1973 New Musical Express 27 Oct. at backpages.com 🌐 Finally, he ends up dexed-up and pissed out of his brain on a rock off Brighton Beach where he achieves some kind of satori and reconciliation with himself.at dexed, adj.
1977 New Musical Express 27 Aug. 26: Arnett too has come in for plenty of brickbats from the palefaces, who called it R&B.at paleface, n.
1977 New Musical Express 27 Aug. 25: Killing his pain with an obscene blend of cheeseburgers and scag.at scag, n.2
1978 New Musical Express 3 June at backpages.com 🌐 There’s still a miraculously high energy level – no wimp-out, Jack; believe it – but what it’s about now is going berserk and enjoying yourself.at wimp-out (n.) under wimp, n.1
1979 New Musical Express 17 Nov. n.p.: Well that’s alright, but it’s too abstract, it’s too ethereal, too airy fairy to connect with me.at airy-fairy, adj.
1979 New Musical Express 12 May n.p.: Jimmy rides out, blocked and happy, on his multi-coloured scooter [KH].at blocked, adj.
1979 New Musical Express 17 Nov. n.p.: A pair of dark glasses, maybe a stingy brim hat, with an inch-wide brim.at stingy-brim, n.
1979 New Musical Express 17 Nov. n.p.: I [...] gave them all the jingoism and all the paraphernalia of Modism, boxing boots and fashionable things, right on the button, timing just right.at on the button under button, n.1
1979 New Musical Express 17 Nov. n.p.: There’d be all the faces and people that I knew. A face is just someone you recognise, you might not even know his name, but he’s known as a face.at face, n.
1979 New Musical Express 17 Nov. n.p.: I think it’s a groove, I think it’s fabulous, man!at groove, n.2
1979 New Musical Express 17 Nov. n.p.: I was living this lovely life of Riley, where I was just listening to the music I liked.at life of Riley, n.
1979 New Musical Express 17 Nov. n.p.: ’Cos there’s such a thing as Mod Suss – you know – sussing out a situation. That’s what Mods are about – suss out a situation immediately, its potential, controlling it.at suss out, v.
1979 New Musical Express 17 Nov. n.p.: He had a great pair of trousers – they were stove-pipe trousers.at stove-pipe, n.
1979 New Musical Express 17 Nov. n.p.: You go into the Green Room first, and you have a few sherberts to round the edge off the Drynamil.at sherbet, n.
1979 New Musical Express 17 Nov. n.p.: ’Cos there’s such a thing as Mod Suss – you know – sussing out a situation. That’s what Mods are about – suss out a situation immediately, its potential, controlling it. [...] Without his style, his ‘suss’, it’s doubtful whether The Who would carry the cultural weight they do today.at suss, n.
1981 New Musical Express 7 Mar. n.p.: What every beefcake on the street has got on his head [KH].at beefcake (n.) under beef, n.1
1981 New Musical Express 7 Mar. n.p.: The first Mrs. Sovereign who ever did a day’s collar in her life [KH].at collar, n.
1987 New Musical Express 21 Mar. n.p.: The [...] still-incredible spectacle of the hard-core fanatics thrashing, dive-bombing off the stage , writhing (‘moshing’) in an uninhibited physical mania.at mosh, v.3