Fiona Russell Powell
Fiona Russell Powell was a major feature writer for The Face magazine in the '80s and '90s. She was also a member of the group ABC.
23 articles
List of articles in the library
ABC, Buggles, Dollar, Malcolm McLaren, Spandau Ballet: The Most Wanted Man In Pop: Trevor Horn
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, July 1982
"Why does pop music have to be so naff?" asks TREVOR HORN, whose production work for Dollar, ABC and Spandau Ballet is an unequivocal answer ...
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 ...
August Darnell, Kid Creole & The Coconuts: The Kid & I: A Dinner Date with Kid Creole
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, October 1982
The night Fiona Russell Powell joined August Darnell for a late late dinner date ran into the morning of the Kid's 32nd birthday and the ...
Boy George: The Face Interview
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, November 1982
I FIRST MET George O'Dowd about two years ago, shortly after I had moved down to London from Sheffield. George had just vacated his room ...
Marc Almond, Soft Cell: Marc Almond
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, February 1983
THE RELATIONSHIP between record companies and the music press is I think generally seen to be one of a symbiotic nature. ...
Fun Boy Three, Terry Hall: Terry Hall: The Face Interview
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, July 1983
This interview with Terry Hall is the result of two rather brief meetings with the Fun Boy, although I'm tempted to suggest that Glum Boy ...
Heaven 17: Room At The Top: Heaven 17
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, November 1983
The son of a Sheffield steel worker, Glenn Gregory's ambition was to become an actor. Instead he found himself playing the role of pop star ...
The The: Matt Johnson: A Master Of All Trades
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, Time Out, December 1983
WHAT DO YOU DO when you're a brilliantly talented songwriter and musician but have no locks, pretty frocks or "weird" image, an uncooperative record company ...
Mick Jagger: The Face Interview
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, December 1983
1PM, THE SAVOY HOTEL. In the centre of suite 312 sits a 40-year old man once described by the writer Nik Cohn with these words: ...
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, February 1984
IT'S THE day before Christmas Eve and I'm on my way to The Savoy hotel, 15 minutes late already for my interview with Simon Le ...
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 ...
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, July 1984
Back from the mystery plane, where they witnessed a host of gore movies and much else besides, THE CRAMPS have come to reclaim their followers from the ...
Profile and Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, September 1984
Glen Milston has dedicated his life to glamour, in the guise of the 'outrageous', 'disgusting' Divine. After a career in films and on stage, Divine ...
Van Halen: David Lee Roth: The Face Interview
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, October 1984
Larger than life and twice as loud, David Lee Roth is the vocalist and ringmaster of the Van Halen hard rock circus. ...
Andy Warhol: The Face Interview
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, March 1985
"I HAVE NOTHING to say – read my books" is Andy Warhol's standard riposte to most would-be interviewers. ...
Duran Duran, Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Warhol: The Face Interview
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, March 1985
"I HAVE NOTHING to say — read my books" is Andy Warhol's standard riposte to most would-be interviewers. David Yarritu — a former assistant of ...
The Cure: Robert Smith: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, October 1985
"We can't make it. We are ready to die when we are born. We are the patsies. And I hate the intellectual freak who realises ...
Boy George: The Face Interview
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, 1986
George O'Dowd on fame, drugs, wealth, sex, George Michael, Alice Temple, Martin Degville… ...
The Psychedelic Furs: Excess: Sex, Drugs and the Vanity of the Psychedelic Furs
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, i-D, April 1987
Disowning the past, re-writing the course of furry rock and roll history is Richard Butler's forte. All his psychedelic back-press seems to be about the ...
Boy George: Is This His Last 15 Minutes Of Fame?
Comment by Fiona Russell Powell, Daily Express, 1995
IT WAS going to be the party of the year — so far. In the event, it turned out to be the party of the ...
ABC: Pop Groups Should Not Make Comebacks
Comment by Fiona Russell Powell, The Times, 7 March 1997
FOR THE PAST MONTH, posters have been plastered all over London advertising tonight's comeback gig at the Shepherds Bush Empire of the 1980s pop group, ...
Old, Jilted and Fat: Julie Burchill: I Knew I Was Right
Book Review by Fiona Russell Powell, Punch, 14 February 1998
Julie Burchill is celebrating the publication of her autobiography, but does the book provide a realistic portrait of the venomous and personally troubled columnist? Fiona Russell ...
George Michael: My High Times with Gay George
Retrospective by Fiona Russell Powell, Punch, March 1998
George Michael made £50 million as the music businesses ultimate pin-up. It wouldn't do to compromise that by coming out as gay. But his carefully ...
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