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Keith Altham at 80: An Appreciation
Memoir by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, May 2021
TWENTY YEARS AGO, when I co-founded Rock's Backpages with Mark Pringle and Martin Colyer, one of the first names on our Wants List was Keith. ...
Alex Chilton, Box Tops, The, Big Star: Holly George-Warren's Alex Chilton
Memoir by Binky Philips, Huffington Post, 11 April 2014
When I was running the East Village record store, St Mark's Sounds in the 1980s, Alex Chilton's LP Like Flies On Sherbert [sic] was a ...
Book Excerpt by Mitchell Cohen, 'Looking for the Magic' (Trouser Press Books), Summer 2022
This is the first of two excerpts on RBP from Mitchell Cohen's book Looking for the Magic: New York City, the '70s and the Rise ...
Clive Davis and Arista Records
Book Excerpt by Mitchell Cohen, 'Looking for the Magic' (Trouser Press Books), Summer 2022
This is the second of two excerpts on RBP from Mitchell Cohen's book Looking for the Magic: New York City, the '70s and the Rise ...
Elvis Presley: Caught in a Trap: The Kidnapping of Elvis – Two Excerpts
Book Excerpt by Chris Charlesworth, (Red Planet Books), August 2017
The first extract from Caught in a Trap features Elvis in hospital (which is true) accepting a phone call from Richard Nixon (which probably isn't). ...
"He was our Google": Fred Dellar, 1931-2021
Special Feature by Various Writers, Rock's Backpages, May 2021
I REMEMBER being slightly shocked when I heard that Fred Dellar was going to turn 80 years old. A decade later, he has died just ...
Gilles Peterson: Lockdown FM: Broadcasting in a Pandemic
Book Review by John L. Walters, Eye, Fall 2021
GILLES PETERSON is known for his unfeasibly large record collection and an unstoppable enthusiasm for Black music. The pandemic forced radical changes to the DJ's ...
Book Review by Eric Weisbard, The New York Times, 12 August 2001
WHEN JOEY Ramone died this past April, the flood of appreciations must have surprised casual music fans. The Ramones, quintessential 1970's punks, had never sold ...
Book Review by Will Hermes, The New York Times, 25 August 2002
Do Not Speak Ill of the Dead ...
Unsound Moves in the Print Trade
Report by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 11 April 1991
Caroline Sullivan investigates the long-standing malaise afflicting the weekly music press after last week's closure of Sounds and the merger of Record Mirror with Music ...
Profile and Interview by John Lewis, Hotline, April 2010
GIL SCOTT-HERON has long been a regular and popular visitor to the UK's jazz and soul venues. However, by the late 1990s, he'd become an ...
Angry Samoans, The: The Angry Samoans: Samoa, Ho!
Profile and Interview by Chuck Eddy, Creem, December 1987
"THE PURPOSE of music as a reflection of the ever-changing nature of the world is to make everything you like seem silly five years later, ...
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 ...
Elvis Presley: Yes, I was in an Elvis Movie!
Memoir by Ann Moses, Rock's Backpages, 23 November 2012
THE FIRST QUESTION whenever I tell someone I was in an Elvis movie is "Which one?" And my answer is usually "Not one of his ...
Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2004
"IT'S OUR job to serve the lives of music fans," enthuses Conor McNicholas, editor of the NME, last survivor of the UK's once thriving weekly ...
Elvis Presley: Next Train to Memphis: Peter Guralnick's Sam Phillips
Profile and Interview by Chris Campion, Rock's Backpages, 17 November 2015
AS THE PRE-EMINENT and passionate chronicler of music history, Peter Guralnick is in a league of his own, with a bibliography that not only — ...
Strumming, Picking, and Shredding: An Oral History of Guitar Player Part 3: Steven Rosen
Interview by Steven Ward, rockcritics.com, 2007
STEVEN ROSEN is a professional music journalist with a career spanning thirty years. During this period he has published well over 700 articles appearing in ...
Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth: Byron Coley: An Interview
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, June 2010
SITTING ON A back porch in bucolic Western Massachusetts on a gorgeous summer's day, my friend’s adorable little daughter coyly asked, "Wanna see a picture ...
Jack Kerouac: Still Rockin' in the Beat world
Essay by Simon Warner, Perfect Sound Forever, October 2021
How Kerouac cool continues to fuel popular music passions as the writer's Centenary nears in 2022 ...
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, May 2002
Depending on how you see music journalism, Simon Frith is either a sinner or a saint. After the late '60's, rock criticism began to show ...
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