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Interview by Sheryl Garratt, The Face, September 1996

WHEN NENEH CHERRY was a toddler, she met Miles Davis. She remembers his gravelly growl of a voice, and recalls him opening his trumpet case ...

Queen: Helpful Boy Scout Transforms into Werewolf

Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 18 January 1975

Well, perhaps that's putting it a little strongly... let's just say he transforms into a demon who pushes old ladies under oil tankers. But WHO ...

Dave Stewart: Sweet Sonic Dream Mixes Are Made of Dave Stewart

Interview by Mike Mettler, The Sound Bard, 10 February 2016

HE'S A MAN who's been everywhere and done it with everyone, and lived to tell the tales. He's Dave Stewart, the production wizard best known ...

Joe Bonamassa

Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Guitar World, July 2012

IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT in Cleveland… April 14, specifically, and blues guitar legend Freddie King has just been inducted by Z.Z. Top into the Rock 'n' ...

Suicide: The Suicide Club

Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 24 June 1978

NEW YORK/NEW WAVE NO INTRODUCTION ('COS OUR AUTHOR DIDN'T WRITE ONE) ...

Scott Walker: An Interview

Interview by Graham Reid, Rock's Backpages, May 2006

NO ONE COULD accuse reclusive songwriter and singer Scott Walker of haste. In the time between Walker's last album Tilt and his latest The Drift, ...

Slipknot: Sinister Masked Rap-Metallers

Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 8 January 2000

JOEY (No 1): "We have enough hatred and anger to fucking fuel fucking ten fucking records!" Shawn (No 6): "We're pretty angry." ...

Duran Duran: From Brags To Riches

Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 29 May 1982

ONCE UPON a time, five fresh-faced boys based in Brum summoned a cynical hackette to witness the emergence of a certain indefinable sort of big-bam-glam-electro-rock ...

Aimee Mann: The Discreet Charm of Aimee Mann: An Interview

Interview by Martin Colyer, Rock's Backpages, September 2012

A freewheeling chat, taking in Mann's new Charmer, her talented collaborators, reality TV, turning up the treble, Laura Linney's focus, Jack Kerouac's drying-out and women's ...

Joan Armatrading: Angel of Intrigue

Interview by Carol Cooper, Musician, April 1982

Joan Armatradlng has bartered her acoustic folk roots into a gutsy, punk maelstrom; her new album, Walk Under Ladders, crackles with aggressive electricity and sensual ...

Electronic - an interview

Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, July 1991

IT WAS A MARRIAGE MADE, not in heaven, but in Manchester: the guitar-slinging former Smith and the wispy-voiced singer of New Order, brought together by ...

Luke Haines: Goodbye To All That

Interview by Roy Wilkinson, The Word, June 2003

Luke Haines is music's Graham Greene, a scowling misanthrope with a highly-placed following and a withering perspective on his homeland. How has the who who's ...

T Bone Burnett: T-Bone Steak, Rattle and Roll

Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 7 January 1984

November 21. A cool, inky evening in Fort Worth, Texas – the kind of town where a lonesome moan from the Mystery Train still pierces ...

Nice, The, Davy O'List: Davy O'List

Interview by David Cavanagh, Uncut, February 2014

Davy O'List was in with the in-crowd — a prog prodigy in The Nice, a founder of Roxy Music, the proud owner of Judy Garland’s ...

Prefab Sprout: Extracting the Michael

Interview by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 14 May 1988

Though inspired by dreams of Wacko Jacko, PREFAB SPROUT'S mainman PADDY McALOON has little time lor most rock legends — Talking Heads and Bruce Springsteen ...

Feeder: The Empire Strikes Back

Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 7 February 1998

Ever since Bush sold their first few million records, we've been waiting for the next globe-conquering Britrock band. Enter FEEDER, three men who've come through ...

Rolling Stones, The, Bill Wyman: 20 Years On Bill Wyman Prepares To Tell It Like It Was...

Interview by Maureen O'Grady, 19, January 1985

ROLLING STONES CONCERTS PROVOKE VIOLENCE AND RIOTS... STONES RECORD BANNED BY RADIO STATIONS... STONES ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF ASSAULT AND DESTRUCTION... STONES ARRESTED FOR OBSCENE ...

Mötley Crüe: Crüesin' and Blüesin'

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 20 February 1982

"FIRST YOU got to cut it real jaggedy. And you need this stuff." ...

Hall & Oates, Revillos, The, Rolling Stones, The, Roxy Music, Bruce Springsteen, Who, The: Bob Clearmountain: Making the hard stuff look easy

Interview by Alan di Perna, Musician, July 1990

BOB CLEARMOUNTAIN exudes a calm, deliberate air as he moves around the cluttered interior of a recording truck parked outside L.A.'s Universal Amphitheatre. Politely negotiating ...

Stephen Malkmus, Pavement: Stephen Malkmus: Invisible jukebox

Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, March 2001

Every month we play a musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of what ...