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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.
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...
Suite Judee blues: Disc's Rosalind Russell meets Judee Sill during the "country-cult-baroque" singer's London visit in spring 1972... and Sounds' Sandy Robertson revisits her sublime second album Heart Food in 1978. Plus Tim Page salutes Sill's "brief life" and enduring genius in the Washington Post (2006)...
About a writer: RBP's 2002 audio interview with Nick Hornby – and the article about his 10 favourite tracks that resulted from our lunch date (pic: Mark Pringle). Plus Nick surveys ABBA's back catalogue (MOJO, 1997) and re-reads Billie Holiday's Lady Sings the Blues (Sunday Times, 2018).
Suite Judee blues: Disc's Rosalind Russell meets Judee Sill during the "country-cult-baroque" singer's London visit in spring 1972... and Sounds' Sandy Robertson revisits her sublime second album Heart Food in 1978. Plus Tim Page salutes Sill's "brief life" and enduring genius in the Washington Post (2006)...
About a writer: RBP's 2002 audio interview with Nick Hornby – and the article about his 10 favourite tracks that resulted from our lunch date (pic: Mark Pringle). Plus Nick surveys ABBA's back catalogue (MOJO, 1997) and re-reads Billie Holiday's Lady Sings the Blues (Sunday Times, 2018).
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