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Mal Peachey

Mal Peachey

Mal Peachey has written for Vox, Time Out, the Daily Telegraph and many other publications. He is currently editor-in-chief of Rocket 88 Books.

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Joe Strummer: Clashback

Report and Interview by Mal Peachey, International Musician & Recording World, June 1988

The appearance in the charts of The Story of The Clash, Volume 1, sees former guerillero Joe Strummer back in the public eye and back ...

Sinead O'Connor: The Enemy Within Sinead O'Connor

Interview by Mal Peachey, Mail On Sunday, 11 October 1992

Revealed ... the childhood terrors that drove one of our hottest female pop stars to tear up a photo of the Pope live on American ...

Sigue Sigue Sputnik: Hope Against Hype

Interview by Mal Peachey, Time Out, 8 March 1989

Sigue Sigue Sputnik were the biggest hype of the '80s, their huge hairstyles and huger lies sweeping all before them — until the backlash. Mal ...

Wet Wet Wet: Adult Charm of a Little Pellow Talk

Interview by Mal Peachey, Mail On Sunday, 4 March 1990

Mal Peachey talks to the wise old men of Wet Wet Wet ...

Billy Joel: Christie Put The Kid In Billy Joel

Interview by Mal Peachey, Mail On Sunday, 25 July 1993

POP SUPERSTAR Billy Joel, husband of supermodel Christie Brinkley, sits in his favourite restaurant in the fashionable Hamptons district, east of New York. ...

Cockney Rebel, Steve Harley: Steve Harley: How I Survived, by the Cocaine Rebel

Interview by Mal Peachey, Mail On Sunday, 2 May 1993

  ONCE STEVE Harley had it all. Every song he wrote was a hit, every friend he made was famous and every lover was a fashion ...

Lyle Lovett: The World's Greatest Lover

Interview by Mal Peachey, Country Music International, September 1994

Dour of face, frizzy of hair, sharp of wit. He came from Texas, wrote the song, played the guitar and got the girl. Now he's ...

Jason Donovan: Identitiy: Jason Donovan — What's Your Problem?

Interview by Mal Peachey, Vox, January 1993

Jason Donovan was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1968. Neighbours made him a teeny idol in 1986, and SAW made him a pop star. He ...

Kate & Anna McGarrigle: The McGarrigle Sisters: File Under…?

Profile and Interview by Mal Peachey, Daily Telegraph, 10 November 1990

Mal Peachey meets the multi-cultural and indefinable McGarrigle sisters. ...

ABBA: Why ABBA Can Never Return

Interview by Mal Peachey, Mail On Sunday, 23 May 1993

EXCLUSIVE: EUROPE'S POP VETERAN SITS BACK AND WATCHES HIS CHILDREN WATCH HIM ON TV Mal Peachey on a legend that will not be Björn again ...

Cher, Sonny & Cher: Cher: Self Made Woman

Interview by Mal Peachey, Vox, August 1991

CHER'S FAME USED TO BE BY PROXY, THAT OF HER PARTNERS. BUT A DAZZLING MOVIE CAREER PASSED THE REINS OF FORTUNE INTO HER OWN HANDS. ...

Harry Connick Jr, The Velvet Underground: Velvet Underground, Harry Connick Jr.: Pop Myths Trying To Shake Off Their Past

Comment by Mal Peachey, Mail On Sunday, 6 June 1993

POP MUSIC has always been a hit or myth affair. This week Britain has been witness to two of its finest myths, both born 25 ...

Eric Dolphy: Squeaks and scronks: Eric Dolphy's Out To Lunch

Retrospective by Mal Peachey, The Independent, June 2004

Song for the man who went out to lunch ...

Johnny Cash: Back in Black

Report and Interview by Mal Peachey, Daily Telegraph, 13 October 1990

FOR 35 YEARS, he has begun every performance with the line, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash", as if anyone needs telling. He greets people personally with ...

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