Revenge of Riff Raff

Iggy Pop on David Bowie's Tremendous Work Ethic

June 10, 2021 Add Comment

Detente: Pop and Bowie in Moscow 1976 Iggy Pop interviewed in 1986 on working with David Bowie in 1976. According to Iggy, Bowie was one of ...

Photo: Joe Perry, Aerosmith

June 04, 2021 Add Comment

Joe Perry on stage at the Monsters of Rock, Castle Donington, August 18, 1990. Aerosmith were second on the bill below Whitesnake but ...

Bon Scott "We're Not Punk" (1977 Interview)

June 03, 2021 Add Comment

Bon Scott interviewed in 1977 by some Aussie journalist. Scott refuses to be lumped in with punk and new wave, insisting that AC/DC is just ...

Revenge...?

Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Edited by the ultimate music biz insider, Mark Crampton, and employing such talents as Mark Blake, Jerry Ewing, Mike Harris, Paul Smith, Chris Collingwood, Alan McCrorie, Simon Robinson, Lyn Guy, Anna Marx, Nick Douglas, Marion Garden, Peter "Grunty" Grant, Joe "The Crow" Mackett, Billy "The Kluck" Kulke, and, lastest and mostest, the incredible Liddell Brothers, Mark (a.k.a. "El Perro") and Colin (a.k.a. "Der Fly"). Unfortunately, Riff Raff was just too R n' R for its own good. A genuine working class rock mag, written, edited, and translated into 16 European languages in a drug-N-Jack-D-fuelled haze, often on the back of motorbikes, with spell checking by our staff of attentive rock bimbos (chosen purely for their blondeness and big knockers), it soon fell behind more trainspotterly, nerdish, and politically correct publications like Q, Kerrang, Mojo, Metal Hammer, and Horse & Hound. This website is an archive and kind of shrine dedicated to the writing of its greatest writers, some of whom, luckily for the Rock Kosmos, still continue to write about music. This is the REVENGE of Riff Raff...Rock on!