Rock's Backpages is the world's leading collection of vintage music journalism. Each week on
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It’s 20 years since the Pulp singer’s backside upstaged Michael Jackson at the Brit awards. Shortly afterwards, Dave Simpson interviewed him for Melody Maker – Rock’s Backpages digs out a classic interview
On the 57th anniversary of the his tragic death we revisit this profile of the clean-cut icon, first published in NME in September 1975 and taken from Rock’s Backpages
We celebrate the former Sex Pistol turning 60 with this piece showing him on drunkenly eviscerating form, first published in Q in July 1989 and taken from Rock’s Backpages, the online home of music writing
This week is Wendy James’ 50th birthday. Rock’s Backpages brings you an interview with Transvision Vamp from Melody Maker dated 2 April 1988 which reports on their latest manoeuvres to double-cross the the charts with slivers of pop art
The late Pink Floyd leader’s 70th birthday is celebrated with Nick Kent’s piece, first published in Creem in October 1973, and taken from Rock’s Backpages, the online home of music writing
From acoustically enhanced pizza to his adoration of hotels and disdain for celibacy, here’s the late metal star’s life in quotes, courtesy of Rock’s Backpages
‘The Human Timekeeper’ and Stax staple would have turned 80 this week. Rock’s Backpages spotlights an investigation into his death – and the subsequent dissolution of Stax – that was originally published in Grand Royal in 1997
Jason Pierce turns 50 this week. To celebrate, Rocks Backpages digs up an interview with ‘the man who makes Marcel Marceau seem positively gobby’, from Melody Maker, 17 August 1991
They may be smooth operators now, but Coldplay weren’t always so comfortable with global fame, as demonstrated by this 2001 interview from Select magazine – courtesy of Rock’s Backpages
At the end of this month, Rhino will issue Soul Manifesto 1964-1970, a new box set featuring studio, live and posthumous albums from the period. Rock’s Backpages revisits this interview with the soul giant from Melody Maker on 17 September 1966
As Pantera prepare to release History of Hostility, a nine-track LP of their greatest tracks, we look back in the Rock’s Backpages archive to 1994, when frontman Philip Anselmo spoke to Kerrang!’s Steffan Chirazi
Ahead of the release of his memoir – Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink – Rock’s Backpages brings you a short, sharp interview with pop’s ‘antihero’ by the Evening News, originally published on 3 September 1977
With David Cavanagh’s social history of John Peel’s radio shows winning rave reviews, we hear from the great man himself, in this 1971 Melody Maker interview, taken from Rock’s Backpages
As tributes pour in following the death of Eagles founding member Glenn Frey, we look back in the Rock’s Backpages archives to 1974, as Eagles prepared to release their third LP, and spoke to David Rensin of Crawdaddy! magazine
It’s 40 years this month since Kiss released Alive!, the album that made them stars. A few weeks earlier, Creem’s Jaan Uhelszki had joined them – to be a member of Kiss for one night only. Read her account, in this piece from Rock’s Backpages
Jarvis Cocker: 'I have a terrible temper on me'