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John Cale: The Weirdest John Cale Interview You've Ever Read...

Interview by Jane Suck, Sounds, 3 September 1977

I COULD be some other little girl reporter and tell you how I arrived for the interview on the verge of imminent throw-up; how I ...

Kevin Coyne: Black & White

Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 21 January 1978

'If I played my cards right, I'd be a gift to the media – chat shows, the lot' ...

Blondie: At last, a genuine artistic (well, it ain't sexist) pic of Debbie Harry in Sounds &...

Interview by Jane Suck, Sounds, 4 February 1978

I'M ALLOWED to say that a bomb dropped on my head whilst walking round the corner from Covent Garden Tube station to meet the band, ...

Iggy Pop, The Stooges: James Williamson: Real Time Musician From Kill City

Interview by Jon Savage, Sounds, 25 February 1978

A PHONE CONSERVATION with James Williamson at his present home in Claremont, half-an-hour outside Los Angeles. Mainly to talk about the newly released 1975 Pop/Williamson ...

Devo: Are We Not Ready?

Interview by Jon Savage, Sounds, 4 March 1978

THE FIRST THING you notice on arrival at Koln airport is the modernity and organization. No baggage queues. No pre-fab ramshackle buildings. ...

Wayne County & The Electric Chairs: Wayne County: County Counsel

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 8 April 1978

WHEN WAYNE COUNTY left his native state of Georgia, "because it was icky, and I got shot at", he meant to take a trip down ...

Lou Reed In Cloning Sensation!

Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 6 May 1978

PETE SILVERTON goes to Philadelphia to borrow a book from Lou Reed (That's not what it said on his expenses — Ed.) ...

Blue Öyster Cult, Clash, The: Blue Oyster Cult and Sandy Pearlman

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 13 May 1978

ERIC BLOOM is adamant about the current position and status of the band he sings and plays for, the am-aaa-zing Blue Oyster Cult; they are ...

Siouxsie & The Banshees: Siouxsie And The Banshees: The Unacceptable Face Of '78

Interview by Jon Savage, Sounds, 24 June 1978

'Overground – from abnormalityOverboard – for identityOverground – for normalityOverboard – on identity'– 'Overground' ...

Peter Gabriel

Interview by Caroline Coon, Sounds, 24 June 1978

THIS BLOKE stands menacingly in the entrance to Bath Spa Station. "Hmm," I muse to myself, taking note of his close crop, "a West Country ...

Suicide: The Suicide Club

Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 24 June 1978

NEW YORK/NEW WAVE NO INTRODUCTION ('COS OUR AUTHOR DIDN'T WRITE ONE) ...

Sylvester

Interview by Davitt Sigerson, Sounds, 26 August 1978

WEBSTER’S gives "Excessive, extravagant; Fanciful, fantastic; violent, unrestrained" as definitions of "outrageous". ...

Alicia Bridges: Ackshon Replay

Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 24 March 1979

ALICIA BRIDGES OVER(COMES) TROUBLED WATERS, PUNS GARRY 'DISCO BOY' BUSHELLL ...

Steve Forbert: So You Thought You'd Seen The Last...

Interview by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 21 April 1979

...of introspective singer/songwriters in blue jeans with acoustic guitars and pained expressions... Well think again as globe-trotting talent scout Hugh Fielder proclaims: "I have seen ...

Wayne County & The Electric Chairs: The Wayne County Interview

Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 2 June 1979

WAYNE COUNTY was already in the car. I was ushered into the front seat, leaving Wayne staring down the back of my neck. That was ...

Skids, The: Out of the Valley: The Skids Now

Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 1 September 1979

THIS WAS a feature that caused me innumerable problems. Not because I didn't know what to say, but because I had too much to say. ...

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: Who Was That Masked Man?

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 23 February 1980

SOMETHING GARDENS the place was called. Gardens? At a conservative estimate not so much as a blade of grass had dared to peep above ground ...

The Cramps: Get Cramped!!

Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 22 March 1980

NAPA HOSPITAL, Californian mental institution, the half-way ward. Lux Interior is reminiscing. ...

The Spectres: Ghosts Of Sex Pistols In New Groups

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 24 May 1980

SINCE THE powers behind The Sex Pistols admitted it was all a wind-up anyway, the components of the group have had little success at coming ...

Suicide: Suicide As A Way Of Life

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 5 July 1980

"I THINK," breathes the camp dwarf in the sweatshirt and stubble, "that people should only write songs about economics and sex, because that's all everybody's ...