Like Mark E Smith and The Fall, David Thomas and Pere Ubu were featured in The Wire early on in the life of the magazine, when it was still primarily concerned with jazz and improvised music. Thomas was first interviewed in 1985 in issue 16. In the 90s there were other major articles: a Pere Ubu proto-Primer, an Invisible Jukebox interview, and in 1993 Thomas himself wrote an article about travelling through the former Soviet Union and the music he encountered there. Then in 2006 he was featured on the cover of the magazine. To mark his passing, we have made these articles free to read in the online library.