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Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 23 January 1982

Gasps Mick Sinclair ...

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 20 February 1982

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

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: I Love Rock 'n' Roll (Boardwalk)****

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 27 February 1982

FORGIVE ME for dragging the old reprobate's moniker into such lively proceedings, but Kim Fowley has at last been vindicated in his endless trumpeting of ...

Ultravox: Number 1 With A Bullet Train

Report and Interview by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 20 March 1982

HUGH FIELDER goes along for the ride with ULTRAVOX in Japan ...

Queen: Hot Space (EMI)****

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 8 May 1982

Heat strokes ...

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 ...

Genesis P-Orridge, Jimmy Page, Throbbing Gristle: Mister Crowley

Retrospective by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 17 July 1982

Who the Hell is ALEISTER CROWLEY and why do pop people keep saying weird things about him? asks Sandy Robertson. ...

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 ...

Iggy Pop: Zombie Birdhouse (Animal Records/Chrysalis) ***

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 25 September 1982

IGGY POP is a man of honour. Not for him the Lou Reed path of self-mockery; the one time he tried it for money's sake ...

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. ...

Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin — The Book by Chris Welch (Proteus £5.95) Hammer Of The Gods by Stephen Davis (Sidgwick And Jackson £7.95)

Book Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 6 April 1985

Whole lotta what? ...

Bruce Springsteen: The Great Smell Of Bruce — Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band: St James Park, Newcastle

Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 15 June 1985

Most wanted man Brute Springsteen sweats it out in his rock 'n' roll cell. Jack Barron swallows the key ...

Terence Trent D'Arby: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 1 August 1987

LIP UP, TERRY! ...

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. ...

Peter Murphy: Town And Country Club, London

Live Review by Cathi Unsworth, Sounds, 26 May 1990

"I WAS walking down the high street/When I heard footsteps behind me/And there was a receding blonde goth/In various shades of black and grey/Posing away." ...

Metallica: Creeping To The Cross: Metallica: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 2 June 1990

'CREEPING DEATH'. Thrash 'n' roll. A Biblical tale of infanticide, spat like blood. In anyone else's language, this is apocalypse. For Metallica it is only ...

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 ...