Dazed • 8th December 2020

Debbie Harry: ‘Maybe sexual explicitness has come of age’

Debbie Harry doesn’t believe in harbouring regrets. “I have made many, many errors, but nobody leads a perfect life,” she reflects down the telephone from New York. “So, should I regret anything? No. It is a waste of time. It really is a waste of time.” Dial back to the turn of the 70s and the life that Harry led before fronting Blondie – prior to her image being burned onto the retina of popular culture – was colourful to say the least.

NME • 13th December 2024

Art Garfunkel tells us about reconciling with Paul Simon: "I burst into tears – and then there were hugs"

Art Garfunkel has opened up to NME about ending “years of detachment” from Paul Simon, recalled “the high point of [his] career” as part of the iconic duo, and discussed starting a new chapter with his recent collaborative album.

Dazed • 20th October 2020

Interview: Stevie Nicks is still dreaming

Stevie Nicks has had “a hell of a day”. Not only is it 3am at her home in Los Angeles when we first speak on the phone, the power has gone out in her house.

The Telegraph • 17th November 2021

The Doors: ‘Jim Morrison had a pretty tough Oedipus complex – it made him manic depressive’

Doors drummer John Densmore is pointing over his shoulder to two royal blue LA street signs situated next to his drumkit. The signs say Densmore Av and Morrison St. “You’re probably curious about that?” he says.

The Guardian • 12th January 2024

Liam Gallagher and John Squire on their psychedelic resurrection: ‘No kinky saucepot shenanigans!’

When Liam Gallagher first heard the songs John Squire had written for their new collaborative album, he had two thoughts: that they were “banging”, and that he instinctively knew how to sing them. After all, he’s been singing Squire’s songs since his early teens.

Dazed • 31st May 2022

The Sex Pistols lift the lid on Danny Boyle’s hotly anticipated series

“We were all 19, 20 years old. Kids. Kids who basically didn’t have a fucking clue,” fizzes Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones down the line from his LA home. “We came along at the right time. We turned everything on its arse.”

the Guardian • 18th September 2023

‘No one gave me the finger more than David Crosby!’ Legendary photographer Henry Diltz on shooting music’s giants

‘Sometimes,” says Henry Diltz, “the great picture is the one that happens before you set everything up.” The legendary music photographer, speaking from his home in north Hollywood, has taken shots that became stamped into the annals of rock history.

NME Music News, Reviews, Videos, Galleries, Tickets and Blogs | NME.COM • 11th November 2019

Shakira on dark days, angry poetry and bounceback for the El Dorado Tour

In October 2017, Latin pop superstar Shakira was wrapping up five months of arduous rehearsals in preparation for her ‘El Dorado’ world tour when she suddenly felt a bit hoarse. A few days later, Shakira’s opening show in Cologne, Germany, was cancelled on advice of her doctors, who diagnosed her with strained vocal chords.

whynow • 14th January 2026

'I don't celebrate anything': Sleaford Mods’ Jason Williamson on porn addiction, politics, and staying angry whynow

“We’re like a fucking Aldi Gorillaz, aren’t we?” Sleaford Mods’ Jason Williamson deadpans to whynow when discussing the number of guests that appear on their new album, The Demise of Planet X. “It’s getting to the point now where Sleaford Mods is becoming bigger than just two people,” he continues. “At the same time, I’m conscious of trying to keep it stripped back.”

Variety • 16th March 2021

Kings of Leon Talk New Album, What’s Next and Why Solo Careers Are Unlikely

Sometimes you have to cut loose from the shackles of self-perception to really be free. Nearly two decades into their recorded career, Kings of Leon are a band now willing to let go of commercial concerns. “We’ll argue with the record label later if we don’t have the radio hit,” frontman and principal songwriter Caleb Followill tells Variety.

whynow • 14th January 2026

‘Everybody’s playing this track down in Louisiana – it’s packing the dancefloors’ | CC Adcock Interviewed whynow

When it comes to music, CC Adcock is a lifer. “I’m just a junkie, man,” the producer and guitarist proclaims matter-of-factly. “I remember jamming with my friends when I was 13 and it wasn’t enough for me. I had to take it further.”

Dazed • 5th June 2023

Nick Cave on grief: ‘I want people to know that things get better’

Life has a way of presenting events so incomprehensible that they cannot be anticipated. In 2015, Nick Cave was confronted by a nightmare made real when the news came that his 15-year-old son Arthur had died.

Ticketmaster UK • 16th October 2025

Idlewild: “As you get older, you become so much more comfortable with yourself”

“Everyone thought we were going to be this enormous, arena-filling band, but that didn’t happen” Idlewild’s frontman Roddy Woomble says with an air of mild resignation. “I’m not bitter in any way. I understand why the spotlight moves on. We just didn’t connect to a huge audience the way U2 did, or REM did with ‘Losing My Religion’.”

Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews • 2nd May 2025

Flower Power: Emilíana Torrini Interviewed | Features | Clash Magazine

When singer songwriter Emilíana Torrini’s close friend’s mother passed away in 2019, the process was also the source of a shocking series of revelations.

HeyUGuys • 4th September 2015

Ingmar Bergman's muse Liv Ullmann on bringing Strindberg to screen with Miss Julie

The iridescent glare of those unmistakable and iconic azure eyes; the ones that seem to evoke a thousand words, ranging from a whisper to a roar and everything in between, are there still.

Financial Times • 20th December 2024

FT Interview: Alex Gibney on Benjamin Netanyahu and The Bibi Files

Little White Lies • 26th February 2019

“Time is very cruel, only some films survive” – Béla Tarr on Sátántangó at 25

Béla Tarr is striding across the concourse of Berlin’s Savoy Hotel with a question forming on his lips. “Is this going to be a long interview, or a short one?” A moment’s hesitation is met by a quick answer. “Short one!” he teases, a wry twinkle in his 63-year-old eyes. He excuses himself briefly for a cigarette.

Ticketmaster UK • 21st September 2023

Kevin Rowland: “In Dexys, I’m the leader. If I’m not happy… we ain’t doing it.”

Dexys’ Kevin Rowland is in no mood to entertain untruths. He doesn’t so much gently pour cold water but upend a bucket of it when I raise an anecdote that Blur’s Alex James has been circulating about him (“Utter rubbish. I don’t know what he’s on about,” he scoffs). You get the sense that his fire remains beautifully intact.

NME Music News, Reviews, Videos, Galleries, Tickets and Blogs | NME.COM • 8th July 2020

Interview: Cate Blanchett and Dominic West on their hit refugee drama Stateless

Immigration is one of the most divisive topics in the world – guaranteed to blow up a quiet pub chat or turn a taxi trip sour. Everyone’s got an opinion, and regardless of where you stand, refugees need our help.

The Times • 2nd October 2022

Pixies’ Black Francis: ‘We’re starting to achieve some of that old-man muscle’

Black Francis, former champion of angry youth, is pondering the passing of the years. “You can’t fabricate naivety,” says the Pixies frontman, who formed the catechism for modern alt-rock in the late Eighties and early Nineties, inspiring a host of bands from Nirvana to Radiohead.