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Allen Toussaint: Southern Nights
Review by Ian MacDonald, NME, 26 April 1975
IF ALLEN TOUSSAINT ever wants to make the great album he's obviously capable of, he'd be best advised to first take a year's sabbatical from ...
Stevie Wonder - Blind, Gifted and Loaded
Report by Bob Woffinden, NME, 23 August 1975
THERE HAS BEEN an official silence about Stevie Wonder's plans since he publicly announced in March last year that he was to retire in 1976 ...
Average White Band: The Average White Band: Person To Person
Review by Tony Stewart, NME, 8 January 1977
WELCOME BACK the musically credible and eminently excellent Average White Band with this defiant poke in the ear for all those people who seven months ...
Sylvester: No Business Like Show Business
Essay by Simon Frith, Melody Maker, 7 July 1979
ON HIS RECORD sleeves, Sylvester is definitely svelte. A pink shirt and a red rose. Spectacles and a cool look, like Arthur Ashe. My favourite ...
Live Review by Roy Trakin, Melody Maker, 9 February 1980
EVEN THE decidedly old-wave, uptown industry water-hole Trax has caught the Funk Flu that's hit this borough like an epidemic. People are dancing to progressive, ...
Live Review by Ian Penman, NME, 6 June 1981
Make my funk the D-funkt ...
Junior Giscombe: Secret Life of a Streatham Soul-Boy
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, 8 May 1982
Paolo Hewitt rides the Soul Train to L.A. with Junior Giscombe ...
Defunkt: Too Fierce For Radioland
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, June 1982
Joe Bowie, singer-songwriter-trombonist-leader talked to Kris Needs and Killing Joke bassist Youth. ...
Interview by Lesley White, The Face, August 1982
According to Joe Bowie, only his trombone and his funk-jazz band Defunkt stand between him and the imminent nuclear apocalypse. LESLEY WHITE talks to the ...
Michael Jackson: The Biggest Selling Solo Artist Of All Time
Report by Ian Birch, Smash Hits, 1 March 1984
Quiet out there. Michael Jackson's record company is throwing a party and Ian Birch has got an invite. A few famous folk, dancers in top ...
Luther Vandross: What A World For The Lonely Kind: Luther Vandross
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 28 March 1989
LUTHER VANDROSS is the pre-eminent mainstream soul performer of the 1980s. As a singer, songwriter and producer he is – with the possible exception of ...
Luther Vandross: Battle Of The Bulge
Interview by Mark Cooper, Q, August 1991
ON THE HOSPITALITY TABLE OF Luther Vandross's suite at Hollywood's Four Seasons Hotel, four untouched plates of king prawns lie waiting next to a half-demolished ...
Prince: Birmingham National Indoor Arena
Live Review by Paul Moody, NME, 7 August 1993
THE TINY FIGURE in silky lemon and black trouser-suit and Spanish heels is talking. ...
Chic: Bernard Edwards 1952-1996
Obituary by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 4 May 1996
BERNARD EDWARDS of CHIC died last week. Paul Lester celebrates the life and work of a massively influential musician, producer and songwriter ...
Profile and Interview by Paul Lester, Uncut, July 1997
"I'M FASCINATED WITH THE IDEA OF ART born of a disintegrated mind," says Lewis Taylor, all coal-black curls and kohl-kissed eyes, crouched in the semi-darkness ...
Prince: The Artist Formerly Known As Successful
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, September 1998
He wriggled away From Warners and the quality control went West. He swopped Prince for Victor for Slave for O(+>) and the fans just couldn't ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, June 2000
Another Chic anthology — why buy? An intelligent sleevenote with participation from Nile Rodgers, full-length album cuts where applicable. La musique elle-meme. ...
Obituary by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, September 2005
THERE WAS SOMETHING special about Luther Vandross (who died 1st July). Free of the brashness of the other male soul performers of the 80s; here ...
Obituary by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 29 February 2008
Rock drummer who graced the stage with Hendrix in his heyday ...
Dusty Springfield: The Legacy of Dusty Springfield
Retrospective by Bob Stanley, The Times, 3 April 2009
The greatest girl singer of the Sixties would be 70 this month, but her legacy is evergreen ...
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