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RAISE MY HEAD UP HIGH — Robert Shelton reports on 'Society's Child', the 16-year-old Janis Ian's song of interracial love (New York Times, 1966) and Melody Maker's Caroline Coon meets Ian a year after 1975's smash hit 'At Seventeen'. Plus the singer looks back on 'Society's Child' with Q's Andy Gill in 1993…
PARKS AND RECREATION — L.A. legend Van Dyke Parks talks at length to John Tobler about Song Cycle, Warner-Reprise, the Beach Boys and a great deal more besides… with priceless interjections from Lowell George and Pete Frame (1973).
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TOGETHER THROUGH LIFE — Michael Simmons speaks to friends and associates of Bob Dylan on the occasion of the bard's 70th birthday (L.A. Weekly, 2011). Plus Simmons remembers life as a "Texas Jewboy" [sic] in the employ of Kinky Friedman (L.A. Weekly, 2010) and salutes "eloquent raconteur" Van Dyke Parks (Huffington Post, 2013)...
“We all want peace, but we don’t all have to demonstrate. You don’t have to go to church to look for Christ…”
— Joni Mitchell (1970)
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RAISE MY HEAD UP HIGH — Robert Shelton reports on 'Society's Child', the 16-year-old Janis Ian's song of interracial love (New York Times, 1966) and Melody Maker's Caroline Coon meets Ian a year after 1975's smash hit 'At Seventeen'. Plus the singer looks back on 'Society's Child' with Q's Andy Gill in 1993…
TOGETHER THROUGH LIFE — Michael Simmons speaks to friends and associates of Bob Dylan on the occasion of the bard's 70th birthday (L.A. Weekly, 2011). Plus Simmons remembers life as a "Texas Jewboy" [sic] in the employ of Kinky Friedman (L.A. Weekly, 2010) and salutes "eloquent raconteur" Van Dyke Parks (Huffington Post, 2013)...
THE WORDS RIGHT OUT OF MY MOUTH — In an exclusive audio interview from 2006, Marvin Lee "Meat Loaf" Aday (1947-2022) talks to Gavin Martin about Jim Steinman and Bat Out Of Hell, and Sounds' Sandy Robertson hails that squillion-selling album's "Gothic Panavision" in 1978. Plus Hit Parader's Larry LeBlanc talks to white Motown staffer R. Dean Taylor (1939-2022) in 1972 and Cosmik Debris' Adam Blake raves about the Detroit Cobras' Rachel Nagy (1985-2022) in 2004.
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“We all want peace, but we don’t all have to demonstrate. You don’t have to go to church to look for Christ…”
— Joni Mitchell (1970)
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PARKS AND RECREATION — L.A. legend Van Dyke Parks talks at length to John Tobler about Song Cycle, Warner-Reprise, the Beach Boys and a great deal more besides… with priceless interjections from Lowell George and Pete Frame (1973).
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