Preface

Acknowledgments

How it all began…

Introduction

Behind the Scenes

THE SIXTIES

All or Nothing: The Small Faces Story

Andrew Loog Oldham

Hello It’s Me

Syd Barrett: Careening Through Life … From the Floyd to the Void

Don't Believe a Word!

CLASSIC ROCK

Beck Basic

Jimmy Page: The Interview

Pete Townshend

Bulletin: Who in Action! Gig! Film!! Record!!!

John Entwistle Looks Out, Up and Ahead

The Ballad of Todd Rundgren From Here to Utopia

Ray Davies, Misfit and Concerned Citizen, Talks

Product Report: KISS, Inc.

Cheap Trick: Greetings From Rockford

Frank Zappa

100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time

Hello It's Me

“Hi, I'm Ritchie Blackmore.”

THE GLORY OF GLAM

T. Rex: Roly Poly Boly

New York's Finest: The Dolls

Cockney Rebel: Steve Harley Interviewed

Lou Reed Is “Alive” and, Well, in Cleveland

Sparks: Ron & Russell at Home, at Work, at Play

Bryan Ferry Agonistes

Brain Waves From Eno

PROGRESSIVE and ART ROCK

In Search of Captain Beefheart

The Genesis of Genesis: Art Rock in Excelsis

Who’s Asking the Questions? Robert Fripp Interviewed

Kate Bush Gets Her Kicks

Laurie Anderson

Gong

REGGAE

Tough Tosh

Eureka! Uhuru! Black Uhuru Lead the New Reggae Wave

ROOTS OF PUNK

Transactional Analysis With Lou Reed

Iggy Pop: It's a Long Way Back to Germany

Graham Parker: Don't Call It Pub Rock!

A chat with Graham Parker, Brinsley Schwarz and Martin Belmont

Eddie and the Hot Rods Are So Bored With the USA

AMERICAN PUNK and NEW WAVE

Television

In Search of Adventure With Tom Verlaine

Patti Smith

The Short and Long of the Ramones

Don't Believe a Word!

Blondie: Progress Report From the Power Station

[...] E.xciting [...]

Devo Gets Down With William S. Burroughs

Ralph Records: Surrealism a Go Go

Right on, Sisters! The Go-Go's Hit Paydirt

Black Flag: Wanna Dance?

X: Stand by Your Band

What Made Milwaukee Famous … Made Winners Out of the Violent Femmes

Holly and the Italians

Power Pop Primer

BRITISH PUNK and NEW WAVE

English Ramblings

The British New Wave (Will There Always Be an England?)

The Clash: Greatness From Garageland

Sex Pistols: Not So Rotten After All

X-Ray Spex Take a Shot at the U.S.

Elvis Costello: I Fought the Law

Close Encounters of the Irish Kind: Belvis in Elfast

The Premeditated Rise of Elvis Costello

Nick Lowe's Wonderful World of Pop!

Soft Boys

Produced by Martin Rushent

You Too Can Speak British!

The New Wave Washes Out

Don't Believe a Word!

APRÈS PUNK

Joy Division Examined

The Cure

U2: A Way of Life

At Home — in the Studio — With Steve Lillywhite

The Elusive Joan Armatrading

Gang of Four Make Music Their Way

Adam Ant Takes the U.S. by Storm

Joan Jett: Selling Records Is the Best Revenge

Kevin Rowland and Dexys Midnight Runners Preach the Soul Gospel

From Here to Dare: The Human League

Duran Duran: Not Just a Pretty Face

Malcolm McLaren: From the Eye of the Storm

Public Image Ltd.'s New Career in the Same Old Towns

Public Image Ltd. Live

Eurythmics Dream Their Way to Success

They’re All Dancing to Eddy Grant’s Tune

COLUMNISM

Media Eye (R. Meltzer by Top Ten)

Surface Noise

Green Circles

America Underground

Raving Faves

SURVEY SEZ

Where Were You in 1974?

1970s

1983–1984

Quotes of the (Trouser Press) Decade

LAST CALL

How to Publish a Rock Magazine