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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.
Signing up for the RBP newsletter provides access to a limited number of free articles, as well as six new free articles every week.
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...
Right thru me: The Guardian's Paul Lester profiles rising hip hop star Nicki Minaj in summer 2010 and Kate Allen applauds the "reloaded" version of Minaj's 2010 debut Pink Friday in April 2012. Plus, in 2014, Evelyn McDonnell asks if Minaj & co. are glorifying their bodies or merely objectifying them.
Bigger than both of us: Martin Aston asks Daryl Hall and John Oates about the '80s, their ex-manager Tommy Mottola and their new album Change of Season (September 1990).
I'll be seeing you: Melody Maker legend Max Jones (1917-1993), left, interviews Billie Holiday months before her death in 1959, meets Bob Dylan at London's May Fair Hotel in May 1964 and speaks to Muddy Waters backstage at the New Victoria in November 1976. Plus Brian Case's obituary for his old Maker colleague...
New episode: in a Merry Xmas special, Daryl Easlea discusses his Slade book, listens to a Peter Gabriel audio interview and pays tribute to the Pogues' Shane MacGowan.
Right thru me: The Guardian's Paul Lester profiles rising hip hop star Nicki Minaj in summer 2010 and Kate Allen applauds the "reloaded" version of Minaj's 2010 debut Pink Friday in April 2012. Plus, in 2014, Evelyn McDonnell asks if Minaj & co. are glorifying their bodies or merely objectifying them.
I'll be seeing you: Melody Maker legend Max Jones (1917-1993), left, interviews Billie Holiday months before her death in 1959, meets Bob Dylan at London's May Fair Hotel in May 1964 and speaks to Muddy Waters backstage at the New Victoria in November 1976. Plus Brian Case's obituary for his old Maker colleague...
Make it with you: Michael Lydon witnesses Aretha Franklin's landmark encounter with the hippies at San Francisco's Fillmore West (Boogie Lightning, 1974).
Bigger than both of us: Martin Aston asks Daryl Hall and John Oates about the '80s, their ex-manager Tommy Mottola and their new album Change of Season (September 1990).
New episode: in a Merry Xmas special, Daryl Easlea discusses his Slade book, listens to a Peter Gabriel audio interview and pays tribute to the Pogues' Shane MacGowan.
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Daryl Easlea on Slade, Peter Gabriel & the Pogues
