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Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, Billie Holiday, The Rolling Stones: From Pop Singers To Rock Bands
Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, 1965
Update, March 2019: I KNOW exactly when I wrote the piece below, where I was, and why I withdrew it from publication. It was January ...
The Beatles: Lennon and McCartney: Songwriters — A Portrait from 1966
Interview by Michael Lydon, unpublished, March 1966
Just after the release of Rubber Soul, I had the chance to meet John Lennon and Paul McCartney in London, and I conducted in-depth interviews ...
The Beatles: George Harrison: The Scene and Heard Interview
Interview by Miranda Ward, unpublished, September 1967
NOTE: In a brief conversation that appeared on the BBC Radio program Scene and Heard, George Harrison spoke with reporter Miranda Ward from the set ...
Letter by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, 28 October 1968
25 FLORENCE TERRACE, FALMOUTH, CORNWALL TELEPHONE: FALMOUTH 1840 23rd October 1968 ...
John Lennon, Yoko Ono: John Lennon/Yoko Ono Interview
Interview by Miles, unpublished, September 1969
These tapes were made on September 23rd and 24th, 1969, at Apple. When Allen Klein fired Ron Kass, the head of Apple Records, John and ...
Report and Interview by Steve Turner, unpublished, March 1970
2003 Note: Having written my very first article for the Beatles Monthly I was asked by the publisher, Sean O’Mahoney (aka Johnny Dean), to contribute ...
Nico: I Always Become The Songs That I Sing
Interview by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, 7 March 1970
Author's note, 2018: I took Nico to Julie's in Portland Road in 1970. Its style was inspired by Biba. Magnetic people sat around on sofas ...
The Who: Live at Leeds (Track)
Review by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, 15 May 1970
Update, 2019. Below is the complete piece on The Who Live at Leeds written for The Guardian that published a slashed version, and also for ...
Joni Mitchell: Isle of Wight Festival, Afton Down
Live Review by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, 5 September 1970
Update, 2019. LIKE SO many who were there, my sense of life's possibilities was changed forever by the Isle of Wight five-day open-air festivals created ...
Frank Zappa: An Interview with Frank Zappa
Interview by Miles, unpublished, November 1970
This interview recorded at Rattner's on 2nd Ave, New York City, on the 14th November 1970. After we'd eaten we escaped the rude noisy waiters ...
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Charles Manson: The Maggot in the Rose
Comment by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, 1971
Author's note, 2018: Nobody talked about flower power or summers of love or fun, fun, fun after the Manson and the Altamont murders, followed by ...
Tom Donahue: Clean Up Your Face And Mess Up Your Mind
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, 17 March 1971
Author's note, 2018. This piece on Tom Donahue was one of a number I wrote for The Guardian that was not published. Bah! Nor ...
Interview by John Pidgeon, unpublished, 15 November 1971
This is a straight transcription of John Pidgeon's interview with Alexis Korner from November 1971 ...
The Trashmen: Carrying That Weight With The Trashmen
Retrospective by Metal Mike Saunders, unpublished, 1972
2003 intro: This was an unpublished piece, wherein I strung together actual Dave Marsh phrases from his Bob Dylan polemics (in CREEM) under the name ...
Profile by Metal Mike Saunders, unpublished, 1972
2009 note: The odd thing about this (unpublished) fall 1972 thing sent to Phonograph Record Monthly (unassigned) is that co-editor Greg Shaw would – I ...
The Rolling Stones' 1972 US Tour: Winterland, San Francisco
Report by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, June 1972
The Rolling Stones. The last boogie 2019 Update: IN MY sixth year of regular rock writing, I was given a great boost by Jo Bergman ...
Lou Reed Talking About His First Solo Album
Interview by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, July 1972
Author's note, 2018. This was my scoop. New York, June 1972. Lou discusses all the tracks, one by one, in detail and with diversions, on ...
John Prine: An Interview with John Prine
Interview by Norman Jopling, unpublished, September 1972
JOHN PRINE IS THE GUY that sang the song about the hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes, and a whole bunch of ...
Deep Purple, Ritchie Blackmore: Deep Purple: An Unpublished Interview with Ritchie Blackmore
Interview by Jim Esposito, unpublished, June 1973
2012 NOTE: This Q&A hails from circa June 1973, for an interview published in Creem in September that year. It broke the story about the ...
The Beatles: The Act You've Known For All These Years: The Beatles and Sgt. Pepper
Retrospective by Mick Gold, unpublished, 1974
ALL ENTERTAINMENT HAS AN EXISTENTIAL dimension: all successful performances imply a life-style and a sense of values, a sub-structure of assumptions upon which the performer ...
Bob Dylan: The Flood: Dylan and The Band on Tour ’74
Report by Michael Lydon, unpublished, 1974
"The air was filled with music." – Raymond Chandler ...
Yoko Ono: The Whole World Is My Mother-In-Law
Profile and Interview by Caroline Coon, unpublished, 1974
2012 NOTE: Tidying through my papers some days ago I found, at last, an interview I did with Yoko Ono at home in New York ...
Led Zeppelin: Ten years after — the Rule of Britannia
Memoir by Camille Davis Russo, unpublished, 4 July 1974
ON JULY 4TH, 1976, America will celebrate the 200th anniversary of her independence from Great Britain. Yet the bonds are unbroken, and she's never been ...
Leon Russell: A Recording Studio And Offices For Shelter Records: An Interview With Leon Russell
Interview by David A. Williams, unpublished, 10 December 1974
"I ORGANIZED Shelter Records in Los Angeles in 1970. In 1972, I decided to move back to Tulsa to open one of the few recording ...
The Doors: The End Is Always Near: Dread, Drunkenness and The Doors, Pt. 1
Retrospective by Lester Bangs, unpublished, 1975
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF the Doors should not be underestimated; it has been too often already. When you consider that they represented, in the positivist context ...
The Doors: The End Is Always Near: Dread, Drunkenness and The Doors, Pt. 2
Retrospective by Lester Bangs, unpublished, 1975
HE BEGAN, like all drunks who have arrived at this stage of the movie, to get in trouble. Havoc on planes, arrested in airports. Pulling ...
Lester Bangs: Epistle to a Young Critic: A Letter from Lester Bangs, February 1975
Letter by Lester Bangs, unpublished, February 1975
Thirty years ago, RBP contributor Susan (then Suzan) Compo was an apprentice punkette and aspiring rock scribe living in Tustin, California. An avid reader of ...
Elvin Bishop: The Bourbon Street Irregulars
Report and Interview by Jim Esposito, unpublished, April 1975
2009 note: CREEM flew me up to New Orleans to write a story on Elvin Bishop. Rejected this. Editor told me: "You didn't say why ...
Deep Purple: Let Your Fingers Do The Talking…
Report and Interview by Jim Esposito, unpublished, 14 December 1975
… or Ritchie Blackmore Is Right. He Probably Could Wipe Up The Floor With Most Guitarists. ...
The 101'ers, The Clash, Sex Pistols: The 101'ers — 1976
Special Feature by Ira Robbins, Peter Silverton, unpublished, 1976
September 21, 2021 introduction by Ira Robbins (www.trouserpress.com) ...
Carole King: The Definitive Carole King Story...
Retrospective and Interview by Miles, unpublished, 1976
...and touching on the Phil Spector Story and the James Taylor Story as well. * ...
George Jones, August 1976, at Sunset Park, West Grove, PA
Interview by Peter Stone Brown, unpublished, August 1976
NOTE: Originally broadcast on the country/bluegrass show "Sunnyside" on WXPN, FM Philadelphia, in August 1976. ...
Wilson Pickett: Return of the Wicked Pickett
Report and Interview by Michael Lydon, unpublished, 1977
"I’VE ALWAYS WANTED to be a star," said Wilson Pickett. He clapped his hands and fell back into a deck chair behind his house in ...
John Lee Hooker: Interview: John Lee Hooker, October 1977, at the Main Point, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Interview by Peter Stone Brown, unpublished, October 1977
JOHN LEE HOOKER was one of my all-time favourite blues singers. This interview was done between shows in the basement of the Main Point, a ...
The Band, Rick Danko: Interview with Rick Danko, December 21, 1977
Interview by Peter Stone Brown, unpublished, 21 December 1977
I WAS A RICK Danko fan from the first note of the first song he sang on Music From Big Pink, 'Caledonia Mission'. There was ...
Betty Wright: Interview: Betty Wright
Interview by Cliff White, unpublished, April 1978
This is a transcription of Cliff's audio interview with Betty. Hear it on the site here. ...
Muddy Waters: Interview with Muddy Waters at the Temple Music Festival, Ambler, PA
Interview by Peter Stone Brown, unpublished, 31 July 1978
I GUESS I FIRST heard Muddy Waters in 1965 when my brother bought The Best of Muddy Waters. ...
Interview by Mark Rowland, unpublished, 23 September 1978
Marc Rowland interviews Dylan in Rochester prior to his concert at the Rochester Auditorium. The interview was broadcast on US radio. The transcript is from ...
Carl Perkins: Interview: Carl Perkins, October 31, 1978 at the Bijou Café, Philadelphia, Pa.
Interview by Peter Stone Brown, unpublished, 31 October 1978
THIS INTERVIEW took place backstage at the Bijou Café right before Carl Perkins was to do his first show in Philadelphia in years with a ...
Fats Domino: Interview: Fats Domino, November 9, 1978, Palumbo's Restaurant, Philadelphia, Pa.
Interview by Peter Stone Brown, unpublished, 9 November 1978
IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE to escape Fats Domino's music growing up. 'Blueberry Hill', 'I'm Walkin'," and 'Walkin' To New Orleans' were staples of Top 40 radio. ...
Dr. John: Interview: Dr. John (Mac Rebennack), November 14, 1978
Interview by Peter Stone Brown, unpublished, 14 November 1978
THIS INTERVIEW TOOK place on Dr. John's tour bus right before a show at the Bijou Café in downtown Philly. I'd been a fan of ...
Professor Longhair: An Interview with Professor Longhair
Interview by Peter Stone Brown, unpublished, 10 June 1979
MAKE NO MISTAKE about it, New Orleans R&B would not have been what it is without Professor Longhair, Henry Roeland Byrd, and there are some ...
Lester Bangs, Blondie: Everyone's a rock critic: The lost Lester Bangs interview
Interview by uncredited writer, unpublished, 1980
FOLLOWING the release of Blondie, Lester Bangs was interviewed for a radio program called News Blimp. A copy of the tape was sent to me ...
Interview by Peter Stone Brown, unpublished, 23 February 1980
THERE WAS THIS company in Philadelphia called Sherjam and in the winter of 1979-1980 and maybe the following year they put on a series of ...
The Saints: Paralytic Today, Paris Tonight: The Saints
Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1981
AT THIS TIME, A RETROSPECTIVE on the Saints could only be written by someone with a sense of great personal mission. Perhaps it's even a ...
Levon Helm: An interview with Levon Helm
Interview by Peter Stone Brown, unpublished, March 1981
NOTE: Originally broadcast on the country/bluegrass show "Sunnyside" on WXPN, FM Philadelphia, in March 1981. ...
Jack Nitzsche: Interview with Jack Nitzsche
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, unpublished, June 1981
KNOCKING ON HEAVENS DOOR… ST. GILES CRIPPLEGATE ...
Interview by John Hutchinson, unpublished, 1982
JH: Emmylou, were you always interested in country music? ...
Joe Cocker: The A&M Years 1968-1976
Overview by Bud Scoppa, unpublished, 1982
BETWEEN THE YEARS 1968 and 1976, Joe Cocker recorded his first seven albums (all released on A&M). These recordings were composed of a wonderfully diverse ...
Kim Fowley: Rock'n'Roll Survivor
Press Release by uncredited writer, unpublished, 1982
1957: Kim meets future Beach Boy Bruce Johnston and begins to write songs. ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Siouxsie and the Banshees: A Kiss In The Dreamhouse (Polydor)
Review by Jeffrey Morgan, unpublished, 1982
WITHIN STRAIGHT-LACED Vienna at the turn of the century, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele were producing graphic works which rebelled against the dying vestiges of ...
Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne: Ozzy Osbourne
Interview by David Gans, unpublished, January 1982
On the bus en route from Salt Lake City to Denver in the early morning hours of January 10, 1982 ...
Bow Wow Wow, Malcolm McLaren, The Sex Pistols: Malcolm McLaren
Interview by Johnny Black, unpublished, February 1982
This is the full transcript of the interview, a small (1500-word) version of which appeared in Over 21 magazine in May 1982. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Cynthia Rose, unpublished, 1983
THE SPACE inside our souls where real dreams arise is created by a particular breed of gambler: the emotional, sexually aware, desperately honest human who ...
Interview by John Hutchinson, unpublished, February 1983
JH: Was there any family influence on your decision to be a musician? Your uncles wrote movie music, didn't they? ...
Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, unpublished, 12 May 1984
"ONE OF MY theories is that as long as I don't know about something, I can continue to seek it out," George Porter reflected in ...
The Sex Pistols: In Defence of the Sex Pistols
Essay by Paul Yamada, unpublished, 1985
ANY SERIOUS study of rock music should sift through the history to discover outbreaks, accidents and ruptures in and, of rock, that offer themselves as ...
Interview by Hank Bordowitz, unpublished, 1985
HB: You are doing something most American bands wouldn't think off, touring the country with a 20 odd person entourage. ...
Interview by Richie Unterberger, unpublished, 1986
Author’s note: This was based around one of the first significant historical interviews I did. The essay wasn't published anywhere, just typed out for a ...
Deep Soul Mecca: Muscle Shoals, Alabama
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1986
MUSCLE SHOALS: the very name suggests some grotesque image dreamt up by a surrealist painter. Shouldn't it be Mussel, you wonder... and yet this North ...
Harlem’s Finest: The Apollo Theatre
Retrospective by Michael Lydon, unpublished, 1986
THROUGH A GAUZY silver curtain, multi-colored lights outline a band playing a mellow blues with a dancing beat. As the audience begins to cheer, the ...
Jefferson Airplane: Paul Kantner
Interview by David Gans, unpublished, 2 June 1986
This interview was an exploratory conversation for a book project that didn't happen. ...
Gil Scott-Heron: Life After Arista
Profile and Interview by Larry Jaffee, unpublished, August 1986
NOTE: This interview was intended for Tower Records' Pulse!, but was rejected for fear that Arista Records would pull its advertising. ...
Interview by Charles Bermant, unpublished, 17 September 1987
HOW DID YOU pick this time to re-emerge? ...
Retrospective and Interview by Jeremy Gluck, unpublished, 1988
NOTE: Another unpublished piece for Bucketful of Brains from the prolific pen of Mr Jeremy Gluck, this time on Suicide's Alan Vega, written in 1988 ...
Everything But the Girl: Shining Bright
Profile by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1988
ONE OF THE few good things about the British pop scene in 1988 is that the subtle and reflective music of boy-girl duo Everything But ...
Willie Mitchell: From Hi to Waylo: the Spirit of Memphis Soul
Report by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1988
LOVERS OF authentic southern American soul are in for a major treat this weekend when a "Memphis Soul Revue" holds court at London's Town & ...
The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson: What Was And What Might Have Been: A Lost Interview with Brian Wilson
Interview by Jeremy Gluck, unpublished, 1988
NOTE: It's 1988, Brian Wilson had just launched his solo career with the release of the eponymous Brian Wilson album, and Jeremy Gluck gets to ...
Overview by Simon Witter, unpublished, May 1988
2002 note: I went to New Orleans to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers in Dec 87, took a week's holiday there with photographer Chris ...
The 101'ers, The Clash, Sex Pistols, Joe Strummer: Joe Strummer
Interview by Jon Savage, unpublished, 30 May 1988
This interview was for Jon Savage's classic punk book England's Dreaming, and is published here in its entirity for the first time. ...
Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones: Out Of The Cage: An interview with Keith Richards
Interview by Ira Robbins, unpublished, 19 September 1988
IR: You’ve done a lot of interviews lately. It’s hard to pick questions you haven’t been asked... ...
Profile and Interview by Len Brown, unpublished, 1989
This article appeared in edited form in New Musical Express"This is a good time to replenish, to renourish and drink silence." ...
Sly & Robbie: Silent Assassin (Island)
Review by Don Snowden, unpublished, 1989
HMM, HMM, HMM, let's see here...looks like Sly & Robbie & KRS-One are on to something here but I don't think it's what most people ...
Interview by Johnny Black, unpublished, 22 February 1989
INTERVIEW CONDUCTED in the Halcyon Hotel, Holland Park, London, 22.2.89. Crosby casual in jumper, white shirt and slacks. Seriously overweight and often short of breath, ...
Profile and Interview by Len Brown, unpublished, 14 March 1989
IN AN UPSTAIRS storeroom at Hannibal Records HQ, the quarterback-sized Joe Boyd sits on a sack. Around him are boxes, piled high, brimming with the ...
Joan Jett: Motorcycle Slut With The Mystic Cross: Joan Jett roars up the alley in Singapore
Report and Interview by Gerrie Lim, unpublished, December 1989
JOAN JETT is sitting in a dressing room a long, long way from home, and the perceptible sliver of anxiety in her voice suggests that ...
Texas Tornados: A Return of the Sir Douglas Quintet (+ 2)
Report and Interview by Bill Wasserzieher, unpublished, November 1990
PARAPHERNALIA FROM the psychedelic 1960s – retina-blitzing strobes, black lights, go-go dancers in body paint and big-dipper boots – all very, very retro, especially for ...
Birth of the Blues: Touring the Mississippi Delta
Guide by Ira Robbins, unpublished, 1991
"YOU MAY BURY MY BODY DOWN BY the highway side...so my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride." ...
Interview by Simon Witter, unpublished, 1992
As a re-and-mastermixer, artist, label head and man of many names – too many, some might say – Joey Negro is emerging as one of ...
Donald Fagen, Candid and Vulnerable
Interview by Wayne Robins, unpublished, May 1993
Author's note: This interview took place in Manhattan, May 19, 1993. Without his partner in crime Walter Becker to deflect questions, Fagen was more candid ...
Interview by Dave Thompson, unpublished, 1994
TELL US HOW you became Cliff Richard… ...
Al Kooper: Interview: Al Kooper, WMMR Studios, PA.
Interview by Peter Stone Brown, unpublished, March 1994
THIS INTERVIEW was done the last week of March in 1994 at what at the time, the studio of WMMR, once the number one FM ...
Snoop Doggy Dogg: Now Is Not The Time To Talk To Snoop Doggy Dogg.
Interview by Angus Batey, unpublished, May 1994
Originally written for the NME, this article was not published ...
Retrospective and Interview by Pat Blashill, unpublished, 1995
NOTE: I conducted these interviews and more for a magazine story that never ran. What follows is a rough, incomplete edit of the piece. I ...
Interview by Michael Lydon, unpublished, 1995
AT 94, JESSE STONE, arranger, bandleader, and song writer extraordinaire, has spanned the entire 20th century of African-American music. ...
Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant: Robert Plant Unledded
Interview by Alvaro Costa, unpublished, 1995
ROCK GODS SHOULD never leave their Olympus, in particular if they happen to stroll along a Parisian street during the city's Marathon. ...
Blackmore's Night, Ritchie Blackmore: Blackmore's Night: An interview with Ritchie Blackmore
Interview by Steven Rosen, unpublished, March 1995
Ritchie Blackmore, the penultimate electric guitar player, perhaps the main proponent of the Marshall/Stratocaster combo, has traded in his stacks for a tambourine and an ...
Ian Dury: Reasons to be Cheerful
Retrospective and Interview by Chris Welch, unpublished, Summer 1995
In the summer of 1995 Chris Welch visited Ian Dury at his Hampstead home on two afternoons to talk about the glory days of Kilburn ...
Miles Davis, Mahavishnu Orchestra, John McLaughlin: John McLaughlin: God of Fusion
Retrospective and Interview by Colin Harper, unpublished, 1996
Author’s note: I reviewed John’s Cork Jazz Festival gig circa January 1996, and then interviewed him in London shortly after that. Features based on the ...
Retrospective and Interview by Richard Gehr, unpublished, 1996
In 1996, Richard Gehr went down to Texas to explore the history and mythology of Buddy Holly’s home town. This was his unpublished report for ...
Phast Freddie's Hollywood (Circa 1973-1983)
Guide by Phast Phreddie Patterson, unpublished, October 1996
"There's a world where I can go and tell my secrets to...."* ...
Interview by Jim Irvin, unpublished, Summer 1996
This previously unpublished interview was conducted in the summer of 1996 — around the release of Lewis Taylor's self-titled debut album — for a short, ...
Radiohead: Can Radiohead Take America?
Report by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1997
"THERE ARE lots of double standards with British bands when they talk about America," says Jonny Greenwood. "They like to talk badly about it, yet ...
Interview by Jim Irvin, unpublished, 1997
THIS INTERVIEW coincided with Paul Rodgers' 1997 album, Now, his first set of original material since Cut Loose in 1983. It was conducted in a ...
Interview by Jim Irvin, unpublished, 1997
What first made you want to write a song? ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1997
JOHNNY THUNDERS'S principal solo claim to fame, So Alone consists of Dollsy covers (the Shangri-Las' ‘Give Him a Great Big Kiss,’ the Chantays' surf chestnut ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1997
FEW WOMEN HAVE expanded the vocabulary of rock as bewitchingly as Kate Bush; among male stars, only Prince may have taken as many risks. Hounds ...
Fabulous Thunderbirds: My Lunch with the Blues Guys
Interview by Bill Wasserzieher, unpublished, 1997
IT'S NOT NEWS that Kim Wilson of the Fabulous Thunderbirds is a good harmonica player. But he also cuts it as raconteur with stories about ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1997
WITH THE swaggering chords of the opening ‘Rock'N'Roll Star,’ Oasis announced that big, brash Brit rock was here to stay--at least for a few years. ...
Orquestra Was: Forever's a Long, Long Time
Review by John L. Walters, unpublished, 1997
I BOUGHT Forever's a Long, Long Time within minutes of seeing it in a record store rack. The reason? I don't just admire Don Was, ...
Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne: Ozzfest ‘97
Report and Interview by Edward Helmore, unpublished, 1997
THE UNEARTHLY NOISE that barrels over the pines and down Alpine Valley in rural Wisconsin last summer was a clear signal that the natural order ...
Paul Simon: Graceland; Warner Bros 925447-2, Released September 1986
Review by Chris Charlesworth, unpublished, 1997
IN THE SUMMER of 1984, as he faced the problem of furthering a critically successful but commercially waning career, Paul Simon received a gift from ...
Retrospective by Ian Fortnam, unpublished, 1997
DESPITE THE best efforts of such explosive talents as Suede, Polly Jean Harvey and the Manic Street Preachers, 1992 was not a great year for ...
Sam Cooke: Live at the Harlem Square Club
Review by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1997
MOST OF SAM Cooke's pop hits were sugary, blanched affairs. This album was the real deal, giving us the church-reared R&B singer who liked to ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1997
NEXT TO CBGBS peers like the Ramones and the Voidoids, Talking Heads barely sounded like a punk band. After the startlingly non-conformist ‘Love Building on ...
The Cramps: Songs the Lord Taught Us
Review by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1997
THE CRAMPS GOT away with their Z-movie, zombie-rock schtick because they were so intense in their conviction that it had more value than middlebrow humanist ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1997
THERE IS nothing quite like the High Llamas, even at a time when symphonic "mood music" is all the rage and neo-easy listening has become ...
Whose Alt.Country Is It Anyway?
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1997
THEY CALL it Alternative Country, a generous umbrella of a category that makes room for acts as different as Steve Earle, Son Volt and Slobberbone; ...
Branford Marsalis, Ellis Marsalis: April In Paris With Branford And Ellis
Report and Interview by Chris Ingham, unpublished, April 1997
NOTE: Commissioned by Nick Coleman at The Independent, this interview remained unpublished due to Branford and Ellis canceling their live appearances. ...
Radiohead: The Tourist: An Interview With Thom Yorke
Interview by Jim Irvin, unpublished, June 1997
Thursday 22 May, 1997IT'S A SEARING summer's day in Barcelona, one of Europe's most beautiful cities. Three things are creating a buzz in the Catalonian ...
Godley & Creme: Kevin Godley on Consequences
Interview by Kit Aiken, unpublished, 15 December 1997
NOTE: Unedited text of an interview for the piece that appeared in the March 1988 issue of Uncut. * ...
Chic: Hammersmith Odeon, October 1979
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1998
SO FEW AND FAR between are the live performances that have made any real impression on me that they stick out in the memory like ...
Retrospective by Alan Clayson, unpublished, 1998
Alan Clayson profiles the life and music of the great chansonnier ...
Mark Hollis, Talk Talk: Mark Hollis Interview
Interview by Jim Irvin, unpublished, 1998
MARK HOLLIS' self titled debut album was, at one point, going to be a Talk Talk album entitled Mountains Of The Moon, but somewhere between ...
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1998
MERCURY REV, one of the great if most overlooked American groups of the 1990s, are finally releasing a new album, their first for V2 Records. ...
Essay by Mick Gold, unpublished, 1998
IT MUST HAVE been 1969 or 1970. There was a rave review of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere in Rolling Stone and I bought it ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1998
JARVIS COCKER is that most British of pop creatures, the Nerd-as-Superstar. Like the young Morrissey, he’s the spindly misfit, the scrawny mis-shape who outwitted the ...
Gang Starr: The Greatness of Gang Starr
Report and Interview by Amy Linden, unpublished, 1998
IN 1997 EMI Records was in the process of folding, and among the groups who were up for grabs was Gang Starr, a veteran NYC ...
The Band, Levon Helm: The Weight on Levon Helm
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1998
LEVON HELM is perched on the arm of a carved wooden chair in his large house-cum-recording studio in Woodstock, N.Y., and he’s cackling his head ...
Queen: The Hard Life of Brian: Brian May
Interview by Ian Fortnam, unpublished, April 1998
It's quite a spread – set in the majestic, green sward Jerusalem of the Home Counties' stockbroker belt, and surrounded by idyllic gardens painstakingly landscaped ...
Elliott Smith: Interview Transcript
Interview by Neil Mason, unpublished, June 1998
I'D BEEN TO SEE Elliott Smith's first UK show a week earlier, can't recall where, but it was clearly enough to get me back a ...
Linda Ronstadt: The Linda Ronstadt Interview: Tucson, Arizona, 17 June 1998
Interview by Debbie Kruger, unpublished, June 1998
DK: You are a performer who has covered the most diverse range of genres in popular music, and they are all listed on your bio ...
Elliott Smith: An Interview in NYC, 30th April, 1998
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, Spring 1998
Listen to the audio of this interview here. ...
XTC: Andy Partridge: Lemons And Lemonade
Interview by Bill DeMain, unpublished, 1999
"I'M A LUDICROUS optimist," says Andy Partridge. "I'm in front of the firing squad and I've got the clown's makeup on and I'm telling gags ...
Crosby Stills Nash & Young: Crosby Stills Nash and Young: Looking Forward in Y2K
Interview by Debbie Kruger, unpublished, 1999
GRAHAM NASH IS by nature an ebullient man, but maybe this time he went too far. Such was the anticipation of the long-awaited new Crosby ...
Kim Fowley: Into The Sinister ’70s
Memoir by Kim Fowley, unpublished, 1999
AS WE ALL KNOW, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison all died in fairly quick succession as the ’70s began. By the time Jim ...
Eric B. & Rakim, Marley Marl: Marley Marl
Interview by Alex Ogg, unpublished, 1999
Marley Marl talks about his inadvertent "invention" of the drum sample and his involvement in the first Eric B and Rakim record. This was originally ...
Kim Fowley: Riding Shotgun in Swinging London
Memoir by Kim Fowley, unpublished, 1999
The arrival of The Beatles in 1964 convinced Kim Fowley that he had no immediate future as a freelance record producer in his native Los ...
Kim Fowley: Smells Like Nirvana: Hollywood Poptopia
Memoir by Kim Fowley, unpublished, 1999
IN THE LATE '50s, I decided I would go into rock and roll. By then it was really exploding. At this point, L.A. hadn’t had ...
Interview by Rob Hughes, unpublished, 1999
OCTOBER 1999. On the release of early-years compilation Down In The Valley - and four months prior to fourth studio album, In The Air - ...
Kim Fowley: The Thoughts of Chairman Kim
Memoir by Kim Fowley, unpublished, 1999
On Being the Rock’n’ Roll Rupert Everett ...
Letter by Jonathan Singer, unpublished, 4 March 1999
Transcribed below is a letter written by Jonathan Singer to David Hinckley of the New York Daily News. The letter led to Mr. Hinckley's article ...
The Byrds, Roger McGuinn: Roger McGuinn Interview
Interview by Stephen K. Peeples, unpublished, 2 April 1999
AUTHOR'S NOTE, Oct. 11, 2014: The following is an expanded version of my Roger McGuinn interview, a shorter version of which was first published at ...
Frank Zappa: Too Much or Not Enough?
Retrospective by Richard Gehr, unpublished, 11 April 1999
By the time of his death from prostate cancer on December 4, 1993, Frank Zappa's taste for life on the road had all but vanished. ...
Interview by Jim Irvin, unpublished, May 1999
Here a full transcript of the interview conducted with Bjorn Ulvaeus for a MOJO feature published in 1999 to mark the opening of Mamma Mia!. ...
Echo & The Bunnymen: London, Astoria
Live Review by Alex Ogg, unpublished, 22 May 1999
IT’S A STRANGE TIME for a rock gig to take place – midday on the Saturday of the FA Cup final. The unusual hour is ...
Interview by Bill Brewster, unpublished, 25 May 1999
NOTE: This interview with the former Mixmag editor, murdered in the Amazon in June 2022 with his friend and activist Bruno Pereira, was conducted as ...
Prefab Sprout: Catching Up with Paddy Mac
Interview by Chris Ingham, unpublished, November 1999
This is an unpublished interview with Paddy McAloon on the release of 38 Carat Gold: The Best Of Prefab Sprout. ...
Captain Beefheart: Three Decades Inside The Mask: Captain Beefheart
Retrospective and Interview by Byron Coley, unpublished, December 1999
NOTE: This article appeared in a much-shortened version in the December 1999 edition of Spin entitled "The Strangest Album Ever Sold: The Making Of Trout ...
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass (Apple)
Review by Jim Irvin, unpublished, 2000
New double-disc remastering of George’s solo debut. Now with out-takes, remixes and a re-recorded version of ‘My Sweet Lord’. ...
Kim Fowley, The Runaways: King of the Nighttime World
Memoir by Kim Fowley, unpublished, 2000
Kim Fowley reveals how L.A. ultravixens the Runaways were formed – and how he helped give birth to Hollywood punk. ...
Mellow Candle: Swaddling Songs (DERAM SDL7)
Retrospective and Interview by Colin Harper, unpublished, 2000
NOTE: This is a slightly longer edit of the piece as published in MOJO, sometime in the early 2000s. Since that time (in the early ...
Interview by Chris Ingham, unpublished, 2000
THERE IS THE aura of legend surrounding the business of Pharoah Sanders. The fez, the dashiki, the Egyptian Prince goatee and the very name conjures ...
Big Star: Stars In Their Eyes: Big Star
Retrospective by Bud Scoppa, unpublished, 2000
NOTE: I was assigned this piece the spring of 2000 by Revolver, but the mag was recast as a metal monthly while I was working ...
Retrospective by Bill Millar, unpublished, March 2000
"WHY NOT BE at London Airport to welcome Jay?" That was the invitation in the late Roger Eagle’s R & B Scene. And so, on ...
Ian Hunter: Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Sony Legacy)
Review by Jeffrey Morgan, unpublished, July 2000
A LONG LONG TIME ago, I can still remember how the music used to make me smile. But then the '50s came along and wiped ...
Andy Irvine: Andy Irvine: Stray Leaf Folk Club, Mullaghbane
Live Review by Colin Harper, unpublished, 4 July 2000
MOST ROLES and occupations in life are applied for, coveted, stolen or won; with others, the job is so novel it happens by stealth. After ...
Hubert Sumlin: Guinness Spot, Belfast Festival
Live Review by Colin Harper, unpublished, November 2000
HUBERT SUMLIN – best known as guitarist for the late Howlin' Wolf – is one of the bona fide legends of modern blues. At a ...
Ahmet Ertegun and Various Authors: What’d I Say: The Atlantic Records Story
Review by Bill Millar, unpublished, 2001
THIS IS ONE muthahumping doorstep of a book as big as the Times Atlas and just as heavy. There are 900 photos and 160,000 words ...
The Deviants, Mick Farren: An Interview with Mick Farren
Interview by Martin Herron, unpublished, 2001
UK ROCK CRITICISM has produced its fair share of great writers: Nick Kent, Charles Shaar Murray and Barney Hoskyns, to name but a few. ...
Bootsy Collins, Funkadelic, James Brown: Looking Back with Bootsy
Retrospective and Interview by Martin Herron, unpublished, 2001
'SEX MACHINE'; 'Superbad'; 'One Nation Under A Groove'; 'Tear The Roof Of Tha Sucker' – Bootsy Collins' bass is the foundation stone of the House ...
The Beatles, Paul McCartney: The Man Who Killed Paul McCartney
Retrospective by Jim Yoakum, unpublished, 2001
The incredible, never-before-revealed true-life event that sparked the greatest rock ‘n’ roll rumor of all time. ...
Willie Nelson Hits Springfield
Profile and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, unpublished, 2001
IT’S LONG PAST midnight at the Springfield, Illinois, State Fairground. Heavy rain slants down, dousing the day’s tangled aromas of corn dog, funnel cake and ...
Charles Trenet: BOUM!: The Life And Art Of Charles Trenet
Obituary by Alan Clayson, unpublished, February 2001
A MORE TIDY-minded author might portray Charles Trenet (1913-2001) as a French Noel Coward. A multi-faceted talent, he was best known for combining qualities of ...
In His Own Right: Ian MacDonald
Interview by Paul Gorman, unpublished, March 2001
I INTERVIEWED Ian MacDonald for my music press history In Their Own Write in March 2001. As charming, tolerant and insightful as the first-class prose ...
Interview by Richie Unterberger, unpublished, 27 March 2001
ONE OF THE most eclectic early-1960s folk singers, Judy Henske started to use band backup and even drums on some of the recordings in 1963 on ...
Sleeve notes by Colin Escott, unpublished, September 2001
IN THESE trivia-obsessed times, it's probably worth knowing that the first Number One hit recorded in Memphis by a Memphis act was 'The Letter'. It ...
Todd Rundgren: Something/Anything?: 30 Years On
Interview by Rob Steen, unpublished, December 2001
I RANG TODD in his Maui studio in December 2001, while he was remixing Something/Anything? for 5.1 Surroundsound. ...
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Michael Franti, Spearhead: A Q&A With Michael Franti
Interview by Stevie Chick, unpublished, Spring 2001
MICHAEL FRANTI has been one of the most consistently insightful, incisive, and intelligent voices in politicised pop music for almost 15 years now. ...
Interview by David Hemingway, unpublished, 2002
House producer Matthew Herbert has made music from underwear, rodents and lazer eye surgery, remixed artists as disparate as Serge Gainsbourg and Moloko and is ...
James Taylor: One Part Genius...The Trail to October Road
Essay by Craig W. Thomas, unpublished, 2002
WHEN I WAS 14 years old the person I most wanted to be was James Taylor. It's a long time ago now. 1971. I remember ...
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Chapman, unpublished, 2002
LET'S PLAY how to be hip. The rules go something like this. MC5 plus gritty urban Detroit plus White Panther polemic equals street cred and ...
Thomas Dolby: Techno Beatnik: Thomas Dolby
Profile and Interview by Hank Bordowitz, unpublished, 2002
MY WIFE AND two-year-old huddle over my wife’s iMac. Billy, the two year old, giggles uncontrollably as the computer makes boinging and slide-whistle sounds, ...
Green Day: The Biggest Punk Rock Band in the World: Green Day
Retrospective by Ian Fortnam, unpublished, 2002
THE FACTS speak for themselves. With worldwide album sales currently in excess of 23 million, their Grammy Award winning, multi-platinum Dookie debut boasting an almost ...
Retrospective by Glenn O'Brien, unpublished, 2002
BACK THERE during the revolution, when we called ourselves freaks proudly, rock was rocking the world. Musicians like Hendrix, Clapton, and Page, and philosophical bands ...
Kurt Ralske, Ultra Vivid Scene: Kurt Ralske: An Interview
Interview by David Hemingway, unpublished, 1 March 2002
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This was intended as the basis for a feature in Alternative Press. It's never been previously published. ...
The Libertines interviewed at the 100 Club, Oxford Street, London, October 4th 2002
Interview by Ben Myers, unpublished, 4 October 2002
IT WAS A crisp autumn day when The Libertines arrived back in London to play the penultimate show of a 26 date tour at the ...
Andrew WK: Super Fan: Andrew W.K.
Interview by Jason Cohen, unpublished, Fall 2002
With his anthems 'Party Hard' and 'It's Time to Party' blasting from stadiums, soundtracking Sportscenter highlights and fueling beer commercials, Ann Arbor,MI native Andrew W.K. ...
Asian Dub Foundation: Foundation Course
Report and Interview by Stephen Dalton, unpublished, February 2003
JOHN PANDIT is hopping mad. We were supposed to be discussing the latest album by Pandit's multi-cultural protest-pop collective Asian Dub Foundation, but our interview ...
Ian Dury: Buried Treasure: Ian Dury and the Blockheads' Do It Yourself
Retrospective and Interview by Daryl Easlea, unpublished, March 2003
HOW CAN A platinum-selling album that reached No. 2 in the UK charts be classed as "buried treasure"? Easily. Do It Yourself remains a well-kept ...
Overview by Robin Eggar, unpublished, April 2003
THE CASTLE PERCHES atop a hill in suburban Alhambra reached after a long and winding climb. The huge iron gates appear to have been shut ...
Interview by David Hemingway, unpublished, 1 September 2003
A transcript of an interview that subsequently became an XLR8R feature ...
Phil Woods and the NYJO: Jazz Café, London
Live Review by John L. Walters, unpublished, 2 October 2003
IT'S NOT EASY to smile while you're playing a saxophone, but the entire sax section of NYJO (the National Youth Jazz Orchestra) is grinning with ...
Robben Ford At The Newcastle Opera House
Live Review by Craig W. Thomas, unpublished, 21 November 2003
I'M TIRED OF the bullshit. I'm tired of TV advertising in my face. I'm sick of calls trying to sell me health insurance and I'm ...
Rocket from the Tombs: On Rock And Rocket From The Tombs: David Thomas
Report and Interview by Steven R Rosen, unpublished, Fall 2003
WHEN DAVID THOMAS brought his three-day "Disastodrome" musical carnival to UCLA earlier this year, there was a surprise element. ...
Charles Manson: Charlie Don’t Surf
Retrospective by Jim Yoakum, unpublished, 2004
THE NIGHT THAT the four members of the infamous Manson Family drove out to a secluded Benedict Canyon mansion and brutally butchered Sharon Tate, Abigail ...
David Bowie: The Ken Pitt Interview
Interview by Chris Welch, unpublished, 2004
ONE AFTERNOON in 1967 I was interviewing The Nice at a flat in Earls Court when their guitarist David O'List produced a new album he ...
Johnny Cash at San Quentin was my idea
Memoir by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, 2004
2018 note: Steve Turner emailed me in 2004 and said he was working on the official biography of Johnny Cash, and had been told that ...
Robyn Hitchcock, The Soft Boys: Just who the hell is Robyn Hitchcock, anyway?
Interview by Jim Yoakum, unpublished, 2004
FUNNYMAN? Serious Artist? Ironic? Fey? Wry? Ask the average punter "Who is Robyn Hitchcock?" and you'll get a variety of replies, from "neo-psychedelic warbler" and ...
Mickie Most, The Yardbirds: Mickie Most
Retrospective by Alan Clayson, unpublished, 2004
"The only gift I had as a producer was finding the right song. I felt I knew how it should be done and, after that, ...
Afghan Whigs: The Beast Inside: The Afghan Whigs’ Gentlemen
Essay by David McKenna, unpublished, 2004
AMID THE SLEW of so-called ‘grunge’ acts that emerged in the early ‘90s, Cincinnati rockers The Afghan Whigs stood out for their soul influences and ...
Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster, Dexys Midnight Runners: Vincent Crane
Retrospective and Interview by Colin Harper, unpublished, 2004
Author's Note: This was commissioned for Mojo but for reasons unclear to me never ran. It was during a period where a lot of writers ...
The Million-Pound Mod: John Stephen
Obituary by Paul Gorman, unpublished, February 2004
JOHN STEPHEN – who died on February 1 aged 69 – was the "£1m Mod" who was a vital element in the look of the ...
Kate Rusby: Reflections on Kate Rusby at the Derby Assembly Rooms
Essay by Craig W. Thomas, unpublished, March 2004
ALEX FERGUSON was interviewed immediately after his team snatched an improbable victory from the back of the throat of defeat in the 1999 Champions League ...
Interview by Rob Chapman, unpublished, June 2004
SPARKS ARE IN London to play the Meltdown Festival at Morrissey's request. Outside in the stifling heat the capitol is experiencing its own 90 degree ...
Dan Penn: Muscle Shoals: Soul of the South
Retrospective and Interview by Chris Campion, unpublished, September 2004
Muscle Shoals and Fame Studios are synonymous with the golden era of soul music. But the musicians who wrote and played on the songs that ...
John Lydon: Anarchy In The UK Gold
Guide by Terry Staunton, unpublished, October 2004
JOHN LYDON is expected to put the cat among the pigeons during his forthcoming stint on I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here — ...
Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, Spring 2004
FRANK ZAPPA was an irrelevant, redundant figure by the late ‘70s. The object of dorkish devotion, Ol’ Silly Beard had meandered off into cul de ...
The Difficult Second Album Syndrome
Comment by Jeff Apter, unpublished, Spring 2004
ONE OF POP MUSIC’S most accurate axioms is that second albums are the toughest. Typically, you have some of the best years of your life ...
Electric Light Orchestra: ELO: Shine On
Sleeve notes by Jim Irvin, unpublished, 2005
IN THE LATE 60s, Jeff Lynne, leader of distinctive psychedelic pop group, The Idle Race, constructed a surprisingly sophisticated demo studio in the front room ...
Fleetwood Mac, Peter Green: Fleetwood Mac: The Making of Then Play On
Retrospective and Interview by Toby Manning, unpublished, 2005
IN 1969, FLEETWOOD Mac's prime mover had begun acting very strangely. First of all this East End Jew found Jesus, and began trying to convert ...
Retrospective by Toby Manning, unpublished, 2005
IF EVER THERE was a soundtrack for the Cold War era, it was Magazine. Musically and lyrically, this definitive new wave band inhabited the wintry ...
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, unpublished, 2 April 2005
On working with a regular session team "A group of people in those days got selected to do a lot of work, which in a way ...
Aerosmith, Joe Perry: The Joe Perry Interview
Interview by Ted Drozdowski, unpublished, May 2005
TO ROCK 'N' ROLL FANS, Joe Perry's half the front line of the dynamic band Aerosmith, a position he's held since co-founding the group with ...
A Swamper Tells the Muscle Shoals Story: An Interview with David Hood
Interview by Carl Wiser, unpublished, 2006
ABOUT TWO minutes into 'I'll Take You There', a sultry bass groove plays while Mavis Staples implores, "Little David, help me out now..." ...
The Everyothers: Pink Sticky Lies (Kill Rock Stars)
Review by Jeffrey Morgan, unpublished, 2006
I'LL KEEP IT simple so you'll understand. The Everyothers are the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world and the solid gold standard against ...
Lou Reed: Another Brick in the Wall: An interview with Lou Reed about Berlin
Interview by Mark Mordue, unpublished, Fall 2006
This story appeared in various edited versions in Rolling Stone Australia, December-January 2006-07, New York magazine, USA December 11, 2006, and The Word, UK February ...
Ian Dury: Lord Upminster/4000 Weeks Holiday
Sleeve notes by Daryl Easlea, unpublished, 2007
CONGRATULATIONS! You are now holding the least-loved work by one of the UK's best-loved artists. ...
Mental as Anything: Murray Waldren: The Mind and Times of Reg Mombassa
Book Review by Clinton Walker, unpublished, 2007
Note: This piece never got published. It was commissioned by Australian Book Review magazine but not run, for reasons never given, and certainly wasn't paid for. I ...
The Who, Track By Track, Album By Album
Discography by Steven Rosen, unpublished, 2007
Originally commissioned by Classic Rock Direct Limited for a Who DVD. (Note: All quotations in story come from Steven Rosen's personal archive). ...
Interview by Amy Linden, unpublished, March 2007
This interview was conducted March 2007, the day Amy's Back to Black dropped. As part of the overall story we talked about her relationship to ...
The 50 Year Copyright Conundrum
Report and Interview by Colin Harper, unpublished, July 2007
IN SEPTEMBER 1959, an inmate of Mississippi State Penitentiary named James Carter led his fellows in singing a work song, 'Po' Lazarus', while chopping wood. ...
Frankie Avalon, Fabian, Bobby Rydell: North Fork Theatre, Westbury, Long Island
Live Review by John Broven, unpublished, October 2007
A PACKED HOUSE comprising mainly of an adoring fan club of female 60-somethings, with their tagalong husbands, greeted the three South Philadelphia teen idols of ...
Retrospective by Alan Clayson, unpublished, December 2007
ON THE 17th September, 2007, Your Time In Gonna Come: The Roots Of Led Zeppelin 1964-69 was released by Sanctuary Records. Blighted severely by the ...
Retrospective and Interview by Fred Mills, unpublished, Summer 2007
NOTE: This is a vastly expanded version of the Mitch Easter feature, "Perfect Sound Forever," written for issue #76, of Magnet, published summer 2007. Interviews ...
Retrospective and Interview by Steven Rosen, unpublished, 2008
IT WAS A day of unmatched California beauty; a startling and fiery sun perched high above in a crystal blue sky and blazed down promise. ...
James Brown: I Got The Feelin': James Brown In The '60s (Shout! Factory)
Review by Jeffrey Morgan, unpublished, 2008
NOTE: previously unpublished; banned after having "been labeled 'offensive' by most of the editorial department here" at Detroit Metro Times. ...
Obituary by Mike Atherton, unpublished, 2008
RAY TOPPING, who has died aged 65, was arguably the world's foremost researcher of and authority on rock'n'roll and blues. ...
The Replacements: Pleased to Meet Me
Sleeve notes by Bill Holdship, unpublished, 2008
NOTE: These are Bill Holdship's original liner notes for the new Pleased to Meet Me reissue that were replaced last year when project producer Peter ...
Interview by Angus Batey, unpublished, January 2008
N.B. This piece was going to run in the Mail on Sunday's Live section, but due to problems with photos — or, perhaps, a fear ...
Neil Young: Deja Viewed: Neil Young on CSNY and Living with War
Interview by Stephen Dalton, unpublished, June 2008
NEIL YOUNG IS in mischievous mood this morning. Sinking into his plush hotel armchair, the veteran Canadian rocker keeps his distance behind mirror shades and ...
Independent Thinker: An Interview with Charlie Gillett
Interview by Alex Ogg, unpublished, Fall 2008
AUTHOR'S NOTE: The following is the full transcript from an interview with Charlie that took place towards the end of 2008 as research for my ...
Kevin Ayers, Soft Machine, The Wilde Flowers: Kevin Ayers: An Interview
Interview by Mike Barnes, unpublished, Fall 2008
2013 NOTE: The interview was ostensibly for the "Hello/Goodbye" feature in MOJO 184 (March 2009), on Ayers's time in Soft Machine, but was opened out ...
Led Zeppelin: How Could They Fail? An Overview
Retrospective by Chris Charlesworth, unpublished, 2009
NOTE: The first time I encountered Led Zeppelin was interviewing Jimmy Page by phone when I was a reporter on the Bradford Telegraph & Argus, ...
Memoir by Richard Riegel, unpublished, May 2009
NOTE: I wrote this mini-memoir for one of the neo-Creem projects of recent years, but it wasn't used. ...
Phil Spector's Christmas Album
Retrospective by Johnny Black, unpublished, December 2009
GUNS HAVE LANDED Phil Spector in no end of trouble over the years. Usually, as in his confrontations with John Lennon, Leonard Cohen and the ...
The Yardbirds and the Cereal Killer
Memoir by Keith Altham, unpublished, Summer 2009
THE YARDBIRDS were a '60s band that never quite found a fit and kept losing their shape as dissatisfied members came and went and the ...
Interview by Rob Hughes, unpublished, Fall 2009
"DID I HAVE DREAMS of being a big star? Yeah, I had hopes of making it. We all do, but in music there are no ...
Book Excerpt by Steve Roeser, unpublished, 2010
Author's note: This is my writing, but the work is mine and Barry Goldberg's together. It is Barry's story of his friendship with Michael (Mike) ...
Nick Drake and Five Leaves Left: An Interview with Omnibus' Chris Charlesworth
Interview by Eddie Blower, unpublished, 2010
In 2010, Chris Charlesworth was interviewed by Eddie Blower about Nick Drake and Five Years Left for an unpublished article. ...
Profile and Interview by Daryl Easlea, unpublished, 2010
NOTE: This piece was commissioned by http://www.metalculture.com after the Village Green Festival in Southend in 2010 but never published. ...
Welcome to Fez: The Sacred Music Capital of the World
Report and Interview by Mark Kemp, unpublished, 1 June 2010
"The city of Fez lies below, very slowly disengaging itself from the morning mist and smoke, while a million cocks crow at once." Paul Bowles, 1947 ...
Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino: Dave Bartholomew
Sleeve notes by Bob Fisher, unpublished, August 2010
AUTHOR'S NOTE: In 2010, I put together a 4-CD box set for JSP Records which was never actually released. Year later, I produced a new ...
Sleeve notes by Bob Fisher, unpublished, August 2010
ON CHRISTMAS EVE 2016, Dave Bartholomew celebrated his 98th birthday and over 65 years as a professional musician. ...
Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Unholy: Aubrey Powell on Led Zeppelin
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, March 2011
NOTE: This is a transcription from an interview that Hipgnosis co-founder Aubrey Powell gave me in March 2011, for Trampled Under Foot, my 2012 oral ...
The Libertines: There Are No Innocent Bystanders
Film/DVD/TV Review by Kate Allen, unpublished, May 2011
THE glittering embers of hope for a Libertines reunion were simultaneously stoked and dashed last week at the premier screening of The Libertines — There ...
Led Zeppelin: An Interview with Peter Grant's daughter Helen
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, Spring 2011
Author's note: This is a transcript of an interview I did with Helen Grant for Trampled Under Foot, my oral history of Led Zeppelin. ...
Chris Cornell, Soundgarden: Chris Cornell: An Interview
Interview by Pete Makowski, unpublished, Spring 2011
NOTE: This is an uncut version of an interview I did with Chris Cornell in Los Angeles in Spring 2011 for MOJO. Soundgarden had reformed ...
The Doors: Cars Hiss By My Window: The Doors' L.A. Woman landmarks
Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, February 2012
Sunset Sound Recorders, 6650 Sunset Blvd.The Doors had made their first two albums in this celebrated Hollywood studio, but it was also here that L.A. ...
Saxon: Biff Byford: An Interview
Interview by Pete Makowski, unpublished, May 2012
This is a previously unpublished Q&A with Biff Byford, Saxon's enduring, uncompromising and down-to-earth frontman as he contemplates, amongst other things, the prospects of getting ...
Screaming Lord Sutch Is Alive And Well And Living At Number Ten...
Retrospective by Alan Clayson, unpublished, June 2012
...10, PARKFIELD ROAD, South Harrow, that is – where the mere mortal christened David Edward Sutch had tumbled out of bed just prior to the ...
Ravi Shankar: Within And Without Him: Gavin Martin pays Tribute to Ravi Shankar
Obituary by Gavin Martin, unpublished, 13 December 2012
An edited version of this piece appeared in the Daily Mirror on 13 December 2012 ...
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, Fall 2012
FOR TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT, my oral history of Led Zeppelin, one of the interviews I conducted was with Dave Bates, an almost-famous A&R man from ...
Derek & The Dominos, Bobby Whitlock: The strange tale of Derek, Gordon, George …and Bobby Whitlock
Retrospective and Interview by Max Bell, unpublished, Summer 2013
AUGUST 14. Summer of 1969. Oakland Coliseum. Eric Clapton, Rick Grech, Ginger Baker and Steve Winwood are on stage during the US tour to promote ...
The Sequence: Funk You Up – The Complete Sugarhill Recordings
Sleeve notes by Bob Fisher, unpublished, 2014
SUGARHILL RECORDS was formed in 1979 by Joe and Sylvia Robinson and by early 1980 had presented the world with a "new" music – rap. ...
Bobby Womack: Save The Children (Solar)
Sleeve notes by Bob Fisher, unpublished, June 2014
WHEN BOBBY WOMACK died on June 27th, 2014, at the age of 70, he was one of the last links to the world of '60s ...
Retrospective and Interview by Alan Clayson, unpublished, 2015
If known chiefly as a blues paladin, Mike Vernon plunged headfirst into many other – often unexpected – musical waters. Alan Clayson investigates. ...
Linda Jones: The Complete Turbo Recordings
Sleeve notes by Bob Fisher, unpublished, January 2015
"We used to stand backstage and watch that lady sing; even though she didn't have star charisma on stage, she would just stand there and ...
The Moments: All The Hits And More – The Complete Singles As and Bs 1968-1978
Sleeve notes by Bob Fisher, unpublished, February 2015
THE MOMENTS WERE the star act at All Platinum Records for over 10 years. Thanks to their European distributor Phonogram Records the label and indeed ...
Brother To Brother: In The Bottle – The Complete Album Collection
Sleeve notes by Bob Fisher, unpublished, March 2015
IF THE GROUP, Brother to Brother is remembered for anything, it's their hit interpretation of Gil Scott-Heron's classic 'The Bottle'. The song was written as ...
Shirley & Company: The Shame, Shame, Shame Story
Sleeve notes by Bob Fisher, unpublished, March 2015
'SHAME, SHAME, SHAME' was one of the earliest disco hits to break out international eventually selling several million copies around the world. It topped Billboard's ...
"Brother" Jack McDuff: Brother Jack McDuff: Kisses/Having A Good Time/Live It Up (Sugarhill)
Sleeve notes by Bob Fisher, unpublished, June 2015
ALL PLATINUM RECORDS, based in New Jersey, was a remarkably powerful force in Black music during the early 1970s and prided itself on being a ...
The Whatnauts: On The Rocks – The Complete Collection
Sleeve notes by Bob Fisher, unpublished, June 2015
THE WHATNAUTS, a group revered by collectors of "sweet soul" vocal groups of the '60s and '70s, are yet another act with membership of that ...
The Sugarhill Gang: Jump On It ! – Complete Sugarhill Recordings
Sleeve notes by Bob Fisher, unpublished, July 2015
"All the other rappers didn't consider the Sugar Hill Gang to be real rappers. They just got lucky. They hadn't lived the life they hadn't ...
Capitol's Bhaskar Menon: An Interview
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, September 2015
"I WAS INFORMED on a Thursday that they'd like me to be on the Friday Pan Am flight. There were three of us on the ...
Escape from Sanity: An Englishman in San Francisco in 1967
Memoir by Andrew Tyler, unpublished, October 2016
NOTE: This is an excerpt from an as-yet unpublished memoir by the former Disc/NME writer and Animal Aid activist, who very sadly died on 28 ...
Gary Glitter: Rock 'N' Roll Part 3? Gary Glitter's future
Comment by Alan Clayson, unpublished, 2017
IN 2015, 74-old Gary Glitter began a sixteen-year prison term for crimes that, seemingly, were beyond the prerogative of a rock star's outlaw chic. This ...
Sleeve notes by Kieron Tyler, unpublished, December 2017
WATERPISTOL WAS meant to be Shack's second album. Although work towards completing the follow-up to March 1988's Zilch had begun in 1990, nothing went to ...
Sleeve notes by Kieron Tyler, unpublished, December 2017
SHACK'S DEBUT album Zilch was originally issued by a label expressly set up to promote the talents of the band's leader Mick Head, the former ...
Joni Mitchell: David Yaffe: Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
Book Review by Clinton Heylin, unpublished, Fall 2017
WARREN ZEVON, a Laurel Canyon contemporary of Joni Mitchell, once wrote a song called 'Accidentally Like A Martyr'. Taking a leaf from Zevon, David Yaffe's ...
Memoir by Alan Clayson, unpublished, 2018
50 years later, Alan Clayson recalls a pivotal year of a '60s that was far from Swinging. ...
The Doors: Rock is Dead: The Doors' Soft Parade
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, May 2019
NOTE: When Rhino asked me to write liner notes for their upcoming reissue of the Doors' worst album, they must have known they might not ...
Tom Waits: Jacquire King on Tom Waits' Mule Variations
Interview by Jacob Paul Nielsen, unpublished, 2020
JPN: What are you listening to right now? ...
Tom Waits: Oz Fritz on Mule Variations
Interview by Jacob Paul Nielsen, unpublished, 2020
Author's note: I interviewed Oz Fritz and Jacquire King about their engineering work on Tom Waits' Mule Variations. Part of the interview wound up in ...
Cab Calloway, August Darnell, Gene Krupa: Time Machine: June 1943 – L.A.'s Zoot Suit Riots
Retrospective by Fred Dellar, unpublished, February 2020
CAB CALLOWAY was something of a superstar by 1943. A would-be Harlem Globetrotter, he'd had that possible career nixed by his big sister Blanche, who ...
The Flamin' Groovies, Kim Fowley, The Stooges: Farewell to Marc Zermati
Memoir by Nick Kent, unpublished, 15 June 2020
IT'S BEEN FIVE hours now since I received the news that Marc Zermati died in his sleep and — as with all deaths of those ...
Book Excerpt by Kieron Tyler, unpublished, Spring 2020
ASTONISHINGLY, Bear Family Records celebrates its 45th year in business in 2020. During that time, the label has never stopped producing the ultimate in reissues ...
Pink Floyd, Throbbing Gristle: Gotta Stem The Evil Tide: Pink Floyd and Throbbing Gristle
Retrospective and Interview by Daryl Easlea, unpublished, 2021
THROBBING GRISTLE became a cause celebre in October 1976, with their Prostitution Exhibition at the ICA. Tory MP Nicholas Fairbairn called the noise terrorists "Wreckers ...
Tina Turner: Dan Lindsay and T. J. Martin (directors): Tina (Sky/HBO)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Simon Warner, unpublished, April 2021
IF THEY fictionalised the Tina Turner story, it would be so implausible that not even Hollywood's most starry-eyed director would take it on. No one, ...
Sylvia Robinson: Chess Records: The All Platinum Years
Book Excerpt by Dan Nooger, unpublished, October 2022
NOTE: This is part of a proposal for Dan's book about Chess Records ...
Black Flag: R.I.P. SPOT: Glen M. Lockett, 1951-2023
Obituary by Joe Carducci, unpublished, March 2023
I HATE TO type out the words but... SPOT passed away after 10am today/Saturday (Mar. 4, 2023) at Morningside Healthcare in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. His nurse ...
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