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Book Excerpt by Robert Greenfield, 'Rainy Gray Town', May 2024

NOTE: this is excerpted from Robert Greenfield's new rock novel Rainy Gray Town. ...

LTJ Bukem, MC Conrad: LTJ Bukem and MC Conrad in... Mission Possible

Report and Interview by Emma Warren, Jockey Slut, October 1996

LTJ Bukem, the man behind the 50,000 selling Logical Progression album, the excellent Good Looking and Looking Good labels and drum 'n' bass classics 'Music', ...

Sam Cooke: Soul and Inspiration

Retrospective by Lenny Kaye, Wondering Sound, 31 August 2010

Possessed of a purity of voice and an unerring sense of pop metaphysics, the incomparable Sam Cooke was a singer of soul and inspiration who ...

Sam Cooke: When you're well-read and dress like wham!

Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 20 October 1962

WE HAD the wireless on throughout. Sam Cooke wore red-patterned pyjamas, a black dressing-gown and a beaten gold ring, which he wears because he doesn't ...

Sam Cooke: Who Remembers Him Now?

Retrospective by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 19 August 1972

"NOT 'ALF Sam Cooke's been an influence on me," Rod Stewart was saying in his NME interview last week, adding that the inclusion of 'Twistin' ...

Crazy Horse, Neil Young: Neil Young: Songs of Innocence, Songs of Restraint

Profile and Interview by Robert Greenfield, Fusion, 17 April 1970

NEIL YOUNG HAS A voice like a sunrise, fresh with promise, wise with years and practice, something you turn to for light encouragement and warmth. ...

Duane Eddy and A Band He Couldn't Refuse

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 1983

DUANE EDDY's "twangy" guitar sound on hits like 'Rebel-Rouser' established him as a major star during the golden era of rock instrumentals, so his return ...

Duane Eddy: Over a Desert to Make a Disc

Profile and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 12 November 1960

DUANE EDDY lives in Phoenix, Arizona, and has to drive more than 200 miles — across desert — to reach Los Angeles and the recording ...

Marianne Faithfull, Courtney Love, Oasis, The Rolling Stones: 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.   ...

The Rolling Stones: Villa Nellcote: Tommy Weber Arrives at the Rolling Stones' French Stronghold

Book Excerpt by Robert Greenfield, 'A Day in the Life' (Da Capo), July 2009

In this excerpt from his brilliant new A Day in the Life: One Family, the Beautiful People, and the End of the '60s, Robert Greenfield ...

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