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Interview by Don Watson, NME, 8 September 1984

AS LONDON swelters, there's one back alley in Soho's underarm narrow enough to escape the sun's onslaught. Damp and dingy it seems to seep moisture ...

Culture Club: Boy George: It's An Odd Boy Who Doesn't Like Sport #1

Interview by Danny Baker, NME, 22 September 1984

"Where can you find pleasure?/Search the world for treasure?/Learn science technology?/Where can you begin to make your dreams all come true?/On the land or on ...

David Bowie: Sermon From The Savoy

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 29 September 1984

When David Bowie recently visited Britain he agreed to do one ‘official’ interview — with NME’s Charles Shaar Murray. In this exclusive story he gives ...

Nick Cave, Screamin' Jay Hawkins: Screamin' Jay Hawkins: The Man Who Ate Nick Cave

Interview by Lynden Barber, NME, 19 July 1986

The bats screech, and inside a rockin' coffin, something stirs...up fly the nails and out pops SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS, longtime voodoo swamp beast back to ...

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 ...

The Human League: Flesh And Blood

Interview by John McCready, NME, 20 September 1986

Born to make mistakes? THE HUMAN LEAGUE, CLASS of '81 veterans, saved Phil Oakey from a life on the bins. Jon McCready talks to 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 ...

Morrissey: Borne To Be Wilde - interview part 1

Interview by Len Brown, NME, 13 February 1988

"WE HAVE a warrant here, Mr. Wilde, for your arrest on a charge of committing indecent acts." "Where shall I be taken?" "To Bow Street." ...

Iron Maiden: Welcome To The Machine: Iron Maiden

Interview by Simon Witter, NME, 12 March 1988

MUCH AS WE may laugh at the blustering antics of its ambassadors, HM is no joke. As a kind of musical Rollerball, exorcising taboos and ...

Ultramagnetic MCs: Ultramagnetic MC's

Interview by Simon Witter, NME, April 1988

THE EXPLANATORY enthusiasm of New York's most impressive, left-field rap newcomers cuts the crisp late-winter air like a drum solo in a public library. ...

Pink Floyd: A Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Interview by Simon Witter, NME, 9 July 1988

No band has ever been simultaneously as popular and as hated as Pink Floyd. Their latest album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason, has spawned three ...

Peter Gabriel: An Alien In The Real World

Interview by Len Brown, NME, 10 June 1989

Although he's never appeared in the Sunday Sport, PETER GABRIEL has achieved enough for anyone else's lifetime. In part two of this interview, he talks ...

Suzanne Vega: Godmother Of New Age

Interview by Len Brown, NME, 14 April 1990

Suzanne Vega was brought up as a Puerto Rican, attended the neo-legendary New York School Of Performing Arts and went on to become the sensitive ...

ZZ Top: We Are Beard

Interview by Steven Wells, NME, 5 January 1991

From out of the Texan desert they came, with recycled riffs, "ironic" sexism and grotesque amounts of facial hair… the Middle Aged Mutant Guitar Heroes! ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beastie Boys, The: The Beastie Boys: We Clamorous Beasties

Interview by Ted Kessler, NME, 21 May 1994

The Beastie Boys, icons to the sunstruck, tattooed youth of California have set up every American boy's dream empire — clothes, fanzine, record label and ...

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 ...

David Bowie: Drum 'N' Bass Oddity

Interview by Stephen Dalton, NME, 1 February 1997

Forget the '80s. Forget Let's Dance and Tin Machine. Forget the mullets. 'Cos DAVID BOWIE'S discovered jungle and he's back with a vengeance. STEPHEN DALTON ...

Mansun: Rocket From The Cryptic

Interview by Steven Wells, NME, 8 February 1997

It's a mighty strange world that MANSUN inhabit — stripping vicars, bend-your-brains surrealism, anti-religious ranting and, of course, songs about chickens. STEVEN WELLS takes the ...