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The Beatles: Silly Charlie and the Not-So-Red-Hot Pepper

Essay by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 25 May 1974

Will Ringo get the mums? Can George hold the mystics? Who was the Walrus? Is Charles Shaar Murray a loony? Only the last question need ...

Lou Reed: A Walk On The Wild Side Of Lou Reed

Comment by Nick Kent, NME, 9 June 1973

"I HAVE ALWAYS thought it would be kinda fun to introduce people to characters they maybe hadn't met before, or hadn't wanted to meet, y'know. ...

Roxy Music: Discovery Of Amazing Corporate Hippie

Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 14 September 1974

EDDIE JOBSON is quite a cute little cookie. ...

Automatic Man

Profile and Interview by Miles, NME, 31 July 1976

Something with Integrity has descended among us (from California as it happens). It's AUTOMATIC MAN. It landed in the Marquee. MILES was there ...

New York Dolls, Wayne County & The Electric Chairs: New York: The Dark Side Of Town

Report by Nick Kent, NME, 5 May 1973

THE GRAFFITI IN the toilets at Max's Kansas City is abysmal. It's the only word that comes to mind – there's not one subversive scrawl, ...

Wah!: The Mighty Wah!: Waaaugh!

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 8 September 1984

WHAM! The door opens and it's Wah! The mighty WAH! There he is! ...

The Cure: Top Cat He's Intellectual

Interview by Mat Snow, NME, 26 May 1984

CATERPILLAR, lovecat, fatcat, catamite, catatonia – it was a mean word-association game I played on the way to meet Robert Smith of The Cure. ...

The Incredible String Band #1: Eight Years On

Interview by Ian MacDonald, NME, 10 March 1973

THE INCREDIBLE String Band, in various forms, have been playing for eight years and have recorded 13 albums, including two doubles and solo sets by ...

Sweet: The Sweet Soft Underbelly of Rock

Report and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, 10 February 1973

FUNNY how moods change – there we all were...the Sweet and myself...in the bar, having a few drinks, sharing a joke or two y'know, getting ...

Right Said Fred: Testicle Dept

Interview by Keith Cameron, NME, 14 March 1992

DATELINE, NEW YORK. Right Said Fred have just topped the US charts with 'I'm Too Sexy' and their witty, zippy video squeezes itself gingerly into ...

Joan Armatrading: Front Door Woman

Interview by Richard Cook, NME, 9 April 1983

DO YOU believe in romance? ...

Pete Shelley: Let Your Fingers Do The Talking

Interview by Richard Cook, NME, 16 April 1983

PETE SHELLEY STRIKES UP A DIALOGUE OF HIS OWN ON THE LINE TO MARTIN RUSHENT'S COUNTRY STUDIOS. RICHARD COOK PLAYS TELEPHONE OPERATOR AND LISTENS IN. ...

Steve Winwood, Stomu Yamashta: Winwood & Yamashta: GO GO GO

Interview by Miles, NME, 12 June 1976

MILES, our resident Grand Master of cosmic funk, unscrews the inscrutable and accompanies STEVIE WINWOOD and STOMU YAMASHTA into the infinite as they discuss, rehearse ...

Grateful Dead: The Exhumation of The Dead

Essay by Mick Farren, NME, 3 August 1974

They've been slagged, slated, abused, and misused – most often in these very pages. But Hell hath no Fury like a Dead fan scorned, and ...

Nashville Revisited

Report by Cynthia Rose, NME, 11 August 1984

This summer an 82 year-old former boxer, shoeshine boy and burlesque costumier from Brooklyn died in Los Angeles. His name was Nudie Cohen and he ...

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 ...

Hall & Oates: The Voice Of Young America

Interview by Andy Gill, NME, 23 March 1995

Daryl Hall is the sweet soul voice in the Hall & Oates duo, whose "black-white" music has made them America's hit single champs of the ...

The Band of Holy Joy: "Bertolt Brecht, my arse!"

Interview by Len Brown, NME, 6 June 1987

THE BAND OF HOLY JOY go to Tynemouth and back to say 'we're not a bunch of art poseurs, ta very much' Bag-man: LEN BROWN ...

Be-Bop Deluxe: 1974 was Last Year’s Thing

Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 3 August 1974

...so what about the Sound of ‘75, man? Could it even be BE-BOP DELUXE, already? (We knock ‘em down and then we build ‘em up ...

T. Rex, Tyrannosaurus Rex: T. Rex: Where Now, Elemental Child?

Comment by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 28 April 1973

ONCE UPON A time there was Tyrannosaurus Rex. In the days immediately following flower-power, rockanroll music was getting very sweaty around the edges. What with ...