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T. Rex, Ringo Starr: T. Rex: Marc

Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 5 August 1972

MARC BOLAN'S first film, titled Born To Boogie, is due for release on the cinema circuit in September. It would appear that it's a logical ...

David Bowie, Marianne Faithfull: The TV Monsters: The Bowie Special

Report by Marty Cerf, Phonograph Record, April 1974

AS THE first network music special produced by the featured rock star, the David Bowie Midnight Special bears closer examination. ...

David Bowie: Cracked Actor (BBC 1)

Film/DVD/TV Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 1 February 1975

I WOULDN'T care to examine the merits and de-merits of David Bowie on the strength of last Sunday's Omnibus programme on him. Titled Cracked Actor ...

David Bowie: From Brixton To Berlin

Report and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, February 1978

Michael Watts reports from the German film set where David Bowie is making Just A Gigolo ...

Start Making Sense

Overview by James Hunter, The Village Voice, 30 April 1985

RIGHT NOW a hit record carries more mass-audience clout than at any moment in the history of show business. Maybe not coincidentally, there are more ...

David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Working Week: Absolute Beginners

Special Feature by Adam Sweeting, Brian Case, Melody Maker, 22 March 1986

AT LONG last, it's almost here. Poor old JULIEN TEMPLE has been working on his movie of Colin MacInnes' novel Absolute Beginners apparently since the ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto: The Noise From Nippon

Report and Interview by Mark Dery, Elle, September 1988

"I DON'T KNOW what I am," says Ryuichi Sakamoto. "I was born in Japan but I don't think I'm Japanese. To be a stranger — ...

Rock at the Movies

Essay by Charles Shaar Murray, The Guardian, July 1991

FASHIONS IN FOLK devils, like all other fashions, are subject both to painless expiry and to unexpected and possibly incongruous resurrections. ...

How MTV Plays Around the World

Report and Interview by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 7 July 1991

THE FACTS SPEAK for themselves. MTV Europe, the fastest-growing cable and satellite channel on the continent, is available in 24 million households in 27 countries, ...

Giorgio Moroder, Donna Summer: Giorgio Moroder: Throbbery With Intent

Retrospective and Interview by David Toop, The Wire, April 1992

David Toop takes the pulse of disco pioneer GIORGIO MORODER ...

Oasis: Feeling Supersonic, Going Stratospheric

Report by Lisa Verrico, The Observer, 14 January 1996

TO SIGNAL The White Room's return for a new series, a special New Year's eve edition was recorded three days before Christmas. Despite featuring David ...

Michael Jackson, Oasis, Pulp: A word from our censor

Report by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 23 February 1996

In with the old, out with the true. How the Brit Awards were turned into a TV farce ...

D.A. Pennebaker: I Film While Leaping From My Chair

Retrospective and Interview by David Dalton, Gadfly, April 1999

"Almost immediately reality gave in on more than one point. The truth is, it longed to give in." – Jorge Luis Borges ...

Heavy D. & the Boyz: Heavy D: There's Something About Heavy

Interview by Amy Linden, The Source, July 1999

WHEN HEAVY D was just a kid, when he was Dwight Myers, the youngest of six children in a Jamaican immigrant family, he used to ...

Martine McCutcheon: You Me & Us (Virgin)

Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 4 September 1999

THE TIFF GET GOING ...

Did Video Kill The Radio Star? MTV 20 Years On

Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, The Observer, 28 July 2001

"MTV makes me want to smoke crack..." (Beck, 1992) ...

Rodney Bingenheimer: L.A.'s own Mayor Zelig

Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 21 March 2004

A new film follows Rodney Bingenheimer's journey from a torn childhood to hanging with the hip bands of the music scene. ...

Philip Glass' Satyagraha at the ENO

Report and Interview by John Lewis, The Times, March 2007

A MAN DRESSED as Gandhi, in a loin-cloth and Alf Garnett specs, is curled up on the floor as twenty men brandish chairs and throw ...

Joan Jett, Runaways, The: Joan Jett

Interview by Evelyn McDonnell, Interview, 20 February 2010

IN THE FOUR years that they were together, the quintet of teenage girls that made up The Runaways cut a swath of hard rock, harder ...

Runaways, The: Queens of noise: The Runaways

Film/DVD/TV Review by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 7 April 2010

Kristen Stewart's Joan Jett is one of many killer riffs that makes The Runaways. ...