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Today's Top 10 Articles
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Burt Bacharach: 'Time Is My Enemy'
Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 1964
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Bacharach to the Future
Profile and Interview by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 1995
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We're In Love With This Guy: Hal David
Interview by Terry Staunton, music365.com, 2000
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Oasis: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Beatles...
Interview by Cliff Jones, Face, The, 1994
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John Cale: Central Park Life
Interview by Cliff Jones, Arena Homme Plus, 1997
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Heavy Cohen
Interview by Cliff Jones, Rock CD, 1992
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The Sid Vicious Guide To London Hotels
Report by Nick Kent, NME, 1977
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Ghosts Of Progressive Rock Past: Led Zeppelin et al at Knebworth
Report by Paul Morley, NME, 1979
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Think Too Much: The Simon &Garfunkel Album That Wasn't
Retrospective by Robin Platts, Analog Planet, 2011
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Eric Burdon, Animal Trainer
Interview by Keith Altham, NME, 1965
Free this week:
Norman Jopling welcomes US hitmaker Burt Bacharach to London (Record Mirror, 1964)
Ouch! Cliff Jones on the receiving-end of a Leonard Cohen polemic (Rock CD, 1992)
Cliff Jones meets budding megastars Oasis (Face, The, 1994)
Paul Lester meets the Britpop-anointed Burt Bacharach (Melody Maker, 1995)
Cliff Jones talks Velvets and more with John Cale (Arena Homme Plus, 1997)
Terry Staunton talks to Bacharach's immortal lyricist Hal David (music365.com, 2000)
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Audio:
Mat Snow hears all about Sheena Easton (Rock's Backpages Audio, 1991)
Features and interviews:
Keith Altham wishes John Lennon a happy birthday (Fabulous, 1964)
Ann Moses hangs out in Hollywood with Herman's Hermits, #1 (Rhythm 'n' News, 1965)
Ann Moses hangs out in Hollywood with Herman's Hermits, #2 (Rhythm 'n' News, 1965)
Derek Boltwood meets the Foundations (Record Mirror, 1967)
Roger St. Pierre puts the questions to Wilson Pickett (NME, 1972)
Phil Hardy critiques Atomic Rooster's modus operandi (Let It Rock, 1972)
Jim Esposito meets rock 'n' roll piano-tuner Ben Gansell (Rock Magazine, 1973)
Chris Charlesworth has a good long natter with Neil Sedaka (Melody Maker, 1976)
Colin Irwin checks in with a pregnant Sandy Denny (Melody Maker, 1977)
Paul Morley is ambivalently admiring of Led Zeppelin's swansong performance at Knebworth (NME, 1979)
Nick Kent hears about the notorious, venomous Siouxsie & The Banshees split (NME, 1979)
Sylvie Simmons hears the Adult-Oriented-Musings of Styx's Tommy Shaw (Kerrang!, 1981)
A nicotine-starved Nick Tosches probes the sexy psyche of Carly Simon (Creem, 1984)
Don Snowden's digest of the career of rock-steady pioneer Alton Ellis (Los Angeles Times, 1984)
Cathi Unsworth hears all about biker movie soundtracks from
Edwin Pouncey Savage Pencil
(Sounds, 1988)
Adam Sweeting touches base with Tom Petty (Vox, 1991)
Chuck Eddy satirises the inexorable rise of New Kids On The Block (Throat Culture, 1992)
Keith Altham looks back on a long relationship with his journalistic subject and PR client Mick Jagger (Daily Mirror, 1993)
Northern darks: Tore Ă˜ien reports on the upcoming trial of Norwegian Black Metal maniac, Burzum's Varg Vikernes. Next week: the full trial! (Kerrang!, 1994)
Bill Carpenter looks back with country-soul chanteuse Dorothy Moore (Goldmine, 1997)
Neil Mason introduces West London's very own All Saints (Melody Maker, 1997)
Ben Edmonds pays homage to departed Beach Boy Carl Wilson (MOJO, 1998)
Ted Drozdowski talks to former Atlantic man (and 32 Records founder) Joel Dorn (Boston Phoenix, 1998)
Tom Cox has a natter with beardy neo-singer-songwriter Neal Casal (Uncut, 1998)
Kirk Silsbee welcomes the great Geoff Muldaur (New Times Los Angeles, 1999)
Andrew Smith reports on Fat Les, Euro 2000 and 'Jerusalem' (Observer Music Monthly, 2000)
Michael Gray pays tribute to Bob Dylan at 60 (Daily Telegraph, 2001)
Simon Reynolds grills Green re: White Bread, Black Beer (Guardian, The, 2006)
Carol Cooper considers the state of modern gospel music (Village Voice, 2006)
Mark Anthony Neal pays tribute to the late James Brown (PopMatters, 2007)
Jude Rogers talks surprise indie success with Grizzly Bear (Guardian, The, 2010)
Robin Platts recounts the curious tale of the lost Simon & Garfunkel album Think Too Much (Analog Planet, 2011)
Nick Hasted befriends Band of Horses (Independent, The, 2011)
Graeme Thomson profiles Motown's obscure Californian subsidiary, Mowest (Guardian, The, 2011)
Phil Sutcliffe checks in with Field Music (MOJO, 2011)
Fred Dellar tells the story of Yip Harburg and 'Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead' (Rock's Backpages, 2013)
Album & Live Reviews:
Bad meaning bad: Roy Hollingworth fails to get on the good foot with James Brown, live at the Royal Albert Hall (Melody Maker, 1971)
Ian MacDonald is deeply disappointed by Toots and the Maytals' In The Dark (NME, 1974)
Chas de Whalley raves about the second album from country-girl-turned-actor Ronee Blakley (NME, 1976)
Jeffrey Morgan's short-and-to-the-point summary of Donna Summer's Love To Love You Baby album (Creem, 1976)
Chris Salewicz fails to pull at a Peter Frampton show (NME, 1976)
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition: Charles Shaar Murray takes a good long look at Bob Dylan's Slow Train Coming (NME, 1979)
Ralph Traitor joins (or at least reviews) the Church's Blurred Crusade (Sounds, 1982)
Cynthia Rose listens to the aural memories of top rock squeeze Britt Ekland (NME, 1982)
Don Snowden's capsule review of Solomon Burke's double live set Soul Alive! (Los Angeles Times, 1984)
Len Brown witnesses The Fall's Hey! Luciani (with Michael Clark) at London's Riverside Studios (NME, 1986)
Tom Graves revisits a classic recording by Tibetan world-music icons the Gyuto Monks (Rock and Roll Disc, 1989)
Jason Cohen reviews the eponymous debut by alterna-supergroup Dim Stars (R. Hell, T. Moore et al) (Creem, 1992)
David Stubbs warmly welcomes the release of John Oswald's Plunderphonics 69/96 (Uncut, 2001)
Devon Powers gushes over a Richard Hawley album (PopMatters, 2002)
Adam Sweeting reviews Television at Bowie's Meltdown Festival (Guardian, The, 2002)
Nick Hasted catches Bowie live in Manchester (Independent, The, 2003)
Tony Russell is impressed by Escaping The Delta, Elijah Wald's revisionist blues history (New Humanist, 2004)
Terry Staunton adores the deluxe reissue of Lloyd Cole & the Commotions' Rattlesnakes (Record Collector, 2004)
Rahul Shrivastava sees Sky Saxon & the Seeds, live in Newcastle (bbc.co.uk, 2005)
Jeffrey Morgan parses the solo oeuvre of Mr. Pete Townshend (Creem, 2006)
Jude Rogers endures an embarrassing performance by Madonna (New Statesman, 2008)
Stephen Dalton sees grunge veterans Alice in Chains, live in London (Times, The, 2009)
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RBP Album Club, June 13th: Miki Berenyi and Lucy O'Brien celebrate a Blondie classic
Essential Listening: Mick Gold meets Patti Smith in '76
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Essential Reading: Nina Antonia introduces her new poetry collection
RBP Album Club, July 11th: Nick Hornby and Nick Coleman celebrate Southside Johnny's debut