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ARTISTS
America
The grits and granola boy-band on the Crosby, Stills & Nash copyists issue, playing live and sharing accommodation
File format: mp3; file size: 14.8mb; Interview length: 16' 11"; sound quality: ****
The Band's Levon Helm
The Band's drummer takes us from West Memphis nightclubs to The Hawks to Dylan to Big Pink to Muddy Waters, and along the way touches on his break with Robbie Robertson and the death of Richard Manuel
File format: mp3; in 3 parts, total file sizes: 81.1meg, total interview length: 1h 28' 37" sound quality: **
The Band's Rick Danko
A fascinating interview with Rick Danko about living in Woodstock, the Big Pink ("actually magenta") , and working in the Basement with Bob Dylan.
File format: mp3 File size: 28.5mb Interview length: 31 minutes 13 seconds Sound quality: ****
Bill Graham on The Band (and Dylan)
άber-promoter Bill Graham talks about his relationship with The Band, from their Winterland debut to The Last Waltz, via Watkins Glen and the 1974 Dylan mega-tour
File format: mp3 File size: 28.3mb Interview length: 30 minutes 56 seconds Sound quality: ****
Beck in Los Angeles, part 1
Beck talks to Barney Hoskyns about hip hop, folk, blues and the making and success of Odelay.
File format: mp3 File size: 27.6mb
Interview length: 40 minutes 18 seconds Sound quality: ****
Beck in Los Angeles, part 2
Beck talks to Barney Hoskyns about country music, Los Angeles, his artist grandfather, Tom Waits and more.
File format: mp3 File size: 24.4mb Interview length: 35 minutes 39 seconds Sound quality: ****
Bee Gee Barry Gibb
Barry takes us through the '60s, starting in Australia before hitting Swinging London, hanging out with Stones and Beatles, the drugs and booze, and his close relationship with Robert Stigwood
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 60meg, total interview length: 65' 29" sound quality: ****
Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi
From collapsing at the Hollywood Bowl to Geezer Butler's gallstones, via the making of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and enjoying a nice game of Monopoly at home, the Riff King chats with Keith Altham
File format: mp3; File size: 32.6meg, interview length: 35' 34" sound quality: ***
Bobby 'Blue' Bland
Bobby Bland talks about his influences, including MOR men like Perry Como and Andy Williams, and about the ups and downs of his career. Oh, and how C.L. Franklin gave him "the squall".
File format: mp3 File size: 15.8mb Interview length: 17 minutes 12 seconds Sound quality: ****
Marc Bolan, parts 1 & 2
Marc on life on the road, rock'n'roll literature, his image and clothes, guitars, "chicks", Elvis and a whole lot more
File format: mp3; Part 1: file size: 26.2mb; length: 28 minutes 37 seconds. Part 2: file size: 28.1mb; length: 30 minutes 43 seconds.Sound quality: ***
David Bowie, part 1
The Dame, surrounded by some splendid NYC ambience, talks about where he's at today, his workoholism, being part of Tin Machine and some of the personas he has adopted.
File format: mp3 File size: 27.5mb Interview length: 30 minutes 02 seconds Sound quality: ***
David Bowie, part 2
DB on being liberated by Hunky Dory, becoming Ziggy, years lost to drugs, and on his relationship with his fans via the internet.
File format: mp3 File size: 24.3mb Interview length: 26 minutes 21 seconds Sound quality: ***
James Brown
James Brown talks about survival, mistrust, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Invention of Funk.
File format: mp3 File size: 28.5mb Interview length: 31 minutes 8 seconds Sound quality: ***
Jackson Browne in London, part 1
On songwriting the political versus the personal and the making of his album I'm Alive, his brushes with movie soundtrack songwriting, and his love of pop music.
File format: mp3 File size: 28.9mb Interview length: 31 minutes 35 seconds Sound quality: ****
Jackson Browne in London, part 2
JB on the rise of country rock, the Ash Grove and Troubadour scenes, David Geffen, the notorious Elektra Ranch and the singer songwriter movement.
File format: mp3 File size: 36.4mb Interview length: 39 minutes 46 seconds Sound quality: ****
Jeff Buckley interviews Esquivel
Jeff Buckley asks the questions, and Esquivel gives us a glimpse of his happy half-century of music making.
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 40.6meg, total interview length: 44' 20" sound quality: **
J.J. Cale
The 'After Midnight' Man takes us back to Tulsa, and on to L.A.: how he's stayed a step outside the music business, how Clapton's 'After Midnight' cover saved his ass, and on the changes he's seen in his many years as a musician
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 41.2meg, total interview length: 44' 58" sound quality: ***
Belinda Carlisle
La Carlisle on Solo vs Go-Go, Pop vs Rock, critics vs her, choosing songs and NOT being an actress
File format: mp3 File size: 20.5mb Interview length: 22 minutes 21 seconds Sound quality: ****
Johnny Cash, Late and Alone
Johnny Cash talks to Barney Hoskyns about his health, his religion, his revival with Rick Rubin, and the myth of the Million Dollar Quartet
File format: MP3 File size: 31mb
Interview length: 45 minutes 14 seconds Sound quality: ***
Nick Cave
The interview was meant to be about The Bad Seeds' Kicking Against The Pricks, but swiftly degenerates into an attack on music journalism in general, and interviewer Mat Snow in particular
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 41.8meg, total interview length: 45' 56" sound quality: ***
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man - part 1
Laughing Lennie talks to Mat Snow about songwriting, meditiation and religion, the collapse of literary culture, and the misperception of him as a Gloom Merchant.
File format: mp3 File size: 22.7mb
Interview length: 24 minute 48 seconds Sound quality: ***
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man - part 2
In this part of Mat Snow's interview, Lennie talks about music as therapy, ambiguity, songwriting and 'My Way': Sinatra vs Vicious
File format: mp3 File size: 28.1mb Interview length: 30 minutes 42 seconds Sound quality: ***
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man - part 3
Lennie talks to Mat Snow about his relationship with the press, Montreal, the idealism of '68, and the rise of the post-punk Cult of Cohen.
File format: mp3 File size: 27.3mb Interview length: 29 minutes 48 seconds Sound quality: ***
The Ry Cooder Interview, parts 1-3
From his youth in Santa Monica via the Ash Grove scene through to movie soundtracks and his explorations of world musics: Ry on the music business, his fellow musicians and his politically progressive background and instincts.
File format: mp3; in 3 parts, total file sizes: 76.2meg, total interview length: 83' 11" sound quality: ***
Cream's Jack Bruce
From Manchester's Twisted Wheel to the Royal Albert Hall: Jack Bruce talks to Johnny Black about the beginning and ending of the first supergroup, Cream
File format: mp3 File size: 23.9mb Interview length: 26 minutes 8 seconds Sound quality: ****
Depeche Mode's David Gahan, part 1
David Gahan talks about doing his solo album, songwriting and being Martin Gore's mouthpiece
File format: mp3 File size: 28.4mb Interview length: 30 minutes 59 seconds Sound quality: ***
Depeche Mode's David Gahan, part 2
The Car Crash Years: On the road with Depeche Mode, the desire to be a rock'n'roll star, the influence of Grunge, and Dog Days in Santa Monica
File format: mp3 File size: 25.1mb Interview length: 27 minutes 22 seconds Sound quality: ***
Elastica's Justine Frischmann
The Full Frischmann: Starting Suede! Leaving Suede! Not much liking Suede these days! And then the excitement of being in Elastica at the height of Britpop, anticipating recording the first album...
File format: mp3 File size: 34.9mb Interview length: 38 minutes 10 seconds Sound quality: ***
Jeff Buckley interviews Esquivel
Jeff Buckley asks the questions, and Esquivel gives us a glimpse of his happy half-century of music making.
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 40.6meg, total interview length: 44' 20" sound quality: **
Donald Fagen, parts 1 & 2
On making Kamakiriad, NYC versus LA, favourite grooves and favourite rhythm sections, working by himself and looking back on Steely Dan
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 74.8meg, total interview length: 80' 36" sound quality: ***
Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood
The veteran drummer assesses the career of Fleetwood Mac, looking at key songs from their career from 'Oh Well' to 'Tusk'
File format: mp3 File size: 43.7mb Interview length: 47 minutes 46 seconds Sound quality: ****
Steven Rosen talks to John Fogerty
John Fogerty on guitar playing versus songwriting, and how he's got better.
File format: MP3 File size: 883.1k
Interview length: 1 minute 10 seconds Sound quality: ***
The Grateful Dead (and the New Riders), part 1
Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir from the Dead, plus New Riders David Nelson and Marmaduke, talk about Workingman's Dead and the birth of the New Riders of the Purple Sage, while DJ Ted Alvy spins tunes and tries to keep order. Originally broadcast on KPPC-FM Pasadena in December 1970
File format: mp3 File size: 24.5mb Interview length: 26 minutes 43 seconds Sound quality: ****
The Grateful Dead (and the New Riders), part 2
...in which Garcia, Weir, David Nelson and Marmaduke break out the guitars and have themselves an impromptu hootenanny, playing some of your country-gospel favourites amidst much studio chaos.
File format: mp3 File size: 30.7mb Interview length: 33 minutes 31 seconds Sound quality: ****
Green Day
The young pups of punk nouveau phone in about their humungous success, vast wealth, and what it means to be a punk, twenty years after the fact.
File format: mp3 File size: 33.3mb Interview length: 36 minutes 24 seconds Sound quality: **
PJ Harvey
Peej on making Uh Huh Her, songwriting, minimalism, her rock'n'roll bohemian upbringing, working with Marianne Faithfull and meeting Kurt Cobain
File format mp3; File size: 26.8mb (1) and 26.9mb (2); Interview lengths: 29 minutes 18 seconds (1) and 29 minutes 20 seconds (2); Sound quality: ***
Lee Hazlewood
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; in 6 parts, total file sizes: 169.7meg, total interview length: 3h 5' 39" sound quality: ***
Jimi Hendrix
In what was possibly the last interview Hendrix did, a week before his death, he talks poignantly about his plans for the future, and looks back at his past.
File format: mp3 File size: 28.6mb Interview length: 31 minutes 17 seconds Sound quality: ****
John Lee Hooker
An avuncular (if occasionally inaudible) John Lee talks about making The Healer, doing Iron Man with Pete Townshend, his roots, and the state of the world today
File format: mp3 File size: 24.9mb Interview length: 27 minutes 12 seconds Sound quality: ***
Mick Jagger, 1973
Ol' Rubber Lips on the reception afforded to Exile, the making of latest album Goat's Head Soup, what current music is or isn't turning him on, and the Stones' place in the scheme of things
File format: mp3 File size: 29.5mb Interview length: 32 minutes 13 seconds Sound quality: **
Etta James
Etta James tells Barney Hoskyns about her struggles with addiction, meeting Billie Holiday, making Seven Year Itch and staying contemporary.
File format: mp3 File size: 40.4mb
Interview length: 44 minutes 5 seconds Sound quality: **
Patti LaBelle
The gal with the Big Hair talks about hitting with 'On My Own', the making of her Winner In You album, and fondly remembers the old package-tour days and her time with LaBelle.
File format: mp3 File size: 16.1mb Interview length: 17 minutes 32 seconds Sound quality: ***
k.d. lang
America's First Lady of Polysexual Song talks about the making of Drag, the art of interpretation, and of her love of all things Burt Bacharach
File format: mp3; file size: 12.9meg, interview length: 14' 06" sound quality: *****
Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones
Led Zep's bass player takes us back to the riotous days of 1970, and the joys of playing with Bonzo, the folk and R&B influences, and forward to 1979, and Knebworth and In Through The Out Door
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 64.2meg, total interview length: 1h10'7", sound quality: ***
Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page
Jimmy Page on going through the archives to assemble the monumental Led Zeppelin DVD, and on the early days of the band, on the road and in the studio, through to Knebworth in 1979
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 45.2meg, total interview length: 49'22", sound quality: ***
Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page
Jimmy Page on recording techniques, and the formation of Led Zeppelin, with Steven Rosen (1977)
File format: MP3 File size: 1.2 mb
Interview length: 1 minute 49 seconds Sound quality: ***
Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant
Percy himself on Led Zep's annus mirabilis 1970 - from conquering America and playing the Royal Albert Hall, to "getting it together in the country" at Bron-Y-Aur, and the gestation of Led Zep, then fast forward to 1979, and family tragedy, recording In Through the Out Door, and playing Knebworth
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 65.2meg, total interview length: 1h11'08", sound quality: ****
Little Richard, The Quasar of Rock
Little Richard, on the 'phone, talks about race, religion, Good Works, the original giants of rock'n'roll, and Prince and Michael Jackson
File format: mp3 File size: 20.3mb Interview length: 22 minutes 13 seconds Sound quality: **
Little Richard speaks, part 1
Little Richard on the demonic nature of Rock'n'Roll of which, nonetheless, he is King; on how he came out of the American South; on Otis Redding and much more. Hear him sing!
File format: mp3 File size: 26.3mb Interview length: 28 minutes 47 seconds Sound quality: ****
Little Richard speaks, part 2
Mr Penniman on God, Gospel, Sex, Drugs & Rock'n'Roll. Phew!
File format: mp3 File size: 21.5mb Interview length: 23 minutes 30 seconds Sound quality: ****
Arthur Lee in LA, part 1
Arthur Lee tells Barney Hoskyns about growing up in Memphis and Los Angeles and his dreams of being a musician. Some of the time.
File format: mp3 File size: 35.5mb Interview length: 39 minutes 54 seconds Sound quality: **
Arthur Lee in LA, part 2
An increasingly cantankerous Arthur Lee describes a gay near-miss with Jimi Hendrix, rants about hip-hop, and spouts New Age gibberish to a palpably startled Barney Hoskyns
File format: mp3 File size: 50.2mb Interview length: 54 minutes 51 seconds Sound quality: **
Love's Arthur Lee
Steven Rosen talks to Arthur Lee in 1974 on the influence of the Byrds on Love, and his development as an artist.
File format: MP3 File size: 1mb
Interview length: 1 minute 27 seconds Sound quality: ***
Love's Bryan MacLean
RBP takes a drive around Los Angeles with Arthur Lee's second-in-command, hearing all about the madness, the drugs and the whole Sunset Scene vibe - and the making of the first two, classic, Love albums.
File format: mp3; in 3 parts, total file sizes: 92meg, total interview length: 1hr 40' 34" sound quality: **
Paul McCartney
A long, free-flowing conversation, during which Paul talks about Phil Spector and Let It Be, on his relationship with Yoko and the "who's name first" saga, and the deaths of John Lennon and George Harrison, plus much more.
File format: mp3; in 3 parts, total file sizes: 75.8mb, total interview length: 1h 22' 44" sound quality: ****
Metallica's Lars Ulrich, part 1
Mat Snow talks to Metallica's Lars Ulrich about his roots, the formation of Metallica, the L.A. and S.F. scenes and the sacking of Dave Mustaine.
File format: MP3 File size: 31.4 mb
Interview length: 46 minutes Sound quality: ***
Metallica's Lars Ulrich, part 2
Metallica's Lars Ulrich talks about the Washington Wives, Cliff Burton's death, touring with Ozzie, and Alcoholica!
File format: MP3 File size: 31.3 mb
Interview length: 45 minutes 37 seconds Sound quality: ***
Joni Mitchell interviewed, parts 1 and 2
Barney Hoskyns talks to Joni Mitchell, Los Angeles, 14 September 1994
Parts 1 and 2: mp3, sound quality ****; 4 Real Audio excerpts
Willie Mitchell, Memphis Magician
The legendary Memphis producer talks about the rise of Southern Soul and the Memphis Sound, meeting and producing Al Green and making all those fabulous hits for Hi Records
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 46.2meg, total interview length: 50' 30" sound quality: ****
Morrissey interviewed, part 1
Part 1 of Mat Snow's monumental interview with Morrissey in 1989
File format: MP3 File size: 25.8mb
Interview length: 37 minute 42 seconds Sound quality: ***
Morrissey interviewed, part 2
Revenge is his motive and shaved are his armpits.
File format: MP3 File size: 20.3mb, Interview length: 22 minutes 10 seconds, Sound quality: ***
Morrissey interviewed, part 3
On topicality and politics in songwriting, his depressions, and touring and audiences.
File format: MP3 File size: 32.3mb, Interview length: 35 minutes 15 seconds, Sound quality: ***
Willie Nelson in Stockholm
Willie Nelson on tour in Sweden on leaving Columbia for Liberty, his tussle with the IRS, Cowboy movies, songwriting and more...
File format: mp3 File size: 30mb Interview length: 32 minutes 43 seconds Sound quality: ****
Aaron Neville
The giant of New Orleans singers looks back at his roots in the Crescent City: the hard times and the good times, being a Neville Brother, key vocal influences and more.
File format: mp3 File size: 29.2mb Interview length: 31 minutes 55 seconds Sound quality: ***
Malcolm McLaren Remembers The New York Dolls, parts 1 & 2
From meeting up in London, Paris and NYC, via the Red Guards debacle, to catching the clap in New Orleans, Malcolm McLaren tells all about his time with the New York Dolls
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 54.3meg, total interview length: 59' 19" sound quality: **
Don Nix
A languid, laid-back chat with the man who was always there: at the start of southern soul in Memphis with the Mar-Keys, on the road with Leon Russell, in L.A. with J.J. Cale and on. On the musicians he knew, scenes he was part of, and on that thorny subject, race.
File format: mp3; in 3 parts, total file sizes: 81.1meg, total interview length: 1h 28' 39" sound quality: ****
Yoko Ono
Yoko on her musical upbringing, life during wartime, the avant garde and her involvment with John and the English music scene
File format: mp3 File size: 26.6mb Interview length: 38 minutes 44 seconds Sound quality: *
Roy Orbison
Roy Orbson on the Travelling Wilburys, the ups-and-downs of his career, the old Sun Records gang, and a whole lot more...
File format: mp3 File sizes: 17.8 and 17.9mb
Interview lengths: 31:08 and 31:26 Sound quality: ***
Ozzy Osbourne Speaks! Part 1
In that inimitable Black Country accent, Ozzy talks about his background, musical roots and the birth and death of Black Sabbath. Drugs! Drink! Management Rip-Offs! It's all here.
File format: mp3 File size: 30.1mb Interview length: 43 minutes 55 seconds Sound quality: ***
Ozzy Osbourne Speaks! Part 2
Sacked by Sabbath, saved by Sharon, going solo: Ozzy tells all about the ups, the downs, the addiction and alcoholism.
File format: mp3 File size: 30.7mb Interview length: 44 minutes 47 seconds Sound quality: ***
Van Dyke Parks, part 1
Van Dyke Parks talks of his early days in Los Angeles, the folk scene, and the deaths of both his brother and John F. Kennedy
File format: mp3 File size: 32.4mb Interview length: 35 minutes 21 seconds Sound quality: ****
Van Dyke Parks, part 2
On becoming an arranger and songwriter, the effects of the '60s British Invasion, the counterculture and the death of the hippie dream.
File format: mp3 File size: 25.9mb Interview length: 28 minutes 18 seconds Sound quality: ****
Van Dyke Parks, part 3
Van Dyke Parks talks about being in the studio with Brian Wilson, the legendary Smile project, his own Song Cycle and much more
File format: mp3 File size: 34.7mb Interview length: 37 minutes 56 seconds Sound quality: ****
Dan Penn
A short chat with the country-soul legend, talking about writing 'Cry Like A Baby', producing the Box Tops, and on the sadly MIA Eddie Hinton
File format: mp3 File size: 9.2mb Interview length: 10 minutes Sound quality: ****
Pink Floyd's Nick Mason and Rick Wright
A splendid radio interview with Messrs. Mason and Wright in which they talk about Meddle, the Zabriskie Point soundtrack, their quadraphonic p.a. system and playing live.
File format: mp3 File size: 33.8mb Interview length: 36 minutes 52 seconds Sound quality: ****
The Pixies' Black Francis
Black Francis on the telephone, talking about The Pixies' major label debut, his influences ranging from his Pentecostal background to the movies of David Lynch, and his "Black Francis" persona
File format: mp3 File size: 23mb Interview length: 25 minutes 10 seconds Sound quality: **
Iggy Pop interviewed
Barney Hoskyns talks to Iggy Pop, New York NY, 24 June 1999
File format: MP3 File size: 20.9mb
Interview length: 45 minutes Sound quality: ***
PiL in Estonia, part 1
Live Aid? Bollocks! Mat Snow battles the airport tannoy to hear pearls of wisdom from John Lydon and band.
File format: MP3 File size: 16.1 mb
Interview length: 23 minute 47 seconds Sound quality: ***
The Raconteurs
Raconteurs Jack White, Brendan Benson, Patrick Keeler and Jack Lawrence on how they got together, making the first album, and their shared love of Led Zeppelin
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 39.5meg, total interview length: 43' 04" sound quality: ***
The Ramones in London, part 2
Joey and Dee Dee talk about drugs, playing fast, New York City, and where they come from musically.
File format: mp3; File size: 12.5 mb Interview length: 18 minutes 16 seconds, sound quality: ***
The Ramones in London, part 1
Joey and Dee Dee talk about life for da brudders is the mid-'80s, Hardcore, chart success (or not), and much more.
File format: mp3; File size: 30.6 mb
Interview length: 44 minutes 36 seconds, sound quality: ***
The Replacements' Paul Westerberg, part 1
Replacements kingpin Westerberg on the making of Pleased To Meet Me in Memphis with messrs. Chilton and Dickinson, and losing Bob Stinson
File format: mp3 File size: 18.5mb Interview length: 20 minutes 15 seconds Sound quality: ***
The Replacements' Paul Westerberg, part 2
Westerberg on his family background, the Minneapolis scene, hatred of the English music press, beer, football and life on the road
File format: mp3 File size: 22.5mb Interview length: 24 minutes 31 seconds Sound quality: ***
Keith Richards
The Human Riff on Exile on Main Street, Gram Parsons, rastamen in the hills and his loathing of Oasis
File format: mp3 File size: 27.7mb Interview length: 30 minutes 13 seconds Sound quality: ****
A Wizard, A True Star: Todd Rundgren, part 2
On getting involved with Albert Goldman and the Woodstock scene, recording The Band and dressing up and taking acid
File format: mp3 File size: 39.6mb Interview length: 43 minutes 15 seconds Sound quality: ****
A Wizard, A True Star: Todd Rundgren, part 1
On Todd's childhood and early musical adventures, culminating in the formation of The Naz and a sudden immersion in the teen pop world
File format: mp3 File size: 38.5mb Interview length: 42 minutes 06 seconds Sound quality: ****
A Wizard, A True Star: Todd Rundgren, part 3
Meeting the Sayles Brothers, working on Ritalin, the Concept for A Wizard, A True Star, building Secret Sound Studio and developing his recording techniques
File format: mp3 File size: 33.1mb Interview length: 36 minutes 09 seconds Sound quality: ****
Ed Sanders of The Fugs
Ed Sanders Fug, poet, agitator and all round rebel-about-town talks about his life from the early '60s Lower East Side Bohemia to the late '60s LA of Charlie Manson
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 48.4meg, total interview length: 52' 46" sound quality: ****
Carlos Santana
Carlos Santana talks to Steven Rosen about his musical background. (1977)
File format: MP3 File size: 427kb
Interview length: 36 seconds Sound quality: **
Scritti Politti's Green
Scritti's Green talks about making Provision, meeting Jacques Derrida, working with Miles Davis, Roger Troutman and Chaka Khan, hanging out with Kraftwerk and struggling to come up with an album title...
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 55meg, total interview length: 1 hour, sound quality: ****
Sex Pistol Glen Matlock
From shop boy to Sex Pistol: the Pistols' key songwriter talks about the genesis of the band, the role of McLaren, goin' down the Roxy and the 100 Club Punk Festival
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 42.3meg, total interview length: 46' 08" sound quality: **
Elliott Smith, NYC, 30 April 1998
Elliott Smith on discomfort, vocal styles, solo vs. electric bands, more discomfort, playing waltzes and Art, Capital A.
File format: mp3 File size: 39.3mb Interview length: 42 minutes 57 seconds Sound quality: ***
Ronnie Spector, part 1
On marriage to, and escape from, Phil Spector, being fancied by John Lennon and on being a Ronette - Ronnie Spector tells all.
File format: mp3 File size: 21.1mb Interview length: 23 minutes 6 seconds Sound quality: ***
Ronnie Spector, part 2
Ronnie goes to Swinging London, gets hit on by hero Frankie Lymon, drinks rather a lot and writes a book. Top girl!
File format: mp3 File size: 27.1mb Interview length: 29 minutes 38 seconds Sound quality: ***
Johnnie Taylor
Soul legend Johnnie Taylor tells Barney Hoskyns about his background in gospel with the Highway QCs and the Souls Stirrers, Sam Cooke, Stax Records, having hits in the disco era, and finding a new home at Malaco.
File format: mp3 File size: 20.8mb Interview length: 22 minutes 45 seconds Sound quality: ****
Richard Thompson, part 1
Richard Thompson talks to Mat Snow about growing up in North London, learning guitar and forming Fairport Convention. Along the way he meets Sandy Denny and Joe Boyd...
File format: mp3 File size: 35.8mb
Interview length: 39 minutes 11 seconds Sound quality: ***
Richard Thompson, part 2
Richard Thompson on Islam, divorce, songwriting, Fairport reunions... and his problem with The Pogues!
File format: mp3 File size: 45.8mb
Interview length: 50 minutes 3 seconds Sound quality: ***
Peter Townshend
Steven Rosen talks to Pete Townshend about developing his solo style after listening to Jimi Hendrix (1979).
File format: MP3 File size: 842kb
Interview length: 1 minute 11 seconds Sound quality: ***
Luther Vandross, part 1
Luther Vandross talks about growing up in the Bronx and his early bands, his big break working on Bowie's 'Young Americans', meeting Marcus Miller and hanging out with Chic.
File format: mp3 File size: 33.6mb Interview length: 36 minutes 48 seconds Sound quality: ****
Luther Vandross, part 2
A master at work: Vandross talks to Barney Hoskyns about producing, recording and singing... and his privacy and sense of self.
File format: mp3 File size: 33.7mb Interview length: 36 minutes 54 seconds Sound quality: ****
Tom Waits, part 1
On his new album, Mule Variations; on changing labels; on his formative influences... and on edible slugs!
File format: mp3 File size: 26.6mb Interview length: 38 minutes 52 seconds Sound quality: **
Tom Waits part 2
Beatniks, recording, songwriting, Frank Zappa and L.A.... and his first tattoos!
File format: mp3 File size: 24.3mb Interview length: 35 minutes 29 seconds Sound quality: **
Jerry Wexler part 1
Smokin' weed in the MOMA courtyard: growing up in NYC and the people he grew up with; meeting the Erteguns; writing for Billboard
File format: mp3 File size: 23.4mb Interview length: 25 minutes 36 seconds Sound quality: ***
Jerry Wexler part 2
On the early days of Atlantic records, learning to produce, and working with the great Ray Charles
File format: mp3 File size: 21.1mb Interview length: 23 minutes 4 seconds Sound quality: ***
Steve Winwood, parts 1-4
Winwood talks about the early days in Birmingham, from his childhood through to the start of the Spencer Davis Group, and thence to the stop-start life of Traffic, plus an overview of where he's at now
File format: mp3; in 4 parts, total file sizes: 109.4meg, total interview length: 2 hours; sound quality: ****
OTHERS
Mickie Most
Purveyor of pap, or pop genius? The Rak man on 'House of the Rising Sun', Herman's Hermits, 'Hi Ho Silver Lining', Donovan and lots more
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 42.8meg, total interview length: 46' 50" sound quality: *****
Tom Dowd
The Land of a Thousand Drifters: Charlie Gillett talks with arguably the greatest recording engineer in rock and soul history about the early days with Atlantic, Leiber and Stoller, The Rascals and Stax.
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 53.2meg, total interview length: 58' 07" sound quality: ***
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