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David Bowie: Lodger (RCA)

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 26 May 1979

ANOTHER THESIS would be the straw that broke the camel's back. Now there's a line that could easily have been snipped from one of David ...

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 ...

Wayne County & The Electric Chairs: Wayne County: County Counsel

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 8 April 1978

WHEN WAYNE COUNTY left his native state of Georgia, "because it was icky, and I got shot at", he meant to take a trip down ...

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 ...

Wayne County & The Electric Chairs: The Electric Chairs

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 11 February 1978

AAAHHHHH...WAYNE! Rock 'n' roll is a bitch sometimes, ain't it? I bet it wasn't easy growing up down south when you were...different. It was a ...

Queen: Hot Space (EMI)****

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 8 May 1982

Heat strokes ...

The Spectres: Ghosts Of Sex Pistols In New Groups

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 24 May 1980

SINCE THE powers behind The Sex Pistols admitted it was all a wind-up anyway, the components of the group have had little success at coming ...

Nick Lowe: Labour Of Lust (Radar)***.5

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 2 June 1979

PEOPLE USED to slate Frank Zappa by dragging out some old rock critic's smart jibe that however Francis would parody 'Louie, Louie' till he was ...

Kim Fowley: International Heroes

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 30 July 1977

I REALISE it's getting to be an obsession, but what can I do? Even Viv Goldman, between bouts of trying to convince me to do ...

Subterraneans, The: The Subterraneans: Tunnel vision

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 21 February 1981

Sandy Robertson goes to ground with The Subterraneans ...

Suicide: Suicide As A Way Of Life

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 5 July 1980

"I THINK," breathes the camp dwarf in the sweatshirt and stubble, "that people should only write songs about economics and sex, because that's all everybody's ...

Kim Fowley, The Runaways: Kim Fowley: The Dorian Gray of Rock'n'Roll

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 6 August 1977

TAKE A JOURNEY INTO ROCK N ROLL WITH KIM FOWLEY AND MEET...Venus & The Razorbiades, The Runaways, Juice, Teenage Prostitutes, Steven T., Zippers, Weirdos, Germs, ...

Brian Eno, Talking Heads: Eno: The Life of Brian in the Bush of Ghosts

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 7 March 1981

BRIAN ENO, currently working on two new albums, is many things to a lot of men. ...

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. ...

Blue Öyster Cult, Clash, The: Blue Oyster Cult and Sandy Pearlman

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 13 May 1978

ERIC BLOOM is adamant about the current position and status of the band he sings and plays for, the am-aaa-zing Blue Oyster Cult; they are ...