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Lee Hazlewood

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Lee Hazlewood (1999)

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 25 January 1999

From Arizona and Duane Eddy to L.A. and Nancy Sinatra: three hours of yarns and reminiscences from the irascible Lee Hazlewood

File format: mp3; file size: 178.4meg, total interview length: 3h 5' 50" sound quality: ***

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Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood: Love

Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 30 April 1966

'Everything about Nancy and her Mother is love, love, love' says 'Boots' writer Lee Hazelwood ...

Nancy Sinatra: Boots! Boots! Boots!

Report and Interview by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 30 April 1966

NANCY SINATRA, newly-famous daughter of a famous father, descended on Britain last week in the biggest blaze of publicity since the third of the Beatles ...

Nancy Sinatra: Nancy talks on the transatlantic phone to Alan Smith about... Little-Boy Elvis!

Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 26 August 1967

"ELVIS," SAID Nancy Sinatra, as she drew back the curtains and looked out at the sun shining down on Los Angeles, "is at once a ...

Lee Hazlewood — America's Million Seller Who Once Quit Because Of The Beatles

Profile by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 30 March 1968

LEE HAZLEWOOD is the 38-year-old one-man army and musical talent who turned Nancy Sinatra into one of the world's most popular recording artistes — and ...

Albums from Nancy Sinatra, Etta James et al

Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 11 May 1968

ETTA JAMES Tell Mama — 'Tell Mama'; 'I'd Rather Go Blind'; 'The Love Of My Man'; 'I'm Gonna Take What He's Got'; 'The Same Rope'; ...

Lee Hazlewood: We Only Record For The Fun Of It

Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 18 September 1971

THREE YEARS ago, Lee Hazlewood tired of writing and producing Nancy Sinatra – split to Stockholme to carry on his interest in film work – ...

Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood: The Limelight, New York NY

Live Review by Cathi Unsworth, Melody Maker, 24 June 1995

HOW DOES this grab you, darling? Nancy Sinatra, in her infamous black leather boots and a perfect blonde bouffant, centre stage for the first time ...

Lee Hazlewood: The Ol' Sonofabitch

Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, May 1999

ON A PERFECT Florida afternoon in late February, Lee Hazlewood is wedging himself into a large grey couch and eyeing a rather sad plate of ...

Lee Hazlewood: The Return of Nancy's Boy

Profile and Interview by Andrew Smith, The Observer, 13 June 1999

NEW YORK CROWDS don't get much hipper than this. The women look either like a young Patti Smith or Marianne Faithfull circa Girl On A ...

The Very Special World of Lee Hazlewood

Interview by Kieron Tyler, Record Collector, February 2000

He sings, produces, writes and arranges, and had no. 1 hits with Nancy Sinatra. Kieron Tyler meets the legendary genre-straddling icon. ...

Lee Hazlewood: 13/The Cowboy And The Lady (Smells Like)

Review by Ian Penman, The Wire, June 2000

LEE HAZLEWOOD is not one of those cult objects who, on closer inspection, looks like a frail talent protected by decades of vinyl scarcity and ...

The Lee Hazlewood Interview

Interview by Rob Hughes, Get Rhythm, July 2002

IT'S BEEN A hellish few days for Lee Hazlewood. Three days into a four-day promo frenzy of our nation's fair capital, and everyone after a ...

Lee Hazlewood: "Compared To My Dad, I'm A Soprano"

Retrospective and Interview by Spencer Leigh, Now Dig This, February 2005

"I don't have to run if I want to stay, I don't have to do what the people say, I found my place ...

Lee Hazlewood: Cake or Death

Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, January 2007

BARTON LEE Hazlewood remains the cult artist's cult artist, an American maverick who's operated by his own supremely offbeat rules ever since producing Sanford Clark's ...

Lee Hazlewood: The wayward guru of cowboy psychedelia

Retrospective by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 28 November 2013

Best known for reviving Nancy Sinatra's career with 'These Boots Are Made for Walkin'', Lee Hazlewood was a highly unorthodox record producer. An epic box ...

"I'm just an old cowboy who wrote a few songs…" A First Encounter with the legendary Lee Hazlewood

Book Excerpt by Wyndham Wallace, 'Lee, Myself & I' (Jawbone), May 2015

The following extract takes place within a few minutes of my first meeting with Lee Hazlewood in April, 1999, at New York's Grand Hyatt Hotel, ...

Wyndham Wallace: Lee, Myself And I – Inside The Very Special World Of Lee Hazlewood (Jawbone)

Book Review by Mike Barnes, The Wire, November 2015

WYNDAM WALLACE was a publicist for the City Slang record label in the late 1990s and our paths crossed many times. My memory of him ...

see also Nancy Sinatra

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