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Kiss: Who You Calling Gay?

Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, June 1992

Shameless image-mongers? Absolutely. Cynical marketing merchants? Good point. Purveyors of welterweight pop metal? Fair comment. But gay? "You’ll meet enough women who’ll tell you we’re ...

Lenny Kravitz: Come in, sit down, skin up…

Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, March 1993

Enter, why don't you, Lenny Kravitz's psychedelically appointed freak pad, where herbular smells prevail, outdoor footwear is outlawed and co-habitees number willowy blondes and cantankerous ...

Maria McKee

Profile and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, June 1996

IN THE catering trailer, the tables are jammed with people so disparate it’s hard to believe they belong to the same species. The ones wearing ...

Roxy Music’s Picture Palace

Profile and Interview by Simon Frith, Let It Rock, May 1974

ROXY MUSIC ARE Paul Thompson, Phil Manzanera, Andy Mackay, Bryan Ferry and Eddie Jobson, but the first thing you’ve got to understand is that Roxy ...

Robert Fripp, Toyah Wilcox: Robert Fripp and Toyah: Mr Chalk Loves Mrs Cheese

Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, June 1991

They seemed to belong to different worlds: the avant-garde guitar boffin and the marmalade-haired Princess of Punk. Listen awhile, as Mat Snow recounts the ...

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 ...

The Church: You Must Like The Church!

Profile and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, March 1985

(OR PERISH TRYING) ...

The Go-Betweens: Past Hope, Past Care, Past Help?

Profile and Interview by Blake Gumprecht, Matter, April 1984

I FEEL KINDA SORRY for the Go-Betweens. A lot has happened and just as little, since their first brief trip to America around Christmas time. ...

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

Profile and Interview by Biba Kopf, NME, 16 February 1985

I: BLAST! ...

Yes Battles The Skeptics With Relayer

Profile and Interview by Stephen Demorest, Circus, February 1975

Stabilized by their Swiss replacement for the seemingly indispensible Rick Wakeman, a nervy Yes have cracked into yet another album of epic proportions. Will Relayer ...

Residents, The: The Residents: Residents Only

Profile and Interview by Richard Gehr, Spin, April 1986

Take a good hard look at America's preeminent underground avant-pop ensemble – you might like what you see. ...

Peter Hammill, Van Der Graaf Generator: Peter Hammill: Heart Attack Music

Profile and Interview by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 27 June 2004

WHEN PETER HAMMILL collapsed in the street with a sudden heart attack last year, it didn't make the papers. The one-time singer of the group ...

Pulp Friction

Profile and Interview by Mark Mordue, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 18 September 1998

JARVIS COCKER wanders through London's Tower Books and Records like a spy in a foreign country. Close by, music fans are harvesting the racks of ...

Ultravox: Ultrafile!

Profile and Interview by Ian Birch, Smash Hits, 3 September 1981

Ian Birch previews the new Ultravox album with the help of Midge Ure + Chris Cross. ...

Sonny Sharrock, Melvin Gibbs, Power Tools: Sonny Sharrock & Melvin Gibbs: New York Is Now

Profile and Interview by Mark Sinker, The Wire, March 1990

Guitar and bass tune up for the next wave of sonic assault, from Blind Willie's blues to M-BASE and beyond. Our man behind the amps ...

Alejandro Escovedo: Down to Earth

Profile and Interview by John Morthland, LA Weekly, 2 July 1992

Alejandro Escovedo puts his arm around a memory ...

Human League, The: The Human League: Very Ordinary People With Very Odd Tastes

Profile and Interview by David Hepworth, Smash Hits, 10 July 1980

THE HUMAN League are different. Yes, I know that's the fanfare that's trotted out to greet the arrival of every other new act these days ...

Beach House: Shore thing for easy listening

Profile and Interview by Tim Cooper, The Independent, 15 January 2010

Baltimore's dream-pop duo Beach House are confounding classification to gain plaudits from Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear and the Strokes. Tim Cooper gets to grips with ...

Mike + the Mechanics: Engineering a New Future

Profile and Interview by David Burke, Classic Pop, April 2017

It may have begun as a side project away from Genesis while Phil Collins tried to sort out his marital difficulties, but Mike + the ...

Stephen Bishop's Escape From Hollywood

Profile and Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 16 January 1981

IN APRIL 1975, an obscure singer-songwriter named Stephen Bishop wrote an article for the small Los Angeles publication Folkscene which stated he'd been writing songs ...