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The Psychedelic Furs: Sugar Cubes For The New Depression

Interview by Bill Holdship, Creem, February 1983

RICHARD BUTLER, the Psychedelic Furs' chain-smoking vocalist, often sounds like an extremely angry man on record. Some people have compared his raspy voice to a ...

David Bowie, Mick Ronson: Mick Ronson: "It's Strange Being On Your Own"

Interview by Ron Ross, Circus, April 1975

WHEN MICK RONSON set down his guitar and stepped out of the London studio where he was serving as "musical director" for lan Hunter's first ...

Defunkt, James White and The Blacks: Defunkt: Jazz-Punk-Funk

Interview by Steve Bloom, Downbeat, June 1981

THE PURPLE tights and checkered t-shirt crowd knows for sure. They meet to the beat every night in sundry rock clubs, discharging a generationful of ...

Mott The Hoople: Mottamorphosis

Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, July 1975

Changed line-up brings more commercial sound ...

Ian Hunter, Mott The Hoople: Ian Hunter

Interview by Larry Jaffee, Imagine, March 1979

"I LEARNED MORE in the last three years than I would in 20 with Mott The Hoople," said Ian Hunter recently while awaiting to join ...

David Bowie, Rolling Stones, The, Run DMC, Pete Rock & CL Smooth: Pete Rock and CL Smooth

Interview by Frank Broughton, Mixmag, May 1993

MANAGER ADOFO Muhammad is talking up his brother and CL Smooth's success. "The unique sound is all incorporated in Pete Rock's flow — his art. ...

David Bowie, Carlos Alomar: Who The Hell Is Carlos Alomar?

Interview by J.D. Considine, Musician, March 1984

The Guitar Power Behind Bowie's Thin White Throne ...

David Bowie, Cherry Vanilla: Cherry Vanilla: Cherry Sauce

Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 21 April 1973

...Or hot gossip from a former skin-flick queen who's been hired to handle David Bowie's publicity machine. ...

Iggy Pop & James Williamson, Stooges, The: Iggy & The Stooges: Gimme Danger

Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), March 2013

IT'S 7,000 KILOMETRES from Michigan Palace, Detroit, to The Prince's Palace, Monaco, but for Stooges guitarist James Williamson, the emotional distance is even greater. One ...

Mary Hopkin: Mary Had A Little Jam...And Now She's Got A Single!

Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Record Mirror, 21 February 1976

MARY HOPKIN has at least one good reason for being glad to be back at work "It gives me an excuse to get a maid. ...

Suede: Roll Over, Jimmy Dean

Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 9 June 1992

"WHEN WE STARTED the group, we felt that people were starved for music which allowed them to let themselves go," says Brett Anderson, Suede's 24-year-old ...

Talking Heads: David Byrne: Talking Off The Top Of His Head

Interview by Tim Lott, Record Mirror, 11 February 1978

I HAVE THIS talking head in front of me. In his talking mouth he is spooning scrambled eggs and bacon. So much for input. The ...

Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones, The: Mick Jagger Lets His Hair Down

Interview by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 18 March 1973

THOSE OF you who have been irritably wondering what in the name of heaven I was doing in Australia with Mick Jagger when I should ...

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks: Stephen Malkmus: Just for Jicks

Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, May 2003

Generational icon, quirky wordsmith, and esoteric record hound, Stephen Malkmus, the former lead singer of Pavement, indie rock's most important band, has unleashed a second ...

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? ...

The Fall, Inspiral Carpets: Insprial Carpets and Mark E. Smith: Manchester United

Interview by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 26 February 1994

Inspiral Carpets team-up with Mark E. Smith! For a one-off collaboration called ‘I Want You’! Psychedelic optimism meets psychedelic miserabilism! ...

Amanda Lear: The Secret Life of Amanda Lear

Interview by Jeffrey Morgan, Creem, February 1979

SHE'S BEEN called everything from the Renee Richards of Rock to Miss Before and After Science of 1984. And although she's sold millions of albums ...

Chic, Nile Rodgers: Source of the Nile

Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 22 August 1986

Funk guitar specialist Nile Rodgers is also one of the world's great producers. Adam Sweeting reports ...

The Who: Pete Townshend part 2: If The Who Split We'd Really Have To Own Up

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 3 March 1973

PETER TOWNSHEND is an amiable sort of dude. He sits in Track Records' office, with booze and dog to hand, and talks about anything that ...

Iggy Pop: Doggie Style: Iggy Pop

Interview by Paul Gorman, Music Week, January 1996

IT’S BEEN SAID before but bears repeating once Iggy Pop is witnessed at the close quarters of his cramped bedroom in London’s Halcyon Hotel: If ...


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