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How the compact disc lost its shine

Report and Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 28 May 2015

It's 30 years since Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms began the CD boom. How did the revolution in music formats come about and what killed ...

McAlmont & Butler: The Band That Likes To Play... 'YES'!

Report and Interview by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 3 June 1995

DAVID McALMONT used to be in the lavishly praised but commercially unsuccessful THIEVES. The he formed the even more lavishly praised, though still commercially unsuccessful, ...

MC Hammer: Trousers Of The Holy: All You Ever Wanted To Know About MC Hammer But Didn't Have The Time To Ask

Report and Interview by Stuart Maconie, NME, 4 May 1991

His voluminous trews tell only part of the story. MC HAMMER may well be as huge as the cut of his keks saleswise, but at ...

Jamie Principle: Acid House: New Acid Daze

Report and Interview by John McCready, NME, 6 February 1988

As our charts bulge with British House, so its big American brother trips off in a new direction. Spacier and racier, mesmeric and dis(c)oncerting – ...

The Kursaal Flyers: Kursaal Flyers: Coming In On A Wing And A Prayer

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 6 March 1976

IT'S AMAZING the difference a moustache makes. ...

The Bluetones, Supergrass: Supergrass, The Bluetones: Caught By The Buzz

Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 10 March 1995

Have you heard the new Maker motto? They're On The Cover On Tuesday, They're In The Chart On Sunday! First Portishead, then Sleeper, and now ...

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 ...

Ultravox: Number 1 With A Bullet Train

Report and Interview by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 20 March 1982

HUGH FIELDER goes along for the ride with ULTRAVOX in Japan ...

Queen: Fit to be Crowned: Queen's Mercury Rising

Report and Interview by Mick Brown, Rolling Stone, 5 May 1977

NEW YORK — Queen's Freddie Mercury just loves to be pampered. He says it conserves his energies for more important things. And, anyway, he likes ...

LaBelle

Report and Interview by Robin Katz, Let It Rock, July 1975

1. 'What Can I Do For You?' PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania. November 1974. Breakfast time (10:30). Patti LaBelle, Sarah Dash and Nona Hendryx are sitting in one corner of ...

Spandau Ballet: Muscle Band

Report and Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 7 February 1981

Go vest, young man. In the studio with Spandau Ballet ...

Gary Glitter, Mud, Suzi Quatro, Neil Sedaka, Alvin Stardust, Sweet, Wizzard, Barry Blue: Beethoven Rolls Over Again

Report and Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 23 May 1974

Nouveau Rock Bops British Charts ...

Elton John, Prisoner of Wax

Report and Interview by Ben Edmonds, Creem, February 1974

Could it be that this mild-mannered popstar is actually... a vinyl junkie? ...

Gay Dad: Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rock Star

Report and Interview by Sylvia Patterson, The Face, April 1999

They're the best band since Oasis. They're the joke of the year. Their records are all fantastic. But they've only made one. They've got a ...

Archie Bell and the Drells, Thom Bell, Kenny Gamble, O'Jays: Gamble & Huff: It's Got a Good Beat, and You Can Pray to It

Report and Interview by Tom Vickers, Rolling Stone, 20 May 1976

The only way for our music to go is the way the world goes. And where it goes negative, we're going to show where it ...

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? ...

Rick Wakeman, Yes: Rick Wakeman: Journey to the Center of the Stage

Report and Interview by Cameron Crowe, Rolling Stone, 30 January 1975

"HAVE YOU HEARD the gag about the ten-year-old twin brothers, Peter and Paul?" A Howard Johnson's coffee shop full of teachers from a nearby Pittsburgh ...

Sigue Sigue Sputnik: Starry-Eyed & Laughing

Report and Interview by Paul Morley, NME, 8 March 1986

YOU FIND yourself reading about them...It's been a long day, and it isn't over yet. The two juiciest members of Sigue Sigue Sputnik – pronounced ...

XTC: Last Exit To Catalonia

Report and Interview by Paul Morley, NME, 20 September 1980

XTC ARE BITING their nails backstage of an open air gig at a soccer ground in the Madrid suburbs – the equivalent of an English ...

Blue Oyster Cult

Report and Interview by Max Bell, NME, 21 August 1976

Nectar of strychnine! Seminal psychedelic trip-wire rock'n'roll! Geometric chaos! Neo-nuclear Pearl Harbour precision! Flash-pod explosion! Blood-on-snow controlled fury! Boot-heeling dangerous! ...