In the late fall of 1985, one of my editors, Rudy Langlais, came to me and said he had a remarkable young writer, Barry Michael…

This story was originally published in the March 1991 issue of SPIN. In honor of SPIN's 30th anniversary, we've republished this piece as part of…

The following remembrance was written in the days following Amy Winehouse's death on July 23, 2011. To mark the anniversary of her passing, we've republished this…

This story was originally published in the September 1986 issue of SPIN, following an exposé on Live Aid's real effect on Ethiopia, which ran in the…

[This piece was originally published in the August 1986 issue of SPIN, one month after our exposé, "Live Aid: The Terrible Truth." This week marked…

One night at dinner in late 1985, a friend talked about Ethiopia being in a civil war. Neither I nor anyone else at the table had…

They were edgy and rattled about what was happening to them. The fantasy came true. Real fame after handing out flyers and playing…

In the very early days, right after we launched the magazine, and as the reality set in we had to do this every…

[This story was originally published in the December 2006 issue of SPIN. In honor of SPIN’s 30th anniversary, we’ve republished this piece as part of our…