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THOUSANDS OF CLASSIC ARTICLES by rock's finest writers, spanning 50 years of music journalism. Enter library HERE!
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MIX MASTER – Remembering writer and broadcaster Robert Sandall, 1952-2010: urbane encounters with Brian Eno (1990) and Snoop Doggy Dogg (1994), plus a portrait of Lily Allen (2009).

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YOU'RE A FAKE, BABY – Johnny Black rails against the false claims that artists like Beyoncé write their own songs
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ART ATTACK! – This month we feature film-maker and polemicist Mary Harron with her major pieces on the Ramones (1976), Gang of Four (1979) and the Velvet Underground (1981)

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“The only difference between me and Charles Manson or David Koresh is, I have an outlet... the music business.
Kim Fowley to Steve Roeser (1993)

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SALFORD SAGE – Simon Witter gets chapter and verse from The Fall's Mark E. Smith (1983).

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