Journalists, authors and publications
Crawdaddy: Get Off Of My Cloud!
Comment by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, February 1966
YOU ARE looking at tho first issue of amagazine of rock and roll criticism. Crawdaddy will feature neither pin-ups nor news-briefs; the specialty of this ...
Mothers Of Invention, The: Mother's Rites: Freak Out/Absolutely Free
Review by Geoffrey Cannon, Listener, The, October 1967
2012 NOTE: Here below is the second column I wrote for The Listener in late 1967. It was the first of a number I ...
Velvet Underground, Nico: Andy Warhol: A Mirror Of American Death
Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, New Society, June 1968
The Andy Warhol and Robert Kennedy shootings, and the Velvets ...
Rolling Stones, The: The Rolling Stones: How I Survived Beggar's Banquet
Report by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, December 1968
THAT custard pies would one day be hurled by the Rolling Stones at the gentlemen of the press was fairly inevitable. ...
Foreword to Outlaw Blues by Paul Williams
Book Excerpt by Michael Lydon, Rolling Stone, April 1969
[For the 21st-century edition of this book, Michael Lydon, a founding editor of Rolling Stone magazine and the author of Rock Folk, Boogie Lightning and ...
Nik Cohn: Pop; Paul Oliver: The Story of The Blues
Book Review by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, August 1969
Charlie Gillett reviews two books on music: Pop by Nik Cohn, and The Story of The Blues by Paul Oliver ...
Electric Kool-Aid: On & Off the Bus
Essay by Michael Lydon, Fusion, March 1970
The last words of Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test are "WE BLEW IT". In caps, naturally. ...
Review by David G. Walley, Zygote, 1971
TARANTULA: twenty-five year-old visions of reality/letters to himself and posterity, now here in some other form from miracle xerox. Tarantula--visions of Aretha, soul singer in ...
Music Magazines: The Real Rock ‘n’ Roll Underground
Overview by Greg Shaw, Creem, June 1971
Do you ever get so sick of the latest Leon Russell or Ten Years After album that you switch off the FM radio in disgust ...
Comment by Martin Hawkins, Record Mirror, July 1971
"DID YOU EVER HEAR A TENOR SAX, SWINGING LIKE A RUSTY AXE?" ...
So You Wanna Be a Rock'n'Roll Writer (Keep a Carbon!)
Guide by Charlie Gillett, Rock File 1, 1972
My favourite music magazine is called Creem. It's published in Detroit, Michigan, and every month the first thing I see is a statement next to ...
Overview by Metal Mike Saunders, Rag, The, January 1972
MOST PEOPLE LISTEN to rock and roll. Yet others read about it, and some actually have the lunacy to write about it! Where there’s money ...
Nik Cohn: My Book is Rubbish but it’s the Best
Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, May 1972
"There is only one decent book that has ever been written on pop," said Nik Cohn from beneath his wide brimmed hat, "and that's Awopbopaloobopalopbamboom ...
RockFile: Where The Writing Ends, The Memory Game Begins
Review by Mick Houghton, Let It Rock, February 1973
ROCK FILE is one of the current crop of books on music which has moved away from the more historical analysis, and deals with the ...
Essay by Greil Marcus, Let It Rock, March 1973
In the November issue of Let It Rock, Tony White offered some rather hysterical opinions in his Dylan bootleg discography, and Tony Scaduto, author of ...
Rock Critics Rule... and other startling musical revelations!
Special Feature by J. Montague Fitzpatrick, Coast, April 1973
Or: how Lester Bangs, Dave Marsh, Chet Flippo, Nick Tosches, Robot A. Hull, Lenny Kaye, Richard Meltzer, Mike Saunders, Gene Sculatti, Ed Ward and 26 ...
Jon Landau: It’s Too Late To Stop Now
Review by Simon Frith, Let It Rock, May 1973
I FEEL UNEASY, confronting Landau. If a rock critic is a parasite, what is the critic of a rock critic? Landau is a rock critic ...
Lester Bangs: Exile in Detroit City: A Imaginary Conversation with Lester Bangs
Comment by Metal Mike Saunders, Brain Damage, June 1974
SO WE FINALLY decided it was time to come to terms with Lester Bangs... ...
How to be a Rock Critic: A Megatonic Journey
Essay by Lester Bangs, Shakin' Street Gazette, October 1974
LATELY I'VE NOTICED a new wrinkle on the American landscape: it seems as if there's a whole generation of kids, each one younger than the ...
Lester Bangs: Epistle to a Young Critic: A Letter from Lester Bangs, February 1975
Letters by Lester Bangs, unpublished, February 1975
Thirty years ago, RBP contributor Susan (then Suzan) Compo was an apprentice punkette and aspiring rock scribe living in Tustin, California. An avid reader of ...
Rolling Stones, The: Robert Greenfield: A Journey through America with the Rolling Stones
Book Review by Mick Farren, NME, September 1975
I FEAR THIS book may be the one that could finally O.D. the reader on rock writing, particularly that flat, conscientious, detailed, post-Truman Capote style ...
Neil Young Paints It Black: Zuma
Review by Paul Nelson, Village Voice, November 1975
NOTE: ON APRIL 14, 1983, Elliot Roberts, Neil Young's manager, wrote a letter to Paul: "This is to advise you that we will co-operate with ...
Rock Dreams/Schemes: The History of Crawdaddy(!)
Retrospective by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, March 1976
YOU ARE looking at the first issue of a magazine of rock and roll criticism. Crawdaddy! will feature neither pin-ups nor news briefs; the specialty ...
Ian Hunter: Reflections Of A Rock Star
Review by Lester Bangs, Phonograph Record, September 1976
Ian Hunter: Coping With Modern Day Rock Stardom ...
Patti Smith: Lenny Kaye: New York Nuggets
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, May 1977
IN ISSUE 68 [of ZigZag], Patti Smith talked about a number of things during an account of the first half of her visit to this ...
Elvis Presley: Junk, junk food junk prose (pulpitations for all)
Book Review by Mick Farren, NME, October 1977
Red West, Sonny West, Dave Hebler, as told to Steve Dunleavy: Elvis – What Happened? ...
Essaying The Sound of the City: Gillett and After
Essay by Paul Yamada, Terminal Zone, Spring 1977
ANYONE WELL acquainted with the pop and R&B charts from 1948-1954 knows a few odd things about rock. ...
Bruce Springsteen: Proceedings of Discovery
Comment by Bruce Pollock, Gannett Westchester Newspapers, 1978
WE ROCK PUNDITS, critics and reviewers, Rockwells of good taste, O'Neills of moral fervor, are in reality no better than the average slob on the ...
Fanzines: Pure Pop Art For Now People
Overview by Jon Savage, Sounds, January 1978
'THEY are vital, audacious, reckless insofar as they represent an extreme view adopted in a broad popular m way, and they have a curious brave ...
The Bush Fire That Ate Bogville, Arizona
Overview by Paul Rambali, NME, April 1978
Oh-no-not-another-fanzine-survey (goes West) ...
Patti Smith: Babel (Putnam/Longman)
Review by Jeffrey Morgan, Roxy, June 1978
TEMPTING AS IT MAY BE, it would be far too easy to dismiss Patti Smith merely as a literary quack and let it go at ...
John Cooper Clarke: Just Another Ex-Gravedigger Poet Into Dada and the TV
Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, September 1978
GARRY BUSHELL GOES PUNK-SURREAL ...
Live Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, September 1978
"HELLO, MY name's Mick Farren...I wanna drink!" ...
Report by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, March 1979
...sometimes. The rock critic as musician. By Sandy Robertson ...
Punk Attack: 'The Obituary of Rock and Roll'
Book Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, June 1979
Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons: The Boy Looked at Johnny (Pluto Press) ...
John Cooper Clarke: The Bard Of Beasley Street At The Seat Of Learning
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, May 1980
THE OXFORD University Union porter peered at us fish-eyed. "Are you members?" he said. "Er, no - we're with the poet." ...
Memoir by Al Aronowitz, Blacklisted Masterpieces of Al Aronowitz, The, 1981
YEAH, I KNEW Emmett Grogan, knew him well enough to've gone on a half-ass caper with him in behalf of a coke dealer who thought ...
Nick Kent, Subterraneans, The: The Almost Legendary Nick Kent Story
Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, January 1981
The modest (if a mite incestuous) tale of the celebrated NME writer who is now on the threshold of becoming a bona fide rock star ...
Bruce Springsteen: Springsteen Forged Passports To A Promised Land
Comment by Nick Kent, NME, July 1981
"What my band and I are about is a sense of responsibility. If you accept it, that makes you responsible for everything that happens. People ...
Elvis Presley: Goldman Ain't Nothin' But A Hound Dog!
Book Review by Bill Holdship, Creem, February 1982
Elvis by Albert Goldman (McGraw-Hill) ...
Lester Bangs: Ballad of a Loudhearted Man
Obituary by Nick Kent, NME, May 1982
"Lester Bangs is the rock critic's rock critic, a man gifted verbally in much the same way that James Brown is gifted as a dancer. ...
Steve Beresford: Everywhere Man: Steve Beresford
Profile and Interview by Richard Cook, NME, September 1982
You name it, Beresford had done it. He'd played bass, played piano, played trumpet...he'd composed music, improvised music, organised music, he'd written about the damn ...
Davitt Sigerson: AOR? Write On! An Interview with Davitt Sigerson
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, NME, September 1984
DAVITT SIGERSON insists he isn’t smarting from the NME review which described Falling In Love Again as ‘The Worst Record I’ve Ever Heard." ...
Jack Kerouac: Hit The Road, Jack: A Man Called Kerouac
Retrospective by Biba Kopf, NME, July 1985
AMERICAN RHAPSODISTS come thick and fast, frenziedly spurtspraying words across the broad continental canvas by way of leaving traces, eager to fill in every dingly ...
Marvin Gaye: Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye by David Ritz
Review by Chris Salewicz, Time Out, July 1985
The anguished life of Marvin Gaye ended on April 1, 1984, at the home in Los Angeles he had bought for his parents, when a ...
Pet Shop Boys: The Pet Shop Boys: An ex-Smash Hits Writer and the Grandson of a Nitwit
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Smash Hits, December 1985
Doesn't sound like the ideal line-up for a successful pop duo, does it? But now that 'West End Girls' is whizzing up the charts that's ...
Garry Bushell: The Most Evil Man In Pop
Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, May 1986
Scourge of the Looney Left, creator of Oi and prime exponent of the dreaded 'Sunspeak', GARRY BUSHELL makes a clean breast of it to Prof ...
Jim Carroll: A Nod Of Approval: The music and poetry of Jim Carroll
Interview by Gerrie Lim, Orange County Review, June 1986
"I'VE ALWAYS CONSIDERED myself a poet first," Jim Carroll says, his slightly cracked voice resounding clearly over the phone from New York. "That's what brings ...
Rock Magazines: Why They're So Good
Overview by John Mendelsohn, Creem, July 1986
YOU KNOW WHAT'S interesting about the rock print medium nearly two-thirds of the way through the '80s? That so much of it is aimed at ...
Nelson George: The Death of Rhythm & Blues (Omnibus)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Wire, The, 1987
NELSON GEORGE, self-described "B-Boy intellectual" and one of pop culture's few black writers of note, has written a book which (sort of) argues that the ...
Jon Savage: Cool and the Crazy
Interview by Richard North, Offbeat, November 1988
Richard North tackles post-punk pessimist, writer, dreamer and rebel without a cause – Jon Savage ...
Rolling Stones, The: Stanley Booth: Myth and Misquotation
Essay by Greil Marcus, Threepenny Review, Fall 1988
This was originally the address at the commencement ceremonies of the Department of History, University of California at Berkeley, on 20th May 1988. Greil Marcus ...
Book Review by Richard Williams, Q, December 1989
Charles Shaar Murray: Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix And Post-War Pop (Faber) ...
Jack Kerouac: The Mythmaking of Jack Kerouac: The Jack Kerouac Collection (Rhino)
Review by Tom Graves, Rock and Roll Disc, September 1990
TRUMAN CAPOTE very nearly sank Jack Kerouac’s literary reputation with five well-chosen words that exploded like cigarette loads in the public eye. ...
Book Review by Tom Hibbert, Q, February 1991
TWO EXCELLENT ways to become a sort of "cult" rock hero: 1) Be dead; 2) Be bonkers...Actually, come to think of it, the first option ...
Rock And The Tabloids: Publish And Be Damned
Report by Tom Hibbert, Q, March 1991
The pop columnists of Britain's tabloid papers had a high old time of it in the 1980s. Then they woke up to an unpleasant lesson ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, August 1991
Hired and fired by the New York Post, having that "total phoney" Andy Warhol steal the Velvets from him, running with Dylan and, extensively, his dealings with The Band – the "blacklisted journalist" Al Aronowitz vents his not-inconsiderable spleen.
File format: mp3; in 3 parts, total file sizes: 68.7meg, total interview length: 1h 16' 43" sound quality: ***
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1993
Mojo Naviagator and Bomp founder Greg Shaw on his early days in psychedelic San Francisco, L.A. Garage Punk, The Doors, Love and Los Angeles rock.
File format: mp3; in 3 parts, total file sizes: 82.6mb, total interview length: 1h 30' 07" sound quality: ***
Suede, Morrissey: Brett Anderson & Morrissey: Suedegate
Comment by Sheryl Garratt, Face, The, May 1993
Does this magazine print deliberate lies? Well actually no, we don't ...
Elvis Presley: Elvis: The Goldman Factor
Essay by John Tobler, 'Aspects of Elvis', 1994
ELVIS PRESLEY WAS THE UNKNOWING centre of controversy in his quite short life: only being screened from the waist upwards on TV so that his ...
Lester Bangs: Rock 'n' roll as literature, literature as rock 'n' roll.
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, March 1994
Whither Rock Gomorrah, the great gonzo hack's unpublished swansong? ...
Nick Kent: The Write Stuff: Nick Kent
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, June 1994
FOR ANY CALLOW, maladjusted youth growing up in the early-to-mid-‘70s with the New Musical Express as his bible, Nick Kent was unquestionably the coolest rock ...
Strange New Ways To Kill A Rock Critic
Overview by Paul Gorman, MOJO, September 1994
PREHENSILE Monkey-Tailed Skink? Screeching Weasel? PopDefect? Anus The Menace? ...
East Coast Lives: The Rockin' Chiropodist
Profile by Michael Gray, Livewire, October 1994
IT'S IMPOSSIBLE to interview Charles White if you walk alongside him around the streets of his adopted hometown, Scarborough: too many people are greeting him ...
Marianne Faithfull Springs Eternal
Interview by Deborah Frost, BAM, October 1994
"Since AIDS, I've changed my attitude. Now I'm honored. I want to be part of the gay community and I am." ...
Elvis Presley: Love Him Tender, Love Him True
Book Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, December 1994
Peter Guralnick: Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley ...
Joy Division: She’s Got Control
Interview by Len Brown, Q, 1995
Fifteen years after he hanged himself in their Macclesfield kitchen, Joy Division leader Ian Curtis has been "outed" by his widow, Deborah, as an ill-tempered, ...
Memoir by Nick Tosches, The Nick Tosches Reader, 1995
LESTER BANGS, with whom I had drunk but whose writing I had never read, had died not long after Hellfire came out, in the spring ...
Joy Division: Deborah Curtis: Touching From A Distance: Ian Curtis And Joy Division (Faber & Faber)
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, 1995
AS THE JOURNALIST and pop historian Jon Savage Suggests in his foreword, for one narrowly defined sub-generation, Ian Curtis's suicide was a first personal encounter ...
Sid Griffin, The Coal Porters: What a Long, Strange Ryde(r) It's Been: Sid Griffin
Interview by Bill Wasserzieher, Bob, The, April 1995
SID GRIFFIN emerges from the underground tube station at Piccadilly Circus, a long coat over his shoulders, collar up against the chill, and coattails adrift ...
Review by Tony Russell, MOJO, July 1995
WHEN BLUES PEOPLE WAS PUBLISHED in 1963, LeRoi Jones became the first black American to have written a book about the blues. It did not ...
The Gospel according to Anthony Heilbut
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Independent, The, June 1996
From Mahalia Jackson to Death in Venice might seem a long journey. But for Anthony Heilbut, the renowned gospel expert and author of a new ...
Strolling Down Punk-Rock Lane: Legs McNeil
Profile and Interview by Ira Robbins, New York Times, July 1996
THE CLASS OF 1976 held a reunion in the lobby of the Gershwin Hotel late last month. While inspecting a photography exhibition documenting their youth, ...
Ray Coleman: The Man Behind the Maker
Obituary by Chris Charlesworth, Daily Telegraph, September 1996
RAY COLEMAN, who has died from cancer aged 59, played a leading role in the growth of the British music press in the Sixties and ...
Obituary by Miles, MOJO, June 1997
Allen Ginsberg and I were friends for over 30 years, and even though I am his ‘official’ biographer, it is hard to sum up so ...
Trouser Press: The Story Behind The Legendary Zine
Retrospective by Ira Robbins, Perfect Sound Forever, June 1997
EDITOR’S NOTE: One of the reasons that our zine started up was because there were other music nuts before us who wanted to tell the ...
Cabaret Voltaire, Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle: William Burroughs: Ghost Of Chance
Essay by Biba Kopf, Wire, The, October 1997
"The Subliminal Kid moved in and took over bars cafes and juke boxes of the worlds cities and installed radio transmitters and microphones in each ...
Beatles, The: Derek Taylor: Obituary
Obituary by Richard Williams, MOJO, November 1997
IN 1963, WHEN BRIAN EPSTEIN INVITED HIM TO HANDLE the Beatles' PR, Derek Taylor was a 31-year-old national newspaper reporter with a suit and tie. ...
Obituary by Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix, December 1997
POPULAR MUSIC has never had a better friend than Robert Palmer, the critic and musician who died l POPULAR MUSIC has never had a better friend ...
Obituary by Michael Gray, Guardian, The, December 1997
ROBERT PALMER, THE distinguished American music journalist and blues expert, has died in New York aged 52. ...
R.E.M.: Rock Criticism and the Rocker: A Conversation With Peter Buck
Book Excerpt by Anthony DeCurtis, Rocking My Life Away, 1998
IN SEPTEMBER 1994 R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck kindly took time off from promoting R.E.M.'s Monster to do an interview with Anthony DeCurtis, who wanted an ...
Rock 100: Um, What Was It We Wanted To Say?
Book Excerpt by Lenny Kaye, David Dalton, Cooper Square (reissue), 1999
Rock's Backpages will, over the coming weeks, be presenting selected chapters from the 1999 re-issue of Lenny Kaye and David Dalton's classic 1977 book Rock ...
Music Journalists: Why They Have To Write
Report and Interview by uncredited writer, Music Biz, 1999
MOST MUSIC industry professionals will argue that receiving press is more a matter of business than it is a desire to be in the limelight, ...
Kinky Friedman: God Bless John Wayne (Faber and Faber)
Review and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, 1999
Kinky Friedman is full of himself. He always was in his ’70s singing days with provocateur country & western outfit The Texas Jewboys. And now ...
Bill Drummond, KLF, The: Bill Drummond: 45
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Independent, The, 2000
"POP MUSIC," writes Bill Drummond, "has become like a cancer that has spread through my whole body and is now affecting my brain." Having been ...
Mojo Navigator: Memories of Mojo
Retrospective by Gene Sculatti, Scram, 2000
SAN FRANCISCO, 1966. This was a long time ago. The Grateful Dead swung hard, fast and scary, and Peter Albin's demented LSD-preacher stalked stages as ...
Almost Famous: 1973 and all that
Essay by Charles Shaar Murray, Guardian, The, 2000
1973 AS A rock and roll annus mirabilis? Six thousand miles away from the old Rolling Stone office in San Francisco, it felt more like ...
Whatever Happened to Paul Nelson?
Interview by Steven Ward, rockcritics.com, 2000
ROCK WRITING WAS NOT the first choice of Paul Nelson. A pioneer of rock criticism, and one of its most talented practitioners, Nelson (who cites ...
Lester Bangs: Did Lester Bangs Die In Vain?
Book Review by Ira Robbins, salon.com, April 2000
Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic By Jim DeRogatis, Broadway, 256 Pages ...
Lester Bangs: Rock 'n' Roll was the Big Bang
Retrospective by David Dalton, Gadfly, July 2000
For a long time, its shockwaves obliterated thought altogether. That was the great thing about it: it was anti-matter, it vaporized everything that wasn’t immediate, ...
Book Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Independent, The, July 2000
I'm a Man: Sex, Gods And Rock'n'roll by Ruth Padel (Faber & Faber, £12.99, 409pp) ...
Sniffin' Glue: The Essential Punk Accessory
Retrospective and Interview by Jon Savage, MOJO, August 2000
WHEN THE FIRST Ramones album appeared in London, during the spring of 1976, it changed everything: not only the tempo and the look of rock, ...
Comment by Colin Harper, Irish Times, The, September 2000
CURRENTLY HOT on the heels of Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix and Johnny Cash as an individualist icon of 20th Century music – name-dropped as an ...
Greil Marcus: Top Spin Service!!
Profile and Interview by Charlie Gillett, Rock's Backpages, November 2000
Charlie Gillett, broadcaster and author of The Sound of the City, regularly invites guests to play radio "ping-pong" on his Saturday night show on London ...
Melody Maker, 1926 - 2000, RIP
Obituary by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, December 2000
An era came to an end on 14th December when IPC Magazines announced the closure of its oldest music title, Melody Maker. ...
Book Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Revolver, Spring 2000
WHO WAS Lester Bangs? He was a rock critic. To be more precise, he was a rock critic like Muhammad Ali was a boxer or ...
Book Excerpt by Paul Gorman, Sanctuary Press,, 2001
Paul Gorman's In Their Own Write: Adventures in the Music Press (Sanctuary Press) is an oral history of rock journalism in Britain and America – ...
Lester Bangs: Dear Charlie... Love, Lester
Letters by Lester Bangs, unpublished, 2001
Excerpts from letters supplied by Charlie Gillett to Rock's Backspages* ...
Nikki Giovanni: Whaddya Mean You've Never Heard Of… Nikki Giovanni?
Retrospective by James Maycock, MOJO, 2001
IN THE CRAZY, HEADY DAYS of the Black Power era, Nikki Giovanni was one of the few female voices to offset the rampant machismo of ...
Alternative TV: The iJamming! Chat: Mark Perry
Interview by Tony Fletcher, iJamming.com, January 2001
AS THE FIRST sentence of my mission statement makes clear, Mark Perry was a major factor in my deciding to write about music – though, ...
Report by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, January 2001
Anticipating the February 9 UK release of Cameron Crowe’s film Almost Famous, about a callow young scribe hitting the road with a mid-’70s rock band, ...
So, what do Q know? RBP’s 50 favourite music books
Guide by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages, February 2001
"Genius!" trumpets the cover of this month’s Q magazine: "The 50 Best Music Books Ever Written." Naturally, we wuz hooked and forked over our three ...
In His Own Right: Ian MacDonald
Interview by Paul Gorman, unpublished, March 2001
I INTERVIEWED Ian MacDonald for my music press history In Their Own Write in March 2001. As charming, tolerant and insightful as the first-class prose ...
Report by Bud Scoppa, Rock's Backpages, March 2001
"I Was Robbed," A Loser Whines, Then Delivers An Acceptance Speech That Never Was ...
Review and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, April 2001
IAN MACDONALD, now 52, was enraptured by The Beatles as a teenager, then generally disappointed by pop music from 1980 onwards. His attempt "to bring ...
Obituary by Andy Schwartz, Village Voice, April 2001
Alan Betrock was the passionate fanatic who founded the groundbreaking New York Rocker. Andy Schwartz, who succeeded him as the magazine’s publisher and editor, here ...
Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan: Irwin Silber of Sing Out!
Interview by Richie Unterberger, Perfect Sound Forever, July 2001
IN THE mid-1960's Irwin Silber was editor of Sing Out! magazine, the leading folk periodical in the United States. Here he talks about his personal ...
The New Rolling Stone is... The New Yorker?!
Report by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, August 2001
Who would expect to find this year's best offline writing about music in The New Yorker? ...
Lester Bangs: Remembering Lester
Book Excerpt by Paul Gorman, In Their Own Write: Adventures in the Music Press, November 2001
"Everybody's a rock critic." – Lester Bangs ...
In Their Own Write: Adventures in the Music Press
Book Excerpt by Paul Gorman, Sanctuary Press, November 2001
Introduction ...
Turning the Stone: The Adventures of Jann Wenner and Cameron Crowe in the sick, slick '70s
Book Excerpt by Paul Gorman, In Their Own Write, November 2001
In our second excerpt from In Their Own Write: Adventures in the Music Press (published this week by Sanctuary), Paul Gorman goes back to the ...
Comment by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, November 2001
Four decades on, rock criticism is still (though barely) alive ...
Deviants, The, Mick Farren: Mick Farren on The Deviants, Fantasy Fiction and Blowing Things Up
Profile and Interview by Erik Himmelsbach, L.A. Weekly, November 2001
PUBLISHING MOGUL Felix Dennis was staring at the Caribbean Sea a few months ago, sucking down cocktails with fellow gazillionaires at Basil's Bar on the ...
Paul Gorman: In Their Own Write: Adventures In The Music Press
Book Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, December 2001
Perceptive, hysterical history of rock journalism — from the horses' mouths ...
Rolling Stones, The: The Rolling Stones: Old Gods Almost Dead
Interview by David Dalton, Gadfly, December 2001
David Dalton Talks to Stephen Davis, Author of the First Full-Dress Biography of the Rolling Stones in Twenty Years ...
Memoir by Chris Charlesworth, Rock's Backpages, December 2001
It is a year since IPC shut down Melody Maker, the oldest of all popular music magazines. In this affectionate memoir, former MM staffer and ...
Mick Farren: Devout Deviant Takes A Trip Down Memory Lane
Book Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Independent, The, December 2001
Mick Farren: Give the Anarchist a Cigarette ...
Essay by Kandia Crazy Horse, Rock's Backpages, January 2002
"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire." - Charles Bukowski ...
Being My Almost Absolutely True Adventures with Stanley Booth
Essay by David Dalton, Rock's Backpages, January 2002
The South, sir, is no more than the Creation viewed by a crocodile.– Rev. Sydney Smith I ADMIT I don't know what ...
Rolling Stones, The: Rolling Away the Stones: Stanley and I
Essay by Michael Lydon, Rock's Backpages, January 2002
Michael Lydon was the other reporter on the infamous Rolling Stones' 1969 tour of America. This is his recollection of meeting Stanley Booth, and the ...
The Last of the Voodoos: A Rock & Roll Retrospective
Essay by Kandia Crazy Horse, Black Renaissance Noire, January 2002
This essay was originally published in NYU Africanist Manthia Diawara’s Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire [Vol.3, No.2, Spring 2001]. Since the very weird period when I wrote ...
The True Adventures of Stanley Booth
Interview by Steven Ward, rockcritics.com, January 2002
STANLEY BOOTH is one hell of a writer. The evidence is clear once you pick up his book on the world's greatest rock 'n' roll ...
Rolling Stones, The: If You Want To Know Anything, Ask Stanley: A Memoir
Memoir by Tina McElroy Ansa, David Sandison, Chris Wohlwend, Rock's Backpages, January 2002
David Sandison handled PR for the Rolling Stones when Stanley Booth went on the road with them in 1969. ...
Report by David Quantick, Rock's Backpages, March 2002
THERE ARE many differences between Britain and America – they like Hootie and the Blowfish, for example, and we like Chas and Dave; their milk ...
Obituary by Chris Welch, Independent, The, March 2002
Roy Hollingworth, journalist, singer, guitarist and composer: born Derby 12 April 1949; married 1999 Anthea Yeomans; died Kingston upon Thames, Surrey 9 March 2002. ...
About a Bloke: The 10 Tracks Nick Hornby Couldn't Live Without
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Mark Pringle, Rock's Backpages, March 2002
WELCOME TO a new if occasional treat: AURAL SURVIVAL, a sit-down with a much-loved CELEBRITY FAN in order to ascertain the 10 recorded performances he ...
Give Up The Day Job!: Scribes turned Stars, Poachers Turned Gamekeepers!
Guide by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, April 2002
This week, a propos of nothing in particular – the new Pet Shop Boys album, perhaps? – we consider the careers of the many ...
Comment by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, April 2002
Why do writers pursue this often-thankless "profession"? ...
Lester Bangs: Pills And Thrills
Retrospective by Nick Kent, Guardian, The, April 2002
ALTHOUGH HIS NAME is already starting to be listed among the ranks of the elite late 20th-century literary trailblazers, Lester Bangs – the fragile-hearted, drunken ...
And So It Began: Remembering the First Issue of Crawdaddy!
Book Excerpt by Paul Williams, 'The Crawdaddy! Book' (Hal Leonard), May 2002
THE FIRST ISSUE of the first American rock music magazine was printed on Sunday, January 30, 1966, in a basement in Brooklyn, New York, on ...
Neil Young: Bio Warfare: Why did Neil Young try to squelch Shakey?
Comment by Marc Weingarten, salon.com, May 2002
SHAKEY, A 786-PAGE biography of Neil Young that's just been published, almost wasn't. For that reason, it serves as an apt metaphor for the way ...
Muddy Waters: Robert Gordon: Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters (Jonathan Cape)
Book Review by Sean O'Hagan, Observer, The, July 2002
The ONE-ROOM shack where Muddy Waters grew up originally stood on the edge of Stovall's plantation in Coahoma County in the Mississippi Delta. A few ...
Obituary by Chris Charlesworth, Guardian, The, July 2002
IN HIS POLKA-DOT bow tie, cream chinos and white buckskin shoes, Timothy White, who has died aged 50, cut a stylish figure in a profession ...
Out of His Pen: The Words of Richard Williams
Interview by Simon Warner, rockcritics.com, September 2002
IN U.S. CULTURE, the rock critic is valued, even venerated. From Lester Bangs to Dave Marsh, from Ben Fong-Torres to Greil Marcus, the voices that ...
Ginsberg's Flannel And Other Stories
Book Review by Ian Penman, Guardian, The, October 2002
In the Sixties, Barry Miles, 322pp, Jonathan Cape, £17.99 ...
Book Review by Simon Warner, Rock's Backpages, November 2002
Simon Warner peruses a fresh academic take on rock journalism ...
Essay by Simon Warner, Rock's Backpages, December 2002
Simon Warner on Dazed & Confused at 10 – and The Wire at 20! ...
Publish and be Damned: The Decline and Fall of the UK Music Press
Overview by Paul Gorman, slantmagazine.com, Summer 2002
WHAT’S UP WITH the music press? The once proud sector of the British media, created from the unholy union of the 60s underground and the ...
Obituary by Richard Williams, Guardian, The, January 2003
Richard Williams mourns "probably the first woman to write about pop music as though it really mattered". Below, some examples of what made Valentine such ...
Review by Simon Warner, Rock's Backpages, February 2003
"WHAT WOULD entice social misfits from provincial hellholes like, say, Northampton, Wigan and Exmouth to join the world of sex, drugs, travel and free records ...
Overview by Simon Warner, Rock's Backpages, March 2003
Why new music titles keep coming despite uncertain times. ...
Jimi Hendrix: Paul Williams On Jimi Hendrix
Interview by Mike Mettler, UniVibes, April 2003
WHO'S YOUR Daddy? Think Rolling Stone magazine invented rock criticism? Think again. ...
Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll Writing!
Comment by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, May 2003
This month, Bloomsbury – the home of rockin' Harry Potter – publishes The Sound & the Fury: A Rock's Backpages Reader, a selection of seminal ...
Ian MacDonald: The People's Music - Selected Journalism (Pimlico)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Observer, The, July 2003
BROADLY SPEAKING there are three kinds of British rock writers: boring ones, brash ones, and genuinely bright ones. Somehow it's typical of our anti-intellectual culture ...
Radiohead, Phil Spector: Steven Wells On Rock Snobs
Column by Steven Wells, playlouder.com, August 2003
The The Stages Of Pop-Man ...
Lester Bangs: My Black Pages: Lester Bangs' Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste
Book Review by Don Waller, LA CityBeat, August 2003
BACK FROM THE dead and bigger than ever! As a writer – hell, more importantly, as a reader – the Editorial We wuz turnin' cataleptic ...
Lester Bangs: Joy And Rage Of A Dishevelled Rock Critic
Book Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Independent, The, September 2003
Mainlines, Blood Feasts And Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader Lester Bangs; ed. John Morthland (Serpent's Tail; £9.99) ...
Revelations In The Head: Ian MacDonald 1948-2003
Obituary by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, September 2003
THE NEWS THAT Ian MacDonald has taken his own life comes as a terrible shock, both to the colleagues who knew him and to the ...
Gathering Moss: The Fossilisation of Rolling Stone
Comment by Tim Footman, Rock's Backpages, November 2003
BILLY JOEL? Billy fucking Joel??? ...
Book Excerpt by Paul Wellings, 'I'm a Journalist...Get Me Out of Here!', 2004
I BLUFFED my way into journalism and am still bluffing in the PR world. If the truth were told, most journalists are bluffers to some ...
Retrospective by Chris Charlesworth, Rock's Backpages, 2004
A WHIFF OF hedonism lingered amid the dense fog of cigarette smoke inside the top floor suite of Detroit's luxurious Ponchartrain hotel. David Bowie sighed, ...
Beatles, The, Danger Mouse: More Than Words: Musings on Music Journalism — Life Goes On
Comment by Devon Powers, PopMatters, March 2004
FEBRUARY 24 WAS a banner day for the Copy Left, a loose network of computer activists, intellectuals, forward-thinking musicians and zealous fans who continue to ...
Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, 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 ...
Comment by Devon Powers, PopMatters, June 2004
IF EVER there was a time when writing about music felt utterly pointless, that time is now. ...
This Is Rebel Music: The Harvey Kubernik InnerView: Part One
Interview by Gary Pig Gold, fufkin.com, September 2004
"If there is a secret history of LA's music scene – the real dirt, the telling minutiae, the diseased spirit of the place – then ...
This Is Rebel Music: The Harvey Kubernik InnerView: Part Two
Interview by Gary Pig Gold, fufkin.com, October 2004
"THIS EXTRAORDINARY ASSEMBLAGE of interviews by journalist and record producer Harvey Kubernik is, as Brian Wilson's blurb on the back cover says, "inside stuff." It's ...
Who Put The Bomp? Why, Greg Shaw, Of Course!
Obituary by Gary Pig Gold, torpedopop.com, October 2004
ACCOLADES AND AWARDS are being tossed around far too indiscriminately these days, wouldn’t you agree? Especially within the, uh, Wonderful World of Entertainment. I mean, ...
Dave Godin: Champion of Black Music who coined the term "Northern Soul"
Obituary by Richard Williams, Guardian, The, October 2004
WHEN THE MUSICIANS and singers of the first Motown Revue – the Miracles, the Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas, "Little" Stevie Wonder and Earl Van ...
Retrospective by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, December 2004
NOTE: I’ve never done a more personal piece of journalism. Ralph was a distant figure on my horizon, but his presence surrounded me; from reading ...
Hail Hail The Bangs All Here Department: Lester Bangs' Lost Letters To MAD
Memoir by Jeffrey Morgan, Fun House, 2005
EDITORIAL NOTE: For the gullible out there, this "memoir" of Morgan's may not be 100% true. It was originally published in slightly different form a ...
Sex Pistols, The: Children In The Mire: A Reading Of Bangs, Marcus And The Sex Pistols, part 1
Essay by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, January 2005
"THE DOMAIN OF the theater is not psychological but plastic and physical. And it is not a question of whether the physical language of theater ...
Sex Pistols, The: Children in the Mire: Bangs, Marcus, and the Sex Pistols, Part II – Polly
Essay by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, January 2005
The hot night makes us keep our bedroom windows open.Our magnolia blossoms. Life begins to happen. My hopped up husband drops his home disputes, and ...
Beatles, The, Bob Dylan: An Interview With The Blacklisted Journalist Al Aronowitz
Profile and Interview by Gary Pig Gold, inmusicwetrust.com, February 2005
Gary "Pig" Gold meets the Man Who Invented the Sixties. ...
Hunter S Thompson: Rock of Rages
Comment by Andrew Mueller, Guardian, The, February 2005
FOLLOWING HUNTER S THOMPSON'S suicide, many obituarists, looking for a representative snippet of the Doctor's bug-eyed vitriol, served up the following trenchant assessment of the ...
Beach Boys, The: An Interview With Dominic Priore: Good Things Come To Those Who SmiLE, part 1
Interview by Gary Pig Gold, fufkin.com, August 2005
Gary Pig Gold climbs into the Virtual Sandbox ...
Marvin Gaye: Divided Soul: The Life Of Marvin Gaye
Book Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2005
DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY of the Trouble Man ...
Book Review by Bill Wasserzieher, Ugly Things, Summer 2005
GENE CLARK of the Byrds was many things - a charismatic stage presence in a '60s band that became an American icon; a gifted and ...
Neil Young: Jimmy McDonough: Shakey - Neil Young's Biography
Book Review by Craig W. Thomas, Rock's Backpages, Fall 2005
INTO MY HOLIDAY knapsack this year I tucked a biography of Lowell George that a friend had lent me, and I picked it up on ...
Allen Ginsberg: The Adventures Of The Imagination: Allen Ginsberg's Kaddish
Sleevenotes by Harvey Kubernik, Water Records, 2006
IN A PARIS CAFÉ in November 1957, Allen Ginsberg began the initial notations for Kaddish. In Ginsberg: A Biography, by longtime friend and author Barry ...
The Press Gang:: Music Journalists (AKA: Sleeping With The Enemy)
Overview by Jon Stewart, Guitarist, March 2006
Jon Stewart talks to the enemy, music journalists, and finds out what makes them tick... ...
Big Star, Lester Bangs: The Great Lig in the Sky: The Legendary Rock Writers Convention of May 1973
Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, June 2006
ON MEMORIAL DAY weekend in May 1973, over a hundred of the leading rock writers of the day flew into Memphis, Tennessee, for 72 hours ...
Book Review by Christine Natanael, crushermagazine.com, August 2006
THIS IS A review that has been very, very hard to write. Not because the 600-page collection of columns, essays, random thoughts and photos is ...
Read All About It: Rock Books to Live By
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, Time Out's 1000 Books To Save Your Life, 2007
YOU'D THINK I'd be able to write about rock books in my sleep. But of course the task is dreadfully daunting, "rock" now being an ...
Mad River: Just Like a Poem: Richard Brautigan and Mad River
Retrospective and Interview by David Biasotti, Richard Brautigan (ed. John F. Barber), McFarland, 2007
THOUGH THEY RECORDED two albums for Capitol Records, Mad River remains one of the least-documented and enigmatic Bay Area bands of the late '60s. ...
Warren Zevon: Crystal Zevon's Story: Warren from A to Z
Interview by Fred Schruers, Los Angeles Times, May 2007
Through interviews and diaries, the musician's ex-wife chronicles the hedonistic life of one of the genre's bad boys. ...
Obituary by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, August 2007
THE DEATH of Richard Cook at the age of 49 robs us of one of the finest writers UK music journalism has produced. He was ...
Richard Cook 1957-2007: Friends and Colleagues Pay Tribute
Obituary by Various Writers, Rock's Backpages, September 2007
The great jazz and rock writer, who died on August 25, 2007, is remembered by those who worked with him at NME and Sounds. ...
Obituary by Mike Atherton, unpublished, 2008
RAY TOPPING, who has died aged 65, was arguably the world's foremost researcher of and authority on rock'n'roll and blues. ...
Essay by Mark Mordue, markmordue.com, May 2008
WHEN I THINK ABOUT rock 'n' roll and my life trying to write about it, my trying to get inside rock 'n' roll through words ...
Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? Ten Years After The Repetitive Beat Generation
Essay by Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, July 2008
OVER A decade ago I researched the rise and fall of a British publishing phenomenon – the so called 'cult fiction' of writers like Nicholas ...
Special Feature by Various Writers, Rock's Backpages, December 2008
Rob Partridge was a true music man – a witty, loyal, and deeply knowledgeable fan whose loss will be felt throughout the UK ...
Flirtations with Chaos: The Life and Work of Robert Palmer
Essay by Anthony DeCurtis, 'Blues & Chaos', 2009
NOTE: This is Anthony DeCurtis' introduction to Blues & Chaos, his 2009 anthology of Bob Palmer's work.* ...
Ian Whitcomb: The Troubadour Of Lost Time
Retrospective and Interview by Kirk Silsbee, Arroyo Monthly, January 2009
POET HOLLY PRADO once observed: "A city either wants you or it doesn't." Ian Whitcomb was a history student at Dublin's Trinity College with ...
Janis Ian: Society's Child (Tarcher/Penguin)
Review by Roy Trakin, Rock's Backpages, March 2009
I ADMITTEDLY hadn't thought much about Janis Ian lately, even as my good friend Andy Schwartz kept recommending this surprisingly compelling, always-candid autobiography, going so ...
Elvis Presley, John Lennon: Sympathy for the Devil – A Kind Word for Albert Goldman
Essay by Tom Graves, Rock's Backpages, April 2009
ALBERT HARRY GOLDMAN is inarguably the most controversial music biographer of the last generation. His biographies of first Elvis, then John Lennon, have been spit ...
Memoir by Richard Riegel, unpublished, May 2009
NOTE: I wrote this mini-memoir for one of the neo-Creem projects of recent years, but it wasn't used. ...
Rage Against the Machine: Steven Wells, 1960-2009
Special Feature by Various Writers, Rock's Backpages, June 2009
An august bunch of RBP contributors – friends, colleagues, and plain admirers of the man – pay tribute to an inspired rent-a-gob who died bravely ...
Memoir by John Pidgeon, Rock's Backpages, June 2009
IT'S THURSDAY, 6th July 1972. The Guardian lies on the doormat, its front page torn, as usual. I've questioned the paperboy. He says the slot's ...
Memoir by John Pidgeon, Rock's Backpages, June 2009
IN JANUARY 1980, the gates of 4641 Hayvenhurst Avenue in Encino were open, unguarded. As I parked, an Alsatian bounded to the car and bared ...
The Demise of Vibe and the Future of Criticism
Comment by Mark Anthony Neal, PopMatters, July 2009
THERE'S NO SMALL irony to the fact that the announcement of the folding of Vibe magazine occurred the day after the death of Michael Jackson. ...
The Thrill Of It All: The Advent of MP3 Blogs
Essay by Nick Hornby, Observer Music Monthly, September 2009
MY FIRST NOVEL, High Fidelity, was published in 1995, and shortly afterwards, I embarked upon my first American book tour. I took with me a ...
The Magazine Explosion: UK Pop Publications in the '60s
Retrospective by Jon Savage, Observer, The, September 2009
IT'S FEBRUARY 1963. The Beatles are No 2 in the charts with 'Please Please Me' and it's time to meet the press. An anonymous reporter ...
Feelies, The: Rick Moody Interviews the Feelies
Interview by Steven R Rosen, blurt-online.com, December 2009
The celebrated novelist and Wingdale Community Singers rocker interviews his favorite band. Blurt takes notes. ...
Man of the World: A Rock's Backpages Tribute to Charlie Gillett, 1942-2010
Special Feature by Various Writers, Rock's Backpages, March 2010
CHARLIE GILLETT'S contributions to music are far too numerous to be listed here. Briefly, he was the author of the seminal history The Sound Of ...
Rock Journalist Carol Clerk Broke the Mould
Obituary by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian Unlimited, March 2010
Former Melody Maker news editor Carol Clerk, who died last week, was a role model for female music writers. She loved old-school rock – and ...
John Storm Roberts: An Appreciation
Memoir by Don Snowden, Rock's Backpages, April 2011
I'VE ALWAYS BEEN more than a bit ambivalent about the whole concept of mentoring, at least when it applies to the music world we run ...
Led Zeppelin: Nick Kent on Led Zeppelin (2011)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, May 2011
Legendary NME journalist Nick Kent remembers his days in the orbit of Led Zeppelin: the many highs, and quite a few lows; Peter Grant; Zep v journalists; the sleaze and the gangsters.
File format: mp3; file size: 132.8mb, interview length: 2h 25' 03" sound quality: ****
Ellen Willis: Out Of The Vinyl Deeps – Ellen Willis on Rock Music (University of Minnesota Press)
Book Review by Evelyn McDonnell, New York Times, June 2011
WOODSTOCK WAS A RIP-OFF. Creedence Clearwater Revival eclipsed the Rolling Stones. Bob Dylan struggled with identity. Janis Joplin "was not so much a victim as ...
The World's Oldest Teenager: Remembering Jane Scott
Obituary by Holly Gleason, Los Angeles Times blogs, July 2011
SHE WAS LIKE Andy Warhol: iconic blond hair set in a most determined pageboy that never moved. That, and red oversized glasses. You couldn't miss ...
Book Excerpt by Kevin Avery, Everything is an Afterthought (Fantagraphics), November 2011
ON APRIL 14, 1983, Elliot Roberts, Neil Young's manager, wrote a letter to Paul: "This is to advise you that we will co-operate with you ...
Book Excerpt by Kevin Avery, Everything is an Afterthought (Fantagraphics), November 2011
MUSIC PLAYED A PART IN young Paul's life. "My aunt played piano. I remember hymns very fondly as the first music I ever heard." There ...
Kevin Avery: Everything is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson (Fantagraphics)
Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, Word, The, December 2011
NOTE: This is a slightly expanded version of the review that ran in The Word. ...
The Ghost of Roland Barthes is Suitably Perplexed: NME in the Post-Punk Era
Book Excerpt by Pat Long, Portico Books, March 2012
NOTE: In this excerpt from his History of the NME, published in the UK by Portico, Pat Long chronicles the decline of the world's top ...
Memoir by Mark Shipper, Rock's Backpages, April 2012
WELL, I CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE. Deep in the back of my head I have this Karmic debt I owe to Greg Shaw for setting ...
Memoir by Geoffrey Cannon, Rock's Backpages, April 2012
IT ALL STARTED at school when as a Bluecoat Boy I smuggled me into the local record shop in Horsham, Sussex, and my buddy told ...
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, April 2013
MOST PEOPLE WHO KNOW ANYTHING about music journalism know that the late Frank Zappa defined it, in 1977, as "people who can't write interviewing people ...
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