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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.
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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...
Nearer to her: John Abbey interviews Bettye LaVette about her first decade in music (Blues & Soul, 1972) and Steven R. Rosen talks to the raw-throated singer about her second wind on Anti- Records (Cincinnati CityBeat, 2011). Plus Lloyd Bradley loves LaVette's Thankful n' Thoughful album 2012…
Open up the gate: Frank Broughton asks Blood and Fire's Steve Barrow about deejays, dub plates, Duke Reid, Coxsone Dodd... and the history of Jamaican music (1998).
That lovin' feelin': Louise Criscione interviews Brill Building hit songwriters Cynthia Weil (1940-2023) and Barry Mann (KRLA Beat, 1965) and BAM's Mark Leviton looks back with the married duo in their adopted Beverly Hills in 1983. Plus Phonograph Record's Mitchell Cohen reports on Cynthia's unlikely 1976 collaboration with hard-rockin' Rick Derringer...
Latest episode: former Gay Dad frontman Cliff Jones talks about his journey from journalism to rockademia. Plus we discuss Cliff's namesake Brian and hear clips from Tony Scherman's 1993 audio interview with Paul Simon.
Nearer to her: John Abbey interviews Bettye LaVette about her first decade in music (Blues & Soul, 1972) and Steven R. Rosen talks to the raw-throated singer about her second wind on Anti- Records (Cincinnati CityBeat, 2011). Plus Lloyd Bradley loves LaVette's Thankful n' Thoughful album 2012…
That lovin' feelin': Louise Criscione interviews Brill Building hit songwriters Cynthia Weil (1940-2023) and Barry Mann (KRLA Beat, 1965) and BAM's Mark Leviton looks back with the married duo in their adopted Beverly Hills in 1983. Plus Phonograph Record's Mitchell Cohen reports on Cynthia's unlikely 1976 collaboration with hard-rockin' Rick Derringer...
Open up the gate: Frank Broughton asks Blood and Fire's Steve Barrow about deejays, dub plates, Duke Reid, Coxsone Dodd... and the history of Jamaican music (1998).
Latest episode: former Gay Dad frontman Cliff Jones talks about his journey from journalism to rockademia. Plus we discuss Cliff's namesake Brian and hear clips from Tony Scherman's 1993 audio interview with Paul Simon.
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Cliff Jones on Gay Dad, Brian Jones and Paul Simon
