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Interview by Calvin Bush, Muzik, February 1998

He's finished with Björk. He's finished with Rob Playford. And he's finished with his mid-life crisis. He's just about to meet Val Kilmer, Laurence Fishburne ...

PJ Harvey: Primed and Ticking

Interview by Deborah Frost, Rolling Stone, 19 August 1993

PJ Harvey beat the sophomore jinx and get their mojo workin' with an American tour and their powerful new album, Rid of Me. ...

Marianne Faithfull: Ca$h for Questions

Interview by Sylvia Patterson, Q, February 2013

She was the sensuous '60s starlet who flew too close to the sun, only to emerge from addiction as a rasp-voiced grande dame of the ...

Edwyn Collins...

Interview by Craig McLean, The Face, January 1996

...as man of the year? Man of the last 15 years more like. Over a goblet of mulled wine the sound of young (ahem) Scotland ...

Chemical Brothers, The: The Chemical Brothers: Chemicrazy Pilots

Interview by Push, Muzik, June 1995

They've changed their name from The Dust Brothers to THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS and their beats are beefier than ever. Stand by for the imminent release ...

Moody Blues, The: Singer looks back at five decades of the Moody Blues

Interview by Jim Sullivan, Cape Cod Times, 9 August 2014

JUSTIN HAYWARD began playing rock 'n' roll professionally at 17, back when, he says, people told him "endlessly" that there was no career in it. ...

Living Colour: Black Rock Coalition: Living Colour’s Vernon Reid

Interview by Mark Sinker, New Musical Express, 23 April 1988

2005 NOTE: This piece is a mess, though the underlying concept was good, and besides, the whole paper was a mess at this stage. I ...

Manic Street Preachers: The Manic Street Preachers: "We've Never Quite Walked It Like We've Talked It"

Interview by Sylvia Patterson, New Musical Express, 8 August 1998

The further confessions of the Manic Street Preachers. Part two of a two-part exclusive ...

Animals, The, Jeff Beck, Donovan, Herman's Hermits, Mickie Most: The Starmakers: Mickie Most

Interview by Val Mabbs, Record Mirror, 3 February 1973

Starting today, The Starmakers, the men behind the image, the men in control. This new Record Mirror series probes the lives and feelings of the ...

Fania All Stars, The, Ray Barretto: The Fania All-Stars: Salsa

Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 14 February 1976

You don't have to come from Puerto Rico to dig Salsa. Vivien Goldman hails from Golders Green and she's sold on it. Anyway, wherever you ...

Elton John: Nobody's Perfect

Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, April 1995

Especially Elton John. Cocaine seizures, Martini marathons, curry 'n' cockle blow-outs, condom-free congress, surprising marriages, violent evacuations, rent boys… he's had a few. But that ...

Doll By Doll

Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, July 1978

I pushed a penny in the toilet door then I quickly stepped inside to some graffiti and a greyhound paper and the gentle thought of ...

Nick Lowe

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 18 March 1978

EVERYONE GETS that glazed marzipan look in make-up. Maybe it's some weird chemical that they put in the booze in the Artists' Bar at Television ...

The Human League: Human League: Half A League Onward

Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 7 March 1981

NEVER BEFORE in the annals of male/female relations, in the ongoing man/woman battleground, has there been such a spicy love/hate scenario as in the new ...

Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin: Jimmy Page: The Life And Times Of A Guitar Prophet

Interview by John Tobler, Musician, January 1984

JIMMY PAGE was born in Heston, West London, on January 9, 1944, and moved with his family to nearby Feltham during his infancy. He spent ...

The Pretenders Stop Our Sobbing

Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, August 1980

AS LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER"There's something I dread about talking to female musicians," my co-editor DiMartino sighed as we drank beer and worried in the ...

Junior Giscombe: Secret Life of a Streatham Soul-Boy

Interview by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, 8 May 1982

Paolo Hewitt rides the Soul Train to L.A. with Junior Giscombe ...

Rod Stewart: Never Too Rich To Rock

Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 26 June 1976

"I'M GOING to be evasive," Rod Stewart warned. "More evasive than usual. You evil bitch." ...

Sleeper: Wener Takes All

Interview by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 14 January 1995

1995 is set to be SLEEPER's year. The latest leading lights in the ongoing resurgence of Britpop brightened up last year with a string of ...

P.J. Proby: That's Torn It! The Story of P.J. Proby

Interview by Rob Chapman, MOJO, May 1997

P J. PROBY, SURVIVOR OF 30 YEARS OF fame, purgatory, and sporadic redemption, is holding court on one of his favourite subjects. "From Graceland to ...