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Prince: How Prince's Androgynous Genius Changed the Way We Think About Music and Gender
Essay by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 22 April 2016
His clothes, songwriting, and production prowess all played a part in breaking through any and every type of convention. ...
John Grant: 'This Addictive Personality Permeates My Entire Being'
Interview by Nick Hasted, Independent on Sunday, 24 March 2013
After fighting drug problems, John Grant declared on stage that he was HIV-positive. Nick Hasted meets a very candid indie star ...
Kevin Ayers, Soft Machine: Kevin Ayers
Interview by Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, September 1977
BACK IN TP 16 Myron Bretholz wrote a lengthy run-down of the life and times of Kevin Ayers, English eccentric, banana artiste and wine connoisseur ...
Monkees, The, Archies, The: Don Kirshner
Obituary by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 20 January 2011
IT IRKED Don Kirshner, who has died of heart failure aged 76, that he was never inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ...
Daniel Johnston: An Outsider's Songs of Pain and Longing: Daniel Johnston
Report and Interview by Chris Campion, Daily Telegraph, 3 July 2003
LOCKED ON his own in an Xfm recording booth, Daniel Johnston casually flips through the weathered ring binder that holds his songbook and begins to ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 31 August 1974
Rock verite — the Beatrix Potter way ...
Review by David Quantick, The Word, March 2008
There's a lot of Morrissey's newer, louder, less subtle music on his latest greatest hits. David Quantick finds his patience is at an end. ...
Robyn Hitchcock: Phantom of Psychedelia
Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 8 May 1982
RICHARD COOK follows the Robyn Hitchcock guide to transport — physical, mechanical, mental and musical. ...
Interview by Todd Everett, Trouser Press, July 1982
ONE FREQUENTLY repeated cliche of the rock press has it that John Hiatt is the "American Elvis Costello." ...
Profile and Interview by Paul Morley, Uncut, July 2002
HIS FIRST GROUP, ORANGE JUICE, MIXED TOGETHER VELVETS GUITARS AND CHIC RHYTHMS. THEN, 15 YEARS AFTER THEIR HEYDAY, EDWYN COLLINS HAD A MONSTROUS WORLDWIDE SOLO ...
Leo Sayer: One Man Band No Longer
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 15 February 1975
WHEN LITTLE Leo Sayer does his Michael Crawford impersonation and becomes disaster prone Frank, protective instincts are aroused, and folk cluster around to prevent him ...
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 28 August 1976
WHAT'S A MIDDLE-of-the-road singer like Neil Diamond doing with the Band's Robbie Robertson? Making a hit album, Beautiful Noise, that's what. The two first met ...
Frank Sinatra: Sinatra's 'My Way'
Essay by Peter Silverton, The Observer, 17 May 1998
As songs go, 'My Way' doesn't so much wear its heart on its sleeve as rip it from its chest, throw it down and shout: ...
Tim Rice: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice: Bible Rockers Talking Shop
Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 21 June 1973
(PLEASE ALLOW the writers of Jesus Christ, Superstar and Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat to introduce themselves). ...
Overview by Graeme Thomson, The Word, March 2012
Because sometimes the only way musicians can actually talk to each other is by writing songs ...
Ron Sexsmith: A spoonful of sugar
Profile and Interview by David Burke, R2/Rock'n'Reel, September 2013
Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith's true-life confessions are easy to swallow, says David Burke. So why isn't he more widely prescribed? ...
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, August 2008
IN NEW YORK CITY this summer, David Byrne is everywhere. His installation titled Playing the Building transformed the Battery Maritime Building into a giant musical ...
Prefab Sprout: Paddy McAloon: "I'll do without an audience to make the music I want"
Profile and Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 5 September 2013
Prefab Sprout sold millions of records in the '80s, but singer Paddy McAloon always made music for himself rather than the masses. Now he's back ...
Prefab Sprout: Paddy McAloon: Sprout on his own
Profile and Interview by Nick Coleman, The Independent, 9 May 1997
Prefab Sprout's Paddy McAloon talks to Nick Coleman about his new album, epic songs of the heart and why he flies in the face of ...
Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, April 2005
LATE LAST YEAR, Rufus Wainwright was a guest on Tom Robinson's BBC6 radio show, answering questions about music, life and celebrity while pointedly avoiding allusion ...
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