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David Bowie: Paul Morley: The Age of Bowie – How David Bowie Made a World of Difference
Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Observer, 17 July 2016
"EVERYONE HAS THEIR own Bowie," Paul Morley writes in this discursive, free-associating ride across the life and work of the Starman Who Changed the World. ...
David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust, now a man of wealth and taste
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, The Independent, 15 June 2002
IT IS NO COINCIDENCE that June 2002 is turning out to be David Bowie month. This time 30 years ago, trading under the plastic-fantastic moniker ...
Brian Eno, Roxy Music: Brian Eno (1998)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, 13 January 1998
Eno talks about the early days of Roxy Music; the band's intersection with Glam; the impact of David Bowie; androgyny and flamboyance; leaving Roxy, and setting out on his solo career.
File format: mp3; file size: 33.5mb, interview length: 36' 36" sound quality: ** (phoner)
Marc Bolan, T. Rex, Tyrannosaurus Rex: Reborn to Boogie: Marc Bolan
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, February 2010
THERE IS ONLY one Starman in the room right now and his name is David Bowie. Flying high after his Top 5 astral novelty hit ...
All The Young Dudes: The Return of Glam Rock
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, September 1998
YOU COULD argue that glam glamour, from an old Scottish word meaning "a haze in the air" was always intrinsic to pop music. ...
Sleeve notes by Barney Hoskyns, Universal Records, August 2013
GLAMOUR HAS always been pivotal to pop music. Elvis Presley was Glam, and so were Little Richard ('Ooh My Soul') and Billy Fury ('Jealousy'). The ...
David Bowie: Me and David: An Interview with Photographer Mick Rock
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'The Rise of David Bowie' (Taschen), February 2014
YOU COULDN'T make the name up: as the man himself says in the interview that follows, "Mick Rock" sounds like a cartoon character, a distillation ...
The Associates: Boys Keep Swinging: The Associates’ Singles
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2004
All the 45s from the sublime Scottish duo who briefly threatened to run away with the 80s pop circus. ...
David Bowie, T. Rex: Glad to be Glam!
Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, The Independent, 12 September 1998
What do the original devotees think of Ziggy, Bolan, platform boots and glitter 25 years on? Will the latest revival of '70s androgyny take off? ...
Iggy Pop: Where the Debris Meets the Sea: Iggy Pop and James Williamson in Kill City
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, eMusic.com, September 2006
IGGY POP remains rocks ultimate protopunk – the "worlds forgotten boy" who took the menace of the MC5 and the demonic danger of the Rolling ...
Marc Bolan, T. Rex: Marc Bolan 25 Years On
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Daily Mirror, September 2002
A MONTH before the tragic car crash that killed him on September 16, 1977, a 29-year-old Marc Bolan told fellow pop star Steve Harley: "I'd ...
Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Spin, July 1999
"PSYCHEDELIA" has undergone some curious convolutions since its Haight-Ashbury heyday. For the most part, though, the hallucinogens have gone, leaving a purely musical residue - ...
The Police: Nottingham City Hall
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 7 January 1984
RICHARD COOKS 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 ...
The Jayhawks: Riviera Theatre, Chicago
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, September 1997
DESPITE SERIOUS competition from an important Chicago Bulls game, the gilded relic that is the Riviera is close to packed tonight for a double-header by ...
Barry Manilow: Opium of the Missus
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, Marxism Today, April 1984
IF BARRY Manilows career is on the wane, youd never have guessed it from last summers grandiose Concert At Blenheim Palace, when 40,000-odd pilgrims, preponderantly ...
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 ...
Suede: Brett Anderson interviewed
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Interview, May 1997
WHEN, NEARLY three years ago, Bernard Butler walked out of Suede - or the London Suede, as they are unhappily obliged to call themselves in ...
Report and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Harper's Bazaar, April 1998
Scratch an epic rock god and you'll usually find a cool, inspiring woman who supplied him with lyrics, contacts and style. Now that girl power ...
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 its just the third time unlucky. But if Porcupine isnt good it isnt ...
Scarlett Johansson, Tom Waits: Scarlett Johansson: Anywhere I Lay My Head (Atco)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Observer Music Monthly, May 2008
WHEN TOM WAITS started his musical apprenticeship in the LA of the early 1970s, he harbored secret Tin Pan Alley fantasies of having his work ...
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