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Report by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, November 2003

On wildfires, Schwarzenegger and the suicide of a troubled genius – Barney Hoskyns’ diary of a month in Hollywood Babylon. ...

Led Zeppelin: In the Misty Mountains: Led Zeppelin Get It Together in the Country

Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Trampled Under Foot' (Faber & Faber), 2012

JIMMY PAGE: It wasn't until the spring of 1970 that we actually had a real break. That break was only probably a couple of months, ...

Rickie Lee Jones: Album by Album: Rickie Lee Jones

Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, December 2009

THOUGH SHE will always carry the pop albatross that was her Top 5 hit 'Chuck E's in Love' (1979), Rickie Lee Jones remains one of ...

Doors, The: 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Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, May 2019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 ...

Joan Armatrading, Jackson Browne, Tim Buckley, Harry Chapin, Leonard Cohen, John Denver, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Rickie Lee Jones, Carole King, Kris Kristofferson, Gordon Lightfoot, Don McLean, Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, Laura Nyro, John Prine, Carly Simon, Paul Simon, Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Tom Waits, Neil Young, Warren Zevon: School of Rock Study Guide: Singer-Songwriters

Guide by Barney Hoskyns, iTunes, October 2008

"WHERE DO YOU have left to go but in?" It was a question posed by Joni Mitchell, the brilliant Canadian blonde who specialized in intensely ...

Subbed Culture: The Meaning of Bile

Essay by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 18 February 1984

Should the rock press only reflect what's happening, or has it the power to make things happen? With the proliferation of teen pop glossies, which ...

Linda Ronstadt: Homecoming Queen: Linda Ronstadt

Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, April 1995

Thirty years ago Linda Ronstadt left Tucson for the folk-rock Mecca of Los Angeles. Now the first lady of softly streamlined country returns to the ...

Nazz, The, Todd Rundgren: Todd Rundgren: Album By Album

Guide by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, February 2010

TODD RUNDGREN IS the Philadelphia-born whizzkid who could and should have been the biggest star of the '70s. Next month, the man John Lennon referred ...

Band, The, Jeff Beck, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Canned Heat, Joe Cocker, Cream, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Doors, The, Electric Flag, Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, John Mayall, Steve Miller, Procol Harum, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Rolling Stones, The, Santana, Spirit, Steppenwolf, Traffic, Vanilla Fudge, Who, The: School of Rock: Monterey to Altamont

Guide by Barney Hoskyns, iTunes, 2008

BETWEEN 1966 and 1970, there was a seismic change in British and American pop. Within a few short years "pop" became "rock", and teenagers who'd ...

Marianne Faithfull, Courtney Love, Oasis, Rolling Stones, The: Anita Pallenberg (1998) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages transcripts, Summer 1998

This is a transcription of a phone interview. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Mercury Rev: Jonathan Donahue's Dark Dream

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 11 August 2001

TWO AND A half years ago, American mavericks Mercury Rev thought their career was pretty much over. For the band's two Catskills-based mainstays – singer/guitarist ...

Booker T & The MGs: The Backroom Boys: Booker T & the MGs

Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, August 2001

IF EVER THERE WAS a piece of music that deserved the epithet "timeless", it’s Booker T. & the MGs’ ‘Green Onions’. The most basic of ...

Led Zeppelin: All Loud On The Western Front: How Zep Conquered The World

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, May 2003

With the release of the sensational DVD and the fearsome live How The West Was Won, LED ZEPPELIN are back in our midst as purveyors ...

Keith Richards (1997) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages transcripts, November 1997

This is a transcript of Barney's audio interview with Keith. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

James Brown: The Prisoner

Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, August 1998

"How do you stop... before it’s too late?" ...

Stevie Wonder (2005) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 26 March 2005

This is a transcript of Barney's audio interview with Stevie. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Van Morrison, Richard Davis: Nothin' But A Stranger In This World: Van Morrison and Astral Weeks

Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, November 2001

THE FITFUL BRITISH SUMMER of 2001 is ending not with a whimper but a bang – a burst of Bank Holiday heat that's got everyone ...

Ray Charles, Ivory Joe Hunter, Millie Jackson, Bobby Womack, Charley Pride, Linda Martell, O.B. McClinton, Stoney Edwards: Can Blue Men Sing the Whites? Black country music in the USA

Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, BMG Books, 1987

NOTE: This piece is adapted from the 1987 book Say It One Time for the Brokenhearted, which was reissued in 2018 by BMG with the ...

Band, The, Beach Boys, The, Beastie Boys, The, Beatles, The, Garth Brooks, Glen Campbell, Natalie Cole, Nat King Cole, Merle Haggard, MC Hammer, Steve Miller, Buck Owens, Katy Perry, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, Bob Seger, Frank Sinatra, Tina Turner, Keith Urban, Sam Smith: Capitol at 75

Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Capitol 75' (Taschen), 2016

NOTE: Herewith the full "director's cut" version of the historical essay I contributed to the spectacularly lavish Taschen book marking the 75th anniversary of West ...

Todd Rundgren: "Go Ahead, Ignore Me!"

Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, February 1998

HELLO, it’s him. ...