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Foo Fighters, Placebo: Placebo & Foo Fighters: Hallo Spaceboys

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, February 1997

THE SETTING: Placebo's dressing room, backstage at Madison Square Garden. David Bowie is halfway through his 50th Birthday Concert. Two of his special guests are ...

David Bowie, Mick Ronson, Mott The Hoople, Lou Reed: Tony DeFries: Bowie's MainMan

Profile by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 18 May 1974

Tony DeFries is Mr Big of today's rock —the 70s' Col. Parker. He deals in STARS, the most glittering of whom is David Bowie. He ...

Tin Machine: The Tin Machine: Danger Signs

Interview by Andrew Smith, Melody Maker, 20 May 1989

WITH THE HELP OF HIS NEW BAND, DAVID BOWIE HAS AT LAST RECORDED AN ALBUM THAT REDISCOVERS THE DANGER AND EXCITEMENT THAT ONCE ESTABLISHED HIM ...

David Bowie: Tape Heads: Ed Buller meets Tony Visconti, part 2

Interview by Tom Doyle, Melody Maker, 19 March 1994

In the second and final part of our head to head interview featuring legendary T Rex/Bowie producer TONY VISCONTI and Suede and Pulp producer ED ...

Roy Hill: Riverside Studios, London

Live Review by Penny Valentine, Melody Maker, 3 February 1979

APPROACHING Roy Hill via one sub-Bowie single ('I Like, I Like, I Like') and a first album saturated in unsympathetic production, I was not – ...

Suede, T. Rex: Tape Heads: Ed Buller meets Tony Visconti

Interview by Tom Doyle, Melody Maker, 12 March 1994

While even the most basic recordings get increasingly hi-tech, many modern producers are still searching for the vibey sounds of yesteryear. In the first of ...

Chic: Le Freak Scenes

Interview by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 14 March 1992

As massive an influence on modern dance as Kraftwerk and James Brown, CHIC have finally come back after years producing records for likes of Madonna ...

Defunkt: The Venue, London

Live Review by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 20 June 1981

PRESENTING upwardly mobile uptown jazz/funk from New York, Defunkt are a sharp six-piece fronted by the ever-cool Joe Bowie, who plays trombone, conducts the band ...

King Crimson, Pete Sinfield: Pete Sinfield Has A Nose For Success

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 13 May 1973

PETE SINFIELD is a poet, and such men do not abound on the music scene. There is Pete Brown of course, and many a lyricist ...

Boz Scaggs: Scaggs In Silk

Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 15 May 1976

LOUNGING IN HIS suite at the Pierre Hotel, an opulent home for the wealthy, once owned by Paul Getty, Boz Scaggs completes a picture of ...

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 ...

Alice Cooper: Alice's Tasteful Nightmare

Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 12 April 1975

THE NEW Alice Cooper Revue, which opened in Chicago last week and moved on to Detroit and Cincinnati, is yet another step forward in the ...

John Lennon: Rock On!

Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 8 March 1975

It's a busy time for JOHN LENNON – hit singles, a new album of oldies and recording with Elton John and and David Bowie. Plus ...

Velvet Underground, The: Pop Art/Art Pop: The Warhol Connection

Report and Interview by Mary Harron, Melody Maker, 16 February 1980

Like to be a galleryPut you all inside my show— David Bowie, 'Andy Warhol' Some people claim that only James Brown can match Andy Warhol's ...

Mott The Hoople: Mott (CBS)

Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 28 July 1973

A PERSPEX cut out face on the sleeve introduces us to Mott The Hoople Mark III, a group with a scarred history whose fifth and ...

Defunkt: Trax, New York

Live Review by Roy Trakin, Melody Maker, 9 February 1980

EVEN THE decidedly old-wave, uptown industry water-hole Trax has caught the Funk Flu that's hit this borough like an epidemic. People are dancing to progressive, ...

Iggy Pop, David Bowie: Iggy Pop: A new career in a new town

Report and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 5 March 1977

Iggy Pop, touring Britain this week, speaks to MICHAEL WATTS from Berlin. David Bowie's saying nothing... ...

Defunkt, Raybeats, The, James Chance, James White and The Blacks: Defunkt, the Raybeats, James Chance: Funky, Punky and Chic

Report and Interview by Roy Trakin, Melody Maker, 15 March 1980

The Raybeats and Joe Bowie's Defunkt are working on New York's newest fusion: a post-No Wave music in which James Chance's punk meets George Clinton's ...

Gary Numan: Apollo Theatre, Glasgow

Live Review by Jon Savage, Melody Maker, 29 September 1979

THE FACE of '79 doesn't belong to a mod, punk, or to anyone so sectarian, but to Gary Numan, and it's time we faced up ...

Mick Ronson, Sandy Dillon: Sandy Dillon And Mick Ronson: Ronnie Scotts, London

Live Review by Dave Thompson, Melody Maker, 17 August 1985

FIRST some background. ...