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Interview by Cynthia Rose, Creem, June 1984

ROCK MUSIC may know few true gentlemen. But those it does possess are liable to embody the best of that extraordinary flamboyance, imagination and hope ...

AC/DC Current Rock

Interview by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 5 January 1980

BARING ALL: AC/DC ...

Fall, The: The Fall: The Prestwich Horror And Other Strange Stories

Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 31 January 1981

Mark Smith of The Fall discloses fragments of the "Totale Mythos" to Edwin Pouncey. ...

Henry Threadgill: Into another world

Interview by Gene Santoro, Pulse!, April 1988

Reedman/composer Henry Threadgill rips down the barriers of jazz with uncompromising, challenging music. ...

Jeff Mills: Doing it on Purpose

Interview by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, June 1998

JEFF MILLS, LAUNCHES HIS PURPOSE MAKER ALBUM, ABOUT LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY, WITH A PHOTO EXHIBITION OF HIS FAMOUS "FAST" HANDS AND LESS FAMOUS ...

A Certain Ratio: 'Looking For A Certain Ratio' (B. Eno)

Interview by Chris Bohn, Melody Maker, 2 February 1980

While 2-Tone revive the fashions of the Sixties, A Certain Ratio are stretching their legs towards the future. In fact, since drummer Donald Johnson joined ...

Clash, The, Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers: The Clash, Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers: A Storm Is Coming

Interview by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, April 1977

Last week Clash jumped 60 places in the chart and Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers packed out London's Marquee. New Wave is now Big Wave. ...

Bucks Fizz: Let's Get Fizzical

Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 23 January 1982

Gasps Mick Sinclair ...

Public Image Ltd: Working On A New Public Image

Interview by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 22 September 1982

A GUITAR is being tuned, loudly, in the studio. Keith Levene strikes a familiar chord which quickly becomes a theme. Public Image Ltd.'s theme. ...

Sylvester: Woofers And Tweeters

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 25 September 1982

HAD I BEEN expecting some shimmering trans-sexual diva to sweep into the room like a hostess into her salon, the rotund, maternal figure who welcomed ...

Suede: Glorious Kinky

Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 30 April 1999

It is ten years since Suede released their seminal debut album. Caroline Sullivan meets one of the most influential bands of the nineties ...

Pulp: The Making of 'Common People'

Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, August 2010

From three chords on a cheap Casio keyboard, via Glastonbury, to the huge summer anthem of 1995. It's the song that broke Jarvis and co! ...

Ladytron: Rise Of The Machines

Interview by Simon Price, The Independent, 28 August 2005

Ladytron are a little bit Kraftwerk, a little bit Roxy and very, very now. So should the doe-eyed boys of angst rock be worried about ...

Heavy D. & the Boyz: Heavy D: There's Something About Heavy

Interview by Amy Linden, The Source, July 1999

WHEN HEAVY D was just a kid, when he was Dwight Myers, the youngest of six children in a Jamaican immigrant family, he used to ...