PhonoSeduction

‘It’s about loneliness, really. It was the total opposite of that “It’s Friday night, let’s have sex” macho mentality that was in most rock

As a career-spanning documentary hits cinemas and the band eye two nights at Knebworth, they revisit their path from pubs to stadiums – but

As a child, the singer loved to start fires. As an adult, he was barely less chaotic. He discusses Bez, charisma, ADHD, his new memoir – and

He lit up the 1970s with a string of hits, before falling out of the public eye. But was any man ever more connected? He discusses extraordi

Her first album was a huge hit – then she faced the sudden tragedy of her husband’s early death. She describes the rupture of grief, her ret

One could say Jonathan Richman marches to the beat of his own drummer, and for the past 30-some odd years keeping that beat is his constant

Sting and his former bandmates go to the high court over a royalties dispute this week – the latest chapter in the song’s remarkably fractio

Ahead of her final European tour, the US songwriter discusses her unlikely life as a country star, seeking advice from Pete Seeger – and why

The pressure to conform in Japanese society made being a punk risky – even before you factor in the flamethrowers. As a rash of reissues arr

Stephen Mallinder on the first decade of the Cabs, creating anti-fascist dance routines and the search for the ultimate drum machine.

With a towering new album about female saints in 13 languages, she’s pop’s boldest star – and one of its most controversial. She revisits he

Breaking dancefloors, recording in the dark, crying at I Know It’s Over, winning in court, splitting over chips … the musician relives his t

In 1969, as the band imploded, the singer was 27, depressed and drowning in a sea of legal and personal rows. He hadn’t died, as rumour had

Keith Kahn-Harris still doesn't quite know what to make of an audaciously experimental, sometimes problematic Grace Jones (& ZTT) LP.

Stevie Chick talks to Bob Mould and Greg Norton about Grant Hart, American punk and paving the road for Nirvana

In a moving tribute to his late Soft Cell bandmate Dave Ball, who died this week at the age of 66, Marc Almond remarked that the two were “c

One half of the synth-pop duo Soft Cell best known for its No 1 single Tainted Love