BOTH SIDES THEN – Joni Mitchell at 70: career-spanning conversations with Karl Dallas (Melody Maker, 1968), Penny Valentine (Sounds, 1972), Mick Brown (Daily Telegraph, 1991) and Robin Eggar (Rolling Stone Germany, 2007).

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OUT OF HIS BRILLIANT MIND – Former Furniture salesman Jim Irvin (né Arundel) pays a visit to P.J. Harvey (Melody Maker, 1992), talks to Teenage Fanclub (MOJO, 1997) and meets Midlake (The Times, 2006).

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“Some people chill out as they get older… I still seem to be pissed off all the time.”

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Folk Scene, July 1974

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REVOLUTION BABES – Mat Snow talks to '80s pop tartlets Transvision Vamp (1988).

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