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David Bowie: Punk, Politics, Religion And War... By A Superstar

Report and Interview by David Hancock, Evening News, 20 September 1977

Britain is ready for a new Hitler, says Bowie ...

The Vibrators: The Punks Who Came In From The Cold

Report and Interview by Mick Brown, Sounds, 24 September 1977

"I think I ought to make it clear", says Knox, arms waving like flags in a stiff breeze, "that when we first started we were ...

David Bowie, Eddie & The Hot Rods: The Thin White Duke Has Gone. Here's The New David Bowie

Report and Interview by Tim Lott, Record Mirror, 24 September 1977

THE TONE is final. This negative is as impenetrable as it is predictable. "No." ...

Talking Heads

Report and Interview by Penny Valentine, Melody Maker, 28 January 1978

Penny Valentine reports from the Talking Heads tour ...

David Bowie: From Brixton To Berlin

Report and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, February 1978

Michael Watts reports from the German film set where David Bowie is making Just A Gigolo ...

David Bowie: Anthropomorphosis Was Never Like This!

Report and Interview by Robert Duncan, Creem, February 1978

OR Is David Bowie Really Billy Carter? ...

Jefferson Starship: Grace Slick's Superstarship

Report and Interview by Miles, NME, 17 June 1978

Planet minders turn platinum miners ...

The Clash: Clash On Tour

Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 15 July 1978

IT'S AS IF THE Clash's 'Police And Thieves' stage backdrop has suddenly transmogrified into moving 3-D. ...

Flamin' Groovies, The: The Return of the Flamin' Groovies

Report and Interview by Andy Schwartz, New York Rocker, September 1978

IT ALL BEGAN on a slow summer afternoon with a frantic phone call from Miriam Linna. The Flamin' Groovies (or someone speaking for them, perhaps ...

Ultravox: Vee Hav Vays Of Makink You Experiment

Report and Interview by Miles, NME, 2 September 1978

Unfortunately, this piece is not about Germans. It's about ULTRAVOX. However, it does take place in Germany. Will that do? ...

Elvis Costello: Elvis Army Is Here To Stay

Report and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, 27 January 1979

CHAPERONED in the back of a hire car, taking in the sights, partaking in entertaining chit-chat about the industry with fellow passengers, I shouldn't feel ...

Cure, The: Kill or Cure

Report and Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 27 January 1979

  WHEN YOU "do the singles", as we in the trade like to term the chore, it's a harrowing task. ...

Amanda Lear: Who's Afraid of Amanda Lear?

Report and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 10 February 1979

She lived with Brian Jones, and was Salvador Dali's protégé. She took David Bowie to see Metropolis, and watched him turn Fritz Lang into hit ...

Stiff Little Fingers: Breakout in Newport: Stiff Little Fingers

Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 3 March 1979

All the action of life at the top as Phrantic Phil Sutcliffe, our man with his finger on the pop pulse, goes "on the road" ...

The Only Ones: Something Slithery This Way Comes

Report and Interview by Max Bell, NME, 17 March 1979

THE DRESSING room at Hurrah's is buzzing with electricity – reason being that inside this converted New York discotheque it's damn near as cold as ...

Duffo, Ivor Biggun, Lurkers, The, Tubeway Army: Beggars Banquet: Where Taste is a Dirty Word

Report and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 31 March 1979

Nick Austin and Martin Mills are the perpetrators of Duffo, Ivor Biggun and the Lurkers. They may have traded in their Jags for Cortinas. but ...

Hunter-Ronson, Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson: Hunter-Ronson: Good News From Nowhere

Report and Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 7 April 1979

Nowhere being the most expensive studio in New York, scene of the Hunter-Ronson comeback with a startling new album. HARRY DOHERTY investigated the Geminian partnership ...

Lou Reed: I Love It When You Talk Dirty

Report and Interview by Paul Morley, NME, 21 April 1979

WHY DOES SUCH A MAN LIVE? ...

Talking Heads: Les Talking Heads a la Carte

Report and Interview by Max Bell, NME, 28 July 1979

THE SCENE: Paris, France, July 10. Bastille Day looms, Talking Heads and their 'guests' The B52s have just completed a mini-European jaunt minus Great Britain. ...

Pretenders, The: The Pretenders: The Perils of Christine

Report and Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 25 August 1979

PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE PICTURE ABOVE. THE PRETENDERS ARE DEPRESSED. MEETING PETE SILVERTON MAKES THINGS WORSE. AND CHALKIE DAVIES DOESN'T HELP MUCH, EITHER ...