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Spandau Ballet: The New Romantics — a Manifesto for the Eighties

Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 13 September 1980

"INITIALLY 'mod' meant a very small group of young working class boys who, at the height of the trad boom formed a small, totally committed ...

Fall, The: The Fall: The Prestwich Horror And Other Strange Stories

Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 31 January 1981

Mark Smith of The Fall discloses fragments of the "Totale Mythos" to Edwin Pouncey. ...

Subterraneans, The: The Subterraneans: Tunnel vision

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 21 February 1981

Sandy Robertson goes to ground with The Subterraneans ...

The Human League: Human League: Half A League Onward

Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 7 March 1981

NEVER BEFORE in the annals of male/female relations, in the ongoing man/woman battleground, has there been such a spicy love/hate scenario as in the new ...

Brian Eno, Talking Heads: Eno: The Life of Brian in the Bush of Ghosts

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 7 March 1981

BRIAN ENO, currently working on two new albums, is many things to a lot of men. ...

Japan: The Part Of Arties

Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 6 June 1981

LIFE WITHIN buildings: being shut in a dimly-lit, secluded studio with David Sylvian. Sounds like a scenario straight out of a Nipponese schoolgirl's fantasy, but ...

Duran Duran: This Is Planet Mirth

Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 13 June 1981

Dave McCullough gets jolly with Duran Duran ...

Bucks Fizz: Let's Get Fizzical

Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 23 January 1982

Gasps Mick Sinclair ...

Mötley Crüe: Crüesin' and Blüesin'

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 20 February 1982

"FIRST YOU got to cut it real jaggedy. And you need this stuff." ...

Duran Duran: From Brags To Riches

Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 29 May 1982

ONCE UPON a time, five fresh-faced boys based in Brum summoned a cynical hackette to witness the emergence of a certain indefinable sort of big-bam-glam-electro-rock ...

Dexys Midnight Runners: This one will run and run

Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 24 July 1982

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Duran Duran: World Domination By 1984

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 11 September 1982

THEIR AMBITION – Simon's least, and in all probability the rest of them – is to one day become Bryan Ferry. They didn't say that ...

Frank Chickens: First Bites: Frank Chickens

Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 12 February 1983

ONE OF the most unusual and likeable entertainments currently intruding upon the gig circuit are Frank Chickens. As the name inscrutably doesn't indicate, they are ...

Arthur Baker, Afrika Bambaataa, John "Jellybean" Benitez, Herbie Hancock, Whodini, Grand Mixer D.ST: Electro Therapy

Interview by Chris Roberts, Sounds, 14 April 1984

CHRIS ROBERTS raps to Morgan Khan about the Streetwave sensation. ...

BALL, Bongwater: Kramer Versus Kramer

Interview by Ralph Traitor, Sounds, 8 April 1989

Ex-Butthole Surfer mark Kramer turns both cheeks — BALL and Bongwater — to Ralph Traitor. ...

Sonic Youth: A Load Of Tony Baloney

Interview by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 1 September 1990

Sonic Youth aren't impressed with Manchester's latest contribution to rock culture. In fact, they think it's a pile of "contrived shit", a real homoerotic, lads-together ...