Betty Page
Beverley Glick first started writing for Sounds in 1979 under the name of Betty Page, and went on to make her name as the music journalist who championed the New Romantic movement, doing the first major interviews with Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Soft Cell and Depeche Mode in the early '80s.
She left Sounds in 1982 to become features editor of short-lived pop/rock hybrid Noise!, before becoming assistant editor of pop weekly Record Mirror in 1983, going on to become deputy editor, then editor in 1987. She quit to go freelance in 1989 and in the early '90s wrote for the NME and Vox.
In 1993 she left music journalism behind to enter the grown-up world of national newspapers, working at The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph and The Sunday Express. In 2011 she qualified as a life coach and later freelanced at the Daily Telegraph while building a coaching practice.
138 articles
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Paula Abdul: Spellbound (Virgin America/All formats)
Review by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 27 July 1991
THIS RECORD is plainly a miracle of self-belief and positive thinking, a triumph over adversity. Paula Abdul always knew she could dance, but all those ...
A Flock Of Seagulls: Listen (Jive HIP4)
Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 30 April 1983
Pigeon English ...
The Alarm, Big Country: Big Country, The Alarm: Lyceum, London
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 23 April 1983
I WONDERED where all the sweaty postpunk pogoers had hidden themselves. They all came home to roost with a vengeance at the Lyceum for a ...
Interview by Betty Page, Vox, December 1991
Marc Almond may be mellowing in middle age, but who's he trying to kid that he's the Englebert Humperdinck of the '90s? Betty Page meets ...
Marc Almond: Tenement Symphony (WEA/All formats)
Review by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 19 October 1991
A PLUCKY '80s survivor, Marc Almond is now on his tenth life. Having had dealings with almost every major label in the land, he's now ...
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 ...
Altered Images: Pinky Blue (Epic)***
Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 8 May 1982
DA DOO doo doo, da da da da, is all I have to say to you. Da da da da, do doo doo doo, that's ...
Altered Images: Happy Birthday (Epic EPO 84893)
Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 12 September 1981
A nursery crime ...
The Associates: Associates Uncovered!
Interview by Betty Page, Noise!, 5 August 1982
JUST LIKE the naked truth of the new Associates single sleeve, Billy McKenzie feels that he's currently over exposed. Although it was obviously quite an ...
The B-52s: Mesopotamia (Island)****1/2
Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 13 February 1982
OOOOH, C'MON, hey, wow, yeah, party, watusi, fandango, pistachio...Nuts. ...
Babes in Toyland, Curve, Daisy Chainsaw, PJ Harvey, Lush, Silverfish: The Witch Report
Report and Interview by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 9 May 1992
HIPS, LIPS, TITS, POWER! Meet the new breed of enchantress, the spell-binding women who are taking the male bastille and giving it some earthily female ...
Angelo Badalamenti, Julee Cruise: Angelo Badalamenti: Music From Twin Peaks (Warner Bros.)
Review by Betty Page, Vox, January 1991
A PEAK EXPERIENCE ...
Bananarama: Sisters Undie The Skin
Interview by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 4 May 1991
After the gold-disc rush of SAW, BANANARAMA are doing the Dobbie, rediscovering Youth, preparing for their tenth anniversary as The Greatest British All Girl Group ...
The Belle Stars: The Belle Stars (Stiff SEEZ 45)
Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 5 February 1983
Swinging on the Stars ...
Bim, Prince: Prince, Bim: Lyceum, London
Live Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 13 June 1981
Monarchy in the UK ...
Blancmange: Hammersmith Palais, London
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 8 January 1983
Tea's company ...
Blondie: The Hunter (Chrysalis)**½
Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 29 May 1982
The lumber of the beast ...
Blue Rondo A La Turk: The Royalty, Southgate
Live Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 27 March 1982
WITH ONE bombed single under their finely coutured belts and another progressing painfully slowly, Blue Rondo have had little choice but to come out. This ...
B-Movie: Go Wild In The Country
Profile and Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 27 March 1982
IT'S TAKEN longer than an elephant's pregnancy, but B-Movie have finally dragged themselves into the '80s – visually, musically and verbally. The hicks from Mansfield ...
Sam Brown: Stop! (A&M AMA 5195) ****
Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 18 June 1988
FORGET YOUNG girlies, this is more like it — red-blooded, strong women with the courage of their convictions. Eddie Reader, Julia Fordham and now Sam ...
Harold Budd: By The Dawn's Early Light (Opal/Warner Bros/All formats)
Review by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 7 September 1991
TAKE A REST from the rigours of following popular music — those who rave, chill; those who contemplate their shoes, do it to your navel ...
Buggles: The Age Of Plastic (Island) **
Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 9 February 1980
THE BASTARDISATION of "new music" continues! From Numan to New Musik they dress up their pop pulp with synthetics and call it futuristic; now The ...
Cabaret Voltaire: Town & Country Club, London
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 1 March 1986
ONE instinctively feels that a Cabs show can't be approached in the usual manner. They don't run on stage in dry ice, rib the audience, ...
Cameo: Emotional Violence (Reprise)
Review by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 28 March 1992
WELCOME TO the parallel cosmiverse of Larry Blackmon, where time stands still, and real guys wear codpieces and sport gravity-defying barnets, safe in the knowledge ...
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 ...
Culture Club: Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 9 April 1983
The Boy in the band ...
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 12 June 1982
"PEOPLE THAT plan interviews are really boring. I just say what I want when it comes into my head. People in Scunthorpe don't care what ...
Interview by Betty Page, Vox, December 1990
If Disintegration led to just that for self-confessed 'English werewolf in Crawley' Robert Smith, what on earth will happen to him with the release of ...
Terence Trent D'Arby: Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby (CBS 450911 I)
Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 18 July 1987
TERRY TRENDY D'Arby is the kind of artists most record companies only dream of signing. He's pretty; he's charming, but arrogant; he's smooth; he's sexy; ...
Dead Or Alive: Fame And How To Survive It — By Pete Burns
Interview by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 6 September 1986
This includes: (1) Not getting out of bed before noon; (2) Not having a fan club; (3) Being a recluse; (4) Staying out of the ...
Cathy Dennis, D Mob: Cathy Dennis: Cathy Comes Home
Interview by Betty Page, Vox, July 1991
Currently the UK's biggest female success Stateside, "D Mob Diva" Cathy Dennis returns to her native Norwich only to be met with a resounding... who ...
Department S: "We're not just a bunch of silly cults..."
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 21 February 1981
...at least we think that's what they said. DEPARTMENT S get cocky with BETTY PAGE. ...
Depeche Mode: This Year's Mode(l)
Profile and Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 31 January 1981
DISPEL FROM your minds the untenable notion that Futurists are either bored Mummy's boys tinkering with expensive gadgets or desperately earnest avant-garde merchants trying to ...
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 ...
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 27 June 1981
FIVE MONTHS ago the prospect of doing an interview shut inside an airless, sterile studio would have made Depeche Mode run all the way home ...
Depeche Mode: Modes to Freedom
Interview by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 22 January 1983
A YELLOW PLASTIC watering can rests idly on the floor, haying just recovered from a bashing the previous night in the name of 'percussive effects'. ...
Devo: Freedom Of Choice (Virgin)
Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 17 May 1980
BACK IN the heady days of late '78, when the UK was brimming over with Devo-tees, Gerald V Casale, lead Devo, suggested that certain elitist ...
Thomas Dolby (with Kevin Armstrong and Matthew Seligman)
Interview by Betty Page, Noise!, 9 December 1982
"THE SPORTILY dressed, slightly oddball young man walked onto the stage. His National Health (Model 232) spex struggled with the glare of the spotlights. Gradually ...
Thomas Dolby and the Lost Toy People: Town & Country Club, London
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 7 May 1988
LOOKING LIKE a cross between Elton John and Tom Petty, dressed in top hat and duster coat, Thomas Dolby sauntered onstage like the homecoming hero. ...
Duran Duran: From Brags To Riches
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 29 May 1982
ONCE UPON a time, five fresh-faced boys based in Brum summoned a cynical hackette to witness the emergence of a certain indefinable sort of big-bam-glam-electro-rock ...
Duran Duran: Sundown Club, London
Live Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 21 March 1981
Duranosaurus rocks ...
Sheena Easton: Take My Time (EMI EMC 33 54) *
Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 17 January 1981
Pipe and slippers at the ready ...
Electronic: Return of the Supergroup
Interview by Betty Page, Vox, June 1991
Supercharged sex monsters or battery-fuelled dinos? Either way, Electronic are having none of it. But Betty Page did have a top day out ...
EMF: An Unbelievable Rise To Fame
Profile and Interview by Betty Page, Vox, February 1991
EMF ARE YOUNG, GOOD-LOOKING, LOUD AND HAVE BAD ATTITUDES. THEY ARE ALSO AMAZINGLY SUCCESSFUL. IS IT DOWN TO HYPE OR TALENT? BETTY PAGE INVESTIGATES. ...
Erasure: Westminster Central Hall, London
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 25 April 1987
IT WAS A night full of juicy contradictions. Fancy having a pop show in a Methodist hall next to a statue of John Wesley! Fancy ...
Eurythmics: Revenge (RCA PL71050)
Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 5 July 1986
I HOPE I won't hove to eat my words again, because Be Yourself Tonight did not impress me initially, and took months to worm its ...
Everything But The Girl: Eden (bianco y negro BYN 2)
Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 9 January 1984
Quiet riot ...
Expressos: Hope And Anchor, London
Live Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 9 February 1980
FIRST IMPRESSIONS are sometimes lasting impressions: first look at Roz Rayner, leading Expresso, would suggest an appearance not unadjacent to one Chrissie Hynde – second ...
Fad Gadget: I'm A Born Again Pagan
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 23 January 1982
SEEDY CITY, sleazy films... creeping up a back staircase by the stage door of Paul Raymond's Windmill Theatre... tiptoeing up more stairs past stacks of ...
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 27 February 1982
An Heroic encounter narrated by Betty Page ...
Generation X: Gen X: Kiss Me Deadly (Chrysalis CHR 1327) ****
Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 17 January 1981
A young girl's fancy ...
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 20 February 1982
1978 WAS a good year for the poses, for nascent pre-Romantic Bowieisms and embryonic electro-disco; halcyon pre-Blitzian days when everyone dressed up like toy soldiers ...
Interview by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 7 September 1985
So what have RM's best-loved rugged duo been up to of late? Betty Page whispers transatlantic sweet nothings in Peter Cox's ear and gets him ...
Go West: Go West (Chrysalis CHR 1495)
Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 6 April 1985
HOLD ME down. I'm going to get excited here... rippling muscles, meaningful stares... black leather... finely-chiselled features... none of this clouds my critical faculties where ...
Gwen Guthrie: Portrait (Island ILPS 9758)
Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 3 September 1983
SAY GWEN ...
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 5 April 1986
THERE'D BEEN rumours circulating all day that trouble was brewing. The police were outside, people were being searched on the way in... but I needn't ...
Happy Mondays: Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches (Factory)
Review by Betty Page, Vox, December 1990
IT MAY TAKE a while for the nation to be convinced of Happy Mondays' worth, to believe that they're not drug-dealing lowlife scum pissing around ...
Happy Mondays: Ryders On A Storm: Happy Mondays in The Altered States of America
Report and Interview by Betty Page, Vox, October 1990
"GET THAT THING off, man... get that dangerous f***ingmotherf***ing thing off!" Shaun Ryder has just had the tip of my sleek black Olympus micro-cassette machine ...
Happy Mondays: Mardi* Grass!: Happy Mondays: La Cigale, Paris
Live Review by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 16 March 1991
(*That's French for the day after Monday) ...
Review by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 24 April 1993
THE FIRST time, it gave me third degree burns. I was driving when the title track's soft murmur exploded into a rocket-thrusted motorcycle roar and ...
Haysi Fantayzee: "...Tall Skinny People In Search Of Paradise"
Interview by Betty Page, Noise!, 8 July 1982
THERE'S A poster goin' round town with Big John starin' out, mighty real, sharpshooters in hand, chaps in place. N' they're a-saying 'John Wayne Is ...
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 3 October 1981
IN THE MANNER of any smooth operation worth its nuts and bolts, the British Electric Foundation chose to discuss the prospective publicity of one of ...
Susanna Hoffs: When You're A Boy
Review by Betty Page, Vox, April 1991
AS THE BANGLES' chief vocalist and front-person, Susanna Hoffs played a key part in creating some fine, off-the-wall pop songs and soaring ballads. In their ...
The Human League: Human League: Half A League Onward
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 7 March 1981
NEVER BEFORE in the annals of male/female relations, in the ongoing man/woman battleground, has there been such a spicy love/hate scenario as in the new ...
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 19 March 1983
Oz is forgiven ...
Interview by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 22 September 1984
Billy Idol introduces Betty Page to an exciting new phenomenon called 'punk rawk' ...
Report by Betty Page, Vox, December 1990
THE MUTANT HERO TURTLES HAVEN'T HIT JAPAN YET, BUT FOR THE MOMENT THE LOCALS ARE OBSESSED WITH A DAFT LITTLE COW WITH SPIRALLY EYES. WE ...
James, Public Image Ltd: Memories of a Freezing Festival… James/PiL: Alton Towers, Staffordshire
Live Review by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 10 July 1992
IT WAS NEVER really on the cards, was it, after a perfect Glasto, all sun and good vibes. There, James were last-minute bridesmaids; this was ...
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 6 June 1981
LIFE WITHIN buildings: being shut in a dimly-lit, secluded studio with David Sylvian. Sounds like a scenario straight out of a Nipponese schoolgirl's fantasy, but ...
Howard Jones: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 5 May 1984
"YOU'D BETTER give this a good write-up," quoth my 18-year-old brother, veritably frothing at the mouth with raw aggression, halfway through giving Howard Jones a ...
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 21 May 1983
75% OF THIS Kajaudience measured less than 5ft 2ins and looked like the walking personification of Top Shop. Hundreds of young girls in crisp, virginal ...
Interview by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 15 January 1983
FOR FIVE fresh-faced fellows from Leighton Buzzard 1983 will mean treading very carefully through the minefield that confronts any new band with a strong visual ...
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 14 February 1981
Betty Page meets Landscape's Richard Burgess, computer man behind Spandau Ballet, Visage and Shock ...
k.d. lang: Ingénue (Sire/Warner Bros)
Review by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 21 March 1992
SOFTEN THE focus, put the total twang out to seed, put away the hard edge and the sharp suits for another day; k.d. has fallen ...
Linx: Last Linx (Chrysalis CHR 1409)
Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 29 January 1983
The missing Linx ...
The Loved One: "We are the psychic telephone"
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 19 September 1981
IT CAME to them in the deepest reaches of nether-Oxfordshire, close to a four track machine where months seemed like days: that personal Hiroshima that ...
Lush: Spooky (4AD/All formats)
Review by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 18 January 1992
FILLY SPECTRES ...
Martha and the Muffins: The Marquee, London
Live Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 1 March 1980
ON THE strength of just one single, Martha And The Muffins have had the usual, obvious names thrown at them as influences: B52s, XTC, Blondie, ...
Method Actors: Little Figures (Armageddon)***¾
Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 16 January 1982
STRANGE AS it may seem, I find myself in the possession of Vic Varney's old boots. Thus it would be possible to expedite the dread ...
Kylie Minogue: Let's Get To It (PWL/All formats)
Review by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 12 October 1991
IT'S REALLY not that surprising that Kylie (Coy be-ribboned Girl- Next-Door) metamorphosised into SexKylie (Slinksome Vamptress and Pop-Dance Empress), although it's probably safe to say ...
Joni Mitchell: Night Ride Home
Review by Betty Page, Vox, March 1991
IT'S HARD not to be daunted the sheer quality of Joni Mitchell's back catalogue. Her recorded output stands behind her like a set of carved ...
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 13 March 1982
WHAT'S SIX to eight yards long, gets tucked and tied, gathered up, taken round and pleated not less than seven times? Clue: it often takes ...
Négresses Vertes, Les: Les Négresses Vertes: Famille Nombreuse (Circal All formats)
Review by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 1 February 1992
NOW WE are all stars in the Euro firmament (at least, that's what Mick Hucknall tells us), perhaps it's time to reappraise our attitude towards ...
New Edition: Candy Girl (London/Streetwise SH8553)
Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 20 August 1983
EDITIONS OF YOU ...
New Musik: Doom Disguised as Jollity
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 24 May 1980
NEW MUSIK are not avant garde, Mancunian, Liverpudlian, hip or trendy. What they currently are and what many of those Mancunians and Liverpudlians must desire ...
Sinead O'Connor: Am I Not Your Girl? (Ensign/All formats)
Review by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 12 September 1992
TORCHED BY YOUR PRESENCE, DEAR ...
Orange Juice: You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (Polydor)**
Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 20 February 1982
AHH, ST Valentine's Day! Dingle-dongle Meepy Goblin loves Fluffy Bunny Wunny, Rickiepoos wants Leggy Plumplet-Puds to be his Potato Dumpling and Owange Juiciepies expect their ...
Orchids, The (US): The Orchids: The Orchids (MCA)****
Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 24 May 1980
SO YOU thought The Orchids were a blooming figment of Sandy Fowley's imagination, huh? Perish the idea. They're not just cheesecake; they don't pursue the ...
Pet Shop Boys: Behaviour (Parlophone)
Review by Betty Page, Vox, November 1990
THE VEXED QUESTION is: what do we expect of The Pet Shop Boys? We expect, perhaps, in no particular order: excellent tunes, impossible-to-forget hooks; wry ...
Planning By Numbers: Catch The Beat (Beggars Banquet)
Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 27 February 1982
PBN is not just a band, but also a system developed by one Stephen Milford to classify information concerning band and album completely in numerals. ...
Prince & the Revolution: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 23 August 1986
ANY SELF-RESPECTING pop pundit at least had to try and witness the return of the Stiletto-Heeled Sex Dwarf — beg, borrow, blag, or like one ...
Prince and the Revolution: Around The World In A Day (Paisley Park 925286-1)
Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 27 April 1985
PRINCE HAS Found God in a big way — and for God read Prince and his Search For Inner Peace. Clock the sleeve and you ...
Prince: 1999 (Warner Bros 1-223720)
Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 15 January 1983
Royal Flush ...
Prince: Nuremberg Power Generation
Report and Interview by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 20 June 1992
There's a little guy in there somewhere… As PRINCE powers into Europe with yet another all-singing, all-dancing, all-peach sex-spectacle, experienced Prince-hound BETTY PAGE takes up ...
Private Lives: Whose Lives Are They Anyway?
Profile and Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 20 March 1982
WHEN BANDWAGONS grind to a halt, the only means by which to save face, to swim above the surface with grace, is quality. ...
Pylon, The Soft Boys: Pylon, Soft Boys: Moonlight Club, London
Live Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 10 January 1981
THE SPORTING SBs stepped down for Pylon, Athenians from Georgia, after their Music Machine extravaganza was blown out by a freak fire. Best described by ...
Recoil: Bloodline (Mute/All formats)
Review by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 18 April 1992
ALAN WILDER is the John Major of Electro. A nice chap — if every member of the public could spend ten minutes with him, he'd ...
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Buffy St Marie: Coincidence And Likely Stories (Ensign/All formats)
Review by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 14 March 1992
A CRASH course in Buffy history reveals that she has made 14 albums since the start of her career in the early '60s, when she ...
Silent Running, Simple Minds: Simple Minds, Silent Running: Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 17 March 1984
BARROWLANDS, THOUGH tacky and well-worn, certainly has a sense of history about it. Twenty years ago. The Stones played here on a minuscule stage. Ten ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Juju ****1/2
Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 27 June 1981
WITHOUT WISHING to sound demeaning or sexist, I have observed that the most popular women in the r'n'r world are fond of playing character-roles within ...
Interview by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 15 March 1986
THE ELEGANT tea rooms at Fortnum And Mason's in London's Piccadilly may not seem like an obvious location for a meeting with someone as gloriously ...
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 12 September 1981
The Skids come back down to earth ...
The Smiths: Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 22 February 1986
"FROM MANCHESTER WITH LOVE", it was billed. But love was the last thing in the air on this freezing cold Saturday night at Liverpool's Royal ...
Soft Cell: Hammersmith Palais, London
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 19 March 1983
The hard Cell ...
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 21 March 1981
MARC ALMOND has never quite been able to live down our scathing pic caption which accompanied the review of the landmark Some Bizzare Album. ...
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 1 August 1981
"COMING!" SHREIKS a familiar voice, as we knock on the door of the flat that appears to have been built on a slag heap in ...
Soul II Soul: Volume II Just Right (Ten/All formats)
Review by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 18 April 1992
THE SOUL II Soul collective is undoubtedly a shining example of enterprise culture at its best; this culture, of course, being of the Caribbean roots ...
Spandau Ballet: Journeys To Glory (Chrysalis/Reformation CHR 1331) *****
Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 28 February 1981
The men of my dreams ...
Spandau Ballet: Parade (Chrysalis/ Reformation CDL 1473)
Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 30 June 1984
BLAND SPANDS ...
Spandau Ballet: Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh
Live Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 25 July 1981
Young girls' rapture ...
Report and Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 7 February 1981
Go vest, young man. In the studio with Spandau Ballet ...
Spandau Ballet: Pavilion, Bournemouth
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 16 April 1983
AFTER A softly-softly approach to playing live, the Spands have now successfully developed their stage personas to match their technical skills. Now, they play as ...
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 ...
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! ...
Sparks: Terminal Jive (Virgin) **
Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 9 February 1980
D.I.S.C.O. HOW many of you recoil in horror at the word? Are you one of the legion of Sounds readers who would venomously denounce it ...
Live Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 11 April 1981
IT SEEMS that trend conscious individuals aware of the need to change should immediately dispose of their superfluous accoutrements and don sharply cut suits in ...
David Sylvian: Brilliant Trees (Virgin V2290)
Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 30 June 1984
Hi ho Sylvian ...
David Sylvian: Gone To Earth (Virgin VDL1)
Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 6 September 1986
MR SYLVIAN has always been refreshingly transparent when it comes to influences. But no matter — he still produces gentle, reflective, delicate but painstakingly crafted ...
Interview by Betty Page, Vox, November 1991
Mark Hollis takes minimalism to its limit with a one-note solo on Talk Talk's new album, Laughing Stock. Still, a solo, like life, is what ...
Review by Betty Page, Vox, October 1991
BACK IN 1981, Talk Talk were a laughing stock. Branded "the new Duran Duran", their melancholy pop was largely ignored. They survived the '80s by ...
Talk Talk: Spirit of Eden (Parlophone)
Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 17 September 1988
ONCE UPON A TIME Talk Talk were a "pop" band, now they're a law unto themselves, unconstrained by narrow ideas of "what will sell". Lead ...
Interview by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 21 November 1987
STEP INTO CAROL Decker's parlour and she'll greet you with a firm but welcoming handshake. This is characteristic of this forthright, intelligent and sharp young ...
Transvision Vamp: Whatever Happened To Baby James?
Interview by Betty Page, Vox, March 1991
Exploiter or exploited? Rock Bitch or just bitched at? Either way Wendy James just lurrves the attention – and the dosh. Betty Page probes for ...
Ultravox: Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 15 November 1986
THERE WERE no Gothic monstrosities on stage. No pompous gestures, no frills, no Warren Cann. This was the new, lean version of Ultravox, and they ...
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 ...
Visage: The Anvil (Polydor)***
Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 27 March 1982
SO WHAT can I tell you that's new? As I write, Steven is welcoming guests to his super new Sunday Tea Dance club in Kensington. ...
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, ...
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. ...
Was (Not Was): Was (Not Was) (ZE ILPS 7015)
Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 27 June 1981
Funk up (no funk up) ...
Interview by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 19 November 1983
HARRY HOUDINI, escapologist, died on Halloween. This fact will undoubtedly amuse Jalil and Ecstasy, the two main protagonists of Whodini, who on 31 October had ...
XTC: Slaving For The Yankee Dollar
Report and Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 20 December 1980
FUNNY HOW life is. Guess who Elvis Presley, Bonzo and Ian Curtis are expecting for Christmas? You know the answer. Yet he and the other ...
Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 3 September 1983
ANDY PARTRIDGE predicted a return to acoustic neo-folk at least two years ago, well before our new pop explosion. Thus, only the few will be ...
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 17 April 1982
AFTER CLOSE encounters with most of the Mute bands, you'd think Uncle Dan had ordered them to live up to their oft-lively label's name. But ...
Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 6 April 1985
GOTTA SAY Yes To Another Excess was quite categorically one of my favourite elpees of the recent past. A definite eargasm. This picks up where ...
Yellow Magic Orchestra: Live in Tokyo
Live Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 30 January 1982
THE PROSPECT of The Orch being pruned down to its three component parts was initially somewhat alarming for the quivering foreign journalists, who sat in ...
Yellow Magic Orchestra: No More Hiros
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 6 February 1982
BEFORE MAKING the obvious comments on such an album title as Neuromantic and collapsing into sarcastic guffaws, consider for a moment the man who coined ...
Paul Young: Between Two Fires (CBS 4501501)
Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 25 October 1986
ON THE first day, it drifted past. On the second day, it became pleasant BGM with a couple of hooks protruding. And on the third ...
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Comment by Betty Page, Vox, October 1991
YOU EXPECT IT FROM HEAVY METAL, BUT NOW RAP AND INDIE HAVE JOINED THE SEXIST ASSAULT ON women: LYRICS, SLEEVES, and lecherous behaviour at gigs. ...
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