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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...
How high the Moon: NME's Tony Stewart sees the first performance of The Dark Side of the Moon during Pink Floyd's January 1972 show in Brighton... and Ian MacDonald reappraises the prog-rock landmark a year after its January 1973 release. Plus Classic Rock's Henry Yates reports on the debut tour by Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets in the summer of 2018.
Revolt into style: with assistance from Gary Kemp and Steve Dagger, Betty Page(left, with Marc Almond and friend in Leeds) fashions a New Romantic "manifesto for the '80s" (Sounds, 1980) and reconnects with Spandau Ballet six months later. Plus Betty (as Beverley Glick) looks back in 2005 on the part she played in the New Romantics story…
How high the Moon: NME's Tony Stewart sees the first performance of The Dark Side of the Moon during Pink Floyd's January 1972 show in Brighton... and Ian MacDonald reappraises the prog-rock landmark a year after its January 1973 release. Plus Classic Rock's Henry Yates reports on the debut tour by Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets in the summer of 2018.
Revolt into style: with assistance from Gary Kemp and Steve Dagger, Betty Page(left, with Marc Almond and friend in Leeds) fashions a New Romantic "manifesto for the '80s" (Sounds, 1980) and reconnects with Spandau Ballet six months later. Plus Betty (as Beverley Glick) looks back in 2005 on the part she played in the New Romantics story…
Low-Life will keep us together: Cath Carroll meets New Order after the release of their celebrated third album, reissued in a "definitive edition" this week (NME, 16 November 1985).
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