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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.
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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...
Dedicated to the one we loved: 50 years since her sad death in London, we remember "Mama Cass" Elliot. Pete Johnson talks to the former Ellen Cohen as she prepares for a solo career after the Mamas & the Papas (L.A. Times, 1968) and Lillian Roxon asks Michelle Phillips about her former life with Cass and the "Papas" (N.Y.Sunday News, 1973). Plus Mitchell Cohen revisits the group's "strange vibrations" in 2017.
Young women are coming to the festival: Mark "Radio Pete" Bliesener asks Michelle Phillips about Mama Cass, the Monterey Pop festival, Rudolph Nureyev and producer Jack Nitzsche (November 1977).
I'll remember tonight: "Top Tunes" columnist Ronnie Oberman meets Cass Elliot and her fellow Mugwumps (Washington Evening Star, 1964). Plus the future record exec hears about 'She Loves You' from John and Paul a week after the Beatles' arrival in America and discusses the Rolling Stones with Otis Redding in 1966.
Dedicated to the one we loved: 50 years since her sad death in London, we remember "Mama Cass" Elliot. Pete Johnson talks to the former Ellen Cohen as she prepares for a solo career after the Mamas & the Papas (L.A. Times, 1968) and Lillian Roxon asks Michelle Phillips about her former life with Cass and the "Papas" (N.Y.Sunday News, 1973). Plus Mitchell Cohen revisits the group's "strange vibrations" in 2017.
I'll remember tonight: "Top Tunes" columnist Ronnie Oberman meets Cass Elliot and her fellow Mugwumps (Washington Evening Star, 1964). Plus the future record exec hears about 'She Loves You' from John and Paul a week after the Beatles' arrival in America and discusses the Rolling Stones with Otis Redding in 1966.
Young women are coming to the festival: Mark "Radio Pete" Bliesener asks Michelle Phillips about Mama Cass, the Monterey Pop festival, Rudolph Nureyev and producer Jack Nitzsche (November 1977).
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