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Interview by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, April 1976

''Let's face it," John Fogerty was saying, "could I wear eye shadow and get away with it?" He was speaking of the sense of alienation ...

Sting: Kathleen Turner Doesn’t Turn Me On

Interview by Steve Turner, You, 28 February 1988

Erstwhile teacher turned pop musician Sting spent a week writhing naked on a bed with Kathleen Turner for his new film Julia and Julia. His ...

China Crisis: The Chinese Way

Interview by Neil Tennant, Smash Hits, 17 February 1983

FIRST WE WENT on the Ferry across the Mersey. Then we walked through Liverpool for some tea. Gary Daly and Eddie Lundon of China Crisis ...

Hazel O'Connor: Cracked Actress: Hazel O' Connor

Interview by Mike Stand, The Face, May 1981

HAZEL O'Connor lives on the fourth floor of a redbrick building in West Hampstead that looks as though it should belong to the water board ...

Simple Minds: Jim Kerr's Glittering Dream

Interview by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, 16 September 1982

JIM KERR and I have just started talking over a cup of tea in London's Hyde Park, when a girl comes rushing up. ...

Billy Bragg: I Smell the Blood of a Half-Englishman: Billy Bragg

Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Harp, May 2002

What does it mean to be an Englishman? Billy Bragg explains it to Geoffrey Himes. ...

Aynsley Dunbar, Jefferson Starship, Journey: Aynsley Dunbar: Let There Be Drums!

Interview by Howie Klein, BAM, 16 February 1979

SAN FRANCISCO – Within the world of rock and roll there are certain performers whose distinctive virtuosity transcend their individual works recorded with a particular ...

Kirsty MacColl: Pillar To Post

Interview by Rob Steen, MOJO, April 1994

A TIP. DON'T TELL KIRSTY MACCOLL SHE IS OUR FINEST FEMALE songwriter. Not even if you are besotted with Titanic Days, her latest and greatest ...

Hall & Oates: The Voice Of Young America

Interview by Andy Gill, NME, 23 March 1995

Daryl Hall is the sweet soul voice in the Hall & Oates duo, whose "black-white" music has made them America's hit single champs of the ...

The Band of Holy Joy: "Bertolt Brecht, my arse!"

Interview by Len Brown, NME, 6 June 1987

THE BAND OF HOLY JOY go to Tynemouth and back to say 'we're not a bunch of art poseurs, ta very much' Bag-man: LEN BROWN ...

The Rolling Stones: Bill Wyman: Dirty Work Behind The Scenes

Interview by Chris Welch, Creem, August 1986

"WE SPENT FIVE months in Paris making the Stones' new album, and it doesn't usually take that long. We messed around for weeks because Mick ...

Alison Moyet: Yaz, Alf & Other Three-Letter Words

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Creem, September 1985

"BIG POP STAR." Alison Moyet stares into her tonic water; the ice obliges by cracking with emphasis. "It seems to have become quite an obsession ...

Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa: Zappa and Beefheart: Penguins In Bondage

Interview by Robot A. Hull, Creem, January 1976

Master MasterThis is recorded thru uh flies ear 'n you have t' have uh flies eye t' see it it's the thing that's gonna make ...

Morrissey: I'll Astonish You

Interview by Len Brown, Details, March 1991

"IF GEORGE MICHAEL had to live my life for five minutes, he'd strangle himself with the nearest piece of cord," says Morrissey as he walks ...

Robyn Hitchcock: God Walks Among Us

Interview by Bill Holdship, Creem, March 1986

IN HIS OWN WORDS, some people expect Robyn Hitchcock to be "a kind of exotic species of plant" or a "wigged-out acid casualty" in the ...

Brian Eno, Talking Heads: Eno: The Life of Brian in the Bush of Ghosts

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 7 March 1981

BRIAN ENO, currently working on two new albums, is many things to a lot of men. ...

Doobie Brothers: The Doobies Brothers: Street Fighting Men

Interview by Steven Rosen, Sounds, 24 January 1976

DRUMMER JOHN Hartman leans back precariously in the Memphis Hotel room chair, fingers locked behind head and mouth working in a typically rapid manner. He's ...

Talking Heads: Fear Of Normalcy: Talking Heads Get Funked (And Like It)

Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, March 1981

I FIRST MET David Byrne and his very serious band of Talking Heads in 1976. That was before their first album had been released, and ...

Dexys Midnight Runners: Fact And Fiction

Interview by Lesley White, The Face, September 1982

THE FACE turned down an offer to interview Kevin Rowland earlier in the summer because of unacceptable preconditions which were later withdrawn. Last in line ...

Echo & The Bunnymen: Heaven Up Here

Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, The Face, August 1981

IAN McCULLOCH LETS GIOVANNI DADOMO GET UNDER HIS HAIRCUT IN ECHOSOUND AND BUNNYVISION cert x ...