Al Alvarez interview, Al’s gamble on poker pays off, Financial Review, 18 November, 1983.
This is an interview with one of the idols of my youth Al Alvarez. He wrote that classic study of suicide and the poet Sylvia Plath, The Savage God. Plath suicided in London, in the former apartment of W.B. Yeats. We became friendly for a while after the interview, and went walking near his home […]
Integral Guitars: Big Country, LAM, 8 November, 1983.
Bodyline, LAM, 4 November, 1983.
Uncertain of date.
After midnight a fable of truth and shame, interview with Salman Rushdie, Australian Financial Review, 23 September, 1983.
The background story to this interview with Salman Rushdie is contained in the memoir Hunting the Famous
Brilliance Books, London, 29 July, 1983.
Interview, Stuart Coupe and Rowen Davidson, The Tagg File, July, 1983.
Not sure of the exact date.
The Cult of Barbara Streisand, Klick! 1983.
Uncertain of date.
Under the Volcano, Stiletto, 1983.
This was written before the announcement of the 1984 film adaption. There was no news peg, I was just obsessed by the book. Not sure how I managed to convince the editors of a rock and style magazine to do it, but there you have it.