Maas hysteria: an interview with Timo Maas, Front, 2002
Audi is doing great cars. They have a good image. BMW is for guys with a moustache and long hair at the back. Mercedes is for old men with hats.
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Make it quick, son, you’ve only got a minute: an interview with Frank Black of Frank Black And The Catholics, Front, 2002
The boy-band thing, that’s way out there on the peripheral of my vision – I would never have a reason to come into contact with it. Boy bands to me are almost like a rumour.
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Does he not like that?: an interview with Graham Taylor, Front, 2003
I talk to the players and for me you’ve got to make players confident. They’ve also got to believe in what you’re asking them to do. They’ve got to see that it works. Do we want to see football that’s pleasing to the eye, or do we want to watch some winning football?
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Oi, Oi, Savile-oi!: an interview with Jimmy Savile, Front, 2000
It sounds yucky, but we made decency popular. You could watch Fix It with your 80-year-old grandma, or eight-year-old daughter, and you’d not be embarrassed.
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Piece of Pearce: an interview with Jonathan Pearce, Front, 2002
Subbuteo I used to commentate on, to the state where no-one would play with me. My parents used to send me up to a room in the attic to play it. I then took it to university.
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You fat b******: an interview with Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown, Front, 2002
Bernard Manning was the first person to ring me when he found out I had cancer. Everyone thinks we’re rivals. We’re not. These are my people, my peers, the people I admire. The people I think are funny.
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Dome alone: an interview with Jim Smith, Front, 2000
The worst was in Newcastle. On a New Year’s Day, against Wolves, it was. We lost at home 4-1. It started a bit from the yobbo end, like.
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Playing Hooky: an interview with Peter Hook, Front magazine, 2002
“Doo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo, ba-ba-bum-ba-bum.” New Order bass guitarist Peter Hook is explaining how the bass line went in Joy Division’s 1977 track “Leaders Of Men”. “That was more Barney, that,” Hooky is quick to point out. “It’s got a great chord in it – dern-ner-ner-na-newww”
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Extreme Measures: Emma Willis interview, MAN London, 2015
I crushed a vertebrae on a skiing holiday in 2009. It was extraordinary, like a cold, white, metallic pain. They lifted me onto a stretcher, pumped up a warm cushion underneath me, then a phenomenal skier took me down steep slopes to the ambulance.
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And relax… Ian Maclean, MD of John Smedley, MAN London, 2015
Sit back and take the weight off your feet for this is a page of rest. Our first relaxee is Ian Maclean, MD of John Smedley
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