Leiber and Stoller
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Jerry Leiber And Mike Stoller: By Royal Appointment
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, MOJO, March 1995
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, the greatest rock 'n' roll songwriting team of all time, have their songs celebrated in the musical Smokey Joe's Cafe ...
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Leiber And Stoller Part One: The Blues (1950-1953)
Retrospective by Bill Millar, Let It Rock, May 1974
JERRY LEIBER AND MIKE STOLLER. They rank alongside Berry as rock ‘n’ roll’s wittiest composers and their influence as record producers has been immeasurable. ...
Leiber And Stoller Part Two: The rock 'n' roll years
Retrospective by Bill Millar, Let It Rock, June 1974
THE SWITCH from blues to rock ‘n’ roll was gradual and, as far as Leiber and Stoller were concerned, never total. ...
Jerry Leiber And Mike Stoller: By Royal Appointment
Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 15 February 1975
THE SCENE IS the Dorchester Hotel, one of the last vestiges of Britain's Imperial splendour and we've just been refused admission to the restaurant for ...
Book Excerpt by John Tobler, Stuart Grundy, The Record Producers (BBC Books), 1982
ELVIS PRESLEY was the King of Rock'n'Roll – anyone who might care to dispute that should try reading another book, for without Presley, neither we, ...
Leiber and Stoller: A Yakety Yak
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Goldmine, 28 April 1995
IF THEY'D only written, say, 'Hound Dog', 'Kansas City' and 'Stand By Me', they would already deserve their place in the Songwriters Hall of Fame ...
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Die Welt Woche, 1997
WHEN JERRY Leiber and Mike Stoller submitted the sickly ballad 'Love Me' to Elvis Presley in the late summer of 1956, they thought the boy ...
Elvis, homoeroticism and 'Jailhouse Rock'
Essay by Peter Silverton, The Observer, 10 August 1997
'Oh yes,' said Stanley, a builder - though not a man known ever to have displayed his bum cleavage beyond the privacy of his own ...
The Backpages Interview: Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Interview by Cleothus Hardcastle, Rock's Backpages, 30 June 2001
The names Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller are inseparable from the stories of rhythm’n’blues and rock’n’roll. They were two Jewish teenagers who felt black and ...
The Hit Factory: New York's Brill Building
Retrospective and Interview by David Kamp, Vanity Fair, November 2001
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I spent much of 2001 interviewing the songwriters, machers, and artists of the Brill Building era for this oral history. It was the ...
Retrospective and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, November 2007
THE LEGENDARY songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller will be honored in person at the 2007 Gala Benefit Concert of the Lauri Strauss ...
Hound Dog: The Leiber & Stoller Autobiography
Press Release by Harvey Kubernik, promotional interview, May 2009
LEGENDARY SONGWRITERS Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller were in the delivery room for the birth of rock and roll, yet as Stoller said the day ...
Cristina's 'Is That All There Is?'
Retrospective by Jude Rogers, The Word, February 2011
HERE ARE TWO gutsy blondes, a million miles apart musically, turning people's heads with the same Leiber and Stoller song. ...
Obituary by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 14 September 2011
Distinguished and subtle New Orleans arranger and musician ...
see also Elvis Presley
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