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Echo & The Bunnymen: Echo And The Bunnymen: A Promise of Rock Re-Born

Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 20 February 1982

THE DAY AFTER THIS venerable paper's hardcore readers have enjoyed their brief, communal moment of glory in the polls, all-round prize guys Echo And the ...

Echo & The Bunnymen: Porcupine (Korova)

Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 22 January 1983

PERHAPS IT WAS inevitable, even decreed in some heaven up "there". Maybe it’s just the third time unlucky. But if Porcupine isn’t good it isn’t ...

The Angry Samoans: The Angry Brigade: Angry Samoans

Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 11 June 1983

ONE OF the singular charms of Back From Samoa by L.A.'s Angry Samoans is that it's over before you even realise you've put it on ...

Paul Young: No Parlez

Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, August 1983

SIMPLY FOR not being Kevin Rowland or Paul Weller or Martin Fry, Paul Young fully deserves his Number One. And 'Wherever' is more than a ...

The Police: Nottingham City Hall

Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 7 January 1984

RICHARD COOK’S extraordinary vision of The Police (NME, 2nd Dec.) prompts one to reconsider the profound difference between The Police – those awful sing-a-long-a-suicides ‘So ...

Wah!: The Mighty Wah!: Waaaugh!

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 8 September 1984

WHAM! The door opens and it's Wah! The mighty WAH! There he is! ...