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Fashiøn: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 29 September 1979

PRODUCT PERFECT they called their album and the song of that name was in their set at the Odeon when they supported the Police. But ...

Japan: Quiet Life (Ariola AHAL 8010)****

Review by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 12 January 1980

Glitter for industry ...

Japan: The Venue, London

Live Review by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 9 February 1980

Plenty good posin' ...

Ultravox

Interview by Penny Kiley, Melody Maker, 2 August 1980

Penny Kiley uncovers a smile on the face of the robots, and discovers that synthesizers are just rock'n'roll hardware. ...

Ultravox: Lyceum, London

Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 18 August 1980

IN THE SEARCH to perfect a commodity which is being touted as White European Dance Music, Ultravox now occupy the ground between Gary Numan, who ...

Spandau Ballet: The New Romantics — a Manifesto for the Eighties

Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 13 September 1980

"INITIALLY 'mod' meant a very small group of young working class boys who, at the height of the trad boom formed a small, totally committed ...

Visage: Stranger In Town

Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 6 December 1980

THE MINUTE I walked in the joint, I could see he was a man of distinction, a real big spender... king of the nighttime jungle, ...

Spandau Ballet: Heaven, London

Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 31 December 1980

SPANDAU BALLET are the house band of the Blitz Kids, a collection of young peacocks who fancy themselves as this month's leaders of London's post-punk ...

Simple Minds, Visage: Visage: Visage (Polydor PD-1-6304); Simple Minds: Empires and Dance (Zoom SPART1140)

Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, February 1981

BOTH THESE records explore the musical turf of brave new pop swathed in synthesizers and studio effects. Neither is quite a paradigm of such experimentation; ...

Spandau Ballet: Muscle Band

Report and Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 7 February 1981

Go vest, young man. In the studio with Spandau Ballet ...

Spandau Ballet: Journeys To Glory (Chrysalis/Reformation CHR 1331) *****

Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 28 February 1981

The men of my dreams ...

Duran Duran: Sundown Club, London

Live Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 21 March 1981

Duranosaurus rocks ...

Adam & the Ants: Kings of the Wild Frontier (Epic NJE37033)

Review by Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, April 1981

IMAGINE AN obsessive singer who calls to mind an earthbound version of glitter-era David Bowie, and a guitarist who draws from sources as diverse as ...

Brave New Twirl

Essay by Jon Savage, The Face, April 1981

Jon Savage went to the People's Palace and watched Blitz Culture go public. FLASH! ...

Adam & The Ants: Sound and Vision: The Making of Adam Ant

Interview by Chris Salewicz, The Face, April 1981

"Malcolm McLaren just said to me, "What do you want, Adam?" I said, "I'd like to be a household name, and have everyone know and ...

Adam & the Ants: That's Antertainment

Profile by Susin Shapiro, The Village Voice, 15 April 1981

ANT MUSIC for sex people: what a snappy catechism, what a sly ad for an act, and what an act it is. Adam & the ...

Adam & The Ants: The Ants Are Coming

Profile and Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 30 April 1981

So unplug the jukebox And do us all a favor That music's lost its taste So try another flavor — Adam and ...

Spandau Ballet, Visage: Blitz Night: Hurrah, New York NY

Live Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, May 1981

ARE THE futurists a spin-off of the Star Trek fanatics? Nope, they're just the newest British cultists of individuality, using make-up and dress that amalgamates ...

Spandau Ballet: Spandaus Invade America!

Report by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 16 May 1981

Robin Hadley and his Merrie Men take Sherwood Forest futurism to a very small but extremely chic club in New York. RICHARD GRABEL joins the ...

Duran Duran: This Is Planet Mirth

Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 13 June 1981

Dave McCullough gets jolly with Duran Duran ...

Duran Duran: Duran Duran (EMI)

Review by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 4 July 1981

D'RONE D'RONE ...

Electro-Disco: Night Moves

Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 23 July 1981

Mike Stand gets the lowdown on electro-disco from Rusty Egan. ...

Duran Duran: Ice Cream the Body Electric!

Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 25 July 1981

Teenybop takes a trite turn for the better. Paul Morley compares socks with DURAN DURAN ...

Spandau Ballet: Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh

Live Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 25 July 1981

Young girls' rapture ...

Visage: …And Their British Guru, Steve Strange

Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 27 July 1981

SOMETIMES, confides Steve Strange, weeks go by when he doesn't buy any clothes. ...

Adam & The Ants: Palladium Theater, New York NY

Live Review by Jon Young, Trouser Press, August 1981

LISTEN, SNOBS: Adam and the Ants headlined New York's Palladium Theater (3300 seats) for a legitimate reason, not just that tired old scapegoat hype. ...

Spandau Ballet

Profile by Dave Schulps, Musician, August 1981

IT'S CALLED the "new romanticism," and it is to England '81 what Two-Tone ska was to England '80; that is, the year's musical craze. ...

Spandau Ballet Want You To Dance. That's All.

Report and Interview by Iman Lababedi, Creem, August 1981

ON THE DAY that Bobby Sands finally starved himself to death and two hours after Spandau Ballet's first ever press conference I'm in the coffee ...

Duran Duran: Duran Duran (Harvest ST12158)

Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, September 1981

BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND'S Duran Duran, yet another entrant in the let's-play-synth-disco-with-silly-costumes chart sweepstakes, had a recent hit with a wretchedly tedious piece of routine ass-wag called ...

Visage: One Hump or Two: Steve Strange Walks a Mile For a Camel

Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, October 1981

STEVE STRANGE — fashion plate, leader of alternative dance band Visage and all-around creative British person — debarked from his rented camel in front of ...

ABC: A-Z Club, Bayswater, London

Live Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 24 October 1981

THE LEXICON OF LOVE ...

Adam & the Ants: Prince Charming (Epic ARE37615)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 5 December 1981

Adam and Ants Back as 'Prince Charming' ...

Depeche Mode: Speak And Spell (Mute)

Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 19 December 1981

THE FACT that the boys chose to depict an absurd, surreal swan draped in a plastic bag on their LP cover rather than to sell ...

Duran Duran: Heroes on Helium

Report and Interview by Chas de Whalley, Record Mirror, 19 December 1981

DURAN DURAN find life a gas in more ways than one. Eternally intrepid CHAS DE WHALLEY takes it all with a pinch of salt (or ...

Adam & The Ants, Grace Jones, Spandau Ballet: Mirror, Mirror On The Wall... What Aspect Of 1981 Does It Pain You Most To Recall?

Essay by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 19 December 1981

Overdressed twits taking Polaroids of one another in posey little clubs? Or the stern soapbox caterwauling of commentators who got themselves into a blue funk about everyone else's ...

Ultravox: Rage In Eden (Chrysalis)

Review by Iman Lababedi, Creem, January 1982

HEIL! HEIL! WE'RE THE VOXIES ...

Adam & the Ants: Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London

Live Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 2 January 1982

Reach for the thigh ...

David Sylvian, Japan: David Sylvian: Melancholy Baby

Interview by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 2 January 1982

MELANCHOLY PROPS up his head and whispers, half to himself and half to me... ...

The Human League: Dare (Virgin V2192)

Review by Jon Young, Trouser Press, February 1982

LAST YEAR'S fracturing of the Human League into two camps held more promise than the usual band breakup. For two albums the original League displayed ...

The Human League: Dare (A&M)

Review by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 18 March 1982

AFTER SEVERAL weeks at the top of the British album charts, and buoyed by the club success of soap-operetta 'Don't You Want Me', Dare has ...

Blue Rondo A La Turk: Southgate Royalty, London

Live Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 27 March 1982

1/ WHAT IS not news is that I had a hell of a time.  ...

Culture Club: The Boy's Own Club

Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 1 May 1982

PAUL MORLEY MEETS A BOY CALLED GEORGE — FORMER MODEL, BOW WOW WOW SINGER AND NOW FOUNDER OF A NEW MUSICAL EXPERIENCE, THE CULTURE CLUB. ...

Duran Duran: Rio (EMI EMC 3411)

Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 15 May 1982

Don't take me to the Mardi Gras ...

The Human League: Human League: Palladium, New York NY

Live Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 22 May 1982

Haughty culture ...

Visage

Interview by Betty Page, Noise!, 24 June 1982

EVERY OTHER individual who burst forth from neo-legendary club The Blitz as aspiring popster or artist/designer/photographer has now almost been forgiven the cardinal sin of ...

Marc Almond, Soft Cell: Marc Almond: The Human Torch

Interview by Betty Page, Noise!, 8 July 1982

Starring mild-mannered Marc and cub reporter Betty Page ...

David Sylvian: The Face Interview

Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, October 1982

David Sylvian had agreed to do only three interviews when he returned to England from a month's stay in Japan. The first was for the ...

Culture Club: Kissing To Be Clever (Virgin V2232)

Review by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 9 October 1982

The lust patrol ...

Visage: Strange Ways

Interview by Maureen O'Grady, 19, November 1982

THE TALL white house in Notting Hill Gate had three doorbells. All, however, were nameless, not giving away any clues who lived there. ...

Duran Duran: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 13 November 1982

Ghouls on film ...

Duran Duran: OH! You Pretty Things From Planet Earth

Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, January 1983

WE JOURNALISTS like to believe our opinions are graven in stone. Let's face it, in the global scheme of things, the relative power of a ...

Culture Club: Kissing To Be Clever (Virgin, LP)

Review by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 26 January 1983

THIS IS disco music with some reggae and soul thrown in. My God, I can close my eyes and see the flashing ultra violet lights, ...

Culture Club: Kissing To Be Clever (Epic/Virgin)

Review by J.D. Considine, Musician, February 1983

JUST WHEN you thought the last thing you needed was another washed-out attempt at dance music, along comes Culture Club to smash all your preconceptions ...

Malcolm McLaren: The Mud Club, London

Live Review by Neil Tennant, Smash Hits, 3 February 1983

ALL THE OLD dances are coming back, you know. ...

Culture Club: Kissing To Be Clever (Virgin)

Review by Jeffrey Morgan, Creem, March 1983

"What some people don't realize is that a lot of normal people are buying our record, like housewives." — George Alan O'Dowd ...

ABC, Culture Club, The Thompson Twins, Yazoo: New Romantics: Sweat & Ice

Report and Interview by Roy Trakin, Musician, March 1983

THE NEW BRITISH DANCE ROMANTICS: ABC, THOMPSON TWINS, YAZ, CULTURE CLUB ...

Adam & The Ants: Where's Your Head At, Adam Ant?

Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, March 1983

THE ROOM WAS full of balloons. A bouquet of balloons, sold nowadays like helium-filled, high-tech clusters that cling to the ceiling. A bundle of mail ...

Spandau Ballet: True or waltz? — Spandau Ballet: True (Chrysalis CDL1403)

Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 5 March 1983

YOUNG MEN AT C&A SPECIAL! ...

Duran Duran Q&A

Interview by Ian Birch, Smash Hits, 17 March 1983

They came by the lorryload.Thanks to you, we got the biggest response ever to a Question and Answer feature. We plucked out the best and ...

Culture Club: Hey There, Georgie Boy...

Interview by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 30 March 1983

THE PIANO lounge of Boston's Marriott Longwharf Hotel is imposing — sharp white walls and ledges surround ceiling-high glass windows, dramatizing the expanse of the ...

Culture Club: Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool

Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 9 April 1983

The Boy in the band ...

A Flock Of Seagulls: Listen (Jive HIP4)

Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 30 April 1983

Pigeon English ...

Culture Club: Readers' Q&A

Interview by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, 12 May 1983

You sent them. We opened them and sorted out the best. The mail sacks were ferried round to the band's London hotel. Dave Rimmer did ...

Culture Clubbing With George And The Boys

Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, June 1983

Suddenly...Mount Rushmore had changed! ...

Spandau Ballet: True (Chrysalis)

Review by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 1 June 1983

UNABASHED HEDONISTS Spandau Ballet seem to have shifted their focus from the fast-lane London club scene to a langourous Club Med existence. The resultant product, ...

Ultravox: The Half-Dozen or so Moods of Ultravox

Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, July 1983

ONSTAGE, THE amazing Ultravox. Right in front, on the edge of the area called the pit — not, unfortunately, in my honor — myself and ...

Duran Duran: The Man From D.U.R.A.N. D.U.R.A.N.

Interview by Annene Kaye, Creem, July 1983

WOOF WOOF ...

Spandau Ballet: True (Chrysalis)

Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, August 1983

I USED TO think Spandau Ballet bit the boot. The band's first two albums seemed little more than gussied-up disco, a rip-off of various cultures, ...

Duran Duran: That Was The Week That Was

Report and Interview by Neil Tennant, Smash Hits, 4 August 1983

The week when Duran Duran got mobbed, met the Royals and hit the headlines every time they moved. Neil Tennant was never far behind them. ...

Spandau Ballet Readers' Q&A

Interview by Ian Birch, Smash Hits, 18 August 1983

THE LETTERS ARRIVED IN LARGE QUANTITIES. WE SELECTED THE BEST QUESTIONS, GAVE THEM TO IAN BIRCH, AND SAT BACK AND WAITED FOR THE ANSWERS. AND ...

Culture Club: Soft Rock Beats Beneath Culture Club's Wild Image

Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 30 August 1983

NEW YORK — The cover of Culture Club's first album, Kissing to Be Clever, featured lead singer Boy George in all his glory: glistening red ...

A Flock Of Seagulls: Listen (Arista)

Review by John Swenson, Creem, September 1983

THERE ARE two ways to look at seagulls. You could take the testimony of ancient mariners, who know more about the subject than you'd probably ...

Culture Club, Helen Terry: Helen Terry: Hellenic Culture

Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 17 September 1983

CULTURE CLUB'S 'BOLSHIE' MEMBER — HELEN TERRY — LETS RIP ...

Culture Club: Brighton Centre

Live Review by Max Bell, The Times, 27 September 1983

SUCCESS STORIES abound in the fickle pop world, but the rise of Culture Club is genuinely deserved. The band and their androgynous singer Boy George ...

Culture Club: If It's Thursday It Must Be Munich

Report and Interview by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, 29 September 1983

'DO YOU REALLY WANT TO HURT ME' HAS BEEN NUMBER ONE IN 23 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, "AND IF YOU'RE A WORLD-WIDE ACT, YOU HAVE TO TRAVEL ...

Culture Club: Brighton Centre, Brighton

Live Review by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 1 October 1983

IF EVER there's a tune crying out to symbolise the genius of Culture Club, it's the final encore of tonight's set, an uplifting, clapalong version ...

Culture Club: Colour By Numbers (Virgin)

Review by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 8 October 1983

TOP OF THE LOOKING CLASS ...

Marilyn: Gentle Men Prefer Blonds

Interview by Helen Fitzgerald, Melody Maker, 5 November 1983

Friend of the stars MARILYN expounds on the delights of Chanel No. 5 and pink lipstick to Helen FitzGerald ...

Duran Duran: Apollo, Manchester

Live Review by Max Bell, The Times, 8 December 1983

Trapped in idolatry ...

Visage: The Face of Punk '84

Interview by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 10 December 1983

"1983 FOR me has been a nightmare..." asserts Steve Strange, a presumably ashen visage hidden by a delicate ivory foundation and shocking pink lipstick. ...

Spandau Ballet: True (Chrysalis)

Review by James Hunter, The Boston Phoenix, 13 December 1983

THE MADDENINGLY obscure, communications-obsessed songs on True, Spandau Ballet's new album, could have been written by Mary Hartman after years of living abroad. ...

Marilyn: Some Like It Hot

Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 24 December 1983

Prince or showgirl? Paul Morley tussles with Marilyn on a soft sofa and wonders if the seduction of pop has a more explicit meaning. ...

Adam & The Ants: Adam Ant: from Punk Reject to Prince Charming

Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1984

AS THE '70s drew to a close, the British pop scene seemed distinctively lacking in glamour. Punk rock had made way for a ‘new wave’ ...

Culture Club: Colour By Numbers (Virgin/Epic)

Review by J.D. Considine, Record, January 1984

BOY GEORGE may be pop music's best argument against judgment on the basis of looks alone, but Culture Club's music makes a pretty strong case ...

Duran Duran: A Public Figure

Interview by Neil Tennant, Smash Hits, 19 January 1984

Two people are having lunch in Paris. One of them is a tax exile who owns an Aston Martin sports car, is permanently pursued by ...

Adam & the Ants: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 27 April 1984

THE LOST INNOCENCE OF POUTY ADAM ANT ...

Spandau Ballet: UP, UP and Away

Interview by Annene Kaye, Creem, May 1984

IF WE WEREN'T "AROUND," WHAT WOULD BE? ...

Spandau Ballet: Parade (Chrysalis/ Reformation CDL 1473)

Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 30 June 1984

BLAND SPANDS ...

Philip Sallon

Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, July 1984

Pausing only to change from one outrageous outfit to the next, PHILIP SALLON has hosted a mad whirl of parties that unite youth tribes in ...

Boy George, Culture Club: Boy George: Boy On Fire

Interview by Lesley White, The Face, December 1984

The friendly but frozen smile of Boy George has been served up, like a cake fresh from the refrigerator, all over the media. It has ...

Culture Club: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Max Bell, The Times, 20 December 1984

OF ALL THE SUPERGROUPS currently vying for public attention Culture Club and their lead singer Boy George seem the most vulnerable. The title of their ...

Culture Club: Waking Up With The House On Fire (Epic)

Review by J.D. Considine, Musician, January 1985

NOBODY HAS ever accused Culture Club of having too much depth. For them, frivolity is its own reward, and there's more than enough meaning in ...

Culture Club: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Chris Roberts, Sounds, 5 January 1985

HE KNOWS it's going. ...

Culture Club: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, 17 January 1985

"THIS SONG — first of all it's a great song," George titters, something like this: aha-haha-huyuk. "Second, it's called 'The Medal Song'." ...

Matt Bianco, Blue Rondo A La Turk, Madness, Spandau Ballet, Wham!: Chris Ruocco: A Stitch In Times

Interview by Deanne Pearson, No. 1, 2 March 1985

Chris Ruocco makes the striking stage outfits of many of today's top pop stars. Deanne Pearson talks to the tailor whose creations turn up on ...

Depeche Mode: Private Lives: The Depeche Mode Story, Pt. 2 – Martin Gore, The Decadent Boy

Interview by Max Bell, No. 1, 11 May 1985

In the second part of our exclusive Depeche Mode series Martin Gore talks about his steady progression from milkmaid to bank clerk to popstar in ...

Marilyn: Despite Straight Lines (Mercury)

Review by Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, 29 June 1985

Praying for sunshine ...

Culture Club: Dave Rimmer: Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club And The New Pop (Faber And Faber £4.95)

Book Review by Tony Fletcher, Jamming!, November 1985

THE TITLE says it all. There are those of us who have, over the years, battled on our own territory desperately hoping that the downward ...

Duran Duran: The Pop Dream Come True

Report and Interview by Dave Rimmer, The Face, December 1985

NIGHT SETTLES ON The Palace Hotel, Philadelphia, like a sigh of relief. All the acts have finished all their frantic, last minute preparations for Live ...

The Rich Kids, Slik, Ultravox, Midge Ure, Visage: The Midge Ure Story

Interview by Chris Heath, Smash Hits, 12 February 1986

He's had a hand in almost every type of pop group imaginable: he was number one in 1976 with "teenybop" group Slik, almost become singer ...

Culture Club: From Luxury To Heartache (Virgin C2380)

Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 5 April 1986

THE BOY has a new Mireille Mathieu haircut, a conscience and an album that, on first hearing, is soothing in the extreme. But the aural ...

Boy George, Culture Club: Boy George's Nightmare

Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 28 August 1986

A SPECIAL REPORT ON THE FALLEN POP IDOL'S BOUT WITH HIS DRUG ADDICTION ...

Duran Duran: How To Make A Pop LP Called Notorious

Interview by Tom Hibbert, Smash Hits, 17 December 1986

PART ONE: NOTORIOUS In which the three members of Duran Duran talk "openly" and "frankly" (and "incomprehensibly") about the creation of their latest "waxing". Moroccan interview: ...

Spandau Ballet: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 10 January 1987

IT'S EVIDENTLY a long way from the Blitz, designer funk and a headful of hedonism to the featureless school assembly hall of Wembley Arena, and ...

Boy George, Culture Club: Boy George: Flying nun back on the runway

Interview by Jon Savage, The Observer, 22 February 1987

Boy George talks exclusively to JON SAVAGE about heroin, cold turkey and death ...

Boy George, Culture Club: Boy George: Culture Shock

Interview by Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, 18 February 1989

THREE YEARS AFTER HIS DRUG-INDUCED DOWNFALL, TABLOID VILIFICATION AND COMMERCIAL FAILURE, THE GOLDEN BOY OF EIGHTIES POP HAS FINALLY MANAGED TO REBUILD A SOLO CAREER. ...

Adam & The Ants: Adam Ant (1989)

Interview by Adam Blake, Rock's Backpages audio, 12 December 1989

The foremost Antperson talks about how his time at art school informed his musical life; his changes of style and concept; the realtionship between songs and videos; getting into acting, and acting vs. music; new album Manners & Physique and his interest in the Regency era; working with Kevin Rowland; his punk days, indie label rip-offs, and Derek Jarman's Jubilee movie; and writing with the Ants' Marco Pirroni.

File format: mp3; file size: 30mb, interview length: 31' 18" sound quality: **

Marc Almond, Soft Cell, The The: The Bizzare Adventures of Stevo

Interview by Paul Sexton, Select, February 1991

Bank managers chase after him, record company chiefs live in fear of him trashing their offices, but STEVO somehow manages to survive, along with one of the most ...

Duran Duran: Ordinary People

Interview by David A. Keeps, Details, April 1993

Duran Duran spent one half of the '80s as international pop playboys and the other half surviving the experience. Will success spoil them again? David ...

Boy George: Hammersmith Apollo, London

Live Review by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 15 January 1994

"IT'S NICE to be appreciated on your own manor," croaks George, choked up at the waves of love crashing over him, "cos there was a ...

Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant (1996) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Steven Daly, Rock's Backpages transcripts, November 1996

This is a transcript of Steven's audio interview with Neil. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

The Human League: Don't you want them? Maybe

Profile and Interview by Simon Price, Independent on Sunday, 15 July 2001

Sheffield synth-pop trio the Human League haven't always had it easy, but they've never given up. Simon Price met them as they prepare to stage ...

Boy George, Culture Club: Boy George (2002) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Bill Brewster, Rock's Backpages transcripts, January 2002

This is a transcript of Bill's audio interview with Boy George. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Boy George, Culture Club: Boy George (2002)

Interview by Bill Brewster, Rock's Backpages audio, 7 January 2002

The sometime Culture Club frontman talks about his involvement in the Taboo stage show; looks back at the '80s, the New Romantics and characters such as Steve Strange and Philip Salon; talks about Taboo's inspiration Leigh Bowery; discusses his relationship with the gay community; reflects on songwriting, clubbing, DJing... and reading Sasha's palm.

File format: mp3; file size: 59.8mb, interview length: 1h 02' 16" sound quality: ****

Duran Duran: The Singles 81-85

Review by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, May 2003

DURAN DURAN were, of course, the original band who wanted to combine the Sex Pistols with Chic. Taking their name from a character in the ...

Duran Duran: Old Romantics

Retrospective and Interview by Ian Watson, The Evening Standard, 8 April 2004

At their mid-'80s peak Duran Duran had it all — the glamour, the girls, the money. Now, 20 years on they're back. And all they ...

Duran Duran: How I Discovered Duran Duran. Or Did They Discover Me?

Memoir by Beverley Glick, beverleyglick.com, 2005

In the third extract from my memoir Hit Girl: My Bizarre Double Life in the Pop World of the Eighties, I tell the story of my ...

Bill Nelson: My Bizarre Double Life In The Pop World Of The Eighties

Memoir by Beverley Glick, beverleyglick.com, 2005

After a small ripple of public demand, I'm going to start posting a series of extracts from my unpublished memoir Hit Girl: My Bizarre Double Life ...

Spandau Ballet's Bible: How I Played My Part in Inventing the New Romantics

Memoir by Beverley Glick, beverleyglick.com, 2005

Here is the second extract from my memoir Hit Girl: My Bizarre Double Life in the Pop World of the Eighties. It is September 1980 and, ...

Depeche Mode: The Day I Met Four Terrified Teenagers Called Depeche Mode

Memoir by Beverley Glick, beverleyglick.com, 2005

In the fourth extract from my '80s memoir, another brand-new pop group gets interviewed by Sounds' Betty Page, who is fast establishing herself as the go-to ...

Soft Cell: The Day Soft Cell Saved Me From The Dance For Perfection

Memoir by Beverley Glick, beverleyglick.com, 2005

In the fifth extract from my memoir Hit Girl: My Bizarre Double Life in the Pop World of the Eighties, I recall my first meeting with ...

Spandau Ballet: The return of Spandau Ballet

Profile and Interview by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 27 September 2009

The band behind 'Gold', 'True' and 'Chant No 1', Tony Hadley and the Kemp brothers put their differences aside for reunion. ...

Adam Ant, Primal Scream: Adam Ant: Scala, London/Primal Scream: Olympia, London

Live Review by Simon Price, The Independent, 28 November 2010

HE WAS "a little bastard" according to Adam Ant, affectionately recalling Matthew Ashman. "He'd try to catch peanuts in his mouth and say, 'Don't believe ...

Coil, Throbbing Gristle: This Mortal Coil: A Final Report on Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson

Retrospective by Mark Dery, Thought Catalog, 29 November 2010

Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson, who in the '80s pioneered the industrial aesthetic with the band Throbbing Gristle, died in his sleep at his home in Bangkok ...

Seona Dancing: The Day I Met A Sensitive Artiste Called Ricky Gervais…

Retrospective by Beverley Glick, Rock's Backpages, 19 March 2012

IN MAY 1983, when I was assistant editor of Record Mirror, my good friend (the late) Gill Smith asked if I would interview a new ...

Duran Duran: The Day I discussed the meaning of life with Simon Le Bon

Memoir by Beverley Glick, Rock's Backpages, 13 April 2012

MY RELATIONSHIP with Simon Le Bon began back in December 1980, when I was a rookie writer for Sounds and visited the Rum Runner club ...

Duran Duran: Looking Back to Planet Earth and Beyond: Five Decades of Duran Duran

Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, Classic Pop, December 2012

Please, please tell me now! As John Taylor publishes his autobiography, In The Pleasure Groove: Love, Death & Duran Duran, Wyndham Wallace accompanies him through ...

Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s: V&A, London

Review by Nicky Charlish, Culture Wars, 21 December 2013

WHEN WE LOOK at a product of physical design – a building, say – we don't usually think about the influences which went into its ...

Spandau Ballet: "To Cut A Long Story Short, we nearly lost our minds...": After 20 years of fighting, why Spandau Ballet finally buried the hatchet

Retrospective and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 30 August 2014

Spandau Ballet had it all – monster hits, screaming girls, ludicrous hair and kilts. Then they spent 20 years fighting over cash. It wasn't until ...

Martin Kemp, Spandau Ballet: Martin Kemp: From Punk to Spandau Redux

Interview by Larry Jaffee, Huffington Post, 5 July 2015

Spandau bassist Martin Kemp, fondly remembered byfans as the dashing gangster Steve Owen last seen blown to bits in a car explosion before handing off ...

Adam & The Ants: Antbox

Review and Interview by Steve Pafford, MOJO, 17 July 2017

Long-promised 3-CD set of Antmusic: 20 chart singles from five record labels, key album and BBC session tracks, plus 24 unreleased demos and alternate takes, ...

Midge Ure: Forum, Bath

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 17 February 2020

Behind the New Romantic mask, he remains an old romantic at heart ...

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