Ian Winwood
Ian is a music journalist of almost 30 years' standing. Over the course of an imbalanced career, his work has appeared in The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Kerrang!, Rolling Stone, Q, MOJO, Revolver, The Daily Mirror, NME, and more. He is the author of three books, while his fourth will be published by Faber & Faber in 2022. He lives in Camden Town with his fiancée and their two cats. A proud citizen of the People’s Republic of South Yorkshire, for his sins he supports Barnsley Football Club.
21 articles
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Profile and Interview by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 26 January 2002
Four men from northern Sweden are giving The Hives a run for their money in the incendiary rock 'n' roll stakes. But selling records is ...
Report and Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 1 July 2019
Playing with fire ...
Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 14 October 2019
IN 2001, WILCO fired the first shot in a war against an industry that had done them wrong. When Reprise Records rejected their fourth album, ...
Sex Pistols, The Stranglers: The true punk confessions of Stuart Pearce
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 6 November 2019
ON THE MORNING of the 23rd of June 1996, Stuart Pearce was the most famous person in the country. The previous afternoon, England had beaten ...
Slayer: A requiem for Slayer: The poignant, pulverising end of "the band that terrorised the world"
Report by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 29 November 2019
AT 23:00 Pacific Coast Time on Saturday 30th November, the world of metal will enter a period of mourning. At this time, onstage at the ...
Tal Wilkenfeld: Queen of the Bass: Why Tal Wilkenfeld is every rock star's secret weapon
Profile and Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 16 December 2019
Adored by Prince, Jeff Beck and the Who, thirtysomething jazz prodigy Tal Wilkenfeld is one of the most in-demand musicians in the world. And it's ...
Marc Almond: "The Royal Family are the one continuous thread that holds Britain together"
Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 13 February 2020
The non-stop Soft Cell singer on his confrontational past, Twitter troubles, and why he doesn't mind being part of "the establishment". ...
Ice-T: "I don't hate cops – I hate racists"
Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 13 March 2020
ON SEPTEMBER 30th, 1992, Ice-T performed a concert with his metal band Body Count at the Jack Adams Stadium in San Diego. On a bill ...
Retrospective by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 27 March 2020
IT IS ALMOST eight years since the video clip for 'Don't Give Up' first appeared on YouTube. Written and sung by Peter Gabriel, and featuring ...
Retrospective by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 24 April 2020
ONE OF MY favourite memories of a life spent loitering in the company of musicians is of the time the Beastie Boys danced for me. ...
The Scorpions: Can a power ballad change the world?
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 20 May 2020
A hit podcast investigates the theory that the German rockers' global smash was written by the CIA. But the truth is even more incredible. ...
Lamb of God: Metal's moral backbone: the uncompromising, righteous rise of Lamb Of God
Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 23 June 2020
AS A YOUNGER man, D. Randall Blythe conducted social experiments with bleach. As jocks in passing cars screamed insults, the singer with the metal band ...
Farewell to Kerrang!, the lone champion of working-class metalheads
Comment by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 8 July 2020
IN THE FIRST decade of the 21st Century, the British rock magazine Kerrang! ran a small weekly item called "Stimulants". Secreted away at the bottom ...
Public Enemy: Chuck D: "The presidency aged Obama – what will it do to Biden?"
Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 13 July 2020
The hip-hop pioneer talks about the ongoing protests in America, the forthcoming presidential election and how to face down the KKK. ...
Def Leppard: "We never wanted to smoke weed and stick two fingers up to The Man"
Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 21 July 2020
ON THE FIRST day of December 1987, Def Leppard arrived for a concert at the Tacoma Dome in Washington state. Embarked on the initial North ...
Peter Gabriel, Genesis: The shambolic Genesis reunion that saved Peter Gabriel from financial ruin
Retrospective by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 6 August 2020
Womad crippled Peter Gabriel, so his former bandmates offered to keep the bailiffs away. If only they could remember how to play together… ...
Biffy Clyro: "We wanted to be the opposite of Oasis"
Profile and Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 19 August 2020
IN THE AUTUMN of 2004, Biffy Clyro offered me a job as a roadie. It was an unpaid short-term position that consisted of just one ...
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 16 October 2020
IN THE SUMMER of 1987, Mötley Crüe embarked on a tour of the largest indoors venues in North America. Travelling aboard a private jet, the ...
James Taylor: "I took legal heroin – it's the safest way to be an addict"
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 7 December 2020
ON THE AFTERNOON of 7th December 1980, James Taylor was accosted by a stranger who knew his name. As the singer-songwriter battled his way home ...
Chumbawamba - How 'Tubthumping' shook the world
Retrospective by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 15 February 2021
IN 1997, OUT OF NOWHERE the English anarchist punk band Chumbawamba sold more than five million albums. In attaining triple-platinum status, in the United States ...
Alice Cooper, Lemmy: A Walk on the Wild Side of Sunset: Remembering Lemmy and the Hollywood Vampires
Book Excerpt by Ian Winwood, 'Bodies' (Faber & Faber), April 2022
This is an excerpt from Ian's new book Bodies: Life and Death in Music, published by Faber on April 21. ...
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