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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.

 

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Generation X: Gen X: Kiss Me Deadly (Chrysalis CHR 1327) ****

Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 17 January 1981

A young girl's fancy ...

Sheena Easton: Take My Time (EMI EMC 33 54) *

Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 17 January 1981

Pipe and slippers at the ready ...

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 ...

Spandau Ballet: Muscle Band

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

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

Landscape (avant) Gardener

Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 14 February 1981

Betty Page meets Landscape's Richard Burgess, computer man behind Spandau Ballet, Visage and Shock ...

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. ...

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

Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 28 February 1981

The men of my dreams ...

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 ...

Duran Duran: Sundown Club, London

Live Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 21 March 1981

Duranosaurus rocks ...

Soft Cell: Sweet Cell Music

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. ...

Stimulin: Sundown, London

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 ...

Japan: The Part Of Arties

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 ...

Bim, Prince: Prince, Bim: Lyceum, London

Live Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 13 June 1981

Monarchy in the UK ...

Depeche Mode: Depeche Guevara

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 ...

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 ...

Was (Not Was): Was (Not Was) (ZE ILPS 7015)

Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 27 June 1981

Funk up (no funk up) ...

Spandau Ballet: Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh

Live Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 25 July 1981

Young girls' rapture ...

Soft Cell: The Big Softies

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 ...

Altered Images: Happy Birthday (Epic EPO 84893)

Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 12 September 1981

A nursery crime ...

The Skids: Dig For Victory

Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 12 September 1981

The Skids come back down to earth ...

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 ...

Heaven 17: Pavement Artists

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Gina X: Deutscher Girl

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 ...

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 ...

Fashiøn Meet Zeus And Tarzan

Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 27 February 1982

An Heroic encounter narrated by Betty Page ...

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. ...

Monsoon: Indian Summer

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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. ...

Yazoo: Vince You've Been Gone

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 ...

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 ...

Blondie: The Hunter (Chrysalis)**½

Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 29 May 1982

The lumber of the beast ...

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 ...

Culture Club: Top Of The Fops

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blancmange: Hammersmith Palais, London

Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 8 January 1983

Tea's company ...

KajaGooGoo: Shy Boys

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 ...

Prince: 1999 (Warner Bros 1-223720)

Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 15 January 1983

Royal Flush ...

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'. ...

Linx: Last Linx (Chrysalis CHR 1409)

Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 29 January 1983

The missing Linx ...

The Belle Stars: The Belle Stars (Stiff SEEZ 45)

Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 5 February 1983

Swinging on the Stars ...

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! ...

Icehouse: Arena, Rotterdam

Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 19 March 1983

Oz is forgiven ...

Soft Cell: Hammersmith Palais, London

Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 19 March 1983

The hard Cell ...

Culture Club: Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool

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

The Boy in the band ...

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 ...

A Flock Of Seagulls: Listen (Jive HIP4)

Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 30 April 1983

Pigeon English ...

Kajagoogoo: Friars, Aylesbury

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 ...

New Edition: Candy Girl (London/Streetwise SH8553)

Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 20 August 1983

EDITIONS OF YOU ...

Gwen Guthrie: Portrait (Island ILPS 9758)

Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 3 September 1983

SAY GWEN ...

XTC: Mummer (Virgin V2264)

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 ...

Whodini

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 ...

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. ...

Everything But The Girl: Eden (bianco y negro BYN 2)

Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 9 January 1984

Quiet riot ...

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 ...

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 ...

David Sylvian: Brilliant Trees (Virgin V2290)

Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 30 June 1984

Hi ho Sylvian ...

Spandau Ballet: Parade (Chrysalis/ Reformation CDL 1473)

Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 30 June 1984

BLAND SPANDS ...

Billy Idol

Interview by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 22 September 1984

Billy Idol introduces Betty Page to an exciting new phenomenon called 'punk rawk' ...

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 ...

Yello: Stella (Elektra ECT1)

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 ...

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 ...

Go West

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Siouxsie & The Banshees: Siouxsie Sioux: "I rarely delve into anything… I usually have a head-on collision with it"

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 ...

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 ...

Colbert Hamilton, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, We've Got a Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It: Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Fuzzbox, Black Elvis 2000: National Ballroom, Kilburn, London

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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; ...

T'Pau: For Crying Out Loud!

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Inspiral Carpets: Cowabunga!

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 ...

The Cure: Mixed Up Kid

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 ...

Angelo Badalamenti, Julee Cruise: Angelo Badalamenti: Music From Twin Peaks (Warner Bros.)

Review by Betty Page, Vox, January 1991

A PEAK EXPERIENCE ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sexism

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. ...

Talk Talk: Laughing Stock

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Talk Talk Chat Back

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 ...

Marc Almond: Round The Horn

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 ...

Lush: Spooky (4AD/All formats)

Review by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 18 January 1992

FILLY SPECTRES ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PJ Harvey: Rid Of Me (Island)

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 ...

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