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Rock's Backpages is the world's most comprehensive online database of pop music writing, a unique resource unavailable elsewhere online. It contains an
ever-expanding collection of primary-source full-text articles from the music and mainstream press from the 1950s to the present day, along with a collection of
exclusive audio interviews.
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Rock's Backpages is the world's most comprehensive online database of pop music writing, a unique resource unavailable elsewhere online. It contains an
ever-expanding collection of primary-source full-text articles from the music and mainstream press from the 1950s to the present day, along with a collection of
exclusive audio interviews.
Subscriptions to Rock’s Backpages are available for institutional or personal use.
For institutions, Rock's Backpages is provided as an unlimited access subscription, meaning that all staff, students and library patrons have
unrestricted remote and on-site access to each text and audio file in the database. For full terms, please click here.
Please visit our Institutional Subscriptions page for further information and to arrange for a trial or quote.
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Welcome to the world's largest archive of music journalism, featuring over 50,000 articles on artists from Aaliyah to ZZ Top, with a new edition every Friday. Enter the library...
This train is bound for glory: Maureen Cleave meets Sister Rosetta Tharpe as she tours England on 1964's Folk, Blues and Gospel Caravan. Plus Jon Stewart hails Rosetta's guitar technique in 2008 and Vintage Rock's David Burke sings "a hymn" to the pioneering singer in 2018.
Reeling and rocking: Lou Reed discusses his new album Set the Twilight Reeling – and being "a rock person" – with the Boston Globe's Jim Sullivan (1996).
In the sunshine of his love: Steve Turner, whose new book King Mod is just out, interviews Eric Clapton for Rolling Stone in 1974. Plus Steve meets Syd Barrett in 1971 and talks to fellow scribe Nik Cohn about his classic 1969 book Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom (1972).
This train is bound for glory: Maureen Cleave meets Sister Rosetta Tharpe as she tours England on 1964's Folk, Blues and Gospel Caravan. Plus Jon Stewart hails Rosetta's guitar technique in 2008 and Vintage Rock's David Burke sings "a hymn" to the pioneering singer in 2018.
In the sunshine of his love: Steve Turner, whose new book King Mod is just out, interviews Eric Clapton for Rolling Stone in 1974. Plus Steve meets Syd Barrett in 1971 and talks to fellow scribe Nik Cohn about his classic 1969 book Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom (1972).
Reeling and rocking: Lou Reed discusses his new album Set the Twilight Reeling – and being "a rock person" – with the Boston Globe's Jim Sullivan (1996).
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