The Rolling stones - It's going to blow your mind.

Crosby, stills & Nash - Simon and Garfunkel.

The Beatles - Led Zeppelin and more...

Julian Cope - The UK’s most attractive acid casualty comes out of his shell. A toy-buying expedition to Paris incidentally reveals much about this most likeable visionary.

The Smiths - While the band giggle in the other room, Johnny Marr reveals that times have been tough for the band.

The Go-Betweens - The Australian band ready themselves for the release of fourth LP Liberty Belle And The Black Diamond Express. Opinionated words softly spoken is their mode.

Keith Richards - The Stones guitarist defends his band against all comers, and as it turns out, the journalist too.
“Don’t apologise for getting up my nose,” he says. “Not many do.”

Shows from Frankie, Lloyd Cole and Sonny Rollins.

In on the ground floor with the NYC hiphop band. Introducing also their label bosses at Def Jam: Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons and more...

Ozzy Osbourne - An audience with the singer (and his dwarf) in the bar, at the Alamo, in jail and then, finally,onstage.

Fun Boy Three - The new post-Specials formation. Lynval Golding recounts his horrific recent attack, “Ghost Town” and the demise of their former band.

The Associates - Billy Mackenzie and Alan Rankine explain their unique, operatic, potentially world-beating sound.

Young Scotland - Meetings with promising newbacnds in Scotland: the spiky Josef K, spirited Fire Engines and lyrical, tender Aztec Camera.

Iggy Pop - Iggy's thoughts on the Reagan presidency, and the pros and cons of having sex in the street and more...

Taking the 2-Tone mission to the USA. Lifting the lid, among other things, on Jerry Dammers’ art school past.

Emotional Rescue, a new album from the Rolling Stones. And the third selftitled album from Peter Gabriel and more...

Rough Trade - Inside the dominant retail outlet of punk. But there’s more afoot within Geoff Travis’ burgeoning empire of “dynamic confusion”.

Rotten vs McLaren - Malcolm McLaren emerges from hiding in France to discuss his considerable legal woes.

The Human League - A meeting with the Sheffield band, working on a set of electronic torch songs and more...

Bob Marley - Rasta is very much on Marley's agenda. Also up for discussion, though, are punk rock (Bob is in favour) and the National Front (Bob is not).

Kate Bush - An introduction to the willowy and theatrical young singer taking the charts by storm. She likes The Boomtown Rats!

Bob Dylan plays live – and grants a backstage audience to two senior MM staffers and more...

Muddy Waters - The Chess Records star doesn't so much recount his life story as the entire history of the blues, from Charley Patton to the RollingStones.

Tom Petty - The laid-back Southerner debuts in England with his spiky and agreeably Anglophile rock 'n' roll and more...

Bob marley - “Righteousness must cover the earth”

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Ronnie Van Zant explains that everything you’ve read about his band is true – and that’s why they get the kind of fans they do.

Rolling Stones - A hallucinatory backstage meeting with the band. A great show, a disagreement over an LP review, and the rest is a blur…

Albums - New LPs from Slik, Canned Heat and Led Zeppelin. New singles from Fleetwood Mac and Aerosmith.

John Lennon - The former Beatle on his new album, Rock’n’Roll, and the Phil  Spector-related drama behind it.

Pete Townshend - With the film of Tommy complete, the Who man takes stock of his band – and, in fact, the state of rock itself.

Bob Dylan - After eight years away, Bob Dylan returns to play a massive tour. What will he do to the precious memories his fans have? What does Phil Ochs think?

Queen Live - Queen take to the road, but retain their unique poise off it. “My dear,” says Freddie Mercury, “I’m the vainest thing going.”

Leonard Cohen - Let's quit together ... In town to receive an award, Leonard instead decides to reveal his dissatisfaction with the music industry.

Bob Dylan - On set for and in the air above Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid.How's Max Jones doing, wonders Dylan? and more...

David Bowie - An impressive live showing from a new look David Bowie.

Paul Simon - Simon & Garfunkel are no more. As he releases a new solo album, Paul Simon looks back and more...

T.Rex - Marc Bolan explains the changing face of his band, seemingly now destined for very big things.

Elton John - A three part interview with the year's first superstar. From his days playing pubs, to his major breakthrough and more...

Starring
1. Black Sabbath.
2. Pink Floyd.
3. Derek & The Dominos.
4. Leonard Cohen.
5. Joni Mitchell.
6. Elton John and more...

They are expected to study for three months.

We got high in the desert.

The scene is strong all over the country.

Dirty beer-swilling ragamuffins and more...

The Rolling Stones Brian Jones looks to the future and sees a “young revolution” coming. Charlie Watts ponders his bandmates, and the Red Guards, The Monkees They don’t playon their records. But still, the British public (and press) can’t help but be charmed by TV’s wacky moptop beat group and more....

The Spencer Davis Group Who is the power behind the group’s throne… The multilingual, university-educated Spencer Davis? Or the multiinstrumentalist wunderkind Stevie Winwood?, Singles reviews
A star panel debate the “…Green Berets” release by Staff Sgt Barry Sadler. Meanwhile, Paul
McCartney reviews the singles and more....

The Beatles in the studio: The band record songs for the forthcoming Help! album. “We’re on the way out, me and John,” says McCartney. “George is moving in – him and Ray Davies.”, The Rolling Stones: 
After “gassing” the Australians, and freaking out the Irish, the Stones return to blow British minds again and more...

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