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David Bowie Let's Dance (EMI/America)
Review by Carol Cooper, Record, July 1983
A CONSUMMATE BLEND of everything Chic and David Bowie (in his Negro period) represent, 'Let's Dance' – the title song of the latter's new album ...
David Bowie: Blue-and-green-eyed soul
Essay by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, January 2007
Young Americans is David Bowie's most underrated album, but its bold cross-cultural concept deserves reappraisal, says Daryl Easlea ...
Review by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 1 March 1975
Elton gets lost ...
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, 13 June 1981
BOWIE (JOE) beats the Apple and subverts Paulo Hewitt ...
Interview by Davitt Sigerson, High Fidelity, February 1984
What do Southside Johnny, David Bowie, and Diana Ross have in common? ...
Erykah Badu: Apollo, Manchester
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 18 July 2001
I HAVE SEEN Bowie atop a giant glass spider and U2 stuck inside a lemon, but I cannot recall an entrance like Erykah Badu's. ...
Janelle Monáe: "I'm a time traveller. I have been to lots of different places"
Interview by Kate Mossman, The Guardian, 30 June 2013
She's an android-dating style queen who's been compared to Bowie. Is the R&B singer the saviour of pop? ...
Luther Vandross: Dominion Theatre, London
Live Review by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, 3 March 1983
BRITAIN MIGHT not yet have heard much of Luther Vandross, but over in the States he's a man much in demand. Primarily a vocalist, he ...
Jacksons, The: The Jacksons: Destiny (Epic)
Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 13 January 1979
EACH YEAR, when the popularity polls roll around, way down in the best vocalist section we can find Bowie, Dylan and even Cornwall whilst my ...
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 20 June 1981
PRESENTING upwardly mobile uptown jazz/funk from New York, Defunkt are a sharp six-piece fronted by the ever-cool Joe Bowie, who plays trombone, conducts the band ...
Defunkt: Albany Empire, London
Live Review by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 15 July 1983
DEFUNKT ARE in the anomalous position of being an American band playing in a singularly American style who find themselves prophets without honour — or ...
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 ...
Report and Interview by Roy Trakin, Melody Maker, 15 March 1980
The Raybeats and Joe Bowie's Defunkt are working on New York's newest fusion: a post-No Wave music in which James Chance's punk meets George Clinton's ...
Beyoncé's Lemonade is an object lesson in collaboration
Comment by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 28 April 2016
She's the centripetal force that marshals the likes of Robert Plant, Jack White, Kendrick Lamar and MNEK to craft exquisite pop music that transcends boundaries ...
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 ...
Lewis Taylor: Ronnie Scott's, London
Live Review by Paul Sexton, The Times, 19 March 1997
Saving our soul ...
Terence Trent D'Arby: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 1 August 1987
LIP UP, TERRY! ...
Janelle Monáe: The Institute, Birmingham
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 9 May 2014
"JANELLE! MON-ÁE!" yells the Birmingham crowd as the singer is pushed on in a wheelchair, wearing a straitjacket. She leaps up, throwing off the garment ...
Nile Rodgers: B-Movie Matinee (Warner Bros.)
Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 1985
RODGERS: SLY, SLICK AND WICKED ...
Obituary by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 27 September 2003
BORN IN BATLEY, Yorkshire, and raised in Malta (his father was a naval officer), Palmer had a voice that could be suave and gritty by ...
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