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Interview by Gavin Martin, Uncut, March 2003

… is a sprawling epic inspired by the work of drugged-up 19th-century horror writer Edgar Allen Poe. Is it a marriage made in heaven, or ...

Chic, Led Zeppelin, Power Station, The: Tony Thompson: It Ain't The Meat, It's The Emotion

Interview by J.D. Considine, Musician, March 1986

The Power, the Glory, and the Groove: Our Man from Chic Hits Hard and Hits Big, from Zep to Power Station to Madonna ...

Brian Eno, Talking Heads: Talking Heads: More words about Eno and art

Interview by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 29 July 1978

Ian Birch meets Talking Heads ...

Blondie: At last, a genuine artistic (well, it ain't sexist) pic of Debbie Harry in Sounds &...

Interview by Jane Suck, Sounds, 4 February 1978

I'M ALLOWED to say that a bomb dropped on my head whilst walking round the corner from Covent Garden Tube station to meet the band, ...

INXS: Splat! INXS Makes The Sound Of SUXS

Interview by Bud Scoppa, Creem, February 1988

INXS FRONTMAN Michael Hutchence is draped casually across an easy chair in a suite at West Hollywood's Sunset Marquis Hotel. An industrial vacuum cleaner rests ...

Nick Cave, Screamin' Jay Hawkins: Screamin' Jay Hawkins: The Man Who Ate Nick Cave

Interview by Lynden Barber, NME, 19 July 1986

The bats screech, and inside a rockin' coffin, something stirs...up fly the nails and out pops SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS, longtime voodoo swamp beast back to ...

Thomas Dolby: Hyperaction

Interview by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 3 March 1984

Adam Sweeting gets all smoochy with Eighties Renaissance Man THOMAS DOLBY. ...

Radiohead: Head Cases

Interview by Caitlin Moran, Melody Maker, 10 June 1995

Radiohead's The Bends is one of the albums of the year. We already know this. We also know that Thom Yorke is the next richeykurt ...

Bill Drummond: Recorded Music Has Run Its Course

Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, 28 August 2008

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Rufus Wainwright: The MOJO Interview

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, June 2012

WHAT WAS ON Rufus Wainwright's mind while making his new album, the sparkly, pop-ish, Mark Ronson-produced Out Of The Game? Only this. ...

Suzanne Vega: Godmother Of New Age

Interview by Len Brown, NME, 14 April 1990

Suzanne Vega was brought up as a Puerto Rican, attended the neo-legendary New York School Of Performing Arts and went on to become the sensitive ...

The Sex Pistols: Sex Pistols: The Rotten Interview

Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 27 August 1977

In Sweden With The Pistols Part 194 ...

Carly Simon, David Ackles, The Doors, Judy Collins, Love, Paul Butterfield Blues Band: Elektra: The House That Jac Built

Interview by Loraine Alterman, Melody Maker, 23 September 1972

The story of Elektra, one of rock's most influential labels. As told to Loraine Alterman by founder JAC HOLZMAN ...

Mansun: Rocket From The Cryptic

Interview by Steven Wells, NME, 8 February 1997

It's a mighty strange world that MANSUN inhabit — stripping vicars, bend-your-brains surrealism, anti-religious ranting and, of course, songs about chickens. STEVEN WELLS takes the ...

Joan Jett Is A Very Nice Girl

Interview by Iman Lababedi, Creem, June 1982

The Public's Vindication of an Ex-Runaway ...

Lou Reed: Saga Of A City

Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 29 January 1989

FIVE-YEAR-OLDS take guns to school, 10-year-olds sell crack. Homelessness, Howard Beach, Joel and Hedda, Tompkins Square, Tawana, AIDS. Lou Reed didn't make this world, but ...

Elvis Costello, Roots, The: Elvis Costello and Questlove

Interview by Dorian Lynskey, MOJO, September 2013

Forged in the unlikely surroundings of an American late-night TV show, the transatlantic union between Elvis Costello and The Roots' drummer and co-frontman Questlove has ...

Therapy?: Monsters Of Rock?

Interview by Susan Corrigan, i-D, September 1996

You know Therapy? Northern Irish moshers with a headline spot at Castle Donnington one minute, Mercury Music Prize nomination the next. Rock from a hard ...

Knack, The: Sharona Gets A Round Trip Ticket: The Knack Attack Is (Almost) Back

Interview by Michael Goldberg, Creem, February 1982

WHEN THE Rolling Stones are on the road, they listen to 50's rock 'n' roll and the blues. The Clash, predictably, listen to reggae. Rick ...

Brian Eno, Talking Heads: Talking Heads: Jive Talking

Interview by Richard Grabel, The Face, January 1981

David Byrne talks guardedly about his collaboration with Brian Eno. Tina Weymouth talks candidly on the same subject. "By the time they had finished working ...