman's Hermits, Mickie Most: The Starmakers: Mickie Most

Interview by Val Mabbs, Record Mirror, 3 February 1973

Starting today, The Starmakers, the men behind the image, the men in control. This new Record Mirror series probes the lives and feelings of the ...

Crosby and Nash, Crosby Stills and Nash, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Graham Nash: Graham Nash (2016) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 8 March 2016

This is a transcription of Adam's audio interview with Graham. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Blue Öyster Cult, Clash, The: Blue Oyster Cult and Sandy Pearlman

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 13 May 1978

ERIC BLOOM is adamant about the current position and status of the band he sings and plays for, the am-aaa-zing Blue Oyster Cult; they are ...

Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Frankie Says Pop Revolution

Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, Record Collector, January 2014

It's easy to forget how big an explosion Frankie Goes To Hollywood caused in the '80s. Rob Hughes peers through the cracked windows of the ...

Led Zeppelin: Let's Get Physical: The Story of Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti

Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Classic Rock, September 2010

SOMETHING IS ROTTEN in the state of rock. The heady euphoria of the late Sixties has degenerated into decadence and self-satisfaction. Working-class guitar heroes have ...