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Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 31 January 1981

THE NAME of Birmingham group Duran Duran has no connection with Japanese covers of Chiffons songs. ...

Velvet Underground: The Lost History of the Velvet Underground: An interview with Sterling Morrison

Retrospective and Interview by Mary Harron, NME, 25 April 1981

THE VELVET Underground were the first avant-garde rock band, and the greatest. ...

Interview by Vivien Goldman, NME, 2 May 1981

Vivien Goldman meets Daniel Miller, the man who brought you The Silicon Teens, The Normal and Depeche Mode. Though only one of these exists – ...

Defunkt: Embassy Club, London

Live Review by Ian Penman, NME, 6 June 1981

Make my funk the D-funkt ...

James Chance: Save The Last Chance For Me!

Interview by Ian Penman, NME, 20 June 1981

Sax and drugs and contorted soul – Ian Penman meets his hero in another instalment of conversations with James Chance. London 1981. ...

David Bowie: Bowie For Breakfast: Angie Bowie’s Free Spirit

Review by Cynthia Rose, NME, 4 July 1981

David’s golden years get shredded as Angie spills half baked beans. ...

Grace Jones: The Savoy, New York NY

Live Review by Ian Penman, NME, 22 August 1981

THE FANFARE hardly pronounced itself...when out folds a larger-than-our-life toy monkey with a grass skirt on its bandy thighs and a big tin drum, swinging ...

David Sylvian, Japan: David Sylvian: Melancholy Baby

Interview by Ian Penman, NME, 2 January 1982

MELANCHOLY PROPS up his head and whispers, half to himself and half to me... ...

Adam & The Ants: Adam Ant: True Confessions: Brando, De Niro and Bruce Lee. Lennon-McCartney And Yours Truly

Interview by Paul Morley, NME, 16 January 1982

DO YOU believe in Adam Ant? ...

Echo & The Bunnymen: Echo And The Bunnymen: A Promise of Rock Re-Born

Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 20 February 1982

THE DAY AFTER THIS venerable paper's hardcore readers have enjoyed their brief, communal moment of glory in the polls, all-round prize guys Echo And the ...

ABC: Romancing Tongue In Chic

Interview by Gavin Martin, NME, 6 March 1982

FOLLOWING IN the footsteps of Barbara Windsor, The Professionals' Martin Shaw and Crossroads' Benny Hawkins ABC are tonight making a Public Appearance at Sheffield's Top ...

David Bowie: Brechtfast In Bed

Report by Ian Penman, NME, 6 March 1982

IN BAAL, DAVID Bowie finally shed his skin and played the part of someone else. ...

Haircut 100: Sunshine Superboy

Interview by Paul Morley, NME, 13 March 1982

I ASK NICHOLAS Heyward, the singer with Haircut 100, if he thinks that he is a lucky boy. He allows me a look so cheeky, ...

Defunkt: The Life and Death of Romance

Interview by Richard Cook, NME, 29 May 1982

Neo-realist funkt, anyone? Joe Bowie describes his big city reggae to Richard Cook. ...

Dexys Midnight Runners: Kevin Rowland: A Folk Hero Of The '80s

Interview by Gavin Martin, NME, 3 July 1982

THE RAIN POURS down and the traffic piles up along London's Notting Hill Gate as Kevin Rowland and myself make our way through the grey ...

Simple Minds: New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)

Review by Paul Morley, NME, 18 September 1982

ONETHIS RECORD is something of a glow. Whatever your preference you will find it memorable and instructive. Find its qualities and fix your place. Be ...

The Human League: Phil Oakey's Five Minute Plan

Interview by Paul Morley, NME, 8 January 1983

WHEN PHIL Oakey was a hospital porter, people used to be dying all around him, and he somehow became immune. It didn't upset him more ...

David Bowie: Rare

Review by Chris Bohn, NME, 18 January 1983

NEITHER RARE nor particularly well done, the latest Bowie collection of alternative cuts, outtakes, live run throughs, flipsides and flops is hardly likely to endear ...

Echo & The Bunnymen: Porcupine (Korova)

Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 22 January 1983

PERHAPS IT WAS inevitable, even decreed in some heaven up "there". Maybe it’s just the third time unlucky. But if Porcupine isn’t good it isn’t ...

Joan Armatrading: Front Door Woman

Interview by Richard Cook, NME, 9 April 1983

DO YOU believe in romance? ...