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Focus: "People think we're a rock band, but we laugh about it"

Interview by Val Mabbs, Record Mirror, 3 February 1973

VAL MABBS undertakes a concentrated interview with unlikely hit-makers, the classicly-orientated Focus. ...

Interview by Richard Cook, The Wire, August 1991

David Sanborn — is he or isn't he? Richard Cook is on the spot as the wild man of funk-pop goes (almost) straight-ahead! ...

Elton John: The Short Hello

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 6 July 1974

OL' COCONUT Bonce is back. Elton Schmelton himself in the too, too solid flesh, still opening up interview sessions by walking into the room at ...

Ultravox: Forever And Ever Ultravox

Interview by Paul Morley, NME, 13 September 1980

WHEN GARY NUMAN was talking to the press every day of the week, unsurely basking in the cold sunshine of a sudden fame, a lot ...

Sweet: The Sweet: Top of the Pops

Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 31 January 1976

OH, YOU know, it gets so very confusing. What with the fickleness of all these rock writers and the constant need to come across with ...

Roxy Music: Re-make Re-model

Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, July 2001

"PEOPLE ALWAYS apply this word 'cool' to me, and I'm far from it, really," says Bryan Ferry. "I'm very hot-blooded. It's strange. But then there's ...

Ian Hunter's Love-Hate Relationship With Rock'n'roll

Interview by Jon Young, Trouser Press, June 1979

IAN HUNTER'S been staying at his Manhattan hotel so long (two months) that the staff treat him like a member of the family. Between desperate ...

Robin Scott: Now Pop For Pure People

Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 5 May 1979

M is for mirror, says Robin Scott, whose single, 'Pop Muzik', realises the potency of the disco/punk fusion. And that mirror reflects the present, he ...

Bill Nelson: The Sound Of Household Appliances

Interview by Mark Williams, Melody Maker, 24 March 1979

From frayed denim through guitar heroics to novorock, Bill Nelson's career has been plagued by accusations of plagiarism. MARK WILLIAMS listens to the disclaimers. ...

Generation X: All The Young Dudes

Interview by Nick Kent, NME, 13 January 1979

GLEAN WHAT you will from the shapes of things that came to pass during 1978, but one commodity that was rejected with an almighty vengeance ...

Tricky

Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 24 June 1995

"I had this psychic drawing done," says Tricky, sucking greedily on the first of the four joints he's to consume in the next hour. Behind ...

Edgar Froese, Peter Baumann, Tangerine Dream: The 120 Decibel Dream - Warning: This Page is Heavy

Interview by Miles, NME, 16 July 1977

TANGERINE DREAM have released an album — Stratosfear — written a movie score for Friedkin, completed a successful American tour and two members have released ...

Devo: Are We Not Ready?

Interview by Jon Savage, Sounds, 4 March 1978

THE FIRST THING you notice on arrival at Koln airport is the modernity and organization. No baggage queues. No pre-fab ramshackle buildings. ...

John Hiatt Opens Up

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." ...

Pavement: R U Ready 2 Unrock?!

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 12 February 1994

PAVEMENT have mutated from being the weirdest band on Planet Pop to the '94 version of Easy Listening Gods, Steely Dan. EVERETT TRUE meets mainman ...

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 ...

Thin Lizzy: Interview: Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott (1978)

Interview by Ian Ravendale, Rock's Backpages Audio, 20 June 1978

This is a transcript of Ian's audio interview with Phil. Listen to it on the site here. ...

Blondie on Blondie

Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 4 March 1978

Harry Doherty reports from West Berlin ...

Electronic — Beat Surrender

Interview by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 14 September 1991

WITH THE RELEASE of 'Feel Every Beat' from Electronic's highly acclaimed debut album, Paul Lester meets Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr to discuss sadness, sexiness, ...

Pet Shop Boys: Steve Pafford does lunch with the Pet Shop Boys

Interview by Steve Pafford, GAY TIMES, June 2002

"IS THE OTHER half of the group coming?" queries a Cappuccino-consuming Neil Tennant. ...