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Steeleye Span: So Who ARE These Limeys Playing Folk Music?

Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 26 May 1973

IT TAKES approximately 11 hours to fly from London to Los Angeles. You get off the 'plane, and the heat fills your lungs like a ...

The Jesus & Mary Chain: The Jesus and Mary Chain: Chapter, Verse And Worse

Profile and Interview by Biba Kopf, NME, 16 February 1985

I: BLAST! ...

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? ...

Deee-Lite: Trio De Janeiro

Interview by James Brown, NME, 9 February 1991

Pop music isn't all lying around the pool with GUNS N'ROSES, frugging with PRINCE and getting pissed (on) with the MONDAYS. Except, that is, in ...

Elton John part 3: Maybe It's Because I'm A Socialist…

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 8 March 1975

TELL US, El, what is Rock all about? Having a bloody good time. When I was a kid and went to see those Larry Parnes-Billy ...

The Bay City Rollers: The View From Seat A6

Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 25 September 1976

"Then one day I found a perfect plan,I shake my ass and sing in a rock and roll band,From now on there'll be no compromisin'Rock ...

Pete Atkin And Clive James: From Little Atkins Great Oak Trees Grow

Interview by Ian MacDonald, NME, 26 April 1975

A fearsome encounter between two of the foremost minds of a Generation...uh...two of the most cerebral Rock Critics afloat...um, two of the most Accomplished Raconteurs...the ...

Alice Cooper: The Man Who Ate Alice Cooper

Retrospective by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 15 February 1975

Yes, once again CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY, Regius Professor of Logic, Rhetoric, Trash Aesthetics, and Hohner Super Vamper, leaps forth with a mouthful of scintillating verbosity ...

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

Richard Hell, Television, Tom Verlaine: Tom Verlaine: How Pleasant (?) To Know Mr Verlaine

Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, 26 March 1977

OPINION: Tom Verlaine is a great songwriter, the next seminal rock charismatic, a genius.OPINION: Tom Verlaine is an egomaniac, a back-stabber, a thankless paranoid. ...

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. ...

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 ...

David Byrne, Talking Heads: David Byrne: A Talking Head's Guide To The Big Country

Interview by Mat Snow, NME, 6 September 1986

COMING SOON to a cinema near you is one of this year's funniest yet most thought-provoking films. It is called True Stories, and is a ...

Patti Smith, Television: Punk in New York: Blitzkreig Bop

Retrospective and Interview by Mat Snow, NME, 15 February 1986

"And one fine morning she turns on a New York-station / And doesn't believe what she hears at all / She started dancing to that ...

Sex, Drugs And Violence In Rock: The Sexual Language Of Rock Part 2

Essay by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 6 March 1976

"I'm gonna pick you up nowAnd carry you away,So you'd better pack up now, baby,Packin' up today,Here I come, just a big bad man,When I ...

Blondie And The Beast

Interview by Paul Morley, NME, 2 September 1978

DEBBIE HARRY: a few more brisk calculations in the dry equation, and she will be a star. A household name. An object. An illusion. Well ...

Suzi Quatro: For Your Information, She Happens To Be A Lady

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 25 January 1975

"ALISTAIR...CAN YOU go through your solo again and count exactly how many bars you need for it?" ...

Mickey Jupp: The Lost Legends of Southend Rock

Profile and Interview by Max Bell, NME, 3 May 1975

Down where the fag-end of London slopes into the sea, there lies the forgotten land of Southend, home of the whelk stall and source of ...